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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 7h

To be wandering an open field under uninterrupted sky...

Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 8h

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 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.

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Katherine Lam @katherinelam.bsky.social · 1d

I'm an illustrator who has worked in editorial, publishing, advertising, animation, and games. Recently though I've been drawing mechanophilia in MS Paint 🤖💦 #PortfolioDay

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 1d

Willingly used perspective 😔✨

Screen capture of an in progress drawing on Procreate of a fantasy scene in a ruined hall with a fountain and Greek columns, based on the indoor courtyard of the Frick Museum. A regal seated lady and her attendants gaze out at a floating, nude archangelic-like figure with a gut-halo bearing a heart in their hand while a mysterious woman with a bleeding eye and crescent moon head piece gazes out at the viewer in the front, from behind a column.

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 1d

Ahh thank you!!

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 1d

I would delicately hold it in my palm and look into its eyes

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 1d

sticker sheet 👁️🔺👁️

A sheet of 13 illustrated sticker designs by myself of different funky creatures/characters in bright bold colors. Featuring: a wizard pin design, a Catholic lemur with a knife, a unicorn fish, a heart with guts spilling out, a hypnotic flower, a polka dot cat-seal, a girl waving a Trans pride flag in a conic-jewel costume, a cowboy dinosaur with another dinosaur inside it, a flaming quarter, a Sphinx on a laptop, a lemon with a grub in it, a test-tube dragon, and a white rat-rabbit guarding a mysterious oozing box.

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 1d

it’s Indigenous peoples day, so if you need to purchase an indulgence for your settler sins, you can venmo me at @ziibiing and I will redistribute your wealth to Indigenous people 🫡

also, I will be accepting land or cabin donations anywhere in anishinaabe akiing (MN, WI, MI, Ontario/Manitoba)

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · Oct 20

Let me test the waters.. Hello. I'm Caleb. Mixed southeast asian trans guy just wanting an audience for his art. I hope I can find it here 🕯

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Rosemary V-O @hirosemary.bsky.social · 3d

Cover for the newly announced series The Crying Doll, the latest collaboration between Mariko Tamaki and myself, coming from Vertigo in 2026!! 🪆🩸

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jade 🫀 comms closed @yellghoul.bsky.social · 5d

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illustration of a girl walking through a forest fire with a giant wolf made of smoke

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 5d

This is so fweakin COOL and don't let the fox/wolf gatekeepers keep you down!!

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 9d

Drawing + designing the cover for an imaginary literary thriller (a chance to look pretty, an opportunity to be spooky)

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 9d

Just the cover!

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.

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 9d

Drawing + designing the cover for an imaginary literary thriller (a chance to look pretty, an opportunity to be spooky)

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Anya Chalina @anyachalina.bsky.social · 27d

A fun commission for Jerez about an architect building a maze.

a commission piece about an architect building a maze made of buildings and sculptures inspired by different cultures. The artwork is vertical but can be viewed from any angle. The character is standing in the archway with a scepter. She has bright red hair and wears a white dress. The arch in the foreground is decorated with patterns and tiles. The maze shows a big range of buildings overlapping with each other and some sculptures. There are spiders made of jewels in the corners of the illustration.

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jade 🫀 comms closed @yellghoul.bsky.social · 10d

god even with my hatching brush this thing is taking a whiiiile

wip drawing of a girl and wolf made of smoke

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 9d

The effect is so stunning!!

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Betsy Bird @fuse8.bsky.social · 11d

Sometimes you need to watch out for the quiet books. They know how to sneak up on you. I review Our Lake by Angie Kang. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/10/03/r...