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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨

@jameelawahlgren.bsky.social

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Art Director, Illustrator, Intersectional Feminist 🇵🇸 she/her (artists: please use my work email to send me your portfolios. My personal email is for commissioning me) www.jwahlgren.com

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 15d

Oh wow I just noticed I hit 9k!!

Thank you all so much for hanging out with me here. Let's do an art share! Post the piece(s) you're most proud of in the comments and link to your portfolio so folks can see more!

jwahlgren.com

A Black woman in a white gown holding a knife behind her back

A blonde woman with a white dog covering half her face

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 1h

"Mob boss says his business wouldn't be profitable without stolen goods taken from shipping trucks"

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 18h

Imprisoning people for speaking out against your political decisions is called being a dictator

Headline stating that Trump says officials should be jailed if they oppose his deployment of the national guard

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 20h

Ohh I've been interested in those! Is that the one on developing a unique voice?

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 23h

beautiful sketches! What's the class?

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 23h

Letting the pen rest horizontally? I only ever keep my pen horizontal when I'm not using it

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 1d

lol well I contacted #Wacom customer service and they said they could only help me if I got an over the shoulder video of me working on a tablet that included my hands in the shot while I used a ruler or straight edge on my tablet to draw a grid while I had a diagnostic window open...

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 1d

aw snap!

Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 1d

FUNNNN! What do you use instead?

Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 1d

Do you teach an art/illustration/animation class and want someone with industry experience to talk to your students? Email me and I'll come yell at them about how amazing they are and how it's never hopeless and also how to negotiate contracts

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Hope Doe @flyapples.bsky.social · 1d

#inktober day 8 reckless

Can you trust your inner demon?
自分自信のことは、本当に信頼できますか？

#inktober2025 #inktoberday8 #reckless

A watercolor and sumi painting of little riding hood girl being stupid while putting her hand in a wolf’s mouth for an apple

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 1d

thanks! I'm talking to their customer service chat right now but I'll try that too!

Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 1d

oh really? like it didnt fix it after reinstalling the driver once but did work after several tries?

Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 1d

Has anyone had the experience of their wacom tablet chopping up one uninterrupted pen stroke into several gappy lines like this screenshot? I've tried cleaning the surface, the pen, updating the driver, changing the pen tip and nothing has helped

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 1d

I love her 🦊

Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 1d

So much volume conveyed just with directional mark making! Amazing!

Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 1d

sick!

Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 1d

draw it! Some of the coolest stuff comes from half-remembering or mis-remembering. Even if someone else did something similar, it's like looking at a reference picture once and then putting it away for the whole rest of the project. Your brain will fill in the gaps to create something new!

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 1d

All Day I Dream About
finishing work so I can go play more Silent Hill F

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 1d

When I was a Muslim kid growing up in the US it was unthinkable that most of the people around me would support Palestine.

This is not a doomed cause. We are making a difference by speaking out and that puts pressure on the people who make laws and fund genocides

A series of graphs showing increasing criticism of Israeli military action against Palestine over the years

A series of graphs showing that more than half the US population surveyed is concerned about starvation and military strikes against Palestinians

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 1d

Before we got married my partner got me an engagement ring set with a human tooth because I don't like gemstones 💅

My hand wearing a silver ring set with a human molar

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 1d

Some narrative folks I worked with on tabletop games have moved to other tabletop games

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Robbie Trevino @robbietrevino.bsky.social · 1d

An Eldritch Spookster for this spooky season.

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 1d

My new favorite Gen z slang is when they don't believe something they'll say "that's AI"

Person A: Yo I got a 100 on my test!
Person B: That's AI

And that's just beautiful to me 😌

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 2d

thank you so much!! Scotland, hot werewolves and dark romance are all just so 👌

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