Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10

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Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· 1d

Where in the world is Alex??? Well, here’s some shows I’ve got coming up this year, including Flame Con this weekend!

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· 2d

everything hits at once 🎨✨ (it’s been nice getting in some comic practice with Bone Squad moments in between projects)

A grayscale comic.
Pg 1/3

Panel 1:
Igneous/Noname, in their new earth genasi form, points at Ness and their big hair. “Sorry I let that get long.”

Panel 2:
A close-up of Igneous/Noname as they smile sheepishly, pointing at their teeth: “And, uh, for eating all those rocks.”

Panel 3:
Ness winks, returning the sheepish smile. “You weren’t the only one who wanted to.”

Pg 2/3
A three panel progression of the two laughing before Igneous/Noname devolves to tears.

Pg 3/3
A background-less greytoned scene with lots of white negative space.
Ness hugs Igneous/Noname, who clings to them tightly and cries.

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· 8d

🎉 WE DID IT, FAM!!! 🎉 now we pray it arrives before I drive down for FlameCon 😮‍💨

a screenshot of a 36-page comic file in Clip Studio EX, the thumbnails showing off spotted blacks and green tones, with an extra doodle at the bottom of a tired Alex giving the thumbs up

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· 10d

didn‘t hit my goal of getting em all done today, but hey, 25.5/36 pages ain’t bad! 😅

a screenshot of a clip studio EX file featuring 40 inked pages (covers included)—11 are washed out with a green color to indicate they still need to be done, the other thumbnails show pages toned with purple and green shades on white and black backdrops

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· 11d

can I tone a 36 page comic in a whole day? …we’re about to find out 🥲👍

a screenshot of a clip studio EX file featuring 40 inked pages (covers included)—many are washed out with a green color to indicate which still need to be done

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· 19d

I forgot to share the best part: I hadn‘t decided on their new outfit so Noname spent the rest of the session wearing this goofy shirt (even in serious moments 😭) 🎨✨

a page of various digital drawings of Noname with their new body, greyed out sans one in the center, where they show off a brightly colored shirt reading “I Got Sloppy on Fat Slob Island.”

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· 21d

am I crazy for thinking I can finish this 36 page comic for print by next weekend? yes. am I cooking? also yes.

a cropped screenshot of a comic page in progress, with focus on one panel, Alex drawn in parody of the sonic meme “Alone on a Friday night? God you’re pathetic” with pathetic crossed out and “valid” added

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· Jul 12

remember when I said Noname had big changes in store last session? well guess who finally got their memories AND a sick new bod 😎🤙🪨 🎨✨

a grayscale three panel comic page
1. A shadowy head sits in the middle of the frame. Mervie Mouse asks on the left side, “Now…can you tell us who you are?” On the right, the Bone Squad look on in bewilderment. Piper holds onto what looks to be Noname.

2. A closeup on the lower half of a face, adorned with outlined “freckles.” They have similar buck teeth to Noname. “My name is…Igneous. Of Brookstone.”

3. A splash panel shows an unclothed Noname sitting in their new earth genasi form, with hands on their closed knees. They now have shorter, rockier hair and a gem for a nose, with pebbly details on their joints and elsewhere. “…But all my friends call me Noname.”

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· Jul 8

tfw your hyper critical, media literate sister gives your new aroace script draft a glowing review

a lowres blurry image of an excited pikachu surrounded by a barrage of heart emojis

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· Jul 5

mmm cupcake day 🎨✨

a digital drawing, toned with blues, of Alex getting crushed by the number 32. the force is enough to knock a cupcake out of her hands and a birthday hat off her head.

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· Jul 4

some colored pencil studies based off my own rock collection—I’ll get the hang of it one of these days! 🎨✨

A photo of an open sketchbook with 21 illustrations of rocks done in colored pencil. The page is bordered with actual rocks, a 24 pack of colored pencils, a green pencil sharpener, and a Nintendo Switch, all on a n aqua and white bedspread.

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· Jun 24

happy #makeaterriblecomicday2026 to all and to all a good night

a sloppy digital comic toned with reds.
the top reads “NO A.I. / Only Al” with Alex’s head popping in to say “That’s me”

Panel 1: Alex scribbles on a pad of paper with her tongue hanging out.
“Ay-eye, schmay-yeye…”

Panel 2: A closeup of the drawing pad, ft a sketch of a guy farting.
“Can A.I. do THIS?”

Panel 3: Alex holds out her hand and shows off the drawing in the other.
“mmmmm 1 MILLION DOLLARS pleeeease”

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· Jun 19

have I just been looking at reference photos too long or does young Woodrow Wilson kinda look like MatPat?

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· Jun 6

four hours late to post this but WE OUT HERE! ✨ Table 97B at TCAF! ✨

A photo of Alex in a blue Big Bud Press jumpsuit showing off a table of her comics wares

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· Jun 6

watching hotel tv after a long but successful Toronto day and Jim Gaffigan‘s cameo in this Scooby Doo show is actively pissing me off

a photo of a hotel TV showing the Jim Gaffigan episode of Scooby-Doo and Guess Who; Shaggy is yelling at Jim in the Mystery Machine

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· Jun 3

decided to work smarter not harder and just printed that top surgery comic from last year, along with these stickers I’ve been wanting to make forever 💖 so yay! I technically have some little TCAF debuts!

a photo of black and white quarter-page mini comics stacked, titled Boob Voyage, with one open as an example, placed near stickers of Luigi squinting with the words “THEN PERISH”. Taken against a wooden desk backdrop with stapler and bone folder visible.

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· Jun 1

I’ll be back at TCAF for the first time since 2019 this weekend!!! Toronto, I’ve missed you! 🇨🇦❤️ Come say hi at table 97B if you’re around~ ✨

an infographic with a map of the second floor of the Mattamy Athletic Centre, advertising Alex’s presence at TCAF (Toronto Comic Arts Festival) at booth 97B, with the additional text “Come say hi!”

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· May 30

BIG changes planned for Bone Squad land tomorrow 👀✨ 🎨✨

a digital drawing of Alex’s D&D character Noname, a gnome with goggles and a poncho, standing in a yellow gradiented field of blue forget-me-not flowers. above them is the text “it’s time to remember…”

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· May 24

how else are you gonna block out the haters? 😔

a screenshot of that vine of the kid with spoons on his eyes saying he couldn’t see you because he was too busy mmmmm blocking out the haters

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· Apr 27

this sketchbook page will have to do until I can nab photos from their friends and photographer 🎨✨

a sketchbook page dated 4/25/26, drawn with a blue micron and red colored pencil

“Roll up to da function representing Miles Edgeworth
Cry over Sam and Patrick’s vows
I don’t think my last went well but people were nice about it after…
survived da wedding”

doodles of the artist dressed like Miles Edgeworth, being sappy watching a bride and groom onstage, talking into a mic nervously and looking at notecards, and laying on the ground sans jacket saying “ow”

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· Apr 17

watching all my friends play Tomodachi Life after learning my copy is stuck in the mail until Monday…

the meme of Squidward in the dark looking out the window at spongebob and patrick happily running around

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· Apr 15

this tumblr post lives in my brain rent free lol

A screenshot of a tumblr post interaction:
“hey. don’t cry, I went to Mad at You island and none of your friends were there :)”
“why were you at mad at me island” (plus a photo of a sad looking cat in a pink princess hat)

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· Apr 15

can’t believe I never shared my Noname attempt! I’m so excited to return to Mad at Me Island 👀🏝️ Making little guys will fix me…

A photo of a Switch playing the Tomodachi Life demo. A mii meant to resemble Alex’s D&D character Noname, a little gnome with goggles and big hair, wears a pink sweater and stands in front of a house at night time. The onscreen text reads, “I don’t think you’ll find anyone on all of Mad at Me who’s better at D&D than me!”

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· Apr 15

watched the 1987 recording of Into the Woods for the first time tonight and this Little Red line delivery absolutely slayed me

a primarily black and warm grey digital ink of a curly haired girl in a bonnet with a wide-eyed confused look, saying, "…You can talk to birds?"

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· Apr 11

sing your heart out

a screenshot of comic inks in progress, zoomed in on two close-up panels of Zee singing passionately and Greg watching with wide eyes

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· Apr 8

HEY HEY LISTEN MAN…something bout that Charlie Adler/Klasky Csupo Hamburglar spoke to me, I don’t know, I have no excuse

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· Apr 6

happy asexuality day to all the other little aces who have a hard time accepting their heart every now and then 🖤🩶🤍💜 🎨✨

a scribbly digital sketch in grayscale, sans the colors of the asexual flag (black, grey, white, purple), of Alex holding a dripping, flag-colored heart up to her cheek with tears in her eyes, on a scribbly black backdrop

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· Mar 30

and a bonus Noname comic because Craig is the NPC we love to bully—I’m gonna miss this lil ghost frog next arc! 🎨✨

A short comic referencing the previous photo of Ren and the frog man.
Panel 1: Noname, a bushy-haired gnome with goggles and buckteeth, looks at the frame in their hand. “You and Craig? I don’t get it.”

Panel 2: Noname’s eyes bulge out of their head in shock, lit dramatically, as Ren says off-panel, “That’s Chronos.” In the background she adds, “Craig’s great-great-great-great-great” etc

Panel 3: In the foreground, Noname wojak points at a small blue frog in the distance wearing a hoodie and baseball cap. “THIS GUY is related to the GOD OF TIME?!”
Craig: “Hey.”

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· Mar 30

sometimes your DM drops some crazy lore for an NPC you’re probably not gonna see again and it propels you into a drawing fugue state for like two weeks 🤷 🎨✨

Various sketches inked with a dark purple pencil brush in CSP against a grayish pink backdrop with occasional white and darker gray-pink toning.

Sketches feature Ren, a homey older woman with anime mom hair in a frilly dress and apron in a near full-body shot with hands held in front of her; a muted waist-up shot of her smiling but crying; wearing oven mitts and holding a giant stock pot of soup with the speech bubble “Soup’s ready!”; a small fullbody shot of her holding a staff resembling a giant wooden spoon in one hand and a blue gem in the other; Ren looking uncharacteristically angry and scolding frog man Craig, “I thought I smelled trash.” (Noname stands behind her watching gleefully.)

Sketches of four photographs in frames, inked with a dark purple pencil brush in CSP against a grayish pink backdrop with occasional white and darker gray-pink toning.

Top left: A group photo of eight people at an open mic night. In the back row, from left to right, is a dragonborn woman, a blue tiefling holding up an excited halfling, and a younger Ren. From left to right in the front row is a smug blue and purple frog man in a business suit, an older as hell tortle with glasses and a bow tie, a bashful penguin in glasses and a pocket protector whose flipper is being held up by the pointing halfling, and a darker-skinned dwarf man grinning with muscley arms crossed.
Top right: Ren stands with a bluish-purple frog man in a business suit
Bottom left: A closeup shot of Ren’s sister, Mnimi the blue tiefling, wrapping her arms around her shoulders. Both are smiling with their hair down,
Bottom right: Ren in a wedding dress and veil, being carried bridal style by the shorter, bearded dwarf, Skipper. Flower petals float in the background.

Various toned sketches of Ren dancing with Piper, a half-elf werewolf monk, and Jonathan, a human cowboy-themed fighter. In one, Ren stands behind a spooked Piper, singing Froggin Went A-Courtin’. Another shows only Ren, with hand outstretched. In the bottom left, Jonathan offers his hand to a playfully frustrated Ren, asking, “May I have this dance?” He gets it.

inked with a dark purple pencil brush in CSP against a grayish pink backdrop with occasional white and darker gray-pink toning.

Alex Graudins @ FlameCon Table E10@toonyballoony· Mar 30

Rewatched Rainbow Rocks with friends today and I can’t believe I’ve never drawn fanart before, the movie’s one of my guilty pleasures. The soundtrack’s banging, Daniel Ingram is a madlad! 🦄🎸🎶 🎨✨