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Christine Ridgway [Commissions Temp Closed]

@skidarstudios.bsky.social

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🎨 Illustrator: Commissions closed temporarily due to injury
🌵 Author of #Skytown
🦎 Environmental Conservation Major
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Christine Ridgway [Commissions Temp Closed] @skidarstudios.bsky.social · 27d

Help it's again

Happy #PortfolioDay!

I'm Christine, I'm an animal fantasy and wildlife illustrator and Environmental Conservation student.

I do a lot of digital art but I'm branching into gouache and loving it ;)

See more of my work and my commission sheet: linktr.ee.com/skidarstudios

digital painting of an anthro deer, a dik dik, in glasses and a pack filled with flowers. he's crouching to pick a flower in the forest

Gouache painting of a California quail with a fantastical colorful desert sunset in the background

A female bolted kingfisher in gouache on watercolor paper. Colorful patterns with stars and a moon behind her

Digital painting A mule deer buck eating apples in a golden forest

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✨🐸 figmentpudding 🐸✨ (Pam Poovey Aspirant)

@figmentpudding.com

Tryin to sell 20 frogs today to try and get on track for some of these surprise bills flowing through the ether today... I'm at 2/20 sold

I also gotta get fish on my website - if you're interested in a fish just shoot me a DM

www.figmentpudding.com

A group of green crocheted frog purses in various states of finished, with one up front reaching towards the camera

A selection of various pink frog coin purses, and a pastel pink rainbow fish coin purse.

February 9, 2026 at 8:15 PM

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jona

@babynapa.bsky.social

why are companies always looking for new ways to become worse and shoot themselves in the foot like lmfao i am not giving my biodata to CHAT with friends

February 9, 2026 at 6:08 PM

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Calvinball Congress

@emericanjezebel.bsky.social

Sahar has had so many accounts deleted on here, she’s taking a break from even trying.

But I wanted to share her fundraiser today for her and her kids

Donate to Helping Odai Walk Again, organized by Sahar Alajrami

Hi world , it’s Sahar Please read this as if I'm a member of your family . ma… Sahar Alajrami needs your support for Helping Odai Walk Again

www.gofundme.com

February 9, 2026 at 2:06 PM

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Lauren

@tinylongwing.bsky.social

Little 1-hr Resplendent Quetzal portrait sketch, off @kulindadromeus.bsky.social 's dinosaur prompt list #DrawDinosDaily (link to list in reply)

Phew yay I will finally have time to do some of these!

🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

Digital portrait sketch of a male Resplendent Quetzal. He has a bright yellow beak, big black eye, and then a big fluffy spiky green and turquoise crest and beard of feathers in all directions around his head. On the breast, the colors turn toward blue, with a small patch of red near the wrist of the wing.

February 9, 2026 at 5:26 PM

Christine Ridgway [Commissions Temp Closed]

@skidarstudios.bsky.social

Very slowly starting to draw after a week of babying my shoulder. I'm just happy it feels well enough to draw at all but I still can't push it too far. It's the next day and it aches x.x

Toying with the designs of two new villains in our weekly one shots
#Bellinghamlet @twdetrick.bsky.social

Sketch of a older, smirking tiefling man with ibex horns and long curly hair

Sketch of a young teifling woman with short ibex horns, lots of curly hair, and earrings looking determined

February 9, 2026 at 7:01 PM

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Jan-Jaap Schraverus

@javerusart.bsky.social

One I liked from late last year. Here's to a good week!

A blue and yellow snake coiling among big butterbur leaves

February 9, 2026 at 1:54 PM

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pat | COMMISSIONS OPEN

@patsux.bsky.social

dancing dragons

Digital painting of a Mega Dragonite, dueling with a Mega Altaria. The shiny mega Dragonite is wielding a spear with a curved blade, clashing against a white sword wielded by the mega Altaria. They are dueling in the sky, surrounded by seven other Altarias aiming to attack the Dragonite, and there thunderclouds brewing in the backdrop.

February 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM

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saucypaws

@saucypawpads.bsky.social

insecurities
1/6

This is the first page of a multi-panel 12 page comic strip by saucypaws, featuring two anthropomorphic female characters: Pepper, a shorter, curvy calico cat with short hair, and Whitney, a taller, athletic horse girl with longer hair. Both characters are getting ready to go out somewhere and are wearing just their underwear. The comic aims to depict a tender moment relating to body image and insecurity.

Pepper is standing in front of a full-length mirror, looking at herself while holding up a green velvet strapless dress as if she is unsure whether or not she wants to put it on or not. We see a close up of her face and she is clearly very unhappy. Suddenly, a very alarmed Whitney comes rushing in: "Shoot!" she exclaims. "What time is it?" - the two of them must be late for something...

February 9, 2026 at 3:06 AM

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Jennifer Campbell-Smith, PhD 𓄿𓃥𓅃

@jcampbellsmith.bsky.social

A group of male harlequin ducks cruising the waves in the Norwegian Sea at the mouth of Seyðisfjörður, part of Austfirðir in Eastern Iceland.

These badass ducks specialize in rough water, well known for living in fast-moving sections of rivers, and are gorgeous on top of their hardcore habitats.

February 9, 2026 at 4:54 AM

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Istrandar

@istrandar.bsky.social

I saw a few people posting owls so I'm posting some owls illustrations I made.
I love those strange birds

February 8, 2026 at 11:07 PM

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Amanda Makepeace (ᏣᏁᎾ) ❤️‍🔥

@amandamakepeace.bsky.social

May you all have a magical #SuperbOwlDay 🤍✨

#art #birds #superbowlsunday #owl #birdart

Dusk and Dawn, my Spirit Owls drawing with silver and gold

February 8, 2026 at 3:46 PM

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Dan Liimatta

@danliimatta.bsky.social

Sketch/study in #HEAVYPAINT

January 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM

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Tommy Siegel

@tommysiegel.bsky.social

congratulations to the Seahawks, who are technically named after the gorgeous Osprey — a great victory for birders everywhere!

below is my rendition of an Osprey soaring to victory, drawn with full attention to detail. and no, this is not a photo!

February 9, 2026 at 3:47 AM

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| H • A • P |

@kodasea.bsky.social

February 8, 2026 at 8:08 PM

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FortunataFox

@fortunatafox.bsky.social

Another commission for PalehornTea from FA:

February 9, 2026 at 3:14 AM

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Waltjan

@waltjan9.bsky.social

Innocent

A painting of a canyon in the fog, some remains of graves are here and there, a goddess statue is standing in the background. Trees are twisted and almost leafless. A mother and his child are standing in the middleground, she is holding a lamp in her hand.
In the foreground some lost kids are anxious and wonder why she is there. One of them is trying to approach her.
The mood is sad and monochromatic, a grey, except a little touch of warm orange coming from the mother lamp.

January 31, 2026 at 6:09 PM

Christine Ridgway [Commissions Temp Closed]

@skidarstudios.bsky.social

Grocery store poke bowl and Drawfee makes for a lovely evening

February 9, 2026 at 2:36 AM

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Dom the rat man

@opensethame.bsky.social

IHK!

last years presi for @meltingmooon.bsky.social

Hlf body painting of a starling bird person, who's head and body are slightly shifted in different directions, the body faces more towards the camera to the left side while their head is in a side view towards the right side, showing the left side of it. Their beak is slightly open, their red eyes are open too. Their feathers and wings look typical to a starling, dark with green and purple shine and yellow-ish details.

They wear a fancy outfit. The vest is ivory coloured, the shirt is purple and embroidery is roughly hinged on both.
The background has a painterly texture where brush strokes are visible. The colours of it are blueish-grey overlayed on a orange-red.

December 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM

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Christine Ridgway [Commissions Temp Closed]

@skidarstudios.bsky.social

'What are you two doing back there?'
'Nothiiiing.'

#Bellinghamlet characters from our dnd game
Argentus (😠) and Warregn (🌈) belong to @twdetrick.bsky.social
Murkia the goblin in mine ;)

a red headed bearded human man standing at the counter of a coffee shop looking over his shoulder. A note is pinned to the his back that says 'Go around, if it was meant to go fast it wouldn't be shaped like a brick.'
A laughing rainbow-haired gnome and a green punk rock goblin holding a sharpie grin back at him

February 8, 2026 at 2:04 AM

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Sarah McKenzie

@sarahdraws8.bsky.social

Thank you for the #artshare!

This one is in a desert, which is certainly sunny. 🌞

Tags:
@floverale.bsky.social
@rjb-mallacore.bsky.social
@literallyhell.bsky.social
@evaworldengine.bsky.social

Illustration: Stormfront (Sci-fi Art)

Illustration of a pale orange stone desert, with mountains in the background. Behind the mountains looms a churning, deep blue stormfront, which is split by a single bolt of lightning that reaches to a nearby floating island, and from there to the nearest peak. Dust blows violently across the landscape in front of the storm, and in the foreground, two dragonfly-like mechs perch on some eroded rock formations. They have scrap solar panels for wings, and twin cockpits for eyes.

Two characters stand on top of the nearest mech; one sitting upon the wing rotator joint, and the other looking towards the storm through a pair of binoculars. In the further mech, the pilots remain in the eyeball cockpits. One appears to be viewing a holographic display within the glass, and the other is looking over his shoulder, eyes shaded, at the storm.

Art by @sarahdraws8.bsky.social.

[#Art #DigitalArt #Scifi #ScifiWorlds #ScienceFiction #ScifiArt #Illustration #SciFiArtist #ClipStudioPaint #ClipStudio]

February 8, 2026 at 9:25 PM

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kefkorr

@kefkorr.bsky.social

Well its very sunny over here over my place (because its regularly hot) at the moment. I do have a sunrise piece that I made about a year ago - with warm colors, but that's pretty much it.