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Aster • 郴中芝

@nuktia.bsky.social

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🌒 29 | Concept Artist | Chinese adoptee | They/Them 🦉 A roaming ghost who draws creatures, OCs, and fan art ✏️ Sketch account: sanzuwuya.bsky.social ✨ Current brainrot: Signalis, Nine Sols - https://linktr.ee/nuktia

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Aster • 郴中芝 @nuktia.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hello Bluesky!

I’m Aster, and I’m a concept artist and illustrator who loves drawing creatures, OCs, fan art, and fantasy subjects.

I’m a little shy, but I hope to connect with more art friends here!

#digitalart #illustrator #conceptartist #oc #art

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𝖙𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖍 🦷🌿 @toothandbranch.bsky.social · 10d

fang of briars, gleaming hearth ✧ #oc #dnd

A woman looks over her shoulder with a fiery look, a tear streaking down her face. Text floats in front of her, repeating "You could kill us all" thrice.

A yellow eye glares from behind an ivory kitsune mask, worn by a black-coated tabaxi. Glowing text in front repeats itself thrice, reading "You're going to get us all killed" but it gets more distorted each time.

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · 11d

From His Chest · 2021

Digital illustration in the style of a vintage storybook. A man peacefully sits in a sparse forest with his back against a tree stump. Muted red flowers grow out of his chest. Below the illustration reads “several flowers bloomed from his chest.”

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鳥住ヨモ @birdmofu.bsky.social · 11d

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Aster • 郴中芝 @nuktia.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks!

Aster • 郴中芝 @nuktia.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you!!

Aster • 郴中芝 @nuktia.bsky.social · 12d

Push Your Luck (2018)
#rabbit #hare #digitalart #illustration

A rabbit painted like porcelain is shattered into pieces. It is suspended mid-leap with cleaner breaks around its neck and midsection. Shards fly off around the broken areas, and a few cracks appear along the torso and legs.

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Aster • 郴中芝 @nuktia.bsky.social · Sep 8

I have not drawn anything for Silksong yet, but I hope this sketch of Hornet from 2018 is an acceptable offering
#hollowknight #silksong #sketch #fanart

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Laurz Drawz | they/them @illaurastrates.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Aster • 郴中芝 @nuktia.bsky.social · Sep 1

I'm Still Here (2020)
#dragon #fantasy #digitalart #tarot

An illustration depicting a serpent stabbed by nine golden swords. It has three red glowing eyes, a mouth agape, and its long dark body recedes into the background. From the sword wounds, the serpent bleeds gold. The alternative title for this piece is "Nine of Swords", referencing tarot and the symbolism of that card.

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Aster • 郴中芝 @nuktia.bsky.social · Aug 30

Starmaker (2016)
#oc #fantasy #digitalart #surreal

A primordial creation god composed of several different animal skulls, many scorched hands, and wears the sea as a cloak. The leading skull is of a wolf's with antlers. The other skulls are a crow, an owl, a ram, and a tiger. Waves make up their body, and their many hands are all in various poses. One set of hands in the upper right corner glows gold fire.

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Aster • 郴中芝 @nuktia.bsky.social · Aug 29

I am so stoked for Silksong, and at the same time I hope it doesn’t replace my brain rot for Signalis and Nine Sols. I wish for it to be squished in alongside them so I have three interests rotating in my mind like a rotisserie chicken

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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · Aug 21

Genuinely happy that the 7 year long development time was spent working at a leisurely pace, spending time with their families and flexing their creative muscles - with no pressure to expand their company, deliver sooner or read a single reddit post. Smartest people in our entire industry.

Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · Aug 21

BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really.

Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are.

This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Why ‘Silksong’ Took Seven Years to Make

The highly anticipated indie game has been in production for so long that it’s become an internet meme

www.bloomberg.com

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Aster • 郴中芝 @nuktia.bsky.social · Aug 25

Choking on Words (2018)
#deer #illustration #surreal #digitalart

A bust of a deer. Most of the deer is desaturated, except its eyes and the smoke emanating from its mouth are bright blue. Wispy "tears" run from the eyes. The smoke wraps loosely around the deer's neck, then trails down to the bottom of the canvas.

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Matt Kehler @mattkehlerart.bsky.social · Jul 20

If you see this, post your purple art

#thelegendofzelda #ocarinaoftime #artshare #arttrain

Sheik, The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time

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💀Skulls and Sheets👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · Aug 24

A mari and her candle, with a slight nod to the macker fiesta in the cloak

A mari floating across a black rectangle holding her cloak with one skeleton hand and a candle in the other, the smoke curls round the mari. The cloak is separated into triangular sections with patterns and florals and some sea and fish. The horse skull points up to the right

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リズ @rizunm.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Aster • 郴中芝 @nuktia.bsky.social · Aug 19

finally got word back from hr about an accommodation request i submitted 3 months ago. honestly wasn't expecting them to approve it with how long it took for them to get back to me. finally have closer-to-normal work hours. i really hope this change will help me get back into creating more art

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Mr. Escher A. Bug, MSc @escherbug.art · Aug 17

You don't need genAI to make art for you, you just don't want to do the work that it takes to get good, and you don't need to make that everyone else's problem.
Just use your money to pay someone if all you want is the end product, that's a perfectly respectable way to conceive art form your ideas.

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Mr. Escher A. Bug, MSc @escherbug.art · Aug 17

I'll say it once and I'll say it again. If you think artists are just "naturally talented", you're deeply wrong. The only difference between you and us is that we kept trying when it didn't come out like we hoped.
You can always make art yourself. There's no bad time to start, you can start now.