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effie 🌱 learning how to gouache! @soupreme.bsky.social · 10h

Just played this and I'm hooked already! Can't wait for the next chapter 👻🧡

Lio 🌿 Gravehearts out now! @kroovv.bsky.social · 14h

Gravehearts chapter 1 is now live on itch! 🪦💛

kroovv.itch.io/gravehearts

and an illustration of 3 characters surrounded by an orange autumnal tree and graves. One character is a cat clown doll floating above the right shoulder of a large buff man with a beard and overalls, then floating over the man's other shoulder is a slightly transparent cowboy with green hair and heavy scars.

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 1d

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it?

Chiitan forever

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 1d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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Ruby 💕💜🩵 @fugitiverabbit.com · 1d

My therapist has to remind me constantly that just because I'm anxious something may happen doesn't necessarily mean it will.

#art

Artwork showing a frazzled looking possum holding onto an orb/crystal ball with the text " you are not predicting the future. You have anxiety!"

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Pina ✨ ADHD Alien @adhd-alien.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve learnt that only hyperfocus can keep me from disappointing others. Sometimes.

Two-page comic about ADHD, self-doubt, and burnout.

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A person with short black hair and yellow antennae recalls lifelong struggles with effort and recognition. As a child, they cry while being scolded over homework. Later, they work hard but still fail small details and receive an “F.” When they finally succeed, they can’t enjoy it—holding a medal labeled “2,” they feel it’s luck, not skill.

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They explain how productivity fluctuates. A blue graph shows steady effort, while a pink line spikes wildly. They say, “For me, it fluctuates more extremely.” Sitting exhausted at a messy desk, they admit, “I only stop when I’m too tired to go on. The word I learned for all this was ‘lazy.’ I never learned a healthy measure or how to trust myself.”

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Inoa 🩸 @inoaart.bsky.social · 2d

[oc] lady lilith.

daily lady lilith dose!
might turn this into another little sheet who knows

[ #art #dndart #ttrpg #dnd #oc #ocsky #procreate ]

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Spooky Scary SkeleFalco @falco.works · 2d

Day 7 -- Feline

Every well educated apprentice witch knows that treats are vital to a familiar's magic focusing abilities ow ow shoot ow dang it ouch

A little witch girl carrying a jug of milk is swarmed by black kittens, who scream and climb her overalls because she's not dispensing the milk fast enough

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Steven James Garza @stevejgarza.bsky.social · 2d

To everyone drawing this month!

#art #drawingchallenges #penandpencil #arttip

drawing of a pen, a pencil and two erasers encouraging the viewer to stop overthinking and just draw the thing.

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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 6d

I wish I could draw like this all the time without my brain calling them "bad drawings."

I think the place my heart wants my art to be is that straddle between abstract and anatomy, loose and precise.

But I never seem to be able to stay there.
#artpost

A bunch of loose doodles of cats in different poses drawn with a gel pen.

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oidingus @oidingus.bsky.social · 1d

It didn’t feel right without Viktor, so i added Viktor😌 #jaycetalis #viktorarcane #jayvik

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effie 🌱 learning how to gouache! @soupreme.bsky.social · 11d

i've been trying my hand at inking with a dip pen lately, testing out different nibs

the first study was drawn with a deleter tama-nib, the second with a deleter g-pen and the last with the brause steno 361/blue pumpkin (and my fingertips :D )

#artsky #ocsky #traditionalart

An drawing in black ink on white paper of grasses, a mossy rock, a wooden fence and foggy, windy atmosphere. It is a study of an Illustration by the late comic artist Bernie Wrightson. The hatching and density of lines is what I tried to copy.

An ink drawing of my OC Hugh, a young man with white, floofy hair. He's looking to the right over his sunglasses, slightly smiling. His ear is pierced in multiple places and he's wearing a black choker, a pearl necklace and a longer necklace with some gemstones on it hanging over his chest where his dark, sunflower-patterned dress shirt is open. The sleeves are rolled up and reveal a sunflower tattoo sleeve on his right arm

CW character death: an ink drawing of my D&D character Camille as he is hit by a disintegrate-spell and dissolved into black dust. Camille is a heavily scarred half-elf with dark, wavy hair streaked with premature grey. He is gripped around the throat by a large, gauntleted hand. He's trying to pry it off, but shock sets in as he realizes he cannot. Emanating from the gauntleted grip around his neck is dusty blackness, illustrated here with black ink smudges, the texture of the paper, and small pointilist dots and parallel hatching.

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effie 🌱 learning how to gouache! @soupreme.bsky.social · 3d

10 horror movies to get to know me:

I'm far too scared to watch horror so none T_T

Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 3d

10 horror movies to get to know me by (plus an extra, sorry I can't cut any of them)

The VVitch
Blair Witch Project
The Conjuring
Sleepy Hollow
Midnight Mass
Nosferatu
Poltergeist
The Exorcist III
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Last Exorcism
Crimson Peak

Mathraptor @mathraptor.bsky.social · 3d

10 horror movies to get to know me by:

The Innocents (1961)
Ghost Story (1981)
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Crimson Peak (2015)
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
The Ressurected (1991)
Alien (1979)
Evil Dead 2 (1987)
Halloween 3 (1982)

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 3d

Flat illustration of a Wood Pigeon, Magpie, and Robin in a parade-line stride holding autumn leaves up high with their beaks! (UK birds as I am there right now on vacation!)

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Mali 💤 @ MCM G-24 💛 @sleepimali.bsky.social · 9d

If I have to go, let me go like this 🐇✨️

Watercolour painting of a huge pile of bunnies with different coloured coats on a yellow background. A lone hand giving a thumbs up sticks out of the pile

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tofunofu @tofunofu.bsky.social · 3d

Yipee done! I love designing characters 🥳
#ocsky #art #dnd #dndart

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effie 🌱 learning how to gouache! @soupreme.bsky.social · 3d

I listened to the audiobook version of it recently and it's so good!

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effie 🌱 learning how to gouache! @soupreme.bsky.social · 3d

Father Basil!

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BAKER @fuckyoubaker.bsky.social · 4d

MONDAY.
SPITE AS FUEL.

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Kommander Karl @kommanderkarl.bsky.social · 4d

AI still can’t do this

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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 5d

Also as an artist, be free!

I know I often get the "But this is not you! You drew those cute little Bouncy pigeons ..."

It's still me! And I enjoy drawing whatever I like with the same care and passion.

I know I can lose followers but in the end, I just want to draw happilly and what I want :)

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ciil 🦭 @ciil.bsky.social · 5d

1am delirious motivational comic from moi #comic

comic of seal being self conscious abt sucking but evil ominous aggro positive seal screams at her that actually its cooler to try and flop than not try and not flop. seal screams AT LEAST I DID IT BROOOO

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Oli ✦ Olympusvee @olympusvee.bsky.social · Sep 30

Here's that Barbie movie meme I did this summer, with my OC Dante and my friend's OC Hugh :DD

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effie 🌱 learning how to gouache! @soupreme.bsky.social · 5d

I still love this :D You know Hugh is just gonna lawyer himself out of the situation and sue the whole police station

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 6d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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JuliArtWorld @juliartworld.bsky.social · 6d

🔸Day 4: box
Why does the world keep getting smaller and smaller?

#artober2025

fineliner and ink drawing of a fox in a box. Top box the fox is small, bottom box the fox outgrew the box. inktober

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effie 🌱 learning how to gouache! @soupreme.bsky.social · 6d

This is so beautiful and atmospheric! I love the colors and the soft gradients, the mixes of brown and green, and the soft brightening in the background.

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