Rob Ayers ( S.R. Ayers )

Artwork commissions are open! Hooray! #commissionart #comicart #fanart #movieart

Sketchbook Peepshow once more… I’m sure there will be more peepshows in the future, but at the moment the rest of the sketches from this month are better left in the shadows. . #sketch #sketchbook #drawing #illustration #luchalibre #wrestling #fashion #comicart #comicartist #comicbookart

Cinema Retox: Queen and Slim 2019, directed by Melina Matsoukas, written by Lena Waithe . #queenandslim #melinamatsoukas #lenawaithe #jodieturnersmith #danielkaluuya #cinema #movieart #drawing #illustration #comicart #comicartist

"Dead Man's Music" out on 5.6.26 ✨ Artwork by @s.r.ayers Music by @timterceromusic @michi__lind Mixed by @alex_mischt Mastered by Martin Scheer Listen to FM4 Heartbeat on 11.5 or FM4 Soundpark on 4.6 to hear the song in full before it is online! #newmusic #indierock #vienna #independentartist #the_lla_band

Sketchbook Peepshow: X-Factor and payphones 6/6 Multiple Man OK, so… Jamie Madrox is one of my favorite characters in comics ever. Specifically what Peter David does with him. Few comic book narratives explore pieces of the human condition in ways that are perfectly parseable for my brain type and personhood than what David did with Jamie Madrox in X-Factor over the years. And that’s kinda it for that. I love X-Factor. I love payphones (even though I’m not about to use one anytime soon). I love my friends/teammates/creative cohorts (they’re all the same people, which I also love). And I hope all of you have similar things to love. 🖤🕷️🖤 #xfactor #marvel #fanart #comicartist #drawing

Sketchbook Peepshow: X-Factor and payphones 5/6 Siryn And the rant rambles on… So those of us affected (which is all of us, let’s be serious here) reach out and talk about it with those we trust when we can, when we have the capacity, when we need to. I’m really lucky to have teammates I can do this with. I’m eternally grateful for them. I can be an idiot, I can be helpful, I can be silent, I can be loud, can be a partner or a guide or a follower, it’s great. And meanwhile we all try to figure this thing out, whatever it is (as ol’ KV would say). And that’s kinda my whole rant. Just a big, “wow, things are kinda damn rough at the moment, huh?” And “thanks” to everyone I’m in these rough times with. And I’m on the rather cozy zone of all the shit happening in the world, so I don’t want this to sound like a whine-fest by any means. Just a rare personal blathering. Maybe in the next and last post for this series I’ll say something about what I drew. Maybe not. The future is a mysterious and unknowable thing, whoOOooOOooo… #xfactor #marvel #comicartist #drawing #illustration

Sketchbook Peepshow: X-Factor and payphones 4/6 Rictor And the rant resumes: Also, I really love drawing phone booths. That’s the second thing that kickstarted this series of drawings. Classic X-Factor and scrolling through old photos and finding my cache of phone booth pictures. They very wonderfully and somewhat disgustingly serve as a perfect metaphor for almost any human condition I find myself getting melancholic about. It’s usually a bit of a stretch by normal standards, but I don’t really concern myself with those. I’m using my own weird and chaotic standards for the most part. As, I guess, we all are when it comes to our own internal wrestling matches and the totems we use for luck in said matches. And who can blame us when the external forces are so relentless? I mean, even without the individual plight to earn and progress, we have genocides, wars, generative AI and a concerted effort to make it the norm at the cost of actual intentionality, creativity and a significant chunk of the ecological future for nothing more than corporate profit and political power, we have goon squads enforcing fascist agendas, we have the most vicious backlashes in recent history to any and all steps forward for non-white people and communities, women everywhere and their communities, gender non-conforming people and communities, queer people and communities, the list goes on and on and on… And many of us are periodically drowning, or taking turns diving to rescue our teammates, all while we keep moving (forward if we’re lucky). There’s only a couple more drawings left, and this venting will run out of steam in a moment, so thanks for bearing with me. 🖤🌚🖤 #xfactor #marvel #comicartist #drawing #illustration

Sketchbook Peepshow: X-Factor and payphones 3/6 Wolfsbane Rant on! The parallels are easy and ridiculous. It’s also kind of weird to find comfort from the madness we’re dealing with today by reading a comic basically remixing those horrors (albeit 20 years ago), but there’s something about the way Peter David did it. The parallels are also easy and ridiculous in these drawings and how I (and I’m sure many MANY others) feel right now. An isolation, a drive to stand alone AND together, to know that the ones we trust and love are out there somewhere, be they near or far away. I didn’t really think so deeply or far ahead when I was making these drawings of my favorite mutants (outside of Storm and Nightcrawler, of course). It was more of an unconscious theme that presented itself as I did the next one and the next one and the next one. Reaching out from an indiscernible position to a teammate, sometimes for help, sometimes to help, sometimes just to see if they can handle a bit of overflow from your own mental tidal waves, sometimes to volunteer to catch theirs so as to stir up unsettlingly still waters in your own mind. And if one teammate can’t, or the connection and phone lines are a bit too shaky at the moment, or the phone booth you yourself are using needs more maintenance, there’s always another teammate that might be ready for your call, or in a booth that’s more compatible with your own. Rant continued and possibly fizzles out in the next post. 🖤🫁🖤 #xfactor #marvel #comicartist #drawing #illustration

Sketchbook Peepshow: X-Factor and payphones 2/6 Monet Rambling rant continued from last post: Granted, these are just a few goofy drawings of comic book characters, but the comic in question is a major comfort zone for me: Peter David’s “X-Factor,” circa 2004/2005. Taking place directly after M-Day, when 99% of all the mutants were zapped, Peter David took this small team of characters and weaved a beautiful, sardonic, charming tale of a vaguely fortunate few trying to help those that needed it most, often as a nobel excuse to procrastinate in helping themselves. They also needed to survive, thus make a job out of ‘doing the right thing,’ in a way. With plenty of levity, loveliness and a touch of smiling nihilism, Mr. David tells a story of moving forward in the face of seemingly hopeless odds. Rant continued in a moment with the next teammate! Hooray! #xfactor #marvel #comicartist #drawing #illustration

Sketchbook Peepshow: X-Factor and payphones 1/6 Strong Guy More of a series than the usual blast of random peeks at stuff I draw in the “meantime” moments. I’ve been working on some really amazing projects, for which I am super grateful. And when I’m not working on those, I’m trying like hell to make other projects happen, or at least create the opportunity for future projects to happen, which has become tougher and tougher over the last year if I’m being honest. These things always go in phases, of course. I’ve been a freelance artist for quite a while now, so the ups and downs aren’t usually this extreme, but it’s kind of extreme times we’re living in so I guess it makes sense. We’re all on the same ride, huh? Between doing work, finding work, battling against WHILE maneuvering through highly-evolved anti-human systems (capitalism, patriarchy, and all the shitty tributaries that stem from them), plus watching all my friends deal with the same things, sometimes with much harsher challenges depending on whatever privileges they may or may not have to soften the blows, I found myself drawing less random things in the slow, quiet minutes and more “one portrait after another” that kinda reflected my synapses lately. This rant is continued in the next one. Thanks for sticking with it. 🖤🎟️🖤 #xfactor #marvel #comicartist #drawing #illustration

Die Schönheit des STRUDELS ist ja, dass wir dank Vorschlägen von Schreibenden mit Menschen in Austausch kommen, die wir vorher nicht kannten - und mit denen wir dann an ihren Gedanken arbeiten. Einer dieser Menschen ist @katjamoi , die sich auf das Experiment STRUDEL eingelassen hat. In mehreren Calls ist der vielschichtige Text „Durchtauchen“ entstanden, und es ist mutig und großherzig, dass sie ihn uns zur Veröffentlichung überlassen und uns das Vertrauen geschenkt hat, an ihren sehr persönlichen Erfahrungen teilhaben zu lassen. Es geht um Abschied, Tod, Veränderung, Selbstbefragung - alles keine kleinen Themen, aber Katja navigiert mit Verwunderung und Ruhe durch stürmische Gewässer. In ihrem Brotberuf hat Katja Moissidis viel mit Menschen zu tun – das Schreiben ist dazu ein willkommener Ausgleich. Sie interessiert sich besonders für Sprache als Medium der Erinnerung und für die Art und Weise, wie Orte Biographien prägen. Die meisten ihrer Texte entstehen auf Englisch; erst seit 2024 verfasst sie mehr und mehr in ihrer Muttersprache. @katjamoissidis lebt in Wien und Thessaloniki. Katja schreibt auf Einladung von @johannagrillmayer . Online lesen: /news/strudeln-mit-katja-moissidis Illustration: @s.r.ayers #strudel #wasser #tauchen #veränderung #leben

Es ist 2023, und ich bin auf der Suche nach Lesestoff. Ein Freund - ein Buchhändler - suchtet gerade einen noch unveröffentlichten Roman durch, und schon bald tue ich das Gleiche: „That‘s life in Dystopia“ hieß das Buch, das ich nicht weglegen konnte. Erdacht und geschrieben hat es @johannagrillmayer , zwei weitere Romane, die bei den Kolleginnen von @muerysalzmann erschienen sind, folgten. Mit Johanna verbindet mich inzwischen eine Freundschaft, zweimal durfte ich sie bisher moderieren - und ihr kluger Witz, den ich sehr schätze, war nur einer von vielen Gründen, sie für einen STRUDEL anzufragen. Ihr Thema kommt gerade rechtzeitig zu den Feiertagen, wenn bei vielen wohl auch wieder Bücher unter dem Weihnachtsbaum liegen werden: Was, wenn kein Text, kein Roman, kein Buch die Aufmerksamkeit zu fesseln vermag? The horror, the horror, dem Johanna mit feiner Selbstironie begegnet. Aber lest selbst :) Alle Strudel findet ihr hier: /strudel Illustration: @s.r.ayers #strudel #wasser #schreiben #momente #lesen