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Heya, I’m _toffat! I study physics in college, but art helps take my mind off the stress :) Critique welcome <3

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_toffat @toffat.bsky.social · Apr 27

“Portrait of a Doll” by _toffat

Pen and ink stippling

Thank you for waiting :)
Reposts are greatly appreciated <3

#art #traditionalart #stippling #pointillism #penandink #portraitart

A pen and ink stippling drawing done in 0.25mm micron fine liner pen. A woman with an emotionless, blank expression stars off to the side while holding a camera. She is surrounded by white lilies.

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Blue Owl Song @blueowlsong.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you for the art share, and thank you @emberssbm.bsky.social for the tag!

I'm grateful for my friends and wife, who are there for me and encourage me to do the things I enjoy, all the artists who make beautiful art including the pieces on my walls, my job and home, and people who care.

Hanging Out, Aug 2025

Pen sketch of a small dragon hanging over the circular opening of a round terrarium with a few plants inside, including a small, bare tree in the center with branches reaching out of the top of the terrarium, and leafy plants behind the dragon on either end. The dragon has textured scales, some of which are feather-like, curling tall horns like on antelope, and a brush-like tail. The parts behind the glass are slightly out of focus and blurred.

Nebula- Starling Magic

The second entry in my series based on my magic Birds in the world building for my fantasy setting. Starlings combine the balancing magic of Celestial magic with Sky and Illusion magic. Nebula magic is the magic of the freedom of uncertainty, of the true obscuration of the future despite people's deep desire to know it thoroughly, and the joy of mimicry. While many Birds with Celestial magic predict the future with a degree of accuracy, if not precision, Starlings offer visions that may not be true. Sky magic is blue, Illusion magic is turquoise, and Celestial magic is purple. Green is used to indicate the fey nature of this Bird, since Illusion magic is one that belongs to get beings.

Description:

Colored gel pen illustration of a stylized starling facing left against a dark and saturated background of black, purple, pink, green, and teal in a vague nebula. The bird is mostly shaded in dark purple, blue, turquoise, and light green.

Bisexual Ground Beetle, Apr 2022

A digital piece of a color altered photorealistic ground beetle in the bisexual flag colors against a blurred mottled background of the bisexual colors. The head, thorax, and visible part of the abdomen are pink with color lightening applied to give the bug its shiny appearance. The eyes, antennae, and legs are purple and darker and richer than the purple of the bisexual flag. The wing casing is blue and deepened in tone on the outer edges and lighter in the center, with extra light bits for the shiny appearance. The bug is facing up to the right.

Ripples- Duck Magic

The first entry in my series based on my magic Birds in the world building for my fantasy setting. Ducks combine the magic of Water, Flowers, and the Wild Hunt of the fey into Ripple magic, a magic of abundance, of the gradual effects of actions taken by oneself or by others, and of the power to be found in embracing change instead of fighting it. Water magic is teal colored, Floral magic is pink, and Hunt magic is green.

Description:

Colored gel pen illustration of a duck with dark teal green feathers that are mottled with light and dark green on the head, light green and blue with dark green on the neck and bottom of the body under the wings, which are in shades of pink and a few spots of yellow. The top of the body has pink and yellow among the other colors, and the breast has pink, blue, and dark green. The beak is orange/pink. The duck sits on a pond with pink, blue, teal, and green ripples radiating out from it.

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_toffat @toffat.bsky.social · 17h

<3 I’m grateful for you too!!

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ShiftyPumpkin @shiftypumpkin.com · 1d

Thanks for sharing! I make oil paintings of natural & fantasy landscapes #art #tradart #oilpainting

perceptivepumpkin.com/gallery/
shiftypumpkin.etsy.com
ko-fi.com/shiftypumpkin

“Haunted Swamp”, an 18”x24” oil painting of a swamp in several colors of green, grey, black, blue and purple. Glowing mushrooms and hanging moss dot the landscape.

18”x24” oil painting of a graveyard in autumn among a hilly landscape. The sky has yellows, reds, oranges and purples of sunset. A pumpkin sits against a large, bare tree, with gravestones dotting the landscape and into the distance. Grey fog creeps along parts of the ground.

Oil painting of old graveyard at sunset in autumn, on 18-inch by 24-inch canvas. Orange and red sky, with bare trees, green grass, headstones, and some spooky elements in blue and green.

“Obsidian Peaks”, an 18”x24” oil painting showing a dark foreboding sky and black-blue mountains. A brief opening in the clouds shows the blue sky above, shining down on a valley teeming with forests.

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_toffat @toffat.bsky.social · 1d

The way you’ve given the clouds/fog depth looks a little like paper tile in a way! It really feels like there’s multiple real layers!

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Eki To Jupiter @ekitojupiter.bsky.social · 2d

Un. Deux. Trois, 踊ろう

#traditionalart #manga #ink #oc

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Wasobs @wasobs.bsky.social · 1d

Fool of the Root

#OCtober #FragileMemory #OCs #OCsky

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Blue Owl Song @blueowlsong.bsky.social · 1d

Another shout out to my followers! Your support really means a lot to me, even though I've been a lot less active lately due to a lot of stress irl. Feel free to check out my portfolio on Cara or my Redbubble shop, which has these & more works available as prints.

www.redbubble.com/people/BlueO...

Flowering from my Mind, Jun 2025

Abstract pen and ink drawing with looping lines filled in with different shapes, lines, and detailing. Left sections include white stars, flowers, and vines against black fields, a diamond pattern, triangles with parallel lines, a set of constellations set in a shape that is like a bean, a rose surrounded by black thorny stems, an ornate clock set to 10:07, clouds, a loosely drawn vulture head, a ram skull, and a spiraling shape like a snail shell. Below and to the right of the shell, a flower with lines progressing from each petal and shape into a pattern like tangled yarn. A section reminiscent of the ocean is above that with a cutout like an octopus or a gaping maw of a fish. Swirling patterns, sets of parallel lines, keyboard patterns, and black and white circles are throughout. Some patterns to the right are animalistic, with shapes like animal skulls, a cluster of overlapping fish, a shark-like creature, a spider, several bird heads, a phoenix, a croc or mosasaur with open jaws, and a diamond shaped snake head. To the top right is a section like a finger print with sections around it having lunar, solar, and eye patterns, beside which is a mostly white area with black detailing reminiscent of an axolotl. In the center top is something like a black hourglass with white beads, below which is a beach scene, bold black and white patterns, and a white section broken into trapezoids with dots like rivets.

Fortune Reader, Full Color, Sept 2025

Based on the Smaugust prompt, Oracle, is a lightly colored black and white drawing, with some areas shaded lightly to heavily in colored pens, of a mostly serpentine dragon coiled slightly on itself and facing right. It has a long head with a black rectangular eye framed by a dramatic eyebrow, and it has two forelimbs with three clawed fingers each, the left holding open a book in front of it, scrawled in illegibly to the audience, while its right is bent closer and holding a card face up with two crescent moons back to back. Its head is topped by sinuous horns that curl back and straight up and are adorned in jewelry and henna-like tattoos. The body and horns have light brown shading in a few places, the left forelimb blending in with the sandy yellow/brown loosely shaded ground.

A pair of lightly red shaded bat wings sprout from the shoulders and have rings pierced through them. The dragon is covered in more tattoos, including many eye motifs along the tail and elbows, and a long water dragon amongst a wave on its back, curling in and out of view. That is shaded blue and turquoise while others are black and white. The tail has red-gold jewelry pieces, including bangles on the end, and a fabric-looking purple piece.

Koi, Sept 2025

Colored pen illustration of several koi fish of various sizes overlapping each other as they swim under lilypads and the loose leaves of pond weeds. Four of the fish are very small and brightly colored in shades of blue green or with orange and blue or pink, blue, and purple with black and no white visible. Others are mostly white with black and red to orange or yellow spots. The four biggest fish have the most variation in color and have more shading. The top left large fish is mostly red and white to creamy yellow, with shades of orange and cool dark pink used for contrast, with large defined red spots and facing right while curling in a C. The fish swimming under its head is facing up and deeply saturated with a mostly blue back shaded with purple and green, with black spots outlined in pink down the spine, and the head has warm pink, orange, yellow, and red broken up by black spots and blobby shapes. The large fish on the bottom right is facing left and mostly horizontal with the tail curling up. It is lightly shaded in light blue, pink, and yellow, with a few spots of pink, darker blue, and mixes of these colors. Swimming under the part where the body narrows into the tail is a dark, mostly green tinted less saturated blue koi with red on its back along its tail, and pink/yellow and pink/white large spots on the head.

Red Rocks, Oct 2021

Acrylic painting of the landscape of Red Rock State Park in Arizona. The sky is clear and cloudless, a dark saturated blue at the top fading gradually into lighter shades of blue then almost white which stands out against dark distant blue gray mountains in the back right background. The landscape is a desert scape with rocky outcroppings and canyon faces, dotted with occasional pines and scrub brush. Prominent in the top left corner is a rock formation that is cube like and balancing on smaller, more rounded rocks. Shelf formations are rendered in oranges and browns for shadow and the foreground is sandy and bright with more yellow tinged oranges.

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𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔡𝔞𝔯𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔤🌙 @thedarling.bsky.social · 1d

👋 Hiii, nice to meet you! I'm Eve and I like drawing fantastic creatures 😄

Koinobori Dragon Art Illustration
#dragon #dragonart

League of Legends Kindred Variant Video Game Fanart Illustration
#leagueoflegends #kindred

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_toffat @toffat.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, it’s a new WIP! I’m still trying to figure out what I want it to be, but I’m liking the composition so far!

I tend to unconsciously gravitate towards drawing people with similar features to mine, I think

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🟣 Anka Kokos 🟣 @ankakokos.bsky.social · 7d

Day 3: crown
#art #inktober2025 #inktober #crown #inktoberday3 #Inktobercrown #ink #October

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🟣 Anka Kokos 🟣 @ankakokos.bsky.social · 7d

#Inktober # 4 🙂

#art #Inktober2025 #Murky #InktoberDay4 #TraditionalArt #HumanArt #Illustration #ink

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🟣 Anka Kokos 🟣 @ankakokos.bsky.social · 2d

#Inktober # 7 & 8 🙃

#art #Inktober2025 #Starfish #Reckless #InktoberDay7 #InktoberDay8 #TraditionalArt #HumanArt #Illustration #ink #doodle #sketch

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_toffat @toffat.bsky.social · 1d

The grainy texture of the 4th piece really adds to the atmosphere! Watercolor was a perfect medium for that!

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Zoe The Tsitsa @zoethetsitsa.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for hosting and thanks to @toffat.bsky.social for tagging!

I'm Zoe, pen and watercolor artist.

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FonsCordi Art @fonscordi.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for hosting! I'm Grace, a traditional and digital artist (mostly digital atm) and I like to paint horror and fanarts 🦇🎃👻 ✨️

"The old forest god"
"And in the stillness of the woods, the Old Forest God returned to reclaim his dominion..."
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A horror creature is coming out of a bright portal in the middle of the woods, his upper body looks humanoid, his lower body beast like. There's a gape in his belly and a tentacle is coming out of it. His head is crown with antlers and a bright red halo.

"The colours of horror: turquoise"
Turquoise, but not like the calm sea water. Turquoise like the chemically filled pool water, like the artificial light above your head, like the deafening silence of the creature staring at you.
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An emancipated inhuman creature is starting in the middle of a shallow pool, it has tentacles dangling instead of arms, its rib cage 3 times longer than the average human. The face is a black mass with two glowing dots for eyes. A halo of white light crowns its head, while a void with detached eyes opens behind him.

"Cryptid Eldrich horror Batman"
A Batman figure is crouched on top of a crane in the middle of the city at night. His face has no eye just a round mouth full of teeth. Intead of cape he has 6 demon wings.

"Be the Queen the world deserves"
Head of a xenomorph queen on a red background

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Elleylie @elleylie.elderscrolls.social · 2d

Hi! I'm an amateur artist who draws sometimes and tries not to get stuck in an artblock c:

Thank you for the artshare! 💫✨

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_toffat @toffat.bsky.social · 2d

Heya! I’m _toffat and I do pen and ink stuff! Here’s some finished work and a WIP!

Ballpoint pen drawing of a cat hiding under a witch’s hat and on top of a book. The witch hat is inspired by a mix of Byzantine clothing, armor, and Eastern Orthodox Church ornamentation.
She is surrounded by and lays on top of books. Upon one of the books, a dirty reed pen lays on top of a handkerchief. A sticky note on the front book reads “Βασίλειος”, which is the name of the cat.
An almond branch and an acacia branch east on the front book, and to its right is a pocket watch.

Pen and ink stippling drawing of a woman holding a camera. She is surrounded by white lilies.

Pen and ink drawing of a woman with a fish head posing for a fashion magazine

Rough sketch of a woman sitting on a table, fish swimming around her

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Coldrose @coldrose.bsky.social · 2d

I will start Hi I'm Coldrose I like to make pokemon art and other fanart of my favorite hyperfixations

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_toffat @toffat.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for the share! <3 <3

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Coldrose @coldrose.bsky.social · 2d

🎃Art Share!!👻
Let's Spread positivity

-Post your art
-repost other artist's
-optional invite friends
-No AI No Nfts keep it sfw please

I will Repost art throughout the day 🎉

#artshare #artistsupport

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Ember @emberssbm.bsky.social · 2d

Ty for hosting!! Happy Autumn >:D

Hellooo I'm Ember, a digital painter and comic artist who loves making atmospheric pieces with cute little (or sometimes not so little) critters in them 😌 I also do a weekly comic called "I don't mind." every Friday :D