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Anna Landin
@annalandin.bsky.social
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(she/her) Artist/storyteller/ttrpg designer. Eat the rich.
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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · Jul 1
Comic creator, freelance artist, storyteller, character designer, ttrpg creator. Find me and my stuff on on:

✨ Patreon patreon.com/annalandin
✨ Games on itchio annalandin.itch.io
✨ Artstation artstation.com/annalandin

#art #comics #ttrpg
Cover for the character design artbook Silkpunk, by Anna Landin. Five characters in wearing outfits inspired by traditional Chinese fashion cover one half of the cover, with a brightly lit temple-like building and a full moon in the background. Cover illustration for the comic The Care and Feeding of Monsters by Anna Landin. Two men - one dressed in an apron and the other in many layers of black and grey - surrounded by a bunch of delicious-looking food. Cover illustration for the tabletop roleplaying game Dust of the Traveled Road by Anna Landin. Three figures in fantastical outfits, painted in bright, warm shades of yellow, orange and red, against a dark indigo blue background. A character sheet illustration for a character named Silas Cormorant. He's a grey-skinned, wiry-looking elf dressed in what looks like hand-me-down pieces of several different outfits. He's got a ragged coat and a long scarf. Next to him are details of his belongings: an ornate dagger, a battered notebook, a ragged pouch on a belt, and so on.
annalandin.bsky.social
I love to talk about art: please ask me things.
lodrawsfilth.bsky.social Lo 🎨🔞 @lodrawsfilth.bsky.social · 1d
Share your knowledge if/when you can. Teaching other people how to do what you do doesn’t lessen your art - it just means more and better art for everyone.

I appreciate when people are willing to tell me about their brushes, how they study, etc… I want to put that back out into the world.
White text on a blue background, a yellow pencil, and a black blot of spilled ink. The text says “share if you welcome artistic questions”.
December 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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went looking for a novel-outline in a notebook. found an entirely different novel outline I had, until now, entirely forgotten I'd written.

if I ever fall prey to my reoccurring fear that I've had my last good idea and am out of juice, you have my permission to gently shush me and give me a snack.
December 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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#TeaWitches 2025 edition

Day 7: Ceylon Tea #art

single-origin tea is almost always a bit trickier to design a witch for, since there are fewer things to look to for visual inspiration, but I think I managed alright.
A cartoon witch, dressed in traditional Sri Lankan costume. She is chubby and round-faced, and wears beautiful golden ornaments on her forehead, wrists and decorating her hat. In the background is a stylised drawing of a blue water lily, a national emblem of Sri Lanka.
December 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!
Title: The street tom waits grew up on. Image: a shabby, broken down old timey American street. Caption: Buildings (left to right): vern's all-nite pizza 'n' tattoo, accordion players' graveyard, abandoned clown-shoe factory, divorced salesmen's polka club, tomb of the unknown cabbie, bootleg ice-cream warehouse, saint frank's hobo orphanage, illegal umbrella incinerator.
December 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Marx and Engels Moomin
December 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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#TeaWitches 2025 edition! the dress is based more on some Piedmontese traditional dresses I found than Lombardian ones, as would be more fitting, but I liked the look, so.

Day 6: Bergamot and Jasmine. #art
A cartoon witch with red, braided hair. She is wearing a dress and shawl of a traditional Italian folk costume fashion. The outfit is black and red with embroidered jasmine flowers, as is her conical hat. She holds a bergamot orange in one hand and a sickle in the other, and she is surrounded by stylised jasmine flowers.
December 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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the only reason it took us a year to save the local library is that our municipal council chief is physically incapable of shame, and we had to spook everyone else around him into realising they might lose an election over it.

but we got there, in the end 💪
gregpak.net Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Night from a railroad car window
Is a great, dark, soft thing
Broken across with slashes of light.
- Window, by Carl Sandburg.

which, handily, is the entire poem.

even as I am always keen to explore and discover more poetry I enjoy, I keep coming back to Sandburg.
achillesthe2nd.bsky.social Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 2d
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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to further illustrate the point: a map of the Holy Roman Empire in the early 1200s.

Only the bright yellow bits are considered imperial land directly ruled by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II

the rest are lesser kingdoms, principalities, city states, bishoprics, ongoing arguments, etc.
A map of central Europe, with an area including everything from northen Germany to Sicily in the south, from the Netherlands in the west to the southern Baltics in the east. It is a patchwork of constituent states in various colours, with only a few splashes of yellow in the middle of the map.
December 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
annalandin.bsky.social
#TeaWitches 2025 edition! the dress is based more on some Piedmontese traditional dresses I found than Lombardian ones, as would be more fitting, but I liked the look, so.

Day 6: Bergamot and Jasmine. #art
A cartoon witch with red, braided hair. She is wearing a dress and shawl of a traditional Italian folk costume fashion. The outfit is black and red with embroidered jasmine flowers, as is her conical hat. She holds a bergamot orange in one hand and a sickle in the other, and she is surrounded by stylised jasmine flowers.
December 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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I am very much a live and let live kind of person, but I do wish the little spiders that occasionally wander through the house wouldn't *crawl up my sleeve* while I'm working.

there are whole other rooms of the house they could be hanging out in to avoid the cold and the rain outdoors, and yet
December 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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#TeaWitches 2025 edition. #art

Day 5: Hibiscus

the petals of hibiscus flowers look a lot like the skirts of flamenco dresses, so
A smiling cartoon witch in a flamenco pose. She is wearing a pink hat with a hibiscus on the hat band, and is dressed in a pink flamenco dress shaped like the petals of a hibiscus flower.
December 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
annalandin.bsky.social
dropped by the local record store to buy music on actual CDs today, and there was a sign outside that said "Daycare for old men" with a big arrow pointing into the shop
December 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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#TeaWitches 2025 edition. #art

Day 5: Hibiscus

the petals of hibiscus flowers look a lot like the skirts of flamenco dresses, so
A smiling cartoon witch in a flamenco pose. She is wearing a pink hat with a hibiscus on the hat band, and is dressed in a pink flamenco dress shaped like the petals of a hibiscus flower.
December 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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#TeaWitches 2025 edition. #art

Day 4: Rose
A cartoony drawing of a pale, red-headed witch wearing a blue and pink cloak and hat. A pale pink tudor rose is pinned in her hair, with another at the belt of her blue dress.
December 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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#TeaWitches 2025 edition (yes I am posting these to catch up, I drew them today after finally deciding I was actually going to do this)

Day 3: Vanilla Chai

#art
A cartoony drawing of an Indian witch. She wears a sari in vanilla-beige and bright blue, and a spray of cinnamon flowers and cardamom seeds spill from her wand.
December 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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#TeaWitches 2025 edition, based on my tea advent calendar.

Day 2: English Breakfast Tea Witch

yes I did draw the tartan by hand
A sleepy-looking cartoony witch. She is wrapped in a tartan blanket and rests on a bunch of red pillows, cradling a steaming tea cup in her hands.
December 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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On this, the tenth anniversary of the last time I did this (lo, for I am ancient as the mountains):

#TeaWitches, 2025 edition. One witch* for every tea in the Whittard tea calendar I bought myself. (*or, as many as I can manage without wrecking my hand). #art

Day 1 - Lemon/vanilla/cloves
A drawing of a cartoony witch. She has brown skin, yellow eyes and long, cream-coloured hair. She wears a dress with a knee-length skirt, in a bright lemon yellow colour with a pattern like a cut lemon on the inner skirt. On her yellow hat are clove flowers.
December 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
annalandin.bsky.social
shoutouts to the LibriVox recording of Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees (recorded by Nicole J. LeBoeuf), the first 21 chapters of which has been my audio-company as I drew these four witches today.
December 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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to anyone who has been following me in the internet since the year of our lord 2015 (or earlier: I did the first one of these in 2014) - I'm sorry and you're welcome for the feelings of "it's been HOW LONG?" and "oh wow, I remember these!" you're experiencing.
December 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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#TeaWitches 2025 edition. #art

Day 4: Rose
A cartoony drawing of a pale, red-headed witch wearing a blue and pink cloak and hat. A pale pink tudor rose is pinned in her hair, with another at the belt of her blue dress.
December 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
annalandin.bsky.social
#TeaWitches 2025 edition (yes I am posting these to catch up, I drew them today after finally deciding I was actually going to do this)

Day 3: Vanilla Chai

#art
A cartoony drawing of an Indian witch. She wears a sari in vanilla-beige and bright blue, and a spray of cinnamon flowers and cardamom seeds spill from her wand.
December 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
annalandin.bsky.social
#TeaWitches 2025 edition, based on my tea advent calendar.

Day 2: English Breakfast Tea Witch

yes I did draw the tartan by hand
A sleepy-looking cartoony witch. She is wrapped in a tartan blanket and rests on a bunch of red pillows, cradling a steaming tea cup in her hands.
December 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
annalandin.bsky.social
On this, the tenth anniversary of the last time I did this (lo, for I am ancient as the mountains):

#TeaWitches, 2025 edition. One witch* for every tea in the Whittard tea calendar I bought myself. (*or, as many as I can manage without wrecking my hand). #art

Day 1 - Lemon/vanilla/cloves
A drawing of a cartoony witch. She has brown skin, yellow eyes and long, cream-coloured hair. She wears a dress with a knee-length skirt, in a bright lemon yellow colour with a pattern like a cut lemon on the inner skirt. On her yellow hat are clove flowers.
December 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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some of my favourite comments in the genre of "Tumblr user yelling in the tags" are just the textual equivalent to these emojis, and I think of them fondly on my bad brain days.
jendrawscomics.bsky.social Himbo Beefcake, PhD 🔞💪 @jendrawscomics.bsky.social · 3d
Who doesn't appreciate a 👀👀👀💦 under their art
December 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM