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@marissasketch.bsky.social

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Illustrator ✨ she/her ✨ Portfolio: https://marissasketch.carrd.co Prints: https://inprnt.com/gallery/marissasketch Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/marissasketch

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Marissa 🌙🌱 @marissasketch.bsky.social · Aug 31

Lots of new people here so I thought I'd reintroduce myself! Welcome everyone 💙

I'm Marissa, an illustrator who loves painting fantasy, nature, and cute animals 🐥🌱✨

Digital illustration of a scene from Lord of the Rings with Frodo and Gandalf as birds. Gandalf, a snowy owl, is wearing a wizard hat and robes and is driving a wooden cart through the Shire. Frodo, a yellow baby chick, is seated next to Gandalf and is looking up at him.

Digital illustration of a purple, pink, and orange sunrise over a lake with silhouetted hills on the horizon line. The clouds form a large white rabbit laying in a loaf position above the sun.

Digital illustration of a white duckling, inspired by Quaxly from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, swimming on blue water. A wave swirls around him, creating what resembles a pompadour of water on top of his head.

Digital illustration of Wirt from Over the Garden Wall, except he is a bluebird. He is wearing a cone shaped red hat and a dark blue cape, and is holding up a glowing lantern with his wing.

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maddie ★ othatsraspberry @othatsraspberry.com · 1d

🤏🌟

Hades II comic
Melinoë (she looks very cool and powerful)
Melinoë when Selene calls her “little star” (she is a cute baby star being held by Selene)

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Mali 💤 @ Patreon 💛 @sleepimali.bsky.social · 1d

Shop is open until the end of the week! 🌿✨️
sleepimali-shop.com

Shares are super appreciated, especially from EU folks 💛💛

#EUShop #ArtShop

Graphic of a floating bunny head with a puffy flower poking out of their forehead saying "THE SHOP IS OPEN! (WAHOO!!!)" in a happy bubbly speech bubble

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 1d

hades gals 💀🌸

fanart of Melinoe from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (dark jeans, orange top), she has a big tattoo on her right arm, and is about to tie her hair with a hair band (is this how it's called in english ?)
her eyes are closed, she has nice arm muscles and looks extremely lesbian

fanart of Nemesis from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (red jeans, black crop top with the Hades sigil as a pattern on it), moon shaped necklace, tattoos on her left arm and pecs, as she's about to tie her hair using a green hairband, her eyes closed
(green light on her right side cause she's standing next to Melinoe's glowing arm, off camera)

fanart of Eris, from Hades 2, she's sitting, right leg with her knee bent, in front of her
right hand on her right foot, left hand on her face, framing her left eye between two fingers
she's wearing big sneakers, micro shorts, some sort of sweater with stripes showing her shoulders
she has apple tree branch tattoos on her thigh and left shoulder

fanart of Medea from Hades 2, but wearing modern clothes (tiny leather shorts with double belt, red/purple leather crop top), a nose ring, necklaces, also big tattoo covering the entire left arm (a snake, a moon crescent, flowers and leaves)
She's sitting, resting on her left hand, her right hand next to her face, conjuring some plague magic that bathes her in green light

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 1d

#daily 34: priestess | spectral fog

Painting of a priestess conjuring magical smoke

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1d

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 1d

It turns out building habits and stuff actually requires not being in survival mode, who knew?!
(Yeah yeah I did)

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 1d

Bed [1/4]

Cartoon crow looking sad is flying in a wobbly pattern.

As he flies, a strange arch is seen below.

The arch leads is a lighted room, despite it not being attached to a building. The crow is curious about it.

The crow looks into the arch thru its broken window.

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 2d

Something from the ol' comfort zone for the beginning of autumn

A horned jousting helmet with some autumn leaves in the background and sun icons on three sides.

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Marissa 🌙🌱 @marissasketch.bsky.social · 2d

These turned out so good!! Beautiful rendering 🐔✨

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Nadinne Neira (commissions open!) @nadneira.bsky.social · 5d

Lore. Apologies in advance, english is not my first language 😂 I added Alt text of the text in the images and some descriptors.

Title: Athrathrao (REDACTED)
Subtitle 1: Anthrathrao's egg. Description: Small and round compared to an average chicken egg. Has a rough texture on it's surface and a pale gray coloration. This egg is always laid under a house, causing the subsequent curse. The flock's rooster will attack, and some times kill, the hen that laid the Basilisk's egg and incubate it instead.

Subtitle 2: Hatchling. Description: Hatches like a normal chicken, breaking the egg's shell with it's beak. A fetid, black and dense substance pours out as the basilisk breaks through the shell. Another oddity is the incubation period, longer than a normal chicken, 30 to 31 days. It's believed that is the last laid egg from a hen, before natural death, that could be a basilisk's. In laboratory tests, with at least 100 chickens, for over a year, we haven't been able to get even one basilisk egg in our controlled trial environment, which consists of an authentic southern home, a chicken flock and scientists volunteering to live in the trial space. Other environmental causes may be necessary for it's production. This sample was observed and taken into custody by a U.A.T.P field team sent to (REDACTED). A local family contacted us with suspicions of it's presence, that resulted to be true. More information in the full report by our field agents.

Title: Athrathrao (REDACTED)
Subtitle 1: Adult. Description: Seems to be a mix between a southamerican iguana, a rooster and a snake. It's length can be a little over 1 meter. Presents a common bright red cockscomb, light brown feathers, the typical gray an vibrant green coloration of a common Iguana combined with brown colors and spotted pattern of a REDACTED slender snake.

Subtitle 2: Observed Behavior. Description: If the egg is not found and destroyed before hatching, it's almost certain death for the cursed family or family member affected, in some rare documented cases, people have lived for long periods of time afflicted by this creature.
Athrathrao not only is venomous but also feeds on the inhabitant's saliva and breath (also referred as soul or vital energy), there's only one instance captured on film of this creature feeding while the human was asleep, captured by one of our field agent's, the case resulted, sadly, in a fatality.
The only effective way to get rid of this creature is to burn the egg or in extreme cases, the house the basilisk is affecting. In some instances a Machi is able to expulse the creature and the curse, but it only ends affecting another household.

Title: Athrathrao (REDACTED)

Subtitle: Documented life cycle of a Basilisk.

Description: There's no register of a natural cause of death, it has only been killed with fire, either in Egg stage by rapidly burning it when found, or in Adulthood, by burning the home it plagues. No remains of the creature are ever found by locals.

Pyramid/tringle type of graphic showing the life cycle, on top the illustration of eggs, arrow points down right to the illustration of the hatchling, arrow points left to the illustration of the adult.

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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.

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S ∆ R E N ✦ 杰敏 @sarenstone.com · 2d

Felt like drawing a soft little kiss...

An illustration of Adra (they/them) giving Criticality (he/him) a little kiss on his jaw.

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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · Oct 1

it is October, my friends

two orange and black furby witches with tiny brooms and a pumpkin shaped cauldron

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 5d

Meditate noodling over a previous daily

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❤️jamie p!💚 @jamies.page · 5d

you have to be sincere and you have to get weird with it

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 3d

don't compare yourself to other people or where you think you should be or where you wish you were or even to you before it happened. it's only useful to compare yourself to where you were when you were at your lowest imo. every episode is a hard reset on Everything, so don't beat yourself up 🤝

Lauren Walsh @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 3d

It can be incredibly hard to see your progress when recovering from depression or burnout. The whole world keeps demanding certain benchmarks of you to the point that it’s easy to feel like a failure despite your hard work. Remember your progress is your own journey. Every win means something.

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 6d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 4d

Whipping out the Pillars of Creation again because it makes me happy

(artistic interpretation based on a combination of Hubble and James Webb imaging)
🦢🐡 #art

a digital painting showing the famous Hubble/James Webb image of the Pillars of Creation nebula, with its three tall fingers. the image has been heavily abstracted to be a collection of lines and polygons, and the colors have been saturated, such that it contains strong blues, yellows, and pinks. dots of stars can be seen throughout

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Whit☀️Wei @mochiwei.com · 3d

Linktober 2025 Day 4: Nostalgia 💙

#linktober #artposting

Image depicts Link in his adult form from Ocarina of Time looking wistfully at a memory of his younger self running through the woods with his friend, Saria.

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RJ Palmer 🔜 Lightbox Expo 101 @rj-palmer.com · 4d

T. rex was formally named 120 years ago today. Hell yeah king happy birthday!

#art

Illustration I did of a roaring and/or yawning T. rex with a judgmental rex onlooker in the background. (done for Beasts of the Mesozoic T. rex figure)

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Vanessa Gillings @vanessagillings.bsky.social · 4d

My eighth piece for my solo show @gallerynucleus.bsky.social!

#illustration #kidlitart #watercolor #watercolour #gouache
#fantasyart #magicalart #witch

watercolor and gouache painting of a young witch walking through a misty forest with her trusty fox familiar, leading a line of little circular spirit lights

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maezanilla @ MCM London @maezanilla.bsky.social · 5d

Old fma piece from 2019 that I still love ✨

Edward Elric and Alphonse Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist, sitting on a patch of grass while Alphonse is swarmed by little yellow chickens.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 4d

Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash