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Valentina Filić 🧿

@valentinafilic.bsky.social

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🌙 Self-taught Landscape/Environment/Background Illustrator 🧿 👾 Twitch Affiliate! ☕ Loves tea and chocolate. 🌐 Visit my links: https://www.valentinafilic.com/links.html

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Valentina Filić 🧿 @valentinafilic.bsky.social · Jan 12

Ooo, I didn't realise #PortfolioDay was here as well! (please pardon my lateness)
Hi! I'm Valentina, I'm a self-taught landscape/environment illustrator and mood artist. I'm always eager to learn more, to collaborate more with fellow artists, and I'm also currently open for job opportunities. 🌱

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Valentina Filić 🧿 @valentinafilic.bsky.social · 28d

Every RPG game ever that's existed for decades looking at this like:

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Gabriel Gomez @ggomez-art.bsky.social · Sep 6

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Valentina Filić 🧿 @valentinafilic.bsky.social · Sep 8

Have you checked Jet Pens? They stock hobonichi, as far as I remember. I don't know the current prices on there, but worth a check?

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Valentina Filić 🧿 @valentinafilic.bsky.social · Aug 30

I've been seeing this color wheel art share on my feed recently... so I wanted to share this collage of all 31 days of my May-Sketch-A-Day speedpaintings from 2022 #art

(I definitely need to get back into creating more of these; but life's been rough in the last few years...)

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Valentina Filić 🧿 @valentinafilic.bsky.social · Aug 28

I've also written up a small behind-the-scenes blog post detailing my journey! I will probably be adding more to this post in the coming weeks, but for the time being, you can read it all here:

www.valentinafilic.com/vantage.html

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Valentina Filić 🧿 @valentinafilic.bsky.social · Aug 28

Looks like I haven't shared this here, but a tabletop/board game that I worked on for over 7 years has finally been released!
I'm so excited to share this news with you (and some of the art that I've created too!)

Check out VANTAGE, from Stonemaier Games
stonemaiergames.com/games/vantage/

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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social · Aug 27

Rivendell - watercolour and acryla gouache on paper

My vision of the city of Rivendell, complete with a tiny fellowship crossing the bridge as they embark upon their journey.

✨ Prints avaiIable ✨

A painting of the Elven city of Rivendell, built on a waterwall. A tiny fellowship crosses the waterfall on a great arched bridge.

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Gracu ✨🌈 @prismagic.bsky.social · Jul 30

Bluesky doesn't penalize you for using links, tags, using key words like Patreon or commissions, and doesn't have a central algorithm on your following feed, which means all the power rests on you to help your favourite creators be seen!

Utopia meme with text saying "Bluesky is people used the repost button more frequently."

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Littleevil0ne *COMMS OPEN* @littleevil0ne.bsky.social · Aug 1

"I can't brainstorm without ai" "I can't draw without ai" "I can't write without ai" "Ai summarized it for me cause it's too hard of a read"
So what exactly /can/ you do? Because you sound fucking useless to me

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · Sep 17

burned out.

illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a kitchen scene with a woman in a chair slumped over a table in exhaustion. Two small goblins approach her curiously.

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Valentina Filić 🧿 @valentinafilic.bsky.social · May 28

One day I will live in my own place, away from toxic family members and their narcissistic/gaslighting behavior, surrounded by good books and art and music, and finally at peace to be my authentic self.

Life has been rough as of late, so I'm just putting this out there into the Universe. 🙏🌙

Valentina Filić 🧿 @valentinafilic.bsky.social · May 28

That's such awful news, so sorry to hear it 🥀

Valentina Filić 🧿 @valentinafilic.bsky.social · May 21

I see so many new followers here! Hello and welcome ♥ Thank you for being here, your support means the world to me!

I apologise for the lack of art, and for all the radio-silence on my end; burnout hit me extremely hard lately, on top of some health issues I'm currently overcoming.

Valentina Filić 🧿 @valentinafilic.bsky.social · May 15

Just finished my first-ever playthrough of Journey (the game).
I'm just gonna go and cry myself to sleep now.

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DukeCarge @ clairobscurpt2 @dukecarge.bsky.social · May 11

Saw this and thought my oomfs' feeds could use this

Tumblr post that reads: kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

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van cartier @christopherxci.blacksky.app · Apr 3

ChatGPT consumes so much water and energy each week that it could power entire countries for YEARS and folk act like you told them to kill their selves cause you want them to write their own emails and not to steal art. 😂

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Valentina Filić 🧿 @valentinafilic.bsky.social · Mar 28

Get well soon! ♥

Valentina Filić 🧿 @valentinafilic.bsky.social · Mar 20

October 2024 • Day 29. Navigator
…navigating the old Elven sail ship towards the Gray Havens.

#art #ink #lotr

Pen and ink drawing on toned-tan paper of an Elven sail ship that is slowly drifting towards the glowing sunset of the Gray Havens.

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Valentina Filić 🧿 @valentinafilic.bsky.social · Mar 16

October 2024 • Day 23. Rust
...and bone lie forgotten deep within the Dead Marshes.

#art #lotr #elf

Pen and ink drawing on toned-tan paper of a decaying, sinewy hand that is barely holding an ornate handle of an elven sword

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Valentina Filić 🧿 @valentinafilic.bsky.social · Jan 29

October 2024 • Day 20. Uncharted
...lands to the East.

#art #ink #lotr #map

Pen and ink drawing on toned-tan paper of an old and tattered map. The map depicts the Middle Earth lands to the far East, the uncharted territory beyond Rhun and Mordor.

Valentina Filić 🧿 @valentinafilic.bsky.social · Jan 24

October 2024 • Day 19. Ridge
...overlooking the fortress at Helm's Deep.
#art #ink #lotr #lordoftherings #helmsdeep

(oops, need to catch up posting the rest of these!)

Pen and ink drawing on toned-tan paper of the fortress at Helm's Deep. Standing atop a cliff before it is a man on horseback, looking down at the fortress.

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Valentina Filić 🧿 @valentinafilic.bsky.social · Jan 13

Finally got around to start watching Wednesday on Netflix... Not even two minutes in on the first episode, and I'm already sobbing.

Why did nobody say anything about Edith Piaf's "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" playing at the start?
I was not prepared for this 😭😭😭

Valentina Filić 🧿 @valentinafilic.bsky.social · Dec 31

October 2024 • Day 18. Drive
...slowly along the twisting road towards the Shire.

#art #ink #lotr #lordoftherings #thehobbit #theshire #gandalf

Pen and ink drawing on toned-tan paper of the rolling hills of the Shire. At the forefront, a silhouette of Gandalf's wagon, Gandalf's pointy wizard's hat, with Frodo sitting next to him. In the far distance, large storm clouds cover the skies, while birds flutter about.

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Valentina Filić 🧿 @valentinafilic.bsky.social · Dec 30

October 2024 • Day 17. Journal
...to record and remember the best memories.

Pen and ink drawing on toned-tan paper of an old and battered fantasy journal, detailing one's travels through Middle Earth. The spread features doodles, photos, and hand-written notes of various places such as The Shire, Barad-Dur, and The Lonely Mountain.

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Valentina Filić 🧿 @valentinafilic.bsky.social · Dec 21

Thank you so much, that's very kind of you! ♥