Laura Mellin
@lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
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Disabled, AuDHD, feral artist, pan/cis, 55, married, she/her. LGBTQIA2S+ is my fam, art shares are my jam. New art every day for 2025. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/attacklaurel?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZwLN4Ap8-rIbGYfgi3ksJfRFxtDp8L62cQFqX
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I unpinned my previous top post, b/c now I want to feature my fave pieces from my #sketchaday 2025 self-imposed challenge! I’m Laura, this is my art account, and this thread will be pinned to become my about me piece. I do illustration and cartoons, often riffing on a joke for multiple drawings.
A marker, ink, paint pen and paper collage drawing of my OC, Bela Lugosquid, a common squid, pale pink-grey with red and grey spots, facing left slightly, asleep. They are smiling (yes, I know, that’s not where their mouths are), and are wearing a pair of fake fangs, a black cloak with a red lining, white bow tie and vest, white shirt, and a red ribbon with a spiny Black Sea urchin attached to the ribbon by holding onto a gold ring. Basically, dressed like Bella Lugosi’s famous outfit* in Dracula (1931). Their tentacles and arms are drifting gently, with an arm on the right touching the edge of the cloak. Dream bubbles coming from their head feature an image of Bella Lugosi as Dracula from the movie poster (image sourced from IMDb.com).
Bela Lugosquid is non-binary. They are fascinated by vampire squid, but too shy to actually talk to any actual vampire squid (and afraid of negative reactions). They are a very happy squid. They have dreams of stardom. I don’t know about the sea urchin; they usually don’t go that deep. A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing in my sketchbook. In the upper left hand corner, a white box with shadow lines has the hand-written text: “white potatoes are tuber-essentialist douchebags:” (yes, I’m going hard on this one! Pushing the boundaries!*). The main drawing is of an orange-pink yam (or sweet potato) in three-quarter profile, standing on root feet, with their sprout arms up in the air, leaning slightly forward, protesting (or yelling) at three white potatoes (who, ironically, are brown, because they haven’t been peeled) in a row on the right, in three-quarter profile, one in front, the second slightly behind that one, and lastly, a potato going off the edge of the paper (they’re half-visible). They have little beady eyes, and root feet and hands, with little potatoes growing on them (I love the little potato feet!).
The lead potato is asking: “Are you a sweet potato or a yam?”, and the second one is saying: “…you can’t be both.”. The sweet potato (or yam) is  protesting: “Why are you so hung up on labels?! I yam what I yam! …or NOT.”. The wall is pale blue-grey, the floor is medium grey, and there are shadows underneath all the tubers. In a small white box in the bottom right corner, the top of a white potato is visible, showing their black dot eyes and angry eyebrows. They are saying:” This is potato erasure!!”. 
*Or, y’know, doing the absolute minimum by acknowledging that trans people are people, and TERFs/“gender essentialists” are complete C-words. “Dryad of the Vines”: An ink line drawing of a female-appearing figure wrapped in vines, which are supporting them as they sleep. Their face is mostly hidden by their left arm (on the right), which is raised, with vines loosely wrapped around it. Their legs are bent up in a seated position, and their fingers and toes (six on each appendage) stretch out into vines. Their hair is made of vines, and drapes down behind them, and over their torso. Some of the vines have leaves and flowers along them, curling around in spirals and loops. They are nude, but have no visible gendered body parts, just the curves of their body giving an overall female appearance. A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a toy mechanical mouse, facing left. The mouse is grey metal, with brass screws, and a brass key in the middle of its back. It is sitting upright on segmented articulated legs and feet (and toes) that are joined to the body with a round dome with brass screws. The head has large round eyes and ears edged with brass screws, with red lights in the center. The front legs and paws are also articulated/segmented, and are curled around to the nose, like the mouse is eating. The tail is long and articulated/segmented, bending as it reaches the ground, and goes to the left, behind the body. Background is blank. 
It’s a little toy mouse made of metal, with a key to wind it up. It’s cute, but I am not mechanically inclined, so I have no idea how it would actually move.
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I love the spider centaur! So cool! 😍💜💜💜
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Wow, these are so beautiful! 😍😍😍💜💜💜
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I love your colour choices! Beautiful work! 😀💜💜💜😍
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The playing card is gorgeous! Beautiful work! 😍😍😍💜💜💜
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I love the diving suit one so much! Thank you for the tag! 😍😍😍💜💜💜
A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of four tiny fuzzy white monsters with huge black eyes and antennae, sitting on stilt grass leaves. Digital speech bubbles and lettering has been inserted.
The fuzzy in the middle has one of their arms out, and is saying “Thank you for tagging me! [red heart emoji]”.
The top fuzzy is half visible, hanging upside down from the top of the image, saying “…and me!”.
The half visible fuzzy at the bottom is hiding behind a leaf, and saying “…and me!”.
The fuzzy at top right is sleeping, with a red *zzzzzzzzz* on their head.
Background is black, leaves are green.
(No one knows what they are, but we’re pretty sure they’re carnivorous. *burp*)
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I love the pumpkins! 🎃😃💜💜💜 All just gorgeous work!
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Ooo, the barber chair! 😍💜💜💜💀
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Beautiful work! I love the Eris portrait! 😍😍😍💜💜💜
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👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻💀💜💜💜
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Oh, very cool! 😍💜💜💜
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I love the last one so much! 😍😍😍💜💜💜
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I love them! 😍😍😍💜💜💜
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You do it so beautifully! I love the framing, and the one of Faramir and Eowyn is gorgeous! 😍😍😍💜💜💜
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Your work is so cool! And the first piece is fantastic! 😍💜💜💜😍
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I love the third one! It’s so mystical and beautiful! 😍😍😍💜💜💜
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Aaah, these are lovely! 😍😍😍💜💜💜
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Aw, thank you for the tag! I love your webcomic! 💜💜💜😊
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*sigh* Just amazing! As someone who doesn’t draw ppl, I’m always fascinated by how other ppl do it, and your ppl are gorgeous! Congratulations! 🥳💜💜💜
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😂😂😂🥞🐇 I love it! I love the poppy design, too; I think it’s the red and green, with the deep red in the centers, it just hugs the eye! 😊💜💜💜