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Shmork! 🦈✨ @shmork.bsky.social · 2d

✨ a new tarot card enters the villa ✨

#cuteart #cozyart #illustration #shark

an interpretation of tarot card “the star” with a shark magician and his companions in the cloud summoning or holding a star

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Kenza @kenzamaka.sheath.church · 27d

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Shmork! 🦈✨ @shmork.bsky.social · 1d

haha it’s a valid question though! I haven’t posted/made that many yet :p
thank you, I appreciate the kind words!💜 makes me happy that my silly Shmork is bringing joy ^^

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Shmork! 🦈✨ @shmork.bsky.social · 1d

thank you!💜 i am hoping to make at least illustrations for the major arcana but it will take a while haha :D ive started this maybe half a year ago and I’m only on 6th card ..maybe one day i can make a full deck!:)

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Shmork! 🦈✨ @shmork.bsky.social · 1d

ah i’m so happy to hear!! thank you for your kind words 🥹

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Shmork! 🦈✨ @shmork.bsky.social · 2d

awww hahah thank you 🥹💜

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Shmork! 🦈✨ @shmork.bsky.social · 2d

same energy?

a part of “the star” tarot illustration with shark magician where a small shark companion is belly up

a meme in which a diver rotates a shark and a caption “get rotated. idiot.”

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Shmork! 🦈✨ @shmork.bsky.social · 2d

✨ a new tarot card enters the villa ✨

#cuteart #cozyart #illustration #shark

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Shmork! 🦈✨ @shmork.bsky.social · 6d

a little #sharktober doodle ^^
1/ flower :p

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Shmork! 🦈✨ @shmork.bsky.social · 26d

the devil 😈

#art #cuteart #shark #tarot

an interpretation of tarot card “the Devil”
a vampire shmork with his companions against a big moon and the clouds, looking all epic

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 25d

It's that time of year where the autumn colours are coming in 🍂

A tangle of tree branches over a small stream surrounded by some colourful forest foliage

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Shmork! 🦈✨ @shmork.bsky.social · 26d

the devil 😈

#art #cuteart #shark #tarot

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Shmork! 🦈✨ @shmork.bsky.social · Aug 30

🌑 the moon 🌑

i’ve been absent for a bit, mostly because i have been busy with kickstarter things and manufacturing new goodies for upcoming conventions :)
can’t promise to post more often, but i am alive and making things!:D

#art #oc #shark

a shark wizard telling stories by the campfire to his shark companions

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Shmork! 🦈✨ @shmork.bsky.social · Sep 2

thank you 💜

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · Jul 6

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape.

You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

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Shmork! 🦈✨ @shmork.bsky.social · Aug 30

🌑 the moon 🌑

i’ve been absent for a bit, mostly because i have been busy with kickstarter things and manufacturing new goodies for upcoming conventions :)
can’t promise to post more often, but i am alive and making things!:D

#art #oc #shark

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Shmork! 🦈✨ @shmork.bsky.social · Apr 27

The Sun

#tarot #shark #ocsky

an illustration: my take on tarot card "The Sun". Shark mage and his companionson a picnic in the mountain fields; the companions are chasing butterflies, it's a sunny day

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Unity002🔞 @unkn0wn-204.bsky.social · Jun 7

I don't really like the basic pose because ive been trying to draw more dynamic poses, but lord please have mercy on me 😭😞

(Oc belongs to @shmork.bsky.social
Thanks a lot for letting me draw em <33)

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QUΞL @quelfabulous.bsky.social · May 22

I am actively seeking contract work!
UI/UX Art, Card/Book Illustrations, & Concept Art.

I'm a #gamedev affected by layoffs this year. I'm so hungry to work on some really cool projects. Please spread the word if you need an agile, versatile 2D artist that crushes deadlines!
mbrackett.carrd.co

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Shmork! 🦈✨ @shmork.bsky.social · May 1

my kickstarter for the little plushie Shmork is live!!
Please consider sharing to bring this little guy to life!:D

www.kickstarter.com/projects/shm...

Shmork Plushie - a cute shark with legs!

A cute chonky shark with legs - now in a cuddly plush form!

www.kickstarter.com

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Shmork! 🦈✨ @shmork.bsky.social · May 11

quick doodle of lil thresher shark ocs :p

#art #shark #illust #oc

an illustration of two anthropomorphic thresher sharks

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Shmork! 🦈✨ @shmork.bsky.social · May 9

ancestors 🦈✨

#art #shark #illust

an illustration depicting a warrior, little shark with legs, sitting at the foot of a statue of his ancestors in a field of flowers

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Shmork! 🦈✨ @shmork.bsky.social · May 11

just got funded!! Thank you so much to all who’ve shared, liked or backed! It means the world 💜

and if you want to get your own little shark guy, the campaign runs till 9th of June. I will also be at Dokomi where you can see him in real life!:)

Shmork! 🦈✨ @shmork.bsky.social · May 1

my kickstarter for the little plushie Shmork is live!!
Please consider sharing to bring this little guy to life!:D

www.kickstarter.com/projects/shm...

Shmork Plushie - a cute shark with legs!

A cute chonky shark with legs - now in a cuddly plush form!

www.kickstarter.com

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Shmork! 🦈✨ @shmork.bsky.social · May 15

😭

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nanna 🍙 @dotswap.bsky.social · May 13

👻 PARACOSM 👻

A birthday Illustration of my original character, Cassidy. She turns 12 years old today, the 13th of May 2025. Fun fact - she started out as my Toon in the online game Runescape.

The drawing shows her seated on a swing, with her dark hair and ghost companions swirling around her. Her one eye is lit up in a bright lilac, the general color pallette a grayish blue purple.

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