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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊

@emilylorange.bsky.social

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She/They. Illustration & 2D Game Art Reality Drift, Daylight Publications, and Blaseball TCG Portfolio: https://www.emilylorange.com/ [email protected]

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hello #PortfolioDay! I'm an illustrator and 2D artist currently working in the ttrpg and indie game spaces.

💌[email protected]
🔗 emilylorange.com

🥃 www.tumblr.com/emilylorange
🖼️ cara.app/emilylorange
🐘 mastodon.art/@emilylorange
🖨️ www.inprnt.com/gallery/emil...

a digital painting of a squat bird sitting on a branch in front of a green, abstracted background. he has a large black head and bill, black wings, and a red underbelly, with white spots throughout.

a digital painting of a scene looking across a bright, green mountain valley. the opposing hillside is covered in sun, the clouds behind are puffy and white, and the viewer stands in a forested hillside of greens blues and little yellow flowers

A digital illustration showing a floating landmass, grassy with evergreen trees. It appears thin, maybe six feet deep, and underneath it can be seen a starry night sky. a race track passes through the sky and travels through the forest. the sky above is ocher, with puffy white clouds.

a digital painting of the popular meme showing ben affleck standing outside his door, smoking a cigarette and visibly exhausted, but he has been turned into an anthropomorphic duck

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 1h

Everyone's like 'return to physical media' absolutely the fuck not.

Return to mix tapes/cd burners.

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah basically when I was 13 I was given a big gift card to the music store and grabbed 5 CDs because they had a song Id liked on the radio, and discovered everything else on them was awful or boring.

$13 for one song each.

Machinot @machinot.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine in the days of CDs and buying an album you’re really excited about and you listen to it and it’s trash. You drove to a physical location and spent 5 dollars for a trash album. And you can’t go online to complain about how trash it is

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 1h

Idk can you demand better commentary when you dont even bother to notice they weren't talking about usps.

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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 4h

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 1h

I respect the skill of concept art dot org artists but when I realized they were all trying to do the exact same style I got bored looking at it :/

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Taylor Joan Carlson @teejcarlson.bsky.social · 5h

Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

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Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd · Jan 16

Similar to my post about "liberation means even for that annoying guy you hate" - weird art includes art you personally don't get, don't like, wouldn't spend money on, find unsettling. Games you wouldn't play. Books you wouldn't read. Decommercialise your preconceptions of what art deserves to exist

shaydh 🩸FLEDGLING MANOR OUT NOW🩸 @shaydh.bsky.social · Jan 16

Everyone saying "make weird art!" you better fucking mean it. There better not be an unspoken "but not too weird" tacked on at the end.

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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 3d

Happy 2nd anniversary to the Steam Dev Cheat Sheet 🥂

LMK if any info is out of date! Good luck with your game 🎮

#indiegamedev

STEAM DEV CHEAT SHEET
Quick access to a collection of best practices & magic formulas:

STEAM CAPSULE
(Your Game)
The single most IMPORTANT element since it's seen the most
Clear
Readable
Game name
Genre
Hook(s)
Hire on artist!

THE DISCOVERY ALGORITHM
Get 7,000+ wishlists before launch
Get 10+ reviews ASAP (positive or negative, just need 10)
The only punishing review status is OVERWHELMINGLY NEGATIVE (the rest are neutral for traffic)

WISHLISTS
About 15% of wishlists convert in the first week.
ALL wishlisters are emailed at launch.
Discount 20%+ to email wishlisters after launch.

SALES ESTIMATES FROM REVIEWS
One review represents about 20-55 soles.
It's the New Boxleiter Number! ~30 is good
So 100 reviews = about 3,000 copies sold.

TRAILER
(Viewers skip through trailers)
Start strong
Omit intro logos
Direct to gameplay
60 seconds or less
End with ONE CTA: Wishlist it or buy it

Made in October 2023

From the author of How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself
valadria.com

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Deb JJ Lee 🔜 Lightbox 112 @jdebbiel.bsky.social · 21h

please dont let him have the martini

a cat on a table full of bottles and martinis. His reflection is distorted behind some glass

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 1d

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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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 18h

showing your work is, of course, sound advice, and no shade to the post author. it's just interesting *who* has to carefully curate their presentation to be considered, and who can skate by on an instagram of inconsistent work.

Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 18h

it's kind of wild to see portfolio curation advice about 'showing your work' right after we all learned a man has been tracing disney coloring books and landing jobs just fine

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · Jul 26

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 23h

Oh my god I had not considered wow home makeover content

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 1d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 1d

its always great when shorts can be shared after the film festival circuit, also no im not procrastinating on the thing im supposed to be doing.

#animation #stopmotion #animationshort

A Bird Hit My Window and Now I'm a Lesbian | Award Winning Stop Motion Short Film

YouTube video by AJ and Carmela

www.youtube.com

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 1d

Invoice our payment system!

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 1d

A great weekend to share Jeff Bridges making a perfect joke

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 1d

Also from tumblr: if small talk is hard for you, normies love being told what day of the week it is. If they ask you how you are and you roll your eyes and say "oh you know, its thursday" they fucking love it and agree about the thursdayness

Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 11d

This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.

User homoquartz writes: as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now."
Small talk isn't to get to know a person. It's just a greeting to affirm you're buddies in the universe. I am motivated by wanting the other person to know I am friendly, so I have gotten pretty decent at small tall when I used to hate it.

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 1d

I committed to a 3 page comic and im ahead of deadline but realized its basically 16 illustrations and oops

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Athanaca @athanaca.bsky.social · 1d

Iridescent black🖤

#bird #raven #birdart #animalart #digitalart #illustration #birdwatching #crow #original #colorful #avian
#feather

A raven with colorful reflections on its feathers

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 1d

this post brought to you by the MRI questionnaire that asked at least 16 times if i had forgotten about any shrapnel in my body, which was certainly enough to make me worried i had

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 1d

Me: huh i wonder how they can get an FMRI while someone is knitting to do this research
Brain: well they probably use wooden needles for a start

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 1d

Okay if THIS round of superserum doesn't work I'm leaving pfizer a bad yelp review