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Aliiwa

@aliiwa.bsky.social

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Don’t let anyone tell you that you cant make a career by drawing your ocs No longer offering commissions (ever!) :D https://aliiwa.carrd.co/ [ #art #ocart #shipart #WintergreenRP #TresLechesRP ]

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Aliiwa @aliiwa.bsky.social · 11d

Hey there! I'm quitting art!

I'm admitting defeat and getting a day job and will be working on refunding people for the next several months between design sales, mini commission openings, and paychecks.

It's not perfect, but it's the best I can do!

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Aliiwa @aliiwa.bsky.social · Jun 28

As always, study, study, study! These are some quick tricks i've picked up from spending hours and hours doing photo studies, they help me freestyle with it! Hope they help you too 😙✌️

Alii's Quick Kiss Tips:
Even when the heads are tilted, the chins (typically) follow a straight line.
Foreground nose tends to point at the shoulder of the person being kissed. Helps with positioning characters if you're riffing!
Sometimes drawing the mouth is the least important part (of conveying emotion)! Study the details of how the rest of the face moulds around the mouth!
Hope this helps!

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Aliiwa @aliiwa.bsky.social · Jul 22

do you like my little brain stretch environment study i gave up on because it was frustrating me?
I like it more now than i did while i was working on it 👍

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 18h

I can’t stress enough how utterly embarrassing it is to see experienced artists suddenly use AI

I can never have a shred of respect for someone who used to be a peer & who decided to embrace something that’s the opposite of any craft & any human endeavour

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 3h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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🦇🖤🗿Scare-dinal Gray 😼🖤🦇 • comms in progress 🇺🇦 @cardinalgray.bsky.social · Apr 10

revisited an old sketch sequence that shows off one of useful features that Niners comes equipped with

[ #OC #OriginalCharacter #Niners #DCM #DontCryMercy #robot #android #Art #OcSky #ArtSky #sketch #украрт #УкрАртПідтримка #cardiart ]

a b/w portrait sketch of Niners

his head is tilted forward slightly, mouth open as he speaks. he's giving a suspect "off-screen" a stern look.

the text bubbles read "This is where I have to interrupt you, sir. You are contradicting your previous statements. Allow me to demonstrate."

$a b/w portrait sketch of Niners he raised his head, standing more straight. his eyelids are lowered more, as he's reproducing the suspect's speech verbatim, using one of the features he comes equipped with to recreate the man's voice perfectly. The pupils in Niners' eyes look more like glitched out squares - this is used to signify that he's using one of his functions here, letting it use up a fraction of the cybercore's power for it. the text bubbles next to him read"Ahem." and "[reproduces the contradictory part of suspect's speech]* *all in suspect's voice"$ a b/w portrait sketch of Niners

he turned slightly, attention still locked to the suspect.
the text bubbles read "THAT part is *exactly* what does not fit in all of this." and "It is not helping your case, sir."
he's pointing with his finger to draw attention to his words, in a way quite literally pointing to the statement he just reproduced.

a b/w portrait sketch of Niners

he turned slightly, attention still locked to the suspect.
the text bubbles read "THAT part is *exactly* what does not fit in all of this." and "It is not helping your case, sir."
he's pointing with his finger to draw attention to his words, in a way quite literally pointing to the statement he just reproduced.

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🦇🖤🗿Scare-dinal Gray 😼🖤🦇 • comms in progress 🇺🇦 @cardinalgray.bsky.social · Aug 6

"What a privilege it is to love
A great honor to hold you up"
(Sleeping At Last - Two)

[ #OC #NicoLallas #Niners #DCM #DontCryMercy #kiss #sketch #sketchdump #artsky #cardiart ]

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JesteniaS @citrusfoam.bsky.social · 8h

Ginkgo Gaurdian

a living shisa holds a coiled snake in its jaws. A branch of gingko leaves erupts from the corner of the shisa's mouth and float behind it

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dozakeet 🦜🌱 @dozakeet.bsky.social · 2h

I hate to post this before finishing the last batch ugh (working on that now, I promise)
But I have bills to pay :')

60 CAD as is, or 140 with a mini ref sheet- I am ok with pre-claims if you don't wanna miss out! 💚

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🐈‍⬛🎃🧹Spooky_Shana 🐈‍⬛🎃🧹 @shanareviews.bsky.social · 1d

For anyone who needs this

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Aliiwa @aliiwa.bsky.social · 2d

Anna and Bronn. She's got no signal out there
#ocs

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Lio 🌿 Gravehearts out now! @kroovv.bsky.social · Aug 20

A study with Ledger 🌿

#Art | #Gravehearts

A digital painting of a man facing away with a piece of cloth holding off his arms, the main focus of this piece is the mans back and back muscles. He has long whitish hair and grey skin, it was inspired by marble statues

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Aliiwa @aliiwa.bsky.social · 2d

Anna and Bronn. She's got no signal out there
#ocs

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Aliiwa @aliiwa.bsky.social · 3d

working on a piece for myself of my oc and her horse Bronn. This is gonna have a background and stuff but i wanted to show Bronn before i lose steam 🖤

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(mu)puccino @mupuccino.bsky.social · 3d

messiest ⌚lapse ever because i did not plan shit properly from the start but alas i'm catching this L 🤪

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Lili @steelwithteeth.bsky.social · 3d

every lesbian should be given $100, at the very least

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Tito Erez @titoerez.bsky.social · 3d

Akhal-teke 3D unicorn 🦄✨

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Beren's Reverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · 4d

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riley (COMM’s OPEN!!) ✨ @ritwells.bsky.social · 4d

another draft !

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 5d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Aliiwa @aliiwa.bsky.social · 6d

If i did one good thing this year, it was this commission done for "Faeling" by @sewendelauthor.bsky.social

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Aliiwa @aliiwa.bsky.social · 6d

If i did one good thing this year, it was this commission done for "Faeling" by @sewendelauthor.bsky.social

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Jubilee 🔞 @jethanded-wyvern.bsky.social · 6d

Weird choice of deletion. You were absolutely correct.

A French screenshot of a HausOfDecline skeet of yesterday. It reads:

"The CEO of Bluesky is craven and evil. The only people that build these platforms are infected with the self-reproducing moral rot of capitalism. They have no sense of duty or stewardship. They see their monetary reward as a cleansing justification for their actions."

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lave ⋆.˚⟡ @lavellyne.bsky.social · 6d

[OC] happy birthday eurelious. 🔮✨

#ocart #lave'sart #lave'socs #oc #art #digitalart #angel

my oc eurelious covering his face with his hand and wing, while holding a black candle in the other hand

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Aliiwa @aliiwa.bsky.social · 6d

Since I’m getting a lot of dms across platforms about these stupid fucking ads again. PSA

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Aliiwa @aliiwa.bsky.social · 7d

i have a glass top desk and when im using my tablet, i move my mouse off the mousepad so the tracking gets a little wonky and then clashes with my tablet's mapping