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Madalyn McLeod

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Artist & Illustrator ✨ Queer ✨ Disabled ✨ Nature Lover ✨ Cat Mother ✨ Oracle Deck in Progress ✨ Asheville ➡️ Minneapolis madalynmcleod.com

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Madalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · Apr 8

Hi #portfolioday !

I'm Madalyn, a fantasy artist & illustrator working with traditional media. My art is inspired by folklore, dreams, and nature. Nice to meet you!✨

www.madalynmcleod.com
#fantasyart #oraclecards #fae #watercolor

'Anxiety' for my oracle deck. A naiad that looks very much like water, with half her face hidden beneath the water. Swirling eddies form in front of her face, blending with her hair.

'Sylph'. Traditional art of a wise airy fae flying through a purple moonlit sky with a spirit owl and a lot of green moths. They look ephemeral, and appear to be unraveling as they move through the sky, in a surreal way. There is a spiral pattern in the sky, and in her hair.

'Illusions Lifted'. Mixed media traditional art of a spell being broken, and things are seen as they truly are for the first time. A girl sits in a barren wasteland, holding a small flock of birds close to her, but they fly away and become monsters.

'Potential' for my oracle deck. A dryad that looks very much like a tree, holding a magnolia in front of a twilight sky, with a hopeful expression. Abstracted airy lines swoop upwards, representing potential. Made with colored pencil, watercolor, and a little white gouache.

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Kelly McKernan is launching an oracle deck 10/31 🔮 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 5h

When you outsource your creativity to a prediction engine, you’ll only receive the average of your prompt, automatically negating anything new or interesting.

This makes AI the antithesis of creativity.

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Ello @ellohcee.bsky.social · Aug 7

#Smaugust day 3 - Light. I knew I wasn’t going to try to do daily drawings for smaugust but especially now that I’m so late to start, I’m doing selective days off of @/pencilcat’s prompt list

#art #dragon

Digital art of a small white dragon flying above branches with light blue purple flowers. The dragon has feathery wings and a fuzzy body, longer individual feathers extending off the head, back and tail. Its feet are tipped black and it has faint purple marks along its body. The dragon emits a soft blue glow in the dark night.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9h

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

www.npr.org

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10h

The government is shut down, people are literally about to go hungry as SNAP payments stop, and this dude is building a gold trimmed billionaire ballroom.

This isn’t going to end well.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2d

East Wing is gone.

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Madalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · Sep 16

Hey, artist! Quote with your fanart!

It's the season after all 🍂

Over the Garden Wall fan art I made TEN years ago. Some lost kids in the autumn woods. The Beast looms over them in the tree branches. Made with pencil and digital color.

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 5d

illustration showing an 18th century guillotine with a banner reading "no kings no tyrants"

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M. Kirin 📶⚡ @mkirin.itch.io · Nov 16

"i hope this site doesn't end up like the last one :("

Hope has nothing to do with it--DO YOUR PART!

Twitter & Truth Social are dying. Their users are used to farming outrage for engagement. Don't give them any!

🚫 Don't argue with them!
🚫 Don't quote them!

✅ #BlockAndMoveOn

A poster showing a weeping skull wearing a red hat. The skeleton is holding a smartphone that is showing no comments, shares, or likes, as though no one is interacting with its posts. The text on the poster reads "This account does not feed trolls. Block and move on."

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Madalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · Mar 17

Bad Familiar!

Inktober art of a black cat drinking a spilled potion, on a table covered with potions and spell books. Someone not shown yells "No!"

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 6d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Janaina @janainaart.bsky.social · Nov 24

🌿✨ #art

Ilustração de uma jovem dançando no meio de uma floresta noturna com uma lua cheia, um sapo, borboletas e plantas diversas ao redor.

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Madalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · 8d

Loving the new Critical Role 🖤

Jonah Walker @ MCM London N-19 @galacticjonah.bsky.social · 10d

/Destiny brings together the strangest of people.../

Probably my most ambitious group piece yet, just based on pure numbers - likely the only one I'll do for this campaign, oof -- 13 is a lot, folks!!!
(As usual the designs have my own vague spin on them 🫶)

#CriticalRole #CriticalRoleFanart

Digital Illustration of all 13 player characters from Critical Role Campaign four. They are all rendered in a sketchy line style and coloured in reds, blues and greens.

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Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 9d

Oh no, we’ve lost Drew Struzan. What an amazing talent…. :(

An illustration compilation of a ton of art created by Drew Struzan.

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🌿Rowynn Ellis - MCM London M24 Artist Alley @rowynnellis.bsky.social · 9d

Oh hay it’s #portfolioday !!!
My name is Rowynn and I love to illustrate monsters and mythical creatures ^^
www.rowynnellis.com

#fantasyart #illustration

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Julie Dillon @juliedillon.bsky.social · Oct 17

Hello BlueSky! :) My name is Julie Dillon,and I'm a freelance fantasy artist living in Portland, OR. I like making character focused illustrations that touch on mythological and fantasy themes.
Instagram: @juliedillonart
website: www.juliedillonart.com
email: [email protected]

A minotaur with a sword sunk in his chest and several cuts on his body, but from each cut flowers and flower petals flow instead of blood. His face looks sad and pleading, and he raises a hand as if to fend off an attacker.

A king and his knight steal a quiet moment away together in a hidden alcove. The king leans in for a kiss and the knight subtly draws him close. The yearning is palpable, haha.

Medusa stands proud and regal atop the stone statues of many soldiers that she's petrified.

A sad selkie woman floats below the water, tenderly embracing one of the seals that swim around her.

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Madalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · Apr 8

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Madalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · 11d

Such a smiley kitty 🖤

Madalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · 11d

Ffs.

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Meandering M🌿 @pathwaymoments.bsky.social · 12d

This pop of purple is October’s gift! 📷🌱

The purple asters are shining stars every October!

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Madalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · Dec 19

Witches ✨

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Natasa Ilincic @natasailincic.bsky.social · 14d

“Yew tree on Lothrie Burn”, watercolour on hot pressed cotton paper.

I always stop to look at this tree on my daily walk, it was about time I painted it! :)

Now available through
everydayoriginal.com/artistprofil...

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Yvette d’Entremont @dentremy.bsky.social · 14d

Colour burst along the Sackville River, Nova Scotia.

A bright blue sky and vibrant fall foliage in oranges, yellows, greens, and reds are reflected in a shallow river. Scattered leaves and rocks are visible in the front of the photo.

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bram | cody 🌱 @bramblebug.bsky.social · 14d

I think this aptly expresses how deeply misunderstood art is by GenAI people. the act of creation is intertwined with our whole being. art is not math: you can’t put it in a calculator and have it solved for you. I would also rather leave the planet than allow a soulless machine to create for me.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 15d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · Sep 16

people who want other people to stay in sad little grey boxes forever and never be happy in their bodies or desires are villains and cowards and they may be winning right now but by god they will lose as water smooths stone and roots break it, because that fierce joy is roots and water and life

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Sam Guay @samguayart.bsky.social · Jul 22

Excited to share the final art for my Commander Sealed playmat! All profits go to The Trevor Project and Trans Lifeline in a 50/50 split. Supporting these LGBTQ+ hotlines feels extra pertinent this year, both on a personal level and in the wider expanse of things. I love you, please stay here 💚

A painting of a beastly "hellmouth" with a queer faerie and imp inside, sharing a goblet of starlight.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 18d

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

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