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Lyss Menold
@lyssmenold.bsky.social
Freelance illustrator, sci/fi fantasy nerd, board game fan. Also loves robots. they/them

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Hi #portfolioday!

My name is Lyss and I love painting colorful and surreal things! I'm hoping to do more book cover and tabletop work this coming year 😁

💙 www.lyssmenold.com
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Goodbye December ❄️

Wishing everyone a beautiful ending to the last day of the year tomorrow and a beautiful start to a new one!!
December 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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I’d be grateful if folks followed this project on Kickstarter 🖤

Aiming right now to go live in January, depending on when I get all my materials ready.

We have some exciting invited authors and @mspencerdraws.bsky.social is on board for interior illustrations.
December 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot
December 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out.

This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
December 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Watching someone toss away S Tier good-will for the sake of…AI is…kinda hard to watch.

Hope companies start to figure out the toxicity of AI, because their employees and consumers do.
NEW: I spoke to Larian boss Swen Vincke about their ambitions for their new RPG Divinity, cutting down development time, pressures from Baldur's Gate 3, why BG3 wouldn't have happened without Tencent, how Larian uses generative AI, and much more www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’
‘I think this one is going to be way better’ than ‘Baldur’s Gate 3,’ Larian CEO Vincke says
www.bloomberg.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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LOOKING FOR WORK!! i’m merlin and i’ve worked in animation, games and comics as a visual developer and illustrator 🫶🎨 past clients: netflix, d&d, magic the gathering, volta

🎨 www.artstation.com/merlin-gg

📧 [email protected]
December 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Autumn’s Waning 🍂
November 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Cover illustration for The Broken Binding special edition of ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM by Ken Liu

acrylics on watercolor paper
November 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I got to do an endpaper for the Broken Binding edition of Ken Liu's All that We See or Seem. And I got to paint little robot dinos in it!! Thanks to Petrik Leo for the super fun project 😁
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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It's my birthday today! ☺️
If you could spare a repost, it would be much appreciated!
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Hi, looking for some illustration work at the moment, send me a message if you'd like some art for your project. You can also email me at [email protected]
Thanks!
November 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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holidays are coming 🎶
November 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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#3157 A helpful tutorial
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Got my contributor copies the other day! Cover art for “Awkward On The Rocks” by Marcel Feldmar
November 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I had to say goodbye to my sweet Clair Bear today. I'm heartbroken. She was the best dog.
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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My alt cover for @joeyesposito.bsky.social and @pandamusk.bsky.social MADAM comic book, now on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/joe...
November 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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If you're an artist wanting to break through in TTRPG illustrations and feel like you need an Art Directors feedback on your current portfolio. Feel free to reach out, comment or DM me here.
I feel like the industry is hard enough as is. I will reply slow but I'll do my best to support! 💜
October 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Nothing fills me with a sense of dread quite like the work of artist Chris Van Allsburg. When I was very young, his illustrations terrified me just as much as the ones in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, but in a way I didn't even have words to describe yet. He was liminal before liminal was cool
October 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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✨Mein Sehnen ✨
New piece I've done within Cynthia Sheppard's smARTschool class, featuring Lúthien Tinúviel from Tolkien's Silmarillion.

#art #juliametzgerart
October 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Aaaaaaaand Gone to Gaia has launched! This is the culmination of a lot of work and love, and I'm so excited to share it! gamefound.com/en/projects/...
Gone to Gaia by Rose Gauntlet Entertainment - Gamefound
Safeguard the last remnants of humanity in Gone to Gaia, a sprawling cooperative roguelite campaign for 1 or 2 players.
gamefound.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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I just finished this up in a SmArtSchool mentorship class with Sam Weber. 😊 The assignment was to create an illustration with an original character, and I went with my current D&D character 😅
October 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Hi, #PortfolioDay I'm Bonnie and I'm a BG artist working in animation. Clients include Nickelodeon, WB, Cartoon Network, Netflix and more! I’ll be available for full-time or freelance work in the spring of 2026. I’m interested in BG design/paint/vis dev work! 🌺

Web: artbonnie.com
Insta@artbonnie
October 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Popping into #portfolioday on behalf of art directors to say thank you for sharing your work. It makes our job easier. We appreciate you.
💙❤️

Also, FWIW, I made a starter pack of hiring art-, creative-, design-directors who actively use Bluesky.
go.bsky.app/Hxoz9KX
October 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Hi #PortfolioDay !

I do book covers and comic covers, working on both full color digital and traditional media using graphite and ink.
October 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM