gradientdescent
@gradientdescnt.bsky.social
Author Jack Stein / artist / gardening nerd between March and August 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Savvy observers may suspect I’m some kind of mathematician. While correct, this is a part of my tragic backstory I’m doing my best to move on from.
Art & writing NSFW / be 18+ please
Savvy observers may suspect I’m some kind of mathematician. While correct, this is a part of my tragic backstory I’m doing my best to move on from.
Art & writing NSFW / be 18+ please
Some of the most delightful experiences I’ve had have been when somebody found my cosplay sewing on pinterest & took the time to track me down and ask for help making their own copy. I will always jump at the chance to share knowledge about any of my creative skills.
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.
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.
December 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Some of the most delightful experiences I’ve had have been when somebody found my cosplay sewing on pinterest & took the time to track me down and ask for help making their own copy. I will always jump at the chance to share knowledge about any of my creative skills.
The text message app on my phone has started doing this absolutely idiotic thing of changing a word which is spelled correctly into a DIFFERENT word that it thinks I meant instead and I swear to god I’m going to LOSE IT
December 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The text message app on my phone has started doing this absolutely idiotic thing of changing a word which is spelled correctly into a DIFFERENT word that it thinks I meant instead and I swear to god I’m going to LOSE IT
whatcha looking at you little dummy?
December 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
whatcha looking at you little dummy?
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December 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Robert Wun, 2025
December 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Robert Wun, 2025
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My painting ELYSIUM was published in @mosspuppymag.bsky.social issue 9! Super excited to share this piece with everyone.
#art #abstractart #ecobrutalism #contemporaryart #blueskyart #artsky #expressionism
#art #abstractart #ecobrutalism #contemporaryart #blueskyart #artsky #expressionism
December 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
My painting ELYSIUM was published in @mosspuppymag.bsky.social issue 9! Super excited to share this piece with everyone.
#art #abstractart #ecobrutalism #contemporaryart #blueskyart #artsky #expressionism
#art #abstractart #ecobrutalism #contemporaryart #blueskyart #artsky #expressionism
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an attempt was made and it did a good job distracting, thanks @robocryptid.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
an attempt was made and it did a good job distracting, thanks @robocryptid.bsky.social
Love pre-ordering a book that’s not gonna come out for a few months. I’ll forget all about it and then when it does arrive, I get a nice surprise present from Past Me in the mail.
December 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Love pre-ordering a book that’s not gonna come out for a few months. I’ll forget all about it and then when it does arrive, I get a nice surprise present from Past Me in the mail.
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I posted about this book waaaay back like two years ago, so I’d be shocked if any of you remember it, but: I wanted to write a book where a self-loathing Evangelical prayer warrior and a demon are in fucked up love, and I did that, and you can preorder it right goddamn now
Attention, horny weirdos! We are publishing @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social's WITNESS MARKS next year and we are very, very excited to finally have a reason to talk about exorcism bondage. All webstore pre-orders come w/ a signed bookplate from the author. Get it here: ghoulish.rip/product/witn...
December 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I posted about this book waaaay back like two years ago, so I’d be shocked if any of you remember it, but: I wanted to write a book where a self-loathing Evangelical prayer warrior and a demon are in fucked up love, and I did that, and you can preorder it right goddamn now
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It’s possible mistakes have been made this morning.
December 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It’s possible mistakes have been made this morning.
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Day 4 of #ArtAdventCalendar this is from a couple years ago. I do these textile things more as a form of drumming than trying to make art but I like the way the colours interact
December 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Day 4 of #ArtAdventCalendar this is from a couple years ago. I do these textile things more as a form of drumming than trying to make art but I like the way the colours interact
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CREATURES OF ONEIROGEA:
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2022
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2022
December 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
CREATURES OF ONEIROGEA:
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2022
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2022
Little bit suspicious that the cheese I used to make this burrito was a few days past the safe-consumption window. If the next post you see from me is whining at 3 AM about food poisoning, let it be known I brought it on myself.
December 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Little bit suspicious that the cheese I used to make this burrito was a few days past the safe-consumption window. If the next post you see from me is whining at 3 AM about food poisoning, let it be known I brought it on myself.
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kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders
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New #dreadcember post, ended up making two versions, the original , then a chillier version 😁
#darkart #procreate #digitalart
#darkart #procreate #digitalart
December 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
New #dreadcember post, ended up making two versions, the original , then a chillier version 😁
#darkart #procreate #digitalart
#darkart #procreate #digitalart
Still committed to selecting only the goofiest picture of this animal I can capture
December 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Still committed to selecting only the goofiest picture of this animal I can capture
that sinking feeling when you realize you sent a draft out for review with the placeholder names “Sergeant Oldman” and “Officer Babyface” still in there
December 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
that sinking feeling when you realize you sent a draft out for review with the placeholder names “Sergeant Oldman” and “Officer Babyface” still in there
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Sharpen your harpoons!
'Moby Dick' by @gduboisstudio is back -better, bigger and meaner than ever.
Now released as an 18" x 24" 7-colour screenprint 'Moby Dick' will be available either signed or unsigned for 48 hours only from Wednesday 03 December at 5pm UK time.
Don't miss out!
'Moby Dick' by @gduboisstudio is back -better, bigger and meaner than ever.
Now released as an 18" x 24" 7-colour screenprint 'Moby Dick' will be available either signed or unsigned for 48 hours only from Wednesday 03 December at 5pm UK time.
Don't miss out!
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Sharpen your harpoons!
'Moby Dick' by @gduboisstudio is back -better, bigger and meaner than ever.
Now released as an 18" x 24" 7-colour screenprint 'Moby Dick' will be available either signed or unsigned for 48 hours only from Wednesday 03 December at 5pm UK time.
Don't miss out!
'Moby Dick' by @gduboisstudio is back -better, bigger and meaner than ever.
Now released as an 18" x 24" 7-colour screenprint 'Moby Dick' will be available either signed or unsigned for 48 hours only from Wednesday 03 December at 5pm UK time.
Don't miss out!
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horse lord
just a lil sketch
just a lil sketch
December 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
horse lord
just a lil sketch
just a lil sketch
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Decomposition! My job is to stop it but I saw it regularly back in the days when I worked in the mortuary. This isn’t real, however, but made of wax in the late 17thC. It was produced by a Sicilian wax modeler named Gaetano Giulio Zumbo for the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo de Mexico.
December 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Decomposition! My job is to stop it but I saw it regularly back in the days when I worked in the mortuary. This isn’t real, however, but made of wax in the late 17thC. It was produced by a Sicilian wax modeler named Gaetano Giulio Zumbo for the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo de Mexico.
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Day 3 #ArtAdventCalendar & #WIPWednesday • I'm currently working on a #SciArt #anatomy #embroidery about the scars and moles on my belly. I have the main body parts stitched in black on black and am working on the Milky Way to represent my hysterectomy scar.
December 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Day 3 #ArtAdventCalendar & #WIPWednesday • I'm currently working on a #SciArt #anatomy #embroidery about the scars and moles on my belly. I have the main body parts stitched in black on black and am working on the Milky Way to represent my hysterectomy scar.
I gotta say, I love all the cool artists I follow here, but I ALSO really enjoy the accounts that repost all kinds of others’ stuff. You have enriched my life by showing me all the neat things you found. Keep it up.
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I gotta say, I love all the cool artists I follow here, but I ALSO really enjoy the accounts that repost all kinds of others’ stuff. You have enriched my life by showing me all the neat things you found. Keep it up.
As a rule I don’t sell my embroidery, because I am greedy and jealous and I love the things I make more deeply than anyone else possibly could. But I did assemble some DIY kits of these designs for sale, & put the patterns out on Tumblr for free.
#embroidery
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#embroidery
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December 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
As a rule I don’t sell my embroidery, because I am greedy and jealous and I love the things I make more deeply than anyone else possibly could. But I did assemble some DIY kits of these designs for sale, & put the patterns out on Tumblr for free.
#embroidery
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#embroidery
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