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Laura Mellin
@lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
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Disabled, AuDHD, feral artist, pan/cis, 55, married, she/her. LGBTQIA2S+ is my fam, art shares are my jam. New art every day for 2025. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/attacklaurel?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZwLN4Ap8-rIbGYfgi3ksJfRFxtDp8L62cQFqX
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · Mar 12
I unpinned my previous top post, b/c now I want to feature my fave pieces from my #sketchaday 2025 self-imposed challenge! I’m Laura, this is my art account, and this thread will be pinned to become my about me piece. I do illustration and cartoons, often riffing on a joke for multiple drawings.
A marker, ink, paint pen and paper collage drawing of my OC, Bela Lugosquid, a common squid, pale pink-grey with red and grey spots, facing left slightly, asleep. They are smiling (yes, I know, that’s not where their mouths are), and are wearing a pair of fake fangs, a black cloak with a red lining, white bow tie and vest, white shirt, and a red ribbon with a spiny Black Sea urchin attached to the ribbon by holding onto a gold ring. Basically, dressed like Bella Lugosi’s famous outfit* in Dracula (1931). Their tentacles and arms are drifting gently, with an arm on the right touching the edge of the cloak. Dream bubbles coming from their head feature an image of Bella Lugosi as Dracula from the movie poster (image sourced from IMDb.com). Bela Lugosquid is non-binary. They are fascinated by vampire squid, but too shy to actually talk to any actual vampire squid (and afraid of negative reactions). They are a very happy squid. They have dreams of stardom. I don’t know about the sea urchin; they usually don’t go that deep. A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing in my sketchbook. In the upper left hand corner, a white box with shadow lines has the hand-written text: “white potatoes are tuber-essentialist douchebags:” (yes, I’m going hard on this one! Pushing the boundaries!*). The main drawing is of an orange-pink yam (or sweet potato) in three-quarter profile, standing on root feet, with their sprout arms up in the air, leaning slightly forward, protesting (or yelling) at three white potatoes (who, ironically, are brown, because they haven’t been peeled) in a row on the right, in three-quarter profile, one in front, the second slightly behind that one, and lastly, a potato going off the edge of the paper (they’re half-visible). They have little beady eyes, and root feet and hands, with little potatoes growing on them (I love the little potato feet!). The lead potato is asking: “Are you a sweet potato or a yam?”, and the second one is saying: “…you can’t be both.”. The sweet potato (or yam) is protesting: “Why are you so hung up on labels?! I yam what I yam! …or NOT.”. The wall is pale blue-grey, the floor is medium grey, and there are shadows underneath all the tubers. In a small white box in the bottom right corner, the top of a white potato is visible, showing their black dot eyes and angry eyebrows. They are saying:” This is potato erasure!!”. *Or, y’know, doing the absolute minimum by acknowledging that trans people are people, and TERFs/“gender essentialists” are complete C-words. “Dryad of the Vines”: An ink line drawing of a female-appearing figure wrapped in vines, which are supporting them as they sleep. Their face is mostly hidden by their left arm (on the right), which is raised, with vines loosely wrapped around it. Their legs are bent up in a seated position, and their fingers and toes (six on each appendage) stretch out into vines. Their hair is made of vines, and drapes down behind them, and over their torso. Some of the vines have leaves and flowers along them, curling around in spirals and loops. They are nude, but have no visible gendered body parts, just the curves of their body giving an overall female appearance. A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a toy mechanical mouse, facing left. The mouse is grey metal, with brass screws, and a brass key in the middle of its back. It is sitting upright on segmented articulated legs and feet (and toes) that are joined to the body with a round dome with brass screws. The head has large round eyes and ears edged with brass screws, with red lights in the center. The front legs and paws are also articulated/segmented, and are curled around to the nose, like the mouse is eating. The tail is long and articulated/segmented, bending as it reaches the ground, and goes to the left, behind the body. Background is blank. It’s a little toy mouse made of metal, with a key to wind it up. It’s cute, but I am not mechanically inclined, so I have no idea how it would actually move.
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 7h
The fish! The snails! The graphic design work! 😍😍😍
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 7h
Here’s some great work on PDR:
publicdomainreview.org/collection/d...
Anton Seder’s *The Animal in Decorative Art* (1896)
An Art Nouveau reference book full of elaborate ornamentation: winged dragons, chiseled hieroglyphs, warring sea creatures.
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 7h
It’s difficult to take the time and put stuff out there, then do all the technical scutwork, esp. when no one sees it. 4yrs of Insta dumping my work to the bottom made me tired. 💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 7h
I write in a paper journal every night, even if it’s just notes, but a blog requires so much stuff to make it look attractive, and you have to promote it, and everyone is scattered all over the place, it just feels like no one sees it. The algorithms killed blogging. 😕
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 7h
The gap between “this is a great idea!” and actually making it happen is huge for me. Notebooks of ideas litter my house! 🙃💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 7h
I love how organic and delicate your work is! The colours are lovely, and you can do spooky AND beautiful! 😍💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 7h
I’m sure you would; images took forever to load, but you could find a group for every interest! 😃💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 7h
The light was a bit blue when I photographed this; I corrected for it a bit, but couldn’t fix it entirely. #photographingyourart
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 7h
#sketchaday #artsky #blueskyart #art #bottlelabel #label #stoneworm #stonewormteeth

Label 2. I like this one; it’s inspired by vintage 19thC cosmetics labels and the extraordinary Art Nouveau artist Anton Seder.

And Stoneworms. They’re so cute! 🥰💜💜💜😁
A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a 19th century-style bottle label, highly decorative, in shades of green, orange, and gold. Inside a darker green border, the upper side of an arched band says “Genuine Virginia” in a hand-drawn font. The green circle has a light yellow-green center band crossing horizontally, with a hand-drawn red-orange font that says “Stoneworm Teeth” (so the whole label says “Genuine Virginia Stoneworm Teeth” in a very Victorian style). The center of the circle is a mid-green, with a stylized orange-red design above and below the center. On the bottom curve, an Orange Stoneworm (an OC I created, a segmented worm with huge round black eyes, two six-digit limbs on each segment, and antennae that look like curly antlers), head and first segment visible, smiling. The teeth are each in a little box on the bottom curve. The inspiration for this was 19th century cosmetic labels, and the d3corative work of Art Nouveau artist Anton Seder.
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
#sketchaday #artsky #blueskyart #art #sketch #imold #oldoldold #blahblahblah

Really a sketch this time, hidden in my previous thread. Kids, I remember Usenet, and the utter hilarity of
Sheepfarmers.baa.baa.baa.
It was a very different time. I’m mildly old (how many 110yr olds do you know?). 🙃😁💜
A marker and ink drawing of an anthropomorphic mouse in a black tank top sitting at a table, one hand on their face, the other arm lying on the table. They have an expression of “oh no, not again” on their face. The background behind them is yellow, with red and orange “Blah blah blah” written all over it in various sizes, with Usenet, AoL, LiveJournal, and Wordpress included in the middle of rows of blahs, and up at the top, “backinmydayblahblah”. Underneath the drawing, lettering says “Uh-oh! Granny’s reminiscing again! Get the tranq darts!!”. I know, you don’t care. It was super fun in the days before blogs, except when a bunch of teenagers were melting down, but that happens now, just on a larger scale. Melt down, teenagers, you need it. I support you.
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
🤫 Silent Artshare, hosted by @chiquicreates.bsky.social! 😍😍😍💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
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Chiqui! Artist 💕 bookish, horror, & fanart @chiquicreates.bsky.social · 2d
Silent artshare time!

-Share your art!

-Support other artists by liking, reposting, and/or commenting an emoji (or several) under their works!

-Tag a few friends, if you like!

- No AI art or NFTs! 🚫

#art #artshare
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A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of Ghost Hare (a pale green glowing, floating ghost with huge yellow eyes with black pupils, hare ears and a fluffy tail, whose lower half looks a little like a flapjack octopus), rifling through the crisper drawer in your refrigerator at 2am. Ghost Hare is holding a loaf of sliced bread and a jar of peanut butter in one front tentacle, and using two other tentacles to hold open and pick through the crisper drawer. GH is also holding a butter knife in another tentacle, and a jar of grape jelly in yet another. Only the very edge of the fridge is visible, and one door is open, showing door holders for milk and condiments. Background is grey-black, slightly lighter in the fridge light. Do not eat the brown jellybeans! GH is not the Easter Bunny! “Bait” - a marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a pale green fish floating in deep water, with a bite taken out of the body just below the head. The water is dark, and there are six shadowy figures behind the fish, outside the light, all staring at the viewer. There are light points reflected in their eyes, but no other facial features are visible. Their silhouettes suggest they are merfolk. They look dangerous. What, or should I say, whom is the bait for? Your camera will be found weeks from now, caught in a fishing net. An ink drawing of two human skeletons facing each other, sitting on rocks (in a cave, or something). The right skeleton has their legs crossed, and their left hand gesturing in front of them. The left skeleton has both arms raised up to their mouth, which is so wide open, the lower jaw is falling off (in “my jaw hit the floor” fashion). In speech bubbles stacked from the top of the page to between them, the right skeleton says “And then, she said “have you tried BONE broth”?!” then the left skeleton says “NO!!”, and the right skeleton replies “YES!!!”. At the bottom of the drawing, hand lettering says “SKELETON GOSSIP”. Skeleton references: Public domain 18th and 19th century prints. A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing, L to R, of a black cat, my OC Ghost Hare (a glowing ghost with big black eyes and hare ears, who looks a bit like a flapjack octopus, and glows pale green-yellow, because they are a ghost), and Cthulhu sitting on a sofa, watching a movie (or staring at the viewer, but PoV is from the TV screen. Ghost hare is petting the cat’s stomach, and holding a blue bowl with popcorn on the other side, sharing it with Cthulhu, who is snuggled under his pink bunny blanket. Cthulhu is helping himself to popcorn with his tentacles. Behind the sofa, on the left, is my OC Nosferawwwwtu, a green-grey creature with very long fingers and strange green fangs, who has one hand over their face, peeking through their fingers. If you look closely, some of the popcorn is skull shaped. They are doing Horror Movie Night, and tonight’s movie is “The Notebook”. The background is dark, and the sofa is dark brown.
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
Oooo! Very nice work! Love the skull and the lizard! 💜💜💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
Very cool Arcane fanart! And I LOVE the Art Nouveau skulls piece! 💜💜💜💜💜
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 1d
5/ IDK what I’m trying to say. I don’t like blogging anymore, & I’d rather touch a spider than use SubStack? It’s not the same since LJ.
Truthfully, it hasn’t been the same since I got more sick, moved to a rural area, & couldn’t work anymore.
More art. Art! I love art. & Doctor Stick. 🙃💜 /end
A marker, ink, and paint pen four-panel comic about how the movie “Morbius” is really bad. There is rhyming text underneath each panel. Panel 1: A stick figure with a yellow smiley face, in a lab coat with the name tag “Dr. Stick”, and his right stick hand in his pocket, gestures with his left hand to a light grey room-sized tank in which a bunch of brown cartoon bats are flying around constantly. At the bottom of the tank, a bat is banging their head on the floor. The stick figure is saying “with your host, Dr. Stick!”, and there is a sign pasted on the bat tank at an angle that says “BAT TANK[tm], owned by Morbius, Not like that, this is Marvel, not DC”. Text: “Bats no like it in a tank; nor in movie very dank.”. Panel 2: The mouth of a cave, with a bunch (as in several dozen; I didn’t count) of brown bats hanging on the roof of the cave. The stone the bats are clinging onto is grey, further inside, the cave is black. The outside rock is flat grey, and text written on top of the cave says “Batty cave of vampire bat-dom!*”. Bottom right is a bat sitting above a written note: “*Remember! Not DC!”. Text: “In the dark, bats very happy; not so much in movie crappy.”. Panel 3: Dr. Stick leans in from the left side of the drawing, left hand up to the bat tank, saying “The tears!”. The rest of the drawing (about three quarters of it) is filled by the blue-grey bat tank. A brown bat is plastered against the glass, wings spread, back feet against the glass, crying. The bat is saying “HALP! LET US OUT OF THIS CRAP MOVIE!!”. Text: “Movie is so slow and dry; see the little batties cry.”. Panel 4: Outside the cave; blue sky, green grass. The bats are flying to their cave on the right. One bat is turned around, and is saying “Oh, thank you, Dr. Stick!! *happy bat noises*”, and has a little red heart over their head. Dr. Stick is on the left, back to the viewer, waving his right arm, saying “You’re Welcome!”. Text: “Drive ‘em home in a big truck; no see movie, movie SUCK.”. Yup.
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