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noels 🎨

@nohtora.bsky.social

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hobby artist, interior architect & part-time pirate | she/they, viet-aus 🔗 links & contact: nohtora.carrd.co

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noels 🎨 @nohtora.bsky.social · 2d

caleb repost in honour of #TheMightyNein trailer dropping yayayayyy

#criticalrole #criticalrolefanart

Digital illustration of Caleb Widogast from Critical Role, holding his Bengal cat familiar Frumpkin against his chest in a relaxed manner. The figures are set against a black-brown oval background with very faint brush strokes alluding to smoky flames.

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noels 🎨 @nohtora.bsky.social · Jul 6

THIS IS NOT WHAT I WANTED

based on Ilya Repin's 'Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan', 1581 #blacksails

Digital painting depicting Black Sail's Captain Flint and Hal Gates, referencing the painting 'Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan'. Flint's eyes are wide open in horror as he cradles the dead body of Hal Gates sprawled on the floor of the captain's cabin.

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noels 🎨 @nohtora.bsky.social · Jul 4

LRP starting to sense a theme in my art idk #wip #blacksails

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noels 🎨 @nohtora.bsky.social · Jul 16

need to make more disco elysium art bc i feel like i really popped off on this one

Digital painting of Harry Du Bois from the video game Disco Elysium, lying on the floor of his kitchen against the cabinets in a drunken stupor. The kitchen is dark, with a strip of light from an open door partially illuminating his slumped figure.

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noels 🎨 @nohtora.bsky.social · Jun 19

omg thanks so much that means a lot 🥹🙏

noels 🎨 @nohtora.bsky.social · Jun 10

doubtful i'll actually finish this bc i'm rusty as hell but uhhh i picked up my pen for the first time in over a year guys are u proud of me

( this is obviously a very joyful painting nothing to be suspicious of here ) #wip

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noels 🎨 @nohtora.bsky.social · May 29

schooner enterprize :)

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Micaela Dawn @micaeladawn.bsky.social · Nov 19

Looking for queer artists?

I've made a starter pack of folks who have participated in @novamali.bsky.social's projects such as the 'Classics but Make it Gay' series!

Let me know if you've been in one of their projects and want to be added!
go.bsky.app/64Tcn5C

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noels 🎨 @nohtora.bsky.social · Nov 14

so can anyone tell me if there's any point to deleting my art from twt bc i just don't have much time or energy rn. like surely it all been scrapped already? ugh idk

noels 🎨 @nohtora.bsky.social · Oct 26

genuinely the coolest thing i've done all month

noels 🎨 @nohtora.bsky.social · Oct 26

best view you can get on a ship ;) #tallship

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noels 🎨 @nohtora.bsky.social · Oct 26

went aloft to the topyard for the first time today weeeeeee #tallship

Photo of me climbing the main shrouds of a topsail schooner tall ship

Photo of me aloft on the topyard of a topsail schooner tallship

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · Jul 26

can you do me a big favor and sign up for this pronoun labler @pronouns.adorable.mom

I don't want to misgender folks when I reply to them at the same time I don't want to spend the time click random profile names to read a bio on if they have a pronoun listed.

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noels 🎨 @nohtora.bsky.social · Oct 22

so thrilled to go see you all in melbourne !!!

noels 🎨 @nohtora.bsky.social · Oct 20

haven't had the energy for socials lately but will be slowly building my feed til i find some time to glaze/nightshade my art to repost here !! 🤎🤎🤎

noels 🎨 @nohtora.bsky.social · May 7

bonjour

#iwtv #interviewwiththevampire

Digital painting of Lestat and Louis from AMC's Interview With The Vampire Season 2. It is a paint study of a promotional photo, depicting Lestat lightly & elegantly holding the underside of Louis' jaw. Handwritten script below reads 'mon amour'.

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noels 🎨 @nohtora.bsky.social · Mar 31

the piemaker & his childhood sweetheart 🤎

[ #pushingdaisies ]

Digital illustration of Chuck & Ned from Pushing Daisies, in the style of J.C. Leyendecker's June 3rd, 1905 Saturday Evening Post cover. Chuck is dressed in a dragon costume, while Ned holds her hand lovingly.

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noels 🎨 @nohtora.bsky.social · Feb 9

bonus early thumbnail squiggly boys

Various rough thumbnail sketches of dragon silhouettes

noels 🎨 @nohtora.bsky.social · Feb 9

i wanted to have a bit of fun with patterns with this one - the designs are inspired by encaustic tiles i've seen around vietnam, with a bit of tết flavour :D

noels 🎨 @nohtora.bsky.social · Feb 9

chúc mừng năm mới ! hope this lunar new year is one full of good luck and good health for everyone !!

#LunarNewYear2024 #YearOfTheDragon

Digital illustration of a joyful yellow Vietnamese dragon, set on a patterned background of encaustic tile-like designs with subtle Lunar New Year motifs.

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noels 🎨 @nohtora.bsky.social · Jan 4

me and my boys gonna mess you up

#wip #criticalrolefanart

Screenshot of a WIP illustration of Astrid Becke, Caleb Widogast and Eadwulf Grieve from Critical Role

noels 🎨 @nohtora.bsky.social · Dec 30

not to mention a little joyride on a tallship !! whirlwind of a day !!

noels 🎨 @nohtora.bsky.social · Dec 30

this was also the year i got to meet and give luke arnold my hand-bound copy of the black sails zine ???!!

Screenshot of nohtora's tweet, posted 22 April 2023, with two photos of meeting Luke Arnold and a signed copy of the Black Sails Zine. The tweet reads: "so lovely to meet @LongLukeArnold today at #melbnova !! hope you enjoy your copy of the @blacksailszine, luke :)"

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noels 🎨 @nohtora.bsky.social · Dec 30

the bestest boy 🧡🧡🧡