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moon ‼️ @fruitgravy.bsky.social · 7h

it is my honor to show you all the full front cover for my first collaborative artbook, b&b. featuring lestat & louis getting ready for a romantic evening. 🌒
@thevelvetcompote.bsky.social
b&b is a love letter from myself and 100+ other creators for iwtv, and im so honored to work with+

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emily | comms open @fourofdiamondsart.bsky.social · 1d

greetings, #portfolioday 🗡️

I’m Emily K. Leary, a queer fantasy illustrator. Interested in: TTRPG work, book covers, music album art, character design, poster design, handlettering, and personal comms!

💌[email protected]

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Digital illustration of a book cover for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The Green Knight rides into King Arthur’s court, axe held aloft. He is surrounded by handlettered title blackletter text. Courtiers watch him enter, including Gawain in the right corner.

Scanned risograph illustration, printed on red paper. Illustration based on Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe. Text is handlettered.

Digital illustration, the front of a Valentine’s Day greeting card design. A princess and a lady knight passionately kiss. The frame around them features bleeding hearts and the handlettered text “with this brief line, I greet thee, valentine”.

Digital book illustration of a jester waiting for a train to arrive. The background appears to be a modern city. The jester is juggling balls and a cell phone.

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miki rose @mikirose.art · 1d

Hi #PortfolioDay! I’m Miki Rose, a surface designer/commercial illustrator. I love designing greeting cards and patterns!

You can find more of my work at www.mikirose.art.

#art #illustration #surfacedesign #greetingcards #handlettering

pattern repeat featuring floral patterns in silhouettes of cacti

greeting card reading “La Magia de Navidad” decorated with green and magenta Christmas ornaments.

Greeting card featuring a purple bottle with a victorian style label reading “This Halloween Season”

pattern repeat of a variety of florals rendered in light/dark purple, pink, and real

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Helen Mask 🔜 Seattle oddities🔜Pdx oddities 🔜kumoricon @hemask.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #PortfolioDay I'm Helen, A freelance Illustrator inspired by art nouveau. I love mythology and folklore, dark creepy things, and Queer love.

I'd love to work on more TTRPG, Book covers/comic book covers, Posters, packaging illustration

Portfolio: helenmask.com
📧 [email protected]

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Rune Hrafnagaldur @lunegrimm.bsky.social · 1d

Ohhh #PortfolioDay again !
My name is Rune, I'm an illustrator & 3D artist which specializes in the art of times long past!
I mainly do Illustrations for books and TTRPG games, but I'm open to all sorts of projects!

🌲http://lunegrimm.carrd.co
✉️ [email protected]

Examples of my work! First medieval manuscript werewolf

Woodcut like piece of the folklore goddess "Perchta

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Tiffany Baxter @ MCM Q-11 @tiffbaxter.bsky.social · 1d

🌟Hello #PortfolioDay 🌟
I'm Tiffany, an illustrator primarily working with the fantastical & historical especially in ttrpgs and books. I'm available for commercial & private work from mid Nov!
💌: [email protected] (no bsky DMs pls, I'm in the UK! 💀)
Portfolio: www.tiffanybaxter.com

A black and white ink illustration of a scowling early 19th century housekeeper holding a lamp stood within an open gothic arch doorway. The doors are elaborately carved with natural motifs such as the Green Man. The stone above has carvings of wolves.

An illustration of two lesbian ghosts dancing. The left hand ghost wears a 1760s silk sack gown, the right hand wears an early 1500s style gown with puffed sleeves and a short cape with feathered beret. They are both blue and translucent. They are in a heavily wooded and overgrown graveyard, a lone candle burning with a blue flame sits on top of a slab grave beneath them.The illustrated border shows as follows: On top, clasping carved stone hands emerging from yew branches with berries. To the sides: tin lanterns with candles burning, carved stone hourglasses & carved stone broken columns. Beneath: Vaults based upon the Circle of Lebanon at Highgate Cemetery flanked by trees.

An intimate scene at a party in 17th century France. Two vampire women gaze at each other, holding hands at a card table. They are radiant in pink, drops of blood on their lace. Around them other party goers in purple-blue, wearing half-masks, oblivious to the true nature of the women. Behind an intricate decorated mantlepiece in warm pale gold.

A square sticker of a silvery-blue medieval inspired unicorn curled up asleep. It's on a gold matte shine background with a red border decorated with curved white lines and dots. It rests on a backdrop of a Richard Dadd painting of fairies.

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Matt 🏳️‍🌈 @mspencerdraws.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #PortfolioDay!
I'm Matt, a queer illustrator from Michigan.

I'd love to do more:
-Book covers (and interiors!)
-TTRPG projects (items, maps, etc.)!
-DnD Character/Party Commissions 👀
-Stained Glass Style illustrations

🍂 www.mspencerdraws.com
🏹 [email protected]

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And some rarely seen but still much loved (by me) black and white pieces. Chapter headers, a temporary tattoo design, and an interior full page illustration.

A chapter header from A Mourning Coat. A drawing of various sewing notions in ink lines and digital washes of grey- a pincushion, scissors shaped like a cassowary, a measuring tape, buttons and various spools of thread.
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A chapter header from North Continent Ribbon. An ink drawing of a thick tome with an ornate 8-pointed star on the cover, an elaborate lock, and a long ribbon bookmark
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A drawing, in ink, of a snake curling over a rectangular shape filled with a drawing of a hemlock plant. Where the snake overlaps the rectangle, it is scaled, where the snake is outside the rectangle, it is skeletal.
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From Neon Hemlock's Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness. A gouache and ink painting depicting a lonesome little house on an expansive prairie. Wind blows the grass and the very sky seems like it's pressing in on the structure. Light glows from one window.
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‪Nellie Cubed‬
‪@nelnelnellie.bsky.social‬
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For Legends of Avantris' Crooked Moon. A watercolor illustration depicting a stained glass window featuring a demonic feminine figure with her hands open expressively in front of her. She has horns, clawed wings and a tail that wraps around her hooved legs. Roses and thorny vines feature as motifs throughout the red-tinted image.
For Legends of Avantris' Crooked Moon. A watercolor illustration depicting a stained glass window featuring a demonic feminine figure with her hands open expressively in front of her. She has horns, clawed wings and a tail that wraps around her hooved legs. Roses and thorny vines feature as motifs throughout the red-tinted image.

Cover art for Neon Hemlock's "We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2024". An illustration (in watercolor) of an earth-toned wild hunt tapestry with muted rainbow-y accents being looked at by a trio of rad queer people in a museum-esque framing

A watercolor illustration in oranges and greys. A serpent weaves through bare branches of a tree. Centered, within a frame of antlers, a black and white portrait of a bearded man with leather armor on one shoulder and a quiver on his back.

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Francesca Baerald @francescabaerald.com · 1d

I missed you, #PortfolioDay !

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Emily | Odds & Ents @oddsandents.bsky.social · 1d

Hey I'm Emily, a graphic layout designer for TTRPGs.

I've worked with MCDM, Hatchlings Games, Bright Bard Games, and am the Creative Director at @graftbound.bsky.social

💼: emilyentner.com
✉️: [email protected]

#PortfolioDay

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 1d

Popping into #portfolioday on behalf of art directors to say thank you for sharing your work. It makes our job easier. We appreciate you.
💙❤️

Also, FWIW, I made a starter pack of hiring art-, creative-, design-directors who actively use Bluesky.
go.bsky.app/Hxoz9KX

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 1d

Yay it's #portfolioday !

I'm open for illustration commissions, I work mostly on book covers in the Dark Fantasy, YA, Romance, and Romantasy genres!

You can see more of my work at www.jwahlgren.com

A dark illustration of a wolf surrounded by botanicals and a chain

A Black woman in a white gown holding a dagger behind her back

A person surrounded by flowers reaching out to bird thats feeding them

A curvy ballerina with very long hair dancing in front of glowing eyes

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✦𝖕𝖊𝖏𝖓𝖙✦ @pejntboks.bsky.social · 1d

Hi again #PortfolioDay❤️‍🔥

I'm an illustrator specializing in queer themes, bold colors, intricate & ornate designs and pushing shapes. I'm looking to join more interesting projects in 2026!!

🫶available for private & commercial work
🎮exp in gamedev & TTRPGs
🎨 bit.ly/42btYYA
💌 [email protected]

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emily | comms open @fourofdiamondsart.bsky.social · 1d

greetings, #portfolioday 🗡️

I’m Emily K. Leary, a queer fantasy illustrator. Interested in: TTRPG work, book covers, music album art, character design, poster design, handlettering, and personal comms!

💌[email protected]

📜
thefourofdiamondsart.squarespace.com

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · Jun 23

"Sometimes there came a sensation as if a hand was drawn softly along my cheek and neck. Sometimes it was as if warm lips kissed me, and longer and longer and more lovingly as they reached my throat, but there the caress fixed itself"

cropped image of an illustration of the vampire Carmilla caressing Laura's neck while she sleeps.

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emily | comms open @fourofdiamondsart.bsky.social · 8d

another photo! 🍁🍂🪾

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emily | comms open @fourofdiamondsart.bsky.social · Apr 18

a charming bard/rogue npc

#dnd #ttrpg #characterdesign #art #bard #rogue #oc #halfelf

Digitally illustrated character design of a dnd npc, who is a bard/rogue half elf. He wears all navy clothes that are a highly fantasy interpretation of 17th century fashion.

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emily | comms open @fourofdiamondsart.bsky.social · Apr 3

a little character design sheet for my dnd pc, Aurophine 🗡️

#dnd #paladin #rogue #oc #characterdesign #art #ttrpg

Digitally illustrated character design sheet, showing three layers of my dnd character Aurophine’s outfit.

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emily | comms open @fourofdiamondsart.bsky.social · 7d

if you see a typo no you don’t

emily | comms open @fourofdiamondsart.bsky.social · 8d

another photo! 🍁🍂🪾

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emily | comms open @fourofdiamondsart.bsky.social · 8d

Trick or Treat! 🎃

My latest mini risograph print, just in time for Halloween. This ghostly beastie is printed with mint ink printed on navy or black paper, and is 8.5” x 5.5”. DM me for one of your very own!

#halloween #art #risoart

A photo of a risograph print. The print features a ghost kitty and the text “trick or treat”. Around the print are plant leaves in fall colors. This particular print is printed on black paper.

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#PortfolioDay @portfolioday.bsky.social · 8d

Tuesday, October 14th is #PortfolioDay! If you are a creative looking for work, this is the tag for you.

Read on to find out how to participate and visit portfolioday.art for more!

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 8d

In honor of Edgar Allan Poe's 176th deathday, here are a few of my recent pieces inspired by Poe's works 🫀

Illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Annabel Lee". Two lovers embrace at the edge of the sea, water splashes around them and the surrounding rocks. A full moon shines over them, and storm clouds loom.
Published in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" 2024 Macmillan

illustration by Abigail Larson of a raven perched on a skull with a teal curtain backdrop

illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" showing a man restrained as a pendulum blade swings close to him. Rats have swarmed around him, chewing the ropes that hold him down. This illustration is featured in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" for Macmillan Books.

Illustration by Abigail Larson for Macmillan's "Edgar Allan Poe Sticker Jigsaw" book. The illustration is a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Raven". The narrator is at the center of the image looking up at at raven perched above an open doorway. Behind the narrator is a tall window with red curtains, and the ghost of Lenore lurks nearby. A black cat is watching the scene from the lower right corner.

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Eren Angiolini @erenangiolini.com · 9d

Tomorrow is the big day for Jester & Fjord!

Are you all ready to celebrate the wedding in perfect Mighty Nein style? I’m sure nothing will go wrong at all 😂

A reinterpretation of Leighton’s “Call to Arms”, dedicated to the bride & groom💙✨
#criticalrole #criticalrolefanart @criticalrole.bsky.social

An illustration re-interpreting the painting “Call to Arms” by Leighton. Jester and Fjord are leaving an elegant building after getting married, followed by Caleb, Essek, Beau, Yasha, Caduceus and Veth, as Kingsley stops them on the steps, seemingly telling them about something important and pointing to the side.
He’s asking them to join on a new adventure or maybe fight an incoming danger.
All of the Mighty Nein are dressed in very fancy clothing, Jester has a beautiful white gown with pink embroidery. Every’s face is either shocked or excited.

In the background, we see various buildings, one showing the “Lavish Chateau” sign.
Many NPC, guest characters and easter eggs are hidden in the image.

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kass!! 🪲 comms waitlist! @beetlebards.bsky.social · Aug 7

herald hound ✨🍁

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Prosper Tipaldi 🌱🌿 @prospertipaldi.bsky.social · 10d

Me: The Middle-Ages were actually very colorful.
Also me: I only want to paint black and green.
#knightober

A drawing of a woman in plate and cloth armor, reaching behind her head to tie her hair. She is wearing a sword, shield and rondelle dagger at the hip.

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