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Flowlithid
@sunaiadarts.bsky.social
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-Sunaiad is pronounced (Sun-nye-add)
-Digital Illustrator | 🇵🇭🇺🇸 | ADHD | Game fanart, OCs, art in various styles -Current focus BG3, The Emperor, Illithids, NPCs
-NO AI/NFT

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Flowlithid @sunaiadarts.bsky.social · Oct 14
Hi #PortfolioDay! Flowlithid here, a digital artist passionate about dramatic scenes, moody narratives & comic art styles; Focus on Illithid/monster-leaning characters & BG3 fanart.

Portfolio: cara.app/sunaiadarts/...

#BG3 #illithid #illithidoc #mindflayer #mindflayeroc #ocsky #D&D #digitalart
Digital comic style drawing of the Emperor from BG3 floating over a cobblestone ledge; portals around him open as versions of him from cyberpunk, steampunk, desert apocalypse and Lovecraftian universes join his side. The sky is overcast in red with the silhouettes of nautiloids in the clouds, and ember sparks float in the air. Digital drawings with 4 mind flayers, one looking futuristic and cybernetic, another in a suit, top hat and brassy mantle. A mechanical intellect devourer flies out with him. Another one looking like someone out of the Mad Max series, and the other in a disheveled suit, a mad, haunted look, a ghostly crest and shadowy hands. Behind him is an ominous city with Lovecraftian motifs. 3 digital drawings: left is a brown-skinned mind flayer in elaborate orange robe and messenger pigeons; middle is a dragonborn ink drawing, right is a pirate tiefling with their illithid form. Image collage of three illustrated scenes. Left is a low angle POV of a towering, fearsome ulitharid in black and purple armor strides towards a barricade, flanked by armored ulitharids. Two are about to cast something, and the bezerker is charging forward. Behind them are silhouettes of countless illithids. They are all getting shot at, but the bullets/blasts have no effect. Behind them, a lightning storm forms an ominous circle in the sky. Middle is two illithids composed like Bouguereau's "Abduction of Psyche." Right is a green skinned mind flayer in an elaborate dress.
sunaiadarts.bsky.social
If you see this, QTP with a character that permanently altered your brain chemistry.

I was creatively deteriorated. I had prepared to quit art & live a very different life. But this guy pulled me into a timeline where I got my creative identity back. I’m astonished at all I’ve achieved since.
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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thisone0verhere.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Let’s all take a moment to be thankful for the things that are truly important in life… mashed potatoes and scalloped potatoes and potatoes au gratin and tater tots and baked potatoes and sweet potatoes and also family or whatever idk
November 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
sunaiadarts.bsky.social
I’m very thankful for:
-All of you for your likes, support, ideas & following throughout this year.
-Everyone who has made art for me in that time.
-The time & space to make all this
-Fulfilling the art goals I declared at the start of the year

Have a wonderful, restful Thanksgiving/holiday all!
Color sketch of a little pink shrimp-eyed baby squdling in a goofy turkey costume.
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
sunaiadarts.bsky.social
If you see this, post an anime that you love.
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 AM
sunaiadarts.bsky.social
Human artist! Quote with your cyberpunk art!
November 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
sunaiadarts.bsky.social
Made a meme thing in between projects, inspired by the post on the left and BlumWitch on Instagram. It's amusing to think of #TheEmperor being openly silly once and awhile 🦑🦑

#bg3emperor #mindflayer #illithid
Image of a Facebook post featuring Gwendolyn Christie and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau from Game of Thrones in a photoshoot, where the latter is on tip toe. Their post (handle Old Valyria) reads: when you're both the same height but she decides to wear heels. On the right is a parody of the post in the form of a drawing featuring the Emperor in full huge regalia on tiptoe next to a pale Selunite mind flayer wearing high heeled boots. The post reads: when you're both the same height but he decides to wear heels.
November 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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lazlowo.bsky.social
Ok but what if he was a professor...

So I gave Iyriad a fancy get up so he can teach teleportation magics at Elturchol Academy!

#illithid #bg3 #dnd #oc #waterdeep #mindflayer
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
sunaiadarts.bsky.social
I originally wanted to do illustration. But I went with graphic design as it was adjacent to art, & a better chance to get a job. I was also told I had no future in illustration. So leaned into design for 20 some years before I got laid off. The art below was the trad ink work I was doing back then.
Highly detailed ink drawing of a dragon and a phoenix resting together.
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
sunaiadarts.bsky.social
#TavQOTD #ocQOTD
What flavor is your OC?

Lugribossk: Matcha berry latte, ice cream or boba tea.
Jossiel: Snow skin mooncake
Drawing of green skinned mind flayer in a yellow crop top with a graphic of oreos and a glass of milk, and the word "Yum" in the oreo font. Beside them is a pink skinned mind flayer with a crop top that reads "I love to make reddit clowns cry." Both are against a hot pink background. Photo of matcha lattes with strawberry icing and sprinkles, and a matcha ice cream cone; all on a pastel pink table cloth with pink flowers. Drawing of a blue grey white mind flayer with gold eyes and gold crackles on their skin, against a nacy blue sky and a moon behind his head that looks like a halo. Photo of a batch of snow skin mooncakes.
November 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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thisone0verhere.bsky.social
My interior design aesthetic is what I call ‘ancient Egyptian burial chamber’ and that’s where the purpose of every single room in my house is to surround me with enough of my favorite things to last me through the afterlife
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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bigmfrat.bsky.social
Beauty: Himself.
Ugly: Everyone else.

His vanity is off the charts
November 23, 2025 at 4:23 AM
sunaiadarts.bsky.social
#TavQOTD #ocQOTD

In tune with aasimar turned cosmic horror, Lug/Joss would work well as a Biblically-accurate angel. When Lug was sent to Toril to aid Qrr’askath (the Netherbrain), his first words to the newborn illithids were "be not afraid." Joss could have a Selunite version of this form too.
November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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moviessilently.bsky.social
“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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bigmfrat.bsky.social
Been wanting to draw him in the wavemother outfit for two years, and this finally made me do it.

#bmfrsfw #tavqotd #illithid #mindflayer #dnd #bg3 #oc #ocsky #dnd #dndoc #furryoc #art #digitalart
November 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
sunaiadarts.bsky.social
#TavQOTD
Joss begrudgingly tagged along with friends (who had dates), wearing a borrowed suit. He was mostly by himself. The prom king Balduran's twin brother was sitting at his table - the quiet math nerd everyone called E.m.p. His date left him. But the kindred nerds clicked & became close friends
A young man in a twill suit with short black hair and gold cracks on his skin shyly rests his head on another young red-haired man with glasses. The former is framed by a lit gothic window with sunrays around them.
November 22, 2025 at 3:27 AM
sunaiadarts.bsky.social
#TavQOTD #ocQOTD

Whether evil or “good,” Lug/Joss still has glimmers of silly moments and funny faces…like this Potoo bird.

No thoughts just vibe. Moon birb.
November 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
sunaiadarts.bsky.social
My phoned in attempt of this #frieren meme - sketched in my style in the wrong angle! This is what I get from drawing this angle from memory as opposed to using a photo reference like I should have.

I’ve no idea who this even is, btw. 🤡
November 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
sunaiadarts.bsky.social
#TavQOTD #ocQOTD
As illithid, Lug/Joss considers it a paradox: a largely conditional, performative mask worn to control & meet unrequited needs, & the locus of connection, harmony & grief. Whether wicked or "good," he expresses it via intense devotion, impassioned reverence and gentle affection.
A green-skinned mind flayer (Lugribossk/Jossiel) points to a map, discussing strategy in a dark war room with other mind flayers while wearing a sling wrap containing three of his squidlings. He gently holds one of them in hand while speaking. Older man (Jossiel in aasimar form) sitting at the floor of a bed, holding his rogue-clothed mind flayer "roommate" (the emperor).
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
sunaiadarts.bsky.social
#TavQOTD #bg3QOTD

Favorites: Emperor, Barcus, Ketheric
Nopes: Mizora, Ansur, Vlakkith

Fun fact: the mashup of those three favorites is my OC Joss' personality. Aylin is a fav too; his persona was originally like hers before ceremorphosis. As Lugribossk, it would be Lucretious in place of Barcus.
Collage of Most and Least Favorite characters from BG3. Top with a "Yay" banner includes portraits of the Emperor, Barcus Wroot and Ketheric Thorm against a plum background. Below with a "Nay" banner is Mizora, Ansur and Vlakkith against a black background.
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM
sunaiadarts.bsky.social
🦑Art vs 🧜‍♀️Artist

Squid art made by a Siren. Shocker.
Combined picture featuring digital art of an illithid dressed as Davy Jones standing at the side of a ship, holding onto a rope while reaching for a naiad illithid during a storm. Right is a photo of the artist underwater as a mermaid.
November 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
sunaiadarts.bsky.social
#TavQOTD

This guy makes the catchiest cursed mashups; this is Lionel Ritchie's "Easy Like Sunday Morning" mashed up with KISS and the Commodores. And tough edgy soft rock somehow works for my OC...like the Emperor dressed as Aeon Flux.

Monster WAP also works too 🤣

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5s3...
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
sunaiadarts.bsky.social
#TavQOTD

I just have one guy: my silverfox fallen aasimar Jossiel (oath of vengeance paladin). His crystalline wings getting that psionic aura from the astral tadpole was a neat surprise.
November 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
sunaiadarts.bsky.social
Brain break with a silly I've been wanting to make for awhile 😅
Kingsley gets to be silly too.
Three-panel comic: first reads "we are a normal party of adventures" Second is a deception check that rolled a 1, critical failure. Third is a panel with three googly eyed mind flayers with the center one having a teardrop over their head.
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
sunaiadarts.bsky.social
"Eye of the Storm"
A PotC-inspired Art trade with @flowersinbloom.bsky.social

#art #procreate #comicart #illithid #illithidoc #illithidart #mindflayer #mindflayeroc #squidmossart #TheEmperor #bg3emperor
Digital painting of an illithid dressed as davy jones from pirates of the Caribbean on the side of a galleon, holding onto a rope while reaching for an illithid made of water, rising from the sea. Around them is a storm, and large waves crash against the boat.
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social
Sir, that camera is way too big for you...

🐙📷lillianclementine (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
A juvenile Ornate Night Octopus (Callistoctopus ornatus) sitting on top of an underwater camera. It is on the top edge, between what I think is the light and the viewfinder. It is is stretching its arms to either side, going along the top edge, with two arms going down, topping a sort of T shape. The tips of of most of its arms are curled. It has a long, thin mantle. It is mostly orange with white spots, especially on its arms. The camera is black. The background is out of focus but contains many green sea plants
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM