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Marissa 🌙🌱
@marissasketch.bsky.social
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Illustrator ✨ she/her ✨
Portfolio: https://marissasketch.carrd.co
Prints: https://inprnt.com/gallery/marissasketch
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/marissasketch
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Marissa 🌙🌱 @marissasketch.bsky.social · Aug 31
Lots of new people here so I thought I'd reintroduce myself! Welcome everyone 💙

I'm Marissa, an illustrator who loves painting fantasy, nature, and cute animals 🐥🌱✨
Digital illustration of a scene from Lord of the Rings with Frodo and Gandalf as birds. Gandalf, a snowy owl, is wearing a wizard hat and robes and is driving a wooden cart through the Shire. Frodo, a yellow baby chick, is seated next to Gandalf and is looking up at him. Digital illustration of a purple, pink, and orange sunrise over a lake with silhouetted hills on the horizon line. The clouds form a large white rabbit laying in a loaf position above the sun. Digital illustration of a white duckling, inspired by Quaxly from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, swimming on blue water. A wave swirls around him, creating what resembles a pompadour of water on top of his head. Digital illustration of Wirt from Over the Garden Wall, except he is a bluebird. He is wearing a cone shaped red hat and a dark blue cape, and is holding up a glowing lantern with his wing.
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ethanmaldridge.bsky.social
Hey you
A white stoat wearing an elegant tweed suit with a red vest. He holds a lantern out, autumn leaves swirling at his ankles, while an banner flutters over his head that reads "Unclench your jaw."
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social
🎁 For this holiday season, consider gifting COLOR TASTE TEXTURE! It’s a great primer for people of all ages with little to no experience cooking. If you have some neurodivergent friends and family, or parents of littles, they might love this! It’s not just a cookbook, it’s a new approach to food. 🎁
mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social Matthew Broberg-Moffitt (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · Aug 1
I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide titled COLOR TASTE TEXTURE, that’s all about finding out what works for specific sensory needs and how to customize food for them. It’s useful for all ages, no cooking experience necessary.
Color Taste Texture by Matthew Broberg-Moffitt: 9780593538593 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An accessible family cookbook that offers solutions rather than tricks to empower the food-averse, autistic, and picky eater, with 46 recipes. This much-needed cookbook combines tips and techniques.....
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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bymossypine.bsky.social
Who has some extra snuggles in store? ✨
A ginger cat laying on the floor sadly. He is surrounded by the words 'all I want is snuggles, but all I get are struggles'
July 11, 2023 at 2:25 PM
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sleepimali.bsky.social
Thank you so much for the support on this reopening!! 🤧💕
Last day to order is tomorrow, and I'll ship out all the remaining orders on Thursday 💛
sleepimali.bsky.social Mali 💤 @ shop reopening soon 💛💛 @sleepimali.bsky.social · 6d
Shop is open for a week! And US shipping is back 🥳

sleepimali-shop.com

Shares are super appreciated 💛💛

#EUShop #ArtShop #CuteArt #Shop
Graphic with a bunch of prints and stickers, mainly of cute animals and nature in the background, and my logo consisting of a peaceful-looking bunny head with a flower growing out of it on top. Text: "SLEEPIMALI Shop Update, live now" and a link to my shop
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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thorbee.bsky.social
Me after every social interaction
Arthur, from the hit PBS show of the same name, sits at a grand piano, covering his eyes with his hands and crying saying “I must have made at least fifty mistakes”
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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caplog.bsky.social
ordering a pup cup for my chikorita in lumiose
Doodles of Chikorita messily eating a cup of whip cream.
March 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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secondlina.com
Time has changed me.
Doodle of a medieval crow and a cartoon crow side by side with the caption "Time has changed me. But i'm still here."
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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animalphotorefs.bsky.social
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
www.animal-photo-references.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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pipopixie.bsky.social
ever since i was a little girl i've always wanted to exceed the damage cap of 9999 with my Critical Attacks...
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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faithschaffer.bsky.social
🦋
Ink drawing- a fairy queen stands staring at the viewer. In one hand she holds a scepter, in the other she lifts her heavy skirt slightly. She is standing in a bramble of blackberries in front of a tree. She has big moth wings.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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mleelunsford.com
Thread of my Bloody Roar redesigns from a few years ago #BloodyRoar I still think they look pretty good. If you're wondering why some of their beast forms are changed, I decided as a challenge to make them ALL animals, even the ones who were like weird alien experiments.
Shina a muscular blond woman from Bloody Roar, her beast shape is a leopard Nagi from Bloody Roar, in my redesign I made her beast form a lobster Stun, a monster man from Bloody Roar, his beast shape is a beetle Uranus, a monsterous experiment, in the redesigns I've done, her beast form is a Carnotaurus
April 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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marissasketch.bsky.social
A frog friend to confide in 🐸🧡 #hades2
Digital illustration of Frinos from the video game Hades 2. Frinos, a large squishy looking green frog with a white stomach, yellow eyes, and an orange mouth, is sitting on a mossy rock with similar rocks in the background and some grass in the foreground. He is surrounded by three small floating green shades who are all looking at him inquisitively. He looks very relaxed and content. The scene is framed by a oval shaped border decorated with silvery opalescent details including the 8 phases of the moon, a moon themed ornament inspired by the ones worn by Frinos and Melinoë, thin threads draped down the sides of the frame that end in little stars, and at the bottom a little heart and Melinoe's laurel wreath.
November 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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adwills.bsky.social
before asking "how's that project going??" to any creative, just assume it's going like this
May 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social
The legendary bird of fire
An illustration of a phoenix flying through the purple and red evening sky, as flames fall from it’s wings.
November 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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chronicillness.bsky.social
[One single bloodcurdling agonized scream] OK. Time to get up.
November 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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roxiqt.com
This might be an unpopular opinion but what this baby seal is doing is very special to me, personally.
screenshot of a YouTube video still of a chubby baby seal laying on the snow with the caption "In the glittering backlight, a fat baby seal is doing nothing special."
November 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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neolithicsheep.bsky.social
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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robbie.monster
November 17, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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laurenwalshart.bsky.social
If you are struggling right now I want to remind you that they really is hope. What you are experiencing now really is hard no matter how you might beat yourself up about it or others might ignore it. Just be gentle with yourself and try a little bit each day
November 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️

Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo collage shows four pottery vessels, all a creamy yellow in colour, with black painted decoration depicting underwater sea-life featuring lively stylised octopuses with writhing tentacles (arms), All on display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. Top L - Minoan pithoid storage jar decorated in the “Marine Style” with wide-eyes octopus, argonauts, rocks, and coral. Rounded top tapering down to a narrower base. Short cyclindrical neck flaring out at the mouth with black wavy decoration reminiscent of waves. Loop handles attached to the shoulders of the body. Height 55 cm. From Zakros. 1500-1450 BC Top R - Minoan flask with a rounded body, short cyclindrical neck which flares at the rim, and two small curved handles attached between the top of the spout and the shoulders of the body. Decorated in “Marine Style” which depicts an almost cartoon-like octopus with wide eyes and sucker-lined tentacles which writhe around the vase. Other decorative sea-motifs include sea urchins, seaweed and rocks. Height 27cm. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC Bottom L - alabastron, broad at the base, swelling outwards into a fuller belly before narrowing near the top with a very short cyclindrical neck and a wider flat rimmed mouth. Decorated in “Marine Style” with a wide-eyed octopus among rocks. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1370 BC Bottom R - krater with rounded body narrowing at the bottom towards the foot. Wide flaring mouth and rim with black painted wavy decoration, and two sturdy handles attached on each side between the top of the mouth and shoulders of the vessel. Decorated with a central very stylised wide-eyed octopus whose tentacles loop up and down around the body of the pot, 1370-1300 BC
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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jdebbiel.bsky.social
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
illustration of nausicaa standing by an ohmu
November 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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trungles.com
Hey, I’m Trung! I’m a comic artist and author. Here are my books! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2192...
Angelica and the Bear Prince’s cover is blue featuring a dark-haired girl in a red cardigan and pink skirt holding hands with a blond non-binary person with short hair. The Magic Fish has a green cover fearing a young boy in tattered jacket reading a book. A mermaid is behind him.
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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byjessicaelena.bsky.social
WE CAN DO IT!!

#art #illustration
A digital drawing with the text ”Keep going” in the middle, surrounded by little doodled items: flowers, cats, fruit, a fox, confetti, a bee, and a pencil.
November 16, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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marissasketch.bsky.social
"I sought and longed for something I could not quite name. But in you, I found it."

~10hr study of a shot from @realgdt.bsky.social's Frankenstein, what a beautiful film 🍁🖤
Digital painting study of Elizabeth and The Creature/ Frankenstein's Monster from Guillermo Del Toro's "Frankenstein" (2025). They are looking at each other with soft expressions, and their faces are mostly in shadow with bright orange rim lighting. Elizabeth is holding the Creature's hand up to the side of her face and neck gently, and her other hand is resting on the Creature's shackled wrist and holding an autumn leaf that looks like its glowing orange in the light.
November 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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yeppennydoodles.bsky.social
keep going 💙 #art #comics
Illustrated comic by Yeppenny Doodles of a cute bunny feeling constantly behind, and their cat friend reassuring them they are already doing the hard part of keep going. The cat is proud of the bunny.
November 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM