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gwenypatu.bsky.social
Belle 🦇
@gwenypatu.bsky.social
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Ysabel Gwen • She/her • Illustrator inspired by the dark and wild • folklore, fantasy & nature enthusiast🕯️

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(Human artist, no A/I or N/F/T)
Links: https://linktr.ee/gwenypatu
Portfolio: https://gwenypatu-art.crd.co
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Belle 🦇 @gwenypatu.bsky.social · Oct 14
Hi #PortfolioDay ! I'm an artist with a great fondness for the dark and beautiful in the natural world. I adore all things strange and surreal, and I'm deeply inspired by fantasy, folklore and horror. 🌙

🕯️ Portfolio: gwenypatu-art.crd.co
🕯️ Links: linktr.ee/gwenypatu
🕯️ Contact: [email protected]
Illustration of a black deer in a field, with a shadowy crow sat on her back and a bright crescent moon hanging in the sky behind. Illustration of a pale woodland witch. Illustration of two foxes taking shelter from the approaching shadows. Illustration of a woman with a hollow face, sat beside a window. A candle flickers where her face should be, and a trail leads from her to the woods beyond.
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oakfrogs.bsky.social
escapism through channeling a medieval manuscript illustrator
November 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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danhawk333.bsky.social
Processing
9x12 pen and paper
#surreal #macabre #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #GrimDark

Bit if a push this lunch hour to wrap this one up today/this month. Probably will get one more of these in office day pieces done in December
Pen drawing of a face in profile facing right woth multiple small white orbs of light coming out of the forehead. This is set against a series or rounded organic shapes with a muscle tissue like appearance with orbs embedded in them
November 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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davis.social
Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
cinema_nasties 1d Al defenders are so embarrassing j.paulmonter 2h All you are saying is that you want to gatekeep creativity. That's not good. drachelbarr & 20h • •• Neuroscientist here... creativity is a process. A process. A FUCKING PROCESS. Not an output. Nobody is gatekeeping the process - Al simply invites you to skip to the end, to the output. Which, as mentioned, is not creativity. Nobody cares if the output is aesthetically pleasing, because the process, the act itself, the limitation of a single human mind and the resulting creations that capture that one single inimitable human experience... is what makes a creation worth paying attention
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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nataliehall.bsky.social
She moves slowly
November 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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nozomimats.bsky.social
It's my birthday today! ☺️
If you could spare a repost, it would be much appreciated!
A woman with pale skin, white hair in two braids, and delicate gold tattoo on her face floats in the night sky with a full moon and starry sky behind her. She is wearing a thigh length purple dress with long sweeping sleeves. There are glowing blue lines etched on the fabric of the dress, and two ribbons of light with geometric patterns are trailing behind her. A ring of magic with glowing orbs is circling around her as she floats. Commission work done for YeetMaur A dark skinned man with dark brown hair and a beard framing his jaw, dressed in a white robe and dark brown pants crouches with one hand on the ground as he swings at demons with his katana. The enemy demons are dressed in red rusting armor that looks worn and damaged. The scene is set in a bamboo forest with a path cutting through it, red banners on either side of the road. It appears to be in the afternoon, with a rich orange glow streaming in between the bamboo. A man sits in his study, contemplating a dark, box shaped artifact, while a dark spirit looms behind him. This was a commission work done for JacenLandry
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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aliumfungus.bsky.social
sun and stars #animalart
November 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
gwenypatu.bsky.social
Quote your art with horns! 🐐
Witch covered in blanket of fur, with pale glowing hair and black horns protruding from her eyes.
November 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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iniquitousfish.bsky.social
A small black and white comic. The comic shows me in four stages. At the beginning I am lurched over in my office chair, prepared to work hard. A speech bubble says: 'Okay. Time to lock in and-.' My cat's head is peeking up from around my lap. In the second part, my cat has started to crawl into my space. I look down at her, but am still distractedly saying: 'Time to lock-' In the third part my cat is starting to make herself comfortable on my chest, where she likes to be. I am succumbing, looking off in the distance saying: 'To-' By the fourth section, I have fully surrendered. She is sleeping on chest. It's all over.
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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mirandakm.bsky.social
Duality of woman
Frankenstein’s creature Frank
November 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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davis.social
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

#Frankenstein @realgdt.bsky.social
Digital illustration in purple, ochre, and white. Guillermo del Toro’s monster of Frankenstein is walking into the ruins of the tower in which he was created.
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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hollycircling.bsky.social
also if you guys enjoyed gdt’s frankenstein please watch crimson peak. one of his best movies that got absolutely slept on bc there was like no marketing.
November 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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dryad.technology
A thing that I think is good is when a human creates a piece of art
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 AM
gwenypatu.bsky.social
Art train ! 🚂🚃🚃
Share 4 artworks and tag 4 (or more) people !

@blagodatskix.bsky.social
@saturniasvart.bsky.social
@littleevil0ne.bsky.social
@anexart.bsky.social
Woman sitting by an old window, face hollowed with a candle lit inside. There are two small puncture wounds on her neck, and a black trail leads from the window to the forest beyond. Black deer in a field, a shadowy raven sat on her back. A crescent moon sits in the sky, lighting the field and the forest below. Two mirrored rats, tails entwined around a dagger. Sickly looking flowers glow around them, a skull on the hilt and a gathering of flies buzzing around. A tiger with a 'butterfly' shape mask, a darker extension of his face. (From a DTIYS).
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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ddbtorres.bsky.social
Art train ! 🚂🚃🚃
Share 4 artworks and tag 4 (or more) people !

@alinefraenkelart.bsky.social
@hbtyson.bsky.social
@sygnin.com
@salvaterra.bsky.social
@milkyblood.bsky.social
@sutis.bsky.social
"Regret" presents Beatrice, a character from the animated series Over the Garden Wall. Beatrice was cursed after throwing a rock at a bluebird: all her 12 relatives, as well as her, were transformed into bluebirds. The illustration shows us her transformation, looking in shock and crying as her right arm transforms into a bird's wing. She stands in front of a dark forest, the deep orange of autumn slowly being consumed by cyan and blue. Flying around her and into the forest we spot 12 bluebirds. The illustration also brings a foot frame, with four pumpkins and Enoch - another character, the ruler of Potsfield - in the center. a raccoon warrior, holding a morningstar made of stone and wearing medieval armor a dryad, her head blooming with twigs and branches in the middle of a dark forest. An illustration of mother Goethel, the witch from Rapunzel. She stands in the center, surrounded by thorny bushes and between two crooked trees, holding a baby wrapped in luminous white cloth and her eyes glowing a malicious golden color. In the foreground we see rampions growing from golden vines which intertwine like braids; in the background, in the distance and in the middle of a forest, we see a lone tower
November 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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unknownrelic.com
RED SKULL #zombieskulltober
A red skull, rising out of red smoke. White wisps emanate from the eyeholes, and above the skull is a crescent moon.
October 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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mikez.bsky.social
Sleepy moon. #art
A crescent moon with a sleepy face hangs in the night sky below a gnarly, leafless tree that stands on a ledge. Watercolor and gouache.
October 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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yulkradness.bsky.social
Sharing the third and last card I made for @saharian.bsky.social Briardark!
It has been a really fun project to work on🖤

#art #illustration #commission #darkfantasy #book
Illustration I made for S.A. Harian's book Briardark. The image is showing a deer skull in a central composition, with songbirds on its horns. The songbirds are chirping and flying around, with white flowers and climbing plants intertwined around it.
October 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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waltjan9.bsky.social
Waiting at the gate
A painting of the gate from a decaying village. Pumpkins are growing in front of the gate's walls, a woman is carrying a lamp waiting at the door. A character with a top at in the foreground is still, watching at the gate. The mood is orange, moody, atmospheric and a bit eery, mysterious.
October 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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louceph.com
please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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blagodatskix.bsky.social
"Knight"

There was quiet in the garden. 🧠🥀🗡

#darkart, #illustration, #art, #horror, #darkfantasy
The illustration of the knight standing in the garden and surrounded by roses. There is a cut on knights head so we can see that her brain is infected by the plant with berries as eyes that grows inside.
October 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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hbtyson.bsky.social
Drifting Thoughts • 2021
Digital illustration of a figure standing in a dark field. The top half of the figure's head is missing similarly to a piece of broken ceramic. The opening in their head emits a smoke-like substance that floats into a cloudy, green sky.
August 20, 2023 at 2:15 AM
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littleevil0ne.bsky.social
💔🗡Heart on Her Sleeve🗡💔
#Halloween #Halloweenart #myart #art
a weeping woman with a heart stitched onto her sleeve. The heart is been stabbed by a dagger and bleeds a line of red blood. At the bottom of the page text reads Heart on her Sleeve
October 16, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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lunegrimm.bsky.social
#WerewolfWednesday

Custom tarot card "Death" based on 15/16th century "memento mori" motifs
Illustration of a werewolf representing "Death"
October 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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evilcleverdog.bsky.social
Using ChatGPT
edithcharles.bsky.social Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23
What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?
August 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
gwenypatu.bsky.social
✨️Artists! Quote with long hair✨️

I love painting long hair so much
October 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM