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Stephanie Cost

@perstephane.bsky.social

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I’m an artist and art director with a passion for color, nature, Tarot and the fantasy genre. https://www.stephaniecost.com/ 🚫AI

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · Oct 23

Indanthrone

This pigment started appearing in artist palettes in the 1950s, and was created to imitate indigo. It’s often used to paint the night sky.

I started this piece before the pandemic, and it’s been with me as a WIP through burnout, broken computers and depression. It compelled me though.

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 1d

I fell off in early C3, but this new campaign has started so well that I think the whole thing is going to be amazing tbh.

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 1d

"Oh, Lord, I feel the reveling
I feel a change on the rise."

Tyranny the demon, from Critical Role's new campaign. She's only dimmed a few times this week. 🩷

#criticalrole

A pink demon lady in a big teal ruffle dress. This is what's In now, I don't make the rules.

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Serena 𓆏🍉 @froggygoon.bsky.social · 4d

Did Laura Bailey’s acting skills already make me cry during the first episode of @criticalrole.bsky.social campaign 4? Well yes. what an incredible start to this new story!!!🧵🪡🤎

#criticalrole #criticalrolefanart #laurabailey #illustration #criticalrolecampaign4 #dnd #fantasyillustration

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🦇🩸Hexavier🩸🦇 @xavierck.com · May 8

If you've ever seen these photos online, you may be interested to know I took them about 15 years ago

You may also be interested to know that I did a 3D scan of this exact same Asaro Planes of the Head model, and you can get that scan here for zero moneys:

drive.google.com/file/d/1_W-2...

Several images of a John Asaro Planes of the Head model from the 1970s. It sits on an off-white background under soft natural light.

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 6d

Oh hell yeah, I love this design.

Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 8d

I don't know what either of those two words mean 🫠

Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 8d

😭😭😭 Thank you Sophie

Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 8d

Viscount Hemlock is amazing! 💕

Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 8d

This sculpt is so amazing. Hard to believe it's "rough"!

Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 8d

*sleepily bookmarks*

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you! 🥹

Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 8d

I have a brand new website!

It feels insane to promote anything right now, because the world is terrible, but I'm hoping to send free artsy phone wallpapers to my newsletter.

Please check out the site, and let me know if you like newsletters. Or show me a picture of your pet. Or both!

Stephanie Cost

www.stephaniecost.com

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 18d

10/10, cursed, extremely relatable

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Nikki Dawes @nikkidawes.bsky.social · 21d

Something I had rolling around in my head since the KIM chats last December that I just now got around to doing. #warframefanart #tennocreate #warframe

A fake TTRPG player's handbook cover based on Fables & Frontiers mentioned in Warframe. It features all of the Hex as fantasy class versions of themselves. Amir is a rogue dual wielding daggers. Quincy is a Ranger with a longbow and Kalymos as his loyal pet. Aoi is a bard playing a lute. Arthur is a paladin in plate armor. Eleanor is a warlock wielding dark magics. Lettie is a cleric who lifts her whip aloft as it glows with holy magic. Corrupted vines twist in front of the group. Albrect Entrati looms large in the back with Entrati themed armor.

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 20d

Here’s some neat moths to help take the edge off.

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · Sep 2

All the paint tubes in the world can't disguise this shit

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Fabraz - Demon Tides & Bubsy 4D @fabraz.bsky.social · Sep 1

Talking of (bob)cats, my good friend and teammate's cat Sage has been going through hell lately.

The family opened up a GoFundMe page because they need help paying the mountainous vet bills. It would mean the world to me if you could help them out!

gofund.me/0c7f1019

Picture of the GoFundMe campaign linked above.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Sep 1

Ditto.

A little collie with a black-and-brown face and white-and-black body sits in her human’s arms with a sign reading, “I BITE FASCISTS”

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𝕰𝖒𝖎𝖊 @emiebie.bsky.social · Aug 28

💫 ”Where the Shooting Stars Go”

#art #painting #acrylicpainting #sketchbook #illustration #paint #artist

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · Aug 30

I feel the same way. I learned my lesson with The Great Covid Joy Scroll when we all thought he was gonna kick the bucket then.

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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · Aug 28

Dark fossil colour-way of the repeat pattern I designed for author @carterkeane.bsky.social

as part of the rollout for her upcoming debut horror novella “MORSEL” (Tor Nightfire 2026) 🎨

Swatch card of my cicada ohio themed repeat pattern for horror author Carter Keane. White rectangle swatch card with the text "Babe&Oak cicada repeat pattern for author Carter Keane" with my arch stamp at the bottom right. Inside the swatch card is part of the pattern. The swatch card sits on top of a finer scale print of the pattern as a background. The whole thing is in dark fossil colour way of grey purple and and muted light warm grey.

Plot description for the horror novella MORSEL by Carter Keane for Tor Nightfire on top of the repeat cicada pattern in the dark fossil colour way. Text reads “The Blair Witch Project meets The Ritual, with a generous helping of The Menu, in Morsel, a delicious folk horror novella perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher, Cassandra Khaw, and Paul Tremblay.
Lou did what the children of parents with back breaking, poor paying jobs are supposed to do; pulled up her bootstraps, went to college, and got an office job with coworkers who won'trstop talking about their multi-level marketing scheme disguised as self-betterment
Determined to lift her ill mother out of poverty before it's too late, and in the spirit of climbing the corporate ladder, Lou accepts an assignment in the rural hills of Ohio. She quickly finds herself stranded in the middle of nowhere with ra sabotaged truck, a dog she's determined to keep safe, and something stalking her through the ancient Appalachian woods.
If she can't escape the woods in time, she's going to find out that her job isn't the only thing that wants to eat her alive.
Morsel is a chilling testament to the burden of generational poverty and the all-consuming nature of capitalism, where® the monster and the monstrous, in the end, are not the same.
Out April 2026!”

Cover of the horror novella MORSEL by Carter Keane for Tor Nightfire with annotations of story element highlights on top of the repeat cicada pattern I created in the dark fossil colour way

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Robin Thorne @whatrobindoes.bsky.social · Aug 29

I am so so excited to announce @dmconfidential.bsky.social's first adventure, available to ALL paid Patreon subscribers. Just this once. 💕11 pages of adventure that fits into any setting, perfect for fans of haunted forests!

www.patreon.com/DMConfidential

Header art by @perstephane.bsky.social

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MEANBOSSART @meanbossart.bsky.social · Aug 17

"to get anywhere as an artist you need to make instagram reels" "you need to draw memes" "you need to go to conventions" wrong wrong wrong you just need to be insane

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · Aug 16

Angry? Have I got a link for you

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Rebecca Scarborough @bexart.bsky.social · Apr 1

It's Trans Day of Visibility, so here is a painting I did last month inspired by the trans pride flag and the year of the snake. Y'all deserve so much more than the bullshit out there!

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