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Kristin Mai

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Graphic Designer • Illustrator • Bookworm • Daydreamer 🎨 Website & Links: https://kristinmai.carrd.co 🌹 Illustrated Phantom of the Opera Book: https://kristinmai-poto.carrd.co/ 🐇 Next Project: Alice in Wonderland 🚫No AI or NFTs

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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 13d

I started illustrating The Phantom of the Opera during COVID lockdown in 2020. It’s been a long project, but I’m happy to finally share it. 🖤

🌹 kristinmai-poto.carrd.co

#ThePhantomOfTheOpera #art #illustration

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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 6h

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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 8h

Justice for the Princes in the tower! I’m pretty sure I already have that one on my TBR too, lol 🙈

Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 9h

I also really need Alison Weir to stop releasing books on or near my birthday.

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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 9h

I will literally buy anything with “Boleyn” in the title because I’m Tudor trash.

⏳📚💙 #BookSky

Boleyn Traitor by Philippa Gregory. Part of the cover looks like it is cut out to reveal a woman wearing a mask.

The Boleyn Secret by Alison Weir. There is a place holder image of a floral design and says “cover to be revealed.”

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2dchaos - Developing Nechromia @2dchaos.com · 19h

Heyo #portfolioday! I'm Fe, mostly a 3d artist these days, working on my little game called #nechromia. I also do pixel characters, rig and animate!

a white skinned woman dressed in black, pin up pose

a white haired, white skinned man, posing

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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 11h

I forgot about Sense & Sensibility, great choice! I didn’t know there was an adaptation of Daniel Deronda. I’ll have to watch it.

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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 13h

Hello #PortfolioDay ✨

I'm Mai, a graphic designer, illustrator, and bookworm with a love for book design and painting whimsical things.

🎨 Portfolio- kristinmai.carrd.co
📚 Book- kristinmai-poto.carrd.co
#illustration #art #fantasyart

A mermaid with a wistful, downcast eye expression, sitting on a rock overlooking the sea. Her tail is a shimmering blue, and her long curly hair, decorated with white flowers, covers most of her body.

Digital painting of a blonde haired woman looking off to the side. Feathers float around her and she wears a crescent moon necklace. In the background you can see the constellations for Libra, Aquarius, and Gemini.

A book page spread from my illustrated edition of The Phantom of the Opera. The left page is text and the right side is an illustration of Christine being lured into the mirror by the Phantom.

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Robin Sevakis @jadedsketch.bsky.social · 14h

#portfolioday again! I love drawing colorful character-driven artwork for tabletop & video games, books, comics, etc. Animals, cute things, fantasy, anime, & funny/gross things are my strong suits!
More at jadedsketch.com
Email me if you want to make something together! [email protected]

Illustration of a winding hilly road with blue sky, rocks, and hills in the backdrop. Closest to the viewer are three cyclists racing, 2 are robots and a woman in green is leading. Trailing behind are a blue, yellow, and orange cyclist.

9 cat card illustrations from the card game Cat Fluxx

Illustration of a cute pink haired witch with a black witch's hat and black and orange dress riding a broom and casting a green magic spell conjuring an array of Halloween treats (candy, cake, cookies, apples, etc) all with cute little faces.

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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 14h

Also, I was today years old when I learned there is going to be another adaptation of the Forsyte Saga coming in 2026???

The Forsytes | Masterpiece | Official Site | PBS

Desire, ambition, and betrayal simmer in this new costume drama from writer Debbie Horsfield (Poldark). The Forsytes airs in 2026 on MASTERPIECE on PBS.

www.pbs.org

Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 14h

Cheating a little bit with some mini series but:

-The Forsyte Saga (2002)
-Tess of the d’Ubervilles (2008)
-Through the Looking Glass (1998)
-Dragonwyck (1946)

#BookSky #BookishQOTD #FilmSky

The Forsyte Saga based on the book by John Galsworthy. The DVD cover features a photo of Damien Lewis as Soemes and Gina McKee as Irene. They are both wearing evening wear, and beneath them is a photo of ballroom dancing.

Tess of the d’Ubervilles, based on the novel by Thomas Hardy. Photo shows a woman with long brown hair and dark eyes looks straight at the viewer. She is backlit with a soft glow of light.

A scene from Through the Looking Glass, based on the Lewis Carroll book. Kate Beckinsale as Alice, with long blonde hair and a purple dress, kneels on the floor near two tiny chess pieces.

A black and white scene from Dragonwyck, based on the Anya Seton novel. Vincent Price, looking debonair and sexy, is gazing at Gene Tierney. Behind them are gothic stained glass windows.

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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 1d

Vegetaristi on tosi ihana.

Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 1d

I still need to read that one 👀

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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed, the fonts are so good! Bring them back 😭

Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 1d

Bring back book covers of women in flowy dresses running from graveyards and haunted castles.

A collage of pulp gothic romance book covers. Most have the stereotypical woman in a white gown running from a creepy castle or graveyard.

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👻 A Very Slice Scare-en 🔪 @notasminima.bsky.social · 1d

#TheTenantOfWildfellHall - #AnneBronte - is an *objectively better* novel than Jane Eyre (Charlotte) and Wuthering Heights (Emily)...

...and the only reason it doesn’t get the love it deserves today is in large part because Charlotte meddled horrendously with Anne's legacy #UnhingedOpinion

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 1d

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#BookSky #BookishQOTD

Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 1d

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. So quietly unsettling.

#BookSky #BookishQOTD

Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 1d

Like, it felt so weird to still have Murakami and Stephen King books on my TBR from when I was a teenager. Not really authors I'd read now 😅

Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 1d

I deleted a bunch of books from my digital TBR. It was interesting to see how my reading taste has changed. Like, I mostly deleted thriller/mystery books, since I don't read those anymore. Also got rid of authors I know don't vibe with.

#BookSky

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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 3d

Bookish checkpoint 💙📚

✧ last book: The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

✧ current read(s): The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson & Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope

✧ newest adds to the tbr: Lumenlaulaja by Emmi Itäranta

✧ eagerly waiting for: Boleyn Traitor by Philippa Gregory

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 3d

bookish checkpoint 📝

✧ last book: wisteria by adalyn grace

✧ current read(s): perils of the past, holly, no earthly sunne

✧ newest adds to the tbr: i found the first three books in the nightrunner series at a used book store!

✧ eagerly waiting for: sunrise on the reaping! (i know, i am slow)

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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t worry, they left with a very nice edition of Alice. But that was a close one 😅

Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 3d

This reminds me of when I worked at a bookstore and a customer asked which book they should get for their 8 year-old daughter: Alice in Wonderland or Lolita.

#BookSky

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 4d

Just bc a book contains a protagonist between 10 and 30, especially a female protagnoist, doesn't mean it's YA. Just bc the book is written by a woman (or someone you incorrectly assume is a woman), doesn't make it YA. Just bc a book is fun, written colloquially, or has romance doesn't make it YA.

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 4d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Hey, DC: Are you poor and/or furloughed but looking for good times? This Saturday from 5pm to 7:30pm we’ll have free wine & cheese plus 10% off all purchases.

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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · 4d

Aw, thank you 🥺💜 Same, most of my irl friends aren’t on here, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how many cool people I’ve been able to meet here who share similar niche interests ☺️