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Trust me, I’m a rocket scientist | Professional lurker trying to lurk less | #art #ballroomdance #characterart #dnd #minis #weather
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flairiart.bsky.social
Art train 🚋💙

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November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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knightwriter.bsky.social
Choo choo 🚂

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Portrait painting of Judit Guerra Sketch portrait of Milana Vayntrub Sketch portrait of Alana Araya Portrait drawing of Anya Chalotra
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
rocketdancing.bsky.social
Choo choo 🚂

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Bust of a mage wearing a blue and gold witch’s hat. She is facing left in 3/4 pose, with her eyes closed. She has her left hand over her left shoulder, and is casting a purple light spell with it. View of an armored demoness from behind in a dimly-lit scene. She is wearing leather armor with red metallic plate pieces on the legs, arms, shoulders and chest; and she wields two long, narrow, dark blades. The scene is dimly lit, with no sources of light except for distant flame and smoke in the background and off screen. A mermaid/siren with fair skin, dark red hair and green scales is laying on a boulder jutting out of tranquil waters at night. A full moon hovers over the horizon, reflecting onto the waters below. Off to the distant left, a dual-masted sailing ship has crashed against a boulder and caught aflame. Full-body illustration of a succubus standing on a stairwell. Her long blonde hair cascades behind her shoulders and down her back, with two pairs of horns protruding from her forehead. Her large bat-like wings span her back, and a dark reddish tail swishes behind her. She wears a floor-length mermaid sequined dress that accentuates her figure. She twists her body slightly in contrapposto, with her torso facing left, while her head turns to the right to face the viewer.
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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mattlanza.bsky.social
892 mb and 185 mph. Very few places in the world in modern history have ever experienced what Jamaica is experiencing right now. Hurricanes of this magnitude directly hitting a major land mass are exceptionally rare.
nws.noaa.gov National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 14d
A 10am EDT update from the National Hurricane Center now puts Melissa's sustained winds at 185 mph. Full text: www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh...?
October 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
rocketdancing.bsky.social
quote with your red art ♥️

#art #characterart
Portrait of a woman with her hands behind her head, holding her hair up. She is lit by a harsh, bright red light off to the left; there are no other sources of light, so the remainder of the bust is in shadow.
October 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
rocketdancing.bsky.social
Artists! Quote with your night art 🌌

#art #characterart #siren #mermaid #oc
A mermaid/siren with fair skin, dark red hair and green scales is laying on a boulder jutting out of tranquil waters at night. A full moon hovers over the horizon, reflecting onto the waters below. Off to the distant left, a dual-masted sailing ship has crashed against a boulder and caught aflame.
October 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
rocketdancing.bsky.social
Huh, TIL that the white bangs have a name…

Here’s Agatha and her money pieces

#dnd #tango #3dmini
Rendering of a 3D mini of a pale woman with a red dress and black hair with white money pieces. She is in a high Corte position. Same thing but painted
October 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
rocketdancing.bsky.social
Would a spooky month really be complete without a witch?

#art #characterart #halloweenart
Bust of a mage wearing a blue and gold witch’s hat. She is facing left in 3/4 pose, with her eyes closed. She has her left hand over her left shoulder, and is casting a purple light spell with it.
October 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
rocketdancing.bsky.social
Accidentally went outside just in time to see the plume from the Starlink 11-20 launch #rocket #falcon9
“Jellyfish” produced by backlight scattering from an expanding plume from a Falcon 9 launch
September 29, 2025 at 2:27 AM
rocketdancing.bsky.social
Post a Mage. 🔥

#art #characterart #3dmini #3dprinting #dnd
Full-body illustration of the Winged Wizard, a succubus mage standing on a stairwell. Her long blonde hair cascades behind her shoulders and down her back, with two pairs of horns protruding from her forehead. Her large bat-like wings span her back, and a dark reddish tail swishes behind her. She wears a floor-length mermaid sequined dress that accentuates her figure. She twists her body slightly in contrapposto, with her torso facing left, while her head turns to the right to face the viewer. 3D miniature of the Winged Wizard 3D printed and painted miniature of the Winged Wizard
September 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
rocketdancing.bsky.social
“Never take your eyes off the lady from the milonga. Not that you would anyways.”

In retrospect, it probably wasn’t a good idea to start painting w/o a real photo ref, but I’m still happy with how the colors/values came out.

Bonus: New HeroForge mini of her!

#dnd #oc #art #tango #ballroomdance
Full-body painting of a woman wearing a high-slit red dress. She is mid-stride with both of her knees bent, and her weight moving towards her right leg. High-intensity edge lighting is falling on the figure from left to right, producing deep shadows. 3D render of a miniature of the same woman.
September 15, 2025 at 1:25 AM
rocketdancing.bsky.social
See a devil girl, post a devil girl 😈

Shoutout to the Winged Wizard, she was always so much fun to play as…

#characterart #art #dnd
Full-body illustration of a succubus standing on a stairwell. Her long blonde hair cascades behind her shoulders and down her back, with two pairs of horns protruding from her forehead. Her large bat-like wings span her back, and a dark reddish tail swishes behind her. She wears a floor-length mermaid sequined dress that accentuates her figure. She twists her body slightly in contrapposto, with her torso facing left, while her head turns to the right to face the viewer.
August 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
rocketdancing.bsky.social
Painting style study. (Yes I draw women without horns sometimes…)

#art #portrait
Painterly-style portrait of a woman in a dark teal dress. She is looking upwards and to the right, and is holding her right hand over her left arm.
August 19, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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geckzilla.bsky.social
Worked on this yesterday with my new found free time with the kid starting school.

From HST Proposal 17067,
The diversity of protoplanetary disks: Imaging a complete sample of edge-on disks in four nearby star-forming regions

Principal Investigator: Gaspard Duchene

flic.kr/p/2rnisMm
A serene celestial scene with soft and subtle blue clouds and a scattering of stars. The three brightest stars are nestled within a central hollow of the nebula. Their light gently reflects from the nearby cloud rim, shadowing into a vignette at the periphery. A few of the stars stand out with an orange glow. There is a tiny but noteworthy orange "hamburger" of an accreting star in the left half of the image. Looking closer, one can see the "buns" are actually broad cones of light and the "patty" is the shadow of the accreting disk of dust. The star itself is unseen. This is actually the subject of study for the image.
August 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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naolindavis.art
PSA to my fellow artist friends:

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙛𝙪𝙣, 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙧 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝.

𝙄𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙗𝙞𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙨𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙛𝙪𝙣, 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨?
July 31, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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akairiot.com
Good morning!

There's something I like to remind myself of every day:
"There is no 'better time' or 'when I'm ready'. Life already started, and time keeps passing whether I use it or not."
July 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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earthscope.org
Watch how seismometers recorded the passing earthquake waves from the magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.

Each dot in this animation is a seismic station—red 🔴 means the ground moved up, blue 🔵 means it moved down.

More ➡️ https://loom.ly/6Eo_fYc
July 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
rocketdancing.bsky.social
Also, overthinking makes it more difficult to pick up the pencil, as it adds an emotional charge to the entire act of drawing, and requires one to spend more mental energy getting over the “gravitas barrier” (for lack of a better term).

Instead: try just drawing ✍️
sylessae.bsky.social Sylessae @sylessae.bsky.social · Jul 26
You can't solve your drawing challenges without drawing.

Overthinking won't help you. It's another form or procrastination that makes the problems seem bigger.

Practice, problem solving, and persistence will get you there.
July 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
rocketdancing.bsky.social
“Sometimes a warrior’s hardest fights are away from the battlefield”

-Synne, tiefling paladin

#dnd #oc #characterart #art
Drawing of a tiefling paladin, clad in full armor, sitting under a tree during a dimly lit night. The paladin is deep in thought, with a serious expression and a clenched fist. The paladin’s shield is by her side, and her Zweihänder is impaled into the soil a few feet away from her.
July 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
rocketdancing.bsky.social
“This inferno is just the start of your punishment”

Ature’a, Gehennian Marshall

#dnd #characterart #oc #art
View of an armored demoness from behind in a dimly-lit scene. She is wearing leather armor with red metallic plate pieces on the legs, arms, shoulders and chest; and she wields two long, narrow, dark blades. The scene is dimly lit, with no sources of light except for distant flame and smoke in the background and off screen.
June 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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twoshortswords.bsky.social
I feel like every artist needs to have it said, once in a while, so listen, if the drawing looks good to you, then it looks good and it's good. That's it, call it a day and enjoy!
Life is too short to constantly worry about the correct anatomy and light source💃
June 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM
rocketdancing.bsky.social
“Just what this serene moonlit night needed… the warm light of a fire”

- Aria

#mermay #siren #oc #characterart #art
A mermaid/siren with fair skin, dark red hair and green scales is laying on a boulder jutting out of tranquil waters at night. A full moon hovers over the horizon, reflecting onto the waters below. Off to the distant left, a dual-masted sailing ship has crashed against a boulder and caught aflame.
May 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
rocketdancing.bsky.social
“I don’t judge sinners. Only the gods can do that. All the church asks of me is to bring the sinners to face their adjudicators.”

— Elektra, cleric-rogue

#art #characterart #dnd #oc
Full-body portrait of a nun in traditional habit, with black veil, tunic, scapular and gloves; and white coif, guimpe and wimple. The tunic is cut on both sides to reveal tall leather boots, belts, and exposed thighs and knees. She wields on her right hand a long rapier with an elaborate hilt.
April 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
rocketdancing.bsky.social
If you see this, QRP with your Yellow art! ☀️ 🏖️

I swear I’ll paint Calypso’s mini someday!
#characterart #art #oc #3dprint #printedmini
Portrait of Calypso, a female-presenting fiend standing on the shoreline of a beach near sunset. The viewer is looking at her from slightly in front of her left shoulder and level with the top of her forehead. She is slightly turning her head towards the viewer but is focusing on something distant off to the left. She has large bat wings and large horns that extend horizontally from above the temples before curving sharply forwards and backwards like hand axes. She is wearing a yellow strapless bikini, rose-tinted aviator sunglasses, and an oversized beach hat that rests on her horns. Behind the sunglasses are a pair of eyes with black scleras and yellow irises with a slight orange glow to them. 3D model of Calypso. The camera is at the ground, looking up at her. From this view, it is possible to see that she has a tail and that she is wearing a two-piece yellow bikini with a sarong and sandals. She is posing with her left leg on top of a volleyball, and making a peace sign with her left hand while holding a cell phone with her left. A large bottle of liquor is strapped to her left hip. 3D print of Calypso’s model in silver PLA. The viewpoint is from slightly above her head and looking down. The entire print is rotated so that she is facing to the right.
April 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
rocketdancing.bsky.social
Show me how you draw / paint women

Strong, powerful, charismatic, dangerous... and often with horns and wings 😈
Painting of Khanela, a cinnamon red-haired woman with fair skin, light blue eyes, and horns. The viewer is behind and to her left, and she is turning her head to face the viewer, showing her head in full profile view. A large dark bat-like wing protrudes from her left shoulder blade, occupying most of the left side of the image. Half-body portrait of Nicci, a female wizard. She has long blonde hair, sharp blue eyes, and wears a long black dress with arm floats made of sheer black fabric. She is looking at the viewer with a disdainful expression, and is conjuring a mote of bright fire that will presumably do 8d6 fire damage in a 20-ft radius area of effect. Portrait of Agatha, a woman with her hands behind her head, holding her hair up. She is lit by a harsh, bright red light off to the left; there are no other sources of light, so the remainder of the bust is in shadow. Full-body illustration of The Winged Wizard, a succubus standing on a stairwell. Her long blonde hair cascades behind her shoulders and down her back, with two pairs of horns protruding from her forehead. Her large bat-like wings span her back, and a dark reddish tail swishes behind her. She wears a floor-length mermaid sequined dress that accentuates her figure. She twists her body slightly in contrapposto, with her torso facing left, while her head turns to the right to face the viewer.
March 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM