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crowcafe.bsky.social
Jo🎨🎃✨
@crowcafe.bsky.social
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Artist! :) • 27 y.o. • no NFTs or AI • big fall and Halloween fan • he/him • 🌈
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*one ADHD diagnosis later* helllooooo. Let's see if medication helps me both make art *and* post it more regularly 🧙🏻‍♂️ oil on 8x8 canvas panel #oilpainting
Oil painting of a colorful crow perched atop a tombstone in a foggy graveyard.
February 3, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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What if a toad had a PHD? (part of a series I'm working on) Oil on 9x12 canvas panel
An oil painting of a toad with a PHD hat and a black robe. Their right hand is on a stack of books, and their left hand is holding a scroll
January 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Octopus oil painting from imagination:) painted with a mix of Cobra, Holbein Duo Aqua and W&N water mixable oils. I was given some beautiful Holbein colors for Christmas, and one of them (the cyan-ish Horizon Blue) inspired me to do this.
An oil painting of an octopus on a primed 12x12 MDF board. it features a vivid cyan gradient illuminating a pinkish octopus, its arms swirled all over the painting.
January 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Old Morrowind painting from a half year or so ago, acrylic on unprimed 9x12 paper 🤭 #acrylicpainting
An acrylic painting study of a Morrowind screenshot of Tarhiel, an elf mage who died after casting a spell to make him jump very high. He is clothed in a blue and gold robe, with a gold fur-rimmed tall hat. Elements of the user interface such as the cross hair, player stats, equipped weapon and spell, and minimal are all painted as well.
December 15, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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Been so bad about posting on here 🫣 I've committed to a return to the basics, and have been practicing portraits in graphite. Will be returning to digital and oil stuff soon! :) #drawing #graphiteart #sketch
A graphite pencil drawing/sketch of Mark Twain, his white shaggy hair and bushy moustache contrasted against a dark background A graphite drawing of Werner Herzog
December 11, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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some old Shrek ballpoint pen sketches :p #penart
A ballpoint pen sketch drawing of Shrek looking angry and haunting.
December 3, 2024 at 4:38 AM
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early WIP of an adventuring party exploring some goblin caves :) trying to get better at doing big scenes and action scenes. I think the main area of potential for me to grow is in big action scenes. Starting off simple with this; hope to do some real huge scale epic stuff in the future! #fantasyart
A work-in-progress digital illustration of a party of adventurers exploring a goblin cave. Two goblins close to the viewer are ready to pounce on the party, which itself is led by an armor-clad warrior with a sword and shield. Behind him is an elderly wizard casting a spell, and behind the two of them is someone with a bow & arrows. They are surrounded by some goblins with jetpacks. In the background is a stolen wizard tower. The whole scene is set in a large underground cave.
November 28, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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gonna be drawing & painting some dragons on Twitch around 6 :) www.twitch.tv/crowcafe_art going to be exploring more with the brush set I used to paint these
A digital painting portrait of my D&D OC, Theodore Wilson. He's a 40-something year old thief disguised as a guard with the city watch's green cloaked uniform. He looks pensive and tired, a cool light in a cold purple-ish scene. A digital sketch study of Gandalf the Grey from The Lord of the Rings. His large grey beard is met with bright light, as the rest of his face is hidden in the warm shadow of his large round, pointed hat.
November 25, 2024 at 10:20 PM
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Ahhh tysm to all my recent followers :") gained like ten today, you're all amazing 💜 anyway a year or so ago I did a digital painting of a stump from MapleStory and I kinda wanna draw more creatures from the game :p any suggestions?
A digital painting of a Stump enemy creature from the MMORPG videogame MapleStory. It's a brown, dried tree stump with roots for legs, and a freaky singular eyeball located in the center of its front side. It stands idly in the desert region of Perion, a hot landscape full of cliffs and plateaus.
November 22, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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your art is amazing ; _ ; found so many artists (new and familiar <3) in this thread which is great! :'') I mostly do fantasy stuff, but I also enjoy random dumb doodles and studies of movies and shows :) I also love oil painting but I'm not comfortable posting much of it (yet)
A digital painting of my D&D Rogue, Theodore Wilson. The painting has an overall soft and borderline abstract look in areas. He's a 40-something year old man with short grey hair parted on his right, with sunken tired eyes and pouty lips. He wears a green hooded cloak of the city guard, a disguise which he recently acquired. The background is a simple cool-colored misty purple and dark neutral blue. Digital paintings of some food! Clockwise from top left: a smiling hamburger with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and onions; a droopy slice of pizza with pepperoni and peppers; a birthday cake milkshake with a cherry, bendy straw, and smiling face on the cup; a small basket of French fries; and finally, a chili cheese hotdog relaxing with its arms behind its head and a very dad-like napping expression on its face A digital sketch/study of Gandalf the Grey from The Lord of the Rings. Warm lights contrast with abstractly painted cool blue and purple shadows. He looks stern, but with a hint of playfulness still existing in his eyes. His large grey eyebrows punctuate an aged face, and long grizzled hair swoops down over the sides of his head. A dark fantasy digital painting featuring an army with their cathedral-like siege engine in the background. They are marching towards the viewer, with their leader clad in dark metal armor and a horned helmet, gesturing his army forward. To his left is a brute of a man with clunky metal armor and a large flat war hammer. To his right is a dark priest with a pointed halo and fingertips together, a look that indicates the high stature. In the background is also a small war beast and a metal bard with a lute that ends in spikes.
November 22, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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Ahhh congrats!! :") and thank you for the opportunity!!
Three Lord of the Rings digital drawings; on the left is Aragorn, with a serious expression standing tiredly yet readily, garbed in his green ranger outfit and green cloak held up by his Elven broach. In the middle is Gimli the dwarf, the warm toned piece giving a fiery energy to his stern expression, made all the more sober by his large axe held in his right hand. On the right is my interpretation of Treebeard, the large tree man. He is deep in a forest of blues and greens, and as he looks whimsically downwards, his large bushy beard pressed against his bark body, light pierces through the tree line, illuminating him from behind. A Halloween poster featuring a pumpkin-headed scarecrow with a crow perched on its shoulder, an angry vampire off to one side, a pack of howling werewolves on the other side, and a floating ghost in front of an old abandoned castle in the back A work-in-progress digital painting of three goblins stealing some treasure and goodies from a rooftop at night, the bright warm glow of the window contrasted with the dark blue moonlit sky. A digital painting of my D&D character, Theo. He's a thief with straight hair that often covers his eyes, very tired and red eyes that convey a sense of many sleeps cut short, and an outfit made up of a dark olive striped cloth tunic, a greyish brown mantle, a sagging belt with a shortsword, and a scrap metal pauldron. Most importantly, he's often seen smoking something.
November 19, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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Did some Lord of the Rings art on stream tonight :) Two studies and an original #lordoftherings #lordoftheringsart #fantasyart
A digital art study of Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings. He looks serious, his green cloak clasped by the Elven pin A digital art study of Gimli from The Lord of the Rings; he wields a large axe and wears a steel helmet that hangs protectively over his large orange beard An original interpretation of Treebeard from The Lord of the Rings, digital painting; he stands wisely in a deep forest, shades of green and blue enveloping him.
November 19, 2024 at 2:45 AM
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Realizing I haven't painted many birds?? Here's a chicken I painted with gouache I guess :'p
A gouache painting of a chicken with a large red comb, orange body feathers, and a beautiful blue tuft of tail feathers
November 18, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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Streamed some Sopranos sketching on Twitch tonight :) #sopranos #sopranosart
A digital sketch of Christopher from the Sopranos; he's a stupid fella but we all love him anyway. He's at a funeral wearing a neck brace with sunglasses and a suit. A digital sketch of Tony Soprano in his robe A digital sketch in a borderline abstract style of Tony Soprano in his robe A very rough digital sketch of Uncle Jun' from The Sopranos with a smirk
November 18, 2024 at 3:15 AM
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Ahhh congrats!! Found your art through this post actually 🥹
A tribute poster to Halloween with a scarecrow, vampire, werewolf and ghost A dark fantasy illustration of some evil knights and warriors in front of their cathedral siege engine A fantasy illustration of a D&D party led by a dragonborn casting Burning Hands, accompanied by a Human Paladin armed with a sword and shield, and a Dwarf Fighter with an axe A fantasy illustration of a green-garbed wizard in a large feathered pointed hat facing off against a charging red dragon in a large fantasy city
November 14, 2024 at 11:37 PM
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Drew these a few months ago :) where are all the Kristen Stewart and Twilight fans
A digital painting of Kristen Stewart; the whole portrait has a very pinkish tone, fitting considering the red eyeshadow she has A digital drawing study of Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen in the Twilight movie
November 12, 2024 at 10:54 PM
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This is probably my best artwork yet :) I love painting fantasy scenes, and lately have been trying to paint more serene and whimsical stuff too!! Most of what I post is digital, but I'm happiest doing traditional mediums (oil, acrylic, graphite, ink, whatever :p as long as it's physical)
Dark knights clad in metal march across a sundered field, their cathedral-like siege engine in the back. Their metal-horn-helmed leader gestures them forward.
November 12, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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I remember drawing this back in '22, being so proud of it, and having comments tell me that it was obviously AI because of..... texture?? Parts that looked wrong?? If you don't like it that's fine!! but don't just say "I dislike it, and I think it's AI because of some stylistic choices" :(((
November 12, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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it's basically a tray with a wet sponge and thin paper that acts as your palette and really extends the drying time on the palette
4. I don't have many traditional ones I'm proud of (still new-ish to it, switched over from digital) but these are my four favs probably
A frog wizard with a blue robe and pointed hat; painted with acrylic on unprimed paper A raccoon child watching TV on Halloween night; a full candy bucket is between their hands, and a Frankenstein's monster's head costume is atop their head. Blue light of the TV illuminates the otherwise dark room. An oil-on-wood-board painting of a goose standing around in a lake while it rains; to protect itself from the weather, it's wearing a cute yellow rain hat A portrait painting of Jack Torrance from The Shining. He is giving the iconic "Kubrick stare". Painted with acrylic on unprimed paper.
November 12, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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Howdy!! I'm Jo; I'm an artist who loves making fantasy illustrations! I'm really into TTRPGs and would love to work on any that I'm able to :) feel free to follow and/or chat!! Thank you :)

Portfolio: jjlart.com
Insta: www.instagram.com/crowcafe_art/
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/crowcafe_art
A Halloween poster featuring a pumpkin-headed scarecrow with a crow perched on its shoulder, an angry vampire off to one side, a pack of howling werewolves on the other side, and a floating ghost in front of an old abandoned castle in the back A dark fantasy illustration featuring an army with a cathedral-like siege engine in the background. They are marking towards the viewer, with their leader clad in dark metal armor and a horned helmet, gesturing his army forward. A D&D party fighting something offscreen; a dragonborn in the front is casting Burning Hands, while the human Paladin and dwarf Fighter in the background are poised, ready to run depending on the spell's success. A wizard adorned in green garb with a dual-pointed staff and a long feathered pointed hat stands readily in the path of a charging red dragon in the middle of a city.
November 12, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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Ahhh yay thanks!! I love doing fantasy illustration, so if anyone enjoys seeing that then uhhh yeah :) also seeing sooo many amazing artists in these comments <333
A Halloween poster featuring a pumpkin-headed scarecrow with a crow perched on its shoulder, with an angry vampire off to one side, a howling werewolf pack on the other side, and a ghost floating in front of an old building in the back. A dark fantasy illustration of evil-looking knights; a Cathedral-like siege engine accompanies them in the background, and they are led by a metal-horned figure clad in sharp, pointed steel armor signaling his army to advance forward. A quick sketch of Gandalf, with a violet color palette used for the cool tones, and a bright warm orange used for the warm tones A fantasy illustration of a D&D part; a Dragonborn casts Burning Hands towards somewhere near the viewer, as a knight-like Paladin and a Dwarf Fighter stand off in the back, apprehensive and ready to spring back.
November 12, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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Is there a #WWDITS fandom on here? :) here's some fan art/sketches from tonight's stream :) #whatwedointheshadows
A digital drawing of Colin Robinson A digital drawing of Nadja from WWDITS, with neon cyan and magenta lighting
November 12, 2024 at 4:53 AM
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Food art drawn on stream :) drawn in #clipstudiopaint
Digital drawings of five foods, all with smiling faces; a hamburger, some pizza with thick slices of pepperoni speckled with red and green peppers, a chili-cheese hotdog, a birthday cake milkshake with whipped cream and rainbow sprinkles and a cherry, and a cute little French fry carton filled with salted fries
November 12, 2024 at 12:11 AM
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Going to do a mini stream at 6 today :) will be drawing some fast food www.twitch.tv/crowcafe_art
A digital painting of a fast food hamburger. The bun has a smiley face, and the burger is topped with cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and onion
November 11, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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Reposting my fav drawing from last night's stream, this time with alt text 👍 appreciate the people bringing awareness to that.
Snoopy Baggins, a young hobbit in the beautiful green landscape of the Shire, holds his walking stick as he readies himself to set out on an adventure. Garbed in a green wool cloak and a red vest, he is comfortable in the moderate climate of this area. His shaggy hair intercepts his playful eyebrows, and his boyishly relaxed smile.
November 11, 2024 at 1:13 PM