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Laura Mellin
@lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
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Disabled, AuDHD, feral artist, pan/cis, 55, married, she/her. LGBTQIA2S+ is my fam, art shares are my jam. New art every day for 2025. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/attacklaurel?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZwLN4Ap8-rIbGYfgi3ksJfRFxtDp8L62cQFqX
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · Mar 12
I unpinned my previous top post, b/c now I want to feature my fave pieces from my #sketchaday 2025 self-imposed challenge! I’m Laura, this is my art account, and this thread will be pinned to become my about me piece. I do illustration and cartoons, often riffing on a joke for multiple drawings.
A marker, ink, paint pen and paper collage drawing of my OC, Bela Lugosquid, a common squid, pale pink-grey with red and grey spots, facing left slightly, asleep. They are smiling (yes, I know, that’s not where their mouths are), and are wearing a pair of fake fangs, a black cloak with a red lining, white bow tie and vest, white shirt, and a red ribbon with a spiny Black Sea urchin attached to the ribbon by holding onto a gold ring. Basically, dressed like Bella Lugosi’s famous outfit* in Dracula (1931). Their tentacles and arms are drifting gently, with an arm on the right touching the edge of the cloak. Dream bubbles coming from their head feature an image of Bella Lugosi as Dracula from the movie poster (image sourced from IMDb.com). Bela Lugosquid is non-binary. They are fascinated by vampire squid, but too shy to actually talk to any actual vampire squid (and afraid of negative reactions). They are a very happy squid. They have dreams of stardom. I don’t know about the sea urchin; they usually don’t go that deep. A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing in my sketchbook. In the upper left hand corner, a white box with shadow lines has the hand-written text: “white potatoes are tuber-essentialist douchebags:” (yes, I’m going hard on this one! Pushing the boundaries!*). The main drawing is of an orange-pink yam (or sweet potato) in three-quarter profile, standing on root feet, with their sprout arms up in the air, leaning slightly forward, protesting (or yelling) at three white potatoes (who, ironically, are brown, because they haven’t been peeled) in a row on the right, in three-quarter profile, one in front, the second slightly behind that one, and lastly, a potato going off the edge of the paper (they’re half-visible). They have little beady eyes, and root feet and hands, with little potatoes growing on them (I love the little potato feet!). The lead potato is asking: “Are you a sweet potato or a yam?”, and the second one is saying: “…you can’t be both.”. The sweet potato (or yam) is protesting: “Why are you so hung up on labels?! I yam what I yam! …or NOT.”. The wall is pale blue-grey, the floor is medium grey, and there are shadows underneath all the tubers. In a small white box in the bottom right corner, the top of a white potato is visible, showing their black dot eyes and angry eyebrows. They are saying:” This is potato erasure!!”. *Or, y’know, doing the absolute minimum by acknowledging that trans people are people, and TERFs/“gender essentialists” are complete C-words. “Dryad of the Vines”: An ink line drawing of a female-appearing figure wrapped in vines, which are supporting them as they sleep. Their face is mostly hidden by their left arm (on the right), which is raised, with vines loosely wrapped around it. Their legs are bent up in a seated position, and their fingers and toes (six on each appendage) stretch out into vines. Their hair is made of vines, and drapes down behind them, and over their torso. Some of the vines have leaves and flowers along them, curling around in spirals and loops. They are nude, but have no visible gendered body parts, just the curves of their body giving an overall female appearance. A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a toy mechanical mouse, facing left. The mouse is grey metal, with brass screws, and a brass key in the middle of its back. It is sitting upright on segmented articulated legs and feet (and toes) that are joined to the body with a round dome with brass screws. The head has large round eyes and ears edged with brass screws, with red lights in the center. The front legs and paws are also articulated/segmented, and are curled around to the nose, like the mouse is eating. The tail is long and articulated/segmented, bending as it reaches the ground, and goes to the left, behind the body. Background is blank. It’s a little toy mouse made of metal, with a key to wind it up. It’s cute, but I am not mechanically inclined, so I have no idea how it would actually move.
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 10h
Aw, thank you! It’s been a long time since my site of my LJ was active, it’s nice to know you liked it. 😊💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 10h
Thank you! 😊💜 I love the moon hare, and I love that it shows up in Indigenous American stories, too!
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 10h
Thank you! 😊💜 They’re very silly a lot of the time, but that’s the way I like it!
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 10h
Yes! Real life isn’t perfect, and art doesn’t feel right w/o personality. 😊
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 10h
Thank you! Ghost Hare is new, this week! 😁💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 10h
Thank you! 😊💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 10h
#sketchaday #artsky #blueskyart #art #movienight #cthulhu #ghosthare #nosferawwwwtu

Everyone likes to get together Friday nights in October for horror movie night.

Tonight‘s choice was “The Notebook”. Nosferawwwwtu can’t watch. They hide behind the sofa when the kissing gets too much. 😁👻💀🐇🦑🐈
A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing, L to R, of a black cat, my OC Ghost Hare (a glowing ghost with big black eyes and hare ears, who looks a bit like a flapjack octopus, and glows pale green-yellow, because they are a ghost), and Cthulhu sitting on a sofa, watching a movie (or staring at the viewer, but PoV is from the TV screen. Ghost hare is petting the cat’s stomach, and holding a blue bowl with popcorn on the other side, sharing it with Cthulhu, who is snuggled under his pink bunny blanket. Cthulhu is helping himself to popcorn with his tentacles. Behind the sofa, on the left, is my OC Nosferawwwwtu, a green-grey creature with very long fingers and strange green fangs, who has one hand over their face, peeking through their fingers. If you look closely, some of the popcorn is skull shaped. They are doing Horror Movie Night, and tonight’s movie is “The Notebook”. The background is dark, and the sofa is dark brown.
