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alice
@aliceduke.bsky.social
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🥀 occasional illustrator for books and games
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🌚 http://www.alice-duke.com
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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · Oct 10
I have added some prints to my ko-fi page. It took a long time but I've found a good UK based print service to supply UK/Europe folks with bird portraits. Hahnemüle eco paper, 10+ colour giclee prints, if it wasn't my own artwork I'd say they look pretty good!

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aliceduke.bsky.social
wormeater

You can recognise individual buzzards by their unique "mayoral chain" pattern on the breast. This one mostly eats worms but one time I saw him eat a frog
digital painting of a buzzard. He grips a slender branch in his talons and turns his face away from the sun
November 17, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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kellylianne.bsky.social
I’ve been experimenting with a bit of illustration layering in my sketchbook 💙
Digital sketchbook spread. Left page: layered illustration experiment in blue. Featured foliage, flowers, moon phases, a chalice, and a spider web. Right page: loose doodle of Nasturtium flowers.
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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greybriar.art
Hiss. #darkart #artistonbsky #feline #art
A black and white painting of a black wildcat hissing as it turns to smoke.
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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georgeouthwaite.bsky.social
an experiment I dunno
drawing of white bryony
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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aliceduke.bsky.social
haven't posted this here yet: magpie study
digital painting of a magpie preening
November 15, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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aliceduke.bsky.social
~ Her ruby eye, wings of pearl

digital portrait of a collared dove from earlier this year. I like seeing collared doves, but sparrowhawks seem to like them even more
realistic painting of a collared dove, rendered in light pink against a periwinkle sky. She's perched on a lichen covered branch
October 28, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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aliceduke.bsky.social
Windfucker 🌬️🪶 - Kestrel painting from last year
digital painting of a male kestrel
March 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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greybriar.art
Counsel - based on a photo taken near Penouille #lichen #botanicalart #artistsonbsky
An ink drawing of a twig covered in foliose lichen with some hidden surprises A drawing of a twig covered in foliose white lichen with a few surprises.
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
aliceduke.bsky.social
birds aren't real
photograph: some little egrets stark white against mud and black cows Photograph: I don't know what the fuck this is. A sign on a metal gate reads "dogs loose do not enter or open gate". A very large, menacing bird is poking it's head through the gate. There are no dogs loose.
November 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
Autumn leaf 1
Watercolour, approximately 75 × 130 mm.

Suggested musical accompaniment:
youtu.be/htnXgyBbiyg?....
Watercolour painting of an autumn leaf of red and gold with dark brown spotting.
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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verface.bsky.social
hare hare hawk
An etched black and white picture against a stark yellow background. The picture depicts a hawk surrounded by six stylized hares.
August 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
Glazing in watercolour is time-consuming. Though that's perhaps a redundant explanation, given that everything is time-consuming when I attempt it. 😮‍💨🙁😑
Watercolour painting in progress of an autumn leaf in red and gold.
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 AM
aliceduke.bsky.social
I need to explain to everything in my garden that it's mid november and they should have perished long ago
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
aliceduke.bsky.social
you know this is not bad going for a traditional media hater who hates touching paper
photograph of a collection of drawings, some animals, some landscapes, some plant studies
November 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
aliceduke.bsky.social
hogweed + crack willow

drawn after visiting a community rewilding project
coloured pencil drawing on paper, hogweed and crack willow
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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treelet.bsky.social
The Magician, private commission for Claire.
A digital color drawing of a female tiefling wearing bright orange robes, holding a staff, in front of a watery field of lotus flowers, framed by ferns, with a rising white tower in the distance.
November 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
aliceduke.bsky.social
salt marsh

A tribute to a small patch of vegetation on a local beach that has driven everyone completely insane
digital painting: a little egret hunts against the wind, wading through tall grasses
November 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
aliceduke.bsky.social
I am enjoying co-op abiotic factor so much. Never has a game made me feel so relentlessly dumb. 60+ hours in and you're telling me I can plant potatoes? What do you mean I have to plug the fridge in before it makes things cold??
November 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
aliceduke.bsky.social
Grabbed Viewfinder on ps+, what a cute system for visual puzzles! But there's always some NPC in my ear telling me what a good job I'm doing and positive reinforcement gives me psychic damage. Unplayable
October 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
aliceduke.bsky.social
myosotis
decorative illustration of myosotis scorpioides
October 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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leighalexander.bsky.social
are you by any chance an artist with an extant body of work about ranches wolves mountains carcasses meats snakeskins and devils that i could pay you some money to license before the 31st
October 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
aliceduke.bsky.social
I was walking in the woods today, not even doing anything weird, when a ranger I've never spoken to before waved me over to give me the location of some fly agarics he found last week. I'm giving off mushroom freak vibes without even trying.
October 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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haematinon.bsky.social
Impress me with your princesses! On the left, the mad, jealous Mistress of the West Agrauran, on the right, a noble woman of an Etoi Thiasos dancing with her Erotios, lover and part of her elected court.
October 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
aliceduke.bsky.social
Cursing myself for choosing colours that mean I have to learn how to adjust the white balance on my phone's camera

(also astonished by the repro capabilities of the print shop! this purple! ridiculous!!)
photo of a print of a digital painting of a magpie. photo of a print of a digital painting of a magpie. What is lost with each reproduction?
October 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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andywang.bsky.social
Hey #portfolioday! I'm a #KidLit book designer by day and an illustrator by rest-of-the-day savoring any chance they can get to make personal art :') Love drawing lots of details, academic art, and costumed ladies ✨
A vibrantly colorful digital illustration of Kouyou, Kyouka, her Demon Snow avatar, and Yosano from Bungo Stray Dogs drawn as the regal beauties in traditional Chinese femme costume after the painting "Lingering Melodies from the Xunyang River" by Chen Yifei. The additional background is also very ornate, with a mother-of-pearl inlaid cabinet topped with a golden portrait of a woman based on a Singer Sargent painting. There is a richly decorated Islamic-floral motif style tile pattern runs across the top of the scene. Yosano is holding a fan that says "Rattle, Rattle, Rattle!" Kyouka is sitting on the floor petting the head of a white cat, and instead of the rabbit charm she wears around her neck, is wearing a dragon charm that looks like a certain wizzard lizzard. The colors are primarily pink, blue, white and red. Yosano's outfit is decorated in a way that suggested the Trans Pride flag. She has an added mole to the right side of her face. A super detailed digital illustration showing an interior courtyard scene based off of the architecture of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s courtyard arches and ornament, broken up into different sections arranged in non-linear and isometric perspective (sort of in the tradition of Persian and SE Asian miniature painting). Various femme human figures of different sizes and colors (natural white and brown skin tones but also colored blue and red) are scattered around this space- they are all based off of women from different paintings within the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Gardner Museum (including John Singer Sargent’s El Jaleo, who here is dressed in a way that references the character design of Jolyne Cujoh). In the bottom left, electric blue tigers race under arches in a starry-void space. At the top right, a mysterious woman stands under a painting with aa living parrot, and next to an another parrot on a chair. She is standing upon a coil of thread that weaves throughout the painting, and terminates in a box at bottom left which is guarded by a fancily dressed woman in parrot couture costume, in a miniature “room” with different paintings of other woman, and a mirror that reflects a color field of pink, blue and white. A pink nude woman is seated above on a fabric drape that flows down from a red woman above her who is holding a flower looking out from an ornamented arch. At center is a large blue woman who is smelling a stand of roses, while below her is a smaller ballerina doing up her flats on marble stairs. An outdoor nighttime scene set in a back alleyway mixed-with-a traditional Chinese garden pavilion where multiple characters from the Final Fantasy video game series are gathered around in a little garden courtyard surrounded by houses and walls. In the grass yard sits an ornate, classical American style table holding a blue-gold tea pot and cup set, along with chairs, and a small, green-marble topped side table that’s holding two vases with flowers and a blue-gold pitcher. Behind the furniture and courtyard rise tall, white birch trees. In the background close by is the tall side of a house with an open lit window and hanging laundry on the roof top above. Set into the house wall is an open window through which a cute FF9-style Moogle peeps through. In the further left background is a classic-Chinese style covered pavilion, with curved titles and green-red lacquer sides. Standing by, and sitting at (or on) the table, in the left foreground are Beatrix, Freya and Eiko (who is trying to read a book) (FF9), along with Terra (FF6), Fang (FF13), Rydia (FF4) and Fran (FF12), the three of whom are sat close together, shoulders touching in deep gossip/discussion. To the left, by the courtyard wall and entrance is Garnet/Dagger (FF9) who is sitting by herself on an ornate bench seat cradling a cat in one arm while Yuna (FF10) is stepping through the courtyard entrance, right arm outstretched and mid-saying something. Another orange cat is strolling across the grass in-between both groups. The scene implies that there is both lively discussion and leisurely resting amongst all the different parties, with the fun for the viewer getting to see all these different game characters together in one scene. The art style is based on clean, thin line art with solid, bright colors composed in a muted, yellow tinge since it is nighttime. Above the characters heads are little dark boxes with colorful gold-green borders with colorful bars displayed within, like video game status bars. Photo of an imaginary book cover for a novel titled “Big Fig Wasp.” The cover art depicts a "main character,” which is a self-portrait of myself femme presenting, and dolled up with ribbons and jewelry and sitting on an iridescent pedestal while a mysterious, color-chromatic webbed-hole emerges from my torso as my gloved hand pulls it open. A shadow figure wrapped by a glowing dragon-creature is coming into being in an ornate mirror behind me in the top right corner. At the bottom-left foot of the pedestal if a black-panther dressed in an ornamental harness. Flower decorations and ornament patterns accent the bottom and other corners of the cover. The type is painted in iridescent colors and come in and out of focus.
October 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM