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Julie Dillon
@juliedillon.bsky.social
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Artist in the PNW. She/Her. Previous clients: WotC, Simon & Schuster, Tor.com, Macmillan Publishers, Llewellyn Worldwide, Dark Horse Comics
[email protected] https://linktr.ee/juliedillonart
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Julie Dillon @juliedillon.bsky.social · Oct 17
Hello BlueSky! :) My name is Julie Dillon,and I'm a freelance fantasy artist living in Portland, OR. I like making character focused illustrations that touch on mythological and fantasy themes.
Instagram: @juliedillonart
website: www.juliedillonart.com
email: [email protected]
A minotaur with a sword sunk in his chest and several cuts on his body, but from each cut flowers and flower petals flow instead of blood. His face looks sad and pleading, and he raises a hand as if to fend off an attacker. A king and his knight steal a quiet moment away together in a hidden alcove. The king leans in for a kiss and the knight subtly draws him close. The yearning is palpable, haha. Medusa stands proud and regal atop the stone statues of many soldiers that she's petrified. A sad selkie woman floats below the water, tenderly embracing one of the seals that swim around her.
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flyapples.bsky.social
'An Awakened Slumber'
sumi and liquid acrylics

my first personal painting in a long long while. It was the planned painting for this years New Year's card for the year of the snake. I am so glad that I painted it anyway.
A sumi and liquid acrylic paintings of two snakes intertwined on a rock. In the middle is a sunflower and as the snakes meet, they turn into something they are not
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
we're at 31 submissions out of the 100 available slots already, damn
franzanth.bsky.social franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 14d
#InverteFest season is almost here, which means it's time to submit your bug & slug art! The form closes at 100 entries.

Find more info, download past art book, and submit here:
invertefest.com/#artbook
announcement image that says Have bug & slug art? Submit to #InverteFest Digital Art Book. Publishing every April, August, December. Download previous editions & find the submission link at InverteFest.com/#Artbook the image is decorated with artwork of various animals from various artists, featuring insects, slugs, and so on.
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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goblinville.bsky.social
I needed a project to keep myself busy recently so I scratch-built an Armstrong from Final Fantasy IX 🏠🐟
Picture of a model based on the Armstrong enemies from FF9 Picture of a model based on the Armstrong enemies from FF9 Picture of a model based on the Armstrong enemies from FF9 Concept art for the Armstrong from FF9
October 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
juliedillon.bsky.social
I was told I should study computer science because my art was just "silly ding-dong shit," so I studied computer science for years before admitting to myself I was miserable, and decided to at least give myself a chance to do what I wanted before defaulting to what other people thought I should do.
recursecenter.bsky.social Recurse Center @recursecenter.bsky.social · 14d
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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natasailincic.bsky.social
Mokosh, Slavic deity of fate and abundance.
This month's ℘atreon postcard 🕊
Join us before the end of November to get one!
www.patreon.com/natasailincic

She also features in the 2026 Calendar for the month of August ✨
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Koi Pup. The oranges on this are so much fun. 8 x12 acrylic and coloured pencil on watercolour paper. Original for sale. Inspired by a monster from the Demon Slayer anime.
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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moomcake.bsky.social
My name is Mandy and I'm a 1/2-white-1/2-Chinese artist in Canada. I tattoo at Baohaus Collective, as well as exhibit my paintings in galleries across North America.

Website: mandytsung.com
An ephemeral blue painting on canvas of a borzoi Cerberus with humanoid features mixed in. It has 2 canine heads and one human head, long hair and fur following together. An ephemeral Blue painting on canvas of a beautiful person with a shaved head and dark skin embracing and being enveloped by a pale eel human hybrid creature. The creature has an eel head, human torso, and eel tails for legs that undulate around the person they are holding. A colorful watercolour-like painting of a robed person with chin length hair. Superimposed on top is a tableau of a wolf chasing a deer in a circle. They are painting as though they form the pattern on the robe. A floating mask, different fungi and gingko patterns decorate the background. The person holds a bleeding chrysanthemum in elegantly posed hands. A thigh tattoo of a tiger-human chimera. The creature with three heads leaps up and across the thigh, twisting in the air, claws out. It's body is decorated with shelf mushrooms, rib-like flower petals, scales and other organic textures. Wings sprout from its hips. One of its heads is human.
January 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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#folktaleweek2025 day 5: Charm ♥
November 22, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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I need to scan this in properly, but I’m real pleased with this little watercolor study I did today 👉👈 I got Nita Engels’ book “How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself” and it’s been really helpful in figuring out some landscape techniques ☺️
November 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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manul
a stylized 3d render of a large manul sitting on a georgian orthodox church.
October 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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My next presentable watercolor attempt, after a few more flubs and restarts. 😅 I still have a *lot* to learn, but I'm really enjoying the process along the way.
A woman with a plaintive expression holds out a pomegranate half. A dense briar of branches sprout from an opening in her chest and surround her, with only the hand holding the pomegranate emerging from the briar.
November 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
juliedillon.bsky.social
My next presentable watercolor attempt, after a few more flubs and restarts. 😅 I still have a *lot* to learn, but I'm really enjoying the process along the way.
A woman with a plaintive expression holds out a pomegranate half. A dense briar of branches sprout from an opening in her chest and surround her, with only the hand holding the pomegranate emerging from the briar.
November 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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mattielubchansky.com
work on the creative project that pays me money and that i am under contract for and that people like????? no thanks, im busy thinking about my creative project that im kind of bad at and somehow costs me money and that nobody asked for
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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vincentisvintage.bsky.social
✨PUBLISHING ANNOUNCEMENT ✨
At long last, my Great Gatsby retelling - a psychological thriller/drama graphic novel filled with vintage glamour - is getting published! #GreatGatsbyIIE
Drawing of Daisy in a white peacock dress in the hands of Gatsby. Publishing synopsis reads “ In which Nick Carraway develops a parasocial codependency with Gatsby—an aspiring couturier with a fabricated identity— until control shifts within New York’s criminal underworld and a deadly, reignited obsession with a former starlet shakes Gatsby’s grip on reality, thus threatening Nick’s ideal American muse”
November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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feralkid.bsky.social
Minerva (2024) • Acrylic on Fabriano
January 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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emiliusdraws.bsky.social
#3157 A helpful tutorial
A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.' The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross. The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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christiannegg.bsky.social
K-Pop Demon Hunters, but (early 1700's) Canada 🇨🇦

I did a lot of research for this one due to Canada's history of colonialism, and learned a lot! Here's more info- www.tumblr.com/christianneg...

#kpdh #kpopdemonhunters #canada #acadian #mi'kmaq
#frenchcanadian
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Pumpkin house (it was eaten within 30 minutes)
A large pumpkin with three windows and a door carved into it, it is full of mice.
November 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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danliimatta.bsky.social
#timelapse
November 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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kellymckernan.bsky.social
Sharing my art, my shop, my ko-fi… anything helps. I’m really struggling with the mire right now.

I’ll gladly accept a Kroger gift card, even. Thank you! ✨

Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/kellymckernan

Shop: www.kellymckernan.com/shop
November 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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katherinelam.bsky.social
being ur own boss is great until u realize ur the worst boss ever who puts their only employee (yourself) through hell
November 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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November 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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I got waitlisted for ECCC despite making it in the past three years. Ah well; maybe I'll have better luck in 2027 😅
November 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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I think the painted version of this drawing turned out okay. 👉👈This was done in watercolors, with graphite, gouache and chalk pastel finishing touches.
A watercolor and graphite illustration of a sad mermaid with long flowing hair holding a wounded albatross to her chest.
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM