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@jenillustrates.bsky.social

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Artist. Wafts pencils across paper, dabbles at watercolouring-in, refuses to get the scary bush pen out & somewhat distracted by crochet Hoping to get back to drawing soon… No AI/NFTs Ko-fi.com/jenillustrates

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Jen @jenillustrates.bsky.social · Oct 18

It’s about time I joined in with a Davis art share!

Hi I’m Jen & I work traditionally with pencil & paper, sometimes ink & watercolours happen. It’s a bit sporadic at the moment & I will get back to drawing soon, if the day job ever lets up

Photo of a portrait completed in pencil on Bristol board. My favourite medium to work with. The portrait is of a covered face, only the nose, mouth & chin are visible due to the amount of tight curly hair. Have I mentioned that I love drawing hair? I do love drawing hair

Photo of a pencil portrait on toned paper. The subject is of the best version of Sherlock Holmes, Jeremy Brett. His head is turned to look towards the viewer who’s treated to that infamous gaze of his. Completed in pencil & white pencil for highlights & still one of my favourite ‘fan art’ pieces as I did manage to capture his likeness

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Thanda ✨ @thandaart.com · 14h

Hey, I need some help 🥺

I’m from the EU and need public liability insurance in the UK for conventions and art markets.
Some companies say I can’t get it as a non-resident, others say I can but I’m not sure who to trust.

Has anyone dealt with this before or knows how to get it?

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Heknitt @heknitt.bsky.social · 16h

Witchy frog 🧙🏼‍♀️🖤👻

#aesthetic #cottagecore #frog #spookyseason #knitting #decor #Whimsical #spooky #cutecore

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Matt Dixon @mattdixonart.bsky.social · 17h

Sunday vibes.

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Jen @jenillustrates.bsky.social · 18h

I feel for you! My sister in law was told a week ago that she had to be out by Xmas eve (now extended to New Year’s Eve) & she’s been renting the same place for almost 20yrs. I hope that you find somewhere soon!! Landlords are an arse.

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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 21h

Wow I'm sure nobody could've predicted this happening 🙄

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Thanda ✨ @thandaart.com · 21h

For the next prompt, “Wisdom,” I don’t know whether to do something inspired by The Lion King or a mother bear with her cub and some salmon 🤔

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Jen @jenillustrates.bsky.social · 22h

Early morning autumn dog walks are the best for having a conversation with nature

Fungi the size & width of a dinner plate growing out of the side of a felled tree, surrounded by ivy. A very pretty pattern on the fungi with striations at the part where it’s attached. I have no idea what variety it is but it’s bigger than the photo suggests

View looking down through a small clearing that telegraph poles run through. There’s water in the foreground, ferns that are starting to bronze in colour as they go, surrounded by trees just starting to change colour. The sky is a bit grey & misty

More fungi that I don’t know the name of. These are smaller than the large one in the other pic & are mostly yellow & almost button mushroom like in size. They’re all gathered close together on a decaying log.

When out on a dog walk, there’s always someone watching your progress. Hiding behind a wooden kickboard that defines the boundary of someone’s back garden is a black & white cat, making sure they’re not spotted by my idiot spaniel (not pictured)

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Charlotte Strawbridge @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social · 1d

Puffin brings a touch of joy to even the windiest cliffs and painting puffin brings that same joy. Behind the charm is a quiet strength; built for wind, wave, and wild weather. Capturing this is the challenge, but, I must admit, a very cute one.
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#BrushWithTheWild #WildlifeArt

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Ste Johnson @steillustrates.bsky.social · 4d

here's another recent illustration for @wolf359project.bsky.social a dreamscape of horror - whats worse than the Borg?

An eerie illustration showing a scene of borg drones hanging as puppets controlled by a imposing figure - tentacles and wrecked starships litter the background

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 1d

Time for #tolktober Day.11 - Battle

Prompt brought to us by @peonygent.bsky.social and Keenan Bouchard (instagram)

#Tolktober2025 #LordOfTheRings #Mumakil #creaturedesign #monsters #RingsOfPower #Handmade #pencilart #illustration #Fanart #graphiteart #drawing #Portrait #graphitepencil 🐘

Towards you strides a towering Mûmakil. An elephant like creature several stories tall. With four massive tusks they are used as mobile war platforms going up against the army’s of men and the walls of Minis Tirith.

2-4B graphite on 110gsm paper

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Patrick Girouard @pgirouard.bsky.social · 1d

Fierce
#shadow #kitten #monster #kidlit #illustrator #artist #childrensillustration #illustrationartists #kidlitart #kidlitartist #childrensbooks #illustration #picturebookartist

A sweet innocent kitten casts a monstrous shadow.

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💀Skulls and Sheets👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 1d

The four sisters of autumn

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Heknitt @heknitt.bsky.social · 1d

Fall frogs for Fall season 🤎🍂🍁

#aesthetic #cottagecore #frog #spookyseason #knitting #decor #Whimsical #spooky #cutecore

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Alan Henderson (Penned Guin) @pennedguin.bsky.social · 1d

S862 - Laminated

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💀Skulls and Sheets👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 1d

Just an experiment tonight

A horse skull in a tattered shawl with the moon behind

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Nicholas Nada @nixnada.bsky.social · 11d

Oh, go on, since it's the start of spooky season, I drew this for you

A scratchboard portrait drawing of Frankenstein's creation, in white on a black background.

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💀Skulls and Sheets👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 1d

MARI LWYD CHARITY AUCTION UPDATE!
A wonderful postcard by @lri.bsky.social and his partner ( a collab) has arrived!

Please go see all the entries so far here!: skullsandsheetsauction.wordpress.com

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Jen @jenillustrates.bsky.social · 1d

Awwww thanks! 💚

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Jim'll Paint It @sirpaintalot.bsky.social · 2d

Bart Nouveau - as requested by Andrew Keys

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Jen @jenillustrates.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not convinced that watercolours & I are friends today after having another pass at these tiny illustrations this morning but it is what it is & it’s all good practice

I’m still pleased with my composition & fineliner work even if my enthusiasm at watercolouring-in was a bit too enthusiastic

Two stylised fineliner illustrations that have been smothered in overenthusiastic watercolouring-in & are still taped to my board. On the left is a red squirrel holding a hazel/cobnut backlit by a moon, perched on a mossy log. On the right is a sleeping dormouse sat in an acorn cup still attached to its twig, surrounded by autumnal oak leaves. One day I’ll learn how to watercolour nicely…

Two stylised fineliner illustrations, bookmark size, that have been smothered in overenthusiastic watercolouring-in & are still taped to my board. On the left is a white mouse perched atop a blue poppy seed head holding a dandelion seed, against a light pink background. On the right is a white mouse atop a pile of hazel/cobnuts, most are brown, a couple are still green. In the distance is the curled up dormouse from the previous photo. One day I’ll learn how to watercolour nicely, we can but hope

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Emily Hare @emilyhare.co.uk · 1d

I'm going to be having a big flash sale in my shop! It will start on the 1st of November and I will be putting all art (except art from this year) on sale for 25% off. Time to make room for new art! Here are some of the pieces that will be available. Keep the date in your diary! 1/2 #artsale

watercolour painting of a pile of red dragons sleeping on a pile of gold

a green dragon with black eyes and a pink nose with lots of bony branch-like growths around its head and down its neck

close up of a painting of two selkies in the kelp forest. GLowing white eyes and half seal bodied.

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Charlotte Strawbridge @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social · 2d

In crimson, orange and bronze, autumn had arrived.
Fox had spent a rather enjoyable morning searching for the perfect collection of leaves.
She'd finally found it.
With a joyful soul and playful heart, she jumped.
In one fine leap, she pounced to catch her shadow.

#Autumn

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 2d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Jen @jenillustrates.bsky.social · 2d

I do hope that the frogs of Portland are singing McCartney’s frog chorus whilst they boogie

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 2d

Lilith’s calls for her brother Orion to aid her. There are men in the wood.

Original art done in 2023

My work, digital. A women with a single antler floats in the air whilst summoning a gigantic wolf god with the Orion constellation in his forehead

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