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Scott Murphy

@murphyillustration.bsky.social

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Traditional artist working on Magic: the Gathering, D&D, and other fantasy delights. Heavy Metal fan, Bike Nerd. All works are hand painted in oils unless otherwise noted. 🚫AI Website: www.Murphyillustration.com Shop: murphyillustration.etsy.com

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Scott Murphy @murphyillustration.bsky.social · Nov 18

Hello Bluesky! I'm increasingly bad at keeping up with social media, but happy to try something new! Thanks for following!

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Scott Brundage @scottbrundage.bsky.social · 9d

Along with many illustrations, I'll be showing this series of various monkey based experiments for your hungry eyes. Each available for purchase

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Donato @donatoarts.bsky.social · 13d

Working on a new cover painting for a science fiction novel and playing with the themes of geometric abstraction which helped build this piece for an anthology, Down These Dark Spaceways.
Psychohistorical Crisis II
30" x 18" Oil on Panel 2005
collection of Edie Stern and Joe Siclari

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Scott Murphy @murphyillustration.bsky.social · 13d

Always loved this one!!

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schmandrew @schmandrewart.bsky.social · 13d

Signal boosting!!

If you see someone with this proof, they STOLE it.

Josiah “Jo” Cameron @josiahcameron.bsky.social · 13d

If you are at MagicCon ATL and see this AP painting it is MISSING FROM MY BOOTH

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Betty Jiang @bettyjiang.bsky.social · 18d

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Elisabeth Alba @elisabethalba.bsky.social · 23d

"With hard work, and a little dollop of luck, our endeavors will eventually bear fruit. Celebrate the harvest!" 🌿

"Seasonal Harvest" from the Everyday Witch Oracle I illustrated, written by @deborahblakeauthor.bsky.social, for Llewellyn

Art prints + signed oracle decks: albaillustration.etsy.com!

Ink and watercolor illustration of a witch kneeling in her garden cutting herbs with a small sickle. She is wearing a black hat, red globes, a black sleeveless tunic, striped black and white leggings, and boots. Next to her is a basket filled with herbs and an orange scottish fold cat looking in the basket.

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 25d

Just did a big update to my starter pack of non cis male fantasy artists to follow!

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Commander Sealed @cmdrsealed.bsky.social · 26d

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Thanks to every person who helped out. Some timely matching from Trevor Project got our grand impact total over $100,000!!!

How will we break this next year? The best way you can help right now is the ol' "like follow share!"

Commander Sealed 2025 Raises over $104,000

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Elisabeth Alba @elisabethalba.bsky.social · 29d

My 3rd alter on a Magic: The Gathering Forest card (beta!) for one of my patrons who collects Halloween alters. So tiny!!!!

Frog tape for the win, btw. Such crisp edges!

#mtg #halloween #mtgalter #tiny #illustration #badger #redfox #otter #chipmunk #trickortreat

A halloween illustration painted on top of a Magic: The Gathering Forest Land card originally by Christopher Rush (not an expensive one!). The image depicts a badger dressed as a skeleton, a fox dressed as a wizard, an otter dressed as a pumpkin, and a chipmunk on the badger's shoulder - trick or treating in a forest and approaching a door in a tree with a jack o lantern out front.

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Emily Hare @emilyhare.co.uk · Sep 10

It's my birthday!! I'm 49 - how did that happen? I would LOVE it if you could share or follow my art for my birthday, that would be a brilliant gift! Thank you everyone who follows and comments, it is such a great place here! 49 feels ace btw. #artshare #birthday #watercolour
www.emilyhare.co.uk

huge dragon (only the head visible) resting in a body of water in a forest. Lots of vines and tree branches dangling down, a stream running over its head and a great white egret taking off from the water next to it.

a mermaid with a pink tail resting on a rock and leaning back on her hands as her tail comes out of the water. In the background is a lagoon and some cliffs and further back the hint of a waterfall

a precarious tall hill with a wizard's house sitting on top of it with a wisp of smoke coming out of the chimney. It is dusk and all the windows are yellow with the light from inside.

a large winged blue dragon prepares to land on a nest with two baby blue dragons waiting in the nest for their dinner.

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Ashley Mackenzie @ashmackenzie.bsky.social · Sep 11

Here's the cover art I did for The Poisoned King, Book 2 of Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell, out today! In addition to the cover I also did 30 b+ w interior illustrations.

Many thanks to AD Carol Ly, type design by Jason Carne and additional interior illustrations by Virginia Allyn.

Cover art for The Poisoned King, Book 2 of Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell. Two kids stand back to back holding swords in the silhouette of an immense manticore

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Jimmy Makepeace @jimmymakepeace.bsky.social · Sep 8

BATTLE IN THE THRONE ROOM - 2025

been working on this over the summer, it's been really nice to work so much on a single image and I think I learned quite a lot doing it! please share it with your favorite art directors.

a little treat for you to bookmark.

a barbarian stands on a dias in front of a throne holding a sword backlit in crimson and surrounded by armed and decaying skeletons. their leader holds a cobra staff glowing with evil energy.

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Elisabeth Alba @elisabethalba.bsky.social · Aug 30

It's Caturday!! 🌿💨🔥💦

These cats grace the back of the cards from the Everyday Witch Oracle (illustrated by me, written by @deborahblakeauthor.bsky.social, Llewellyn Worldwide).

The original painting, prints, stickers, coloring book (3 left!), AND signed decks are at albaillustration.etsy.com!

Illustration of 4 cats running in a circle around a large star and symbols of the four elements (fire, a feather for air, a plant for earth, and water). They are on a celestial background of stars.

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Scott Murphy @murphyillustration.bsky.social · Aug 29

Here's a new character painted for the upcoming #humblewood book for @hitpointpress.bsky.social. "Zaya" is painted in oils on sealed paper. She's based on a great design by the amazing Steve Prescott. Love getting to do characters like this!

Character painting of a feline humanoid dressed in adventure clothing. She holds an open book in her hands

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Aaron Miller Illustration --> IlluxCon @aaronbmiller.com · Aug 28

You notice the tiny grabby hands in 3… 2… 1…

(If this cute guy gives you tiny grabby hands, you can grab a proof here:
www.aaronbmiller.com/proofs/p/fri... )

Oil painting of a huge blue and white sea worm (with tiny little grabby hands along its belly) fighting a raft with a few unlucky people on it.

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · Aug 28

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:

At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

AI impoverishes us at every step of the process:
- data centers pollute our environment
- energy use drives up costs
- content theft robs creators of income
- the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages
- using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence
- the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape

All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people

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Scott Murphy @murphyillustration.bsky.social · Aug 20

Excited to be a part of this event in a few weeks!!

Commander Sealed @cmdrsealed.bsky.social · Aug 19

We are quickly running through our tickets for this year. If you want to be a part of all our fun and chaos, get your ticket today at commandersealed.com/main-event/ All of our artists, vendors, players, content creators, and friends are waiting for you!

Scott Murphy @murphyillustration.bsky.social · Jul 16

If you see this, post a vampire!

A vampire wearing armor stands with left hand raised as if summoning. His right hand holds a necklace amulet which glows red. Red blood/ magic swirls around the character and flows into the amulet. The background is a misty forest with hanging vines.

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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social · Jul 15

Beyond the Quiet - watercolour and acryla gouache on Arches 300lb rough paper
Painted for Magic: The Gathering's "Edge of Eternities"

In a cosmic void, a woman lies holding a dark orb. The orb is heavy, its gravity drawing all of the light and heat from the universe around her. Stars, drained of their energy, stain the greying canvas of space.

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Deb JJ Lee 🔜 Lightbox 112 @jdebbiel.bsky.social · May 29

sketching at the museum

warm illustration based off the jardin des plantes dinosaur exhibit. we see three skeletons displayed over someone who is sketching nearby

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Scott Murphy @murphyillustration.bsky.social · May 28

It’s true!!

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · May 23

The word around town is that the next big thing is Artisanal Imagery, hand-made visuals that you simply have to own if you don't want to be left behind

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · May 23

SWORDS AND ICE MAGIC (1977)
Acrylic on Illustration Board - 24” x 16”

This cover was for the sixth book in a series by Fritz Leiber featuring the beloved characters Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser. 1/4

Through the haze of a mountaintop flurry, Grey Mouser steps with determination toward the camera, rapier angled low, as wind whips his hooded cloak. Bearded Fafhrd with short red-blonde hair, curly and tousled, towers next to him. A bandolier of metal buckles crosses Fafhrd's sleeveless scarlet tunic. His thickly muscled arms are bare to the elements as he boldly stares distantly with his sword angled up at the ready. One fur-cuffed boot is buried in a bank of snow. A mountain peak composed of ghastly faces rises above them highlighted icy white with shadows of soft blue.

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Eric Summers | Art & Words @thatsummersguy.bsky.social · May 22

QRP your spys/rogues! 🕵️

"Rogue's Stealth," digital over graphite, done as part of a series of DnD classes way back in 2019 (OMG!). I feel like the flapping of his clothes would give him away, but maybe the merchant is deaf.

A rogue leaps toward a traveling merchant with two daggers drawn. They are lit by fire or lantern light from the bottom left, and the crescent moon is high behind the rogue.

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Claudio Pozas — Commissions Open @claudiopozas.bsky.social · May 22

QRP your spies/rogues! 🕵‍♂️

"Phasing" was done for @theschwalb.bsky.social's Shadow of the Weird Wizard.

A man wearing a hooded cloak grins at the red gem he is holding, while phasing through a dungeon wall.

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