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Kathaja Krim
@kathaja.com
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In love with the Strange.
art ⬥ writing ⬥ OCs ⬥ aliens ⬥ monsters ⬥ sci-fi
she/her, 30s, Austrian

I'm trying™ to write a book.
www.kathaja.com ⬥ linktr.ee/kathaja
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Kathaja Krim @kathaja.com · Sep 9
Hi! 🤍
I'm Kathaja and I love writing sci-fi & romance—yes, that combination—while sharing my alien world through my art. My work is traditional and digital, quite often a blend of both.

Want to know more about my world and novel?
Read on in the replies! ↓
Collage of 4 artworks tinted in muted, dark colors. Top left: Fineliner art of an alien character, Zhaikes Nazkarath (OC), buffing out his chest and looking over his shoulder, with an angry expression. Top right: Digital art of a cat-like alien character, an Arka (species), with long flowy hair and white eyes without pupils. Bottom left: Pencil art of a snarling creature, the Ozyres, showing a maw full of pointy teeth and a long tongue. Bottom right: Digital art of a reptilian alien character, a Vortecc (species), with an elongated face and bendy tendrils on their head.
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By tradition, I show my face next to my art 🤍 :} Happy end of the year everyone!

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#ArtVSArtist2025 #ArtVSArtist #scifi #aliens
Collage of 9 square images arranged in a 3x3 grid. The outer images show my art, mostly aliens and my human OC Lara. The inner image shows me, a white woman with middle length hair, a bobble hat and sunglasses.
December 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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acloudboiii.bsky.social
Hello to all you new peeps!! I'm Anan and I'm a dark fantasy illustrator! I'm currently in the middle of a Christmas lunch induced food coma so I can't think of anything else to say :)

p.s. biiig shoutout to @narney.bsky.social for putting together a sick starter pack and including me in it 🖤🖤🖤
December 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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xenianth.com
hi new people, i'm Xeni and i destroy horses

#art #DarkArt
digital greyscale ink illustration which also utilizes glitch and photocopy paper textures. A running horse, its head completely distorted and liquified. Glitch patterns and lines float over top of its head and the air around it. Its body is overlaid with grungy photocopied paper texture, parts streaked and darker. Digital color illustration, title at bottom: The Split. In the foreground is a horse from the neck up in distress. Multiple human hands and fingers are pushing and pulling their way out of its mouth while a stream of black fluid pours over its head, streaming into and from its eyes and dripping down off the canvas. The background is completely taken up by a flat mass of gnarled, twisting roots that converge with scaly flesh on a single enormous eye with a horse's pupil, which is looking at the horse.
December 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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By tradition, I show my face next to my art 🤍 :} Happy end of the year everyone!

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#ArtVSArtist2025 #ArtVSArtist #scifi #aliens
Collage of 9 square images arranged in a 3x3 grid. The outer images show my art, mostly aliens and my human OC Lara. The inner image shows me, a white woman with middle length hair, a bobble hat and sunglasses.
December 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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acubed.art
Heya, I'm Ash! 2D+3D concept+3Dmodeling+illustration freelance artist, and art streamer person. Behold! An updated sample of my wares:
December 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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mecharoar.bsky.social
Finally! Check that off my list.
Na'vi OC. 💙🩵
#mecharoaroc #avataroc #avatar #na'vi #na'vioc #digitalart #characterdesign
Digital illustration of an Avatar Na'vi oc male named Ru'ken from the Hulanta clan, standing straight (halfbody) looking at viewer. Dark abstract background, character is lit from the back.
December 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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danhawk333.bsky.social
All the best for your birthday Karen 🎂 🥳😎🥂
Im Dan and i draw strange and/or cosmic things with pens on paper

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Pen drawing of a feminine figure caught between strange technological devices to the left of their head and upper torso with metallic bits intruding under the skin while to the left of their tattooed face they flow into swirls of mystical looking energy. Pen drawing of a long, black haired feminine figure with four arms per side that get smaller as they go down their back. Small shell and gem like objects in their hair while their face a smooth, bone or polished stone looking surface with a small oval where the main features would be. Their primary left arm is outstretched towards a floating book with a highly textured surface of bone and flesh looking shapes with odd growths that flows up the right side of the page and behind their head. These same style of growths surround them at shin height with shapes renunciant of devices embedded in it along with crystals. A smaller left arm is grasping a large orb held up by one of these organic columns while in the distance a cliff rises up with figures standing near a sculpted standing stone while a large gas giant looking planet hangs in the sky of the upper right of the page. Pen drawing of a feminine figure on the right side with an elongated skull that flows into various organic shapes down and around her long neck as he long tongue extrudes out of her mouth, licking twisted organic form with multiple faces and made up of intertwining tendrils and other fleshy, bulbous shapes. Surrounding the scene are streaks of night sky embedded with ghostly forms and surrounded by twisted bodies and body parts. Pen drawing with a large black void filled with eye and star like structures in it with tentacles of night hovering amoung insectoid biomechanical forms and structures that flow to the right towards more structured forms dominated by a large or very close feminine figure. She is staring at the void while surrounded like ancient Egyptian mythological type figures with animal heads. The entire world is ancient structures carved with runes and organic shapes growing over them.
December 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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xenianth.com
- Just Relent -

Prints
Email for licensing

Details in reply ↓
#art #DarkArt #Horror #HorrorArt
Digital black and white ink illustration using extensive fine contour hatching. A huge swirling tangled mass of gnarled roots fill the entire canvas, spiraling down into a black pit. A pair of hands are grasping onto one large root-tendril while the entire rest of the person is engulfed in more twisting roots and being pulled down into the pit.
December 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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nheiraashford.com
This is him finished and boy.. I'm glad to be done. I kept going back to edit little things until I finally put my foot down. I'll have a reference sheet for him eventually, but I don't know when that'll be since I'm taking a bit of a break from more involved pieces.

#art #ocart
A digital painting of a man standing in a mostly relaxed position, hands at his sides. One his loosely open, the left ( viewer's right ) and the right is clenched tightly ( viewer's left ). His outfit overall is in shambles and is tattered all along the hems and edges. The head scarf he wears hangs loose and is frayed, although it retains its embroidery which is a lilac/gray color. What he otherwise wears is a pair of loose trousers and shirt, over that a sleeveless robe of sorts. There are cloth bindings around his arm bracers and around his midsection are multiple layers of fabric keeping his outfit together. His color palette consists of black, gray, red and soft muted variants of purple and gray.
December 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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spikulec.bsky.social
In-progress character sketch for a private client! I'm super excited about this one, I love painting monsters. I'll be doing full render here, some gold and flames, many awesome textures to render
#sketch #wipart #sketching
December 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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shri-nixaldur.bsky.social
Lil doodles on Magma bc i have nothing else - xmas is so busy gosh

Akei and Erevar
#shriORart #alien #doodle #ocsky
December 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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rosalynnart.com
Mevo, new dnd character (she's a Moon druid)
Mevonau Mesechina - A Moon Druid woman with porcelain skin and long, curly black hair with curly bangs and silver rings on it. Profile resembles Greek faces a bit?? Looks to be human for the most part and has while eyes with fully white irises, no pupils. She has a big neck-shoulders tattoo of wings and moons, scars on her hands and casual druidic clothing with gloves and corset made from leaves. Her weapon is 2 crescent moon-shaped boomerangs that merge as one circle that she carries around, she has a chalk necklace in the shape of the full moon and a bottle with something in it.
December 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
kathaja.com
Okay, draft of chapter 75 is done ⊹₊⟡⋆
5 more to go!

Tomorrow will be a writing day, I hope I'll make progress again.
December 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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severseid.bsky.social
- Commission for @morsylvia.bsky.social
Character belongs to @polunoch.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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acrosanti.bsky.social
2025 in review - the year of sketches and stagnating WIPs. The art block was ROUGH this year, to the point I even did a vent piece to illustrate as much that ironically... didn't get finished.

At least I kept on drawing, I guess.

#artsummary #artsummary2025
December 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Lara: cheeky remarks

Rhaski: surgeries, the freaky kind

Zhaikes: intimidation

Rika: looking innocent while stealing all your cookies
dailyocs.bsky.social Daily OC questions @dailyocs.bsky.social · 3d
Name one activity your OC is better at than most other people!

#dailyocs
December 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Looking back at this..

• I drew my OCs, the same ones, but that's alright. I can show you the other 30+ next year :'')

• Website is live!

• I almost finished my manuscript. 74.5 out of 80 chapters are done as of today. No way I'll manage 80 until the end of this year, but I'm proud nevertheless 🤍
kathaja.com Kathaja Krim @kathaja.com · Dec 30
New year resolutions? 👀

• Draw more OCs
• Go live with that website
• More OC drawings
• Finish book 1 for real, *seriously*
• More art of OCs

Yeah, that's it. I also wanna draw more of my OCs. What a great list!
December 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Ehem.
December 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Rookie question..
How is beta reading done? :')

Do you start with friends? Then look for *paid* beta readers? I assume beta readers should be generally interested in the genre and overall story type.
December 21, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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dovexii.bsky.social
It's my birthday 🤍! I'd love to share my favorite Eden portraits to celebrate :>
Hope everyone has a lovely weekend!
Illustration bust of a male oc with long white hair, sleeping with gold tears running down his face that pool into his neck and meet with gold cracks up his chest. A wide portrait drawing with limited color of a femme male oc (Eden) lying in water, asleep, his long hair spreading out around him. Two hands gently gather bright teal flower petals against the sides of his neck. A dark portrait drawing of a male oc who is looking at the viewer solemnly, with long and wild white hair filling the frame around him. Gaping cracks lined with gold travel his skin, with the largest holes appearing on the side of his face and shoulder. A black hole surrounded by gold, chrysanthemum-like flowers spouts from the hole in his face. An experimental dark portrait of a male oc (Eden) glaring ominously at the viewer with one eye, the other hidden behind curls of white hair. Where normally there would be a red goat pupil inside of a teal iris, it has opened to reveal a smaller gold pupil. Two warbling halos spin in tandem above his head.
December 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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chroniclerenigma.bsky.social
kind of just exploring, but I think I'll turn this into a character.
December 21, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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emilyhare.com
Just wanted to say WOOOO!! It's the shortest day! Which means we can look forward to spring from now on. Thank goodness for that. Happy Solstice and see you in 2026!! #wintersolstice #solstice #shortestday
painting of a dragon who is grey with a big grin on his face (you an see his head and shoulders). He has a lot of antlers/horns and one of them has a small red and white striped wooly hat on it, and he's holding a red and white striped scarf in his sharp teeth...
December 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Rookie question..
How is beta reading done? :')

Do you start with friends? Then look for *paid* beta readers? I assume beta readers should be generally interested in the genre and overall story type.
December 21, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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severseid.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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micahseacole.bsky.social
#ConceptArt - Mosaic

I drew these outfits at the start of the year when I did Mosaic's ref sheets but never shared them here.
I want to draw more of these at some point.

#ArtSky #OCSky #MicahsOCs #DigitalArt #OutfitDesign
digital art, 4 outfit designs for Mosaic (femme dragon/human OC with sunset colored scales). Top left to bottom right: Naked, ancient Greek peplos with a single long sleeve, a simple dark blue dress covering only half their chest, a loose long skirt paired with a revealing top. Most outfits have simple gold jewelry. digital art, 3 outfits for Mosaic. Top left to bottom right: two peplos without sleeves (one dark blue, one white) both with wheat/laurel decoration, a third instance of the white peplos with a purple himaton worn as a half cloak.
December 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM