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Aurora Stark

@splendidcyan.bsky.social

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they/them concept art and illustration and visual development and cats -> https://aurorastark.art

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Aurora Stark @splendidcyan.bsky.social · 1d

It's the final #portfolioday of 2025! Here's some work of mine, if you have need of a character designer or visdev artist, please drop me a line!
aurorastark.art
📧 [email protected]
#visdev #characterdesign #visualdevelopment

A collection of character art for a pink-haired victorian vampire. There are turnarounds for her dress with a bat accessory on her bustle, her underskirts and corset to achieve the bustle shape, and a progression of the character from meek victorian woman shaded by her parasol to an overgrown, wild vampire with wings and claws. There are also designs for victorian chairs on this page.

A sheet of character artwork, featuring a pink-haired victorian vampire and her blue-haired human lover. There are dress designs, hair options, expressions for the vampire, and a fully-rendered piece of the vampire sitting at a vanity drinking tea. In the reflection, the vampire looks at the viewer with a glowing red eye.

A sheet of various visual development art pieces. There's a turnaround for a simple character design of a girl with long blonde hair and a blue shirt; below her is a full illustration of Batman stalking the halls of Arkham Asylum, with Robin discreetly following behind in the vents; next to the Arkham scene is a set design for a space ship's quarters, involving bunks in a metallic room; finally, there is a painting of an industrial crane cast in red light, and a stylized painting of an outdoor space heater.

A collection of production art from a kids sci-fi project. There are expressions for the blonde human and a blue alien girl, prop callouts for a slick white briefcase with a disembodied alien hand in it, a hoverbike, and character interactions between the alien and the human.

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Emily Pearson @emilypearsonart.bsky.social · 20h

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm a concept artist(mostly characters, creatures, props) looking for work! I worked at Riot, WoTC, Unknown Worlds, and more.

Portfolio: emilypearsonart.artstation.com
[email protected]

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Lauren Walsh @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 20h

I saw something recently that said a strategy for adhd is you just need to commit to doing 30%. The full scope of 100% of a project is just too overwhelming. So just start with some thumbnails or sketches for now and then commit to another 30% another day or week. Any progress IS progress

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 18h

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Hello #PortfolioDay! I'm an illustrator and 2D artist working in the ttrpg and indie game space.

💌[email protected]
🔗 emilylorange.com

🥃 www.tumblr.com/emilylorange
🖼️ cara.app/emilylorange
🐘 mastodon.art/@emilylorange
🖨️ www.inprnt.com/gallery/emil...
🪙 www.patreon.com/c/emilylorange

A digital illustration showing a floating landmass, grassy with evergreen trees. It appears thin, maybe six feet deep, and underneath it can be seen a starry night sky. a race track passes through the sky and travels through the forest. the sky above is ocher, with puffy white clouds.

a collection of painted 'swords' organized into four rows, oriented with hilt in the bottom left, and tip on the top right, on a neutral, dark grey background. each sword is a strange and fantastical interpretation of a word written in grey text below them. some of the words included are: 'void' (sword resembles a black hole), 'storm' (sword resembles lightning emanating from a cloud), 'mountain' (sword resembles a mountain peak), 'spicy' (sword resembles a smoking chili), 'star' (sword resembles an image of the sun with a solar flare), 'Flowers' (sword resembles a thistle), 'fossil' (sword resembles a trilobite), 'forest' (sword resembles three trees in autumn), 'arachnid' (sword resembles a spiders web in a branch), 'molten' (sword resembles blown glass that has not yet cooled)

a digital painting of an anthropomorphic duck, sitting in a beach chair. the sun is blocked by a large blue umbrella that casts a blue tone on her, and she lounges in a bikini, looking off in the distance. the colors are mainly oranges and blues.

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🦇🩸Hexavier🩸🦇 @xavierck.com · 23d

For a game composed almost entirely of rectangles, they do a goddamn good job making those rectangles really nice to look at

A large multi-screen computer console with a bookshelf in the background

An orange door with lights and control panels

An outdoor area fenced in on the Big Shell

An interior door with lights and control panels

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🦇🩸Hexavier🩸🦇 @xavierck.com · 24d

It's easy to see why they chose this setting for the initial reveal of the game. It clearly saw the most love and polish, and had the most opportunity for beautiful hand made touches

Look at the cast shadow from the stairs hitting the light from the hallway

So gorgeous

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Ash @bsartsss.bsky.social · 19h

#portfolioday
The gorls

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🌿 Rowan @cynotherium.bsky.social · 23h

Hello #PortfolioDay,

I'm Rowan, a freelance illustrator working with ttrpgs. I love to illustrate anything involving animals. I am currently open for both commercial and private commissions, so feel free to contact me.

Portfolio: rowanholloway.cargo.site
Email: [email protected]

A calico anthropomorphic cat. They have a genetically modified paw reminiscent of bee stingers. They wear white sci-fi body armour with mechanical wings attached.

A DnD party attempts to rescue their horse from frozen water. We have a dwarven wizard, elven ranger, and human fighter.

A swarm of ravens flies towards the viewer.

A variety of spooky props for Crooked Moon ttrpg.

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Helen Mask 🔜 Seattle oddities🔜Pdx oddities 🔜kumoricon @hemask.bsky.social · 21h

Hello #PortfolioDay I'm Helen, A freelance Illustrator inspired by art nouveau. I love mythology and folklore, dark creepy things, and Queer love.

I'd love to work on more TTRPG, Book covers/comic book covers, Posters, packaging illustration

Portfolio: helenmask.com
📧 [email protected]

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Sarah M 🌈🍉🌻 @braverobynart.bsky.social · 20h

Hi hello #portfolioDay! Im Sarah, a snr concept artist in games, indi Dev, freelance #cartographer & #TTRPG designer from Scotland. I love being an artist and over the last 15 years I’ve worked on projects like #DeathsDoor, #SpyroReignited, Possessor(s), Campaign Builder: Cities & Towns & more!

A shipwreck on a mountain top, with a Japanese-style noodle bar inside.

Secret area of deaths door. a ruined templed inside a cave covered in snow.

Exterior and interior concepts for an old rundown bar with stained glass. Inside is a smokie dive with lots of plants and hanging cages for different creatures.

Flooded street with a character skating over the water, ruined buildings and tech to either side of the street. Large trees grow through old buildings.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 16h

I agree that there’s some real horrific irony in AI conglomerates being permitted to launch the Madness Inducing Porn Spigot while actual, human porn producers are getting harassed off the internet.

Space Man @spaceds8008s.bsky.social · 16h

It feels like such a slap in the face to sex workers and nsfw artists who are actively being censored by payment processors atm. Of course visa/mc are ok with this because its a rich white guy doing it AND they get access to all that VERY PROFITABLE PII. Disgusting.

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Prosper Tipaldi 🌱🌿 @prospertipaldi.bsky.social · 1d

Hey #PortfolioDay!

I'm Prosper, an illustrator and concept artist based in France. I specialize in history and fantasy! 🌱🗡️

🌐 linktr.ee/prospertipaldi
✉️ [email protected]

A painting of a knight in a fourteenth century inspired armor, wearing plate armor with a bascinet type helmet and black and green clothes with dagged ends. He is wielding a one handed arming sword and shield.

A drawing of a woman in scale, plate and mail armor, with blue and brown cloths and a red hat. She is wielding a sword and shield. The shield is painted with a picture of a woman in a red dress, holding a sword in one hand and a decapitated, bearded head in the other.

A drawing of Steffon Darklyn in his kingsguard armor from A Song of Ice and Fire

A drawing of Lyn Corbray from A Song of Ice and Fire

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Edward Delandre @dedart.bsky.social · 20h

they are probably up to no good.
A little Halloween painting!
Oil painting on panel 14"x18"

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✨mikey james✨SHOP OPEN @mikeyjamesdraws.bsky.social · 21h

✨Hi #PortfolioDay !✨

I’m Michael James, Character Designer and Development Artist!

I’m looking for work in Animation/Games!

