Stephanie Cost
@perstephane.bsky.social
I’m an artist and art director with a passion for color, nature, Tarot and the fantasy genre.
https://www.stephaniecost.com/
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https://www.stephaniecost.com/
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Throwback to my Cicada pattern! I just created a Spoonflower for my patterns, you can find Cicadas, Insomnia and others here:
www.spoonflower.com/profiles/egy...
www.spoonflower.com/profiles/egy...
New blog post is up about artsy resources, for those needing to interrupt a doomscrolling spiral right now.
My thoughts are returning again and again to Minnesota. If you live there and have links for aid organizations, feel free to share them below.
fivehourartschool.blogspot.com/2026/01/bird...
My thoughts are returning again and again to Minnesota. If you live there and have links for aid organizations, feel free to share them below.
fivehourartschool.blogspot.com/2026/01/bird...
Birds and References
Happy mid-January everyone! This is typically the start of The Difficulties for me; the holidays are over and the new car smell of January i...
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January 22, 2026 at 2:55 AM
New blog post is up about artsy resources, for those needing to interrupt a doomscrolling spiral right now.
My thoughts are returning again and again to Minnesota. If you live there and have links for aid organizations, feel free to share them below.
fivehourartschool.blogspot.com/2026/01/bird...
My thoughts are returning again and again to Minnesota. If you live there and have links for aid organizations, feel free to share them below.
fivehourartschool.blogspot.com/2026/01/bird...
Do people still say "this is dope"? I'm in love with this.
January 20, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Do people still say "this is dope"? I'm in love with this.
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January 16, 2026 at 1:27 PM
FLUFFCAT immortalized! Rune gave me this for Secret Santa and I was blown away. My perfect precious baby 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
"Winged Fluffcat" a gift for the lovely @perstephane.bsky.social turning her fantastic Fluffcat into an even more mythological being 💚
January 18, 2026 at 7:11 PM
FLUFFCAT immortalized! Rune gave me this for Secret Santa and I was blown away. My perfect precious baby 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
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Hello #portfolioday
I'm a Welsh UK based freelance illustrator currently available for commercial work!
www.aledthompson.com
I'm a Welsh UK based freelance illustrator currently available for commercial work!
www.aledthompson.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Hello #portfolioday
I'm a Welsh UK based freelance illustrator currently available for commercial work!
www.aledthompson.com
I'm a Welsh UK based freelance illustrator currently available for commercial work!
www.aledthompson.com
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You know what? 2026 is the year I'm not playing nice anymore.
If copyright means so little to use A / I for playing around, here's one of his book for free:
Color and Light James Gurney [English] : Free Download, Internet Archive share.google/qjDjFS6QhhZJ...
If copyright means so little to use A / I for playing around, here's one of his book for free:
Color and Light James Gurney [English] : Free Download, Internet Archive share.google/qjDjFS6QhhZJ...
January 16, 2026 at 3:57 AM
You know what? 2026 is the year I'm not playing nice anymore.
If copyright means so little to use A / I for playing around, here's one of his book for free:
Color and Light James Gurney [English] : Free Download, Internet Archive share.google/qjDjFS6QhhZJ...
If copyright means so little to use A / I for playing around, here's one of his book for free:
Color and Light James Gurney [English] : Free Download, Internet Archive share.google/qjDjFS6QhhZJ...
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Comic artist LeBeau Underwood’s daughter has been missing in Chicago since yesterday morning. Please share in the hopes we can bring the family a happy conclusion to this.
January 13, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Comic artist LeBeau Underwood’s daughter has been missing in Chicago since yesterday morning. Please share in the hopes we can bring the family a happy conclusion to this.
Things can be whatever color you want. People will critique your realistic shading or perspective or anatomy but no one cares if your grass is green.
January 13, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Things can be whatever color you want. People will critique your realistic shading or perspective or anatomy but no one cares if your grass is green.
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✨Three of swords✨
January 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
✨Three of swords✨
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If you use Discord and want to tell them how you feel about them adding AI tools, here's a link to the survey. Share it far & wide. Let them know we don't want it. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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January 10, 2026 at 6:11 AM
If you use Discord and want to tell them how you feel about them adding AI tools, here's a link to the survey. Share it far & wide. Let them know we don't want it. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
You all make beautiful work. All the art on my feed makes me chortle like a happy little dragon coveting its treasures.
January 6, 2026 at 9:31 PM
You all make beautiful work. All the art on my feed makes me chortle like a happy little dragon coveting its treasures.
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It's a new year, time to raise those commission prices if you haven't in a while! At very least factor in inflation into the increase.
January 4, 2026 at 1:57 PM
It's a new year, time to raise those commission prices if you haven't in a while! At very least factor in inflation into the increase.
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January 2, 2026 at 3:36 AM
HEY FRIENDS. I made a new blog post on Five Hour Art School (my blog about five artsy resources a week)
Drop me cool resources you think I might like here in the comments, if you feel generous. 🩷
fivehourartschool.blogspot.com/2026/01/2025...
Drop me cool resources you think I might like here in the comments, if you feel generous. 🩷
fivehourartschool.blogspot.com/2026/01/2025...
2025 Is Dead!
It’s a new year! 2025 has been defeated. You made it. A lot of terrible things happened, so I’m glad you’re still here with me and still per...
