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Harkthorn

@harkthorn.bsky.social

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Does art, likes birds | Daily sketches | Parrots and Pigeons | NoGеnAߊ 🎨 Art Only Feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nzmnuu7z3a3pod4lambkzj6y/feed/aaaeovka2azm6 Tumblr: https://harkthorn.tumblr.com/ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/harkthorn

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · Sep 1

✨Reintroduction post!

I'm Harkthorn, and I like to draw mostly fantasy and wildlife art-especially griffons, dragons, birds, and big cats. I also post a lot of bird photos-both of my three parrots, and of the pigeon flock that visits my window, especially Coopuccino (shown here with his mate)

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A realistic drawing of a Blue-throated conure griffon on a branch with leaves in the top right and bottom left of the image. The griffon has one forepaw raised and a pinned eye, looking at the viewer

A green ballpoint pen sketch of a running wingless griffon, based on a grey heron, with a more dog-like back half

A photo of two feral pigeons on a window sill, without the glass in the way. The front pigeon is a pied black male. The back pigeon is a spread/back female with feathered legs and feet

A photo of a Blue-throated conure on a wooden desk perch stand thing. He is facing the viewer, but has put his head down, and turned it sideways a bit so his eye is viewable, and most of his beak. He is looking, with half-closed eye. He wants pets!

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audrey @juniper420.bsky.social · 22h

my babies kabo (brown) kewpie (white) they are husband n wife !!
n then theres stimky shortround 💖

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dirkvds58.bsky.social @dirkvds58.bsky.social · 2h

Another drawing in my portal series is finished!
“A Gentle Greeting at Portal 5”
Digital pen drawing with Procreate
Drawing time:103h
Size 47 x 77 cm

#digitalart
#illustrationart
#inkdrawing
#lineart
#surrealart
#surrealismart
#dreamscapeart
#portalseries
#surrealportals
#thetraveler
#portaldrawing

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 1h

#pigeonSky

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Ham O' Ween 🎃🌈🎨 @thehamofficial.bsky.social · 5h

Hey #portfolioday !

My name is Ham, I like to draw creatures in bright colors, especially those which are silly and mildly cursed.

I'm looking for work starting Nov 1st. If you'd like to discuss a project before then, feel free to contact me through my website 😊
thehamofficial.com

#art #queerart

A pair of green cartoon frogs kissing passionately in front of a rainbow with the words "gay frogs" above and below them

Drawing of a smiling but concerned looking sun wearing bit pink and green sunglasses and throwing up a peace sign. The sun is coming out of a setof blobby holes colored with colorful 90's pattern looking shapes (teal, pink, purple, yellow) with the words "existential dread" in purple all around it

Painting of a bunch of colorful flowers growing together in a mass. A silly looking cartoon bee with outward facing eyeballs is landed among them, licking a flower intensely with pollen all over its face

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 17h

Little countryside dragon sketch

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A black ballpoint sketch of a small dragon sitting on a wall made of stones and rocks. The dragon is holding their wings up and out. The stone walls frame a grassy path that winds off into the distance, with grassy fields on the other sides of each wall. Wooden fence posts are scattered around, placed against the walls. There are hills visible in the far distance.

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LisaPizza @plutopizza.bsky.social · 11h

The beautiful interspecies truce when a pancake appears…
#cockatiel #budgie

Two budgies and four cockatiels standing around a bowl with a pancake.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 11h

Have you ever been so fucking delighted by a username/icon set that it made you follow a total stranger

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 9h

Happy #portfolioday! I'm Eran Fowler, an American illustrator based in Canada. Looking for remote work as a background painter for animation, or as a cover artist.

[email protected]
eranfolio.com

A trio of skeletal angels is chained and bound together, dripping with mutated flesh. They try to pull apart and reach upward towards a radiant sun, but only burn beneath the rays.

Medusa stands protectively at the mouth of a cave, holding up one hand with a glowing curse half-cast. Behind her are a crowd of cowering women and children. In the foreground, two men advance menacingly, but are stopped in their tracks as the curse begins to turn them to stone.

Lord Charon offers his skeletal hand from his perch above an ancient boat, backlit by a red sky. The boat is laden with candles melting into piles of gold coins. Ghostly hands grasp at the boat from the water below.

A stag composed of the night sky stands cornered in the snow, the moon hung suspended between his antlers. All around him, a pack of wolves made of snow circles and leaps towards him, teeth bared.

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cats' ~ commissions open @annahollender-art.bsky.social · 15h

Hey #portfolioday !

This is my shout-out to the void:
I draw (not) a lot (and a lot of cats), and I am trying my best.
Would love to work on some projects in rpg/ttrpg/illustration/etc, or whatever you think fits my style~

#bskyart #animalart #idrawalotofcats

Drawing of a fragmented stag beetle with staghorn mushrooms for antlers, and a red yarn connecting the parts

Crosshatched drawing of a sphynx cat laying on it's back

Crosshatched drawing of a three eyed sphynx cat looking at the viewer

Drawing of a death head moth, with angel wing mushrooms for half of the wings, and an eye on it's back

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 15h

#pigeonSky

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Csilla @pigeonpop.bsky.social · 3d

People who hate pigeons don't know what they're missing

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 15h

Inkotober, day 14-as ever, his cage door is open, but he doesn't want to come out. What he wants is for me to fill his forage toy on the left there

#parrotSky 🪶

A photo of a Green cheek conure inside his cage, the door wide open. He is stood on a concrete perch, with one foot up on the bars on the cage. On the left is a hanging acrylic forage toy

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Brynnester @brynnester.bsky.social · 9d

Me: *thinking to myself after someone wrongs me* You made an inconsequential and powerless enemy today my friend

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.margwa. @clumsydragon.bsky.social · 18h

Hey #PortfolioDay!
My name is margwa/clumsydragon, and I love drawing and sculpting creatures—both scaly and fluffy!
I might be just slightly obsessed with dragons.

I’m slowly but surely working toward becoming a full-time artist and being able to make art all day, every day ^^

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 17h

Little countryside dragon sketch

-3204 🎨 #art

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 18h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Beth Verity - Artist & Illustrator @bethverityart.bsky.social · 21h

🌟 #PortfolioDay 🌟

I’m an artist & illustrator based in the UK. I have a passion for natural history and work with a diversity of art media.

I’m open to work requests and private commissions.

📧 bethverityart.co.uk

Buy Original Art: tinyurl.com/3dypvcmv

Colour pencil and gouache portrait of a thylacine (Tasmanian tiger). The drawing is life size. The thylacine is stood on a rock surveying her environment. Her coat shines a glossy mix of texture and colour.

Colour portrait of an agile wallaby. Using coloured pencil and gouache. The wallaby is sat in an open forest setting. The wallaby looks directly at you and is sat alert.

Black and white graphite pencil and charcoal drawing of a thylacine. The thylacine is looking to the left. The mixture of graphite and charcoal create soft and gestural textures. Oak gall ink was used to create the eye.

Sketch page drawn at Kendal depicting various historical taxidermy pieces. These include a thylacine and the extinct huia birds. The huia take up the centre of the image, I’ve used a mixture of charcoal and graphite to add depth.

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Rebecca Wang Art @rebeccawangart.bsky.social · 20h

Happy #portfoliodday! My name is Rebecca Wang. I am a professional pet portrait artist, but I also paint a variety of other things too. I work with acrylics, colored pencils, pastels, and graphite.

View my website here: www.psychedeliczen.com

#art #petportrait #artist #traditionalart

A painting of a white Staffordshire Bull Terrier dog with a dark green background.

A painting of a tortoiseshell cat with a cream background.

A painting of a shepherd mix dog with a brown background

A painting of a blue British shorthair cat with a background of stones and black eyed susan flowers.

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Jori Bolton | Illustrator @joribolton.bsky.social · 19h

Happy #PortfolioDay again! I'm also Jori, the fantasy/scifi/cyberpunk illustrator. Hoping to include more of the "fantasy" genre in this portfolio, but who has the time! Right now I do lots of work for Catalyst Game labs and the Shadowrun IP.

#illustration

Final cover art by Jori Bolton for the Shadowrun novella, The Mosaic Run, by Jennifer Brozek. The artwork shows two young women running down a narrow corridor in a server room while a security drone pursues and fires upon them. One woman aims a firearm at the drone.

Illustration by Jori Bolton of a dwarf woman wearing a flowing red cap and firing a crossbow at a leaping vampire-like creature in a desert cave for the Shadowrun TTRPG book, Astral Ways.

Illustration of a dwarf man and an ork woman in a dark, underground, abandoned subway station being used as a laboratory. The dwarf man grimaces and holds a hand up to glowing scratch marks on his face, while the ork woman in the background shines a flashlight at an apparently immobile rat monster held up by metal posts and connected to glowing orange tubes. Illustration by Jori Bolton for Catalyst Game Labs and the Shadowrun TTRPG.

Cover art for Shadowrun: Margin Calls, a TTRPG gaming supplement from Catalyst Game Labs, with an illustration by Jori Bolton showing a young girl walking with a glowing purple/blue coyote and looking towards the background of the image where a massive, diamond-shaped sign has fallen from the top of a high-rise onto a parked delivery van, crushing the van's roof and part of the windshield. Police stand around while a forensic team examines the vehicle.

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starskynder @starskynder.bsky.social · 1d

Ciao #portfolioday! I'm starskynder from Italy and I love to draw animals!

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 23h

Today's Coopuccino, from both sides

#pigeonSky 🪶

A photo of a pied spread blue feral pigeon stood outside on a window sill. He is is facing to the left of the image and eyeing something below him

A photo of a pied spread blue feral pigeon stood outside on a window sill. He is is facing to the right of the image and looking at the viewer

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 1d

Today's Ginger °V°

#pigeonSky 🪶

A photo of an ash-red check feral pigeon with heavily feathered legs, outside on a window sill. She is directly facing the viewer, standing with head up but beak pointed down

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Peppermint Bubble @peppermintbubble.com · 1d

Hello #PortfolioDay!
I'm Peppermint, a Finnish freelance variety artist looking for remote illustration and visdev work.
Mostly I make mixed media art of animals, nature, fantasy, videogames and lately Dragon Ball.

www.peppermintbubble.com
[email protected]
(Commissions are open!)

#art

A digitally colored limited color illustration of a cute green snake sitting in a ceramic bowl of noodles while slurping up some. She's holding a pair of chopsticks with her tail, and there are marbled egg halves, green spring onion rings and seasoning as decorations, all againts a white background.

A traditional mixed media illustration of a young athletic East-Asian woman with a long black ponytail. She's floating against a stylized painted space backdrop with a few planets, and she's wearing an oversized jacket and oversized boots inspired by astronaut costumes. She's also wearing a backpack and holding a sub sandwich.

A large colored pencil illustration of a female yellow waterlily fairy and a male common hawker fairy dancing over a pond of water. There are yellow waterlilies and hanging fluttering willow leaves around them.

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Suzanne 🪡 in Brno: Oct 17-19🪡 @anatomoth.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #portfolioday!
I'm Suzanne,fine artist who evolved into a tattoo artist.Gouache,acrylics,ink,inspired by flora,fauna,anatomy,psychology.Stationed in Budapest..Currently looking for a stable guestspot in Germany!
✉️ [email protected]
✨ ko-fi.com/anatomoth/
⚜️ instagram.com/anatomoth/

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David Proudfoot @djpthurso.bsky.social · 1d

Gorse reflections in the morning dew

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