Chuck Groenink

Hullo, it’s #portfolioday! I’m chuck, I make picture books. I like drawing animals, far away places, and light.

‘Not like us Irish American bog people, we’ve given the world so much’

Hey Art, look in the mirror, man! (We all speak enough German to know that spiegel means mirror, right?)

Nobody could do smug prick who is still just a bit charming quite like him.

The surreal city on the moon in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen was an improvised cost-cutting measure, after budget overruns and strikes forced Terry Gilliam to scrap his original idea. They then printed the designs for the models they were going to build and used them this way instead.

Years of rewatching the West Wing have prepared us to lib out so hard at this.

Pretty good place to live

Hell yeah

something that occurred to me is, everyone knows it’s possible to become a musician with work and practice. but you can’t work on and practice music while staring slackjawed at your phone. the real promise of generative AI is the ability to ‘make’ ‘art’ without reducing your slackjawed scroll time

Last week above the city of Rhenen in The Netherlands. I had been wanting to photograph this church tower with these kinds of conditions for years, and I finally managed to do so. What a morning.

Don’t think I ever posted this piece I did to figure out how to draw Redwoods for The Everything Trail by @megosphere.bsky.social

A castle, obviously. I’d go full Jeremy Irons.

I’m sorry, there’s a symphonic score for Nosferatu by Christopher Young (Hellraiser, Drag me to hell, et al), that came out in 2023 and nobody bothered to tell me?

On Indigenous Peoples Day, @jamesjbaratta.bsky.social reports on a NYC showing of Leonard Peltier's artwork, which he must do to raise money, because after 50 years in prison he's still restricted to home confinement and has a $300/mo Social Security pension otherwise. prospect.org/2026/10/12/l...

If you see this post a monster

I can highly recommend the experience of having a baby goat fall asleep in your lap.

The Lady of the Golden Wood

get in loser we’re hating leaf blowers

So is that why all her wizards wear robes instead of pants?

These guys have gotten so boring, at least propose a global AI-dictator based on the brains of all living billionaires or something.

Young Conan: child of the wheel. Gave myself a break for some fun drawing, and had Basil Poledouris’ Conan score on at the gym all week, so this was inevitable.

Prior to Trump (and memory-holed), Hastert was once the highest-ranking example of a central tenet of conservative thought and governance, supported by both GOP electeds and the GOP electorate: Children should be abused by men, and politics should be conducted to make it easier for men to do so.

We're not suffering a breakdown of the social fabric because we've lost the ability to have reasonable disagreements with each other; we've lost the ability to have reasonable disagreements because some people are trying to deliberately rend the social fabric.

A not insignificant reason for the global resurgence of fascism is that there is a sizeable segment of the population who are just arseholes.

Watched Mārama last night, an absolute nightmarish gem of colonialist gothic horror from New Zealand. I think it was @scumbelievable.bsky.social who recommended it a while ago, because she knows what’s good.

Sparrowhawk at the school of wizardry on Roke after his accident with the shadow.

Doodled some pumpkins while leading toddler art class at the library this morning, but nothing I’ve painted really compares to this girl’s accidental bird in flight.

Gavin Newsom heard the phrase pervert glasses and instantly knew what to do.

Feels like complaining water is wet, but this looks so deeply unmagical. Animation has the power to go beyond literal depiction, to engage your imagination. This however looks as staid and prosaic as videogame animation.

Toby Jones is right there! Hell, Paul Giamatti can learn Received Pronunciation!

From my limited perspective in picture books, there has been a wonderful increase in diversity (in styles and voices) over the past few years. But at the same time I think it’s become harder to maintain a career over the long run.

They’re going to be scraping his name off jacket blurbs for years.

Another one I never posted: Hobbits on their way.

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

Another one I never posted: Hobbits on their way.

He’s going to just shoot the whole thing as a stageplay at the Globe theater, with period accurate pronunciation, and a period accurate comely boy as Juliet.

I mean look at this, how is this not Rivendell?