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30+, 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇭🇺 Glasgow based freelance artist - people painter, sun boy, all around menace. He/him. I like big swirly brushstrokes, complicated men and monsters. Art generally 🔞. Email/Website for work: ares @ exaltxix.co.uk

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Ares || Comms open! @exaltxix.bsky.social · 12d

RIGHT Comms are back on the menu folks!

There's a range of stuff available from quick and sketchy icons to full illustrated scenes. Click through for examples.

I just downgraded my day job to half the hours due to studies so these would help me a ton!

ko-fi.com/ares_xix/com...

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Ares || Comms open! @exaltxix.bsky.social · 6h

do the people (you) like it when I paint these things?

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ionomycin @ionomycin.bsky.social · 1h

there's something wrong with the rabbits

a character sitting in a room with a moose skull on the wall. black rabbits surround them in the shadow

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · Jan 23

Book cover for the classic alien abduction book Communion that features a ‘grey’ alien face with a slight smirk. Title and copy read:

THE ALIEN THAT
SUCKED ME DRY

A MALE ALIEN BLEW ME AND IT WAS SO GOOD I'M GAY NOW

BY DEVIN HERTING

LADIES, YOU'LL JUST NEVER UNDERSTAND

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Ares || Comms open! @exaltxix.bsky.social · 14h

Hi #portfolioday!

I'm Ares, Glasgow based freelance artist open for comms, TTRPG & cover work or any sort of illustration you can think of!

I'm big on textured brushwork and bold colour.

www.exaltxix.co.uk
ko-fi.com/ares_xix/com...

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Ares || Comms open! @exaltxix.bsky.social · 6h

do the people (you) like it when I paint these things?

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Ares || Comms open! @exaltxix.bsky.social · 10h

my unintentional life philosophy of "yeah okay I gotta do it so I gotta do it who cares if it feels bad" may not always be paying off

Ares || Comms open! @exaltxix.bsky.social · 10h

this is very funny to me as the guy who took 28 years to realise I had claustrophobia because I used to think "no I mean I'm not AFRAID of small spaces I just feel like I'm gonna die and get like heart attack symptoms lol. but you know. I go in them if I have to it's whatever"

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Ares || Comms open! @exaltxix.bsky.social · 10h

honestly I don't do a lot of people things and I talk to humans in very small controlled settings when I can help it so I tend to completely forget I have off the rails social anxiety

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★ Ale al Dente ★ @alesart.bsky.social · Jan 14

hello #portfolioday !! I'm Alessandro, a disabled/nd artists who actually makes art sometimes 👋

you can also find me here:
💙 tumblr: ezombieart.tumblr.com
🧡 twitter (🔞): x.com/spicyaldente
❤️ tip jar: ko-fi.com/ezombie ☕

a colorful drawing of my CtD redcap changeling oc, CC. they're sitting on a wall that they've painted in surreal/abstract shapes, and are picking their teeth in their too-large mouth. they're wearing an 'eat the rich' t-shirt and behind them is a chainlink fence and a simple skyline /tw:blood/monster

fanart for the indie game 'the flame in the flood'. the main character is holding a lantern to look around and dismounting their raft on a rickety pier. the dog is looking up and looks wary. it's the middle of the night, and autumn leaves and trees frame the composition

a drawing of my VtM OCs, Klaus the Malkavian (elder), and Malek the Gangrel (elder, baron). Malek has deep scars, and is sitting on a ripped up armchair. his clawed hands are gently holding a large python that wraps around his shoulders. Klaus is casually lounging behind him, head tilted so his cheek is resting on the back of his hand, which rests over the top of Malek's head

my malkavian OC, klaus. a surreal colorful picture of him in water and holding a tiger playing cat's cradle, tw/blood

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Katherine Lam @katherinelam.bsky.social · 18h

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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Ares || Comms open! @exaltxix.bsky.social · 13h

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Madeleine Fjäll @madeleinefjall.bsky.social · 15h

Hey #PortfolioDay!

I'm Madeleine, an illustrator and concept artist from Sweden. I love to paint anything historical and fantasy with pretty light.

Would love to make more book covers!✨

🌐 madeleinefjall.com
✉️ [email protected]

La belle dame sans merci by Frank Bernard Dicksee version of Hans and Henry from Kingdom Come Deliverance

Illustration showing the characters from my book Niketas and Ulvar, but mermaid AU where Niketas is a merman. They are both underwater and Ulvar is dying.

Illustration of a boy in a dark, spooky, nordic forest. The boy's eyes are blurred. Naked tall trees, their branches almost stretching towards him, towering him. A faint shape of a bird in the upper left corner. There are a few lights of eyes in the forest, watching him.

An easter witch flying on a broom towards Blåkulla, a cat is standing on it as well. Both have glowing yellow eyes, staring into the camera. Birds are flying around them.

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Ares || Comms open! @exaltxix.bsky.social · 14h

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 1d

Halloween is near! It's time to post this marvellous articulated Roman skeleton, presumably meant to be a reminder to enjoy life to the fullest, since pleasure ends irrevocably with death.
In Petronius’ Satyricon, the host of a dinner party brings out a small skeleton with moveable...🧵1/2

Bronze figurine of a walking skeleton with elongated limbs and detailed ribcage, shown against a dark gradient background.

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Ares || Comms open! @exaltxix.bsky.social · 1d

planning a comic that's roughly 100 pages on draft makes it really easy for me to mentally % up how much of it is done. it's very satisfying when number go up

Ares || Comms open! @exaltxix.bsky.social · 2d

yeah it's informed by my experience as an immigrant and me growing up in a small town as an lgbt+ person without knowing what anything is but it's not about any of these, it's not really a me thing if that makes sense

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Ares || Comms open! @exaltxix.bsky.social · 2d

it's about alienation and otherness. it's about being different in an insular culture and having to shed your skin or put one on to fit in. it's about sin and darkness, and the uneven weighting of one's actions based on the perception of their nature. you know

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Ares || Comms open! @exaltxix.bsky.social · 2d

want to make a bigger post about what the werewolf comic will be like but I'm still notoriously bad at describing my work 😔

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Ares || Comms open! @exaltxix.bsky.social · 2d

Page 5 of werewolf comic is now live for members!
Come and have a look if you want to throw £3 at the starving artist and look at cool pictures. There's other stuff available as well (wips, sketches, colour tests for later pages).

ko-fi.com/ares_xix/tiers

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Ares || Comms open! @exaltxix.bsky.social · 2d

me sitting in a big hot bath: what are those for
the witch throwing the vegetables in: so you don't feel lonely ❤️

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Ares || Comms open! @exaltxix.bsky.social · 2d

have you seen them. now you have

Ares || Comms open! @exaltxix.bsky.social · Jan 13

here, finished. divine favour; ornstein + nameless king. dark background is there so bsky doesn't chew up my res too much. I'll post some detail shots in replies ✌️

painted illustration of ornstein and the nameless king from dark souls, with the nameless king's hand on ornstein's chest and his lips against his forehead. there's colourful sunlight/lightning/divine miracle light in the background illuminating them both.

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Katherine Lam @katherinelam.bsky.social · 2d

live wire

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Ares || Comms open! @exaltxix.bsky.social · 2d

Lancer folks following me go check out this kickstarter if you haven't already!! Iphigenia at Midnight is sooo close to funded, and the art so far for it is super super nice, would be a treat to see more!

Ash and Gold 🔜 Iphigenia at Midnight on Kickstarter @ashandgold.bsky.social · 23d

Iphigenia at Midnight's Kickstarter is now live! 🧵
Designed for the #LancerRPG, IaM will take players through three missions from License Levels 6-9, going from a city under siege to boarding actions in the stars above against a fearsome foe from Union's past.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ash...

Iphigenia at Midnight

A narrative campaign and rules supplement for the LANCER TTRPG

www.kickstarter.com

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Ares || Comms open! @exaltxix.bsky.social · Aug 15

Lady Iphigenia, the Queen of Crows - for @ashandgold.bsky.social, there's more to come and you should absolutely check out Iphigenia at Midnight over here ash-and-gold.itch.io/iphigenia for the Lancer narrative!

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Ares || Comms open! @exaltxix.bsky.social · 9d

I'll make a bigger post later but memberships on kofi for the werewolf comic pages and excerpts and wips and thoughts is now live! ko-fi.com/ares_xix/tiers

Alongside page 4 which I haven't posted here yet.
It's just £3 a month unless you really really love me. Or him 🔽

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