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🎃Serana @ Halloween🎃 @autumnmothart.bsky.social · 10h

Feels so good to draw with color again!

[ #art #silksong #rainworld ]

Photo of a sketchbook spread featuring 2 hornet doodles from SilkSong, 2 Rivulets and a random slugcat from RainWorld on the left page. The right page features a large detailed rivulet drawing.

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🎃Serana @ Halloween🎃 @autumnmothart.bsky.social · 10h

Omg Bluesky destroyed this, its so blurry😭

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🎃Serana @ Halloween🎃 @autumnmothart.bsky.social · 10h

I used Prismacolor Premier pencils ^^ the drawing on the right is Prismacolor on top of Ohuhu alchohol markers.

🎃Serana @ Halloween🎃 @autumnmothart.bsky.social · 10h

Feels so good to draw with color again!

[ #art #silksong #rainworld ]

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⚡️Verra@ hiatus⚡️ @drunkendirewolf.bsky.social · 22h

Hey. Breaking my hiatus for a moment. I got into a car accident today. I’m just here to plug my ko-fi bc honestly. I’m not sure how much this is going to be. Physically, other than the chronic pain I already deal with, I’m okay. Mentally is a different story. ko-fi.com/verra

My car, a silver hatchback, with a huge impact on the rear passenger side.

A close up of the damage to my silver hatchback.

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🎃Serana @ Halloween🎃 @autumnmothart.bsky.social · 1d

Oof I repeated myself, you get the idea though :v
I'm ready to go home and sleep in our bed! Gonna try picking up some art supplies and my bugs tonight though 🧡

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🎃Serana @ Halloween🎃 @autumnmothart.bsky.social · 1d

for awhile. Also lugging furniture down then up 3 flights of stairs gonna be tiring and we don't know anyone with a big truck this time😭

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🎃Serana @ Halloween🎃 @autumnmothart.bsky.social · 1d

But it is still top floor and the balcony is uncovered so we should still get a good amount of natural light, and the balcony is uncovered which helps even more. Its also in the back so we have more privacy.
Its only a couple minutes away but its yet another move which I was hoping not to do again

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🎃Serana @ Halloween🎃 @autumnmothart.bsky.social · 1d

I'm pretty sad about it though, we lived there for 2 years and just started getting comfortable enough to decorate and really make the place ours(I have difficulty doing this due to past experiences), and the new unit is north facing so we'll get little to no sunlight :c

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🎃Serana @ Halloween🎃 @autumnmothart.bsky.social · 1d

Well got some good news and bad news about our situation.
Bad news, the building we were living in will be under maintenance for awhile so we won't be able to move back. Good news, they are giving us a similar unit in a different building and we should be able to start moving in this weekend!

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🎃Serana @ Halloween🎃 @autumnmothart.bsky.social · 1d

Also forums were the best way to market your work, the thing modern social media was based on. But now instead of 20 different niche sites with a wide variety of people. Its now funneled into one site, one timeline. Makes it impossible to jump ship at the slightest inconvenience.

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🎃Serana @ Halloween🎃 @autumnmothart.bsky.social · 1d

I think something people forget about the good ol days of gallery sites and why artists could make them work at the time. Before the major socmed sites, places like DeviantArt was thee place to find art. Industry professionals hung out and hired people from there. They just don't do that anymore.

Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 2d

As much as folks might not want to believe it, artists who sell their work cannot survive exclusively on platforms that cater to primarily other artists. The Circulating The Same Five Dollars™️ model can't feed us or pay bills for long. We need places where we can be seen and discovered.

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ori @orisghost.bsky.social · 2d

silksong

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 2d

This right here. I love my art friends and art community, but I'm also trying to run a business as a freelancer/selling products and I need the reach! Every time we scatter to different platforms it's a little harder to exist as a working artist whose primary visibility is only online.

Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 2d

As much as folks might not want to believe it, artists who sell their work cannot survive exclusively on platforms that cater to primarily other artists. The Circulating The Same Five Dollars™️ model can't feed us or pay bills for long. We need places where we can be seen and discovered.

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 2d

As much as folks might not want to believe it, artists who sell their work cannot survive exclusively on platforms that cater to primarily other artists. The Circulating The Same Five Dollars™️ model can't feed us or pay bills for long. We need places where we can be seen and discovered.

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🎃Serana @ Halloween🎃 @autumnmothart.bsky.social · 2d

Really hoping we can go home soon and all my stuff is okay. Could be worse, I can and have been drawing. Just very unfun right now, and mostly to keep my brain occupied :c

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🎃Serana @ Halloween🎃 @autumnmothart.bsky.social · 2d

Slowly going crazy without my art supplies, I don't like the mechanical pencil I was given. I want to use my colored pencils but have no sharpener, markers stuck at home, so I have no way to add color to my sketches right now, and the iPad is so unfun to use, especially when I'm stuck on a couch😭

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🎃Serana @ Halloween🎃 @autumnmothart.bsky.social · 3d

Whats funny is that we went in wanting a different cat, but she was being adopted as we were walking in so decided to look at the black cats they had instead. Weird to think we were so close to adopting a different cat.
I got new toys and treats planned for when we can go back home🧡

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🎃Serana @ Halloween🎃 @autumnmothart.bsky.social · 3d

Is my kitties gotcha day! Can't believe its been a whole year already.
I'm so so glad we decided to adopt her. I didn't originally plan on getting another cat so soon after my heart cats passing but I just couldn't stand the thought of living without a pet much longer.

Photo of my cat curled up sleeping on a couch with a small rubber ducky on her head.

Photo of me petting my cat in her bed. She's making a goofy face with her tongue out slightly.

Photo of my cat "hiding" under a box with an opening in it, flipped upside down.

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🍀 CRITTER 🏝️ @fourleafisland.art · 4d

i finally finished my print of hornet! #silksong
its in my shop now if you'd like to get one!
ko-fi.com/s/5d796905ba

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Kieran (But Spookier) @toadally.bsky.social · 5d

Hey, we all like fireflies, right? Of course we do! So please: LEAVE YOUR LEAVES! Firefly larvae need the protection that fallen leaves provide to complete their life cycle. Even just allowing part of your yard to be covered with leaves can help the arthropods/invertebrates/microfauna living there.

a firefly is glowing brightly in the dark

ALT: a firefly is glowing brightly in the dark

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🎃Serana @ Halloween🎃 @autumnmothart.bsky.social · 5d

Sorry to Procreate lovers but I'm trying so hard and it just feels so bad :c part of it could just be the pencil feeling small and heavy compared to my huion pen. But I can't get anything to look right 😭

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Panda @pandaparfait.bsky.social · 5d

Poking my etsy as I'm not sure when I'll be able to open comms again, & my partner is over a year unemployed now 🥲 I know its rough for everyone right now but if you're wanting a Little Treat, I have some stuff ~

pandaparfaitart.etsy.com

A furry badge of a green alien dog. The text reads "alien furry"

A keychain with a sparklefur and the text "Cringe"

A sticker of a poptart cat with a rainbow trailing behind

4 washi tapes including aliens and rainbow sparklefur animals

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 6d

SHAW!!

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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 6d

A lot of folk are at least tangentially aware that most breeders mixing mutations to create hybrids are misguided at best, and usually fairly unethical, but how many of you were aware about dominant blue eye in cats ALSO being a sign of crossbreeding for looks rather than health?

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