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CrossRoadArt- Bear (is writing Sloan shit)

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A slumbering cryptid and artist of characters u shouldn’t like but worryingly do. They/Them No AI/ No NF🫖’s 🍁 https://www.patreon.com/crossroadart (if u want to feed the lurking shadow) 🍂 https://bio.link/crossroadart [ #henchmensguide ]

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CrossRoadArt- Bear (is writing Sloan shit) @crossroadart.bsky.social · Nov 14

My name is Bear,

I’m an illustrator,
& I’m to blame for all of this.
bsky.app/profile/did:...

I’m also to blame for ‘The Henchmen’s Guide’, the story of a stoner who was kidnapped by a werewolf, made to become her henchmen and, despite his best efforts, continues to survive his employment.

#art

A tattered book cover with the title ‘The Henchmen’s Guide, an observation in staying alive’
On it is the sparse red Australian outback. The horizon of the red plain is long flat and without a single tree. Above it the is a pale grey dusk sky with a few thin gold and orange tinged clouds. In the middle of the landscape, on an outback road, a young man flees for his life as he is pursued by a woman in punk attire who seems to be enjoying the chase a little too much. Their shadows are stark below them, and while the young mans shadow is a normal reflection of his physical self, the women’s is that of a huge werewolf with an open jaw and long teeth stretched open above the shadow of the fleeing young man.

Though a rain splattered windscreen a terrible woman stands in a dark, vast, near empty parking lot. From the waist up she is in shadow and below that she is illuminated in the headlights. She has pallid skin, an untamed mane of black hair whipping in the wind and wears a black knee length coat, a pair of dark shades and black knee high boots. Her stance is causal and patient, breathing a cloud of vapour while one hand sits in her pocket.
A pair of windscreen wipers pulse across the visage of her.
She is looking directly into the car at the young man in the back seat who is reflected in the review mirror.
He is wearing a pink hoodie and sees his miserable fate in her. The top half of his face is in shadow, while the bottom half of his face is lit with the warmth of street lights that cast the shadows of rain drops onto his cheek and nose.
He is defiant, but he is also scared.

On a wet road in a dim foggy forest, a werewolf so dark it could be described as a silhouette with white eyes, looms over a young man laying on the tarmac in a frozen state of fight or flight.
The young man is in a dark pink hoodie which contrasts with the otherwise cool, dark pallet of the scene.

It’s hard to convince yourself that everything is going to be ok in the face of someone like Sloan.
Theo had tried to put up the arrogant front of a deeply unimpressed teenager, however his failure was evident in her shades, where he could see the reflection of his own uncertainty in his eyes that watched the face of the predators before him with a frankly primal calculation gear towards survival. Her smile was the foremost object of disturbance. It was distinctly wrong. A little too wide and crowded with jaggard hyena like teeth. It could, arguably, hold a candle to the definition of a maw. The fact that her skin was scored with a hash of pale scars didn’t help the impression either, it told the story of one not easily dissuaded from any given intention. All this set in the backdrop of a mane of black hair with webs of silver that Theo still had decades to possess. She raised one eyebrow behind her shades. Theo noted it too, and smoked his joint with a sinking feeling. Even in the bright, safe light of the beach they stood on, Theo estimated that he was the nameless victim in the prologue of a horror.
If only he was so lucky. This is not in fact the prologue, this is chapter one and he is the P.O.V.

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Noah Hawthorne (they/them) @noahhawthorne.bsky.social · 9d

One of the goals we hit on the Kickstarter was a hardback, and @crossroadart.bsky.social has been working on the cover.
These fellas are not the main focus, surrounded by details, but boy are they handsome.

Only 26 days until release!

neshamapublishing.com/noah-hawthor...

An illustration by Crossroad Art of Cornelius Sawyer and Watt Johnson.

Cornelius, a man with dark hair and glasses, stares up at his companion with a joint dangling from his lips. Watt stares down at him, an awestruck look on his face. He has light hair, a little longer than his companions.

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Carolina Álvarez @ AH JW Valencia @kaiselka.bsky.social · 9d

it’s officially spooky season! 🎃 #otgw #overthegardenwall #fanart

Over the Garden Wall Fanart. Main characters are in the front and the beast it's in the background between the trees of the forest.

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Grendraws IS LOOKING FOR WORK @grendraws.bsky.social · 10d

youtu.be/8aulMPhE12g?...