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January 2, 2026 at 3:29 AM
HEY FRIENDS. I made a new blog post on Five Hour Art School (my blog about five artsy resources a week)
Drop me cool resources you think I might like here in the comments, if you feel generous. 🩷
fivehourartschool.blogspot.com/2026/01/2025...
Drop me cool resources you think I might like here in the comments, if you feel generous. 🩷
fivehourartschool.blogspot.com/2026/01/2025...
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Having a cat is so cool. There is a little creature in my bed who loves me and vibrates like a tiny motorcycle and is so fuzzy and wants to snuggle. How could I want anything else
December 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Having a cat is so cool. There is a little creature in my bed who loves me and vibrates like a tiny motorcycle and is so fuzzy and wants to snuggle. How could I want anything else
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solidarity with trans people and death to fascism
December 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
solidarity with trans people and death to fascism
Heyyyyy 🧚 Listen!
I made a new blog, for creativity resource recommendations. It's called Five Hour Art School, where you get five things to check out once a week.
Got your own recommendations? Let me know about them!
fivehourartschool.blogspot.com/2025/12/slow...
I made a new blog, for creativity resource recommendations. It's called Five Hour Art School, where you get five things to check out once a week.
Got your own recommendations? Let me know about them!
fivehourartschool.blogspot.com/2025/12/slow...
Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast
“Slow is smooth, smooth is fast” is something I read this week in an email that my boss sent us. I work in retail and shipping and the holi...
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December 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Heyyyyy 🧚 Listen!
I made a new blog, for creativity resource recommendations. It's called Five Hour Art School, where you get five things to check out once a week.
Got your own recommendations? Let me know about them!
fivehourartschool.blogspot.com/2025/12/slow...
I made a new blog, for creativity resource recommendations. It's called Five Hour Art School, where you get five things to check out once a week.
Got your own recommendations? Let me know about them!
fivehourartschool.blogspot.com/2025/12/slow...
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We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
“The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.
thisweekinvideogames.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
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My professional artists peers! We got a survey request!
Researchers at the University of Carnegie Mellon is doing a research to see how generative Al has (or has not) impacted your work and/or sentiments in the industry. Folks in creative fields only, please consider filling this out 👇
Researchers at the University of Carnegie Mellon is doing a research to see how generative Al has (or has not) impacted your work and/or sentiments in the industry. Folks in creative fields only, please consider filling this out 👇
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December 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
My professional artists peers! We got a survey request!
Researchers at the University of Carnegie Mellon is doing a research to see how generative Al has (or has not) impacted your work and/or sentiments in the industry. Folks in creative fields only, please consider filling this out 👇
Researchers at the University of Carnegie Mellon is doing a research to see how generative Al has (or has not) impacted your work and/or sentiments in the industry. Folks in creative fields only, please consider filling this out 👇
Artists, quote with your red art!
December 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Artists, quote with your red art!
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No, there isn’t a way. There just isn’t. GenAI is poisoning the water supply of Oregon. It’s boiling inland seas.This tech, at scale, is an anti life equation, and all to spit out stolen collages of other people’s work to plug into a pipeline that has to be fixed by an underpaid real human later.
December 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
No, there isn’t a way. There just isn’t. GenAI is poisoning the water supply of Oregon. It’s boiling inland seas.This tech, at scale, is an anti life equation, and all to spit out stolen collages of other people’s work to plug into a pipeline that has to be fixed by an underpaid real human later.
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New D&D art! Check it out!
Chapter 5: Magic of Faerûn opener illustration created for Dungeon & Dragon's Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn player expansion.
AD: Emi Tanji
The seventh Blackstaff of Waterdeep, Vajra Safahr is seen here awakening The Hawkman.
www.rucach.com/project/magi...
#DnD
Chapter 5: Magic of Faerûn opener illustration created for Dungeon & Dragon's Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn player expansion.
AD: Emi Tanji
The seventh Blackstaff of Waterdeep, Vajra Safahr is seen here awakening The Hawkman.
www.rucach.com/project/magi...
#DnD
December 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
New D&D art! Check it out!
Chapter 5: Magic of Faerûn opener illustration created for Dungeon & Dragon's Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn player expansion.
AD: Emi Tanji
The seventh Blackstaff of Waterdeep, Vajra Safahr is seen here awakening The Hawkman.
www.rucach.com/project/magi...
#DnD
Chapter 5: Magic of Faerûn opener illustration created for Dungeon & Dragon's Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn player expansion.
AD: Emi Tanji
The seventh Blackstaff of Waterdeep, Vajra Safahr is seen here awakening The Hawkman.
www.rucach.com/project/magi...
#DnD
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🍂La Belle Dame sans Merci🍂
Another new piece I've done within Cynthia Sheppard's smARTschool class 😊 Inspired by John Keats' ballad.
#art #juliametzgerart
Another new piece I've done within Cynthia Sheppard's smARTschool class 😊 Inspired by John Keats' ballad.
#art #juliametzgerart
December 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
🍂La Belle Dame sans Merci🍂
Another new piece I've done within Cynthia Sheppard's smARTschool class 😊 Inspired by John Keats' ballad.
#art #juliametzgerart
Another new piece I've done within Cynthia Sheppard's smARTschool class 😊 Inspired by John Keats' ballad.
#art #juliametzgerart
I absolutely love these
December 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I absolutely love these
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Dr. Seward, you dim bulb, you blithering idiot. Do not give Renfield a cat.
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Dr. Seward, you dim bulb, you blithering idiot. Do not give Renfield a cat.