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Cee

@ceedavies.bsky.social

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2D artist from Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 living in the Highlands 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Inspired by fantasy, literature, nature and history 🐇

🔗🌳 for my Etsy and other: https://linktr.ee/honeybuzzardart

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Cee

@ceedavies.bsky.social

Happy Year of the Horse 🐎

#horse #unicorn #fantasy #mythicalcreature #lunarnewyear #chinesenewyear

A digital painting of a white unicorn with a crest-like mane standing in a tranquil forest surrounded by branches, leaves, and drooping vines. She stands with her back to us so we see the curve of her neck as she turns her head. Her horn glows white and there is a sparkle on its tip. The colours are quite a dusky monochrome with some details of red, pink, purple and blue in the foliage.

February 17, 2026 at 8:07 PM

Cee

@ceedavies.bsky.social

Happy Valentine’s Day from a vampire and her thrall 🦇🩸😌❤️

[pages from my comic The Blood Visit]

#valentinesday #horror #vampire #comic #comics

Two drawings of a monstrous batlike humanoid drinking blood from the neck of a girl. The caption reads “BOTH OF US SURRENDER, VANISH INTO OURSELVES”

Closeup of the monster drinking from the girl’s neck, who seems relaxed and happy about it. The overhead caption reads “AND EACH OTHER”

February 14, 2026 at 11:31 PM

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Cee

@ceedavies.bsky.social

The Captain.

#inktober #drypoint #art #traditionalart #knight #ink #armour #helmet #medieval #print #artprint

October 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM

Cee

@ceedavies.bsky.social

Still dead chuffed with my runaway horse postcard. 🐎

Want to grab one? Link to my Etsy is in my bio ✨

#horse #horses #horseart

Sprawl of postcards featuring a white horse with an ornate saddle and bridle.

January 28, 2026 at 9:09 PM

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Ink Radio

@inkradio.bsky.social

Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is stay soft in a world that keeps asking you to harden up.

Pay attention to what steadies you — a quiet moment, a voice, a song — and keep those things close. They ain’t escapes; they’re anchors.

January 26, 2026 at 9:41 PM

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weird medieval guys

@weirdmedieval.bsky.social

the "medieval people didn't know how to draw animals" crowd has been real quiet ever since john siferwas dropped the Perfect Woodcock

a medieval illustration of an anatomically accurate woodcock perched in the floral margins of a manuscript

January 26, 2026 at 3:53 PM

Cee

@ceedavies.bsky.social

Share your dragons!

#dragon #dragons #fantasy

January 22, 2026 at 11:35 AM

Cee

@ceedavies.bsky.social

A gift for my party and DM.

🦇🧚💪🪄⚔️🐦‍⬛

I’m not ready for this campaign to end. But we all want that bastard to die.

#curseofstrahd #barovia #strahd #d&d #fantasy #vampire #elf #illustration #digitalart #gothic #witch #raven

A maximalist, monochrome digital illustration starring a number of fictional characters from my Curse of Strahd (Dungeons & Dragons) game with an ornate frame of leaves and animals associated with the occult. As featured, carrying various props: Thistle the flying imp (holding a tiny knife), Mitts the undead pugilist (wielding a shiny golden knuckleduster), Mina the vampire (dressed in decorative armour with a glowing sun-like medallion), Aerimil the elf-turned-Hexblood (holding an evil crystal heart and guarded by four glowing white moths) and finally Mallory the witch, accompanied by a huge raven (with a black embossed tome in her arms).

January 18, 2026 at 11:08 PM

Cee

@ceedavies.bsky.social

#portfolioday

You can call me Cee! I’m a Welsh artist living in Scotland with a love for nature and fantasy. I often combine these elements to depict fantastical creatures. A lot of my humanoid characters end up getting a magical side to them too.

My Linktree: linktr.ee/honeybuzzard...

A square, mirrored illustration of two griffins sitting opposite each other, their forepaws touching and wings tucked in. Their back legs are blue, scaled and clawed like a bird’s. Their tails are long, catlike and feathered with a tuft of white fur on the end. Surrounding them are decorative black chains and golden leaves on twisting vines to complement their forms. In the middle hangs a symmetrical branch of golden leaves pouting upwards. Above their paws, hovering between their heads, is a small golden sun with long stylised rays. The overall colour scheme is brown, yellow, cream and blue.

A white anthropomorphic cat leaps upward, wielding a pink staff with a black star crystal encircled by metal and four small wings. He wears a pink suit with a pink bow, and his eyes are pink too. At his side is a Dachsbun, a small dog that looks like it’s made out of toasted bread buns. Behind the two is a big pink heart-shaped bubble, set against a dark turquoise background.

The face and shoulders of an aquatic-looking woman, her face and throat white, the rest of her a mustard-yellow striped with teal green. Her hair is made up of flattened tendrils like seaweed descending from her scalp, and her eyes are closed serenely.

A sepia tone dry point of a woman’s head and shoulders at a 3/4 angle. Her dress has a decorative hem and exposes her collarbone. Her pale hair is loosely tied back with plaits into a bun. She stares ahead with very pale eyes, a relaxed and thoughtful expression on her face.

January 13, 2026 at 4:41 PM

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Gaz

@nyazsche.bsky.social

January 10, 2026 at 2:15 AM

Cee

@ceedavies.bsky.social

Previews for an unfinished piece.

#hands #armour #fantasy #wip #illustration #art #dnd #d&d #characterdesign

A closeup of a woman’s hands. All her fingers are stained black. Her left arm clasps a worn leather book to her chest. Her right hand has a knife of bone coming from her forearm. A black liquid seeps from her fingers and rises as if gravity is reversed.

A man dressed in a padded gambeson with long black hair clutches a levitating crystal heart in a huge clawed hand. On his bicep sits a small, glowing white moth.

A woman raises her right fist, clenching it midair. She is wearing a metal breastplate emblazoned with a small dragon. Her forearm is clasped in a vambrace, blonde hair falling in loose tresses across her chest.

Closeup of a huge clenched fist, cross-crossed with raised stitches. They carry a silvery white knuckleduster.

January 4, 2026 at 9:04 PM

Cee

@ceedavies.bsky.social

I just watched my first episode of Bluey because it's on and now I'm crying a bit. Some warning would've been nice.

December 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM

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Karla Ortiz

@kortizart.bsky.social

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things.

Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

Some thoughts:
When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge.
You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be.
Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history.
You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired.
Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.

December 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM

Cee

@ceedavies.bsky.social

Sketch, 2021.

A 3/4 view of a bearded man with a loose fitting white shirt and a small pirate-like earring.

December 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM

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Haplo

@haplo.bsky.social

this glacier plaque plus all the poetry on the skyline reminds me of this poem

Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now

Most likely, you think we hated the elephant,
the golden toad, the thylacine and all variations
of whale harpooned or hacked into extinction.

It must seem like we sought to leave you nothing
but benzene, mercury, the stomachs
of sea gulls rippled with jet fuel and plastic.

You probably doubt that we were capable of joy,
but I assure you we were.

We still had the night sky back then,
and like our ancestors, we admired
its illuminated doodles
of scorpion outlines and upside-down ladies.

Absolutely, there were some forests left!
Absolutely, we still had some lakes!

I'm saying, it wasn't all lead paint and sulfur dioxide.
There were bees back then, and they pollinated
a euphoria of flowers so we might
contemplate the great mysteries and finally ask,
Hey guys, what's transcendence?

And then all the bees were dead.

December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM

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Helen Czerski

@helenczerski.bsky.social

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".