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Maria Raducanu
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Senior Environment Artist @ Valkyrie Entertainment
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We already have 1000+ reasons to hate """artist""" James C Mulligan (see below), but it was extra enraging to see him stealing and taking credit for the work of actual Bambi artist and all-around Disney legend Tyrus Wong, so here's a mini Ted Talk 🧵
September 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Posting old art - today's entry is inspired by #SpyroCommunityDay!

ZBrush, 2018. Textured in Substance Painter.
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Portrait of Spyro the Dragon executed in 3D. Spyro is on a cloudy green-yellow background. He has a mischievous expression, looking at something above him with a sparkle in his eyes. He is turned 3/4 towards the camera, facing more towards screen right. He is illuminated with a soft light, showcasing his cartoony features, purple scales, yellow horns, plates, and crest, and a stronger rim light highlights his silhouette on screen left.
September 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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I spent half the day working in the yard - updating flower beds, planting new things, cutting back encroaching grass and clover. Everything is a big mess, but I got to snap these blooms at sunset.
Photograph of flowers in the garden. In the foreground, bronze colored chrisanthemums opening up - four semi open blooms are visible. In the midground, a mix of dahlias in vivid pink, sunset yellow-red gradients, and peach, amongst green foliage - 6-7 blooms. There's some burgundy and variegated green foliage peeking through as well. In the background, yellowish wooden fence. Close up photo of several bronze colored chrysanthemum blooms in the process of opening up, with variegated and multicolored foliage in the background.
September 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Older art - my coworker Petra's pets stylized as Monster Hunter glyphs.

Boa constrictor Chrome, ball python Gambit, bearded dragon Aloy, ball python Belle.

Procreate + Photoshop, 2023.

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Illustration of a silver-brown boa constrictor in a Monster Hunter glyph style. Illustration of a brown and yellow ball python with Spider morph stripes in a Monster Hunter glyph style. This python is a rescue! Illustration of a vibrant red-orange bearded dragon in a Monster Hunter glyph style. Illustration of a pale yellow with yellow patterns albino ball python in a Monster Hunter glyph style.
September 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Does this count?? Little Strahd on my Ravenloft castle painting... He's hiding in the corner.
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Little silly doodle of the vampire Strahd from Dungeons and Dragons with white paint on black and red canvas with the text "Strahd lol". A painting of Castle Ravenloft in black and blue tones. The castle stands before the giant moon shrouded in mist on the right side of the frame, and a crooked tree is in the foreground on the left. A crow is leeched kn the tree, looking towards the castle in the distance. There are some dark grasses in the foreground, and coniferous trees in the midground. The painting has a large cream colored matte frame, and a slightly gaudy golden ornate frame.
September 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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I planted moss in my garden.
Photograph of moss under a maple tree in a variety of shapes and shades of green and brown among other foliage like ferns. Close up of freshly planted fern moss on the dark, moist ground surrounded by other foliage like sweet woodruff. Photograph of a freshly planted patch of different mossed by a garden border made of a treated wood plank. It's various shades of green and brown. In the foreground you can see some ferns, variegated pachysandra, aeaf of voodoo lily and some other leaves. Photo of a variety of moss clumps scattered on grey concrete. The moss is various shades of green and brown, and there's at least four types - sheet moss, fern moss, mood moss, and star moss arranged like a random mosaic.
September 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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I'll start posting older art here, since I removed most of it elsewhere.

Kicking it off with Shinji knocking a plant off the windowsill. This was part of a collaboration for stamp washi tape, cats doing mischievous things - each stamp by different artists.

Photoshop, 2023
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A slightly stylized digital painting with faint lineart, painted with bright colors. It represents a mischievous grey kitten sitting on the windowsill, sideways to the camera. His face is turned towards the camera, and his sly yellow eyes are following a terracotta planter with a green succulent falling off the windowsill, because he just kicked it off. We can tell by his lifted front paw, he was caught in the act. There are hanging leaves from other plants visible in the frame, and blurry trees and blue sky in the window. His tail is rounded in a big curl, his whiskers and ears are pointed, indicating alertness.
September 7, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Did someone say, DRAGONS? 🐉
How do I only pick 4? Here's just from games:
Onyxia, World of Warcraft
Tiamat, Dungeons and Dragons
Any dragon from Heroes of Might and Magic 2-4
Alduin from Skyrim
Onyxia from World of Warcraft Tiamat from DnD Green dragon from Heroes of Might and Magic Alduin from Skyrim
September 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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I went to Home Depot... And I was absolutely blown away. HOLY SHIT
A photo of Maria standing next to a 8 ft green plastic dragon decoration at the Halloween section of Home Depot. Large green plastic wyvern Halloween decoration at Home Depot. Close up on the detailed, scaly face of a large green plastic wyvern Halloween decoration at Home Depot.
September 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Hornet is tired. I understand, I'm tired too.
Little fan art for Silksong since I started playing the game.
A pencil sketch of Hornet from the game Silksong, hunched over in exhaustion, facing right, holding her needle low to the rocky ground.
September 6, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Looking at my flower garden... Why have I never considered to specialize in foliage a little more? I love flowers and I care for them meticulously. This learning would transfer well into a personal project.
Large pink dahlia flower blooms, layered like a firework of sunset colors. There's four of them on the photo, surrounded by green leaves of dahlia and other plants, and smaller orange daisy-loke flowers of the calendula. A photo of a garden bed showing some brown mulch at the bottom. There is a lot of foliage growing out - first you see colchicum, or autumn crocus, just purple cups sticking right out of the ground on a 4-5 inch yellowish sturdy stem with no leaves. Behind it a blue-green leaved, mintlike monarda with a similar purple hue of flowers, with the about five mature inflorescences. A lot of bright green calendula leaves are visible nearby, and a more fuchsia monarda is partially in the shot. There's a strawberry leaf in the middle as well. A close up photo of a bronze colored chrisanthemum bloom surrounded by its green foliage. The many many petals are tightly clustered and a little curled, hiding the center. A photo from the garden with multiple different blooms. In the foreground, a white gladiolus abyssinicus with a purple throat barely visible, gently nodding. Right behind it, several echinaceas "green twister" reaching maturity, with their deep orange cones on full display and pink-green petals slowly withering. In the far background, more blurry foliage, including a multitude of blue-purple, daisy-like asters all clustered on the same plant.
September 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Wizard Kirby.
Wirby
Pencil sketch with light shading of Kirby with a determined expression, dressed as a wizard, floating in midair. Kirby wears a tall, star tipped floppy hat and a fluttering cape decorated with star patterns, holding a star magic wand that emits swirling lines of energy and sparkles.
September 3, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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I took a nice, long break from all social media. I think I'm ready to be back to a select few, like Bluesky and Tumblr.
August 30, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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No Kings Day was one of the largest days of protest in US history. From deep red small towns to our largest cities, millions of people turned out to make it clear that the American people will not bow to fascism. #NoKings
June 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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"Onyx"

The black dragon Onyx guarding her treasure hoard in the ruins of Xak Tsaroth. Painted in acrylics for the D&D 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide!
A black dragon perched atop a treasure hoard in a damp cave. In the background we see waterfalls pouring down onto the treasure piles, moss covers the stone ruins that hint at long gone civilization. The dragon has a pale face that makes it look skeletal, while her body is covered in black spiky plates, and her back ridged with tall spines. She has an almost serpentine look with a slender body and an enormously long tail curling back around to her front.
November 11, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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There is no right or wrong way to grieve; let your anger, your sadness, your numbness flow and feel it all. Whether you're frozen in fear, drowning in tears, boiling in anger, or bursting with a powerful mix you can't even describe - your emotions are valid. They deserve to be felt and they deserve to be named. They are your allies, no matter how awful, impossible, unbearable it might feel in the moment: they are here to communicate something. They might say that whatever is happening in the world does not align with your values, sense of justice, your integrity. But first and foremost, it's essential to allow them to happen - suppressing your emotions leads to worse outcomes over time. Grief never goes away, but eventually it will transform into something else, like sadness - a constant reminder of what we were attached to, and lost. There is no right or wrong timeline here either - your journey might take one day or a lifetime. There's no reason to feel wrong if your resilience pushes you back on track quickly, or if your sensitivity keeps a grip on you for much longer - you are valid, and they are both beautiful and strong in their own way, as is your journey and every coping strategy in between. Just please, try to breathe (here is a breathing technique https://www.healthline.com/health/box-breathing), feel, live - for yourself, for me, for the future. I am thinking of each and every person affected by this difficult time and there is endless space in my heart for you. Please, remember to breathe. Once you process the situation, once your nervous system kicks back into parasympathetic mode, once the rawness of emotion dulls out a bit, it will be time for positive action, now more than ever. But before that happens, I am sending you all my strength, my love, my thoughts, my support - please, feel your feelings! I believe in each and every one of you!
November 7, 2024 at 5:23 PM