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H.B. Tyson

@hbtyson.bsky.social

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Fantasy Illustrator and Texture Enthusiast 📜✍🏻 • She / Her https://hbtyson.carrd.co/

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · Aug 10

📌 My name is H.B. and I'm a fantasy artist specializing in a nostalgic style. My work is inspired by woodcuts and vintage children's books.

🔗: hbtyson.carrd.co
🖼️: www.inprnt.com/gallery/hbty...

A digital illustration in the style of a block print. A humanoid figure wearing a red cloak stands next to a long, segmented creature that resembles a carrot. The creature’s body weaves in-and-out of dark bushes.

A digital illustration in the style of old print. It displays three plants in various states of transformation. All are growing vague animal-like bodies: one birdlike, one serpentine, and the other humanoid.

Digital illustration in the style of old print. A large two-headed beast with dark fur emerges from a cave. It lifts its heads to make eye contact with a redheaded child sitting above the cave’s entrance.

A digital illustration in the style of a woodcut. It depicts the upper half of humanoid figure whose “head” is a flattened organic shape. A serpentine creature delicately wraps around the figure’s arm and into an opening in their face. The figure handles the creature gently.

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · Sep 5

Host 🪱

A cutout ink drawing on a panel covered in old book pages. The ink drawing, pasted on the bottom right corner, is of a vaguely human-shaped mound made of organic material. Giant worms squirm out of it.

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · Aug 16

My character Doppel throughout the years

(Oct. 2018 / Mar. 2020 / May 2021 / Nov. 2022)

Digital illustration of a pale, humanoid figure wearing a muted, red cloak standing among autumn-colored foliage.

A digital illustration depicting a frontal bust of a pale, humanoid figure. Vines with reddish leaves resembling small hands surrounds the character.

A digital illustration in the style of a vintage storybook. A pale, humanoid figure wearing a red cloak is in the middle of a dark forest. The trees surrounding her have circular patterns carved into their bark. She stands on the edge of a pit that is filled with a tangled mass of worm-like creatures. Below the illustration reads "The worms wriggled endlessly in the pit."

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · Aug 3

Experimental Critter from 2020

Digital illustration depicting a long, snouted creature rising above several hills. Its pale form contrasts against a dark sky.

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · 17d

Finally scanned the screenprint version of Renewed Vegetation!

Scanned image of a screenprint. The design is of three plant-animal hybrids printed in black ink on Kitakata paper.

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · Aug 12

Renewed Vegetation • 2022

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · Nov 12

☀️✨ · 2022

A digital illustration of a figure whose head is replaced by a stylized ball of yellow light.

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rowan finn 🐚 comms open @bigoldeels.bsky.social · 22h

and a happy harvest moon!

watercolor illustration inspired by early 20th-century halloween postcards. a pumpkin-headed woman and an apple-headed woman in old-fashioned dresses dance beneath a full harvest moon as the sun sets. text at the top reads "Joyous Hallowe'en!"

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · Aug 10

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · Jul 9

Scorched Grounds • 2021

A digital illustration of a pale humanoid figure wearing a red cape. Standing on uneven brown grass, she stares out to a field of singed earth. Below the illustration reads “She approached the scorched grounds.”

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · 15d

It may not seem like it, but my girl Dopp motivates me in ways that I can't fully express. Love her and miss her so much. 😔💕

A digital illustration in the style of a block print. A pale humanoid figure, Doppel, wearing a reddish cape or cloak stands next to a long, segmented creature that resembles a carrot. The creature’s body weaves in-and-out of dark bushes.

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · 10d

From His Chest · 2021

Digital illustration in the style of a vintage storybook. A man peacefully sits in a sparse forest with his back against a tree stump. Muted red flowers grow out of his chest. Below the illustration reads “several flowers bloomed from his chest.”

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · 3d

On the Edge · 2021

Digital illustration in the style of a vintage storybook. A humanoid creature with long hair and a green knit capelet peacefully sits on the edge of a cliff. A dark forest is visible behind them. Below the illustration reads “On the Edge.”

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· 𝕸𝖚𝖈𝖈𝖊𝖌𝖆𝖎 · COMMS OPEN @muccegai.bsky.social · 23h

Drawtober day 2!

Toadskin, or, The Frog Astrologer Who Could Read Stars

6 prompts, 6 dark fairy tales, as told by yours truly, Old Mother Muccegai!

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · Jun 17

Out of curiosity, are there any fellow artists who create art inspired by vintage print/book illustrations? Would love to follow more who share my niche.

Digital illustration in the style of old print. A humanoid figure wearing a red cape stands in the foreground looking over her shoulder. Behind her is various moss-covered rocks and trees. Below the illustration reads "The woods were still and quiet.”

Digital illustration in the style of a vintage storybook. A pale humanoid figure wearing a red cape is in the middle of a dark forest. The trees surrounding her have circular patterns carved into their bark. She stands on the edge of a pit that is filled with a tangled mass of worm-like creatures. Below the illustration reads "The worms wriggled endlessly in the pit."

Digital illustration in the style of a vintage storybook. At the edge of a forest, a girl wearing a hooded cardigan meets a long slender creature. The girl reaches out her hand as if to touch the creature's snout.

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Death's (Favorite) Garden // Comms Open! @deathsgarden.bsky.social · 1d

I also do ko-fi tier rewards that are sketches each month! For $10 you get something like this, with themes optional that get voted on by my discord server!!
Last month's theme was "moonlight"!

Ko-fi.com/deathsgarden

A woman stands in a window lighting candles in the moonlight

A rabbit like woman clasps her hands in front of her, long hair blowing in the wind with stars mingling among it as she smiles

A woman with cat ears and glasses sits with her back to the moon and stars behind her, leaning her head on a hand as she smiles softly

Omar from vinland saga celebrating his birthday with a cake!

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Death's (Favorite) Garden // Comms Open! @deathsgarden.bsky.social · 1d

✨️ October Commissions ✨️
My queue is nearly cleaned up and I'm hoping to take more Commissions!!

I do almost everything from sketch pages to chibis to skeb to full illustrations and even novel things like turning OCs into mice or moogles!

You can check all info here:
Deathsfavoritegarden.carrd.co

A mouse looking smug with long brown hair and a large goofy purple dress holding a large paintbrush

A woman in a black leather goth outfit, long red hair and horns wipes blood from her lips as she walks through a graveyard at night

A woman with three eyes and two tails wearing a 2000s chique outfit leans forward with one hand on her hip and the other help up to her face as she yells happily

A Gundam done in green rubbing the back of it's head sheepishly against a city backdrop

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Jabberwick ⭐🎪👁️ @jabberwick.com · 1d

Watch, Wyrm, Wincer ⌚🐉🌹
quick scribbles to get my colour theory brain working again

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · Jul 19

Moon Companion • 2020

Digital art in the style of old print. A humanoid character, decked with hooded ears and orange garb, stands on a green striped hill. They look over their shoulder at the full moon in a dark sky.

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · 3d

Do I understand what I was doing here? No.
Am I obsessed with the colors and textures? Absolutely!

Top half of a scanned image of “sketches” on cream paper. It’s mostly a collection of nonrepresentational forms created using watercolor, gouache, pencil and pen.

Bottom half of a scanned image of “sketches” on cream paper. It’s mostly a collection of nonrepresentational forms created using watercolor, gouache, pencil and pen.

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Jana H-S (they/she) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 2d

your blood is you-shaped

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much! 🪱💕

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · Aug 5

The Giant • 2021

A digital illustration of a giant with a spiralling, mask-like face leaning over a shadowy mountain. Their gloved hands are resting on the mountain’s summit.

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Tony Tran @tonytranrpg.bsky.social · 1d

6 - HUSK
#MÖRKTOBER #MÖRKBORG #TTRPG
words by
@radicaledward.bsky.social

Abstract yellow brushstroke - chaotic on black background resembling tangled, chaotic scribbles or wire-like formed creature

Yellow background with black text showing words by Edward Rathke. The text includes verses about time, broken bones, and being laid in heather. Abstract yellow scratchy artwork appears on the right side, with the artist name at bottom right.

Part II - Yellow background with black text showing words by Edward Rathke. The text includes verses about time, broken bones, and being laid in heather. Abstract yellow scratchy artwork appears on the left side, with the artist name at bottom left.

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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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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · 1d

I don't believe I'll ever escape being described as "meticulous" 😔