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✨ jay °˖➴ booking FLASH!

@jaystor.bsky.social

THE ENDSINGER.... slooooowly approaching completion on this backpiece 🥹

#ffxiv #endwalker #wip

August 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM

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Jenny 👑 🔜 Toronto Game Expo

@royalprat.bsky.social

Artfight attack I did for @starlantern.bsky.social of their character Tala! #artfight2025

August 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM

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maddie 🌹&

@maddie.vision

icymi! Starlight Festival hosted by @infloresce.com VOD is now up on YouTube for your listening pleasure youtu.be/uhrDjNNvHd8

thanks to all the amazing musicians submitting such lovely music for this!!! everyone did so well ✨

⭐️ friendship forever ⭐️

Starlight Festival | an Infloresce & Friends music event

YouTube video by Infloresce Records

youtu.be

August 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM

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JSH

@85jsh.bsky.social

Oracle

July 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM

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xMichiyo (Comms OPEN!)

@xmichiyo.bsky.social

Artfight friendly fire for @starlantern.bsky.social !!!! 💙

July 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM

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BeeKirby

@beekirby.bsky.social

can we do pride month again i was busy

June 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM

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jade✨ @ sin city anime A17

@say0ranarts.bsky.social

XXII - the fool #persona3

June 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM

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Sylessae

@sylessae.bsky.social

You don't have to earn the title of artist.

You become an artist the day you begin creating.

The years of growth and exploration happen as a result.

But you are always an artist when you create.

June 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM

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Tom McH

@tommchenry.bsky.social

Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find.

They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.

INTRODUCTION

Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling.

You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse.

You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life.

TIPS

1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way

possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything.

2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought.

3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook.

6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes.

7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case.

8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes.

9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out.

10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.

March 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM

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Seren🌷

@ieafy.bsky.social

Skitty up a tree!

April 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM

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Dot Pixel Challenge!

@dotpixelchallenge.bsky.social

Good morning!
Here is todays prompt!

#dotpixelchallenge #artchallenge #pixelart

A vague pixel to inspire you

Colors
Navy blues
Vibrant blues
Yelow
Cyan
Teal
Magenta and dark magenta

March 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM

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nono ➡️ Commissions open!

@nonoworks.bsky.social

wip

March 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM

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Dot Pixel Challenge!

@dotpixelchallenge.bsky.social

Did you miss sone of our older challenge prompts?
Fear not!

#dotpixelchallenge #artchallenge #pixelart

The first groups of our vague pixel characters to inspire your art!
Use #dotpixelchallenge to share your work!

March 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM

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Sami Mark

@samimarkart.bsky.social

feeling excited for spring and felt inspired to draw some plants (and bugs of course)

#bugsky

illustration of Midwest prairie plants with different insects on them, including different life stages of monarch butterflies, a beetle, a wasp and a bee. text below the artwork says “protect local pollinators”

March 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM

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SPiNDLE

@aidenr0.bsky.social

🧡

March 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM

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Gaziter

@gaziter.bsky.social

Doing art is like playing a roguelike, when you just start out you might get lucky and make a good piece here and there.
but it’s not about beating a run once, the real mastery comes after you do it over and over until you learn the systems and tools and can win consistently.

March 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM

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Mon 🌻 resting and existing

@madqueenmomo.bsky.social

Its time! its time!
Our colouring book is out

shae (halloween over) @vesperosy.bsky.social · Mar 23

The Prismatic Path is now available for download!!

🔗👇

"Available Now! The Prismatic Path is now available for digital download! March 22 - April 26"

Image: The cover of The Prismatic Path, which is black and white and features Coco, Agott, Richeh and Tetia running down an illuminated stone path

March 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM

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Kane

@kaneblob.bsky.social

Creation

March 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM

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meyo 🌸

@meyoco.bsky.social

witch’s desk ✨🌿

Artwork of a witch working on a desktop computer decorated with lots of potted plants, books, and tiny windows and doors.

March 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM

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Jackdu

@vavafle.bsky.social

March 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM

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KID l 즘 ♦️

@kidwma.bsky.social

Looking for artist fellas here on BSKY?
Check out #LAF feed!

LAF stands for [Looking for Artist Friends!]
It is made to discover artists more easily here on BSKY.

Please read the rules and use the hashtag to introduce yourself to the others, and make friends!

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