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Kim Herbst

@kiwifruitbird.bsky.social

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Illustrator | Senior Concept Artist | Art Director | She/her 💖💙❤️ posts/opinions are my own www.kimherbst.com https://www.kimherbst.com/shop Tags: #pixelcat

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · Nov 6

Hello new followers! I ...think I was added to a Starter Pack or list somewhere possibly maybe?? Here are a few 'hopeful' themed pieces I've drawn in the past because I think we need it today. ❤️‍🩹

Illustration of a boy on a purple hill of plants, with smoke behind him, a single white flower glows in his lap

Illustration of a dark helmet shattering apart from a man's head as wings spread out from the man's head

Illustration of a large, dark woman standing in a landscape of line trees behind a bridge, light glows from her hands and billows up into the sky with a crescent moon.

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 4h

Oh my godddd they have nothing, NO IDEAS They have no intriguing thoughts of how to utilize the tech, incredible. 40% of the country's GDP going towards.. THIS.

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you so much!! 💓

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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 18h

#PortfolioDay again! I'm a West Coast artist named Samantha and I specialize in editorials, publishing (mostly book covers), and branding

✉️[email protected]
🧡samanthamash.com
🧡samanthamash.etsy.com
🧡inprnt.com/gallery/samanthamash
🧡patreon.com/samanthamash

Illustration of woman with short hair kneeling back on the ground and pulling the string of a bow tight. She is holding a white arrow and prepared to let go. Around her is the Sagittarius constellation that is made of orange and pale yellow stars. The background is a pale peach, the woman is made up of oranges and reds.

Illustration of a pale antelope on a dark background with orange plants around it

Five herons, two black, three white are circled around one of the black herons holding an orb of light

Pale woman with dark hair in periwinkle one piece swimsuit swimming with fish and other sea life in a dark ocean with a pink sky and peach sun

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Sygnin / DTIYS pinned! @sygnin.com · 18h

Heyo #PortfolioDay! I'm Sygnin, I illustrate in an ink & color style.

Interested in working on book/game/card art. I like making art featuring folklore, fantasy, romantic horror.

Portfolio - sygnin.com
Vgen (commissions) - vgen.co/sygnin
Email - sygnin[@]gmail[.]com

art of a female vampire's head looking at the viewer. flowers cover one of her eyes. her dark hair flows upwards and she wears a lace victorian type outfit

art of a silhouetted hooded rider on a horse with horns and red glowing eyes. behind them is a red moon

art of a hunter fighting with a large flying monster that looks like a dragon. based off Monster Hunter game.

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 6h

Ahh thank you! ❤️

Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 6h

Make Thai curry from scratch for dinner, for the first time - how the hell am I supposed to NOT eat like 8 servings of this 😭

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 16h

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Alexandra, an artist, designer, cartoonist and science communicator! I am currently looking for both representation for my illustration and comic work as well as design work for comics or cover art!

Get in touch: www.alexandragallant.com

abstract illustration of consciousness - neurons floating in space, with interconnecting and branching tendrils and sparks

An illustration - a bunch of overlapping veins and arteries with different translucent organs interspersed throughout the illustration, the effect is a tangled web of branching vessels with various 'organ' shapes overlaying on top, including a lung in the center of the page

colorful illustration of a dozen toucans on a soft sea foamy green background

Two pages from a comic I'm working on

Page 1 is a single panel

'It can feel like plucking fruit off a tree... and seeing what's inside'
Illustration of a branch of a tree with peaches on it, and a cross section of a peach, instead of a pit, there is a brain

Page 2 is 4 panels

Panel 1: "...and sometimes" text over an illustration of a peach
Panel 2: "it's a pit" (cross section of a peach, with the pit visible)
Panel 3: "or a worm" (a fruit with a worm poking out of it)
Panel 4: "but sometimes... it's a universe" the brain/pit in the peach from the previous page is zoomed in and now has rings around it like a planet in space

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Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 17h

Hey hey #portfolioday
I’m Amalas and I’m open for cover work.
I love to draw urban scenes and human connections found between concrete and steel, sprinkled with some nostalgia

[email protected]
cara.app/amalasrosa
azantianlitagency.com/our-artists/amalas-rosa

Book cover for the YA book ICEBREAKER by A.L. Graziadei showing the two male main protagonist facing each other and holding onto each others collar.

Digital art of my original characters Aran and Tao as young adults out at night in their local nyc neighborhood kissing. Tao sits on a bicycle and Aran bends down slightly to kiss him.

Mock cover of Suzanne Samin and my upcoming graphic novel. The title still r wads Fear Of Falling but we changed it now to Wherever I’m With You.

The cover shows a brick house fall and Aran and Tao sitting on the rooftop, their legs dangling down the edge, and in big letters underneath them it reads “fear of falling”

Digital art of original characters Aran and Tao as young teenagers on a hot summer day walking down the streets in their local nyc neighborhood and playing around with a basketball.

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HimmyDraws @himansu.bsky.social · 17h

Oh hello #Portfolioday! Here’s some of the stuff I’ve done:

Digital drawing of a winged veiled woman using one of its wings to partially cover a horned child from the light above them both. Shades of brown hints of teal.

Digital painting base on a sculpture angel by Lorenzo Bernini bastardized. The head of the angel is now two blooming flowers obscured by a sketchy pink neon skull, complete with horns and halo. The background is textured with a non repeating pattern resembling a script.

Digital portrait of a masked woman. Tones of pink, grey and yellow. Large coiled snake bares its fangs in the foreground.

Digital drawing of a white barn own standing on a plinth with a mutated mouse in its talons

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Kim Stramat is LOOKING FOR WORK @kimstramat.bsky.social · 16h

Hey #PortfolioDay I'm Kim a fantasy artist looking for gigs and commissions. I can do mages, mages, and a few other things but mainly mages~ Let me draw the elaborately designed mage of your dreams~

kstramat.com
[email protected]
www.patreon.com/c/kstramat
vgen.co/kstra

A modern day gorgon stares at the viewer. The snakes of her hair form a short bob and she has large snake themed earrings. She wears a light blue tweed jacket.

A gorgon flies through space on a crystal platform. She holds a lage staff with a crystal floating over it.

A mage looks at the viewer with a smug look. They have an elavorate gold collar with tassels and cape blowing in a wind.

A mage sits on a rock as they look into the distance over the landscape at the sky. Above are large beings of light traveling across the night sky through the clouds.

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you!!

Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 13h

Hey it's #PortfolioDay - I'm Kim, an illustrator who loves drawing wavy lines. www.kimherbst.com for my whole portfolio 💖

Illustration of a tiger along a water's edge with her cub swimming behind her.

Illustration of a young Goku staring up at an ethereal dragon shape above a mountain with Bulma sitting below him

Illustration of a monkey eating a glowing piece of fruit

Illustration of a white dove embracing a blackbird, surrounded by a halo and orbs of light

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 14h

..RIP Drew Struzan - you were the absolute king of making illustrated posters not only for great films, but you even made *NOT-great films* look vastly better than they were. 🥲

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Antonieta Muñoz Estrada @mariadrawss.bsky.social · 1d

If you disable this on Pinterest, all AI content will not appear when you search. 😉✨️ #kidlit

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 2d

More older #darktober pieces -

Illustration of a masked ward protecting a girl in a white dress

Illustration of demonic hands reaching for the Master Sword in a stone

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 1d

...entirely stopping work to listen to the heavy rain since this only happens like 5x a year now.

Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 2d

One gal: you draw comics??
Me: I drew *ONE 40-page comic* that I had to get out of my system. Kudos to comic artists who make it past the one haha

Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of Gen-Z folks were excited to come across my Zombies Can't Swim comic during the Art Walk yesterday, that a local artist drew one and had it professionally printed - definitely felt good they're interested in comics 🥹

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 2d

..I had this last year when developing multiple game art styles for testing and a handful of responses came back saying 'this is AI Art' - it's a buzz word a LOT of average folks are gonna toss around. Keep creating, keep working on your projects ❤️

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 2d

gamedev engineer: "Update your Unity version."

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 2d

..been using Duckduckgo via Brave and Firefox as a result. Not as good on image searches but I can still use 3rd-party extensions.

Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 3d

Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 2d

Ugh same - I feel lucky we finally got a series out of this.. albeit a canceled one 🥲

Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 2d

..I feel like we all need to go back to scrapbooks with physical photos. Really learn to parse down a big collection and then make a fun evening of memories put together or somethin. No more storing thousands of pics.

Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely thisss

Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 2d

More older #darktober pieces -

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