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Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · Oct 11

Hi, I'm Neal! I am a fantasy sculptor of dragons, animals, and characters. You can find my work in my online shop where I maintain my own line of resin figures. I am also available for custom work.

🐉 Portfolio : cara.app/verdantsculpts/portfolio
🛒 Shop/Commissions : VerdantSculpts.com

A sculpture of a blue fluffy dragon rearing on his hind legs and pawing at the air.

Three tree dragon sculptures planted in pots. From front to back they are colored like the seasons summer (green), spring (pink), and autumn (orange).

A light blue dragon curls around a baby dragon colored like the trans pride flag. In the background is the trans pride flag.

A sculpture of the white wolf Amaterasu from the game Okami. She is leaping down onto a lily pad, kicking up swirls of cherry blossoms behind her.

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Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 1m

I feel this. I turned 45 this year and have 24 years of experience under my belt. I’ve been working towards this place for so long and having it torn from me is too much.

Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 9m

I think so many of us are really feeling it right now. I appreciate your support so much 💜

Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 10m

Oh yeah, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

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老猫🐱comms open🐱 @laomao.bsky.social · Dec 30

Commission of Hisuian Typhlosion
ヒスイバクフーンの依頼絵

skeb営業中です！
My skeb is opening！
skeb.jp/@laomao

#art #illustration #水墨画 #inkwash #inkwashart #pokemon #ポケモン

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 4h

Hello bluesky! I'm Nora and I have a jewelry store focused on fused glass; I also have game tokens and worry stones.

Collage: nora.jewelry/collections/...
Cluster: nora.jewelry/collections/...
Worry stones: nora.jewelry/search?q=wor...
Earrings: nora.jewelry/collections/...

#bsnm

ad for the nora.jewelry collage collection, which consists of pieces made from patterned cane with some transparency piled on top of other different color canes and turned into a molded shape; the transparency creates a lot of depth in the final pieces, because you can see through the transparent bits to what is behind it. pictures are a pair of round green, white and purple cufflinks, a orange and yellow bolo tie, and a teardrop shaped pendant with a green/white design added to a pink design

ad for the cluster collection, a group of fused glass pendants (and a couple other things, but only pendants are pictured) made from placing glass cylinders on their ends in a group and melting them just enough to round them out but not enough to make them fully puddle like most of my designs. the result of this ends up looking a bit like fish eggs adhered to a flat surface, or a bundle of grapes. the ones pictured are a simple round aqua blue design with yellow middles, a purple design with distorted flowers (this one started out as regular flowers but rounded their petals in the kiln, blurring them) and a round tan design with brown and white middles.

worry stone collection: this one has an orange collage design worry stone in an abstract shape, a white and green one where the edges between the colors blur, and a round one in a bi pride pattern.

earring collection: this one shows a sparkly green aventurine pair of round earrings, one that's white/grey/clear with black spots (that one's made from spiral cane that I made flat and you can see the spiral in the final design) and one with swirling green, yellow and pink set in white.

all the backgrounds on all of these are an aventurine dragonskin sheet that i put at low transparency over white, so they have a lacy quality to them.

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Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 1h

That would be awesome. I am going to start doing more shows next year and hope that it will help. And yeah, I know there’s more than just retail. But those jobs seem few and far between in my area. Even retail is hard to come by. It took my roommate months to find something when we first moved here.

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Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 1h

I am a professional artist. This is all I know. I’ve worked hard my whole life to get here. I hate the feeling that it’s all over and “time to get a real job”. It’s been one of my greatest fears since I started doing this full time in 2012. Going back to retail would destroy me. I hate it all.

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Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 1h

I hate when the temp drops even just into the 60s, everywhere decides it’s time to BLAST the heat. Going in and out of that makes me so tired and nauseous. You’d think at the very least, companies would want to save money on electricity but nope.

Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 1h

Ahhh thank you so much, kind friend 😭

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Bl3iz-Du (OKAMI SEQUEL!!!!) @bl3iz-du.bsky.social · 1h

Support artists! Even if it 'just' means reposting their art and commenting to show you love their works.

Here are 4 wonderful artists for today, please check out their art and shops!
- @verdantsculpts.bsky.social
- @themeekwarrior.bsky.social
- @aminirus.bsky.social
- @mithmeoi.bsky.social

Sculpture of a winged cat by Verdantsculpts

Sculpture of an little owl by TheMeekWarrior

Digital painting of a bird flying in a storm by Aminirus

Digital painting of a black and white cat by Mithmeoi

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Bl3iz-Du (OKAMI SEQUEL!!!!) @bl3iz-du.bsky.social · 1h

ko-fi.com/s/78862afb96

I still have this #Okami figure up for sale.
I'll donate 10% (of what's left once tax and fees have been applied) to another artist like I did with a previous 'big' sale, going to someone else this time.

