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he/him | 27 | illustrator and comic artist | horror and fantasy freak | weary vampire | 🏳️‍⚧️ | @gladcowe.bsky.social 🖤 🔗: vampbyte.carrd.co 🟢 commissions: vgen.co/vampbyte 🎨 https://ko-fi.com/vampbyte 🔸 patreon.com/vampbyte ❌ No AI ❌
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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · 12h
hi #PortfolioDay !

i'm zack, an illustrator and comic artist who likes to draw horror, fantasy, and romance 🦇

i'm available for illustration and comic gigs!

#oc #illustration #comics

[VGen](vgen.co/vampbyte) | [Portfolio](vampbyte.crd.co) | [Links](vampbyte.carrd.co) | [email protected]
An illustration of a long haired man with elf ears looking somberly at the viewer. He has tear tracks down his cheeks. he is standing in front of a series of eroded statues, each of which also has tears in its eyes and is overgrown with foliage. The sky is red and ominous behind them. An illustration with a decorative white border. In the center, a large, dark gray skinned man with glowing eyes is lying on his back, and a much shorter man with pale skin and long hair is resting on his shoulder, nude and draped in a dark blue cloth. In the background, various versions of the shorter man are lying dead, with a ripple effect distorting them and the background. A group portrait of five men (two at the top, one in the center, two at the bottom), with each of the outer four looking yearningly at the man in the center. The top-left man has dark skin, red eyes looking away from the viewer, and black coily hair which is tied back with a red ribbon. The top-right man has pale white skin and long, silver hair and yellow eyes, and is wearing a black bodysuit mask over his mouth and nose. The man in the center has medium tan skin and long, dark blue hair with silver streaks. His eyes are golden. The bottom-left man has light skin, short black hair with a silver gradient at its roots, a mustache, and is wearing a decorative red rose eyepatch over his visible eye. The bottom-right man has light skin, blonde hair cut into a choppy jellyfish cut with curls at the bottom, and pale blue eyes. An illustration of a man with shoulder length wavy hair turned away from the viewer, looking over his shoulder with a smile. He is standing in a field of tall grass, touching a stalk of amaranth with one hand. The image is framed with a decorative gothic border.
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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · 12h
hi #PortfolioDay !

i'm zack, an illustrator and comic artist who likes to draw horror, fantasy, and romance 🦇

i'm available for illustration and comic gigs!

#oc #illustration #comics

[VGen](vgen.co/vampbyte) | [Portfolio](vampbyte.crd.co) | [Links](vampbyte.carrd.co) | [email protected]
An illustration of a long haired man with elf ears looking somberly at the viewer. He has tear tracks down his cheeks. he is standing in front of a series of eroded statues, each of which also has tears in its eyes and is overgrown with foliage. The sky is red and ominous behind them. An illustration with a decorative white border. In the center, a large, dark gray skinned man with glowing eyes is lying on his back, and a much shorter man with pale skin and long hair is resting on his shoulder, nude and draped in a dark blue cloth. In the background, various versions of the shorter man are lying dead, with a ripple effect distorting them and the background. A group portrait of five men (two at the top, one in the center, two at the bottom), with each of the outer four looking yearningly at the man in the center. The top-left man has dark skin, red eyes looking away from the viewer, and black coily hair which is tied back with a red ribbon. The top-right man has pale white skin and long, silver hair and yellow eyes, and is wearing a black bodysuit mask over his mouth and nose. The man in the center has medium tan skin and long, dark blue hair with silver streaks. His eyes are golden. The bottom-left man has light skin, short black hair with a silver gradient at its roots, a mustache, and is wearing a decorative red rose eyepatch over his visible eye. The bottom-right man has light skin, blonde hair cut into a choppy jellyfish cut with curls at the bottom, and pale blue eyes. An illustration of a man with shoulder length wavy hair turned away from the viewer, looking over his shoulder with a smile. He is standing in a field of tall grass, touching a stalk of amaranth with one hand. The image is framed with a decorative gothic border.
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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 17h
Hi #PortfolioDay

I’m Élle • Freelance illustrator & surface pattern designer

Specializing in detail heavy B&W work & passionate about occult history, horror & symbolism

Open for work in publishing, book covers, TTRPGs, private & commercial commissions

