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Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · 12d

I really have to start writing down species again, because I feel really silly when months go by and I can no longer remember it 😭

Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · 12d

Some birds from earlier this year! Done with alcohol markers
#traditionalart #birdart

A small bright red bird with a white face and black beak
Done 23 Feb 2025
- Wryaves art, marker art

A black bird, likely a corvid, done as a warm-up piece (6 min) on 24 Feb 2025
- Wryaves art, marker art

A larger grey bird with a red streak on its cheek, blue crest and tail feathers, iridescent wings, and white speckling. Done as a timed practice piece (25 min) on 24 Feb 2025
I wish I wrote down the species because now I can't remember or find it
- Wryaves art, marker art

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Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · 19d

Here, have some skull sketches I never posted and pretend I didn't disappear off the face of the planet since Sept 4th 😶
#skulls #traditionalart

Crocodile skull sketch using brush pen and micron pens. The shading is done with stippling and hatching
- Wryaves art

Two skull sketches done with brush pen and micron pen. One is a bighorn sheep skull, and I sincerely can't remember what the other is. Maybe racoon?
- Wryaves art

Stylized sketch of a human skull done with brush pen
- Wryaves art

Sketch of a human skull biting a beetle and some flowers. This was done during a still-life art session
- Wryaves sketches

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Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · 28d

So at what point can I start sharing #Silksong art without worrying about spoilers for people 🤔
Based on steam achievements, most people are more sane than me and therefore have not gotten 3 endings + 99% yet 😔

Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · Aug 31

Well, I can officially vouch for the durability of my stickers! This one has lasted 3 full con days + being stuck to 3 different shirts ✨
(4 more days!!!! #silksong)

Cropped picture of me focused on the large sticker on my shirt. The sticker is of a white sign and Hornet wall-clinging to the side of the sign. Written on the sign is "4 days!!! September 4th!"
This is the 3rd shirt and 3rd day I've worn this exact sticker (Matsuricon)
- Wryaves stickers

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Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · Aug 28

Shxbshx thank youuuu <3
I worked really hard on them

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Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · Aug 28

--So I decided to make stickers to bring to Matsuricon 👀✨

I may have made too many 😶
#silksong #matsuricon

Multiple stacks of stickers. One is of Hornet clinging to the side of a blank sign, the other is of a Moss Creep with a little heart
- Wryaves art, stickers

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Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · Aug 28

And last two art fight pieces for this year~

Aurelian for Qsaike and Neomi for Nocturen!
#artfight2025 #artfight #TeamFossils #digitalart

Qsaike's character, Aurelian.
Aurelian is wearing a red shark hoodie with teeth around the hood and doing a 'rawr' pose. There's a polaroid frame around the image, with "Summer 2025" written beneath the picture. In the corners, there's a little red fish, a dark blue fish, and a purple octopus. These three repeat as a pattern in the background as well. Aurelian's little brother, Jingyu took the picture.
- Wryaves art, art fight attack, Team Fossils, digital art

Nocturen's character, Neómi BonLínae
Neómi is a pink tiefling with gold-yellow horns and eyes. She's holding a long silver bow and reaching behind her for an arrow. The background is solid light purple and has 3 dark blue arrows.
- Wryaves art, art fight attack, Team Fossils, digital art

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Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · Aug 18

More art fight!

Tinbles as a revenge for @forestsandtea-art.bsky.social, Canary as an attack/revenge for @kyroki.bsky.social (I was so close to finishing mine first!!), and lil coin dragon as an attack for @spellcaster1298 / wolfy1298~

#artfight2025 #artfight #TeamFossils #traditionalart

Forestsandtea's character, Tinbles
Tinbles are little creatures with dark brown fur and rabbit-like ears. They live in forests and are 3-5" tall.
This one has a tan dress and pink-purple hooded cloak, and is sitting on a rock under a leaf. The leaf is acting as an umbrella and has a water droplet about to fall from it.
- Wryaves art, art fight revenge, Team Fossils, marker art

Kyroki's witchsona, Canary
Canary is a forest witch who has a wooden puppet body and a golden bird cage torso. An actual canary lives in the cage. Canary (witchsona) is reaching out to a bluebird who's come to say hi.
- Wryaves art, art fight revenge, Team Fossils, marker art

Spellcaster1298's character, A Little Guy (coin dragon)
Little guy is a small pink-purple dragon with a long body, multiple sets of wings, and a feathery tail. His wings and tail turn orange-gold at the tips, and he has some orange-gold scales on his back. He also has little golden horns, and really likes coins.
He's wrapped around a pile of gold coins with little hearts and sparkles around his head, and someone in the distance is shouting "HEY! How'd you get in here?!", suggesting he isn't supposed to be there. (Too late, those are his coins now<3)
- Wryaves art, art fight attack, Team Fossils, marker art

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Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · Aug 15

Belatedly sharing my attacks from Art Fight this year!
Here's Nika the Chomper for @slavade.bsky.social and Nyktos for @nuktia.bsky.social

#artfight2025 #artfight #TeamFossils

ColorlessOcean's character, Nika the Chomper
Nika is an African pygmy hedgehog. He's next to a small watermelon, eating a watermelon slice.
- Wryaves art, art fight revenge, Team Fossils

Nuktia's character, Nyktos
Nyktos is a pale blue owl with 6 eyes and a crescent moon halo. There are eye-like patterns on the tips of her feathers. There is a dark blue night sky splash behind her.
- Wryaves art, art fight attack, Team Fossils

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Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · Aug 15

Super looking forward to sharing my piece for this!!

Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · Aug 6

Our next spotlight is for @wryaves.bsky.social! We're happy to have you!

#dredge #dredgefanzine #dredgegame

Contributor spotlight: Wryaves
Role: Artist
Handle for socials: wryaves (bsky)
Pfp: Photo of a whale plush
About: To the one who finds this message -
Keep an eye to both the waves and wind; both hold things that lurk and writhe. Take care not to bite off more than you can chew, lest you discover the teeth in these depths are sharper than your own.
- Wryaves
Sample work (art): Drawing of a fish with an elongated body and brown stripes over a background of seaweed, sunlit water, and a section of a map.

At the bottom, below the spotlight:
Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine

Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · Jul 7

She deserves to be in a parfait, you're so right ✨🍓🐟

Lyssa ✨ ₍ᐢ..ᐢ₎♡ @usamiiimi.bsky.social · Jul 7

Put that girl in a parfait 💚✨🍵

artfight.net/character/23... @wryaves.bsky.social

#artfight #artfight2025 #teamcrystals #otherpeoplesocs #ocsky #taiyaki #mermaid #matchaparfait #digitalart

Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · Jul 7

Thanks for drawing them together!! Korok hang out time <3

Kathryn / forestsandtea @forestsandtea-art.bsky.social · Jul 4

Walking and Camping Korok with my baby @akiisadventures.bsky.social <3 for @wryaves.bsky.social

#artfight2025 #artfight #art

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Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · Jun 24

Shxhshcsh good!! I'm still really proud of how it came out

A̶l̶l̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶h̶o̶u̶r̶s̶ ̶p̶u̶t̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶o̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶p̶a̶i̶d̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶ 😭✨

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Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · Jun 6

Here have some warm up fish sketches
#fish #sketches

A bunch of simple fish sketches done with pen. There's a lot of different species, mostly freshwater.
- Wryaves art, sketches, warm-ups

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Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · May 22

Some more plants + me trying to figure out rocks lol
#art #artstudies

Two trees done in alcohol markers. One is more yellow and warm green, and the other is bush-like and a cooler green. There are marker swatches next to both
- Wryaves art, marker art, tree studies, plant studies

A sketch page filled with rocks of different shapes and sizes. All are done in alcohol markers.
- Wryaves art, marker art, studies

Two plants in rectangular planters. One is pale blue-green and in a pink planter, the other is a slightly warmer brighter green and in a wall-mounted planter. Both done in alcohol markers
- Wryaves art, marker art, plant studies

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Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · May 9

This one never got its own post either, so fixing that!
I combined prompts "Celestial", "Mycena Subcyanocephala", and "Shark" from last year's Funguary and Fishuary. Enjoy my 'biblically accurate' blacktip reef shark~
#art #sharks #original