*squealing*

Frankenstein | Guillermo del Toro | Official Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

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CrossRoadArt- Bear (is writing Sloan shit) @crossroadart.bsky.social · 10d

The dream ✨

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Hedge Bette @hedgebette.bsky.social · 13d

I love the ride to Ren Faire and the ride back when you stop for gas or a pre-game taco and you’re just wildly out of context ✨

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CrossRoadArt- Bear (is writing Sloan shit) @crossroadart.bsky.social · 10d

We really do have whole worlds that exist apart from people that claim they know us, hey 😅

CrossRoadArt- Bear (is writing Sloan shit) @crossroadart.bsky.social · 10d

😂

CrossRoadArt- Bear (is writing Sloan shit) @crossroadart.bsky.social · 10d

😂😂😂😂
Whelp. Sometimes all you can do is nod along 😂

CrossRoadArt- Bear (is writing Sloan shit) @crossroadart.bsky.social · 10d

I’ll say, my parents love my art. Huge fans of the art. They just don’t know the characters 😂
Which is fine, I don’t really talk to them about them,
But sometimes they patiently stare at me in the midst of figuring something out & dare to ask, ‘Why?’
& I try to explain what the research is for.

CrossRoadArt- Bear (is writing Sloan shit) @crossroadart.bsky.social · 10d

I think my parents could manage 2.
Mum might pull off 4 at a stretch.

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CrossRoadArt- Bear (is writing Sloan shit) @crossroadart.bsky.social · 10d

Those plot holes aren’t gonna fill themselves!

CrossRoadArt- Bear (is writing Sloan shit) @crossroadart.bsky.social · 10d

Ah, that’s cool 😆

CrossRoadArt- Bear (is writing Sloan shit) @crossroadart.bsky.social · 10d

🤣🤣🤣🤣

CrossRoadArt- Bear (is writing Sloan shit) @crossroadart.bsky.social · 10d

Yep 😂
The whole worlds we have that they don’t know about, hey.

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CrossRoadArt- Bear (is writing Sloan shit) @crossroadart.bsky.social · 10d

I suspect this is gonna be most people’s answers 😂

CrossRoadArt- Bear (is writing Sloan shit) @crossroadart.bsky.social · 10d

If I was to ask your parents, would they be able to name a single one of your OCs?

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Sygnin / DTIYS pinned! @sygnin.com · 12d

Creepy monster based off a design by @reubenyeoart.bsky.social

Thanks for letting me draw your cool creature!

#sygnin #darkart

Art of a monster design that looks like 3 humanoid creatures combined into one. Based on original design by Reuben Yeo.

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CrossRoadArt- Bear (is writing Sloan shit) @crossroadart.bsky.social · 17d

I have sent an appeal every day for a week. They’re ignoring me.
I don’t know if there are people behind that wheel.

a man in a white shirt and tie is eating a piece of food

Alt: a man in a white shirt and tie is eating a snack and shrugging.

media.tenor.com

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CrossRoadArt- Bear (is writing Sloan shit) @crossroadart.bsky.social · 17d

I’ve been tagged as a follow farmer and I just… I can’t even remember to post lately, never mind farm.
I tried to grow chillies this yeah, it was a miserable failure. They got aphids.

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CrossRoadArt- Bear (is writing Sloan shit) @crossroadart.bsky.social · 17d

It’s always nice when the trash takes itself out.

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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 19d

detail from the Hell panel of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights but everybody consents

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · Sep 10

Reviewer: The worst part is, they made the monster hot!

Me, kicking my feet: Oh no omg they made the monster hot?? Wow ahaha I can’t believe they did that, so uh how hot did they make the monster 👀

Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · Sep 8

Has ANYONE read the fucking book?

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Ixihl Ataraxia | ENVtuber @ixihl.hime.watch · 21d

Artwork "Saturn devouring his son" but with a "I consent!" sticker placed on where the dead body's head would be.

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yulkradness🌹TTRPG @yulkradness.bsky.social · 21d

🌱✨It's my birthday!!🌱✨
It's a ritual here sharing an artist's artwork, and I'd really appreciate that too!
I'm open for work as a freelance illustrator, and in case you're interested, here's my commission infos and my linktree!

linktr.ee/yulkradness

Comms: yulkradnesscommissions.carrd.co

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