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Arania: Creature Feature

@araniaart.bsky.social

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Full-time artist, part-time zombie & general geek. Co-Created & Illustrated the Island of Dr. Moreau TTRPG TTRPGs, Baldur's Gate 3, Stranger Things, IWTV fan. 🔞|💖💜💙| Pronouns flexible (any/all) Born in Ye Olde Nineteen Hundreds araniaart.carrd.co

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Arania: Creature Feature @araniaart.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hey #PortfolioDay!

I'm Arania, an illustrator originally from Texas. I love painting monsters, transformations, horror and fantasy.

Would love to do more work in the #ttrpg industry - and working for MTG or D&D is the dream.

🌐 araniaart.carrd.co
✉️ [email protected]

Stedd - a half elven wizard/rogue rides astride Piper, his peryton-cursed companion through a creepy misty forest in Barovia, surrounded by ravens - the way lit by his glowing sword.

A woman with vitiligo is transforming into a werebat in a belfry - done in an inked style - with bats flying around her.

Barret - a fiendish spellcaster flies above a fire and casts a firebolt/fireball towards the viewer.

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Arania: Creature Feature @araniaart.bsky.social · 1h

Hey Happy #PortfolioDay
I am Arania, freelance illustrator looking for work in the ttrpg and/or ccg industry.
🔗 araniaart.carrd.co
✉️ [email protected]

A man with a glowing sword made of blue light rides a peryton through a spooky forest. He clutches a spellbook and has a worried expression as they make their way through the mist, watched by ravens.

A lovely but haunting mermaid reaches towares the viewer, emerging out of a murky pond filled with mundane koi fish.

A fiend flies above a fire, wings in a downward flap - hurling a mote of fire towards the viewer.

A full D&D Party Selfie - seven characters in all: the fiend dressed in more modern clothes holding the camera, a purple satyr in front throwing the peace sin, a mousey fighter with her sword at ready, an awkward undead-plan woman, and a peryton-touched fey hugs her half elf boyfriend. In the back, a created monstrosity jumps up to lick the fiend's ear.

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Graey Erb @sporkarena.bsky.social · 6h

Hiya #portfolioday!

I'm Graey, Fantasy/SF Illustrator and Concept Artist. I've been working in #ttrpg and miniatures for the past 12 years, with a bit of video game visdev where I can. Currently looking for full time or contract work!

✉️ [email protected]
🎨 www.artstation.com/graeyerb

A huge spectral blue centipede swirls through the air around a tall Elven woman with sharp features and windswept hair. A black cloak billows around her shoulders as she raises a hand glowing with Magenta magic to cast through an elaborate staff, her blue eyes burn from the shadow of her wide-brim hat. Spider lilies dot the base of a small shrine to a centipede god in the foreground. The ghostly apparition seems to originate from the smoke of its incense.

A Kitsune Magus summons 5 motes of foxfire while wreathed in a magical aurora. They have the cross fox fur pattern and are bundled up in a Greatcoat with lots of occult odds and ends tucked into belt pouches and a purple sash. Their rock familiar hangs from a netted bag on their belt, with a battered red spellbook is stowed on the opposite side.

A Tanglefolk (Similar folk to Halflings) woman smiles at the viewer. She is dark skinned with tightly curled hair dyed blue toward its tips, she wears colorful yellow and blue clothing with bright geometric patterns and is covered in pouches and stowage for wares and small objects. She has a Songstaff slung over her shoulder, a blend between Ocarina and walking stave, it whistles when swung or as the Tanglefoot sprint at their famed high speeds.

An illustration of my take on a 'hound' of Tindalos from the Lovecraft Mythos. Rather than a dog it is shaped more like a Gulper eel with eerily humanoid limbs and a barbed tongue. It floats elegantly like smoke from a sharp angle torn in reality.

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 3d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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Interview With The Vampire Fanpage @iwtvupdates.bsky.social · 3d

Full teaser for #TheVampireLestat, featuring never-before-seen footage!

#InterviewWithTheVampire
#NYCC #NYCC2025 #iwtv

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Arania: Creature Feature @araniaart.bsky.social · 3d

And the official version of the S3 trailer dropped!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr0q...

Extended First Look at The Vampire Lestat ft. Sam Reid | Premieres 2026 | AMC+

YouTube video by amc+

www.youtube.com

Arania: Creature Feature @araniaart.bsky.social · 5d

sooooo flipping cool! Love the attention to detail - those awesome teeth and badass snarl - I want one in my gaming room!

Arania: Creature Feature @araniaart.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you so much Paul! That means so much to me!

Arania: Creature Feature @araniaart.bsky.social · 6d

Aaaaaaa I see what you did there 😆

Arania: Creature Feature @araniaart.bsky.social · 6d

"Mermaid's Touch" - a deceptive beauty in a koi pond reaches towards you invitingly...
Been wanting to do another piece using some of the techniques I learned from @paulscottcanavan.com 's mentorship (Which I 1000% recommend!).

A mermaid in a murky koi pond reaches towards the viewer, with a cryptic expression on her face.

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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 7d

if I'm not mistaken, this is the first UBI scheme where they aren't in some stupid endless "study" and finally have enough data to just simply DO it, and of course like all the studies showed, the result is a huge boost for the economy

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 7d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Steinntroll artdolls @steinntroll.bsky.social · Jan 26

Hi

My latest art doll Darius.
A character I made for AbzJHarding, which is from their comicbook Parliament of Rooks.
Doll is 75cm full length from the tip of beak to the tip of tail, fully poseable with wire skeleton inside. Green parts glow in UV light.

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Arania: Creature Feature @araniaart.bsky.social · 11d

I almost took a pic the other night of a dozen of these little stinky assholes crowding the window trying to get in.

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Kit Baltoro @kitbaltoro.bsky.social · 11d

*First cold spell of the year happens*

These little stupid assholes showing up in your house en masse:

"Allow us to introduce ourselves"

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Arania: Creature Feature @araniaart.bsky.social · 12d

Oh how awesome! Same, I used to get these out of the library every time I visited. I made a point a couple years ago to track down a copy of Cerberus to own :3

Arania: Creature Feature @araniaart.bsky.social · 13d

btw, I spoke a little with Duck, chat with him - he might have a solutuion for you wrt shipping :)

Arania: Creature Feature @araniaart.bsky.social · 13d

there's also digital copies through itch :3
usducktape.itch.io/iodm

The Island of Dr. Moreau TTRPG by usducktape, Arania

Horror, romance, and transformation on a mad scientist's island

usducktape.itch.io

Arania: Creature Feature @araniaart.bsky.social · 13d

You can get a physical copy here: www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/The-Is...
( Or through gaming stores that work with IPR) - there's a list of stores in the top banner - at least a half dozen in the UK, IDK if any are close to you).

The Island of Dr. Moreau :: Game Books :: IPR

Indie Press Revolution (IPR) is a direct sales network of quality independent publishers, dedicated to bringing you the best of small press tabletop roleplaying and storytelling games.

www.indiepressrevolution.com

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Arania: Creature Feature @araniaart.bsky.social · 13d

Oh man I was going to ask if you nabbed a copy! And I know what you mean - while Ambrose and Sabin had versions before IoDM, they're some of my CORE characters. Pyroth was definitely a fave of mine <3. Yeah, Duck worked really closely with us to make the book a perfect tribute/update!

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Arania: Creature Feature @araniaart.bsky.social · 13d

And last but not least!
If you are interested in a commission from me in November, I have full details posted in the news section of my website:
http:arania.kamiki.net ( just scroll down)

Arania: Creature Feature @araniaart.bsky.social · 13d

Here's some of the individual images separated out

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Arania: Creature Feature @araniaart.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you! It's been so nostalgic dipping my toes back into this world.

Arania: Creature Feature @araniaart.bsky.social · 13d

Happy #TFTuesday ! Have a completed 5-part opera singer to beaver transformation done in the style of our Island of Dr. Moreau TTRPG book! ^.^ This was a client commission! I'll be opening up slots again Nov 14!

A five-part transformation sequence of a blonde opera singer (Titus) dressed in blue and white, transforming into an anthro beaver!

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Arania: Creature Feature @araniaart.bsky.social · 14d

I love being able to throw on some good working music - and hate how AI slop has taken over YT. Does anyone have any good playlists that specifically don't use AI imagery/music? I've been using the critical role one, but would love to have more options.

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Zé Burnay @zeburnay.bsky.social · 15d

Had the pleasure of drawing this for @jacobgeller.com's new book "You’re Not Overthinking It", published by @lostincult.co.uk

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Krasgar @krasgar.com · 15d

MTG fanart of Ajani and Arahbo 😼🦁
Big thanks to @spectacledlion.bsky.social for making it possible 💖

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