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Anna Augustyniak @augustanna.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hello, #portfolioday!
I'm Anna, I'm freelancing.
I'd love to illustrate your card game the most (but I'll illustrate anything)!
I draw with both traditional and digital tools.
I'm best at drawing creatures.
Thank you ♥

🖼️ cara.app/august
📨 [email protected]
🕸️ august.net.pl
☕️ ko-fi.com/august

Pokemon fanart. A painting of an owl (Decidueye) shielding three owlets (Rowlet) with its wing from rain.

Pokemon Fanart. A painting of an owl in a funny hat (Hisuian Decidueye) running through a body of water.

One Piece fanart. Drawing of Trafalgar Law made with alcohol markers, coloured pencils and inks. The male character in a yellow shirt, white dotted hat and blue, feathery coat. He's holding a katana in one hand, casting a magic circle in the other. He's grinning.

A traditional drawing/painting of Pokémon Meowscarada. Anthromorphic jester-cat sitting on the field of flowers, smirking menacingly, holding her flower grenade in hand.

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Elias N @elias-nvr.bsky.social · 7h

I trying to fin a way to do more watercolor style coloring in digital.

A drawing of a blue dragon head and neck.

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 8h

whole thing is a really good read; i screamed out loud when i read this part

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Small Swift Snail🐌 @smallswiftsnail.bsky.social · 4h

The crown ^^ #drawing #sketch #watercolour #pencil

A mountaintop amidst clouds, adorned with the wreckage of an airship. ^^

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · Jun 3

Tonight I tried adding some colour to hopefully explain a little what’s going on with this pack idea.

#sketch

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Yasorou @yasorou.bsky.social · 4h

Let's just do some breathing exercises with AAAAAAA
#dragon

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 4h

For all the new folks landing in @bsky.app, both #indiedevs and players alike, I made some starter packs a while back that you might find useful 👍

🔸 Indie Game Studios - go.bsky.app/EbnyA2d

🔸 Solo Indie Devs - go.bsky.app/46HSs4C

🔸 Indie Game Publishers - go.bsky.app/DAoKtHj

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · Oct 24

Starter packs seem to have helped many find part of there audience but there scattered to the winds so making a thread of them, you find them add them be they art, dev any kind of creative outlet and see if we get more people with there audiences and find new ones.

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mirsathia.bsky.social @mirsathia.bsky.social · 4h

Hey all! I know I've got multiple international friendshapes here...

I'm looking for anyone in Germany who could assist me with navigating things to get a copy of (or the original) my father's birth certificate, if it exists...

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Spider Samurai 𓆙™ @spidersamurai.bsky.social · 4h

mood

#TinyKaijuDoodle #Art #Godzilla #Kaijū #ゴジラ #Ghidorah

tiny drawing of Godzilla overwhelmed by Ghidorah made with markers and inks on a sticky note paper sheet

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · Jun 4

Messed up my perspective and scale a lot with this one even for my amateur attempts but maybe when I add colour latter will save it a little. But same idea with ice keeping things cool but a bit more fun. #sketch

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こぶとりらゐど @koburide.bsky.social · 8h

I am a freelance illustrator. Please see the reply box for my portfolio and job inquiries. Works: Duel Masters,Vanguard, Sengoku Taisen, etc. #PortfolioDay

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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一徳(Ittoku) @ittoku-art.bsky.social · 9h

Need Games様によるイタリア生まれのJRPG風TRPG
「Fabula Ultima」少数ですがモンスターデザインを描かせていただきました。『ミノタウロス』！
@needgames.bsky.social
fabulaultima.com

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Art Dad: Spooky Mode @artdad.bsky.social · 21h

Day 14 | Experiment 3: Jack the Ripper

#zombieskulltober #darkart #digitalart #horror #art

A female zombie with green skin, a bone arm with a giant pair of scissors attached, and a shredded dress.

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dai/眠り健やかゴリ太郎 @01har-d.bsky.social · 10h

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Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 17h

Entry 14

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Ze6(ゼロク) @ze6.bsky.social · 14h

wip

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Stephen Maurice Graham @smgdraws.bsky.social · 13h

A belated #portfolioday post! I'm Steve and I'm an illustrator and the Art Director at @lostincult.co.uk, I love making these book covers for our series of History / Archives books.

I'm always looking for artists and love looking through your work so please follow me / show me stuff!

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Anna Augustyniak @augustanna.bsky.social · 10h

Oh for fucks sake, I'm so sorry.
*angery reactions only*

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AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 14h

So, I stumbled across this animation (left) that a professional studio made for a commercial client last year and a lot of it seems VERY familiar to my 2023 'PEAS' animation (right)...

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doodlelotl @doodlelotl.bsky.social · 12h

axolotl x alligator

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Anna Augustyniak @augustanna.bsky.social · 1d

An expressive ink drawing of Crossbreed Priscilla from Dark Souls. She's wearing a fur dress and attacking with her scythe. Her feet are bare, there are scales on her face. She has a fluffy tail, she's partially a dragon.

An oil pastel drawing/painting of a long-haired white and brown cat sitting next to pink flowers.

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twarda.bsky.social @twarda.bsky.social · 1d

Plesiosaurs 👌
There are 3 variants of this popup window in the game. Two of them will likely be dependent on the player's choice, hehe
#zidjourney #gamedev

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twarda.bsky.social @twarda.bsky.social · Jan 14

Hej #portfolioday!👋
I'm a freelancing artist with a biology degree working in games.
I do #paleoart, #gameart, #conceptart, and I specialize in creature design.

My stylized illustration is shown below while you can contact me & see more of my work here: twarda-arts.carrd.co

Thanks for looking!

Stylized Styracosaurus painting with a forest background

Stylized Microraptor painting. The dinosaur is sitting on a prehistoric Ginkgo.

Left part of an underwater scene portraying mosasaurs. This part features a squid, crabs, and ammonites.

Righ part of an underwater scene portraying mosasaurs. This part features a plesiosaur, fish, Hespeornis, and a turtle.

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Anna Augustyniak @augustanna.bsky.social · 11h

I'm still amazed by these :D ♥

I don't know if it's because I didn't know software well enough, or just a skill issue, but I never got good results with 3DS drawing software ;__;