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Dean Oyebo @deanoyebo.bsky.social · 2d

Some new art.

"Bloom."

#art #digitalart #noai #illustration #bookillustration

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Cyra 杨金丽 @cyrabaine.com · 2d

Hi, I'm Cyra! And it’s my BIRTHDAY! 🎂🎉

I'm freelance illustrator who loves to paint gorgeous fantasy ladies AND some video game fanarts on the side! It would be the greatest gift for me today if you ❤️ and 🔄 my artworks! Best of all, it costs you $0 to do so!

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Dean Oyebo @deanoyebo.bsky.social · 2d

Some new art.

"Bloom."

#art #digitalart #noai #illustration #bookillustration

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Dean Oyebo @deanoyebo.bsky.social · 3d

Yes Ireland! Let's goooo! 🍀

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 3d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Dean Oyebo @deanoyebo.bsky.social · 10d

Final call for now. I will be closing commissions at the end of October as I'll be working a temp Christmas job most of the week to pay the bills. Financially, I can't see past that at the moment and I want to devote more time to writing in the new year, so it might be your last chance for awhile. ❤️

Dean Oyebo @deanoyebo.bsky.social · Aug 8

Details update. 📌

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Dean Oyebo @deanoyebo.bsky.social · 14d

BOOK COVER ARTISTS

QRP with your book covers 📚

#BookCovers

A small band of warriors conjure mighty illusions and rend the earth with powerful magics to defend the entrance to their city against the advance of an unseen foe.

A werewolf faces down a mass of monstrous looking creeping vines. Something otherworldly attempts to get between them.

A group of travellers traverse the large, twisted root of a giant tree to reach the ruins of a building on the other side of a ravine.

A large magic tome comes to life in the arms of its reader, protecting them from the assault of two mischievous gargoyles while two figures look down on the commotion from above.

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Dean Oyebo @deanoyebo.bsky.social · 17d

I put myself back on tumblr. If anyone else is over there feel free to follow. Not sure what I'll post on there. Or when. I've no plans to leave bluesky or anything. Just testing other waters.

www.tumblr.com/deanoyebo

@deanoyebo · Dean Oyebo Illustration

Follow @deanoyebo and get more of the good stuff by joining Tumblr today. Dive in!

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Bella Bergolts @bellabergolts.bsky.social · 24d

Hornet 🧵

#Silksong

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Dean Oyebo @deanoyebo.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚫It's not AI. It never will be. It's a composite of photo manipulation and painting. I started working like this before AI. I don't use it for everything, the look just really suited what I was going for with the world setting in my book. 📖(more examples in replies)

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Dean Oyebo @deanoyebo.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you for 3k followers everyone! ❤️

Some of you will be happy to hear that there is actually more personal work for my book in progress. It's not ready to show yet though. Until then here's some older work for it, in order too. Perhaps you can even figure out what's going on...maybe...🤔🙃

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Dean Oyebo @deanoyebo.bsky.social · Aug 28

#the_colour_wheel ...well kinda. Did not expect to struggle for green, or have so much purply stuff. 🎨

An attempt to arrange some of my work according to the colours on a colour wheel

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Greg Rutkowski @gregrutkowski.bsky.social · Aug 28

“For Honor and Freedom” print drop is LIVE! (Link in Bio)
I’m really happy to announce that “For Honor and Freedom” is finally available as a limited print edition and only for 4 days!

#gregrutkowski #oilpainting #classicalpainting #battle #medieval #knights #brushes #canvas

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Dean Oyebo @deanoyebo.bsky.social · Aug 26

Where has my personal work disappeared to?

And what a glorious mess of 120k words it is too if I do say so myself. ✍️📖

(WARNING! Fast scrolling text may create flashing imagery)

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Yulia Zhuchkova @avalach.bsky.social · Aug 25

- Elijah -

I’m excited to share another character I illustrated for amazing Mallory Robertson and her book In the Shadow of Elm & Fire. I really enjoyed working on this portrait

#characterart #bookcharacterart #bookishartist #bookart #bookillustration #characterillustration #bookcharacter

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Dean Oyebo @deanoyebo.bsky.social · Aug 25

It shows. Great job Yulia!

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Dean Oyebo @deanoyebo.bsky.social · Aug 19

I feel like not a day goes by where you haven't sustained a new injury or generally come to some harm. Is it time to quarantine you and cover you in bubble wrap? I feel like it's time. xD

Hope you get better soon mitch. I've suffered Iritis, so I know eye pain is just awful. 🫂

Dean Oyebo @deanoyebo.bsky.social · Aug 15

Now who left this here, I wonder?

The last of the commissions for the people than donated money towards my new PC. A final big thank you to you all. You really saved my butt <3

#art #digitalart #humanart #commission #ff14 #hyur

A sneak peak into some ruins reveals a tempting surprise

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Dean Oyebo @deanoyebo.bsky.social · Aug 12

Awww that upsetting. Your artwork fits this style of game perfectly and it looks so far along in development. :( I really hope it can be revived somehow in the future. 🫂

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Dean Oyebo @deanoyebo.bsky.social · Aug 11

a pixelated image of a cat wearing a wizard hat and holding a wand with the words manifesting written above it

ALT: a pixelated image of a cat wearing a wizard hat and holding a wand with the words manifesting written above it

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Dean Oyebo @deanoyebo.bsky.social · Aug 10

I wouldn't ink personally. Wouldn't want to risk losing those wonderfully expressive lines. 💕 Nice job, mitch.

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Dean Oyebo @deanoyebo.bsky.social · Aug 8

Details update. 📌

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Dean Oyebo @deanoyebo.bsky.social · Aug 8

Ok I'm doing it. Time to just be me. I can't change the website address without a fair bit of faff but my ko-fi link and bsky handle has now changed. I'll update anything else whenever I remember it exists xD.

Dean Oyebo @deanoyebo.bsky.social · Aug 7

Considering moving away from the Whitemane Design branding. It feels like a remnant of something that isn't worth holding on to anymore. Times have changed. I've changed. And it's not reflective of my goals anymore. Plus I don't think I've been asked to design anything for about 6 years now. 🤔

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Dean Oyebo @deanoyebo.bsky.social · Aug 7

Considering moving away from the Whitemane Design branding. It feels like a remnant of something that isn't worth holding on to anymore. Times have changed. I've changed. And it's not reflective of my goals anymore. Plus I don't think I've been asked to design anything for about 6 years now. 🤔

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