Open to Layout Artist work as well!

Prev: Mighty Yeti, Barnstormer

✨folio: www.michaeljamescaballes.com
✨shop: www.mikeyjamesdraws.com
✨ko-fi: ko-fi.com/mikeyjamesdr...

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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 16h

it's #portfolioday and I thought I'd post some things in case you've, say, for example.... got an indie game coming out and want someone to draw some promo fanart or something for it 🤠hit me up eh?
#artpost

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michael katchan @michaelkatchan.bsky.social · 1d

Gday #portfolioday

I’m Mike, an illustrator in the fantasy/rpg/TCG space

I love expressive characters, moody spaces and lingering moments

If you’re looking for work like this I’d love to talk

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meeti @meetimeeti.bsky.social · 15h

hi #PortfolioDay I will be open for work early december! I have experience in games, pitch decks, TV animation, and illustration. Contact me for any of your visdev or BG paint/design needs 🙂‍↕️

✉️: [email protected]

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Peter Wartman @peterwartman.com · 22h

Hi, I'm Peter and I draw comics!

I've worked on the Avatar: the Last Airbender comics, written some Dragon Prince graphic novels, and created a few other things too.

✨portfolio: peterwartman.com
✨comics: shipwreckplanet.com

A page from a comic pitch I did, showing a character sitting on a sign built onto a massive metal structure. Airships fly through the rain in front of him. Inset in two panels we can see him looking down at a pilot's pin he's holding in his hand.

A drawing of a space guy holding his helmet and looking at the camera.

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Ronnie (Comms open) @rinnyleep.bsky.social · 1d

sketches of the same character 5 years apart

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Alex J @alexjohnstonart.bsky.social · Apr 8

Hello #PortfolioDay !! I'm Alex and I'm an artist based in the UK. I'm available for fulltime or freelance from Storyboarding/Revisions to Background Colour. I'm highly flexible and looking for work in TV and feature.

🖼️: alexjohnstonart.weebly.com
📷: [email protected]

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 19h

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

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Nathan Daniel Hernandez @natedhernandez.bsky.social · 23h

Hi #PortfolioDay , I'm Nathan,
LA based 🇲🇽🇸🇻 Mexican-Salvadoran American Painter and illustrator ☆ Available for Freelance & Commission work in November ☆🐱💀👹👾

☆ Bg Paint/Design, Vis-Dev + Key Art☆

📧: [email protected]
🎨: ndhart.carrd.co

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 13h

the web is filled with slop, social media and ads are inflated with bots, creatives have no income, the earth is on fire, and people are hollowing out their minds and hearts for a machine to live for them. all this because a handfull rich idiots are all stupid enough to have their wallets inspected.

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 13h

I don't feel threatened in my creativity with gAI. what I feel threatened about is all the damage that has been done and will continue be done between now and its crash, and an intense anger at absolutely everyone complicit in exacerbating it.

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Shiro Sylvie @shiromisa.bsky.social · 13h

This is what it comes down to. You are allowed--nay, ENCOURAGED--to curate your online experience, as stringently as you like. What you can't do is demand that an authority figure do it for you

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 1d

I feel when freedom of expression/art is argued for, many people knee-jerk hear they have to like/accept art they hate or disgusted by

you are allowed to hate and block art you don't like or even find morally reprehensible. you're just not allowed to negatively impact an artist's freedom to make it

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Lissette Carrera @lissettecarrera.bsky.social · 18h

Hi #PortfolioDay! I’m an illustrator open to new opportunities in digital illustration, vis dev/concept art, children’s book art, & comics. I’ve worked on Disney Lorcana, Lore Olympus, & more!

Let’s work together!
✨ [email protected]
✨ lissettecarrera.com
✨ instagram.com/hardheadedwoman

Drawing Tinker Bell standing on a mirror and looking down at her shoes.

Pencil drawing of Duke and Mallory from the Mighty Ducks mean mugging.

Digital painting of the Crapi Apartments in LA over a pink background.

Digital painting of one of the Cinderella Homes in Anaheim, CA.

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