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Hoff/Wes

@ceilingcow.bsky.social

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Designer and sometimes artist. Erstwhile astronomer. Queer. Spoonie. Mod for @yeehawgust I post about Fallout, DND, PKMN, Animal Crossing and Dragon Age. Shops and other socials: https://ceilingcow.carrd.co/ Icon by @alridpath.bsky.social‬

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Hoff/Wes @ceilingcow.bsky.social · 2h

I saw a critique complaining about how it's "just like the first one" and I cannot relate to this as a complaint because when I finished the first Hades my main thought was "wow I wish there was more of this game to play". And as luck would have it, there *is* now. I'm the two cakes meme.

Hoff/Wes @ceilingcow.bsky.social · 2h

I just hit credits on Hades II last night and while I understand some of the criticisms I've read about it, I had a really great time and will continue to play it because it's just a fun game. And boy I was not immune to the ending.

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ever 🐥🔪 @evercelle.bsky.social · 27d

professional associates, back in business 💜🧡 #hades2

hades 2 era hermes presses his face and a cheeky grin under charon's hat, snagging a coin from his open hand

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🎃💜 Ash 💜🎃 @princeofspirits.bsky.social · 2d

All done, I'll take some outdoor photos after sunset!

A photo of a carved Jack-o'-lantern of the Pokemon Hisuian Typhlosion breathing fire with spooky ghost faces in the background

The same pumpkin lit by pink/red LED light

The same pumpkin lit by blue/purple LED light

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shu @shuyawns.com · 2d

happy halloween!!!! please come to his party tonight...

#b3d #pokemon #art

3d render of drifloon in a small isometric room. the room has bright orange and yellow stripes wallpaper, with white, yellow, and orange balloons in one corner. to the other side, a Pikachu pumpkin sits amongst a few lit candles. the center table holds a mini cauldron with lots of candy. candy is scattered on the ground while drifloon floats above it.

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Paul M @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 5d

Gary Larson dropping Cow Tools in 1982

Marty McFly in Back to the Future tells a crowd “I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet but your kids are gonna love it.”

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 10d

The only truly ethical response that a self-described artist can make. Anything else is a betrayal of one's colleagues.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10d

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

www.npr.org

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Rex 🏣🦖🏗️🏬🏢 ➡️ FurPoc @gummykaiju.bsky.social · 13d

🏳️‍⚧️ Loud and Proud ✨

Trans rights are human rights, no exceptions

Pastels on mdf board
Available

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M.E. Morgan @morlevart.bsky.social · Aug 28

They turned out soo cute 🐐 #art

A digital illustration of a satyr character on a flat black background. They have light tan skin, pale ash blonde hair and fur, digitigrade furry legs and split hooves, curled horns, deer ears, and a long tufted tail. they are androgynous, wearing a cream blouse and green pleated skirt; and carrying a red hardcover book.

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 16d

Something worth keeping in mind for anyone tempted to fed post government accounts: doing so makes it easier for them to see your network and anyone you interact with, a burden that is going to fall particularly hard on anyone in America who is not a citizen.

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Lux in the Bronx @rlux.nyc · 16d

Don't engage the new .gov accounts. Don't mock them. Don't curse at them. Just mute or block them.

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Hoff/Wes @ceilingcow.bsky.social · 16d

The charms look incredible omg!!

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Adam 🪿 @vexnir.bsky.social · 19d

Hi #portfolioday ☀️

I’m a Polish illustrator & full-time 2D Game Artist. I love to create cozy art, usually celebrating nature or small moments of everyday life. I want to bring feelings of comfort to everyone and brighten their day with my work!

✸ Store: vexnir-shop.com ✸

Gouache illustration of a black cat wearing a scarf with various geometric patterns on it. The scarf is in warm shades with some green accents.

Watercolor illustration of a bunch of colorful pumpkins, with a beige striped cat sleeping on top of them curled up into a ball, slightly resembling the round pumpkins itself.

Traditional fan art in watercolor and colored pencil. It’s an illustration showing the Pokémon Ampharos, with a little Togepi in its arms, standing among bushes full of yellow flowers. A small house, trees and electrical poles can be seen in the background, with Mt. Fuji faintly hovering over them in the distance.

Traditional drawing in mixed media of a white cat with a yellow straw hat sitting inside a blue cardboard box. It’s surrounded with other boxes full of oranges.

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MessyZandrewbert @messyzandrewbert.bsky.social · 19d

Happy #portfolioday
🐸 I'm Zandrewbert, traditional marker artist and sometimes a digital mess maker. I enjoy drawing Animal Crossing and Pokémon. Recently started taking digital commissions on Vgen.
Links 🔗 zandrewbert.carrd.co

Digital illustration of Zandrewbert frog floating in a hot air balloon that is shaped like Zandrewbert.

Marker drawing of Pansage pokemon playing in the water around a water fall.

Marker drawing of Houndour pokemon looking at a fallen star.

Digital illustration of Zandrewbert frog driving a tiny car.

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🌿viktor aleksander🌿 @ commissions open! @nooskadraws.bsky.social · 19d

good morning #PortfolioDay !

i'm viktor, a trans gay illustrator, looking for work in books, ttrpgs, and comics. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 historical fiction, fashion, and fantasy is my cup of tea ✨🌿🌸🍵 would love to work with more queer authors and fantasy book boxes!

🖼️ www.nooska-art.com
✉️ [email protected]

A digital illustration of a scene from AV Wilkes' 'All the White Spaces'. Jonathan, a trans man and the protagonist, stands in the centre, facing the viewer. He stares ahead in horror, his right hand clutching his throat. From his left eye, strands of bleeding red aurora stretch outwards. These auroras show visions of Jonathan's brothers on the Western Front of the First World War:
- A moustached officer smokes a cigarette in a trench, looking away.
- A soldier is twisted in the remains of barbed wire.
- Three soldiers wear gas masks, emerging from clouds of mustard gas.
- No Man's Land exploded to all hell. A tank is submerged in a shell hole in the distance.
- A skull pressed into the earth.
- A soldier holds a rifle and makes his way across the strait of No Man's Land.

Two portrait aligned digital illustrations of book covers.
Left: An illustration of Afaeran and King Galdor from the webcomic Wundor. They stand in the centre, facing each other. They are bordered by Ancient Greek inspired white columns and an arch above them. The columns are covered with grapevines, vine leaves, and hanging purple grapes. Afaerun is an oche skinned elf with flowing light pink-white hair, and wears a curved silver and ruby tiara, he smiles as he looks at King Galdor. King Galdor is a purple skinned monarch with a single white horn growing from his head. He has flowing dark purple hair, and wears a red leaf laurel. He holds Afaerun's cheek in a romantic embrace.
Right: Two male characters stand in front of each other, staring at the other. One is shorter, and wears a mustard yellow jumper, looking annoyed. The other is taller, with frizzy blonde hair, a purple hoodie, and looks smug. A border of cat toys surrounds them. A cat lies down, arching over the two men, and has a smile on his face.

2 different portrait illustrations side by side.
Left: Alder is a green skinned eladrin elf paladin. He stands nude in a forest. He wears a gold crown of laurels on his head. He looks down at the ground. He holds a sword in one hand, and a sprig of alder branch in the other, he has a shield attached to one arm. He is surrounded by green trees and yellow flowers.
Right: A digital illustration inspired by the pairing Hansry (Hans Capon and Henry of Skalitz from the game series Kingdom Come Deliverance). The illustration is influenced by a scene in the 2005 film Pride and Prejudice. It is separated into 3 panels.
Panel 1: Hans Capon looks behind him in quiet shock at his bodyguard Henry.
Panel 2: Henry has touched Hans' ungloved hand with his gauntleted one in a gentle hold. The panel is surrounded by blooming flowers: herbs and plants that Henry can forage on his journey. Marigold, St John's Wort, Valerian, Sage, Chamomile, and Dandelion.
Panel 3: Henry meets Hans' eyes with an unreadable expression. He quietly yearns beneath it.

A double page spread of a comic. The first page shows a twisted tree in the centre, the space between each branch a panel showing a plague blighting a kingdom. The protagonist called Wolfgang is engulfed in the blighted roots of the twisted tree in the throes of a nightmare. A voice tells him "Take heed, young Durward. These lands know only death, and within its centre, a horror festers. It feasts on all its roots can teach, and what life remains dwindles."
The second page shows a close up of the branches of this twisted tree. Between its panels are images of rot, bodies in body bags, dead fish floating, and the branches are infested with maggots. The voice continues "Soon, there will be naught to satisfy its hunger. But for every poison, there is an antidote."
A double page spread of a comic. The first page shows a twisted tree in the centre, the space between each branch a panel showing a plague blighting a kingdom. The protagonist called Wolfgang is engulfed in the blighted roots of the twisted tree in the throes of a nightmare. A voice tells him "Take heed, young Durward. These lands know only death, and within its centre, a horror festers. It feasts on all its roots can teach, and what life remains dwindles."
The second page shows a close up of the branches of this twisted tree. Between its panels are images of rot, bodies in body bags, dead fish floating, and the branches are infested with maggots. The voice continues "Soon, there will be naught to satisfy its hunger. But for every poison, there is an antidote."

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Christine Ridgway [Commissions Open!] @skidarstudios.bsky.social · 19d

Hi #PortfolioDay!
I'm Christine, a full-time Environmental Conservation Student and a Freelance Illustrator specializing in animal fantasy.

🦚 Website: SkidarStudios.com
🎨 Portfolio: christineridgway.carbonmade.com
🍂 Commission Info: trello.com/b/RU37S4So/s...

digital painting of an anthro deer, a dik dik, in glasses and a pack filled with flowers. he's crouching to pick a flower in the forest

A desert scene of an anthro saber tooth tiger riding a buckskin horse into the camp of an anthro thylacine sitting in front of a low-burning fire. The thylacine's pinto horse is tied to a cactus int he background. The scene is border by rocks and cacti. A full moon shine above clouds illuminated by the last rays of sunset on the horizon

digital art of a seaweed draped double crested cormorant in front of dazzling, sunset-colored water.

an anthro sockeye salmon in fantasy garb hunched over carrying a large crook shaped like a fish hook with lures hanging off of it

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Hoff/Wes @ceilingcow.bsky.social · 20d

Especially because that’s a very cute listing photo, and it sucks to have to change it because someone is repeatedly not listening to you.

Hoff/Wes @ceilingcow.bsky.social · 20d

Every once in a while I have a truly puzzling interaction with a customer where it feels like they have, at no point, read anything in the listing or that I’ve sent by message, but I’ve been lucky it’s rarely escalated to the refund/cancel/block step. I’m sorry you’re being harangued by this one!

Hoff/Wes @ceilingcow.bsky.social · 20d

IIRC you can go to the person’s profile and block them from there, but I genuinely don’t know how effective it is because I’ve only had to do it once, and I have no idea if it actually stops the person from messaging you or ordering from you. 😕

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sigilmint @sigilmint.bsky.social · 21d

✨ Opening up commissions! ✨

For Sketches/Lines + Color, let me know what character(s) you want. Price may increase depending on complexity.
For Painting comms, please provide the photo you would like painted, or provide a collage of images you would like me to combine.

5 slots open.

banner graphic showing my info and three sample images. on the left, it says "SIGILMINT, Commissions - 2025, patreon.com/sigilmint, @sigilmint.bsky.social". The first image is a sketch of Powder from Arcane, and it says "SKETCH $30" over it. The second image is clean line art with full color, shading, highlighting, of Lune and Sciel from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and it says "LINES + COLOR $150" over it. The last image is a digital painting of lialackcosplay's Astarion cosplay from Baldur's Age 3, and it says "PAINTING $100" over it.

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Hoff/Wes @ceilingcow.bsky.social · 21d

Hard to say how much of the new movie’ failure is a lack of actual nostalgia versus Leto’s reverse-star-power. I’ve got multiple friends who are Tron fans and haven’t heard a peep out of any of them about this film, so I have to assume it’s Leto more than their disinterest in the franchise overall.

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🌿viktor aleksander🌿 @ commissions open! @nooskadraws.bsky.social · 23d

someone followed me with dramione on their profile and posts so here's another psa: I AM A TRANS ARTIST if you have anything to do with hp on your profile or posts, my art is NEVER going to be for you 🏳️‍⚧️

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Hoff/Wes @ceilingcow.bsky.social · 24d

Hey there, I would definitely be interested in one of the witch hat or devil ones if you’ve got a spot!

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Hoff/Wes @ceilingcow.bsky.social · 24d

I buy a lot from other sellers but even that has slowed down because of the aforementioned complications; finding stuff is worse now, and all items are suspect until investigated unless it’s from a shop I already know. It sucks from both sides! And all of this is so unnecessary and fixable, too!

Hoff/Wes @ceilingcow.bsky.social · 24d

I guess the plus side is I could really pick and choose what I do, and go for the niche stuff. I especially want to be able to offer more custom stuff and commissions, or offer production services to other artists. One day perhaps I'll have the time to work through my backlog of ideas... 😔

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