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Kim Sokol

@kimsokol.bsky.social

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Fantasy illustrator. She/her. Portfolio at https://cara.app/kimsokol

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Kim Sokol @kimsokol.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hey #portfolioday!

I'm Kim, a fantasy artist in gaming and publishing who loves light and mood. Currently I work primarily on Magic: The Gathering and am actively seeking more book cover work!

Portfolio: kimsokol.com

A fake YA book cover featuring a girl with a candle burning away a circle of leaves

Book cover featuring an elven and a half-elven woman with the scene of a tall tower and forest below

A formally dressed vampire woman smiles as she throws red petals over a balcony

A statue of an aging queen in armor with a large sword sits in the middle of an overgrown ruin

Kim Sokol @kimsokol.bsky.social · 2d

Thank <3

Kim Sokol @kimsokol.bsky.social · 2d

Commission info if anyone's curious
kimsokol.tumblr.com/post/7619949...

Kim Sokol @kimsokol.bsky.social · 2d

Glad to hear you're doing better, good luck with your test!!

Kim Sokol @kimsokol.bsky.social · 2d

I knew things were bad but I don't think I realized how bad until the fog cleared and I could feel excited about and interested in things for the first time in years, whoops

It's amazing how much easier it is to study when you're capable of human feelings

Kim Sokol @kimsokol.bsky.social · 2d

THIS INCREDIBLE ART TIP WILL 10X YOUR IMPROVEMENT:
antidepressants that work

Kim Sokol @kimsokol.bsky.social · 2d

Portrait commission, I think this is the second? third? time I've painted someone's grey warden :)

A portrait of a woman in her early 40s with curly hair dressed as a Grey Warden from Dragon Age

Reposted by Kim Sokol

tayturs.bsky.social @tayturs.bsky.social · 2d

(Hoping Bsky won't compress the hell out of this image this time :,) )

Here is the whole gang in scale with one another! Chloe makes Josaphine look so tiny!!

I worked really hard on these and I hope it shows ❤️

Colored 2d drawings of five anthropomorphic animal characters. A king eagle, a cat in a red skirt with a pumpkin helmet, a regal falcon woman in a blue dress, a small rock dove woman in multicolored scale mail, and a tall moose woman in a dark cloak and green traveling clothes.

Kim Sokol @kimsokol.bsky.social · 4d

IT'S TOLLER TIME

Kellraiser 8: Kellworld 🎃 @ohhellkell.bsky.social · 4d

omg

Indy the dog sits proudly next to a cardboard standee of his movie Good Boy, which features an image of Indy surrounded by menacing shadow hands

Reposted by Kim Sokol

Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 5d

Rent is due and NYCC is next week. If ya can help out and boost my links, I’d appreciate any support right now! 💜

✨ www.kellymckernan.com/shop

✨ www.ko-fi.com/kellymckernan

Squidling kitten tax! 🔽 (repost with working links!)

Kim Sokol @kimsokol.bsky.social · 8d

Evernote won't send me the verification code email to delete my account (yes I've tried again, yes I've checked spam) and it's not like I'm paying for an account, so I guess they're just gonna have to host my half-written fanfic until the heat death of the universe

Reposted by Kim Sokol

vezanMAD-TRICKS @vezanmatics.newgrounds.com · 17d

www.patreon.com/vezanmatics
ko-fi.com/vezanmatics
www.vezanmatics.com
#animation #cartoon

Tech-serf is back on his #grindset and he has a message for his adoring audience.

Kim Sokol @kimsokol.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah, and like, I will give the benefit of the doubt beyond where it's reasonable, I don't want to falsely accuse someone if there's any small possibility I'm wrong, but sometimes there's an absolute irrefutable smoking gun and all I can say is "idk ive been doing digital art for 25 years ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

Kim Sokol @kimsokol.bsky.social · 10d

(if you do not recognize this crusty ancient meme: you are either young or not chronically online and either way have a win over me)

Kim Sokol @kimsokol.bsky.social · 10d

Sometimes when you notice AI in art and photos it's easy to point out to folks not tuned into that - wrong number of fingers and so forth - but sometimes you just devolve into I CAN TELL FROM SOME OF THE PIXELS AND FROM SEEING QUITE A FEW SHOPS IN MY TIME

Kim Sokol @kimsokol.bsky.social · 12d

The joy of Wandering Around The Library and its late cousin, Wandering Around The Blockbuster

Reposted by Kim Sokol

🌛Caio Santos Art🌜 @blacksalander.bsky.social · 15d

I find it very funny Hades 2 is launching on bissexual week

Kim Sokol @kimsokol.bsky.social · 13d

WAIT I just remembered this one, it's a TTRPG book cover but it's still a book cover.

Cover for the TTRPG Age of Aether

Kim Sokol @kimsokol.bsky.social · 13d

BOOK COVER ARTISTS

QRP with your book covers 📚

(One of these is brand new and never-before-posted, one is 8+ years old! Hopefully I can do more book covers soon!)

Cover for We Were Elves by Senna Byrd

Cover for Manifest Interrupt by Tom Dell'Aringa

Cover for Inherit The Flame by Megan E O'Keefe

Reposted by Kim Sokol

Yorgos Cotronis @cotronis.bsky.social · 13d

BOOK COVER ARTISTS

QRP with your book covers 📚

#BookCovers

Book cover for OUR OWN UNIQUE AFFLICTION, features an outline of a woman vampire, backlit, with glowing eyes.

Book cover for THE MOSS, features a young woman with glowing eyes and moss and plants growing on her.

Book cover for EPIPHANY, features a woman half submerged in water with flowers glowing around her.

Book cover for WINTER HARVEST, features a woman sitting on a throne with flowers surrounding her and a gold pattern behind her.

Reposted by Kim Sokol

🔞Keesh 🍁🏳️‍🌈 @rakeeshsorrel.bsky.social · 27d

The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures.

This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech!

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

e-6695 (Consumer protection)

Keywords
Censorship Credit cards Internet Pornography

E-petition
Initiated by Carmen Tam from Waterloo, Ontario

Original language of petition: English
Petition details
Petition to the House of Commons
Whereas:

Mastercard, Visa, and other payment platforms have been leveraging their power over consumer ability to purchase legal content;
In 2021, Mastercard changed its policies to regulate adult entertainment by preventing the use of its payment platform on numerous adult entertainment sites;
As of July 2025, video game distribution service Steam now cites rule 15, that “adult only” content is not permitted on the platform if it goes against payment processor’s policies. Steam does not describe what content is defined as “adult only”;
As of July 2025, video game distribution website Itch.io has “deindexed” all adult NSFW content from browse and search pages. Users that previously purchased legitimate video games cannot access games that have been removed; and
This has set an unsettling precedent of corporate censorship, causing concern in video game development teams, including developers, voice actors, and artists in other creative fields as their livelihoods are in limbo.

We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to
1. Stop financial discrimination by payment platforms against legal goods and services;
2. Ensure transparency to consumers about content restrictions and the rationale behind them; and
3. Protect creators' rights to make legal adult content and ensure a fair appeals process for any penalized media.

Reposted by Kim Sokol

Micah Epstein @micahepsteinart.bsky.social · Aug 19

Handful of digital portraits from this summer :) Sometimes when I'm painting in oils, it feels like my brain is running a totally different software than when I'm behind a tablet. I've been working on training my digital brain to think a bit more like it does when there's a brush in my hand.

Kim Sokol @kimsokol.bsky.social · Sep 8

(And also a failure to understand how image gen works)

Kim Sokol @kimsokol.bsky.social · Sep 8

One thing I noticed in responses some folks got in the original thread, there was an emphasis on the fact that Jukebox AI wasn't training on customer artwork and one contained the sentence "The Sticker AI is powered only by text prompts". Real failure to understand the core of the issue.

Kim Sokol @kimsokol.bsky.social · Sep 8

It's sure not great! Torn between wanting to support them for listening and wanting to go elsewhere for them showing how out of touch they are with their community tbh

Kim Sokol @kimsokol.bsky.social · Sep 8

Collective yelling works and Jukebox is not in fact integrating AI; on one hand I think going "no you fucked up it's too late" disincentivizes companies doing the right thing, on the other hand I got some good recs and maybe it's time to give some smaller printers a shot regardless!

Kim Sokol @kimsokol.bsky.social · Sep 8

I used Jukebox for my last prints and was happy with them but I guess I'm not getting my next prints done there, what's your fav Canadian art print company (reasonably affordable, not giclee or anything, usually print 12x16 or 12x18)

Rosemary Travale @travale.bsky.social · Sep 7

To my sticker making friends who rightly hate AI: One less option to worry about when printing stickers!

Feel free to recommend other printers in the comments that we can all use instead, bonus points for Canadian companies