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kass!! 🪲 comms waitlist!

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💫 illustrator and art historian, big fan of bugs and men with swords, posts mature content sometimes 💫 he/him • 25 • 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 open for freelance work! beetlebard.net

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kass!! 🪲 comms waitlist! @beetlebards.bsky.social · Oct 17

hello!! i’m kass and i’m a fantasy illustrator + queer historical fiction lover and i draw my ocs so so much

open for freelance work for book covers, ttrpg and general publishing

💫 portfolio: beetlebard.net
💫contact via dm or [email protected]

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kass!! 🪲 comms waitlist! @beetlebards.bsky.social · 12d

✨ COMMISSIONS OPEN✨
🌱 hi all!! i’m opening a very limited amount of slots for character ref sheet & outfit comms!
🌱 base price $250 includes one unclothed base and two outfits; additional outfits can be added for +25%
🌱 dm for info, slots limited but not first come first serve

kass!! 🪲 comms waitlist! @beetlebards.bsky.social · 10d

addie i just gasped out loud this is so ridiculously lovely

kass!! 🪲 comms waitlist! @beetlebards.bsky.social · 12d

✨ COMMISSIONS OPEN✨
🌱 hi all!! i’m opening a very limited amount of slots for character ref sheet & outfit comms!
🌱 base price $250 includes one unclothed base and two outfits; additional outfits can be added for +25%
🌱 dm for info, slots limited but not first come first serve

kass!! 🪲 comms waitlist! @beetlebards.bsky.social · Aug 14

a little commotion for the dorsal fin cutout btw

kass!! 🪲 comms waitlist! @beetlebards.bsky.social · Aug 10

thank you!!! their design is mostly based on ribbon eels and their hybrid transformation form is very eel-ish :-3

kass!! 🪲 comms waitlist! @beetlebards.bsky.social · Aug 10

oh yeah we played our first session last night so lemme share my new dnd guy here too :-3 this is llewyn (any pronouns) and they’re a were-kaiju bloodhunter and boatswain for the strangest pirate crew alive

kass!! 🪲 comms waitlist! @beetlebards.bsky.social · Aug 8

:-O as in herald mage??

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juuni @juunipupu.bsky.social · Aug 7

Knight falling out of Love

[ #oc | #art | #ttrpg ]

knight oc wreg pulling an arrow out of his chest. He looks pained but determined and he has multiple similar arrow scars, that are covered by broadleaf plantain. In his other hand hangs a hunting horn.

kass!! 🪲 comms waitlist! @beetlebards.bsky.social · Aug 7

herald hound ✨🍁

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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · May 26

ancient friends

a stylized 3d render of a kid drawing at a table, surrounded by ancient fish and sea creatures of the devonian and silurian.

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Samwise @samwisegamzee.bsky.social · Jul 2

first attack teehee idris for @beetlebards.bsky.social

#art #artfight2025

Digital drawing of beetlebard's oc Idris.

kass!! 🪲 comms waitlist! @beetlebards.bsky.social · Jul 2

SAM WHEN I FUCKING GET YOU

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kass!! 🪲 comms waitlist! @beetlebards.bsky.social · Jun 23

that time of year again huh #artfight

artfight.net/~beetlebards

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Eliot 🌳 @eliotbaum.bsky.social · Jun 18

Happy Pride to The Hidden Isle’s character classes 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

kass!! 🪲 comms waitlist! @beetlebards.bsky.social · Jun 23

that time of year again huh #artfight

artfight.net/~beetlebards

kass!! 🪲 comms waitlist! @beetlebards.bsky.social · Jun 19

ohh the pin is so so lovely omg

kass!! 🪲 comms waitlist! @beetlebards.bsky.social · Jun 13

garden fairies ⚧️ ✨🌿

kass!! 🪲 comms waitlist! @beetlebards.bsky.social · Jun 13

oh this is so beautiful, i keep zooming in to look at your textures 🤩

kass!! 🪲 comms waitlist! @beetlebards.bsky.social · Jun 11

ughh the soft textures in this are so gorgeous 💖

kass!! 🪲 comms waitlist! @beetlebards.bsky.social · Jun 11

qrp with your header art! 🍓✨

kass!! 🪲 comms waitlist! @beetlebards.bsky.social · Jun 11

damn get my ass i guess 😔

kass!! 🪲 comms waitlist! @beetlebards.bsky.social · Jun 11

you know? different stab actually.

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Yoshi Yoshitani @ NYCC 2162 @yoshiyoshitani.bsky.social · Jun 11

My confession: I am a digital artist, yet I never flip my canvas

kass!! 🪲 comms waitlist! @beetlebards.bsky.social · Jun 11

wheee sword class (i am the one on the ground 😔)

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perplexingly.bsky.social @perplexingly.bsky.social · Jun 8

Narcissus and Goldmund again, sorry