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C.D. Illustration
@cd-illustration.bsky.social
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She/her 🖤🐨🤍💜• Illustrator specialized in animals and fantasy creatures• No Ai• Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/cdillustration
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Here's the sketch, I don't always share progress but I really like how it turned out.
A sketch of a women with her back to the viewer looking over her shoulder and delicately holding an ornate revolver. She's wearing high waisted pants, a dress shirt and vest and her hair is pulled over the distant shoulder.
December 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Jess

#illustration #characterart #art
A brunet women in a gray vest and white dress shirt standing with her back to viewer. She deviously looks over her shoulder while delicately lifting an ornate revolver in her hand, her head is framed by a brown gradient bordered with purple moth wings on a tan background. The shading has a violet tint bringing a fantastical, sophisticated tone to the piece accented with rough pencil lines bring texture to the soft shadows on the women.
December 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Changed my profile picture. I hadn't gotten that connected to the one previously but the silly osprey I drew for fun one day has latched itself onto me in way I hadn't expected.

The previous one is pretty but this one IS me
Pen and ink drawing of an osprey staring at the camera with its beak open. Hatching is only applied for patters and wings and it's limited colored with yellow eyes and a swirling blue ribbon trailing a bee in as the background The bust of golden feathered dragon in profile staring blankly. In the background are golden feathers sprawled put like a wing fading into a blue gradient halloing the dragons head.
December 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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#silksong

My favorite part is the lamppost lmao
A bookmark-esqu illustration of Hornet from Silksong standing on a pile of bug shells with her dress billowing and her needle by her side. She is under a singular lampost illuminated coldly by white moths contrasting against the distant orange light from the background of dark towering cave walls. Close up image of Hornet. Close up of the top of the lamp post, highlighting the ornate swirl and the golden filigree.
November 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Comparison. There's about two years between when I finished this illustration and when I finally went back and made it's background better.

Overall I'm so happy with how much the background strengthens this piece and adds to the naturalism that I was going for and cements it as one of my favorites
Similar illustration as the one above but with a slightly different background. The mountains are blocker with strange patterns of dark purple and use the of a mid-tone pink its heavier. The trees are blotchy and overaly sense of depth is weaker. Same illustrations as above. It's blurred background shows the the mountains in a more natural incline and stronger progression into space with the trees in the right corner less shapely and more refined.
November 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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"The Hunt"

Recently went back to this piece and fixed it's background! and I couldn't be happier. I have a comparison below

#art #illustration #fantasy
A Feathered dragon colored like an osprey chasing a red fox in a snowy, pink and purple mountain in scene of a hunt. The illustration utilizes depth of field pulling attention straight to the subjects of the dragon and fox in full focus and the surrounding background of a mountain range and forest heavily blurred.
November 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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If you see this post you're bird art 🐦

#birds #avian
A pen and ink drawing of an osprey staring directly at the very with a blue gradiented ribbon waving behind it.
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Baby's first taste of Ruling the World

#avian #artist #illustrator
A colored pen and ink drawing of lorikeet excitedly holding a piece of broccoli and reaching out with one talon. It's eyes are glimmering and head surrounded by orange and yellow stars as it stands on an unshaded, uncolored jar with blue and yellow wisp coming out.
October 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Birds are one of my favorites animals and I can co very them in a range of styles

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An osprey pen and ink drawing staring straight at the viewer with beak agape. A rainbow lorikeet preening it's back feathers on a branch against a simplistic forested background
September 22, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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New Profile pic, who's dis?

#artist #illustrator
A golden bird dragon in profile framed by a semi-scircle of gold and yellow feathers against a blue background
September 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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What if the curse of Sirenix, threaten to turn the Winx into sirens? And what if they failed?

#winxclub #winx #art #illustration #fanart
A moody illustration of Flora floating amongst kelp as Siren starring into the view with a blank expression. Her Siren design based off her Sirenix, where her blocky rough wings turned in a dorsal fin, top into scales, the wrap turned into layering asymmetrical fins separating her torso from her tail and runs down the tails back, ending with a strip green and pink fin. Flora is framed by a dark rocky overhand and behind her is the rocky ocean floor with a distant kelp forest slowly becoming more blue as it fades to the background. She illuminated by a strong white light from above, silhouetting her head while her right side is rim light in purple from the subtle glow of her back fin.
August 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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See a devil girl, post a devil girl!
An illustration of a devil women deck out in an all shiny red outfit with a sheer black cape sitting on a black throne emerging from the background domineering over a skeleton.
August 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Magpie, one on my favorite birds ever

#art #illustration #avainaugust
Traditional illustration of a Magpie flying.
August 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Skeleton practice
#avainartist
A pen and ink illustration of a parrot skeleton laying on its back with blue and yellow shadows
August 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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reference photo:
I couldn't find the original photographer, so if you know please share.
Photo of an Osprey staring straight into the camera against the blue sky
August 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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No Thoughts Head Empty

#avianaugust
#birds
A pen and ink drawing with limited colors of an osprey staring straight at the camera with it's beak open in a blankness stare. Behind it s a swirl of blue and little bee indicating the lose of the birds thoughts
August 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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The fact it's real makes my so happy
Mega-Dragonite

#pokemon #fanart
Mega Dragonite from Pokemon looking over it's shoulder as it flies through a golden rope gateway to a gentle sky.
July 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Sneak Peak
#winxclub #fanart #wip
Screen shot of Clip Study Paint showcasing a crop view of a redesign of Flora's Sirenix from winx club as a siren who for design is teased by the navigation window in the top right corner of the work space.
July 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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💐 Liliac 💐

#art #illustration #unicorn #fantasy
Circle icon featuring the bust of purple Unicorn with large eyes with a lilac border
July 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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🐢 Turtle reference 🐢

#wingsoffire #dragon #characterdesign #creaturedesign
Reference for Turtle from Wings of Fire, a friendly fat green sea dragon with short horns and snout and long ears. He floating with belly and under wings visable with an unsrure espression. His back, and top of neck and head are an emerald green, with a lighter green underbelly and neck. On his medium green limbs and face his is decorated with pale mint swirl patterns. To the tip left of him is a color pallet including 2 gold colors, a violet and greens rnaging from pale mint to emerald. And the right of his reference is a back view showing off turtle shell patterns on his wings and back a detail of his gold braclet.
July 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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🐢 Turtle 🐢

#wingsoffire #dragon #art
Turtle (a friendly fat green sea dragon with a golden braclet) from Wings of Fire floating with his wings out streatch on a yellow textured graphic.
July 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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QRP with you're header art
A desperate red fox running from a raptor dragon moments before its snatch on a snowy moutain side.
June 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Transforming

#art #illustration #winxclub
Bloom from Winx Club leaning back as her enchantix wings form, her hair flying up around her hair invoking flames. She's framed by a Mucha border circle and corner panels of hearts and blue belles.
May 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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HUMAN artists, use only one peoce to convince people to follow you!

Love birds 🐦🦚 🦜

#artshare
A highly saturated illustration of a Green Naped Lorikeet preening their back feathers on a log in a forest setting.
May 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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A snake showdown? Just the usual when your ex can't stay out of trouble.
A showdown between two women and giant snake in an orange cayon at high noon. The violet rattlesnake is just about to strike a falling women reaching for a revolver moments before it gets struck by a magic bullet shot from marksman in the foreground.
April 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM