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Laura Mellin
@lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
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Disabled, AuDHD, feral artist, pan/cis, 55, married, she/her. LGBTQIA2S+ is my fam, art shares are my jam. New art every day for 2025. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/attacklaurel?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZwLN4Ap8-rIbGYfgi3ksJfRFxtDp8L62cQFqX
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · Mar 12
I unpinned my previous top post, b/c now I want to feature my fave pieces from my #sketchaday 2025 self-imposed challenge! I’m Laura, this is my art account, and this thread will be pinned to become my about me piece. I do illustration and cartoons, often riffing on a joke for multiple drawings.
A marker, ink, paint pen and paper collage drawing of my OC, Bela Lugosquid, a common squid, pale pink-grey with red and grey spots, facing left slightly, asleep. They are smiling (yes, I know, that’s not where their mouths are), and are wearing a pair of fake fangs, a black cloak with a red lining, white bow tie and vest, white shirt, and a red ribbon with a spiny Black Sea urchin attached to the ribbon by holding onto a gold ring. Basically, dressed like Bella Lugosi’s famous outfit* in Dracula (1931). Their tentacles and arms are drifting gently, with an arm on the right touching the edge of the cloak. Dream bubbles coming from their head feature an image of Bella Lugosi as Dracula from the movie poster (image sourced from IMDb.com). Bela Lugosquid is non-binary. They are fascinated by vampire squid, but too shy to actually talk to any actual vampire squid (and afraid of negative reactions). They are a very happy squid. They have dreams of stardom. I don’t know about the sea urchin; they usually don’t go that deep. A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing in my sketchbook. In the upper left hand corner, a white box with shadow lines has the hand-written text: “white potatoes are tuber-essentialist douchebags:” (yes, I’m going hard on this one! Pushing the boundaries!*). The main drawing is of an orange-pink yam (or sweet potato) in three-quarter profile, standing on root feet, with their sprout arms up in the air, leaning slightly forward, protesting (or yelling) at three white potatoes (who, ironically, are brown, because they haven’t been peeled) in a row on the right, in three-quarter profile, one in front, the second slightly behind that one, and lastly, a potato going off the edge of the paper (they’re half-visible). They have little beady eyes, and root feet and hands, with little potatoes growing on them (I love the little potato feet!). The lead potato is asking: “Are you a sweet potato or a yam?”, and the second one is saying: “…you can’t be both.”. The sweet potato (or yam) is protesting: “Why are you so hung up on labels?! I yam what I yam! …or NOT.”. The wall is pale blue-grey, the floor is medium grey, and there are shadows underneath all the tubers. In a small white box in the bottom right corner, the top of a white potato is visible, showing their black dot eyes and angry eyebrows. They are saying:” This is potato erasure!!”. *Or, y’know, doing the absolute minimum by acknowledging that trans people are people, and TERFs/“gender essentialists” are complete C-words. “Dryad of the Vines”: An ink line drawing of a female-appearing figure wrapped in vines, which are supporting them as they sleep. Their face is mostly hidden by their left arm (on the right), which is raised, with vines loosely wrapped around it. Their legs are bent up in a seated position, and their fingers and toes (six on each appendage) stretch out into vines. Their hair is made of vines, and drapes down behind them, and over their torso. Some of the vines have leaves and flowers along them, curling around in spirals and loops. They are nude, but have no visible gendered body parts, just the curves of their body giving an overall female appearance. A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a toy mechanical mouse, facing left. The mouse is grey metal, with brass screws, and a brass key in the middle of its back. It is sitting upright on segmented articulated legs and feet (and toes) that are joined to the body with a round dome with brass screws. The head has large round eyes and ears edged with brass screws, with red lights in the center. The front legs and paws are also articulated/segmented, and are curled around to the nose, like the mouse is eating. The tail is long and articulated/segmented, bending as it reaches the ground, and goes to the left, behind the body. Background is blank. It’s a little toy mouse made of metal, with a key to wind it up. It’s cute, but I am not mechanically inclined, so I have no idea how it would actually move.
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 8m
I love these! Your background is pretty good; hallways are actually quite difficult to get into perfect perspective, especially cupboards, and you did a cool job! 💜💜💜😍😍😍
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 10m
Great pieces! I love the distortion (I’m not sure what you call it, but that slightly blurred line in colours) in the fourth one! 😍😍😍💜💜💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 12m
Always love your work! I was enlarging all the pieces to see the texture in the back, with the white pen! It’s so tactile! 😍😍😍💜💜💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 14m
The colour choice on the pumpkin is so good! 😍💜💜💜 I love your work; I’m the same, too many ideas to stick to one format or style! 😁💜💜💜💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 17m
These are all so cute! 😍💜 I love the first one! (I love Hornet!!)💜💜💜💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 19m
Golden Syrup! 🤤💜 I always keep a bottle handy! Someone once told me corn syrup was the same, and IT IS NOT. 🤢🤢🤢🤮
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 25m
😂💜 Yeah! I was reminded it’s a kind of oat cookie in the UK (I used to eat them all the time!), b/c it’s been so long since I lived there, I completely forgot! (They’re yummy and chewy). 😁💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 26m
I love these two! The burst with the witchy hat, the pair of them on the throne, and then hanging out casually, drinking soda. The best! 😍😍😍💜💜💜💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 26m
This is genius, & very helpful.💜

Confession: I follow a lot of ppl; they’re artists from shares. I want to support the community, but I’ve never followed feeds, b/c my ADHD won’t let me. I get 10 posts in, & my 🧠 shuts down. I get it if ppl don’t want to follow me, & I don’t care abt follow backs.
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𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗘𝗡 @inthirteen.newgrounds.com · 2d
Your Bluesky account is BLOATED (and how to fix it)

This is a longer more in-depth version of the short I released before. This info will help you PREVENT further bloat and understand why it happens.

youtu.be/vGvydGj_ASQ

#bluesky #fyp
Your Bluesky account is BLOATED (and how to fix it)
YouTube video by INTHIRTEEN
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 52m
Thank you for tagging me (🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻)! And I love the cityscape with the tiny silhouette doing Parkour (or running from someone? The ambivalence is cool!), and the ruined castle/abbey on the hill! 😍😍😍💜💜💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 55m
The graphite portrait is so beautiful! (Love all your work!) 😍😍💜💜💜💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 57m
I really love the smoky dark old movie look of your work! Even the body horror pieces are like 1920s German sci-fi! This may just be the aesthetic I see, but I love your work! (I haven’t complimented you recently, and I always enjoy seeing your pieces!) 😍💜💜💜💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1h
I think we’re all completely mesmerized by that candle on the helm! It’s brilliant! (And bright. I realize the unintentional pun. 😁)💜💜💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1h
TY! 🙏🏻💜😊💜💜💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1h
When Jackflapalope jumps, I see him expanding and squishing, like an accordion.
Alternatively, the syrup keeps him together. 🤔🥞🐇
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 19h
Thank you! 😊💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 19h
😁😃💜💜💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 20h
TYSM! 💜💜💜💜😊
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 20h
😊💜💜💜💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 20h
Thank you! 😊💜 This is a detail of an older drawing encouraging ppl to get a COVID vaccine.
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 21h
😂😂😂 🥞
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 21h
#sketchaday #artsky #blueskyart #art #cartoon #jackalope #itsbeendonebeforeImsure

This is @pinkleader.bsky.social’s fault. Totally her fault. Not mine. My head hurts. 😁💜💜💜 (Love you, Nestie!)
A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a stack of flapjacks (US) or pancakes (rest of the world), disguised as a jackalope (a jackrabbit Cryptid with antlers), with eyes, whiskers, ears, paws, and a pair of large antlers, all on this stack of pancakes. The Flapjackalope is sitting in a desert with hills in the background, and the sun shining down through wisps of heat cloud. There is a cactus bottom right. Text breaking up the shadow of the Flapjackalope says “FLAPJACKALOPE!!”. At the very bottom, I wrote “(This is Pinkleader’s fault.)”. Because it is. Totally. :)
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
#chronicillness #chronicpain #chronicmigraine

I cannot thank everyone enough for continuing to tag me for art shares, especially @lddarts.bsky.social, @kvacm.bsky.social, @aurelioart.bsky.social, and @emberssbm.bsky.social! 💜💜💜💜💜

I’ve still got medical issues. And I have a migraine. 💜💜💜 you all!
A colour and monochrome ink and marker drawing with a brown mouse in the center, facing 3/4 left, looking sad. Their left upper arm has a bandage, and their right hand is holding their left shoulder. In the background are four monochrome sketches of the same mouse: L to R, the mouse in profile facing right, sitting up in bed, hands on a book pages down on the blankets, their eyes closed, the mouse sitting, from the waist up, elbows bent close to the body, hands over their eyes, the mouse standing, seen from the waist up, right hand over their face, eyes closed, bandage visible on their left arm, hand resting in right elbow, the mouse lying in bed, one hand holding the covers pulled up to the shoulders, eyes closed.
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
😂💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
😂😂👻
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