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Murtagh Esq.
@murtaghesq.bsky.social
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I like to draw sometimes. Colourist for Red as Blood, hoarder of neglected ocs, lover of aus 20+ 🔞
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Murtagh Esq. @murtaghesq.bsky.social · Jul 7
Hold on, lemme make my little artfight thread dead quick
Filled out form for artfight's team crystal for murtaghesq
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kkcoocool.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
This is a great photo of a cat sitting in a bowl. "No way she could top that", you're thinking. WELL GUESS WHAT...
Photo of a shorthaired black cat sitting in a metal bowl on top of a wooden table indoors.
November 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
... here is the same cat sitting in a bowl with a party hat on. Negatives from my collection, ca. 1950s.
Photo of a shorthaired black cat sitting in a metal bowl on top of a radio cabinet, with a tiny party hat on its head.
November 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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oregonthedm.bsky.social
Part 100! of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg

This 14th century door at Exeter Cathedral, UK, is thought to be the oldest existing cat flap.
Cat leaking out of an old wooden door
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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oregonthedm.bsky.social
Part 83 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd

Queen Boudica revenge was so great against Rome she burned Londinium leaving a scorch layer still runs under modern London, named by archaeologists the 'Boudican Destruction Horizon'
Smart folks looking at rocks
November 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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kholbatar.bsky.social
Artists show your most popular work
. This is a stylized portrait of a person with bright neon colors. The hair is divided into two parts: the left half is deep blue, and the right half is pink and purple. The eyes are completely covered by a large mirrored visor with yellow, orange, and pink hues—it looks like a glowing strip. The skin is dark, and the lips are a metallic silver-blue shade. The neck and shoulders are covered with clothing featuring geometric lines and accents in yellow and black.
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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jaws-stone.bsky.social
Edith Hunt
2025

Removed the ears and tail cos they didn't work on a tiny screen, just looked weird. It's been fun going back to buff ladies again <3
An illustration of a giant buff lady squatting, wearing cool pants and nice shoes. She's full of scars
November 28, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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thesunxix.bsky.social
September’s postcard design ✨ sometimes you just really need to draw a jester birb.
Illustration of a fall landscape taken over by the image of a bird perched on a tree branch in the foreground. The bird is wearing a jester headpiece, and holding a swirling flag in his beak. On the horizon is a lush forest and a castle on the left. The scene is framed by golden leaves, plants, daggers, and a crown on a dark background.
September 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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mrlovenstein.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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coreybrickley.bsky.social
Anna-Jane and the Endless Summer
Painting of a young girl wading through the water of a pond, we mostly focus on her reflection which shows her looking over her shoulder determinedly. She has an archery bow slung over her back and is holding an arrow. In the reflection we can see that cabins in a forest are a-blaze
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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secondlina.com
Medieval vibes ✨️
Two drawings, one of a medieval crow, the other of a cartoony crow, are face to face with the caption "time has changed me. But I'm still here." Crow and tit bird are standing on the pole holding up a flag featuring a stylized crow on a field of purple. The crows exclaims "dude, these guys flippin' love me!" The crow now wonders (refering to the flag and people liking him) "is it weird that this makes me want to turn my life around?"
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
murtaghesq.bsky.social
Best profile I've ever drawn, god don't let me fuck the rest of this up I beg
Line art of the side view of a shocked face
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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scaredprince.bsky.social
Idk how many of you followed me back in the Riptide days, but officially Lu and I have combined the setting into our Homebrew world of Solar Fire :3

They need a redesign to suit the world a bit better. Daniel is going to be half teifling and Rupert, still a queer allegory chimera 🧍💖
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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sarkastiklover.bsky.social
Still just messing around... I need to figure out which effects compliment the textures of these pens the best, when doing the colors.

#art #illustration #digitalart
An illustration of a woman looking back, as she smokes a cigarette
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
murtaghesq.bsky.social
Finishing up a miserable state and everyone around me is too miserable to entertain me talking about my dumb things that excite me 💔
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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fidisart.bsky.social
🪦Till life do us part 🪦

GHOST MOMMY FULL from VILLAINESS by
@novamali.bsky.social and @damesprod.bsky.social 👻
Last couple days to preorder 🧡

🔗: www.kickstarter.com/projects/novaandmali/villainess

#ocsky
Art of a late victorian ghost lady, coming down the stairs with open arms for her husband. The artwork is in black and white with orange accents.
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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teastainss.bsky.social
this piece ended up going through a lot of changes... I'm just happy to be done.

#myart #art #illustration #originalart
vertical illustration piece of women in a bar. There's a woman sitting at the front with a big floppy hat smoking a cigarette that is being lit by a woman in a tailed suit who is sitting on the table. There are other women in the background and abstract decorative smoke is billowing through the scene
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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eleonorpiteira.bsky.social
Celeste dos Cravos (2025), acrylic gouache (+ tiny bit of watercolour) on hot pressed paper (A3)

The traditional version of the illustration I painted digitally last year, now as I had first envisioned it :)
Illustration by Eleonor Piteira featuring a woman on a balcony, holding a bouquet of red carnations, giving one of them to a soldier passing below, placing it on the muzzle of his gun while he looks up at her. All around, other soldiers walk beside him, some wearing red carnations on the muzzles of their guns too, others waiting for their turn to get one. On the background, Portuguese tiles frame the woman, while the balcony's railing slowly transforms into a streetlamp typical of Lisbon (with a caravel and 2 ravens, the symbols of the city).
October 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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yoshiyoshitani.bsky.social
Mexican Gothic 2 WIP
Mexican Gothic WIP
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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willquinnart.bsky.social
Daily bunny no.3148 will be done in time for Christmas
A bunny is knitting a very long red and green scarf, which already unfurls to the floor in front of them. They are sitting in a comfy armchair in their living room, knitting away. A large black cat is using the scarf as a blanket, and is also playing with the un-knitted ball of yarn.
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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yoshiyoshitani.bsky.social
November Patreon Reward 1 of 3

Theme: Mexican Gothic

My patrons voted on this theme for the month, so I've been listening to the book of the same name by @silviamg.bsky.social while drawing. I'm about 1/4 of the way through and it's starting to get spooky!

#art
Patreon reward, Mexican Gothic #1
November 24, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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domille.bsky.social
Didn't see that coming
Sword that can sense danger
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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neinsk.bsky.social
バビュン！
これから飛び出す白文鳥のたーちゃん とびだせ どうぶつの鳥
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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quantummeat.bsky.social
Green is his colour 💋💚

#art #ocs #ocsky #artsky
Illustration of my oc Sépia with several flying fish around him A shape looking like a sun behind him, as well as bits of what looks like a giant snake and some seafoam A frame with flowers and little snakes and waves on his left
October 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
murtaghesq.bsky.social
I'm overwhelmed in my painting so I'm noodling around his eye and I've managed to make my little micah look so miserable despite his really cool pose
Close up of a stylised eye painted with pinks and purples
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM