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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 3d

Drawing + designing the cover for an imaginary literary thriller (a chance to look pretty, an opportunity to be spooky)

Photo of an imaginary book cover for a novel titled “Big Fig Wasp.” The cover art depicts a "main character,” which is a self-portrait of myself femme presenting, and dolled up with ribbons and jewelry and sitting on an iridescent pedestal while a mysterious, color-chromatic webbed-hole emerges from my torso as my gloved hand pulls it open. A shadow figure wrapped by a glowing dragon-creature is coming into being in an ornate mirror behind me in the top right corner. At the bottom-left foot of the pedestal if a black-panther dressed in an ornamental harness. Flower decorations and ornament patterns accent the bottom and other corners of the cover. The type is painted in iridescent colors and come in and out of focus.

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 3d

Just the cover!

An imaginary book cover for a novel titled “Big Fig Wasp.” The cover art depicts a "main character,” which is a self-portrait of myself femme presenting, and dolled up with ribbons and jewelry and sitting on an iridescent pedestal while a mysterious, color-chromatic webbed-hole emerges from my torso as my gloved hand pulls it open. A shadow figure wrapped by a glowing dragon-creature is coming into being in an ornate mirror behind me in the top right corner. At the bottom-left foot of the pedestal if a black-panther dressed in an ornamental harness. Flower decorations and ornament patterns accent the bottom and other corners of the cover. The type is painted in iridescent colors and come in and out of focus.

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 3d

Drawing + designing the cover for an imaginary literary thriller (a chance to look pretty, an opportunity to be spooky)

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Anya Chalina @anyachalina.bsky.social · 21d

A fun commission for Jerez about an architect building a maze.

a commission piece about an architect building a maze made of buildings and sculptures inspired by different cultures. The artwork is vertical but can be viewed from any angle. The character is standing in the archway with a scepter. She has bright red hair and wears a white dress. The arch in the foreground is decorated with patterns and tiles. The maze shows a big range of buildings overlapping with each other and some sculptures. There are spiders made of jewels in the corners of the illustration.

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jade 🫀 comms closed @yellghoul.bsky.social · 4d

god even with my hatching brush this thing is taking a whiiiile

wip drawing of a girl and wolf made of smoke

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 3d

The effect is so stunning!!

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Betsy Bird @fuse8.bsky.social · 5d

Sometimes you need to watch out for the quiet books. They know how to sneak up on you. I review Our Lake by Angie Kang. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/10/03/r...

Review of the Day: Our Lake by Angie Kang

Sometimes you need to watch out for the quiet books. They know how to sneak up on you.

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 11d

Ok but me when I look at the in-progress line art posts you drop!!

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 11d

Trying new Procreate brushes and getting fussy with line art :')

In-progress line art on Procreate. Self portrait of myself femme-presenting dolled up in cute ribbons and jewelry, but with some kind of mysterious webbed-hole emerging from my torso as my gloved hand pulls it open. A shadow figure wrapped by a dragon-creature is coming into being in a mirror behind me.

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 12d

good apple year

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Evangeline “I’m Scared” Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social · 13d

I love doing book covers so so much

BOOK COVER ARTISTS
QRP with your book covers

Cover art for The divine flesh by drew huff

cover art for now, conjurers by freddie kölsch

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 17d

Nonagon infinity opens the door ❤️‍🔥🪄✨

A hyper-colorful, chromatic fantasy scene divided into three panels. The middle panel depicts a group of angelic sorceresses with staff and sword appeasing a large fire goddess in a landscape embedded with swords and crumbling runes with mosaic and pattern decorations while a waterfall in canyon rift cuts through the landscape. A 4th sorceress in the middle activates a runinc-stone structure while a girl in a blazing fireball descends from the sky above. A modernly dressed femme character sits in the foreground sketching in a book. On the flanking side panels are depictions of the Moon and Sun rendered as a transfemme and transmasc human persona respectively. The Moon presides over a sword embedded into the rocky landscape that conjures a pouring out of blood, and the Sun is sipping from an overflowing goblet while at their feet is a decorated ceramic urn-vase emiting a magical glow. Flowing throughout the landscape and connecting the panels is a kind of amorphous dragon creature with sparkles inside its liquid magma body.

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Prema-Ja @premaja-art.bsky.social · 13d

A cover of my new original comic. Plan to release next year. ✨

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 16d

Self portrait 🙂‍↕️

Capture of an in-progress illustration on Procreate of an imagined book cover. There is a "main character" on the cover which is myself all dolled up with ribbons and jewelry. A mysterious shadow figure is coming into being in the back, and some kind of fantasy tiger creature is seen at the bottom. The text, partially cropped out, reads "Big Fig Wasp"

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parker parrella @parkparr.bsky.social · 16d

happy autumn equinox!✨

a square painting of a stream in a forest. the scene is painted with blue, orange, red and purples. 3 large stars hang over the scene, reflected in the stream below.

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 17d

Nonagon infinity opens the door ❤️‍🔥🪄✨

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Katherine Lam @katherinelam.bsky.social · 18d

when bodies are treated as objects they are acceptable, however once the bodies have autonomy and find ways to express their own pleasure for themselves, it becomes unacceptable. the legality of sexuality in this country is dictated by who gets to enjoy it

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 19d

(cont.) in order to touch heaven, you have to reach out first. What I'm trying to string together is- I just love art that lovingly, and thoughtfully, contemplates just how hard it is to live with yourself, and what that means for finding way to live with, to love, to do justice by other people.

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 19d

(cont.) (to be a god/to become God), but like so much great art, they twist back down the recursive path to what it really feels like to be in- to rail against- to desire more for- your body. To me, techno-fascism inherently sees the body as something to be overcome, to be shed, but

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 19d

Just finished the amazing scifi show Pantheon and really thinking about how these works (and there are more!) reflect each other in such a lovely way. I think it's how they invite you to a vantage point that seems so vast and beyond any realm of possible embodied experience

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · Sep 9

Penguin UK is publishing this exquisite series of four horror novel reprints, and an anthology (not pictured here), with some absolutely incredible covers. Not listed for sale in the US, sadly, much like their incredible set of "Penguin Weird Fiction" reprints from last year. These are to die for.

Cover of The Witch and the Priest by Hilda Lewis

Cover of Pomegranate Seed and Other Ghostly Tales by Edith Wharton

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 27d

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 29d

Thank you! :') I work on Procreate and don't modify settings really- these brushes Im using are the "Sajan Draw" set by @planetsmudge.bsky.social and the rest is just my own hand and learning by looking at other artists

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 29d

Thank you!!

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jade 🫀 comms closed @yellghoul.bsky.social · Aug 27

u got any games on your phone

an illustration of a young woman sits crouched behind a link wire fence with a dead body, and several cats. she wipes blood from her chin. the illustration is blue/green and yellow toned

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