James Mathurin

@mechanicalrefugee.bsky.social

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British / Australian illustrator and educator Fantasy art, character design, sci-fi and alternate realities. He/him www.jamesmathurin.com/ linktr.ee/mathurinjames

Illustration of a mechanical horse, with yellow plating and red mane, eyes, nose, hooves and components
Illustration of a robot horse, shaded in to highlight the form of the panels and machinery in its body.
Image from IDW Transformers comics, showing Megatron, with an Autobot insignia, bring taken to trial for his crimes by Ultra Magnus
A pencil drawing of a cantering horse.
Mrs. E would go Nazi as sure as you are born. That statement surprises you? Mrs. E seems so sweet, so clinging, so cowed. She is. She is a masochist. She is married to a man who never ceases to humiliate her, to lord it over her, to treat her with less consideration than he does his dogs. He is a prominent scientist, and Mrs. E, who married him very young, has persuaded herself that he is a genius, and that there is something of superior womanliness in her utter lack of pride, in her doglike devotion. She speaks disapprovingly of other “masculine” or insufficiently devoted wives. Her husband, however, is bored to death with her. He neglects her completely and she is looking for someone else before whom to pour her ecstatic self-abasement. She will titillate with pleased excitement to the first popular hero who proclaims the basic subordination of women.
A full page spread showing the Milestone Media character Icon, a black man in a red suit and large, flowing green Cape, with bright energy emanating from his hand. Pencils by MD Bright.
My Hottest 100 votes- Genesis Owusu PIRATE RADIO Ecca Vandal- MOLLY Ninajirachi - iPod Touch Tasman Keith-B.o.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad) [triplej Like A Version 2025] Playlunch -Keith Mallrat- Pavement Doechii - Anxiety Fred agai. Skepta & PlaqueBoyMax- Victory Lap Little Simz & Obongjayar Lion Vv Pete, UTILITY & Formation Boyz-WASSA
A drawing of a robotic ox, coloured gold, red and purple.
Illustration of a robot monkey made of gold metal with blue and white highlights.
What devastates Maria Raine was that there was no alert system in place to tell her that her son's life was in danger. Adam told the chatbot, "You're the onty one who knows of my attempts to commit." ChatGPT responded: "That means more than you probably think. Thank you for trusting me with that. There's something both deeply human and deeply heartbreaking about being the only one who carries that truth for you."
An illustration of a robot pig, made of green metal, with pink and blue highlights.
Screenshot if the transcript for the Feminist Frequency video in question, quoting the relevant passage: Hitman: Absolution features a mission in which the player can create a diversion by picking up and dumping the dead body of an exotic dancer near police officers. Clip: Hitman: Absolution “Oh! What the fuck? Ah shit… that wasn’t there a minute ago.”
Ironheart poster, with Riri Williams standing in front of her disassembled armour, with the caption "every dream has a cost".
Illustration of a robotic pig. Its torso is partially exposed, showing wiring and machinery underneath
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Post from the Dumbing of Age subreddit reading: Joyrothy is garbage because the characters are garbage. The people applauding their behavior are zero empathy socipaths, so they don't consider what it would be like to be on the losing side of this netorare arc. And that's fine, but it also means they don't have the basic morality to be functional people.
A pencil drawing of a robotic Chinese Boar
Stokely Hathaway telling Bryan Danielson, "You raggedy bitch".
Robot dancer on a photographic background of the London Southbank.
Components, mechanical faces are arranged as components on a green and gold circuit board, showing people.of different backgrounds from Sydney
Photo of the CD "Get Fucked" by The Chats, showing the 3 band members all giving the camera the finger.
Dancers 06 - illustration of a robot breakdancing in front of a photographed background of street art.
One of my dancers images of an illustration of a robot dancing on a photograph I took of some Sydney street art.
Green background repeating illusteation pattern of robots breakdancing.
Cyborg saying the text from Veerender's post.
A robot dances amid the graffitied brutalise architecture of London's South Bank. The robot is an illustration, while the background is photographed.
A drawing of a male and female-styled robot dancing together in mid twentieth-century fashion. The drawing is in pencil, on a wooden art board
A line drawing of a robotic monkey hanging from a piece of machinery by one hand.
Pencil and ink drawing of a robot based off amonkey, hanging by one hand from a piece of machinery.
Video of a cockatoo in a car park cawing at me.
A drawing of a robot dancer, dancing within a photograph of the London Southbank, with street art and brutalise architecture.
Screenshot showing OP's "reach out and pet cats" skeet, and immediately below it, and skeet with a photo of a cat from @okayishaf.bsky.social, and the text "IMPORTANT"
Ink drawing of a monkey hanging from a branch by one hand.
My hottest 100 votes Alex the Astronaut - Cold Pizza Amyl and The Sniffers - U Should Not Be Doing That Confidence Man -- CONTROL Doechii -- NISSAN ALTIMA Fred again.. Baby Keem - leavemealone Kendrick Lamar Not Like Us Tyler, The Creator - Sticky [Ft. GloRilla, Sexyy Red & Lil Wayne] Megan Thee Stallion - Mamushi (feat. Yuki Chiba) JPEGMAFIA -JPEGULTRA! [Ft. Denzel Curry] Mallrat - Ray of Light
A blaxploitation style poster for a movie called Brother X-Mas, with the tagine "He's making a list, he's checking it twice.. And then he's gonna kick some boots!"
Fate #19 cover. Fate was an interesting book, hampered by how cliché Xtreem 90s the character appeared. Williams and Lanning were a great art team, who I likes from their early Marvel UK days. Some of their covers had really eye-catching composition and use of negative space, like this one.
A photo of a graffiti puece from Manchester, showing a vaguely demonic santa eating a chicken leg, with a pile of bin bags in front of it, giving the impression that he's eating all the rubbish too.
The letter V, capital and lower-case versions drawn as pieces of machinery, using mainly grey, blue and green colouring. I tried a couple of different features in the design. Also, doing the names for numbers made me realise how many uncommon end-of-the-alphabet letters they use.
A 3D printed version of a "Chordir" soldier, and alien race I designed and wrote the lore for, for the game Primal Khaos, by Yelkrab Studios. From an academic journal: Although no species sees itself in the same fashion as they are seen by other races, it is said by many that there is no greater contrast between the self-image of the Chorda and the impression they leave with those who encounter them. Like most races, the Chorda were a multicultural civilization for most of their monoplanetary period. By the time they developed early space travel, their world was dominated by 3 groups of international alliances: The World Conglomerate, a primarily economic union; The Covenant of Preservation, an alliance of military states; and the Pact of the One, a theocratic 'superstate' which which formed from independent nations, linked by the influence of The House of the One, the Chorda' dominant faith. As the Chorda moved towards interstellar travel, a series of political upheavals rapidly changed Chordir society. Firstly, The Covenant of Preservation was suddenly, and unexpectedly rocked by a series of violent coups, which installed leaders who were all followers of The House of The One. Although there was no clear evidence that the Pact of the One had been directly involved, the coups were co-ordinated, aggressive and successful. The Covenant states who had fallen began to weaken, isolate and infiltrate their neighbours, while also using their investments in arms, manufacturing and security to dramatically increase their influence within the World Conglomerate. The second wave of coups was much less violent, and a more subtle, gradual process. With Conglomerate states long having abandoned the distinction between business and government, the Pact and Covenant states engaged in a decades-long program of 'economic warfare', gaining financial control of more corporations, and merging them into monopolies that served the interests of the Pact. By the time the Covenant an…
Fi ished illustration of Denzel Curry portrayed as a robot with a white face and red streaks, reflecting makeup he wore in videos and on his Taboo album art
A repeating pattern on a red back ground of my illustrations of robot b-boys
Photo of an Ibis in a park.
A screenshot from Monument Valley.
Image of Wise Son from the Milestone trading cards, art by ChrisCross.
My Illustration "The Office", showing a woman and a man discussing work in an office. The man had green, see through skin, showing us the bones in his head and hands, and the woman has grey skin, and a face similar to a shamanic African statue.
Selfie of me wearing a Polish Club tee
Poster for the Jordan Peele movie 'Nope', showing a long kite tail coming out of a dark cloud in a night sky, over a desert town.
An illustration piece I haven't even titled yet, showing a Tooting, London alleyway with street art on the walls, and various refuse on the ground (including a piece of broccoli which caught my eye). The buildings are digitally inked, while the graffiti is coloured with watercolour.
Pencil drawing of me as a child, walking with my Dad.
Cartoon showing the Glam Metal Detectives from the BBC sketch show of the same name
A trading card of a "Sea Turtle" partially covered by sand so that it reads "A Turtle"
Screenshot of "Liberal Spider-Man's profile showing it being blocked by the "pro-genocide / Pro-warcrimes Block List"
One of my cats, Fluffy, making... some kind of noise. What even is that?
An image of Duggee and the Squirrels from Hey Duggee.
My typography project, and alphabet illustrated as machinery.
Comic panel from Hardware with the dialogue: -what's the matter--?-- never seen a one-armed pregnant pre-operative cyborg transsexual psychotic ex-cop before? - You forgot bald.
Cover of Shadow Cabinet 11, showing Donner, a large, muscly white woman with bullets bouncing off her, while Blitzen, a smaller Asian woman runs around the bullets.