Share appreciated ❤️

ko-fi.com/s/78862afb96

Okami Kamiki Village Statue - Bl3iz-Du's Ko-fi Shop

3D sculpt was made by myself in early/mid 2023 in Blender. 3D printed with Elegoo plant based resin. Primed before painted for extra durability. Hand ...

ko-fi.com

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Albus || stizzy real @albuscreates.bsky.social · 3h

I’d like to add a lot of artists have subscriptions that are the bread and butter of their wages. I personally would rather 10 people join my $1 a month tier than buy a bunch of stickers one time. (But that might just be me)

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Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 3h

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reywolfe.art 🎃👻⚰️ @kr00bs.com · 5d

MISC ADOPTS ⭐️🐾‼️
195 bucks each.
🔗: ko-fi.com/kr00bs/shop

Adopts!

Mutt: a floppy eared, collared dog with a ball

Masc Doe: a scarred, ruffed masculine doe with natural, cool tones

Wolf: a natural colored, snarly wolf with a radio collar

Coywolf: a light, neutral toned canine with their tongue out and wearing a colorful fabric collar

Saber: a muscled, thick headed saber-toothed cat with spots

Mulicorn: a mule x unicorn hybrid with colorful hooves and a long tail- wearing a small lead

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Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 3h

It’s seriously awful and scary.

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Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 4h

Y’all there’s SO MANY struggling artists right now. Please please help if you are in the position to do so. Do some early holiday shopping. Treat yourself to something special. Donate just to keep seeing people create. And don’t forget sharing always helps so much. We are just trying to survive.

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Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 4h

Ohhhh this is awesome!!!!

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Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 1d

Payday? There’s still some time left to preorder a Halloween figure. These close next Wednesday.

Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 10d

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Happy Autumn! I have opened preorders for a few autumn figures. These will be limited through October 15th. I also have glow in the dark Patch Cats that I will be adding in a few days.

🛒 VerdantSculpts.com

A montage of 4 autumn/halloween themed figures. There is a skeletal dragon, a mimikyu with a pumpkin, an orange tabby cat with pumpkins, and a crow sitting atop a dragon skull.

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Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 1d

A few recently finished commissions. Since sales are pretty dead, I will stay open for these for the next week or so. These are available individually or at a small discount if you order as a set. Worldwide shipping available. Last chance for custom work b4 the holidays.

ko-fi.com/verdantsculp...

A flat sculpted gryphon portrait. He is various shades of blue with an orange beak and eyes. He has large fluffy ears.

Sculpted charms of a canine tail in various shades of brown with a matching tan paw with blue toe pads.

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Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 8d

Glow-in-the-dark Patch Cats are now available for preorder through October 15. These guys glow brightly in the dark when charged with UV light. Get one before they disappear until next year. 🐈‍⬛🎃🍁

🛒 VerdantSculpts.com

#bsnm #art #sculpture #halloween

A figure of a black cat sitting, tail curled around several pumpkins. On its back are vines, leaves and miniature pumpkins.

The same figure but instead of black, it is bright blue, glowing in the dark.

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Toofs! (Comms closed!) @sabertoofs.bsky.social · 1d

Boosts will help so much right now. I'm sick with either conjunctivitis or another case of iritis (for the third time...).

I have been too sick and exhausted to do much at all and hope it's okay to gently remind.

Toofs! (Comms closed!) @sabertoofs.bsky.social · 12d

I'm hoping that this is one of the last times I'll have to do this, but I've set a Kofi goal to help fund my recovery and ease some stress on my end.

I can't quite return the favor with donations this time, but everyone always will have my eternal gratitude.

ko-fi.com/sabertoofs/g...

Buy Darius a Coffee

Become a supporter of Darius today!

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4h

Hundreds of Haitians came to Greeley, Colorado, looking for a place to stay and a good job at JBS, the largest meat producer in the world. Instead, they found squalid housing and an unsafe workplace. Now, they’re being deported.

Immigrants on the line

Haitian immigrants moved to Colorado on the promise of a good job and a place to stay—only to be mistreated. Now, they could be deported.

www.motherjones.com

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🎃Eski🎃 @eskiworks.bsky.social · 13h

I am quite frankly desperate to make ends meet this month. We are $900 short on rent alone despite everything, and could really use any help we can get. I'm taking autumn YCH commissions and accepting any other help I can get to make sure the check clear in just a few days here.
ko-fi.com/eskiworks

Buy Eskiworks a Coffee

Become a supporter of Eskiworks today!

ko-fi.com

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J i j i ✶ @ NYCC C-30 @jijidraws.art · 14h

#NYCC secret menu: pronoun knife holographic stickers! ❤︎ :)) i have them tucked away behind the table just lmk you’d like one. xx

A photo of holographic stickers all bearing different pronoun sets. A black text box with white text at the bottom reads: “#NYCC secret menu i don’t have pronoun pins but i did bring stickers”

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

i think it is fair to request a statement from @jay.bsky.team on TRANS PEOPLE and where we fit in on @bsky.app.

i think as a transgender journalist, it's acceptable and makes sense for me to ask this

and so, the question, am i not a person as a trans girl and do i not deserve to feel safe here?

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