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Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson.bsky.social · 8h

#TheDwarfWhoFlew is a fairy tale #ComingSoon as a gorgeously #illustrated #FullColor 133 page #book

#Art by @andrefmsimoes.bsky.social who is currently #CommissionsOpen

The first page of The Dwarf Who Flew by Duncan Wilson, a fairy tale #ComingSoon as a gorgeously #illustrated #FullColor 133 page #book
#Art by @andrefmsimoes.bsky.social

A painting of the dwarven village, with the various villagers going about their day, tending their gardens, mending their fences, baking bread thatching roofs, and hauling water. The titular Dwarf, a young child, is staring up into the sky, watching birds fly about with great ease. Text on the image is the opening lines of the book:

"There once was a dwarf who looked to the sky, watching the birds flit about in the heavens. Endless days and nights the lone dwarf sat on the mountaintop above his village, watching the tiny creatures of the sky weave among the clouds and swoop about the cliffs and crevasses. The other dwarves all thought him foolish, for they liked to keep their feet anchored on the ground whenever possible and saw little to admire in the lesser beasts of the air."

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Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson.bsky.social · 2d

'When he gave advice it was often simple or self evident, and never was he convinced it was of any use, yet his supplicants thanked him and praised him. When society elects its sages and prophets, it is almost impossible to dissuade them of their beliefs, even for those so elected.'
#TheDwarfWhoFlew

Preview image for The Dwarf Who Flew, a fairy tale by Duncan Wilson, illustrated by André Simões showing a dwarf standing on a clifftop, dreaming of flying with the birds, who are flying above him in the sky.

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Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson.bsky.social · 19h

'Another lost soul, another effortless apprehension, another bounty he would forget the details of before his afternoon tea. Just another contract. Just another job to get by another week in the modern world. They didn't even register as individuals anymore, barely human at all.'

#RoutineMonotony

◈André Simões◈ @andrefmsimoes.bsky.social · Nov 15

QTP with your fan art 🖼️

#cyberpunk #cyberpunk2077 #art

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Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson.bsky.social · 19h

More #art by @andrefmsimoes.bsky.social can be found here: www.instagram.com/_andre_simoe...
and he is #CommissionsOpen for any #author or #gamedev looking for fantastic #illustrations.

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Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson.bsky.social · 19h

'Another lost soul, another effortless apprehension, another bounty he would forget the details of before his afternoon tea. Just another contract. Just another job to get by another week in the modern world. They didn't even register as individuals anymore, barely human at all.'

#RoutineMonotony

◈André Simões◈ @andrefmsimoes.bsky.social · Nov 15

QTP with your fan art 🖼️

#cyberpunk #cyberpunk2077 #art

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◈André Simões◈ @andrefmsimoes.bsky.social · Dec 5

Congrats for the 3K!!🎉🎉

And thank you so much for hosting! 🙏

Here's the ones that I had a lot of fun working on! 😁

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Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson.bsky.social · 20d

A few of my book covers #drawn by @andrefmsimoes.bsky.social , who is #CommissionsOpen for all my fellow #authors looking for stellar #coverart.

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Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson.bsky.social · 2d

"...beware the fair folk, their laughter and their lies, beware their cruel joke, when the laughter turns to cries..."

'Fiona hesitated, then lifted the eyepatch over her left eye "As I said, you are far luckier than you know. I too had a pixie kiss me, but it was upon my eye."'
#amwriting
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Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Glad you like them:-)

Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson.bsky.social · 1d

At least it got those right;-D

"As long as you spell my name right."

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Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Predictive text LLMs mix reality and illusion with no regard, and no intent for that matter, as they have no consciousness nor understanding of anything. So expect spicy lies with nuggets of truth.

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EnberLight @enberlight.bsky.social · 1d

The infill is So Sparkly on this TPU. I love it so.

Next phase of Ryu's mask for his school project is the decorations. It'll be a white Drama type mask with red spider lilies. I don't have any red anything, so we're using the TPU. It's flexible and will conform without snapping.

#3DPrint

Two photos, at a diagonal to each other in a square frame. They both show a 3D print in progress. The build plate has a circular ring printed on it on luminous orange, the details of a spider lily blossom forming layer by layer. The right hand pic is further, with the infil grid catching the light.

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Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Don't forget patent medicine (snake oil).

Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson.bsky.social · 1d

More #art by @indicreates.bsky.social can be found here: www.indicreates.com

Indicreates | Discover Art - Browse & Purchase

Explore a diverse art portfolio including oil paintings, dark artwork, illustrations, and commissions by Indi, a versatile independent artist and illustrator.

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Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson.bsky.social · 1d

'In but dreams and distress do we see the potentialities not probable, not possible, but preferable. Myriad mad melodies of mesmerizing mists, cacophonies of color and shimmering shapes, dancing delightfully with what may never be and what never was. Perhaps we are the illusion.'
#WhatAreWe #Reality

🎃Indicreates 👻25% off spooky art @ my website👻 @indicreates.bsky.social · 10d

Art share 🙏

- share your work
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No ai
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#artshare

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Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson.bsky.social · 1d

More #art by @danhawk333.bsky.social can be found here: www.danhawksworthart.com

Illustrator | Dan Hawksworth's Artistic Endeavours | Canada

Welcome to Dan Hawksworth's Artistic Endeavours. I am an illustrator who deals mostly with my own works. I also dabble in other things artistic. My main focus is pen and ink work. Creator of Dee Drago...

www.danhawksworthart.com

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Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson.bsky.social · 1d

'The age of legends, the age of wonder, the age of discovery, the age of the ancients, when the world was wondrous and wild. These times were spoken of with worshiping words in revered whispers. But life in that age was a struggle, and none who lived then would wish to return…'

#ProgressOrRegress

Dan H Artworks @danhawk333.bsky.social · Aug 20

Beneath Panopticon's Gaze
11x17 pen and paper
#surreal #macabre #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #GrimDark

Pen drawing of a twisted technologyscape that fills the entire background, but starts to flow into root and fleshy organic shapes towards the bottom of the page. Dominating this scene is a feminine figure in a squatting position whose lower torso, legs and hands also flow into the organic shapes. Her chest is bound by an iron bar with large rivets while her head is covered by a metallic globe with a singular eye in the center while metal tentacles emerge from her back. The enormous scale of her form is illustrated by silhouetted forms in the foreground along with various technological devices and wires

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Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson.bsky.social · 2d

'Life's unfair it's true. Some days you eat some days you are eaten. Some days you feed on life some you feed another in its fairer days. Life is the one sort of day and then is the other. What comes in turn goes. But such thoughts are for the living and today is but another to while away in decay.'

Chris Hitchman @chris-hitchman.bsky.social · 3d

Day 6. #zombieskulltober #inktober #mushrooms 💀🍄

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Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson.bsky.social · 2d

wait until you see the fully-illustrated story:-) 133 pages in total

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Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson.bsky.social · 2d

'He always dreamed both by night and by day of somehow taking to the air like the birds and the bugs, soaring about among the clouds and dancing upon the winds. Many years did the lonely dwarf sit and watch on the cliffs of his mountain...'
#TheDwarfWhoFlew #FairyTale #ComingSoon

Preview image for The Dwarf Who Flew, a fairy tale by Duncan Wilson, illustrated by André Simões showing birds dipping and diving past the clifftop the dwarf is standing on.

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Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson.bsky.social · 2d

'When he gave advice it was often simple or self evident, and never was he convinced it was of any use, yet his supplicants thanked him and praised him. When society elects its sages and prophets, it is almost impossible to dissuade them of their beliefs, even for those so elected.'
#TheDwarfWhoFlew

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Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson.bsky.social · 2d

Her voice caught a little at the emotional memory, the telling of the tale, the putting to word the wounds the angry mob she had once called friends and family had inflicted, hurting more than the recollection. She choked out through a knot in her throat, "I was ten."
#amwriting #FairyTales
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Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson.bsky.social · 2d

"The parson, curse his soul, chased me from the chapel with holy water and incantations against demons. That was when I fled to the forest."
#amwriting #FairyTales
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Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing the boy's natural revulsion, Fiona grunted and pulled the patch back in place, nodding and continuing their journey, explaining as they walked, "The villagers call it 'the evil eye', but the only evil it has brought me is the howls and jeers of the ignorant."
#amwriting #FairyTales
3/5

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Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson.bsky.social · 2d

'Liam involuntarily gasped when Fiona revealed what was under the patch, her eye was glazed white, nearly completely opaque with but the barest of traces of iris and pupil visible, even in the bright light of the lantern.'
#amwriting #FairyTales
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