Claire Hummel @ LBX #634

HEY I keep forgetting to post that I’m at @lightboxexpo.com this weekend, table #634! Have a brand new volume of my WIP sketchbook, new Photoshop toolbar lanyards, stickers, some of my remaining Mondo APs:

getting an order in juuuust under the wire for a new sketchbook for @lightboxexpo.com! Volume 2 of WIP, a monument to messy, painful, extremely human process:

christ almighty how does one choose—Sex Girl Patrol? "Is He?" with the C/Kathys? Dipping areas? Or could it simply be the brief interlude cataloguing Scott Thompson's various celebrity doppelgangers, that culminates in a pretty uncanny Jeffrey Dahmer:

had it aaaaalllll figured out back then

JP never misses, feelin' every single sentence of this in my BONES

An EXTREMELY selfish Kickstarter in that I'm just making the editions of these books that I've always wanted—cannot put into words how much love and care we've poured into every aspect this project!📚🩵 ...and it's no accident that @gilespink.bsky.social now has a writing credit on the Book of D'ni 👀

people watching at the Cinespia Josie and the Pussycats screening and using it as an excuse to explain the difference between jaguar/leopard/cheetah prints

nirvanna the band the show the fanart

nothing quite so emotionally draining as drawing character expression sheets and realizing you've been subconsciously contorting your face for eight hours 🫡

With @cyan.com's permission, I spilled some secrets about the recently shelved MYST game codenamed ANGLERFISH after seeing the demo during my reporting for @wired.com. www.thefrontlist.org/p/anglerfish...

Zoë drew this for me when my dog Sparky passed away and I have cherished it for OVER A DECADE, I cannot recommend her services enough:

Plus a couple pieces of DRAMATIC MYST ART which, let's be honest, was the whole reason I joined @cyan.com in the first place. Gotta draw me some spooky Linking Books:

A couple more of my Project: Anglerfish concepts from @cyan.com's presentation at Mysterium last week:

Getting to design characters for a murder mystery visual novel set in the Myst/D'ni universe was such a blast, I hope this also sees the light of day someday:

SUCH a lifelong dream to get to work on a new game set in the Myst universe. ♥️📖 Still hope we’ll get to see it through someday, but I’m thrilled we can share the trailer:

unironically how I feel getting all the order forms and signage prepped for SDCC

Birthday dinner at Sugarfish and an absolutely LOVELY present haul from @hummeline.bsky.social and Dad, the brand is strong ♥️

LOOK the contacts in IWTV absolutely make sense from a production standpoint—I'm sure its prohibitively expensive to do vfx for the vampire eyes throughout the entire series—but sometimes I just GOTTA do a quick repaint to see the proper eyelines on my sweet baby bug-eyed boy

No, seriously, #makeaterriblecomicday #makeaterriblecomicday2026

one curse of working on properties you love is losing the ability to participate freely in fan spaces—there'll be some lore discourse in the Myst discord and, best case scenario, I just gotta sit there VIBRATING with information I cannot possibly share

Film Noir life drawing last night at Ready Sketch Go! God help me I do love to draw a sensible heel

if i seem laid back and relaxed to you, it’s an elaborate ruse - i actually carry the kind of tension that makes massage therapists and other health professionals say “wow” and “oh no”

Excited to say I'm gonna be back at @lightboxexpo.com this year with a table, woo! Honestly it's always such a good excuse to make some new prints, new art books, new friends—gotta figure out what the heck I wanna make over the next few months 👀

Also @bzaiken.bsky.social and I found time time to sneak out to Mesa Verde at sunset to catch Cliff Palace riiiight as the light matched the poster I did for Fifty-Nine Parks a couple years back:

I have like 17 hours logged in Thirsty Suitors because I was enjoying cooking so much that I kept putting off endgame.♥️ SUCH a stylish game, and one where the specificity of the narrative and the setting is exactly what makes it so good:

let a mention of George Ralphs not pass without me mentioning he died crushed under a boulder

teaching my phone that the eponymous grocer’s last name was Ralphs

I don't want to shoot videos I don't want to post tutorials I don't want to show my process I don't want to pour varnish I don't want to turn my canvas I don't want to record my screen I don't want to cultivate parasocial relationships I just want to make pictures and shitpost