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Theren Lazauski @therewren.bsky.social · 11d

Congrats, and good luck! I hope you heal well and quickly.

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Rachel Quinlan @rachelquinlan.bsky.social · 23d

5 hours left on my patch campaign and we are less than $100 away from the last stretch goal. Check it out here!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/w...

#ttrpg #rpg #patch

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Emily Hare @emilyhare.co.uk · 28d

It's my birthday!! I'm 49 - how did that happen? I would LOVE it if you could share or follow my art for my birthday, that would be a brilliant gift! Thank you everyone who follows and comments, it is such a great place here! 49 feels ace btw. #artshare #birthday #watercolour
www.emilyhare.co.uk

huge dragon (only the head visible) resting in a body of water in a forest. Lots of vines and tree branches dangling down, a stream running over its head and a great white egret taking off from the water next to it.

a mermaid with a pink tail resting on a rock and leaning back on her hands as her tail comes out of the water. In the background is a lagoon and some cliffs and further back the hint of a waterfall

a precarious tall hill with a wizard's house sitting on top of it with a wisp of smoke coming out of the chimney. It is dusk and all the windows are yellow with the light from inside.

a large winged blue dragon prepares to land on a nest with two baby blue dragons waiting in the nest for their dinner.

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Theren Lazauski @therewren.bsky.social · Jul 7

If I'm just doodling, I'll usually stay on the same page andtry to fill it up, but sometimes I just really want a fresh start.

...though if I haven't used much of the page yet, sometimes I draw a dividing line around it and that's often enough of a fresh start feeling for me.

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Rachel Quinlan @rachelquinlan.bsky.social · Jun 18

Warm-up - watercolor & gouache study

#painting #traditionalmedia

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Theren Lazauski @therewren.bsky.social · May 27

Good luck, I hope it all goes well!

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Melinda Vass @whiteraven90.bsky.social · Mar 8

how do you know you drew a creature yawning correctly? You start yawning when you look at it, that's how

(WHEN WILL IT STOP? PLS MAKE IT STOP)

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🌿Rowynn Ellis @rowynnellis.bsky.social · Mar 5

Just finished uploading the remainder of my portfolio to Cara, I quite like the platform and do wish there was a bit more activity there:
cara.app/rowynnellis

Rowynn Ellis (@rowynnellis) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform

Illustrator: WizardsOTC, Eye of Newt Press, Astra Publishing, Displate, Author of ‘Welsh Monsters’ 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

cara.app

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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · Feb 24

Pussywillow-Tailed Cats - 2024

[ #art #illustration #botanicats ]

The spring stems of the pussywillow plant. The flowers are puffy and white and line the stems like pompoms. Amongst the flowers are tiny cats of the same colors who have tails that mimic the pussywillow flowers perfectly.

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Ladee Danger @ladeedanger.com · Feb 13

ARTISTS 🎨

Wizards has opened up online portfolio submissions! If you’ve always wanted a chance to work on Magic art here is your opportunity to show us what you’ve got! #WotCStaff #art #artsky

company.wizards.com/en/freelance...

Freelance Art Submissions | Wizards of the Coast

Are you an aspiring Wizards of the Coast artist? Submit your portfolio today for review by our art directors!

company.wizards.com

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Elly is 3 birds in a scarecrow costume @almost-elly.bsky.social · Feb 19

I felt bad making him wait in the -35 cold so that I could film this before giving out so very the politely requested peanuts, but I finally got a blue jay at my door doing the legendary R2D2 blue jay warble!!! SOUND ON! #birds 🪶

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Coyote & Crow Games @coyoteandcrow.bsky.social · Feb 3

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!
We're opening up our doors for art submissions for our new card game, Primacy! If you're an artist and you want to have your art in our next game, you can read all of the details on our submission page: coyoteandcrow.net/primacy/ #NativeSky #Indigenous #games #tabletop Please share

Primacy - Coyote & Crow Games

Primacy is an expandable card game set in the world of Coyote & Crow. You’ll take on the role of one of the five nations of Makasing and attempt to outmaneuver and outscore your opponent, solving chal...

coyoteandcrow.net

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Umbra Atramentum @umbraatramentum.bsky.social · Jan 31

For anyone who could use a variety of animal, plant or fungi references, NO AI.

iNaturalist is a website and app that is a civil science project where anyone can contribute photos of nature to the app and help in data collection. Its fun, free, and I've been using it for years.
www.inaturalist.org

iNaturalist

iNaturalist is a social network for naturalists! Record your observations of plants and animals, share them with friends and researchers, and learn about the natural world.

www.inaturalist.org

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · Jan 31

Whenever I get this far into one of the projects, I start thinking about the other ones waiting for me.

Today, that means there are a bunch of shacklings scuttling around my brain.

(page from the #babayaga #sketchbook)

Artists sketchbook open with two small pencils above it. There are various graphite drawings of Baba Yaga huts, and a small portrait of a young witch.

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CarsonDrewIt @carsondrewit.bsky.social · Jan 31

The Tree of Keres

#dailysketch Day 31
#art #illustration #darkart

We made it!! A whole month of daily drawings!
Let's keep going! 🔥

A digital sketch of a woman sitting at the foot of a crooked tree. Around the base of the tree are various decomposing corpses and some weapons.

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Rachael Pease @rachaelpease.bsky.social · Jan 25

Obsessed with the details🌳✨🖤

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Paschalis Dougalis @dougalisart.bsky.social · Jan 23

A Tawny owl drawn from life in Nymphenburg park-Munich using fineliners & Faber Castell pitt pens

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Theren Lazauski @therewren.bsky.social · Jan 25

Awesome, congratulations!

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Jen C Mars @jencmars.bsky.social · Oct 24

Another hot tip for saving money:

You can refill your Micron (or similar) pens when they dry up. There are several YouTube videos, but basically pop the end off, shake out the sponge-tube, drip whatever ink you like into the sponge slowly until it's wet through, then re-assemble. Voila! Like new!

Photo of a Micron pen with the end popped off, a sort of sponge-tube half hanging out of it, along with two bottles of black ink and a ceramic knife.

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Elly is 3 birds in a scarecrow costume @almost-elly.bsky.social · Jan 17

I know the bird is just lifting one foot to warm it up, but in my head it's tapping its claws like people tapping their fingers while waiting. 😂 And in this case it had been nearly three whole minutes since the last peanut. #birds

A blue jay perches on a black metal shepherds hook next to a bird-shaped pole finial in front of a large dangling spruce branch. The bird is faxing sideways and has one foot lifted off the pole.

The same blue jay with its foot in the air, but in this picture the bird is looking down at the ground. The ground that still doesn't have any peanuts on it.

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Megan Elphick @meganelphick.bsky.social · Jan 14

Hi #PortfolioDay ! I draw strange little creatures and plants.

Elderberry Hedgehog : an ink drawing of a hedgehog with elderflowers for spines.

Ink drawing of a tortoise with a castle growing out of its shell.
A box turtle moves across the yard, his path marked by swaying weeds. He is the tortoise king, and he carries the crown of Tortledor - quote by Delilah S. Dawson

Field Agent : a drawing of a porcupine, its quills are wheat stalks, poppies and cornflowers.

A ink drawing of three dormice chilling out in an elderflower.

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Bob / S.R. Appavu @bob-artist.bsky.social · Jan 14

Hey #PortfolioDay ! I'm Bob, a product designer and cartoonist! I'm open for product work, short humor comics, and color.

2D, 3D, Adobe, CSP, Blender, 16 years doing IP/licensed products.

🔗 bob-artist.com/portfolio/
📧 bob (at) bob-artist.com

🎨 2024 viral comics: www.tumblr.com/bob-artist/7...

Panel from the viral minicomic Bittern at the Grocery Store. A bittern stretches its long neck to reach a snack on the shelf. https://bob-artist.tumblr.com/post/744345716720386048/dont-worry-his-disguise-was-flawless-and-he-got

Panel from the viral minicomic POTO Parrot. Text reads, "SING FOR ME," and an excited umbrella cockatoo puffs up and screams "AAAAAAA." https://bob-artist.tumblr.com/post/745973087800066048/im-so-sorry-i-had-to-it-was-haunting-me

Product designs for the Bradford Group's Nightmare Before Christmas shoe ornament series featuring Jack, Sally, Oogie Boogie, and Jack as Santa. © The Bradford Group. © Disney.

Splash page for a middle grade graphic novel pitch. A dark-skinned girl wearing bright clothing and knee-high socks with a circuit board pattern jumps in the air, holding a flower and a trowel. Beside her is a large, round rock with a shape vaguely suggesting a head and two hands. Behind them are a nonbinary tween with blue and purple hair holding a soldering iron, and a blond girl with blond and pink hair holding a laptop. Also included is a frazzled man who looks related to the jumping girl, and a woman in a teacher’s uniform holding a flower in a sealed container. Behind them are a man who radiates sunlight and a woman with wings made of maple tree leaves. Text reads: Ludwig the Rock. S.R. Appavu.

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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · Jan 14

Hi #portfolioday, I'm Cloudy, I draw cats and make ceramics! I have a merch shop hellocloudyart.etsy.com and a pet portrait shop hellocloudy.etsy.com

a painting of a black cat with big round eyes sitting in a pumpkin patch. in the background we can see a countryside landscape with fields and a small cottage. there are chickens in the grass nearby and a wheelbarrow filled with pumpkins with a black cat sleeping on them. there's also a black cat in front of the house door in the distance. the color palette is warm oranges, pinks, yellows and muted greens.

Drawing of a porcelain tile style white and blue cat surrounded by stylized plants - cat is licking its paw

a stylized drawing of a running black cat on dark blue background, surrounded by black plant silhouettes and yellow stars

a flat lay of ceramic plates: one painted with a babushka cat surrounded by pumpkins, one shaped and painted liek a barn owl, one curled up cat painted with autumn foliage, 2 curled up orange cats surrounded by pumpkin vines, one is bigger and the other one smaller, two plates are shaped liek loafing cats, one is a calico and one tortoiseshell and one is a curled up sleeping orange fox.

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Holly @pterosaur.bsky.social · Jan 14

Reopening commissions! The price of character illustrations like these will depend on the complexity of the character, but will usually be about 200-300 for colored drawings and about 100 for the black and white pen drawings.

Contact: [email protected]

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Alice Walsh @MIGW @scoutrager.bsky.social · Jan 4

Reposting this guide from twitter because I COOKED here. (and still refer to this at work even now!)

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