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cryptidsyrup.bsky.social
🕯️maximus🕯️
@cryptidsyrup.bsky.social
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he/him • bag of bones, ink, and mud • luck is earned, dread is found • 26 years of crying over pretty sunsets • occasional adult content

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🕯️maximus🕯️ @cryptidsyrup.bsky.social · 29d
Art vs Artist 2025

I am pretty happy with what I accomplished this year, I have felt more like myself so I was so much more active with my creativity.
3 by 3 grid with a photo of me in the center holding up a peace sign in a mirror photo. the surrounding images are all of my art from 2025. It is very colorful.
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ingenium.bsky.social
Winter Skydance
Illustration of two harpies in a clear sky, mountains in the background. One is dark and the other is pale. They grasp talons and hold a lantern as they dive together, their eyes locked. Stylised warped text around the lantern reads 'IRONWALL'
January 17, 2026 at 5:23 PM
cryptidsyrup.bsky.social
sketchyyy
sketchbook page with pen doodles of my oc jackaline, who has pointy ears jagged teeth, feathers growing on her face, and long dark hair. their are other doodles around her of eyes, faces, and fruit. sketchbook page with pen sketches. one is a character from an anime, one is of my sister-in-laws face, one is my oc theo crying, and one is of the back of my phone. their is also a fidget toy link and “just breath” surrounded by hearts
January 17, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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artwins.bsky.social
commission for @sabattons.com 🫀
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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sloppjockey.bsky.social
glue/dream ii. graphite on paper, 8x10 inches
January 10, 2026 at 11:31 PM
cryptidsyrup.bsky.social
charlie, meredith, and winnie
doodle of charlie, my vampire oc. he is facing away and looking over his shoulder. he has shoulder length locs and blood smeared on his face digital pencil sketch of my oc meredith kissing the shoulder of my robot oc winnie. winnie has no hair and her skin has panels on it, she is smiling. merediths face is half hidden and they are looking at winnies neck. meredith has curly long hair and bangs
January 17, 2026 at 1:49 AM
cryptidsyrup.bsky.social
doodles
very loose digital ink doodle of a curvy woman wearing a cropped shirt and pleated skirt. she has a bomb for a head digital ink doodle of a person with long hair and a beanie that says security on it
January 16, 2026 at 4:07 PM
cryptidsyrup.bsky.social
also take a wild guess at which desk is mine (its the cool one)
cryptidsyrup.bsky.social 🕯️maximus🕯️ @cryptidsyrup.bsky.social · 3d
the complex is being painted today and we were told to move our plants inside. lmaooo i had no idea we had so many. also yes we are growing tomatoes in a teeny tiny planter
A room with two desks and a kitchen counter/bar filled with various potted plants a different angle of the room, focusing more on the plants themselves
January 15, 2026 at 8:37 PM
cryptidsyrup.bsky.social
sketch imma make into a full illustration
digital ink sketch of my oc meredith. they have angular features, a unibrow, elf ears with three hoop earrings and big poofy, curly hair.
January 15, 2026 at 8:35 PM
cryptidsyrup.bsky.social
the complex is being painted today and we were told to move our plants inside. lmaooo i had no idea we had so many. also yes we are growing tomatoes in a teeny tiny planter
A room with two desks and a kitchen counter/bar filled with various potted plants a different angle of the room, focusing more on the plants themselves
January 14, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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hydeangelus.bsky.social
A Pearl
January 13, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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lestatuskuo.bsky.social
Morning Coffee
January 12, 2026 at 6:07 AM
cryptidsyrup.bsky.social
color doodles
digital doodle with ink and color of a person with medium-dark skin, light hair, glasses, and a collared shirt. The overall tone of the drawing is purple and the colors look painted. digital color doodle of a yellow smiley face balloon
January 12, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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joyfulmuraena.bsky.social
🦚
January 11, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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semaalo.bsky.social
oc
December 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
cryptidsyrup.bsky.social
inky warmups
digital ink doodle of a bust of a creature with sharp but human-like features, pointy teeth and ears, and black feathers that turn into hair digital ink doodle of a waist-up average sized person with a really long relaxed mohawk and shanks, a cropped tshirt that says pride, facial and body hair, and glasses. digital ink doodle of a somewhat anatomically correct skull digital ink doodle of a thin woman sitting cross legged in a dress. she has dramatic hands, a smile and relaxed eyes, and tight curls worn in an afro.
January 10, 2026 at 4:15 PM
cryptidsyrup.bsky.social
How my art style changed 2020 - 2025

no more soggy colors and way more confidence

bonus: my self portrait got transgendered (both of the figures are me)
murky digital painting of a tomboy with blue hair sitting next to a black cat signed cryptidsyrup 2020 digital illustration of live salmon in blue green water with a landscape thats on fire in the background. overlayed are boxes, one has a figure crying into a pool of water and the other has a yellow fishing lure signed cryptidsyrup 2025
January 8, 2026 at 10:12 PM
cryptidsyrup.bsky.social
ugh ive been stuck on one illustration for 2 months and i love the concept so much i NEED to finish it but im just not happy with it each time i get close
January 6, 2026 at 3:01 PM
cryptidsyrup.bsky.social
Happy 2026 everyone! Have some sketches!
digital ink sketch doodles of eyes, mouths with vampire teeth, and hands digital ink sketch of a man stretching his arms over his head digital painting sketch of a red transparent die digital painting sketch of count orlok from the new nosferatu
January 1, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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cryptidsyrup.bsky.social
Art vs Artist 2025

I am pretty happy with what I accomplished this year, I have felt more like myself so I was so much more active with my creativity.
3 by 3 grid with a photo of me in the center holding up a peace sign in a mirror photo. the surrounding images are all of my art from 2025. It is very colorful.
December 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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darktarou.bsky.social
#artvsartist2025 ✌🏻✨💕
December 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
cryptidsyrup.bsky.social
Art vs Artist 2025

I am pretty happy with what I accomplished this year, I have felt more like myself so I was so much more active with my creativity.
3 by 3 grid with a photo of me in the center holding up a peace sign in a mirror photo. the surrounding images are all of my art from 2025. It is very colorful.
December 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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ionomycin.bsky.social
my favorite pieces from 2025
drawing from earlier this year of a large humanoid octopus creature on building near the seashore. two women, one dressed in a lab coat are studying them drawing of an old building sunken underwater. there is a diver approaching it drawing of a dark room with a red light coming from the other room. a huge eel is swimming in a fish tank towards the woman dropping pellets into the water
December 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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josh-foreman.bsky.social
Tumblr user nocryptographer: I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation. A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written. AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence. Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same. There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that. I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it. If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... then it's real.
December 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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shouty.bsky.social
Sculpture studies
December 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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choodraws.bsky.social
waterlilies
December 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM