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Basil
@basiled.bsky.social
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➣ They/Them • 30s • Comics, Characters, Chickenscratch • Developing TTRPG Pica • FNV/Scifi/some fantasy I GUESS
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My #artsummary2025! I'm keen to keep taking commissions and get some more comics under my belt!
Basil's 2025 Art Summary. January, February, April, May, and August show sketchy art. March, September, October, November, and December show commissions. June and July show comics.
December 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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#commission of Elsir for @annunakitty.bsky.social
A purple skinned Drow Elf with long straight pink hair and large round spectacles. Her warlock magic pulls out of the pages of a book she's clutching nervously.
December 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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#commission of Aditya/Esme for Hack
Aditya is a mixed brown lady with an eyepatch and a captain's jacket in breeches. Her staff has an oversized gill hook. Esme is the same woman but without an eyepatch wearing a qipao styled dress with very high leg slits and feathered epaulets and an inkstone-like staff.
December 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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A #commission for Twig of Johnny her doggie
A small black chihuahua wearing a jacket and a skydiving backpack looks up at the viewer from the floor of a helicopter, door open to puffy clouds and a city near a forest from high above.
December 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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#Commission for Lurker of a Centaur Commander ( #pf2e ) named Lorelai Cratermarch
A lady centaur with blond hair wearing plate armor and blue accessories holds a khopesh and an armful of scrolls.
November 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Made this for an NPC in my dear friend Claude's game.
A meme drawn over- Snapchat text saying "Fuck this stupid quest man / That thing's huge" over a selfie angle- an amaua with curly brown hair grimacing as a six legged housecat leaps overhead.
November 18, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Commission for Holk! Un-AI-ifying funny cat images on the internet. Neat trivia fact: that screenshot was painted on one layer.
An illustration of a cat wearing a balaclava and a headset with microphone playing counterstrike.
October 19, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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I like seeing how my characters end games compared to where they started. It's neat and fun. They did mitosis to my girl
Two sketched busts of a young girl and his 'brother'- with mirrored heterochromia and cowlicks on their foreheads. The left one has longer, shaggier hair while the one on the right has a slightly trimmed cut in comparison.
September 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Commission complete! An Arabian swashbuckler for Zel
A man posing with shamshir in hand, ready to 'dance.' He wears traditional Arabian garb in shades of mint green, rich jeweled green, and lavender. He wears a pirate's tricorn and accessories on the belt.
September 19, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Fox runs away from Bear, who's tripping over his feet and webs wrapped around his ankles. When he lands on the ground, Fox turns her head to see a woman and a spider peeking their heads out from around the corner. She calls out "Coyote! Anansi!" to her fellow tricksters. Coyote replies, "Well, Fox? Are you coming or not?"
August 3, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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The guard says "Yeah I know who you are, Trickster Spirit. It's my turn to ask-" before he transforms into Bear, snarling. "How the hell did you forget me, huh?" He then grabs Fox under one arm.
August 3, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Panel One: Narration: "In Europe I took the name Reynard." The fox pulls the hood down over his head, and looks offscreen saying, "Ah, Bear! A subpoena? Of course of course, but first, are you hungry?" Panel Two: Narration: "I lived humbly and unassumin'." Fox hides behind the fence as Bear is trapped in a tree, being pelted and attacked by humans calling out "KILL HIM" "He's after our honey!" and "A BEAR." Panel Three: Narration: "Stayed out of trouble," as Fox chats up a pair of hens. Panel Four: Narration: "Met my brothers with love." as Fox swipes a plate with a sausage from Dog.
August 3, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Narration: "Across the sea, emperors got the same vices that kings do." A small fox stands looking toward Mount Fuji from the boat at the trough of the Wave off Kanagawa. "In Japan where they called me Kitsune, I reminded of them of what they really wanted." Tamamo-no-Mae feeds inari to the emperor. "What they clung to power for." A closeup of her, the many layers of her kimonos unfolding. "I saw the warning signs that time- sealed meself away in the Killin' Stone for safety." Tamamo-no-Mae peeks out from a crack in a large stone, flanked by two samurai.
August 3, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Narration: "But y'know, mighta had more ambition than stealin' venison from a pair o' brutes. I learnt somethin' in Yousu." A woman covered in just a cloth examines her hand, three fox tails poking out from behind. "Turns out, kings love to conquer. So I became something worth conquering." An image of Daji, fox spirit, with three curling fox tails over her shoulders. "A dynasty's a heavy thing to put on the head of one concubine, but I do have to ask-" Daji, with none of her jewelry and her hair unstyled, leans forward before a blade. The final panel shows a fox standing on a roof, watching ancient waves flooding the scenery. "Did servin' justice save the kingdom?"
August 3, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Narration: I've been around since the time of Aesop. A fox watches from behind a rock face as a Bear and a Lion fight over a dead fawn. The next panel shows the Bear and Lion scratched and exhausted from giving the fight their all, as Fox approaches. Fox pulls the fawn away from them, as they protest, reaching as they drag themselves across the ground. Narration: Poor things that they were, who'd been exhausting all their strength- -Injurin' themselfs to give a rogue as meself a dinner.
August 3, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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First panel: A thick arm bars the way of a young woman. He asks "Identification?" and the woman retorts. "Well now this is weird, ain't never been carded before. You surely don't recognize me?" Second panel: The arm frames her face, hand on hip as the guard grumbles. "Mmm." Third panel: The young woman holds an arm out, exasperated. "I'll have you know I'm an adult! Grown! Older 'n' you! Older than dirt!" She wears an oversized Letterman and a necklace with a round bead.
August 3, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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FOX TROT - Title Page of my new #comic
Title Page of Fox Trot by Basil Vesca. A fox with black paws and forehead markings reminiscent of a Noh Mask lies languid over a collection of ancient maps.
August 3, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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No cheating ☆ Post your lock screen

Oh Stańczyk, we're really in it now <3
Screenshot of lockscreen- 1862 painting Stańczyk by Jan Matejko, an oil painting of a jester wearing his red suit and sitting isolated and away from a ball, hopeless as his eyes are sunken in shadow.
July 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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For a given definition of woman...
A mean looking blue sphinx catfolk/Tabaxi wizard wearing faded green hood and purple pants. She steeples her fingers while looking off to the side, as if she's planning something. A short haired half-elfish dhampir with a couple nervous sweatdrops but a smile nonetheless. She wears a big jacket with patches and a spiked collar.
July 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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#makeaterriblecomicday2025 I make something short about best made plans and mice and men.
Two paneled comic. Internal narration: Time to make a new guy. Nothin fancy. Recycle some old in for ease. She'll die in a cave soon enough. I am putting an image of a different character into a cauldron, which then explodes. The second panel shows a collage of sketches of a particular character, I look haunted, fingers steepled. Internal dialog: He survived. He wasn't supposed to make FRIENDS.
June 25, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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@sourhexed.bsky.social's Leona <3
A satisfied ratfolk cleric crit a bandit to death while a taller cat girl stares down in shock, covered in the bandit's blood.
June 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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I'm haunted by the league of legends man

Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...
Andy Dufresne from The Shawshank Redemption Violet Baudelaire from A Series of Unfortunate Events Viktor from Arcane Dr Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds
May 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Me and my little oneshot games
A Tumblr ask for Kristina100000 poorly edited to say "How do I GM my table???? I dont know how ill see him that way, I haven't don't it with him before" with the answer "ill do it. since you are so fucking complicated"
May 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Oh Ship I miss you so much. You beautiful bear. My lovely bulldyke.
Wolverine looking wistfully at a picture frame: My robot OC Ship
April 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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OC Playlists are so rewarding but because I'm me they must be perfect and each song must flow perfectly into each other. I am in a hell of my own making but pieces are coming together. *Cups my horrible OC's face in my hands* You horrible mess.
Songs in order: Lucky Dog by DREAMERS, Cat & Mouse by RADKEY, Saint Bernard by Lincoln, and All Dogs Go To Heaven by Ceschi Songs in order: Not Gonna Break Me by Jamie N Commons, Rolling With the Punches by The Blue Stones, and Damaged Goods by Days N Daze
April 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM