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Etlu-Yume
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Etlu-Yume @etlu-yume.bsky.social · Feb 16
Hello! Welcome!

I'm Etlu, an artist and illustrator. My work is largely fantasy inspired, with a focus on developing skills around use of colour and storytelling.

#art #WIP
digital illustration of a variety of fruit and vegetables in a variety of colours, including pineapple, bok choy, rockmellon, raspberries, sweet potato, and grapes. digital illustration of a bronze, winged goddess statue wielding a sword in the middle of a set of stone staircases, with garden beds either side of blooming orange flowers. digital illustration of a golden mermaid with seaweed hair, flanked by moray eels. Text reading "Treasure Hunting" in the bottom right corner. digital illustration of lettering that reads "don't forget the bad memories" engraved on a tombstone, covered in moss and lichen and surrounded by forget-me-nots, with crime scene tape across the front reading "Just put 'em to bed", implying the tombstone (bad memories) are a crime scene for investigation and analysis.
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trungles.com
I appreciate the “x people you follow also follow this account” feature, but I also kinda want a “x people you follow have blocked this account” feature, too, for a more comprehensive vibe check.
December 14, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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timecowboy.bsky.social
The Snake King. This is the last one from this short series, hope you enjoyed xx
A cluster of snakes or a snake with many heads holds an old golden sword with its tail, the text boxes read ‘great, the snake king found a sword’
December 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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doubleproficiency.com
Some of y'all asked if we're including dinosaurs in our upcoming bird book. Well, yesn't.

#ZoologistsPrimer
A detailed watercolor and ink illustration of the cassowary, showing the southern cassowary in a dinosaur-like stride, heads of the other two species, a youngling, and a green egg.
December 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social
Oh, but I love you
I love you
I love you
Illustration of two Tiger Lily flowers intertwining. One being red and the other being pink. A thin blue ribbon wraps itself out the stems of the two flowers.
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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brainbeaststudios.bsky.social
Calling all Aus and Aotearoa TTRPG creatives - wether you're a podcaster, a streamer, writer, game designer, artist or shop owner - join the discord!
discord.gg/rCsZuYh65W
#australia #aotearoa
December 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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arielries.bsky.social
So my first tip for this is just Read a Lot of Comics. have comics in your bookshelf (real or virtual) that you can flip through for inspiration and see how other artists are working and what/how they fit visuals into a panel. I read a lot of manga on my phone, and every time i see a page that--
pearlsplatoon.bsky.social el @pearlsplatoon.bsky.social · 5d
Do you have any general tips on how to improve comic layouts/paneling? I want to start making proper comics but paneling is something I really struggle with (especially when it comes to making sure my sketch compilations fit the panel size while still being effective/showing everything I want)
December 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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cursedkaiser.bsky.social
This is actually what pissed me off the most...

All of sudden they don't nitpick or care about the quality when a human being isn't behind it..

Like decades of these people doing "pixel" f*cking but now everything is "good enough" but if any of this work came from a person it would've been trashed
naniiebim.bsky.social Naniiebim @naniiebim.bsky.social · 5d
I feel the clients now using GenAI to do stuff and going "good enough" when they used to nitpick at every last detail is due to them finding out all those nit picky changes take time and work they cant be bothered to put in.
December 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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dinchenix.bsky.social
The baking season is here and the Quackstube is open once again!🍞🥧🍪

Originally done for Toasty Mart Zine, find the full free Zine here: cmykae.itch.io/toast...
#pixelart #dinchenix #toastymart
December 7, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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ass.golf
hearing about beef in other fields: blorfus said what? wow that's petty and stupid. who cares

hearing about beef in your field: BLORFUS SAID WHAT????? I'm going to maintain a fucking grudge for 20 years
December 7, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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tsuyonpu.bsky.social
Caterpie says hi 🐛🫶
I love bug Pokemon!!
#pokemon
December 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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hillarymonahan.bsky.social
No, I won't fight you.
Or debate you.
I'm not coin operated.
Or a circus monkey.
Entitlement is a boner killer.
December 8, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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deswalsh.bsky.social
Im enjoying the Tetris movie, we need more stories making game dev look far more exciting then iv ever experienced. They get to do things like leave the office and go places! That’s escapism right there.
Tetris — Official Trailer | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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lodrawsfilth.bsky.social
Share your knowledge if/when you can. Teaching other people how to do what you do doesn’t lessen your art - it just means more and better art for everyone.

I appreciate when people are willing to tell me about their brushes, how they study, etc… I want to put that back out into the world.
White text on a blue background, a yellow pencil, and a black blot of spilled ink. The text says “share if you welcome artistic questions”.
December 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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nataliebsketching.bsky.social
Support us dry dry humans
A two-panel comic drawing. The first panel says “why use water-hungry AI…”, accompanied by an abstract drawing of a dark cloud extending fingers into Earth or water. The second panel says “when you can support dehydrated artists?”. The image is of a skull next to a paintbrush and a palette. The skull says “we’re very low impact”.
December 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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cait.bsky.social
you can be the most reasonable, intelligent, measured person on the planet and 3 minutes of a migraine will have you looking longingly at a drill and considering whether trepanning was honestly that bad of an idea
December 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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rougeist.bsky.social
One day I'll finish this Zelda
December 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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cuteosphere.bsky.social
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
etlu-yume.bsky.social
Open CSP to install brushes - get immediately sidetracked by trying to match the colour wheel to the program I'm trying to leave and fall down the rabbit hole of "what the fuck is HSL vs HSV".

It's gonna be one of those days, isn't it?
December 2, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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artofyorugami.bsky.social
Tbh I’ve made it a habit to double check from a more trustworthy website that isn’t just a sponsored ad.
Especially when on a topic I have no previous knowledge of. Where it can be harder to spot the hallucinations.
emilyinkpen.bsky.social Emily Inkpen @emilyinkpen.bsky.social · 18d
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the AI summary at the top of Google searches lies. It is consistently wrong. So if you’re checking something, never believe it. Look for an actual source.
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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artofyorugami.bsky.social
Is it just me, or does anyone else get irrationally angry whenever you see some app or website suddenly introduce yet another "NEW AND FANCY AI tool" that no one asked for and/or wants?
Hello dear customer, do you want to use this brand new AI TOOL to help with your task today? asks a laptop, and a sketch angry person beside it
November 23, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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raynegrimm.bsky.social
Reskeeting with alt text

Yeah this has become the utter pain of what we once had. Used to be you'd run to Google for a trusted and quick search and now I try to avoid it when I can

Legit ruined their own product to the point of being unrecognizable
An image depicting a drawing of side by side Google search results. The title says "Googling stuff..." With the left side saying "... Then" Then a drop down with/"search results:" and "the thing you want" in a lavender box On the right it says "... Now" with a drop down that features a VERY long list of things starting with ai nonsense, 3 iterations of "sponsored result" a box featuring "people also ask", a sub box saying view products with images and what is likely the top of the lavender box that would Contain "the thing you want"
November 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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monsterofsukep.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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abistevensart.bsky.social
What in the actual fuck!?!
sjoy.lol Sara Joy ☠️ @sjoy.lol · 23d
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Social media screenshot: Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe. Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza. Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction. He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands. That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are: - punishing a European citizen - for doing his job in Europe - applying laws Europe officially supports - at an institution based in Europe - that Europe helped create and fund and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil. Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic [further text missing]
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
etlu-yume.bsky.social
hunting through old font folders and I've been staring at file extensions for too long. ".otf" is starting to automatically process as "one true font" 😂😭

It's "OpenType Font" but given how Adobe cut support for T1/Post Script, it's accurate enough. I'll give my brain a point for that one.
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM