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an octopus made of sandpaper

@sandpaperoctopi.bsky.social

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they/he. transmasc agender, aroace. artist, writer, 27-year-old spider I post pictures of my OCs and bugs mostly. my links: linktr.ee/sandpaperoctopi #art / #oc / #writing / #invertebrates / #cats

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an octopus made of sandpaper @sandpaperoctopi.bsky.social · Apr 8

Hi happy #PortfolioDay !

I'm Morgan, a queer artist mostly focused on original character and nature subjects. I have a shop, and I do commissions through Ko-fi!

🛍️ Shop ☕ Ko-fi 🔗 More Links

Illustration of a dark-colored snail. The body is sort of dark gray with reddish streaks and lines along the top and sides. The shell is dark brown and turning lighter and warmer in color as it spirals in. The background is off-white with squiggles and little stars.

Drawing of a very long scaly pinkish gray dragon with curved black horns, a hairy gray mane, bird feet, and a somewhat humanlike face. The dragon, named Eve, has one foot on the shoulder of a human trans guy named Aster who looks like he is struggling under the weight. Aster is pale with wavy blond hair, and he is wearing a white blouse and brown pants and boots. The background is blue with a tan border.

Drawing of two winged guys on a blue sort of stained glass-like background with a yellow lace-like border. There is a dark circle behind them. One guy, Lace, is a bit smaller with top surgery scars and curly brown hair. He is wearing star earrings and white pants, and he has long, narrow wings like a barn swallow. He is holding a knife to the throat of the other guy. The other guy, Nemato, is paler with long red hair. He is wearing a white skirt and has more rounded wings patterned like a shrike. Lace looks angry, but Nemato looks almost calm, or even enamored, and is not fighting back. The two guys are glowing a bit.

Drawing of four sturgeon swimming through the water with bubbles. The first is brown and swimming to the right while the rest swim to the left. The second is bluish-gray and has a little chip out of a fin. The third is pale yellowish brown and slim. The fourth is darker and gray.

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an octopus made of sandpaper @sandpaperoctopi.bsky.social · 1h

river crossing
#wip

Sketch of a faun-like unicorn person carrying three baby unicorns, one on its back and two under its arms, as it crosses a river.

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libby/lucky/bunnie 🐰💜🐇🩵 @luckybunnie268.bsky.social · 1h

my commissions are officially open!!! 💜✨

check out my form in the link below for more information 👇⬇️👇⬇️👇⬇️

forms.gle/V3aXzgKpXR2v...

#artcommissions #commissionsopen #digitalartist #characterartist #illustration #art #queerartist

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Ghost @ghostlycorvid.bsky.social · 1d

Out here educating the nation's youth about the existence of the coolest bug in the world
🎨 @cochayuyocreations.bsky.social

Calla the trilobite beetle wearing orange flannel and a workshop apron

The same, but standing more to the side so the table is visible

A back view to show off all that gorgeous work Yuyo did

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 3h

Happy Indigenous Peoples day, I am indigenous Isneg/Apayao through my mother, who is in need of help. please help me take care of my mama at trying to manage a progressive disease and helping extend her life through mutual aid and the miracle of modern medicine, please 🙇‍♂️

🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you! Hey everyone, am an indigenous trans artist in the global south, in perpetual housing insecurity; also permanently disabled with nerve damage that impacts my movement. Id absolutely love if you guys could like my work, or buy a print or send me a tip 🌼 (comments)

School of fish drawn in a spiral in hues of teal and sea glass green

A transmasc sideview portrait in hues of faded green. Golden clouds and stars and fish float over him

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Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com · Jun 22

My name is Tzipporah and I’m a Mvskoke beader! Here’s some of my favorite earrings that I’ve made, you can also check out my website at cvkvlv.com

Mvto for doing the art share!!

A pair of long beaded dangle earrings in shades of red and black on a bead mat

A pair of beaded fringe earrings featuring little buttery yellow moon shapes against the blue top, that ombre down to purple, light pink, buttery yellow, green, and finally blue again at the edge of the fringe.

A pair of beaded fringe earrings in blue and gold on a bead mat. The gold twist bugle beads catch the light.

A pair of silver, white, and pastel rainbow flat beadwork earrings on a bead mat

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Tth'ijaaze ("boreal owl") @theeborealowl.bsky.social · Jun 23

Im late but: Im Tth'ijaaze, a disabled Beader, artist, sporadic writer, and Dene human.
My link is: ko-fi.com/theeborealowl

An example of my work is my Beaded Hanafuda Earrings 💕

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Sara "Baba Yaga" Jeffers @babayaga.quest · Jun 27

'Way! I'm from Colville Confederation :) I don't get commissions, so I've been slipping in Indigenous art to all the charity games I run on @meadowlarkprod.bsky.social - this lil guy is our mascot, a Western Meadowlark.

An illustration of a brown and white bird with a yellow breast

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Chloe G @starcapacitor.bsky.social · Jul 1

Hello everybody! I am a Métis artist living in BC and I am an enjoyer of silly cartoons!! I mainly just post here and on my Instagram @star.capacitor :)
This thread is just so full of incredible art oh my goodness

A black and white comic where a square receives an invitation that says “be there or be square”. The square is offended by this, replying by saying “what the fuck”.

A sketchbook page full of various, brightly coloured pillbugs. They vary in size and shape, and some have little spots shaped like hearts or stars on them.

An interpretation of the sea creature Ogopogo, drawn in vibrant colours and curling around in a square shape.

A mysterious creature with a pointy skull and no eyes looking up at the sky. In the sky there are gold and silver stars, and snowflakes falling from clouds above.

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felix 🌸 zine in pinned! @tapiocawizard.bsky.social · 4h

Hi, I'm Felix! I'm mixed Mohawk (Kanien'kehá:ka) and two spirit.

I don't currently have a shop, but my husband and I are running a queer historical zine over at @taplingzines.bsky.social and would love more Indigenous artists to apply!!

A digital art piece of Gabriel, an original character. He is a genderfluid (but fairly masc-presenting here) skinny Filipino in his early 20s. He has curly hair and freckles all over his body, and is sits in front of a lightly graffitied wall holding a vape with bright purple nails on his hand. His tshirt says, "Yes, I'm bi (Bible Lover). And also bisexual."

A digital painting of a fox on a grassy hill, surrounded by aurora borealis which tints the fox in a reddish purple and bright green. There is a very faint Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) flag in the background.

A digital illustration of two of my characters, Imani and Mona, praying. They are in a mosque, kneeling side by side. Imani is a Black woman dressed in a long skirt and hijab, with a modest clothing style mostly in black and dark magenta. Beside her is her toddler daughter, Mona, who wears colorful, mismatched clothing, her curly hair pulled back into pigtails. She has her hands over her face as she prays, with Imani's hands open in front of her in a du'a position.

A digital illustration of a toddler girl with green hair and small antlers on her head. She has medium-brown skin and freckles, and her ears are pointed in an elven shape. She wears a blue dress with pink stars and a pink collar. Her antlers have small vines wrapped around them, seemingly growing out of her head as well, and there are also small pink flowers. She is playing with one ear as a shy fidget.

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Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com · 10d

Boosts appreciated 🔁

It's a great time to start shopping for holiday gifts! I make handmade jewelry for a living, so your business this holiday season means far more to me than it will to any large business. Grab my new spooky earrings → cvkvlv.com

MVTO!!

Goal progress in comments ↓↓

#Beadwork

Two pairs of fringe earrings with ghosts on them, one with a purple and orange background and one with a purple and green background

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Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com · 5h

Ive decided to extend the donations to the American Indian Center of Chicago from Every Child Matters beadwork sales indefinitely! As of now we've raised $55 for them 🎉🧡

Shop my Every Child Matters beadwork: cvkvlv.com/collections/...

#EveryChildMatters #Indigenous #Art #Beadwork

A pair of mini beaded fringe earrings in orange ombre, black, and white, with silver findings

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 11h

looking up refs and NOT ANOTHER SEA WOIM I BARELY SURVIVED THE LAST ONE

time for a 5+ h doodle I guess...

#Invertober2025

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · Jul 1

oh it is #WorldPolychaeteDay!
and I used this beautiful weirdo photo to doodle this #SciArt piece last year while half delirious after a flight from the UK to Seattle 🪱

drawing of a sea worm on a black background, unlike earthworms it is covered in little leg/hair like structures, and it is iridescent rainbows, from blues, purples, reds, oranges, browns and yellows.

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Jay 🌲➡️ Howloween 2025 @telekitnetic.bsky.social · Jun 21

Let's get an Indigenous art share going too!! If you're an Indigenous/First Nations artist, vendor, beader, etc, share your work and links below!!

#IndigenousPeoplesDay ❤️💛🤍🖤

A picture of various formline stickers piled on top of each other. In bold red gradient text reads "Indigenous People's Day Art Share".

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em. rowene @queerenigma.com · 5h

All I have is Georgie, who will most definitely be appearing in future Case Files mysteries!

(She actually has a very short cameo in Confessions of a Medium)

A portrait of a pale young woman with voluminous, curly ashy-blond hair. She has bright red lips and a pearl necklace and gives off a very 50s-starlet vibe

A full body drawing of the same woman, this time with blood running down her chin

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Jay 🌲➡️ Howloween 2025 @telekitnetic.bsky.social · 9h

Today is Indigenous People’s Day!! I’m Wet’suwet’en, oooooo look at my art 🌀🌀🌀 my stomach is still cramping so that’s all the introduction I have the willpower for 👍

Website: www.jazzjosart.com
Online Shop: ko-fi.com/telekitnetic...

#indigenouspeoplesday #formline #indigenousart

A formline design of a cocoon and an emerging butterfly, coloured in the same shades as the transgender flag. The cocoon has half of a human face on it, and the butterfly’s wings are made of human hands.

An assortment of formline stickers. The designs include a hyena, a chickadee, an otter head, a capybara, and a harbor seal.

A picture of the vendor booth for TeleKitnetic Art at Canfurence 2025.

A picture of a formline wooden pin. The design is of a sitting wolf and a wolf pup in grey-brown. The wolf pup is pawing at its parents leg with its tongue stuck out.

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Janosch M Irrlichtwinter @jmirrlichtwinter.bsky.social · 13h

quick sketch of my protag Bann.
... how do you draw faces digitally again?

#oc #ocsky

sketch of a human character. He has lightly tan skin, pale blue eyes, and dark hair that is dyed blond at the tips. His hair is tied back into a short pony tail, with a few stands left over his face. He has a nose bridge piercing.

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🪻Aiks/Atom (working on OC site) @aiksandatoms.bsky.social · 6h

#bweirdoctober2025 #atomland #oc #ocart #OCsky
Day 13: color palette challenge!
🌟 I wanted to use the color palette challenges as an opportunity to draw OCs I don’t pay as much attention to!
So here’s Fergus (he/him)…my stern yet responsible metalworker :0

Portrait of Fergus, the personification of iron, looking to the side. It’s colored in shades of brown and pink. The background is yellow with pink patches resembling rust. The text reads “Fe”.

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KIT! 🌳 🦌💕 Timber! @kitnkadoodle.bsky.social · 9h

*woke up to more than 1K followers* WOW! Thank you so much everyone! The DTIYS is still going!

But I want to throw in a free chibi drawing of an OC!

To enter you must:
💕follow me
💖like and share
💞reply with your OC and gush about them! (I want to support you)

I’ll draw a random winner on Oct 29!

Example of chibi art! iymp wearing a star hat and pouting

Example of chibi style. Hollis and Rowhan in pretty lingerie.

Example of chibi art. Hollis is a Capricorn/hippocampus and Rowhan is a dolphin mer!

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 7h

this is pif he is twelve minutes old and five molecules long

Passionvine tendril with very tiny orange caterpillar on it

Close up of tiny orange caterpillar on curly tendril

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Woxie.png @woxie101.bsky.social · 8h

Happy indigenous peoples day!!!!

Check out my Webcomic full of my variant of my Oaxacan language of mixtec!!!!!

#indigenoudpeoplesday

Woxie.png @woxie101.bsky.social · Aug 16

My webcomic update!!!! #comicfury #webcomic #magicalgirl

cosmicfault.thecomicseries.com/comics/54/#c...

Also on Tumblr!!!

www.tumblr.com/cosmic-fault...

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Janosch M Irrlichtwinter @jmirrlichtwinter.bsky.social · 18h

WIP of my first ever jelly gouache art - I thought a landscape study would be a good subject to get into - and then I realised I'm not actually that good at landscapes yet 😅

anyway, I'll add a fine detail layer with coloured pencils later. Can't get fine details with brushes, thanks shaky hands :-\

a desert landscape painting. The sky is blue over an orange rocky landscape. There are some grey-green bushes dotted all over.

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Janosch H. Irrlichtwinter @irrlichtwinter.bsky.social · 18h

Day 12 of #invertober
Pacific Razor Clam

I thought this would be an easier subject, and then I had such a difficult time rendering the shell 😂

#invertober2025
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drawing of a clam with an oval shaped shell. The shell is yellow and brown. The clam has a beige siphon that is sticking out on the side.

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an octopus made of sandpaper @sandpaperoctopi.bsky.social · 18h

I wonder if I could crochet a unicorn doll…

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mossyvida @mossyvida.bsky.social · 22h

My “starry stag beetle” design looks so magical on color paper!! 🥹💕
#linocut #bugart #stagbeetle #art #linoprint #printmaker

Many prints of a stag beetle in different colors laying in the grass

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Micah Seacole @micahseacole.bsky.social · 1d

#Sketch - Lyknos

A living saint, not a warp demon.

#ArtSky #OCSky #DigitalArt #WarHammer40k #WarHammerOC #MicahsOCs

digital sketch, a human angel wearing a mask, a priest's cossack, stola with iconography of the Emperor on the golden throne and the Aquila above it. He has an Aquila attached to a robe hanging from his belt as well as on his chest as the open closure of his cossack. He holds an incense burner hanging from a chain with one hand. He looks serene but dangerous. Halo and wings behind him.

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