Top view of a blacktip reef shark with 10 tails fanned around it. It's covered in golden eyes, and has 3 golden intertwined halos in front of it.
There's a white border, and a washed out blue-grey background with glowing specks and a whirl texture applied to it.
#digitalart
- Wryaves art, finished piece

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Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · May 5

More fish sketches I can't find to get better pictures of 😔
I like these ones a lot though, arowana are super cool, I love bony fish
#art #fishart #arowana

A sketch of two arowana curved towards each other.
Done with brush pens in 2024
- Wryaves art

A sketch of an arowana facing to the right. The shading is done with hatching.
Done with brush pens in 2024.
- Wryaves art

A sketch of an arowana facing left. It looks like its judging the viewer. The shading is done with hatching.
Done with brush pens in 2024.
- Wryaves art

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Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · May 5

Some colored fish ✨ A balloon molly and an alligator gar!
...I really did not think through the dimensions of an alligator gar and how the thumbnail would be cropped 😭

#fishart #traditionalart #freshwaterfish

A drawing of a yellow-orange balloon molly done with alcohol markers and brush pen
#markerart
- Wryaves art

A drawing of an alligator gar done with alcohol markers and brush pen. The fish is unfortunately long and not very tall, so the thumbnail shows an awkward midsection of the fish...
#markerart
- Wryaves art

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Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · May 4

This was my piece for the 10th edition of the Swim On charity zine last year, featuring white spotted bamboo sharks 🦈

You can find the full zine over at topazcomics.com/swimon/, shout out to @jpawlik.com for a decade of really cool shark zines & donations to finfree.org
#art #sharks #swimonzine

Digital art piece featuring two white spotted bamboo sharks, a species of reef-dwelling carpet shark. The background has stylized water, along with some seaweed and corals that can be found in their habitat in the Indo-west Pacific.
#fishart
- Wryaves art, finished piece

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Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · May 4

Realized I never gave this its own post, so -- tada!
This was an art fight attack last year on @zrllosyn.bsky.social's oc, Haru!
I had a lot of fun with the skull and glow effect~
#art #digitalart #artfight

Digital art piece. Has a reptilian kaiju skull with sharp teeth and 5 eye sockets. The skull's mouth is open, and Enn's OC, Haru, is standing inside its jaws. The upper half of Haru's body is visible, with his back facing the viewer. He's glancing over his shoulder.
He's wearing the JAKDF uniform (Kaiju No8), and one of his arms is skeletal, sounded in a bubbling red aura. The kaiju the skull belongs to bit off this arm.
- Wryaves art, finished piece

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Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · May 4

Eroded whale sketch!
Inspired by #Dredge, which is a great game with very good fish, you should definitely go play it 🎣

Drawing of a whale that has 5 eyes and is covered in cracks and crevices, suggesting its body is something hard like rock.
Done in brush pen
#fanart #fishart
- Wryaves art

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Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · May 4

I made this one for my friend Bee's birthday back in 2023.
I'm really proud of how the bees and honeycomb came out~
#digitalart #art

A tarot-inspired artwork. There's a large bee in the center with stars beneath it, an hourglass in the top left with bones, wings, and a flower petal on it, and honeycombs with two bees in the top right. In the bottom left there's a sunflower with a small bee on it, and in the right, there's a skull with honey and a bee on top of it, an honey dripping from one of the eyes.
There are stars in the corners of the card, and starburst lines going out from each corner towards the center bee. The stars, lnes, and center bee are symmetrical.
- Wryaves art, finished piece

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Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · May 3

I really need to figure out how to crop / size images nicely for posting on here, huh... 🤔

Wryaves @wryaves.bsky.social · May 3

More sketches, this time ink fish and tree eels (treels)

#art #fishart

A sketch done in pen of a tipped over bottle of ink with ink spilling out, and fish swimming away from the bottle. Ink fish
Done with a brush pen in 2024
- Wryaves art

A sketch of a tree with two holes. The bigger hole has a moray eel poking out, and the smaller has a freshwater eel coming out of it
Done in brush pen in 2024
- Wryaves art

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