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Jan Falk (ThistleArts)

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He/Him Cover artist for BL/MM novels. Refugee 🏳️‍⚧️ 👨‍❤️‍👨 🇧🇪 🔞 🗡️🐓 🚫🔄 Bottom Hans ambassador Lordly Princess 📩 [email protected] www.patreon.com/thistlearts https://ko-fi.com/thistlearts https://www.thistle-arts.com/ #ericterrence #MMart #OCs #Hansry

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Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · Oct 13

I'm Jan, a transmasc freelance illustrator.
I specialize in M/M and Achillean book cover art and character design.
I also do #OCart and occasional #fanart.

Portfolio, contact info and rates
www.thistle-arts.com

Patreon (NSFW m/m art mostly)
www.patreon.com/thistlearts

#art #artistsupport 🎨

Book cover art for "Of nights and rings and making love" by Rita A. Rubin
Two men stand in the moonlight with a vague shape of a castle window behind them. They both wear fantasy clothes and white poet shirts. One man has dark skin and he embraces the other man from behind. They lean into a kiss.

Book cover art for "Blood Sails" by Sierra. J. Meril
Two white men caught ina dynamic fight on a deck of a pirate ship.
They are both dressed in richly decorated pirate clothes. One is a mage and has a fire spell ready to launch that is in a shape of a fiery bird. The other hold a sabre. Despite them fighting some erotic tention is palpable between them.

Book cover art for "The prince and his groom" by J.E. Ridge
Two handsome men stand at the green lawn with a vague shape of a wizard's tower behind them. One man, with brown skin holds the other one by the neck from behind. And seems to have him tied by a red shibary cord. The other man with fair skin and red hair leans back into him.

Book cover art for "His Glorious Monster" by D. N. Bryn.

A portrait of a young man with long blond hair dressed in a feathered masquerade costume resembling of a white swan. He holds a dramatic pose on a dark background with nighclub like lighting.

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Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · 2h

Hi! I do OC art as well! I hope it's not a problem that I also post fanart and client art as well.

My Victorian OC's Eric and Terence. Terence a fine gentleman from an aristocratic family is horseback, while Eric his estate manager kisses his hand looking up at him.

Watercolour artwork of Eric and Terence kissing passionately.

B&W portrait of my gas lamp urban fantasy and murder mystery story.
he's name's Etienne, he's an artist and art connoisseur. He has shoulder-length blond hair and a sharp, well-structured face with sensual large lips.

The second main character from the same story as Etienne. He's name is Nathan and he's a journalist. He has black hair with ad styling. he wears a white shirt, black trousers and a black vest. He has a smart, charming and a bit mischievous look on his face.

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Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · 2h

Hi! I do OC art as well! I hope it's not a problem that I also post fanart and client art as well.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 16h

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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Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · 4h

The level of cruelty is immeasurable tbh.

Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · 4h

I feel you, man. I really do.
Get well soon

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Sparrow @sparrowlicious.bsky.social · 15h

Congratulations Jan!
I'm just going to cheekily share my cats... in Halloween costumes! Drawn only, of course. 😂
Aka me still trying to wrangle Rebelle 7

Digital artwork of a white cat in a purple witch's coat and hat, two spirit flames float next to her on both sides. The background is light purple.

Digital artwork of a mostly white calico cat dressed up as a vampire in a long cape with little fangs sticking out of her mouth. The background is beige with red paint splatters.

Digital artwork of a Siamese kitten dressed in a green sweater-like dinosaur costume with yellowish spikes on the back.

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Helen Mask 🔜 Seattle oddities🔜Pdx oddities 🔜kumoricon @hemask.bsky.social · Sep 2

Graveyard Queen

Made in honor of my trip to Scotland, and all the beautiful graveyards I visited

Graveyard Crowned queen, crying, with headstones tangled in her hair.

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Helen Mask 🔜 Seattle oddities🔜Pdx oddities 🔜kumoricon @hemask.bsky.social · 1d

Started sketching this a few years ago and decided I’m ready to finish it. I completed the inking tonight and I have lots of details to add in coloring stage. (They are the morning and evening star)

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Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · 1d

Why?!

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Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · 1d

I see whole scenes. Even short movies. With light, props etc.

Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly!

Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · 1d

An old watercolour portrait study"

#art #portrait #traditional #watercolor

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faepaintings @faepaintings.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats and thank you so much! 💜
I'm just a small hobby artist doing RP-inspired character art of my own and friends' OCs, offering commissions and working on an own worldbuilding. 😋

Portrait of a dark skinned female troll with a green braided mohawk.

Split portrait of a nightborne (left) embraced by moonlight and a bloodelf (right) embraced by void.

Eerie painting of a bloodelf just oberving through black eyes with tiny glowing pupils.

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Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · 2d

A little teaser of my artwork that will be featured in #hardcover2025

A cropped preview of a digtal artwork in retro style
A young blond man in a luxurious white shirt layes on a black sofa. He has a golden ring with a blue gem on his finger
Behind them there's a man who presses him down on a sofa with his arm. The man has dark hair with a slick cut.

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Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · 2d

Wow! Incredible colour and detail!

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Nyneve_arts @nyneve-arts.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for artshare!

I love doing fantasy art and romance

Illustration of Finrod and Beor from silmarillion. A blond elf and elderly looking man sleeping in each other’s embrace under the autumn oak tree with golden leaves . The picture also has an oval frame of oak leaves

Fanart of Eowyn and Faramir from lord of the rings in a bright summer forest. She is standing in the stream and lifting up her dress and he’s looking at her from the shore and smiling

Melusine with 2 tails and wings is sitting on the on the edge of the well in the forest and reaches out to kiss a women who is kneeling in front of her. Illustration has an ornamental frame like in medieval illuminated manuscripts decorated with mermaids in pride flag’s palettes

Rote fanart of Fitz and Beloved as lady Amber. She is sitting on the windowsill on the cushions dressed in a yellow dress with floral embroidery against the background of a window with a beaded curtain. Fitz is sitting on the floor at her feet and kissing her knee. The room is filled with war golden light. The framing is apricot tree branches and dragon lifecycle secuence from an egg to sea serpent to dragon.

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FonsCordi Art @fonscordi.bsky.social · 3d

Congrats! 🎊🎉 And thank you for hosting. I'm Grace and I like to paint horror and fanarts 👻✨️

"Be the Queen the world deserves"
Head of a xenomorph queen on a red background

"The wood dwellers"
"You are not from here are you?"
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A child like creature with a dress, an apron, and the head covered in a burlap sack is standing holding a bucket dripping red liquid in one hand, nd a rope in the other. The rope is holding a creature without he body of a pig, the mane of a lion, 4 horns, and a face with black eyes and a bright red third eye.

"The shepherd"

"My herd, listen to My voice and be not afraid, for I know you and your deepest desires. Follow me, and I'll lead you to my Paradise."
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A priest like humanoid with white hair is in preaching position. He has a black shiny halo and his uncanny face has no eyes. His robes are rich and a huge eye rest on his chest. The head of a dead lamb is held on his right hand.

"The old forest god"
"And in the stillness of the woods, the Old Forest God returned to reclaim his dominion..."
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A horror creature is coming out of a bright portal in the middle of the woods, his upper body looks humanoid, his lower body beast like. There's a gape in his belly and a tentacle is coming out of it. His head is crown with antlers and a bright red halo.

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Star Trek: The Next Jenna-ration @lunarcane.bsky.social · 3d

Congrats Jan :)

I'm Jenna, I draw mostly in a cartoon style but I vary my style depending on whim. I draw original art, fan art, and I've been dabbling in comics. I have also illustrated book covers in the past.

A witch with orange hair holding magic purple fire, it shines on her face and glasses.

Kirby wearing a walrus hat looking up at the fairy lights in wonder and happiness. His friend is walking behind him while eating ice cream.

A panel from my upcoming comic, A Constellation of Stars. There are four panels. One long one on the left with snow falling down. The top right panel shows a pink winter boot stepping in the snow and a narrative box that says "Hello!" The middle right panel is a pink mittened hand holding a backpack strap in front of black jacket. The bottom right panel has pale blue hair in a bun with two star pins in it and another narrative box that says "My name is Star."

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Ransnorkel @ransnorkel.bsky.social · 3d

Hello, I draw fanart and my OC's!

The water pump FLUDD was a major assistant in Mario Sunshine. What happened to it? It got turned into a coffee maker. Yoshi is pouring a cup saying coffee's done!

I like sympathetic monsters. 2 girls playing jump rope with an ugly creature

My favorite OC's, a cast of crazy characters

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tonnerre comics @tonnerrecomics.bsky.social · 3d

thanks for hosting! congrats on the 14,500!! that's so great.

here's some of my artwork from my long running webcomic series about witches and the like.

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@solidpawn.bsky.social @eyart0430.bsky.social @realthangcustoms.bsky.social @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social

digital drawing of a purple woman in a baggy man's suit.

digital drawing of a wedding where the groom is a tall blue demon man.

digital comic page where witches take a magic drug.

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Abbymcraft 🦇🎃✨ @abbymcraft.cute.expert · 3d

Hi!! Congratulations on 14,5k followers and thanks for hosting!! I’m Abbymcraft and I’m a traditional human artist who makes cute and cozy art!!😁🫶✨

A drawing with ghosts with variously brightly coloured and white checkered patterns surrounds the big bold black outlined dark pink text that reads boo! In all caps. There are also brightly coloured flowers surrounding the word as well!!

A drawing of a fair skinned, curly brown haired girl with brown eyes, she is wearing a cold shoulder purple and black striped turtle neck and matching purple and black batwing hairclips, a black skirt, purple knee high socks and black knee high lace up boots.
She is sitting on a flying magic broomstick the background is a purple night sky with silver stars and a silver crescent moon behind her.

A drawing of a fair skinned, curly brown haired girl with brown eyes with purple eyeshadow and pink lips, she is wearing a cold shoulder purple and black striped turtle neck and is wearing matching purple and black batwing hairclips, the background is a light pinkish purple!!

A drawn photo of Scarah Screams from the monster high series. Scarah Screams has white eyes without discernible irises or discernible pupils. She has black hair, mostly worn in a 60s mod fashion, specifically a shoulder-length bouffant flip, with a lime-to-light-olive-green Alice Band. Her skin is a pale blue to greenish tone and she has blue to greenish lips. Scarah is depicted wearing a lime green turtleneck halter top with an olive green miniskirt and matching Alice band and heeled white pointy toed gogo boots.
Scarah also sports a white belt with a square buckle around her skirt. The background is light green with dark green swirled patterns in the corners.

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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 3d

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 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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Canuckuma (かなくま）| Commissions Closed Temporarily @canuckuma.bsky.social · 3d

Hey Jan~! Your art is wonderful! Congratulations on 14.5k! So well deserved~! 🥰

Thanks for the chance to celebrate you.

I’m Canuckuma, an anime/manga artist who enjoys cel shading, clean lines and poppy colours! I hope you like my work!

Newest piece. A character design of a cyberpunk arachne woman with symbolism evoking the Greek fates

My novel character Camila~ a girl with a dark secret

My character Valentina~ a celebratory piece for Day of the Dead

An older piece from 2019 I plan to repaint~ an “inktober” piece I often just call “angler”. It depicts an angler fish using a beautiful siren as bate

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REALTHANG CUSTOMS @realthangcustoms.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations on 14.5k & thanks for hosting Jan!

🙏4️⃣🏷 @tonnerrecomics.bsky.social! Let's go!

I'm Seng, I make digital drawings of TTRPG/ RPG/ fantasy characters/monsters. I offer comm art service on Ko-fi, seeking freelance card/ board game art project & sell POD merch on RB.

REALTHANG CUSTOMS @realthangcustoms.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hi I’m a freelance artist who enjoy creating #digitalart of #ttrpg #rpg #fantasy character/ monster. I offer commission art service on Ko-fi.

You can get yours at:
ko-fi.com/c/174d870a15

🔁+❤️+💬 are most welcomed 🙏
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#rtcart #dnd #dndart #art #illustration #characterdesign #bskyart #commissionopen

A gynosphinx monster drawn as sample art of full color commission art service. She is a majestic creature larger than a horse, featuring the body of a tawny lion, large falcon wings, and the head of a female humanoid. Drawing imagined as a collectable card.

Frost giant drawn as sample art of full-color commission art service. He wears a helmet with 4 horns on the head, 2 giant animal skulls as shoulder guard, fur armor with metal belt & chain armor on top. He's holding a giant axe resting it on his shoulder looking down toward a little boy that keep hugging his lower right leg. Drawing imagined as a collectable card.

A xorn monster drawn as sample art of full-colour commission art service. Xorns were very odd-looking creatures. They had radially symmetrical bodies with a large mouth at the top surrounded by three long arms interspersed with their three eyes. Their wide, pebbly, and rocky bodies rested upon three stumpy legs. They had talons at the end of their arms. On top left is a scribble of how move around by spinning their body & drilling forward underground. Drawing imagined as a collectable card.

Drawing of an originally designed creature named "chest dweller" as sample art of full-color commission art service. The creature hides in a chest. It has 4 arms, enable him to move around & attack adventurers in dungeons. It has 4 eyes, holding a blowpipe with a poison gland at the tip. The drawing is imagined as a collectable card.

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Always Tuesday @alwaystuesday.bsky.social · 3d

Hello! I’m Tuesday. I make traditional art - mostly Good Omens fanart, but branching out to other portrait and illustration work.

A watercolour pencil drawing of Aziraphale having tea with Aneurin Bevan. Bevan is wearing striped red pyjamas.

A gauche painting of Aziraphale and Crowley sitting on a bench looking out over the cliffs of Seven Sisters.

A pencil drawing of a hand picking a bright red apple from a branch.

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