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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️)

@lri.bsky.social

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36, UK based traditional media illustrator. Creature design, Dinos, monsters and creepy things. 🚫No AI&NFTs🚫. Commissions open✏️: [email protected] Store: https://linktr.ee/lrillustrations #illustration #creaturedesign #Paleoart

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · Jul 8

It’s #Portfolioday! 🥳

Hi everyone, I’m Luke. I’m a traditional media illustrator from the uk. I specialise in #creaturedesign, #Paleoart and #darkart. Prints and apparel at the link below.

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Thanks for your time 😊
#illustration @portfolioday.bsky.social #sciart #artsky

Four of my best portraits. All graphite on 110gsm paper. Edited via ‘Photoshop/KRITA/Photopea’. From top left, a self portrait, a zombie, a vampire and a portrait of Lord Maul from Star Wars.

Four monsters and fantasy pieces. All graphite on 110gsm paper. Edited in ‘Photoshop/KRITA/Photopea’. From top left. A TLOU inspired creature portrait, a knight devoured by tree roots, a Numanorian soldier from the Tolkien universe and my fan art of ‘The Eye of Webbish Bog’ from Star Wars.

Four of my best creature pieces. All graphite on 110gsm paper. Edited in ‘Photoshop/KRITA/Photopea’. From top left. The Space Pirate Commodore (creature concept), The Nightmare (creature concept), my version of ‘Enoch’ from ‘Over the Garden Wall’ and a ‘Xenomorph’.

Four Dino illustrations. All graphite on 110gsm paper, edited in ‘Photoshop/KRITA/Photopea’. From top left. Megalosaurus, Tyrannosaurs Rex, Another Rex and a Dilophosaurus

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 1h

I hope you enjoy it 😊. Lots of cool extras too.

Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 1h

Love LOVE Nemesis. Agree completely, John. It’s fun and exciting as well as engrossing. The face off with the Scimitar when she first appears is amazing. 👌

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 1h

Super fun. And an amazing soundtrack. 👌

Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 1h

I heard it was to be a trilogy, but it underperformed so the mothballed it. Shame. It had a lot of potential.

Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 1h

It is indeed!, I have it and it’s amazing. The remaster has been done really well, especially the sound and music mixing. 😊

Art by the amazing @pye.bsky.social

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 1h

Stunning movie, especially the soundtrack. 👌

Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 1h

Lost In Space (1998). I love it, always have, always will 😊

a man holding a gun with the words " this cold war just got hot " above him

ALT: a man holding a gun with the words " this cold war just got hot " above him

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 1h

My god, still they appear. A very late night addition for #zombieskulltober day.8.

#illustration #handmade #pencilart #creaturedesign #monsters #skulls #graphiteart #doodles #sketchbook #skull 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

6 skulls of various sizes and shapes sit together on a page. Drawn with HB pencil on standard printer paper 💀

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 9h

Yeees YEEEEES!. Ken these are amazing. Absolutely kick ass work 👌

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 11h

It’s #tolktober day.8 - Fog.

Prompt brought to us by ‘Arcane & Fable’ and ‘Mystic Barbarism’ (both on Instagram)

#Tolktober2025 #LordOfTheRings #MiddleEarth #fog #skulls #creaturedesign #RingsOfPower #Handmade #pencilart #illustration #Fanart #graphiteart #drawing #Portrait #graphitepencil 💀

Through the darkness and fog emerges a skeletal figure. Once a man of great power and purpose, now reduced to just his bones. Wielding a sword and with his old crown still on his head, he’s a relic of a lost time.

2B graphite on 110gsm paper 💀

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks so much, buddy 😊

Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 1d

It’s #tolktober day.7 - Galadriel.

Prompt brought to us by @caitliwinx.bsky.social and Alisha Huskin (insta)

#Tolktober2025 #LordOfTheRings #MiddleEarth #Galadriel #elves #RingsOfPower #Handmade #pencilart #illustration #Fanart #graphiteart #drawing #Portrait #graphitepencil #graphiteart

Galadriel portrait. Close up, her long hair falls down beyond her shoulders. A crown of ivy sits atop her head. The same ivy and other plants grow in the background.

2B pencil on 110gsm paper

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks buddy. Honestly I wish I had the time to go into more detail with them this year. I’m happy people are digging them, even if they are a tad basic.

Yes!, man id love to see you produce some graphite pieces 😊

Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 1d

More!
It’s #ZombieSkullTober Day.7

#illustration #pencilart #graphiteart #handmade #drawing #darkart #skull #creatureart #monsters 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

5 skulls sitting in a group. All human, most with jaws, one without. No flesh, only bone. Drawn with HB graphite on standard printer paper

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caitliwinx ⚔️🍂🪾 @caitliwinx.bsky.social · 1d

Day 7 of Tolktober: GALADRIEL 💍✨

Thanks to @rogueprintco.bsky.social for including me in the fun this year!! I had so much fun drawing my Gal!
#artsky #tolktober #tolkien

Drawing of Galadriel in black and white, against the background of lothlorien

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 2d

The work, the incredible talent going into this new volume, you’re not ready for. Dozens of amazing creators bringing their love of art and middle earth to life for all to see. Pre-order your copy now!

#Tolktober #preorder #MiddleEarth #artbook #comingsoon #LordOfTheRings ⚔️

𓉸 Rogue Print Co. 𓉸 @rogueprintco.bsky.social · 2d

PRE-ORDER for volume 3 of A MIDDLE-EARTH is now live.

100+ pages 50+ artists

Bigger than ever

Rogueprintco.com

100 pre-orders and I wear the Legolas wig at thought bubble ✨

A MIDDLE-EARTH Vol 3
PRE-ORDER
AND GET TWO EXCLUSIVE A5 MINI-PRINTS!

The cover features Bag End with Samwise trimming the verge at dusk - cover art by Anna Stead

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 1d

Hope you enjoy the journey, John 😊

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Sheng Lam @8bitwizard.bsky.social · 1d

pipe explorations and other bits. smth smth big pipe worshipping core smth idk yet exactly what. same world as the sensor pod thing

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 1d

Done 🫡

Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 1d

Buddy, so sorry to hear this. It’s not how it should be. Never loose site of your incredible talents and artistic abilities. However dark it may seem, you’re not worthless in the slightest. I know things will turn around, things will brighten up. Stay strong, dude 💪

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 2d

Time for #tolktober day.6 - Minas Morgul.

Prompt brought to us by @muteneighbor.bsky.social

#Tolktober2025 #LordOfTheRings #MiddleEarth #minasmorgul #castle #Handmade #pencilart #illustration #Fanart #graphiteart #drawing 🌳

The tower of the once beautiful Minus Morgul. Smoke and weather swirl around the structure as a Fellbeast flys overhead. Darkness surrounds it all.

2-4B graphite on 110gsm paper

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 2d

And ANOTHER one!. It’s #zombieskulltober day.6

#skull #sketchbook #pencilart #doodles #graphiteart #monsters #darkart #illustration #drawings 💀💀💀💀💀💀

Now four skulls, floating around the page. All clean, no flesh. Just bones and teeth.

HB pencil on standard printer paper

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JEFF RIDGE @jeffridge.bsky.social · 2d

#ipadpro #procreate #digitalhandrawn #starcruiser

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks so much, Chris 😊

Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 2d

😊😊😊