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Elysianaut

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~ | Freelance Artist from Ireland | 32 | he/they | 🏳️‍🌈 | ~ - #Art Characters, Creature Design, Worldbuilding & Illustration - - Mostly sfw, some nsfw, 🔞 please - - No ai/nfts - Linktree: https://linktr.ee/elysianaut Contact : [email protected]

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Elysianaut @elysianaut.bsky.social · Dec 31

Putting up commission pricing for the pinned post, ahead of the New Year!

If anyone is interested feel free to DM! And giving a share around would be greatly appreciated too~

#art #digitalart #digitalpainting #irishart #irishartist #irishillustrator #fantasy #ttrpg #commissions #commsopen

Elysianaut Commission pricing sheets

_ text on the left:
Single Character Paintings ~ €120
Character Painting + armour/outfit edit ~ €190
+80 per extra character

_ text on the right:
Illustration, full scene ~ €260 to €420
Weapon design ~ €100

_ bottom right text:
Contact: elysianautart@gmail.com, Elysianaut (telegram, discord)
Payment via PayPal, Revolut, Bank transfer

©️ 2024 Elysianaut

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Art by • Ian Miller

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Ben Fleuter @benfleuter.bsky.social · 12h

Hello I draw a lot of mechs and environments creatures.
#PortfolioDay

A Beamsaber mech with the look of an angelic knight

A cyberpunk cityscape - the sky polluted with neon light. Designed for Hit the Ground Running.

A bio-horror creature with organic censors, a hood made of hands, and a cape made of flesh.

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Bison @bisonrimant.fr · 1d

Hello #PortfolioDay !

I'm a woodcarver from France. I'm sculpting animals, anthropomorphic ones or weird creatures.

You can find my work on my website, but also ... on DOOM II !

My DOOM II portfolio mod :

www.moddb.com/mods/museumwad

My website :

bisonrimant.fr

Woocarved weird creature with one eye, small tentacles as a motuh, curvy horns, a robre, and a duck on its head.

Anthropomorphic octopus wearing a dress. It has a frog taking shelter on a book on its head. Its holding a basket in its tentacle arms. The base is like dark waters, where, among bulrush, a sword emerge. On the handle, a kingfisher sits.

A sculpture of an anthropomorphic crow with a hooded cape. Its hand is on the pommel of its sword, wich is attached at its side. On the other arm, a squirrel is climbing. Beside its feets, a cat sits.

An anthropomorphic goose weraing plate armor. It' holding a shield and a mace. On the mace, red robin sits.

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🌋Shini🔥 @42wv.bsky.social · 18h

「 #Weretober2025 」 //Day 14// - Wooly Rhino-

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AaronTZW.art @aarontzw.bsky.social · 18h

#weretober 14 . Wooly Rhino

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Taran Fiddler @tfiddlerart.bsky.social · 16h

Weretober2025 Day 14 - Wooly Rhino 🦏

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BlindCoyote 🔜 BLFC @blindcoyote.com · 21d

Honestly, the best way to make an artist’s day is by being very specific about what you like about a piece. Geek out a lil. Gush over how they use line, color, texture. Every mark is layed down by the artist, so if you can connect with those little moments, it helps the artist feel seen.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18h

Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.

A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??"
In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!".
In panel 3, a screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!".
In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
2? Questions
I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Yorgos Cotronis @cotronis.bsky.social · 21h

Hello hello #portfolioday
My name is Yorgos, I'm Greek and I make book covers. I'm available for new projects from December onwards.

Here's some of my work!

Painting of a woman with a facial tatoo in long black robes holding a Zweihander

Painting of a woman wearing a crown, in a field of rye. A wolf stands besides her, mostly in shadow.

Book cover for the novel EPIPHANY. It depicts a woman half submerged in water with flowers growing around her.

A book cover for the novel "The Moss," showing a girl covered in flowers and moss with glowing white eyes.

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Waltjan @waltjan9.bsky.social · 19h

Hey #PortfolioDay

I'm Jean, French illustrator & concept artist.

Email: [email protected]

A painting of a giant cemetery in the fog. The colors are based of orange but with different values going from dark to light in the background. A character with a top hat is holding a lamp in the middle of the composition.

A painting of a character with a top hat in a forest walking confidently into a bright light.

A painting of the interior of a clock tower, a character with a top hat is sitting in front of the clock dial, his lamp next to him. Small metallic creatures are next to him.

A painting of a Character with a top hat dancing in a cemetery at night

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MELFIST - Reposting helps a lil'guy grow @lordmelfist.bsky.social · 9d

Show me how you draw armor! 🛡️

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MELFIST - Reposting helps a lil'guy grow @lordmelfist.bsky.social · 21h

Oh boy oh boy it's #PortfolioDay once again
I'm Melfist, I'm an illustrator and comic artist. I'm preparing a massive comic saga and showing off a few of the concepts. I also do some fanarts from time to time.

A huge monster reminiscent of a massive elephant carries a white city on its back. The monster is fleshy, pinkish, has multiple curve tusks, many tentacle-like proboscides, and walks on many shambling legs, some akin to that of a spider. It has two heads, one on each side of the city, each with four golden eyes and a small flame flickering above its head. A cloudy sky is shown in the background and mists surround its walking ground.

A monstrous scaled spider-woman. Her limbless torso rises from where a spider's mouth would be, and all the eight limbs of the spider are elongated, white and gangly, ending in fully functional seven-fingered hands. The head of the monster has incredibly long, white straight silken hair, falling in front of her. The woman has a hybrid face between human, insect and reptilian, with six visible eyes, mandibles around the sharp-teethed mouth, and two curved horns rising to the side of the head, one horn slightly longer than the other.
Behind the spider-woman, the black starry sky, with a waning(waxing?) crescent moon above the spider-witch, framed in a hole at the centre of a massive spiderweb. The picture is completely black and white with the exception of the spiderweb, which is red, slightly fleshy, and irregular. The spider-witch raises two of her limbs to the moon behind her as if she can reach or grasp it, while two other limbs stroke her hair.

A fan-made comic page of Hellboy meeting some Space Marines (from Warhammer 40k) of the Crimson Fists chapter. The space marine lights Hellboy's cigarette with his flamer while saying "An impressive power-fist you wield, sanctioned mutant. But your bolter seems... outdated." Hellboy answers "Uhh... thanks?" and the space marine gives him a gun and a piece of shoulder armor, saying "Our munitorum has allowed me to issue you with a protective pauldron, and I'll share my spare bolter with you." Hellboy takes it and asks "Bolter, huh. What's it fire?"
The space marines assemble, and a dreadnought rises nearby as Hellboy dons the pauldron and wields the gun, while the space marine answers "Gyro-jet assisted armor-piercing explosive rounds!"
Hellboy grins and comments "Now we're talking!"

A scene from a Darkest Dungeon fan-comic, showing the Ancestor lighting a torch in a massive antechamber deep within the earth. Strange fungi grow inside the cave, near an antediluvian gate surrounded by stone tentacles. The Ancestor is triumphant, but his attendant (the Caretaker from the game) and his workers are shocked and in dismay.

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Florent Desanthèmes @fdesanthemes.bsky.social · 20h

Hi #Portfolioday
I'm a comic's artist, here's some panels from "Le Secret de Présentine Ramondore"

Plan frontal sur une affiche au mur indiquant "Grande Fête annuelle du Solstice d'Automne". Le lettrage est ouvragé et à tendance gothique, les lettres sont bleues tandis que des points rouge ponctuent les lettres et les décorations. Au premier, des personnages de dos lisent l'affiche placardée sur un mur en bois.

Cadrage sur 4 cases d'une bande dessinée, où deux personnages marchent sous le soleil fort dans unes montages. Le temps n'a pas l'air pour autant très chaud. les montages et le ciel sont bleus tandis que les deux personnages, un homme et une femme d'un âge certain, équipé d'une matériel prémoderne sont déclinés dans des teintes d'ocre.

Une femme d'âge mûr, de dos, enlace de manière volontaire une homme de son âge qui a l'air davantage emprunté. Le fond est d'un jaune lumineux animé de quelques frondaisons. Les deux personnages baignent dans cette lumière jaune coupé d'une teinte grise.

Les deux mêmes personnages marchent dans les montagnes, de face. Les personnages et le sol sont dans l'ombre. Celui-ci est composé de grosses roches impraticables. Derrière eux, un flanc de montagne frappé de lumière.

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Barladera @barladera.bsky.social · 1d

stained glass

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Elysianaut @elysianaut.bsky.social · 1d

#weretober2025 Day 8: Skeletal Slime

Sometimes during the process you make choices that you're not sure will work, but a bit of commitment to the execution can go a long way in the final product. Glad I stuck with!

Prompt list by
@tfiddlerart.bsky.social

#art #weretober #fantasyart #digitalart

An old pulpy style horror poster of a skull faced slime monster, filling the right of the frame and illuminated by street lights, lurching towards the viewer. The full moon partially covered in hazy clouds hangs on the top left corner. In the bottom left and open hand of an off screen victim is extended out towards their pursuer.

Stylised text on the poster reads:

"The moon is right
The slime is ripe
Don't walk,
RUN"

"I was a
Teenaged
WERE-SLIME"

A textless version of the previous poster

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 2d

GUESS WHO'S BACK

BACK AGAIN

DOC'S BACK

TELL A FRIEND

That's right. It's time for part 3 of the FPS series; this time, a lot of assorted thoughts on what makes for good enemy design. This one was fun as hell to write.

docseuss.medium.com/building-a-b...

building a better first person shooter part 3: enemy mine

So! First, we talked about a specific subgenre of first person shooter, loosely starting with Unreal and Half-Life and dying off around…

docseuss.medium.com

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Elysianaut @elysianaut.bsky.social · 1d

100% the vibe I was going for! I'm glad that comes through

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

I am seeing a lot of people reposting Lakota Man today bc it's Indigenous Peoples Day. A reminder that he is not well liked amongst many (most?) Natives on social media. Many of us blocked him a long time ago. Some of the reasons why are in this article.

www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...

Who is LakotaMan, the user behind one of the most popular Native American accounts on X?

John Martin is adored by white X users—but infamous among Native and Indigenous communities.

www.dailydot.com

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Faith ➡️ Lightbox Expo AA506 @faithschaffer.bsky.social · 1d

weird painting to test out my new inking pen ☀️

watercolor painting- a woman kneels behind a bush, carrying an approximation of an antique musket/rifle (I did not look at reference for this one so the shape is a bit off lol sorry everybody!). She is wearing a wildly impractical but fun outfit- a high cut onepiece with baggy ankle boots, a helmet and a big swan hat/cape.

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Elysianaut @elysianaut.bsky.social · 1d

Oh absolutely!

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Tomotiso2k @tomotiso2k.bsky.social · 1d

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FISKKI ☄️ @fiskki.bsky.social · 7d

‼️ to all my fellow adobe haters with an ipad:

affinity (adobe's biggest competitor god bless them) has a limited promotion right now where u can get all 3 of their apps for free forever. it includes photo (photoshop dupe), designer (illustrator) and publisher (indesign)

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Void🔞 | VGen @voiddebris.bsky.social · 6d

iPad artists, HUGE news!!

Affinity designer, publisher, and photo can be purchased FOR FREE rn

No subscription, just free

Here's how

1) Download ALL THREE apps on the app store

#DigitalArt #iPadArtist #Art #Affinity

1/🧵

Screenshot of affinity photo, publisher, and designer in the apple app store.

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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase @posthumanstudios.com · 5d

Beetle people! Kalioctera are one of the species you can choose from when making a character in The Snarl (our upcoming weird fantasy RPG).

(Art by @crimreaper.bsky.social )

2 kalioctera beetlefolk. A large female and a small colorful male perched on her shoulder.

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