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Strixling

@strixling.bsky.social

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Hey there! I'm Sian, a dyspraxic artist from the UK who specialises in drawing toony little guys. D&D and FFXIV ocs abound! (She/Her, 26, White) 🌱 strixling.carrd.co 🌱

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Strixling @strixling.bsky.social · Aug 2

Hi Bluesky! I'm Sian, a 2:1 graduate from GCU's 3D Animation & Visualisation course. Highly enthusiastic about drawing toony little guys. If you enjoy OCs, FFXIV and D&D content you're in the right place!

🌱Website: https://strixling.carrd.co
🌱Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/strixling

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Strixling @strixling.bsky.social · 19d

Slay

(Every day I yearn for a world where corporate censorship is banished to the shadow realms and better tagging systems existed, not to silence either side but to provide a peaceful co-existence. I will never match people’s freak™️ but I want folks to be able to find others who do!)

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Strixling @strixling.bsky.social · 19d

I will always fight for people’s rights to create NSFW content but as a sex-repulsed asexual I also wish folks would respect other people’s rights to respectfully avoid it. Someone will see a tag and go “hell yeah” and I’ll know to stay away whilst letting people enjoy their tea. Consent is key!

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Strixling @strixling.bsky.social · 23d

Lilligant for sure!

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Lost Haven 🌟 @losthavenguild.bsky.social · Sep 11

Original Classics - and OCs and classical art zine is so close to being funded and only a couple of days left to make goal!

45 pages of gorgeous art and 4 merch pieces available to be pledged to

www.kickstarter.com/projects/inf...

A graphic showing of the various merch pieces

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Strixling @strixling.bsky.social · 27d

If nobody else is going to ask about Kumada/Nishiguchi then I will!

Yaitabashi is here too because every great wlw pairing needs an aroace friend. Trust me, I'd know. 🎨

Redraw of a meme photograph where a guy third wheels his friends.

Yaitabashi Sou takes a sip from Kumada Erina's drink. Erina shares a kiss with Nishiguchi Mutsuko. All three characters are from Tetro Danganronpa Blue.

Strixling @strixling.bsky.social · Sep 10

Whatever. Go my Sou Yaitabashi from hit audio podcast Tetro Danganronpa Blue. 🌱

(I am not immune to drawing fanart of a lil' green guy!) 🎨

Fanart of Sou Yaitabashi. He is standing inside a terrarium looking upwards. His white hair is adorned with a flower crown, and he is wearing a layered green and white dress.

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Punto @punto.bsky.social · Aug 21

Sneak peak of the illustration I did for the Original Classics zine run by @losthavenguild.bsky.social! Featuring my beloved boys Lucien and Etienne. I am not immune to some good old tragic yaoi.

Project is currently live on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/inf...

#oc #ocsky #dnd

Crop of a digital illustration showing two men - a half-elven dhampir man with pale skin and dark hair, and a tiefling man with blue skin, grey horns and dark dreadlocs. The dhampir has blood on his mouth and a tearful, pained expression, the tiefling has blood pouring from a wound on his neck.

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Adurna ✨Comms open✨ @alchemistssketches.bsky.social · Aug 26

A little preview of my piece for @losthavenguild.bsky.social’s Original Classics Zine, based on Reubens’ St Sebastian!

Full piece and merch available on Kickstarter:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/inf...

Crop of a painting depicting a man tied to a tree, riddled with arrows.

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Geo 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧ C0mmissi0ns Open @georginoschka.bsky.social · Sep 10

Sneak peak of my Fido piece for the Original Classics - an OC Zine organized by @losthavenguild.bsky.social zine !👀
Can you guess which classical piece I chose to redraw?😄

We are sooo soooo close to the goal with 4 more days to go👀🙌

www.kickstarter.com/projects/inf...

close crop of an art piece
pink haired person lying in red liquid , almost submerged but the head and parts of upper body are afloat, the eyes are open with tears in them, four fingers of right hand are looking out of the liquid, the hair is floating under the liquid around them

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Strixling @strixling.bsky.social · Sep 10

My beloved blorbo of all time! 🫶 Joe is very polite because Yuyuka dotes on him so.

Strixling @strixling.bsky.social · Sep 10

Thank you! 🥰

Strixling @strixling.bsky.social · Sep 10

And of course, if you're interested in glimpsing some of the hard work that went into the zine it's always worth checking out @losthavenguild.bsky.social. Here be previews and even a few finalised(!!!) pieces for your viewing pleasure. 👀

Strixling @strixling.bsky.social · Sep 10

We're in the last four days of the Original Classics kickstarter!

I thought it'd be fun to show one of my unused concepts. "Lady with an Ermine" by Leonardo da Vinci re-imagined with my oc Yuyuka (ft. Joe the Hedgehog)

Only £98 away from a fully funded zine ✨ www.kickstarter.com/projects/inf...

A black and white concept sketch of a young woman with horns holding a hedgehog. The artwork is inspired by "Lady with an Ermine" by Leonardo da Vinci.

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Bex | Working on comms! ✏️ @rb-illustration.co.uk · Sep 8

Quil as the Fallen Angel by Alexandre Cabanel, created for the Original Classics project. I'm overjoyed to have been able to reimagine this painting with my spite-fuelled aasimar and so happy with how it turned out 😇

Support the KS here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/inf...

🎨 #bexarttag #OCsky #D&D

My original character Quil drawn in a recreation of the painting The Fallen Angel by Alexandre Cabanel. Quil is a non-binary character with pale skin, shoulder-length red hair, horns and freckles. They are sitting naked on a snow-covered mountain, with large white wings curled around them. In their hands is a blue-and-gold staff capped with a crystal. The lower half of their face is hidden behind their arm, and their eyes are red with tears.

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Elwyn Rain @ewylana.bsky.social · Sep 3

My contribution to original classics zine hosted by @losthavenguild.bsky.social ! I chosed to study Henry Fuseli 'Armor and Psyche' and to include in it one of my dnd oc, Sylvio, a tourmented war veteran

#art #ttrpg #dnd #fantasyart

An illustration showing a draw crying over the dead body of his husband, all in purple and red shades

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Strixling @strixling.bsky.social · Sep 3

There’s only one thing worse than being a rat in a cage, and that thing is being a mouse in a book I’m co-writing. 😈

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Strixling @strixling.bsky.social · Sep 2

The grace of this piece is unparalleled
, I would sleep peacefully in a town blessed by a moonlight visit from this fairy 🦋

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Bex | Working on comms! ✏️ @rb-illustration.co.uk · Sep 2

There are 12 days left on the Original Classics KS with £333 left to go! If an artbook full of classical paintings redrawn as OCs sounds like your jam, please go check it out!

You can get this piece as a print by pledging to the merch tier ✨

www.kickstarter.com/projects/inf...

A redraw of the painting Spirit of the Night by John Atkinson Grimshaw, with my original character Sydni, a femme blue fairy with blue morpho wings. They're wrapped in a gossamer fabric patterned with stars, and reaching out as if to touch a seaside village below with a tender expression on their face.

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Bex | Working on comms! ✏️ @rb-illustration.co.uk · Sep 1

Waiter, waiter! There's a fairy in my drink! 🥂

I finished the first illustration for my OC pinup zine, featuring Sydni enjoying a party ✨ This will be a long-term project I'll be working on in between other things, so please stay tuned for updates later on!

🎨 #bexarttag #OCsky #D&D

A femme blue fairy character sits in a glass of champagne, smiling. She has fluffy blue hair styled in a long mullet, moth antennae, wings like a blue morpho, and a small glowing unicorn horn. They're wearing a black tailcoat with dark glittery tights, and are balancing a top hat on one foot with a smile. Streamers and confetti fall down around them.

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Strixling @strixling.bsky.social · Aug 15

Gently /hands/ you sneak peek of my piece for
@losthavenguild.bsky.social's Original Classics zine which is now LIVE on Kickstarter - please consider checking it out using the link below! 👀

🌟 www.kickstarter.com/projects/inf... ☀️

Cropped image of two robe wearing individuals. Although most details are obscured you can see a large set of constellation-covered hands holding a smaller person who is wearing orange.

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Lost Haven 🌟 @losthavenguild.bsky.social · Aug 20

We're past the halfway mark!

Lost Haven 🌟 @losthavenguild.bsky.social · Aug 15

Original Classics is now live on Kickstarter!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/inf...

A crop of a piece referencing a Leyendecker piece. The piece features a couple riding a horse, text across the middle of the image reads "Original Classics"

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Strixling @strixling.bsky.social · Aug 21

SILKSONG SOON?? 🎉🎊

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Bex | Working on comms! ✏️ @rb-illustration.co.uk · Aug 21

Project announcement! ✨

I'm currently working on the first draft of my illustrated fantasy novel, under the working title Sunder the Sky! There's still a LOT to do, but while I work on it, art and snippets will be posted under the tag #SunderTheSky. Please stay tuned! 💜👀

🎨 #bexarttag

Semi-abstract illustration of a dark castle with tall spires floating in a darkened sky with clouds lit by the sunset below. A crescent moon hangs partially shattered into pieces above the castle, with stars visible in the crescent, indicating that this is not an ordinary moon. Roiling clouds below give way for a glowing winged figure plunging out of the sky. The title text reads 'Sunder the Sky' with my name, Bex Read, underneath.

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lance savukoski ✧ @quintelance.bsky.social · Aug 19

A little preview of the John Bauer-inspired piece I made for the @losthavenguild.bsky.social Original Classics zine. 💫

It'd be really cool to see the project printed as physical zine, go support the Kickstarter if you can! www.kickstarter.com/projects/inf...

#oc #fantasyart #ocsky #illustration

A cropped preview of the art I made for the Original Classics zine, featuring my oc Koru from Per Aspera, in a piece inspired by John Bauer.

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Strixling @strixling.bsky.social · Aug 20

The way that our younger selves assumed that everyone was actively “choosing” a guy to like and that was definitely the way attraction works still creases me. What do you MEAN there’s supposed to be a real FEELING there??