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
Congratulations on 14.5K followers, @thistlearts.bsky.social! 🥳✨💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜✨
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Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you for the long-awaited 14,5 k followers!
Time for the #artshare
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Banner for 14.5 k followers artshare It's based on my Hansry artwork. Hans and Henry are on their horses on a sunny autumn day. They touch their palms as if they are dancing instead of jousting.
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
Oh my goodness, congratulations! 🥳💜💜💜💜 Thank you for hosting the share!
Hi all, I’m Laura, feral marker & pen artist, new art every day for 2025. (Thanks to @tonnerrecomics.bsky.social & @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca for the tags! 💜) I do whatever comes to mind, silly or serious. Currently into hares! 😊
A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a hare in profile, facing left, standing up slightly on their back legs, head raised and ears up. The hare is decorated with bands of red poppies, poppy flower buds, and green poppy leaves, with two poppy flowers and five flower buds for a tail. The centers of the poppies are gold, with dots around the edges. The hare’s eye is an enlarged black pupil with a little bit of brown iris, outlined in gold. Their ears are two large single poppy leaves, and their whiskers are gold. They look like they’ve heard a noise, and they are checking if it is safe. I think of these hares as King* Hare’s attendants, as they would look very striking against the King’s white fur. *I’m not sure King Hare is male, but “Monarch Hare” isn’t as lyrical. A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a large white hare staring at the viewer face on, from the shoulders up. He has large red eyes with black pupils, pink nose and inner ears, tall ears that end ant the top corners of the drawing, and one front paw up on the border of the drawing, breaking through the border. He is wearing a wreath of poppies and a gold headdress, which is visible only between his eyes, a gold triangle with red cabochon stones. He also has a gold double earring connected by three gold chains in the ear on the left. The border is 1/2 inch wide, green, edged with gold, around the entire picture. At the bottom is an arrangement of red three poppies, green poppy leaves, and poppy buds that rise above the border in places, as if it is a window. All the poppies with visible centers in the drawing have gold stamens. A green ribbon-style banner edged with gold sits across the chest of the hare, the left bottom curl drawn over the border of the drawing. The banner reads KING HARE in red decorative uppercase letters (I developed this font based on a number of 19th century fonts, edged with gold. Within the border, the background is a soft green, with darker green-grey shadow outlining the hare and poppies. Hare and poppy reference from vintage postcards (1898-1915), personal collection. A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of Ghost Hare (a pale green glowing, floating ghost with huge yellow eyes with black pupils, hare ears and a fluffy tail, whose lower half looks a little like a flapjack octopus), rifling through the crisper drawer in your refrigerator at 2am. Ghost Hare is holding a loaf of sliced bread and a jar of peanut butter in one front tentacle, and using two other tentacles to hold open and pick through the crisper drawer. GH is also holding a butter knife in another tentacle, and a jar of grape jelly in yet another. Only the very edge of the fridge is visible, and one door is open, showing door holders for milk and condiments. Background is grey-black, slightly lighter in the fridge light. Do not eat the brown jellybeans! GH is not the Easter Bunny! A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a hare standing on a background of stars, facing left, right paw raised, head lifted. The hare is decorated in a repeating pattern of silver circles with stars, with the background colour shading through the Pride rainbow (red at the head, shading through orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple), with the added brown and black of the Progressive Pride flag on the hind feet, and a circle tail with the Intersex flag (yellow with a purple circle in the center) in a moon crescent on the left, and the Trans flag colours (pink, blue, and white represented by silver) done as a many pointed star. This was inspired by the Chinese Moon Rabbit, because everyone in the Pride Community is a star. :)
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
I love the spider centaur! So cool! 😍💜💜💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
Wow, these are so beautiful! 😍😍😍💜💜💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
I love your colour choices! Beautiful work! 😀💜💜💜😍
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
😍😍😍💜💜💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
The playing card is gorgeous! Beautiful work! 😍😍😍💜💜💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
I love the diving suit one so much! Thank you for the tag! 😍😍😍💜💜💜
A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of four tiny fuzzy white monsters with huge black eyes and antennae, sitting on stilt grass leaves. Digital speech bubbles and lettering has been inserted. The fuzzy in the middle has one of their arms out, and is saying “Thank you for tagging me! [red heart emoji]”. The top fuzzy is half visible, hanging upside down from the top of the image, saying “…and me!”. The half visible fuzzy at the bottom is hiding behind a leaf, and saying “…and me!”. The fuzzy at top right is sleeping, with a red *zzzzzzzzz* on their head. Background is black, leaves are green. (No one knows what they are, but we’re pretty sure they’re carnivorous. *burp*)
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
I love the pumpkins! 🎃😃💜💜💜 All just gorgeous work!
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
Gorgeous! 😍💜💜💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
Ooo, the barber chair! 😍💜💜💜💀
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
Beautiful work! I love the Eris portrait! 😍😍😍💜💜💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻💀💜💜💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
Oh, very cool! 😍💜💜💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
I love the last one so much! 😍😍😍💜💜💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
I love them! 😍😍😍💜💜💜