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Mike Z

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Guild Eleven co-founder and artist. I mostly work with watercolor. Guild Eleven = my creative friends! https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ovf2usv5d7piqbfwwjq3puar/lists/3kmkp5p2bkp2b Check out my Linktree! Prints & such. https://linktr.ee/artistmikez

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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 18d

Three whimsical prompts. Less stress than Inktober. Painters, pencilers, wordsmiths, photographers - join us! No artificial flavors, please.
#art 🍂

Lu @rendernev.bsky.social · 19d

Hello, everyone! It’s almost October, and Guild Eleven will be hosting the 3rd annual tiny art challenge called, “Guild Eleven Mysterium”. It’s only three prompts! Just post here on the dates below and use the hashtag #Guild11Mysterium. Look forward to seeing your mysterious artwork in October!🍂

Join us for three art prompts! Precocious Pumpkin-lings on 10/9, Decrepit Domicile in 10/16, and Bespoke Beasties on 10/23!

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Recuperating Dug Rusin @captainpurple.bsky.social · 19h

#inktober #inktober2025

Day 14: trunk

A ballpoint pen drawing of a motorcycle cop striding towards the rear of a stopped older model Ford

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 1d

An ethereal digital artwork showing a woman looking upward toward a glowing star in the sky. Her arms are crossed and guarded, yet peaceful. Her body seems to dissolve into light and chaotic energy, surrounded by circular halo-like rings. The colors are soft purples and golds. It has a dreamy, cosmic vibe.

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Diana Delosh - illustrator @dtdelosh.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #PortfolioDay
I'm Diana an #illustrator open to #kidlitart #greetingcard or other #illustration projects. Especially if animals, nature and hand lettering are involved.
Portfolio: dianadelosh.com
#kidlit #ArtLicensing

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Dan H Artworks @danhawk333.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #PortfolioDay

I'm just a Dan who is sharing what I draw with pens and paper on my personal art journey. Art is what I do to process my feelings about and escape from the world for a bit in the evenings and on weekends.

Pen drawing of a ghostly upper torso, neck, head and shoulders of a bald human emerging from a mass of organic shapes that suggest organs, musculature, veins and other structures. Facing left it is looking with solid white eyes and a third eye towards an area of alien writing and shapes in white on a black background next to what appears to the left half of a viewer facing grey style alien being in an embryonic pose in a container and hooked up to wires and is propped up by the same structure of the background

Pen drawing that is mostly black and white focused on a humanoid figure with many different organic growths coming out of their back that contain eyes, while the upper part of their face is covered by a solid plate that has the skin of the lower part of the face connected to it by rivets. The rest of their body is covered by strange techno-organic growths and in the background is another figure reclining and holding their hands above their head into the arched walls that frame the scene. The surrounding area makes an oval portal like shape that filled with a yellowish hue and a number of orange ringed elongated eye like shapes with white centers with black filaments.

Pen drawing with the main element being a serpentine figure with vaguely feminine human features and a spiral shell like structure on the head, leaning from the right with large black eyes and a body covered with various bony growths like armor down it's back, kneeling on an uneven stone floor. One arm with a couple of large claws is slightly pointed at another figure is visible just below a large obsidian stylized skull pendant. The other figure is standing, holding a flowing robe at the waist, but has a smooth stone face but is otherwise human. In the background, lounging on the ground or on a pillar amount he strange organic shapes while in the background are stone structures that appear to be a temple like complex with a large circular structure that looks to be plugged into the large stylized skulls below it.

Pen drawing of a stylized, thin, feminine figure with a face that is just a black void with three white orbs sitting cross-legged in tattered black gown floating under an arch surrounded by runes and vegetation. They are floating amoung ruins flanked by a winged figures with bodies made of starry sky with smaller beings with animal skull type heads in black robes in the foreground of the floating figure. The wings of the crouching figures are in front of organiseh-yellow portals in the blue and purple sky while a feline humanoid figure slinks in from the right in the foreground.

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Emily Jane Foster @emilyjaneart.bsky.social · 1d

Reposting for #PortfolioDay!

Emily Jane Foster @emilyjaneart.bsky.social · Sep 26

Hello! I'm Emily, an artist from Surrey, UK.

I love to illustrate flora, fauna and folklore! ✒️🐉

www.emilyjaneart.co.uk

A black and white ink illustration of a pumpkin kid sat on a fallen log in a clearing in a birch wood. Two little hedgehogs approach from the left and look up at the kid. Eyes glow in-between the trees in the shadows. Is something else there?

A photograph of a black and white ink illustration with a Staedtler pigment liner resting on top. A flood dragon poses to be drawn on top of a pile of books on the artist's desk.

A black, white and silver ink and watercolor illustration of a Selkie transforming into a seal infront of a full moon. The body of the seal follows the shape of the moon and a woman's hand pulls a seal head towards her head like a hood.

A black and white ink illustration of a cat dragon.

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Lu @rendernev.bsky.social · 19h

Noodle on the coffee table.

Noodle (aka Mozart) poses on the coffee table.

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Lynnette Nees @custardline.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #PortfolioDay! 🎃🧡I'm Lynnette, an illustrator and designer. I focus on painting vibrant watercolors with fantasy themes. I'd love to work on your games, covers, characters, etc! You can see more of my work at my website, CustardLine.com. Email me at [email protected]

A watercolor and gouache painting of two woodland creature friends meeting for tea and reading. It is in the style of Frank Asch. 5x7, watercolor paper.

A watercolor painting of the interior of Linda and James Meyers' home in Portland, OR.

An ink painting of Miracle Mike, the Headless Chicken. "8x5"

A self-portrait of the upper half of my face. Watercolor on paper "5x7"

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Jason Song Quinn @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 1d

Yo! It’s #PortfolioDay! My name is Jason, I’m a cartoonist who loves comics and ttrpg design. I focus on weirdo filled fantasy and candy coated horror. You can checkout my stuff at:
www.jasongquinn.com/portfolio
Or hulkhoquinn.itch.io

Also trying to use my Patreon more
www.patreon.com/u3199234

Illustration of various aquatic salamanders

Illustration of a big pack of dogs chasing rabbits

Fan art of Tree sentinel from Elden Ring

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Lynnette Nees @custardline.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah, I did kind of finish this.

#art

A watercolor painting of a young fig branch.

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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 1d

Hope everything is ok.

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Lu @rendernev.bsky.social · 1d

Got some difficult news this afternoon but sitting with Noodle in the snug has helped quiet the nerves a bit.

Noodle (aka Mozart) relaxes in the snug window by the blue sofa.

Noodle (aka Mozart) sits on the coffee table in the snug this afternoon.

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Lu @rendernev.bsky.social · 2d

The cottage home of the Ghost Brothers.
#cottagehaunt