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🌑 Selene 🌑

@nightwandererart.bsky.social

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•Artist | Debilitatingly Shy Creature• •traditionally drawn dark fantasy art• •loud moans• •romanticized notions of art• Website: https://nightwandererart.com Working on a graphic novel and an art book.

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🌑 Selene 🌑 @nightwandererart.bsky.social · 3d

•intro/pinned post•

I'm Selene.

I draw dark fantasy art.

According to Bluesky I am indistinguishable from a pornographer because my art has nudity and does not reflect values of chastity and modesty. I am not a 'NSFW artist'. I am just an 'artist' and I'm against the censorship of art.

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🌑 Selene 🌑 @nightwandererart.bsky.social · 19h

'Man-Eater'

From September 2024.

ink + watercolour + coloured pencils

#art #darkfantasy #darkart #fantasyart #traditionalart #illustration

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Scopper Illustrations @scopper.bsky.social · 11h

Out on the horizon, past the roll of wastes like a sea’s waves frozen in dust, a darkness swirled and swelled. In its maw was fire, its terrible eye gleaming with a hatred pure and bright. And the man knew then that he walked into death. He walked all the same.

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 1d

Aileen Pringle as Zara in the silent movie, “The Mystic” (1925), directed by Tod Browning. Costume by Erté.

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2ghosts @2ghosts.bsky.social · 14h

commission for @xusako.bsky.social 🍃

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Manuel Fallmann-Kerrutt @mindistortion.tv · 16h

Deep Sea Fishing

#charcoal #darkart #traditionalart #spooky #deepsea #fish

Charcoal drawing of an anglerfish in darkness, its esca illuminating dark eyes and sharp teeth.

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鳥住ヨモ @birdmofu.bsky.social · 18h

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💀🐺🌱ArtofMaquenda🍄🩸 @artofmaquenda.bsky.social · 1d

Memento Mori

#art #fox #bsnm

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Evangeline “I’m Scared” Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social · 17h

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🌑 Selene 🌑 @nightwandererart.bsky.social · 18h

The amount of scammers replying to my posts asking me to message them about commissions on tumblr is jarring.

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Esgalor🍊🌿 @esgalor.bsky.social · Mar 21

Found this gouache piece I did a while ago.🩸

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🌑 Selene 🌑 @nightwandererart.bsky.social · 19h

'Man-Eater'

From September 2024.

ink + watercolour + coloured pencils

#art #darkfantasy #darkart #fantasyart #traditionalart #illustration

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🌑 Selene 🌑 @nightwandererart.bsky.social · 19h

HR people are categorically the worst and most useless kind of people.

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Joroi: The Curse @joefriday37.bsky.social · 1d

Day Nine - All out of sorts

A drawing of a woman with long black hair gestures delicately under her face, that is upside down. Within her hair are disconnected facial features, such as another set of eyes and a mouth.

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🜄 greybriar 🜁 @greybriar.art · Nov 8

Wintertide Spirit (2019)

An ink drawing of a centaur like creature, with a frozen mummy front half and an emaciated stag for the hind. It's wearing a long fabric mask over it's face and is slumped over as if in a sort of stasis.it's limbs are longer than normal and end in long clawed fingers.

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 1d

Daily 35: Grave | Nyx

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🜄 greybriar 🜁 @greybriar.art · Sep 13

Week 2- Science Fiction #sciartseptember - tried to incorporate as many daily themes for this week as I can. “Illuminated, Origin, Stellar, Electrified , Clone” it was hard NOT to think of fireflies (Photinus pyralis)
#insectart #sciart #illustration #art

A digital illustration of a common Eastern firefly in full detail as if flying towards the viewer at night, with its characteristic illumination. The background is a black and blue gradient dotted with what could be other fireflies or stars. There is a halo added to the glowing abdomen and an upside down triangle that mirrors the shape of its head.

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🌑 Selene 🌑 @nightwandererart.bsky.social · 1d

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Vanessa McKee @vanessamckee.bsky.social · 1d

It’s working!!

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𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙢 @cromsferatu.bsky.social · 1d

lately I feel like my work doesn't have much in the way of substance or anything to say, but I think I'm also just fine with that tbh, its probably good to draw stuff mindlessly

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NephalemHartadelaVida @vladwakinyan.bsky.social · Jul 10

Me sigue gustando mucho esta Crisanta <3

~Repost~

#Crisanta #Blasphemous #illustration #fanart

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Hampus 🎃 @hampus.bsky.social · Jul 25

Branded, the first in a series of four-page horror comics.

This is my first attempt at rendering a whole comic in "pure" black and white linework, without shades of gray. It's a style I've always admired but never felt strong enough to do.

Enjoy! 👻

#comics, #art, #horror, #DarkArt

A black and white comic page with three panels.

Panel 1: A bedroom, seen from above, mostly shrouded in darkness. There is a big bed, and a poster above the bed featuring a demonic band called Beelzebabes. There is a bedside table with a lamp, spreading a circle of light around it. A young woman lies curled up on the bed, clutching a pillow. A rectangle of light falls from an off-panel doorway over the bed, and the shadow of a person appears in the light.

The title of the comic: "Branded", appears in the top left corner.
The shadowy figure says "You should go outside.""

Panel 2:
Closeup of the young woman's face. She looks haggard and frightened. The rectangle of the doorframe, with the shadowy figure within it, appears behind her in the darkness.

The young woman says: "I... I can't. That..."

Panel 3:
A slightly abstract rendition of a window with venetian blinds drawn. Insects buzz in the light filtering through the blinds, and something that resembles smoke rises across the panel.

The young woman says: "That thing is still out there."

A black and white comic page with six panels.

Panel 1: A white void, in which sits a rectangular stairway framed by a low brick wall, apparently leading down underground. A crooked sign post stands next to the stairs.

Narration boxes: "It followed me from the subway station. At first, I thought it was just a beggar, but..."

Panels 2-4: In a sequence of three panels, a pale, deformed humanoid figure emerges from the darkness, its arms abnormally long, its fingers long with claw-like nails. The figure seems to twist and bend in unnatural ways, and keeps poking at its own eyelids with its nails, as if its trying to force its own eyelids open.

Narration boxes: "With every step it took, it changed. I could hear its bones snap and slot into place. And somehow, I was trapped with it. Like a bird in an oil spill."

Panel 5: The young woman, now wearing an overcoat and hat, and a long scarf sustained on the wind, clasps her face in horror. Her face and hands have been blacked out with rough pencil strokes, but the whites of her eyes can still be seen, staring in terror. Her purse is flying through the air, spilling its contents as it goes: a set of keys, a book, a pencil, a smartphone.

Narration boxes: "And something passed from it to me. I can't get rid of it."

Panel 6: A closeup of the creature's eye, being pried open by two long, cracked fingernails. The pupil in the eye resembles a twisted reflection of the young woman.

Narration boxes: "You know how smoke sticks to your collar? Or when a sick baby puts its fingers in your mouth."

A black and white comic page with six panels.

Panel 1: The young woman is peeking out her window, parting the venetian blinds with her fingers. Her face is brightly lit, and her eyes look astonished with disbelief.

Narration boxes: "Ever since then, little by little... the world has fallen apart."

Panel 2: A bizarre view of the street outside the young woman's house. A gigantic dog is being walked by a tiny person, who appears to be much farther away than the dog, despite walking in front of it. The dog is intersected by lamp posts which appear to be at different distances from the viewer, and in each section the dog is much larger than the last. The curb itself appears to be a smartphone, and a broken clock is floating among some rubble in the void.

Narration boxes: "Pieces disappear, or appear elsewhere. Things change size without moving. Nothing is the same when you look again."

Panel 3: In a white void, a deformed figure, distinct from the one we saw on the previous page, is shambling around. It is dressed in a blouse and skirt, and its neck is long, snaking away from its body, head lolling.

Narration boxes: "There are others like it, shambling about. I can see them clearly now. Maybe they were always there."

Panels 4-6: Three panels of the young woman sitting on her bed, clutching her pillow, first seen as a white silhouette over pitch black, then straight from the front, then in closeup as she turns her head toward the figure in the doorway.

The young woman says: "There is no outside anymore. My room is the only place I feel safe."
The figure in the doorway says: "You should go outside."
Irritated, the young woman says: "Weren't you listening? I said–"
The figure in the doorway interrupts: "Outside."
Now suddenly anxious, the young woman says: "What..."
The figure in the doorway interrupts, this time with a scratchy, deformed word balloon: "You should go outside."

A black and white comic page with two panels.

Panel 1: The young woman is sitting up in her bed, clutching her sheet as it wraps around her lower body. She is looking over her shoulder, toward the doorway. Concentric circles with hatched patterns inside them frame her head.

The young woman says: "M... mom?"

A word balloon at the bottom of the panel extends into the next panel, with the letters spilling out of it as if entering the same physical space as the characters themselves, spelling out the words "Go outside".

Panel 2: In a big panel, seen from the young woman's point of view, a monstrous humanoid creature emerges from the darkness, reaching its long, clawed hands toward us. Its neck is crooked, head lolling, eyes apparently clawed open, with fresh scratch wounds running down its cheeks. The mouth is open, with worm-like appendages dangling from its lips. The young woman's hand reaches into frame, fingers spread, as if trying to ward off the monster in fear.

A small box in the bottom right corner informs us that this is the end of the story. Thank you for reading!

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Danni @dannilinne.bsky.social · 1d

My interpretation of the Dunkleosteus!

#dunkleosteus #fish #dinosaurart #devonian #paleoart #dinosaurlover #sciart

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Dan H Artworks @danhawk333.bsky.social · 2d

Conscious Co-creation
11x17 pen and paper
#surreal #macabre #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #GrimDark

Pen drawing of a ghostly upper torso, neck, head and shoulders of a bald human emerging from a mass of organic shapes that suggest organs, musculature, veins and other structures. Facing left it is looking with solid white eyes and a third eye towards an area of alien writing and shapes in white on a black background next to what appears to the left half of a viewer facing grey style alien being in an embryonic pose in a container and hooked up to wires and is propped up by the same structure of the background

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🌑 Selene 🌑 @nightwandererart.bsky.social · 1d

'The Earth Wanderer'

From August 2024.

ink + watercolour + coloured pencils

#art #darkfantasy #darkart #illustration #fantasyart #traditionalart #succubus

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