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Betty Rocksteady

@bettyrocksteady.bsky.social

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Artist, author, cartoons, horror, cats No AI, all art hand-drawn digitally. Commissions OPEN www.BettyRocksteady.com 🏳️‍🌈

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Betty Rocksteady @bettyrocksteady.bsky.social · May 15

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Betty Rocksteady @bettyrocksteady.bsky.social · 1h

I love the paper packs!! They’re all great

Betty Rocksteady @bettyrocksteady.bsky.social · 12h

A few of the sets I’ve picked up have color palettes included but that’s not something I personally delved into much! Mostly just liners and coloring brushes, halftones and distressing effects that I’ve made use of

Betty Rocksteady @bettyrocksteady.bsky.social · 12h

Most of the brushes I use come from retro supply or true grit! I love everything I’ve purchased

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Betty Rocksteady @bettyrocksteady.bsky.social · 14h

Day 11: zombie for @retrosupply #frightfall2025

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Betty Rocksteady @bettyrocksteady.bsky.social · 1d

Day 5: Mummy for the RetroSupply Co.#frightfall2025

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Betty Rocksteady @bettyrocksteady.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll have to draw a new version for u and max

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 3d

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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Betty Rocksteady @bettyrocksteady.bsky.social · 2d

Day 9: vampire for @retrosupply #frightfall2025

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 2d

i wrote a book about a small press getting cursed with an unsolicited manuscript submission. it's very scary. you should read it.

buy a signed & personalized copy here: ghoulish.rip/product/i-be...

the jacket art for i believe in mister bones

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rowan finn 🐚 comms open @bigoldeels.bsky.social · 4d

halloween postcards I've made 🎃

watercolor illustration inspired by early 20th-century halloween postcards. a pumpkin-headed woman and an apple-headed woman in old-fashioned dresses dance beneath a full harvest moon as the sun sets. text at the top reads "Joyous Hallowe'en!"

watercolor illustration inspired by early 20th-century halloween postcards. a jack-o-lantern gazes upward at a smiling full moon. the sky is full of large 5-pointed stars in the colors of autumn leaves.

watercolor illustration inspired by early 20th-century halloween postcards. a black cat carries a grinning pumpkin in its mouth by a handle. white smoke swirls out of the top of the pumpkin. the background is a simple landscape of dry red-brown earth and green sky dotted with stars.

watercolor illustration inspired by early 20th-century halloween postcards. a clown, an anthropomorphic cat, and an anthropomorphic moth dance around a winking, grinning, warty pumpkin. they all have black and orange clothing. the background is full of orange and brown stars. caption reads "BY PUMPKIN LIGHT OF HALLOWE'EN//GOBLINS, GHOSTS, AND GHOULS ARE SEEN!"

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τreez🦇 10/22🎂 @zoetreez.bsky.social · Aug 27

repost it! comment on it! talk to them about how it makes you feel. copy the link and share it with someone that’s never seen their work. talk about their work in rooms that could uplift them. zoom in. ask questions. if your friend is an artist, the best thing you can do is actively engage with them

τreez🦇 10/22🎂 @zoetreez.bsky.social · Aug 27

your friend is an artist. you know they crouch over their work for hours working on their craft. you think their work is really cool and would love to see them go places. you come across a post of theirs online, you hit the like button. that’s enough for you BUT I PROMISE ITS NOT ENOUGH FOR THEM

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 3d

immersing myself into the World Wide Web

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Betty Rocksteady @bettyrocksteady.bsky.social · 3d

Day 8: werewolf for @retrosupply #frightfall2025

Betty Rocksteady @bettyrocksteady.bsky.social · 4d

Day 7: Black Cat @retrosupply #frightfall2025

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Betty Rocksteady @bettyrocksteady.bsky.social · 5d

Day 6: Full Moon @retrosupply #frightfall2025

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sean (they/them) 🇵🇸 @stringtheory.bsky.social · 6d

it is better to make bad art than no art

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 25d

“My idea of heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast,

and spend the rest of the day drawing."

Peter Falk #BOTD

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Betty Rocksteady @bettyrocksteady.bsky.social · 6d

Day 5: Ben Cooper Costumes for @retrosupply #frightfall2025

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Betty Rocksteady @bettyrocksteady.bsky.social · 7d

Day 4: Devil for @retrosupply #frightfall2025

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Scott Murderhouse @voxparlour.bsky.social · 7d

Taylor Swift announces next album title: The Queen in Yellow. She told Variety: "A few years back I came across this amazing play and I was so inspired. It's been living in my head for years. I even dream of it, of the city in the play."

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Betty Rocksteady @bettyrocksteady.bsky.social · 7d

Day 4: Devil for @retrosupply #frightfall2025

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Betty Rocksteady @bettyrocksteady.bsky.social · 8d

Had to do the iconic Hugo’s House of Horrors house for @retrosupply #frightfall2025 day 3 haunted house!

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Betty Rocksteady @bettyrocksteady.bsky.social · 9d

Day 2 of @retrosupply #frightfall2025 is ghost!

Betty Rocksteady @bettyrocksteady.bsky.social · 10d

First day of RetroSupplys #frightfall2025 is skulls!

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Betty Rocksteady @bettyrocksteady.bsky.social · 10d

Yay I’m so happy to share this today! I made this cool banner and profile picture for Ryan and you should go check out Drop Dead Fiction!

Let the Ryan One In @ryanb4890.bsky.social · 10d

I'm so pumped to reveal this new P@tre0n art by the incredible @bettyrocksteady.bsky.social!

This month, @kaijupoet.bsky.social , @ahilbert3000.bsky.social , and I are celebrating Scary Season by sharing each other's work. So if you subscribe to any of our Patreons, you get all 3!

New art by Betty Rocksteady. A skeleton sits on stage in front of a brick wall doing seated standup in front of the words "Drop Dead Fiction, Ryan C. Bradley."

The same skeleton from the first picture, but we're in tight now, showing him telling jokes into the mic from the shoulders up.

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