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Dijana

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☆ Concept artist, illustrator &gamedev with a focus on fantasy, characters & portraits ☆ cat mom ☆ kpop ☆ CARAT ☆occasionally scream about ADHD and thyroid cancer ☆ no N F T / A I ☆ dijanadraws @ gmail . com for work ☆ http://dijanadraws.carrd.com

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Dijana @dijanadraws.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hi #PortfolioDay! 🥰
I'm Dijana, a concept artist and illustrator, with traditional and gamedev experience. I love designing and painting characters, illustrations and portraits. I'd love to work on more covers and TTRPG illustrations ✨

📧: [email protected]

Demon Hunter - illustration
The image is a book cover for an upcoming fantasy novella by Daina Rustin. It depicts two main characters facing off a monster in a forest.
The main characters - Gray and Adrien - are turned away from us, and facing the monster hidden in the bushes. Gray is a slightly darker skinned mage, with long straight black hair, wearing a light green tunic and brown pants. She's placed in the foreground to the right.
She wears a wide belt around her waist, and has one shoulder bag and one smaller bag visible hanging around her waist. She is preparing a fireball in her left hand.
Adrien is a knight, and he's placed towards the left of the image. He's pointing his sword at the monster. He's wearing the Ravensguard blue tunic over a chainmail shirt, and brown pants.
The monster is in the middle background, it's tall, standing on back legs, black with reddish highlights, red eyes, big beak, and two very long claws in front.

Four of Wands - Radiant Fates - Stained Glass Tarot project
The illustration depicts the Four of Wands tarot card. The card carries the meanings of family, celebration, home, belonging, etc. The themes of the card are depicted by 4 women sitting on a swing bench together, each holding their own wand pointing upwards. The swing has 4 branches going upwards, arching and connecting in the center, creating a frame around the women and a rosette-style window depicting a castle. The background is a glassy texture with a soft gradient incorporating blues, purples, yellows, oranges and pinks, with a yellow graphical element extending from the castle frame, and stars. The foreground is covered in more flowers in pinks and blues.
The image is stylized, with heavy black linework, referencing a stained glass look in theme with the project.

Aurelia - character illustration
The image shows a stylized character illustration of the main character of Sky Across - Aurelia - on a white background. The character is a female, standing while leaning on a tall regal staff, while dressed in a "ceremonial" outfit for her setting. She’s wearing a stiff pale cream dress with blue decorative linings around the edges, and a v-neck cut, a gold feathery shawl draped over her shoulders, and she has thigh-high blue and orange leather boots with a small heel. She’s wearing gold jewelry, her earrings feature the same blue gemstone as her staff, while the leaf motif repeats between the bits of staff and her necklace pendant. She’s wearing a gold feathery tiara that matches her scarf. Her hair is long and dark red/purple, with a braid coiled around her head behind the tiara.

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Dijana @dijanadraws.bsky.social · 51m

Noodle!! I love her, ty for sharing ❤️ uwu

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 3h

help me obi-wan kenobi, you're my only hope

a green tree frog, sitting on a stump, with a snail climbing up either side of its head, reminiscent of hair buns

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Dijana @dijanadraws.bsky.social · 3h

Pfffffttttt 😂😂😂 blessed!!! Thank you!! ❤️

Dijana @dijanadraws.bsky.social · 3h

Love you ❤️

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Julia Metzger @juliametzgerart.bsky.social · 10h

✨Mein Sehnen ✨
New piece I've done within Cynthia Sheppard's smARTschool class, featuring Lúthien Tinúviel from Tolkien's Silmarillion.

#art #juliametzgerart

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Dijana @dijanadraws.bsky.social · 8h

Since I don't have any really good news, can y'all share with me something nice or positive that happened to/around you ❤️
(I will also accept pet pictures and art you made or like UwU)

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Dijana @dijanadraws.bsky.social · 8h

This should in theory mean I should start feeling better and recover a bit before Jan/Feb, but I also need to take a break from ADHD meds for a couple of weeks, and those always do a number on me.
Anyway, I'll take any wins rn, because that's all I have. 🤷

Dijana @dijanadraws.bsky.social · 8h

She raised my hormone dose and suggested upping iron before my next radiation, higher hormones do the same shit as low iron do; on top of iron wrecking the stomach, so mixed bag here.
Lowered vitamin D dose 🎉.
Re-do tests + a followup in January before radiation in Feb. 🎉

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Dijana @dijanadraws.bsky.social · 8h

Finally some decent news; CW for healthcare and cancer:

I finally saw my specialist and we went over my test results. I *don't* have cancer metastasis, just some extra tissue/cells/baby tumor. I'm still an onco patient until that resolves (relevant for scheduling tests/vaccines).

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Dijana @dijanadraws.bsky.social · 1d

I need bad things to stop happening to people I care about. I'm not sure how many bad news I can handle in a row.

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Karina S. @chirunax.bsky.social · 2d

Human artists!?

Use one piece to convince people to follow you !

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ines 🧇 wristless @inesvisual.bsky.social · 2d

LRP there truly is no reason to fret over minor color differences of your digital art y'all.... as long as your screen doesn't show you blue while everyone else sees purple, you're good

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Crimson 💀 (spooky) @crimsontentacles.bsky.social · 2d

Listen to me. Listen. If you're making images that will only be displayed on screens, YOU HAVE TO LET GO. You can calibrate your screens perfectly, but then 25k people will see it on their shitty $50 monitors or cracked phone and its out of your hands. Don't think of it. Achieve enlightenment.

Tweet by @night margin "digital artist woes" image of the same color gradient on various screen (monitor 1 appears very grey purple, phone appear VERY pink, monitor 2 appears a more saturated purple, laptop appears brownish red, family's phone appears much darker and bluer etc.)

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Pete Dimitrov @petedimitrovart.com · 2d

I really don’t get the thinking behind using an AI sludge gen thumbnail for your game playthrough video.
Game has so much imagery you could use, why churn a generic image and mislead?
I mean it’s nice filtering because I would never watch your channel or your walkthroughs, but ye.

A YouTube screenshot of a thumbnail of a video that features play thought in the game Control. The thumbnail has AI generated image that features a woman who looks nothing like Jesse Faden or anything from the game.

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Željka Dobraš @dzeljka.bsky.social · 2d

safe full of goodies for One-shot Wonders

AD: Sam Bartlett

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Emily Hare @emilyhare.co.uk · 2d

From today till 16th of November I am a guest artist at The Artists Gallery Ludlow. Please do go take a look if you're in the area! buff.ly/hZuqbHc
#artgallery #artexhibition #fantasyart #watercolour

a watercolour painting of a mermaid resting on a rock in a lagoon with a waterfall behind her. Her tail goes into the water at the rock and the end of it shows out of the water as she leans back on her hands.

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Dijana @dijanadraws.bsky.social · 2d

Cleaned a tricky bit yesterday, ended up with a cramp in my neck today 👍🏻

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 14d

The King of All Cosmos from the Katamari series, with a speech bubble.

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Zhillustrator @zhillustrator.com · Jun 2

"The Powerplant" is my most sold #print at cons and online. It's been an honor to send it off, in all sizes, to many new homes, for 10 years now. I hope you will want one, too, or just share, to help get me through tough times.

Available in A5-A0 at ko-fi.com/s/c2d60a42b9, DM for larger/altered.

A shop thumbnail for the print of The Powerplant, a digital painting by Zhillustrator, available im A5-A0. A framed version of the print is displayed mid-image, with the name in a box below, and formats in a smaller box top right. A larger version of the painting is behind, zoomed in.

A paper print mockup for the print of The Powerplant. A painterly white frame surrounds the horizontal image and there's a blurred version of the painting behind.

A framed wall mounted print mockup for The Powerplant. The picture has a modern thin black frame and there's no matte. It's mounted on a white wall with soft warm shadows.

A framed wall-mounted print mockup for The Powerplant, a version with a thick white matte. The picture has a modern thin black frame, too. It's mounted on a white wall with soft warm shadows.

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Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 4d

it's a skill! pay for it! also it's a scam to advertise robot voice as a real audiobook! argh!

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Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 4d

the difference between a wonderful audiobook performance by a gifted voice actor and this "digital voice" horseshit masquerading as legit audiobooks makes me steaming mad. good narration is important and deserves to be paid for!!!!!!

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Joe Slucher 🔜 NRG Elmhurst IL @joeslucher.bsky.social · Jul 14

New piece. No Kings. 12"x24" acrylics with finishing touches in oils. On 1" cradled board. Process photos on my website in the members area.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 4d

If you're taking to the streets to protest today, know your rights.

"KNOW YOUR PROTEST RIGHTS
You don’t need a permit to protest in response to breaking news and you don’t need a permit to march in the streets or along sidewalks, as long as you’re not obstructing traffic or access to buildings.
When you are lawfully present in any public space, you have the right to photograph anything in plain view, including federal buildings and the police.
If you believe your rights have been violated, when you can, write down everything you remember, get contact information for witnesses, and take photographs of any injuries.
If you get stopped by the police, ask if you’re free to go. If they say yes, calmly walk away.
If you get arrested, you have a right to ask why. Otherwise, say you wish to remain silent and ask for a lawyer immediately. Don’t sign, say or agree to anything without a lawyer present.
If you get stopped by a member of the military or any law enforcement office at a protest, you have the right to remain silent or to tell them that you’ll only answer questions in the presence of an attorney — no matter your citizenship or immigration status."

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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 4d

Aerial view of the nationwide Anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ protest in Boston.

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Nina Modaffari @ninamodaffari.bsky.social · Dec 28

Took Alexandria Neonakis’ Schoolism class on costuming, and the main assignment was to design the costume for a character in a book, movie, etc.

I designed Mina Harker from the book Dracula! I tried to make her outfits as close to 1880/1890’s designs as I could.

Character lineup sheet of Mina Harker from Dracula. Her hair is dark and her skin is mid-tone. The first outfit is a off-white blouse with a grey skirt, second outfit is a buttercream white shirt with plaid blue skirt, third outfit is white shirt with reddish gingham skirt.

Character lineup sheet of Mina Harker from Dracula. Her hair is dark and her skin is mid-tone. Fourth outfit is white blouse and puce skirt, fifth outfit is white blouse, black vest and black skirt. Sixth outfit is off-white blouse with a vest + dress that is brown plaid.

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