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Ensorcelled to draw and tell stories somehow. - Currently making a comic! Find under the ENRH feed, or here: https://enrh.webcomic.ws/ - Carrd: https://rtnortherly.carrd.co/

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RT North 📌 DTIYS Pinned @rtnortherly.bsky.social · Sep 6

IT IS FINALLY HERE 🎉 I’m hosting a DTIYS featuring my OC Cricket (it/its, they/them).

- Use the hashtag #rtnorthDTIYS
- Tag me please 👀
- Ends December 7th, three months from now!
- Feel free to crop/change colours/adjust however you need.

Digital art of my OC, Cricket. They are leaning back in a chair that's pushed into a desk. The chair is tilting back, and Cricket has their legs up on the top of the desk. Cricket's head is tilted back and slightly towards the viewer and it has a lax sort of smile on its face. One arm is draped across its stomach, and the other hangs free so the fingers nearly brush the floor. Cricket is dressed in a loose, partially unbuttoned shirt, suspenders, and nondescript brown pants. It has a black stylized cricket tattoo on both forearms, and a striped neck tattoo that ends in feathers under the collarbone, and then a skull over the sternum. They appear to be in ramshackle office, and pinned to the side of their desk is a notice advertising "RTnorth's DTIYS. Join in until Dec. 7th. Use #rtnorthDTIYS". The lighting is entirely an artificial neon pink.

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frayed @frayed-symphony.bsky.social · 1d

Some coloured #Splatoon sketches
#art

A pink-orange hued sketch of Marina from Splatoon 2 smiling at the camera, hands on her DJ deck

A yellow and green coloured sketch of Marie from Splatoon, running as she holds her umbrella for a swing. A random squid is jumping in the background

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scare-ron "actual ghost" shanxnywy @thxnywy.art · 14h

thurifer // thurible
#art

a skull with a jar for a cranium belches purple smoke- inside the jar, an organ attached to tubes floats in pink goop

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Manuel Fallmann-Kerrutt @mindistortion.tv · 17h

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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Oliver 💙 @oliverniko.bsky.social · 17h

#Repostober day 10: Sunset Portrait 💙

#ArtSky #Art

A digital painting with oil like brushes of a feminine redhead facing the side. They hold fingers by their chin and lips, smiling. They have shoulder length wavy ginger hair. They are standing at sunset, painted with colourful high chroma tints of warm colours and blue/green.

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RT North 📌 DTIYS Pinned @rtnortherly.bsky.social · 18h

*scary because drawing real people is bad for my anxiety.

RT North 📌 DTIYS Pinned @rtnortherly.bsky.social · 18h

This is stuff from back during the summer up to literally this morning lol.

RT North 📌 DTIYS Pinned @rtnortherly.bsky.social · 18h

Some art that isn’t really anything. Sketches, doodles, a random study of a character from a movie and thus an actor which is scary etc etc

#myart

Digital art of Yassen from the Alex Rider TV show. It is a study of screen shot in which the character is facing the camera almost entirely front on, but his eyes are looking slightly up and to the side. The art shows him from the collar bone up. He has short dark hair, dark eyes, and dark clothes, his expression is dour looking. The background is indistinct desaturated blue grey shapes.

Black and white digital art. A character where a featureless metallic mask turns to look over their shoulder at the viewer. Their hair is short and wavy, though the side ps are shaved. They are wearing a dark short sleeved shirt with a collar.

Digital art of an autumnal forest scene from a somewhat low perspective. Two trees frame the scene, and within their reach is a jagged stump, a large stone and some bushes. Beyond that is the rest of the forest, populated by multiple trees, bushes and tall grass. The foreground also has some out of focus grass and branches. The colours range from brown, to greens, brightened by oranges and golds.

Screen shot of a digital doodle. In it a character stands with one hand on their hip, the other loose at their side. Their expression is vexed, as a gargoyle like creature the size of a young child crouches on their shoulder. The character has a long lavender ponytail and undercut and is dressed casually in a long short sleeved over jacket in green, a grey long sleeved shirt, and dark pants. The gargoyle is smiling and lime green. It is coloured as if done hastily with limited markers.

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nic.tattoos @nicterhorst.com · 19h

I'd really encourage folks in Canada to write out their thoughts in this survey.

Most of mine were "Don't", but I really got to dial in on some.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 2d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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SAPRO @saproartist.bsky.social · 19h

Devilman 💖

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Viper 📌 DTIYS! @viperiumprime.com · 1d

Sketch-tober day 9!
Had to rush this Kali piece, but it lends itself to the action!
#aasb

Sketch of a woman with long braided hair and bangs that cover her eyes reaching forward with a monstrous arm. One eye glows beneath the bangs, lightning shooting from it and wrapping around the hand. She growls, everything moves like it has epic wind, and the linework is messy and chaotic, giving the sketch a lot of dynamic action

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Carmine 🖤✨❤️ @carminedeville.bsky.social · 1d

Prompt #8 is "Summer's night"

The best things in life are free.

#OC-tober #scribbles #inamorata

OC, Victoria Sweet
Digital sketch with rough, muted watercolor. A dark-haired woman in a white gown dances by herself in the dark, surrounded by fireflies.

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RT North 📌 DTIYS Pinned @rtnortherly.bsky.social · 1d

Not to say it wasn’t a good book. Super well done and very sincere. “The Edge on the Sword” by Rebecca Tingle if you enjoy historical fiction.

RT North 📌 DTIYS Pinned @rtnortherly.bsky.social · 1d

Finished rereading a book I read many years ago. Turns out it had a hugely sad point, but I’d overwritten that in my brain with a happier twist.

Now my face hurts from crying about it.

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Izzy.PumpkiNG | comms open @izzypetersart.bsky.social · 1d

I've been wanting to try my hand at the Green Knight for a long time

#mythology #folklore #art #knight

a tall, green-hued knight in greathelm and plate, wielding a huge, heavy axe

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scare-ron "actual ghost" shanxnywy @thxnywy.art · 1d

i hate it but am nevertheless done working on it
i'm still totally lost on high-contrast scenes
#art

two mushroom fellows snuggle by a fire in the woods, roasting a marshmallow and drinking a muggy drink

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Eiliakins @eiliakins.bsky.social · 1d

Page 32

Hex didn't know his grandpa had an eye for art... Hmm...

Comic Site: hexandseal.webcomic.ws
#art #oc #ocSky #comic

Page 32 of my comic, Hex & Seal.

As hex goes down the ladder into the basement in the light of his phone flashlight, he realizes he can no-longer sense the spirits. Could this be his grandfather's ench-- What? As Hex turns to look into the basement room, he sees three walls full of elaborate carvings. A forest view with a lone, large pine tree in the middle. The pine tree grows out of the head of a large moth carved onto the floor as maze of swirling, carved text reaches out of its antennae, forming the rest of the forest around the pine and the moth. Hex walks along the walls and thinks to himself. I can't sense magic but I shouldn't touch it without knowing for sure.

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普普通通的 @bem.bsky.social · 2d

Rangkai's poster :o
#bemdraws #rangkai #art #讓開
#ocart #oc

A poster style drawing of a wuxia character with a long braid. His clothes are a coarse material with tears and crude stitching.

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Viper 📌 DTIYS! @viperiumprime.com · 2d

Next 3 pages! (Doing 3 because it’s a nice little sequence as opposed to 4)
#aasb comic

Comic page with 3 panels
The top panel shows a patterned creature, mouth dripping with blood, roaring as it’s about to eat something
The middle panel is very similar, but now a spear has plunged into its skull
The bottom panel reveals the spear-haver - an armored woman triumphantly drives her spear into the creature. We’re looking up at her from a low angle, and in the background are buildings and the sky

Comic page with four panels.
The top panel shows the same armored woman, brushing her bangs back as she hells her spear onto her shoulder. There are sparkly anime bubbles behind her as she says “hey church boy, got all your limbs?”
The sparkly bubbles continue in the next panel, showing a young man looking up at the woman incredulously. The next panel he snaps out of it with a blush, and mumbles “y-yes…”
The bottom panel shows him scrambling up from the ground of an alley unceremoniously, a shoulder bag swinging at his side. The armored woman gives him a quizzical glance, and the dead creature is nearby, blood splattering her and her spear

Comic page with three panels of the armored woman and the young priest talking.
The top panel shows the armored woman glancing away, but talking to the smitten priest beside her “best get to safety then, before -“
The second panel has explosions and screams as the two figures eyes widen at the noises. The priest snaps out of his lovey-dovey vision
The bottom panel shows the armored woman turning to leave, cheerfully exclaiming “that’s my cue!” To the horrible noises. The priest nervously grabs at his bag and stammers, panicked “ah, ok!”

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Lyanna 🌙 comms open @lyannatropes.bsky.social · 2d

a lonely world for #repostober ✨ one of many artworks I'd love to redraw eventually

#art #oc

A small figure holding a sword of light is walking among ruins of statues at the bottom of a large waterfall. Two moons hang in the blue sky. The water glimmers with lights.

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🍷🕯️Caemi🕯️🩸 @caemiel.bsky.social · 2d

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[ #caemidraws #dnd #mars ]

Tower tarot card featuring Mars in the middle of a field under a stormy sky. He's turning back, a hand holding his old zweihander, a look of surprise and disbelief on his face. Out of the frame, Will's hand reaches for him. In the background, a dark tower shows part of the party stopping Mars from leaving.

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Mystalia @mystalia.bsky.social · 2d

Possible creature design for a new comic project🐉 #art #myart

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Xeni Flowers | Horror Art @xenianth.com · Oct 25

my finished #ZombieSkulltober hormse 🤠

Digital greyscale ink drawing that uses lots of fine lines and hatching. A portrait of a zombie horse from the neck up. Its decayed, mostly skeletal mouth is open and its ear is perked up. Its neck is torn open, revealing bands of muscle underneath. Its dark mane flows in movement.

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Izzy.PumpkiNG | comms open @izzypetersart.bsky.social · 2d

Show me how you draw armor!

(feat. my take on the Green Knight)
#artsky

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Lyanna 🌙 comms open @lyannatropes.bsky.social · 2d

I hear it's international lesbian day 💕 if you want to share a fellow lesbian's art, here is some of my favourite works with my lesbian blorbos 💕

#art

An artwork based on Romeo and Juliet by Frank Dicksee. Ipomoea is wrapping her arms around Reignn, stopping them for one last kiss as they are sitting over the balustrade. Reignn embraces her back, their lips almost close to touching. On the background a city can be seen, with mountains in the distance.

In the middle, Elaine is standing while holding her sword, while the personification of the moon is sitting behind her and almost embracing her gently. On the left, Elaine is holding a white lily, the bottom decorated with more white lilies and ipomoeas. On the right, Elaine's hand is showing holding her sword. The same flowers decorate the bottom of the scene.
The phases of the moon are shown across different parts of the artwork (crescent/waning moons at the bottom, half moons on the sides, full moon in the middle scene).

Camellia is holding Ametista in her arms as she pierces her heart with her sword. Ametista looks peaceful, her arms wrapped around Camellia's shoulders.

In the background there is a scene from their past. Camellia and Ametista are kissing in the gardens, a warm light pouring over the scenery.

The artwork has a golden frame with ornamental swords at the bottom.

On the right, Thalia leans forward Eirwen with a red flower in her hand. On the left, Eirwen reaches out, her fingers delicately brushing against the petals while her left hand brushes through Thalia's hair. Around them winter is thawing, flowers and foliage emerging still covered in a little snow.

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Skeletaun | Very proud of the pun @sentaun.bsky.social · 2d

#Zombieskulltober #8 - "Blisters"
Timelaps in thread

#Art #DarkArt #HorrorArt #ArtChallenge

A rotting corpse with massive blisters overtaking it's flesh

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