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Ren Varela

@cobaltcorvus.bsky.social

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A Latine dark fantasy, horror, and surrealist artist, illustrator, storyteller. #DarkArt 🚫 No A/I ; 🚫 N/F/Ts Nonbinary | Pronouns: they/them 📧 Contact: [email protected] 🌐 https://bio.site/CobaltCorvus 🥫 https://ko-fi.com/cobaltcorvus

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hello #PortfolioDay!

I'm Ren Varela, a freelance artist that specializes in dark, slightly surrealist fantasy illustrations, and character and creature design. I am open for work!

Portfolio: cobaltcorvusstudio.com
Other Links: bio.site/CobaltCorvus
Contact: [email protected]

A collage image of six different paintings done by the poster of various skull headed humanoid figures, most with their skulls floating above dismembered torsos and other mystical features.

A collage of six images that are of three different character portraits, two of which show full body poses.

A collage of two different images featuring the same character. One is a portrait of a ghostly male character that is mostly in shadow except for his face. He has dark hair, blue skin and glowing eyes. The other features different portrait angles and one almost full body pose.

A collage of three different digital paintings. One is a portrait of a headless figure in a suit and tie with two glowing halos of different sizes floating where the head would be. Second is of a jackal skull floating above the neck of a dismembered, semi-human, teal torso. Last is of a giant, four-armed, skull-headed figure floating in a large thunder cloud with several bolts of lighting generating from its hands and the cloud as sunlight shines from behind it all.

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puff 🐇😈 @incupuff.bsky.social · Apr 27

please support ur friends making creative shit in this cruel world. u have no idea how much a kind comment can mean to an artist when every website just tries to make you focus on the numbers

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 2d

I know I don't *have* to "catch up" but I do want to do some of the prompts that have passed already for hARToween.

Once I finish submitting some more job applications, I think I'll take a nice, creative break.

Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 2d

😊🙏🖤

Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much!

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Isobel_Starling @isobelstarling.bsky.social · 4d

Shout this from the fucking rooftops, people!! #fuckAI

A meme that says 'petition to add this button to literally every app right now: Exclude AI
meme by @FLScience

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 4d

Aaaah, thank you so much! Love to hear that. 🥰🖤

Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you! 🖤

Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you so much! 😊🖤

Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 4d

Fantastic work, as always. 😍🖤✨

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yulkradness🌹TTRPG @yulkradness.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for hosting! 💕

Fullbody commission of a character owned by client. She has a long, blue dress with elegant fringes on both sides and puffed shoulders. She has long, wavy brown hair and she's summoning a magic with both of her hands. The light blue of the magic frames her pose following a circle around her body, creating a light game in which a light purple creates a color variation.

Portrait commission of a character owned by client. She has an overall dark and serious tone, she has a somber expression on her young, eerie features. She has long dark blue braided hair, and bright grey eyes. She has full pink lips and she's wearing a simple black cloak with the hood down. She has two horns on her head, with one of them being broken. She also has pointy ears and a vampire bite on her neck.

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 4d

Gorgeous! 💜✨

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Nodens☄️ @nodens.bsky.social · 4d

I`ll start with my favourite colors!

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks for hosting, Nodens!

Hello, all! I'm Ren Varela, a freelance artist that specializes in dark, slightly surrealist fantasy illustrations, and character and creature designs.

A digital painting that is a portrait of a male elf character, facing forward and looking to his right, with dark hair styled in a wolfcut.

A dark, digital painting of a figure that is just a torso with arms that are shrugging and has a floating skull wearing a golden laurel. There's a glowing orb beneath the torso.

A digital painting that is a portrait of a ghostly male character that is mostly in shadow except for his face. He has dark hair, blue skin and glowing eyes.

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Nodens☄️ @nodens.bsky.social · 4d

⭒⋆✵ ART SHARE ✵⋆⭒
Let's share some love and kindness!

🔮 Post your art
🔮 Repost this for visibility
🔮 Invite friends and support other artists
💀 Human artist only, no Ai, no NFTs, keep it SFW pls

I'll RT my favorites through the days 💜

#selfpromo #artshare

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 5d

I really need to play with texture more, hehe.

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#PortfolioDay @portfolioday.bsky.social · 5d

Tuesday, October 14th is #PortfolioDay! If you are a creative looking for work, this is the tag for you.

Read on to find out how to participate and visit portfolioday.art for more!

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 5d

Right? It's so good, I saved it immediately when I saw it. 😆

Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 5d

If you see this share a pic from your device with no explanation...

A stock photo of a man looking anguished holding a fake gun to a fake fish that he is also holding in front of a dark gray photo backdrop.

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 5d

There's currently a sitewide sale on INPRNT!

All my prints will be 35% off during this time!

Mini Prints
Posters
Framed Prints

#bskyart #BSNM #DarkArt

A screen capture of the Inprint shop front of various dark art pieces created by Ren Varela. The prints are all marked at 35% off available in different types of prints and various sizes.

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 6d

Show me how you draw armor! 🛡️

The reference for this was from a photo pack of armor to make studies from so I don't have all the info on it other than it looks pretty cool.

A digital painting that is a study of a suit of armor that has aged to a greenish color with some gold accents.

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 6d

Woo! Thank you so much! That's one of my goals with my work. 🖤

Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you so much!

Yeah! That was my first attempt at an environment in ages and I've been working hard behind-the-scenes to really build my environmental skills to hopefully start making more pieces akin to that one. 😊

Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you! 🖤

Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks for hosting, Hampus! 🖤

I'm Ren and I like to paint a lot of skull-headed, skeletal-esque creatures.

A digital painting of a haloed human skull floating above a dismembered torso that glows from within, a pelvic bone floating beneath it, shards of perhaps garnet float around it like shattered wings.

A dark art, digital painting of a haloed, skull headed figure floating in a void with arms stretched to its sides, palms facing forward, and with rose quartz protruding from its shattered, decaying body.

A digital painting of a giant, multi-armed, skull-headed figure in a large thunder cloud with several bolts of lighting generating from it.

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Hampus 🎃 @hampus.bsky.social · 6d

🦴🦴🦴 #SKELETON #ARTSHARE 🦴🦴🦴

It's skeleton time! My name is Hampus and I can't stop thinking about skeletons. Let's share dat bony goodness

💀 Post your skeleton art
🦴 Invite your friends, if you want
💀 Be nice to each other
🦴 Posters of genAI will be blocked and possibly lose their IRL skeleton!? 😱

A digital painting of a naked woman kneeling before a gigantic honey-colored flower with a skull in the center. The woman is rendered in shades of purple and red, her head cast back, eyes closed and lips smiling. Her long black hair is flowing down, covering her butt. Her arms are stretched behind her, bent slightly at the elbow. Some joker has written "Skeleton art share" over the picture

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