✉️ [email protected]
🎨 babeandoak.carrd.co
Altar prayer card for the goddess Diana. A rectangular card has a black border with parts of the Orphic hymn for Diana surrounding it as a border in white text. In the bottom right are twin arrows over a crescent moon representing her and Apollo. In the bottom left and top right are white outlined 8 point stars. Inside the border is a marble shockwave black and grey pattern with white outlining that forms an arch at the top with lining to look like columns on both sides. In the middle is a stag skull with painted antlers of a diamond and star pattern. Behind the skull are smaller 8 point stars and cloud ripples. Above the skull is a scraggly branch of queen Anne’s lace with small dots above. In the top corners are two constellations for Sirius as her hunting dogs and Roman numerals for 13 and 8 for the date of the Nemoralia festival. Victorian Ward - Black and white illustration of a Victorian wall with a scarab ward framed. The border of the whole piece is a torn paper. Inside is Victorian black and white striped wallpaper with damask type filigree in the black and smaller stripes and speckles in the white with small vertical black stripes on either side. In the damask pattern are slightly abstract symbols of infinity, an hourglass and other resurrection symbols. In the middle is an ornate rectangular frame framing a large scarab beetle with its wings out. On its wings are celestial symbols like Jupiter, stars and the moon. Around the scarab are peony flowers and branches of a tree branching towards the top left with a vine white line swooping in an out and around the frame in the same direction. The scarabs body is engraved like metal with filigree. Behind the scarab in the frame is grain shading grey over black. Dark Vibrations - Inktober 2022 black and white ink illustration. Plain rolling hills lead to the door of a building with a large central spire and a small covered porch. To the left side of the building is a three facet bay windows and the other windows have ornate stained glass. On top of the central spire is a lighting conductor in the shape of a 5 point star. In the highest window of the spire is stain glass in the shape of an eye. Converging at the start is a large vortex spiraling and expanding through the whole sky. The vortex is pulling party’s of the building up towards it and cracking parts of the wood and foundation. The vortex is casting light and highlights on the building and the tress behind it. Converging towards the building is a circle of 12 white bird silhouettes. Swatch pattern card on top of matching pattern background. Swatch card is a large white rectangle with a square swatch of the NESS magazine brand pattern I designed in the 2025 summer issue colour-way. Swatch card has font at the bottom corner that read “BABE&OAK endpage repeat pattern summer 2025 client: NESS magazine” and the stamp for Babe&Oak in the bottom right corner.
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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · 12h
thanks elliott!! 😊
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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · 12h
hi #PortfolioDay !

i'm zack, an illustrator and comic artist who likes to draw horror, fantasy, and romance 🦇

i'm available for illustration and comic gigs!

#oc #illustration #comics

[VGen](vgen.co/vampbyte) | [Portfolio](vampbyte.crd.co) | [Links](vampbyte.carrd.co) | [email protected]
An illustration of a long haired man with elf ears looking somberly at the viewer. He has tear tracks down his cheeks. he is standing in front of a series of eroded statues, each of which also has tears in its eyes and is overgrown with foliage. The sky is red and ominous behind them. An illustration with a decorative white border. In the center, a large, dark gray skinned man with glowing eyes is lying on his back, and a much shorter man with pale skin and long hair is resting on his shoulder, nude and draped in a dark blue cloth. In the background, various versions of the shorter man are lying dead, with a ripple effect distorting them and the background. A group portrait of five men (two at the top, one in the center, two at the bottom), with each of the outer four looking yearningly at the man in the center. The top-left man has dark skin, red eyes looking away from the viewer, and black coily hair which is tied back with a red ribbon. The top-right man has pale white skin and long, silver hair and yellow eyes, and is wearing a black bodysuit mask over his mouth and nose. The man in the center has medium tan skin and long, dark blue hair with silver streaks. His eyes are golden. The bottom-left man has light skin, short black hair with a silver gradient at its roots, a mustache, and is wearing a decorative red rose eyepatch over his visible eye. The bottom-right man has light skin, blonde hair cut into a choppy jellyfish cut with curls at the bottom, and pale blue eyes. An illustration of a man with shoulder length wavy hair turned away from the viewer, looking over his shoulder with a smile. He is standing in a field of tall grass, touching a stalk of amaranth with one hand. The image is framed with a decorative gothic border.
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メリー🎸🎸 @holysarvel.bsky.social · 3d
#Flins #フリンズ
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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · Sep 4
finished up the references for this criminal duo 🤠
A reference sheet for a character called Grimhildt. He is a tall slender man wearing a dark mustard yellow cloak over his chest and a crude chainmail. He has wild, light brown hair and a bandana on his forehead. His green pants are flared at the bottom and sewn up with various stitches. An alternative version of his outfit to the right includes a mask over his face made of an animal jaw, and a beat up cowboy hat. On the far right there is a large staff, the same height as the man made of a red spiky material. It's covered in eyes and labeled as "Old Aggie" The text profile reads: Grimhildt "Crazy Eyes" Age: 29 height: 6'7" race: human profession: leader of the Brittleburn Bandits Combined references from the other two images, see alt text on those A reference sheet for a character called Hremi Terrowin. He is a short, stout elf wearing a blue tunic and tights. He has light blonde hair tied in an ornate ponytail with a ribbon, and his skin is a golden yellow. An alternative version of him to the right is wearing a totally different outfit, comprised of shredded fabric and animal bones decorated with spikes. The chestpiece is made of a cow skull and he is wearing a bone mask over his face with one eye socket shattered. The text profile reads: Hremi Terrowin "The Terrowin Terror" Age: 21 height: 5'1" race: elf profession: eldest son of House Terrowin ; member of the Brittleburn Bandits
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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · Sep 9
commission slots for october thru december are open for both illustrations and comic pages! i have a limited number of openings for each this time so it's first come first serve 🦇

vgen.co/vampbyte
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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · 26d
commission for Hellboundheart on VGen! 🖤

#VGen #VGencomm
A black and white portrait with a decorative gothic border. The portrait features a stitch-mouthed woman wearing a black wedding dress and veil holding a bouquet of calla lilies in a graveyard.
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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · 11d
another WIP
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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · 4d
commission for leoeoeo on VGen!

#VGen #VGencomm
A gothic bordered illustration of a wavy-haired character staring directly at the viewer. They're wearing an off-shoulder shirt tied at the front and shorts. In front of them, they're holding a white cane with both hands. There are red lycoris flowers in the background.
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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · 5d
hundreds, thousands, millions of times — and in each one I seek you, the man with no name
An illustration with a decorative white border. In the center, a large, dark gray skinned man with glowing eyes is lying on his back, and a much shorter man with pale skin and long hair is resting on his shoulder, nude and draped in a dark blue cloth. In the background, various versions of the shorter man are lying dead, with a ripple effect distorting them and the background.
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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · 4d
thanks cori! :D
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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · 29d
surprise commission for milky.mosaic on VGen! i love fnv so this was a ton of fun to work on 🤠
An illustration of a man with blonde braided hair in a cowboy hat perching his leg up on a rock to gaze at the horizon. He has a rifle on his back and a Pip-Boy on his wrist. The scenery is a reddish desert at sunset.
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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · 4d
i don't know for PS, but in CSP if you go to the sub tool detail panel for your text tool when there's already text placed on screen, the glyphs should be under the "text list" category!
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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · 5d
i think it's kinda fun to look at the more recent lineup of illustrations in my portfolio and then look at the lineup of pieces from a few years ago and see how much i started leaning into everything having a Dark Crustiness to it
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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · 4d
thank you!! it was rendered with the Yum brush from this set of mine, but tbh a lot of the textures overlayed here were just mish-mashed together textures from the csp assets store and/or from royalty free stock images that i edited for use in csp. i also heavily abused the tone layer effect!
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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · 4d
waitlist is open!

vgen.co/vampbyte
vampbyte (@vampbyte)
Check out vampbyte's commissions and portfolio! | he/him︙ illustrator & comic artist︙weary vampire ︙ 💌 contact: [email protected] ...
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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · 4d
commission for leoeoeo on VGen!

#VGen #VGencomm
A gothic bordered illustration of a wavy-haired character staring directly at the viewer. They're wearing an off-shoulder shirt tied at the front and shorts. In front of them, they're holding a white cane with both hands. There are red lycoris flowers in the background.
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Fukkatsu (cmm-close) @fukkatsu.bsky.social · 6d
Seven Crimes and Punishments🖤
I've been wanting to draw all the sinners from Evillious Chronicles for a long time
#evilliouschronicles #vocaloid
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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · 5d
thank you!!
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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · 5d
thank you so much!! 🖤
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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · 5d
thank you!!
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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 11d
Windows 10 End of Life is in less than 2 weeks!
But you don't have to upgrade to Windows 11!!

This video will show you how to extend the life of Windows 10 by 3 more years via Extended Security Updates program safely, for free.

MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.
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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · 5d
hundreds, thousands, millions of times — and in each one I seek you, the man with no name
An illustration with a decorative white border. In the center, a large, dark gray skinned man with glowing eyes is lying on his back, and a much shorter man with pale skin and long hair is resting on his shoulder, nude and draped in a dark blue cloth. In the background, various versions of the shorter man are lying dead, with a ripple effect distorting them and the background.
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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · 5d
to be fair i like both approaches, but i've gotten a lot bolder with the presentation and atmosphere of my more recent stuff which is more true to my interests and less "plain" looking. so i am definitely biased towards the new stuff even beyond my technical skill having improved
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