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pat | COMMISSIONS OPEN @patsux.bsky.social · 21h

i do not care about these ai products everyone is selling me! holy shit!

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Andrea @oceandrea.bsky.social · 18h

Good luck!

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Andrea @oceandrea.bsky.social · 1d

Have you ever considered offering "sponsorship" commissions, i.e., a client pays you to specifically make personal art? I've seen a few other artists marketing this as an option.

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pat | COMMISSIONS OPEN @patsux.bsky.social · 2d

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Digital painting of a woman with bird wings. There is a sliver of blue plumage on her neck and chest area. Her entire forearms and hands are covered in blue feathers, and her nails are sharp like talons. She is wearing a silver bustier, which is hugging her wasit tightly, and she is wearing a sheer dress underneath.

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🏳️‍🌈 Jessica the Bestica 🎨 Taking some R&R ☕ @anireal.bsky.social · Mar 9

🌿Poison Ivy Cover 33🌿

'An awful tragedy is unfolding...'

DC Comic' character Janet is wearing a dress with flowers adorning it. 3 white doves fly around her and one is handing Janet an ivy sprig in her outstretched hand. There are dead bodies and rotting skeletons around Janet in a swamp setting.

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pikat @pikat.io · Mar 29

art is so hard but im too stupid to stop

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BAKER @fuckyoubaker.bsky.social · 3d

MONDAY.
SPITE AS FUEL.

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 4d

#daily 33: dual topics – spirits | skeletal knight

Skeletal knight before a wall of spirits

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Lauren Walsh @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 4d

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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Chris Lau Manson 阿劉 @chrislaumanson.bsky.social · 4d

Look at the bravery of these folks.

And then look at the cowardice of the thugs. Watch them flee once they've been inconvenienced.

These are petulant children cosplaying as "warriors".

Resistance comes in many forms - making things inconvenient for the fascists is often incredibly effective.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 4d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Matt Kehler @mattkehlerart.bsky.social · 8d

Cursed Relics 🔮- Shadowfang Blade | Starry Cloak
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#cursedrelics2025 #darkfantasy #fantasyart #Procreate #cursedrelics #illustration
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Prompt list by @albabbgg.bsky.social

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Andrea @oceandrea.bsky.social · 4d

Having one of those weeks where I feel like I forgot how to draw.

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✯ An Anxious Inkwell ✯ @aorticinkwell.bsky.social · 5d

♦️The Shy♦️

#Art #ArtSky #OC #OCsky #Elf

Illustration of an elf hiding their face behind a fur trim on their coat. They are adorned with elaborate jewelry and finery. The color palette is pinks and purples.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 5d

Bear with me, I am sick

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Andrea @oceandrea.bsky.social · 6d

I like to think my rendering technique has improved a bit!

Andrea @oceandrea.bsky.social · 6d

Currently redesigning Blackthorn for his BBEG era. My first drawing of him (ca. 2023) versus my most recent drawing of him (ca. two days ago). #CharacterDesign #Art #OC #DnD

My earliest design for Blackthorn, a somewhat haggard looking eleven man with pale skin, yellow eyes, black hair, and barely visible scars. The rendering is a little clunky and his facial folds are a mess, but he's smiling through it.

Blackthorn as he was always meant to be: scarred to holy hell and sneering down at the viewer. His scars now dominate his right side of his face, into his scalp (where no hair grows), and extend to his diminished ear. He's still got his creepy yellow eyes and disheveled black hair. The rendering quality has improved pretty significantly? I dunno, you be the judge of that.

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Emily Schnall @emilyschnall.bsky.social · 8d

Oh no it’s October and my cat has become wampire 🧛‍♂️🎃

Illustration of a black cat in a dracula cloak with a hypnotic background

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Andrea @oceandrea.bsky.social · 9d

You should be proud! That's so much work, and you clearly put a lot of thought into the designs. I really admire your rendering skill, especially on the character's torso.

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 10d

they are destroying US climate science on purpose, and it hurts my heart. but take it from an MIT-trained nerdass:

all most of us need to know is that we have to stop burning stuff

stop burning stuff for heat

stop burning stuff for make car go

stop burning stuff for power

we have the tools

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Andrea @oceandrea.bsky.social · 10d

Owyn #OC

A rough pencil sketch portrait of a young Black man, a Knowledge Cleric of Deneir, named Owyn. He wears his hair in shoulder-length, semi-freeform, chunky dreadlocks, and is developing a beard. The holy symbol of Deneir—an eye topped with a candle—is worn as a dainty earring. He has large, kind eyes behind round spectacles.

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 11d

trump is the only person stupid enough to make it possible for a fairy tale about a sinister grand vizier feeding false visions of the world to the king to take place in 2025

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Ashley Hankinstein Illustration 🌙 @ashleydoesartstuff.com · 11d

Saw a video that permanently rewired my brain about research: Don't look at it from the perspective of doing it "because you have to". That makes it a chore. Do it because you're a nosy bitch that wants to find out.

And y'know what....hell yeah.
I DO want to find out! 😂

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Andrea @oceandrea.bsky.social · 12d

My current PC is her protégé, Owyn—a kindly, bookish Knowledge Cleric of Deneir and Harper. His familiar is a sentient clockwork tressym named Codex. They are currently in the Outlands (Plaguemort) attempting to prevent the summoning of the Red Shroud by Graz'zt cultists. He thought Thay was bad...

A sketch of Owyn and Codex, a young black man and mechanical tressym familiar, respectively. They are both pondering words on a page out-of-frame.

An older painting of Owyn. A young Black man with amber eyes hidden behind large, round spectacles. He wears his hair in shoulder-length, chunky, semi-freeform dreadlocks.

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Andrea @oceandrea.bsky.social · 12d

Congrats, and thanks for hosting! Thea is my College of Whispers Bard/Assassin Rogue, whom I started playing in my very first campaign two years ago. She is the Royal High Spymistress of Cormyr, a Harper, and a then vampire spawn who annihilated Mephistopheles with Blackrazor (a soul-eating rapier).

Various sketches of my character Thea, a half-elven bard/rogue vampire spawn with pale skin, dark hair, red eyes, and fangs. In most of the sketches, she is wearing various types of stylized armor and wielding a rapier.

A crop of a portrait in progress. A half-elven woman with pale skin, green eyes, and dark hair.

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سيف | 🇵🇸 @chanafehs.bsky.social · 12d

The Divine herself, Lady Vivienne
{ #art #dragonage }

Study of Frédéric Soulacroix’s ‘Vanity’ as Vivienne from dragon age inquisition. She is sitting in a pastel blue satin dress posed with a glass of wine and a staff in the shape of a swan. She has warm rich brown skin and a shaved head. She is wearing a golden circlet and a matching gold necklace in the shape of the circle of magi.

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