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Aaron Radney Commissions Closed (For Now)
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He/Him. Illustrator at www.aaronradney.com No AI or NFT. Patreon: http://patreon.com/aaronradney. Open for Commissions: https://forms.gle/hLYEyfpqsN5EbkPe6. #Ha-Nahn
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Aaron Radney Commissions Closed (For Now) @aaronradney.bsky.social · Aug 5
It's time and long overdue. But I'm officially opening up for commissions once again!

I have 7 slots available! You can claim one with the form here: forms.gle/VeiiiQkBiYNq...
My art commission form showing samples of my work and pricing. I'll go into more detail in the specific call out images. Sketch style commissions. Busts: $120 USD Full Body: $175 USD Concept Drawings: $80 USD per page Full Creature Sketch: $100 USD Prop art spot illustrations: $50 USD per item Sketch Maps (Single Region/Continent $150) + 50 per additional continent Full Paintings Busts: $175 USD Full Body: $200 TTRPG character art + licensing: $450 Concept drawings: $200 per page Full Creature Art: $200 Prop Art Spot Illustrations $100 USD per item Painted maps -Only regional/single continent $500 USD Extras -Sketch extras -Simple background +$50 USD Complex Background + 80 USD -Color +25 USD Greyscale or cel shading -Ask about discounts for greyscale or cel shaded work. Discounts start at 20% off full paintings Art Consultation $35 USD per hour Contact: commissions@aaronradney.com website: aaronradney.com
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gaudipern.bsky.social
A fascinating thought for writers: How your cultures ornament and augment their environment says a lot about where their culture places their idea of value. Societies that cover things in complex, intricate motifs are telling you that *labor* is the greatest form of wealth, rather than materials.
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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alliebriggsart.bsky.social
Congrats on the 14k!!!!
And thank you for the space to share art!

Hi everyone! I'm Allie! I make dragons and occasionally draw my favorite devil girl and all her problems. #art
Mau Nowhere, a burgundy tiefling, and Mephistopheles, the Archduke of Baator arguing in a dream. A church like window sits behind them as the world burns to ash. Serlvarian, The Essence Stealer. A corrupted red dragon that mutated and twisted from a fallen star that he coveted. Mephistopheles, Archduke of Baator. A handsome Devil of the eighth level of DnD hell, a fine lad that sits in my head rent free from a past campaign. Air Elemental Dragon, flying through a dawn sky with scales matching the surrounding clouds.
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
aaronradney.bsky.social
I don't have a movie for this. This is just unequivocally correct.
andydiggle.bsky.social Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 1d
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
aaronradney.bsky.social
I've said it before and I'll say it again. We cannot let these people rehabilitate themselves. The country needs a massive rejection of the republicans and it needs to be for a long duration.

Folks need to commit themselves to that reality.

Too many folks don't hate these people enough.
wajali.bsky.social Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 2d
At a fundraiser in the Bay Area with v educated and informed people and a few said, "Hey Fuentes and Owens have changed! They're really good on some issues!"

Sigh. Don't sleep on this, folks.
wajali.bsky.social Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4d
I believe Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens have the pulse of the modern MAGA movement going forward.

You can laugh at them and dismiss them as cranks, but you have to pay attention to what they're selling.

This is what comes after Trump.
November 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
aaronradney.bsky.social
Random post.

Based on D&D stats and vibes what do you think my best stat is and what do you think my dump stat is?
November 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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sailorhg.com
one of the things that makes me most mad about genAI (and there are many) is we've been told there's not enough money for hiring. but there's billions poured into ai.

so not enough money to hire workers. but infinite money to pour into technology whose goal is never having to pay workers again.
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
aaronradney.bsky.social
Considered law and found I liked the power too much. Didn't have the bandwidth to listen to people's problems professionally. Read a book called Galatea in 2D and realized that book covers were often paintings and never looked back.
recursecenter.bsky.social Recurse Center @recursecenter.bsky.social · 14d
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
aaronradney.bsky.social
So... I have a guess as to why this is. The median voter studiously avoids the news true but I also think we have the issue here of the Epstein emails not moving much because it doesn't actually do what a lot of these people *really wanted.*

Let me explain.
ynot1989.bsky.social Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 2d
Unfortunately, it appears the Epstein emails have had a marginal impact at best.

Remember, the median voter actively avoids the news and Trump's base of ~35% of the population are White Christian Nationalists who only care about being in power.
usapolling.bsky.social Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 2d
House Model Update:

🔵 DEM: 235 (+20)
🔴 GOP: 200 (-20)

- November 22, 2025 -

(Seat change with 2024 Election)

Full article available for Substack subscribers here -> open.substack.com/pub/usapolli...
November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
aaronradney.bsky.social
Yesterday I had someone tell me they didn't understand what to do when I showed them a resume template and told them they could put their own information into it instead of the indicated red template stuff.

And I have... *so* many thoughts about this.
November 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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thryse.com
I’ve got a room till the 26th (three days) but almost out of money. I can’t afford to extend, and I have to switch to another hotel for a day regardless before I can come back
thryse.com Kait Richardson🥔 @thryse.com · 11d
I’m a disabled homeless trans woman living in a motel in the short term. If anyone can help me out with funds to extend my stay and cover necessities, I would be immensely grateful. My links are in my bio. 💕💸💸💕

#crowdfunding #disability #homeless #transcrowdfund #mutualaid
November 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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martinuche.bsky.social
you can now find BLACK DRAGONS prints in my inprint. As dragons go those are quite chill and friendly, the sunny-smiley type you know?
www.inprnt.com/gallery/mart...
An ancient and big black dragon, prowling towards the viewer
November 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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martinuche.bsky.social
The spam continues, I hope it's not too anoying, turns out I had a lot to add as available prints ;)

Would you maybe be interested in some more dragon?
A large room is flooded with golden light and reflection, as a large dragon just breathed fire.
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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gamefiend.bsky.social
Random things: shoutouts to @ndpdesign.com for designing a Community Radio cover that stops people in their tracks and literally draws them across the aisle.

Shout out to @aaronradney.bsky.social for cover art on the Griot Anthology that did the same exact thing.
November 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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ernie.tedium.co
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
aaronradney.bsky.social
I've got a pot of chicken stock simmering on my stove and have for the last 12ish hours and my house smells amazing!

Gonna turn that stock into soup and an ingredient for some dressing I'm making as well.
November 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
aaronradney.bsky.social
I've got the sketch for this basically ready to go. I'm very excited to work on this one more in between other things. Again, probably the most pulpy/closest to nsfw I'll ever really do but it blows me away that I feel like this is just a new baseline of good.
a sketch with color work of a dragon goddess standing above a city on an extending cliff in the sky. She's mostly humanoid but with dragon wings, a long split tail and a headdress with tentacle hair. She stares at the viewer impassively and sternly. The image is done in blues and oranges and in a clearly unfinished rough state.
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
aaronradney.bsky.social
I think the first bit of CR fan art I ever did was the Caduceus or the Caleb piece. I don't remember which. I do remember Liam picking up both and them showing up the slideshows back when they still did that. I started getting eyes on my work and jobs after that.
aaronradney.bsky.social Aaron Radney Commissions Closed (For Now) @aaronradney.bsky.social · 5d
So, bit of Aaron lore here. I don't usually do fan art. The bug just doesn't usually bite. But if I never did these I probably don't even have the little bit of a career I do.

I never finished these because I never finished campaign 2. But I should.
#CriticalRole
A digital painting of Caleb from Critical Role campaign 2. It shows a dirty hobo looking human male with reddish hair, a bandage wrapped arm and a frayed and tattered coat and scarf. He holds a book open looking off to the right and seen from below. Fire swirls around his lower body and there is writing on the bottom right saying "the man who'll walk through fire, to achieve his greatest wish!" An image of a firbolg done in the Critical Role style. He wears green armor with a purple staff and looks serene with his pink hair and pink details on his armor. He casts a shadow that looks like a tiefling in a long coat. The text on the bottom left reads: The man who walks through the valley of the shadow of death. An image of Fjord from Critical Role campaign 2. He is a strong half orc male with a sword in front of him covered in barnacles and a single large eye at the base. The sword is designed to look like a falchion. He wears brown and green armor with red rope chords around is arm and waste. He stands in the water ready to fight. The tagline reads: "The man reforged by tides" An image of Beau from Critical Role campaign 2. She's seen from the waist up wearing a blue pirate coat, golden magic bracers on her forearms representing the lightning gauntlets she got and carrying a staff in front of what looks like red pillars. She holds one hand up as though ready for a fight. She seems calm and relaxed in her dark robes underneath the coat. The tagline reads "The rebel with a cause"
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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danhawk333.bsky.social
Thanks for hosting Nex and hope your werk is going well 😎🍷
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Pen drawing of an alien covered in coral looking bio-mechanical growths and a fogged visor only showing eyes with tentacle like limbs 'crab-walking' towards the left. Its companion is folded up in a corner among the curved walls that are covered in alien machinery that has organic like textures that look carved or inscribed. Behind the moving alien is a large oval window showing a star scape in deep space. Pen drawing of a humanoid with a void and a single star-like pin point of light in the center. Their unclothed but low definition body flows down into a number of organic shapes and semi-human faces that make up the overgrown mass of eyes, and root like structures. Up the sides it flows up into aged bone and metal structures that eventually becomes a set of highly complex technological structures that radiate outward from a marble like halo that surrounds the head. Pen drawing of a tall, slender feminine being made of black space with white symbols showing on the body and white ellipses in place of the face with an upturned crescent moon shaped headdress or horns with another circular one over the head in a 2/3 halo. This being is standing among several jet black tentacles in front of a large stone ruin with cathedral like overtones and lurking between the columns is a tentacled eldritch horror with several tentacles wrapped around and oozing between the columns with a gas giant looking planet several times the size of the moon in part of the sky visible in the upper right corner. Pen drawing of a ghostly upper torso, neck, head and shoulders of a bald human emerging from a mass of organic shapes that suggest organs, musculature, veins and other structures. Facing left it is looking with solid white eyes and a third eye towards an area of alien writing and shapes in white on a black background next to what appears to the left half of a viewer facing grey style alien being in an embryonic pose in a container and hooked up to wires and is propped up by the same structure of the background
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
aaronradney.bsky.social
Alt text: A digital painting by Nex of a male presenting figure seen from the shoulders up. Their skin is pale, their hair dark and their eyes soulful and sad with a sort of red irritation around them like he's been crying. The lips are full and roses like bleeding sores dot the neck and chest.
anexart.bsky.social NEX 🥀 | COMMS OPEN! @anexart.bsky.social · 6d
It's time for an #ARTSHARE! 🥀

♡ Share your fav artworks
♡ Repost/share this post
♡ Interact with others
♡ Follow me if you want ;)
♡ Label NSFW art, please!

❌️ No A*I or N*F*T ❌️
Artshare time!
November 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
aaronradney.bsky.social
So, bit of Aaron lore here. I don't usually do fan art. The bug just doesn't usually bite. But if I never did these I probably don't even have the little bit of a career I do.

I never finished these because I never finished campaign 2. But I should.
#CriticalRole
A digital painting of Caleb from Critical Role campaign 2. It shows a dirty hobo looking human male with reddish hair, a bandage wrapped arm and a frayed and tattered coat and scarf. He holds a book open looking off to the right and seen from below. Fire swirls around his lower body and there is writing on the bottom right saying "the man who'll walk through fire, to achieve his greatest wish!" An image of a firbolg done in the Critical Role style. He wears green armor with a purple staff and looks serene with his pink hair and pink details on his armor. He casts a shadow that looks like a tiefling in a long coat. The text on the bottom left reads: The man who walks through the valley of the shadow of death. An image of Fjord from Critical Role campaign 2. He is a strong half orc male with a sword in front of him covered in barnacles and a single large eye at the base. The sword is designed to look like a falchion. He wears brown and green armor with red rope chords around is arm and waste. He stands in the water ready to fight. The tagline reads: "The man reforged by tides" An image of Beau from Critical Role campaign 2. She's seen from the waist up wearing a blue pirate coat, golden magic bracers on her forearms representing the lightning gauntlets she got and carrying a staff in front of what looks like red pillars. She holds one hand up as though ready for a fight. She seems calm and relaxed in her dark robes underneath the coat. The tagline reads "The rebel with a cause"
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
aaronradney.bsky.social
Since it is International Men's day I'd like to send this to our Trans masc sibs and second the motion. It's hard for even cis guys to sit down and construct a masculinity outside of the stringent constraints patriarchy tries to put on us.

But that you do *is* amazing. Let nobody tell you otherwise
meakashihen.bsky.social void 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @meakashihen.bsky.social · 20d
this tiktok was so lovely 🥹
November 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
aaronradney.bsky.social
Quote how you draw women
#art #ArtShare #ArtTrain
A beautiful plus sized Black woman descends stairs in a regal outfit, one hand on her hip, a cane at her side for balance and a massive grin on her face as she looks directly down at the viewer. Her dress is done up in reds, oranges and yellows and her hair is slightly curled trailing asymmetrically down the left side of her cheek. The emotion is that all eyes are on her and that’s how she likes it. A digital painting of a pale redheaded woman in robes with a blue outer shall, a white inner robe and a red high necked body suit stands in a study with three glowing panels of energy before her. She looks to her left over her shoulder at one of them, her finger is pointed at another in front of her and her other hand taps easily at a third. The background is dark to separate her out from the rest of the image and make her clear. Her hair moves slightly as though she's just turned her head or there's an unseen wind blowing it. A digital painting of a Black woman in a red dashiki inspired outfit, dreads and glasses races through a tunnel running from some sort of monstrous demonic creature firing bolts of magic at her from far behind. She carries a gnarled staff indicating her status as a mage and the staff is glowing with bright yellow light. Goddess of Dreams A goddess clad in pale blues and gold floats above the walls of an Egyptian styled city. She has an embroidery hoop in one hand that looks like a night sky with a thread of sky and stars. The desert beneath her has a row of obelisks leading to the city gates.
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
aaronradney.bsky.social
Didn't know today was International Men's day but it is so please feel free to remind all the "where's a national Men's day?" guys who get in their fee fees during International Women's day.
November 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
aaronradney.bsky.social
So did this. They'll obviously appeal yes. It's not a full win and I'm not foolish enough to believe they won't try to use the maps anyway.

But I'll take this small win here. Because if this holds... ooooh boy!
Federal judges block Texas from using its new US House map in the 2026 midterms
A panel of three federal judges has blocked Texas from using a new congressional map that Republicans drew in hopes of picking up five U.S. House seats.
apnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
aaronradney.bsky.social
This felt important to share.
jael.bsky.social jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 7d
This is the hardest I have seen any member of Congress work to try and address transphobia in Congress, and her ability to get nearly all Democratic lawmakers to sign onto this letter is something any first would applaud
House Dems unite to tell GOP to stop "demonizing" trans people with "dehumanizing" slurs - LGBTQ Nation
Rep. Nancy Mace's "tra**y, tra**y, tra**y!" tirade is just one example.
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 AM