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☆ Concept artist, illustrator &gamedev with a focus on fantasy, characters & portraits ☆ cat mom ☆ kpop ☆ CARAT ☆occasionally scream about ADHD and thyroid cancer ☆ no N F T / A I ☆ dijanadraws @ gmail . com for work ☆ http://dijanadraws.carrd.com

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Dijana @dijanadraws.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hi #PortfolioDay! 🥰
I'm Dijana, a concept artist and illustrator, with traditional and gamedev experience. I love designing and painting characters, illustrations and portraits. I'd love to work on more covers and TTRPG illustrations ✨

📧: [email protected]

Demon Hunter - illustration
The image is a book cover for an upcoming fantasy novella by Daina Rustin. It depicts two main characters facing off a monster in a forest.
The main characters - Gray and Adrien - are turned away from us, and facing the monster hidden in the bushes. Gray is a slightly darker skinned mage, with long straight black hair, wearing a light green tunic and brown pants. She's placed in the foreground to the right.
She wears a wide belt around her waist, and has one shoulder bag and one smaller bag visible hanging around her waist. She is preparing a fireball in her left hand.
Adrien is a knight, and he's placed towards the left of the image. He's pointing his sword at the monster. He's wearing the Ravensguard blue tunic over a chainmail shirt, and brown pants.
The monster is in the middle background, it's tall, standing on back legs, black with reddish highlights, red eyes, big beak, and two very long claws in front.

Four of Wands - Radiant Fates - Stained Glass Tarot project
The illustration depicts the Four of Wands tarot card. The card carries the meanings of family, celebration, home, belonging, etc. The themes of the card are depicted by 4 women sitting on a swing bench together, each holding their own wand pointing upwards. The swing has 4 branches going upwards, arching and connecting in the center, creating a frame around the women and a rosette-style window depicting a castle. The background is a glassy texture with a soft gradient incorporating blues, purples, yellows, oranges and pinks, with a yellow graphical element extending from the castle frame, and stars. The foreground is covered in more flowers in pinks and blues.
The image is stylized, with heavy black linework, referencing a stained glass look in theme with the project.

Aurelia - character illustration
The image shows a stylized character illustration of the main character of Sky Across - Aurelia - on a white background. The character is a female, standing while leaning on a tall regal staff, while dressed in a "ceremonial" outfit for her setting. She’s wearing a stiff pale cream dress with blue decorative linings around the edges, and a v-neck cut, a gold feathery shawl draped over her shoulders, and she has thigh-high blue and orange leather boots with a small heel. She’s wearing gold jewelry, her earrings feature the same blue gemstone as her staff, while the leaf motif repeats between the bits of staff and her necklace pendant. She’s wearing a gold feathery tiara that matches her scarf. Her hair is long and dark red/purple, with a braid coiled around her head behind the tiara.

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Dijana @dijanadraws.bsky.social · 17h

Olay, the enlarged sore lymph nodes have made an appearance. I guess it is the beginning of a cold. Sigh. Release me

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Robin Thorne @whatrobindoes.bsky.social · Sep 1

Available to ALL paid Patreon subscribers, Into the Woods is an 11-page DnD 5e adventure that fits into any setting. If you love haunted forests, gothic fairy tales and being in over your head, this is for you and your group!

www.patreon.com/DMConfidential

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Dijana @dijanadraws.bsky.social · 1d

I've had a low-grade fever with no other obvious respiratory/infection symptoms for 5+ days now, and I'm starting to go crazy.
I have things to do and pokemon to catch, release me!!!!!!

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Jenny Haines @snarkylamassu.bsky.social · 1d

My prints are currently on sale and there's $5 worldwide shipping this weekend, go have a look around! www.inprnt.com/gallery/jenn...

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geneva @gdbee.bsky.social · 1d

🌈 ramen noodles

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shadrad 🪐 still got that Space Trauma @shadrad.bsky.social · 1d

Good thread

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 2d

in a session with my therapist, she was commenting how she can't draw a stick figure -- then recalled a time when she could envision exactly what she wanted and it came out easily on the canvas. and she had no idea how she did it.

I was like, yeah, the flow state. you know, like athletes and gamers

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 2d

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Nadinne Neira (commissions open!) @nadneira.bsky.social · Jul 22

🎨 #PortfolioDay Hello! I'm Nadinne Neira, Illustrator and Concept Artist available for work. I've worked in Animation as background and concept artist and as TCG illustrator. I'm open to TTRPG, Games, Indie projects, Cover Art and personal commissions.

• Portfolio: nadinneneira.wordpress.com

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 2d

5 ways YOU can use the torment nexus to maximize your workflow

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Natalie Spitzel | Looking for work!! @nat-the-dev.bsky.social · 2d

Still looking for work, it's looking like full-time work may not happen for awhile so I am open to taking on Freelance work if anyone happens to need some 3D Assets. I'm available as soon as possible. Thanks❤️
nataliespitzel.myportfolio.com

Natalie Spitzel

Experienced 3D Environment Artist in the Game Industry Looking for full-time work

nataliespitzel.myportfolio.com

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 2d

this video is AI generated. the reporter has three arms and people in the background phase in and out of each other, and it comes from an AI sharing account

be cautious with what you share these days, friends

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 2d

bro WHAT THE FUCK

I WANT HER creations.mattel.com/products/mon...

Monster High Alien fashion doll, all in black, looking over her shoulder.

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Dijana @dijanadraws.bsky.social · 1d

Love you ❤️

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ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · 2d

One third of a way into the fair already; this year more so than ever it's a place to discover a variety of emerging and exciting artists, with our highest number of new-to-the-fair exhibitors and people making their very first comics!

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

ShortBox Comics Fair

ShortBox Comics Fair is a unique and innovative digital comics fair, where every exhibiting artist debuts a brand-new comic!

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 2d

With another fragile ceasefire hanging over us, we need to be working MORE not LESS to support Palestinians on the ground. Thread of upcoming workshops, 100% of proceeds go to Palestinians in Gaza 🧵

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2d

And don’t forget that you can still get 20% off on select banned and challenged titles on our site through October 19 using code BBW25 at checkout!

Keep reading. Keep fighting the good fight. I’ll see you soon. 💜

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 2d

Hey Minnesota: ICE is now on the ground in NE Minneapolis. See thread. Stay alert everyone!

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 2d

Thread on ICE in holland, Northeast Minneapolis the morning of 10/10/2025.

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Kate Avery @kateaveryart.bsky.social · 2d

Finished this one at about 5am today 😝
August at the Shore
Sandsend, North Yorkshire
6x8” oil on board
Available!

kateaveryart.com/oil/august-a...

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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 2d

Fish has an important business meeting so he put on his most important business suit. Good luck, business fish. We are all rooting for you

Silly wee doodle of a fish in a business suit

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ACLU @aclu.org · 2d

And we're not slowing down.

Join us: ACLU.org

@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 2d

Take notice, the ACLU is hard at work…

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ProkoTV @prokotv.bsky.social · 11d

I've heard horror stories about Domestika over the years, but didn't say anything because I don't want people to think I'm just bashing a competitor.

Instructors need to be treated well it's clear Domestika didn't do that. If anyone affected is looking for a home for their courses, reach out.

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Toby Fox @tobyfoxart.bsky.social · 17d

I've finally set up my Ko-fi to have my tutorials for download☕

I used to sell just "Intro to Digital Painting" on my gumroad, but now I'm putting tutorials that were previously only available at my in person workshops on there too! 💖

ko-fi.com/tobyfoxart/s...

Visit TobyFoxArt's Shop!

I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

ko-fi.com

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Gremlin! @smolgremlin.bsky.social · 11d

✨Long May He Reign✨ #WednesdayWeeklies #CriticalRoleFanart

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Gremlin! @smolgremlin.bsky.social · 18d

Okay I may have forgotten it was Wednesday because I was focused on Hades 2 BUT MORE INDULGENT FANART, HOT BOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII #CriticalRoleFanart #WednesdayWeeklies

Digital painting of Essek Theylss, in an abstract starry but also somewhat snowy background, casting some dunamantic spell involving gravity (causing a red-blue chromatic aberration around his sillohuette).

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 10d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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