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Laura Mellin
@lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
2.9K followers 2.4K following 12K posts
Disabled, AuDHD, feral artist, pan/cis, 55, married, she/her. LGBTQIA2S+ is my fam, art shares are my jam. New art every day for 2025.
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · Mar 12
I unpinned my previous top post, b/c now I want to feature my fave pieces from my #sketchaday 2025 self-imposed challenge! I’m Laura, this is my art account, and this thread will be pinned to become my about me piece. I do illustration and cartoons, often riffing on a joke for multiple drawings.
A marker, ink, paint pen and paper collage drawing of my OC, Bela Lugosquid, a common squid, pale pink-grey with red and grey spots, facing left slightly, asleep. They are smiling (yes, I know, that’s not where their mouths are), and are wearing a pair of fake fangs, a black cloak with a red lining, white bow tie and vest, white shirt, and a red ribbon with a spiny Black Sea urchin attached to the ribbon by holding onto a gold ring. Basically, dressed like Bella Lugosi’s famous outfit* in Dracula (1931). Their tentacles and arms are drifting gently, with an arm on the right touching the edge of the cloak. Dream bubbles coming from their head feature an image of Bella Lugosi as Dracula from the movie poster (image sourced from IMDb.com). Bela Lugosquid is non-binary. They are fascinated by vampire squid, but too shy to actually talk to any actual vampire squid (and afraid of negative reactions). They are a very happy squid. They have dreams of stardom. I don’t know about the sea urchin; they usually don’t go that deep. A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing in my sketchbook. In the upper left hand corner, a white box with shadow lines has the hand-written text: “white potatoes are tuber-essentialist douchebags:” (yes, I’m going hard on this one! Pushing the boundaries!*). The main drawing is of an orange-pink yam (or sweet potato) in three-quarter profile, standing on root feet, with their sprout arms up in the air, leaning slightly forward, protesting (or yelling) at three white potatoes (who, ironically, are brown, because they haven’t been peeled) in a row on the right, in three-quarter profile, one in front, the second slightly behind that one, and lastly, a potato going off the edge of the paper (they’re half-visible). They have little beady eyes, and root feet and hands, with little potatoes growing on them (I love the little potato feet!). The lead potato is asking: “Are you a sweet potato or a yam?”, and the second one is saying: “…you can’t be both.”. The sweet potato (or yam) is protesting: “Why are you so hung up on labels?! I yam what I yam! …or NOT.”. The wall is pale blue-grey, the floor is medium grey, and there are shadows underneath all the tubers. In a small white box in the bottom right corner, the top of a white potato is visible, showing their black dot eyes and angry eyebrows. They are saying:” This is potato erasure!!”. *Or, y’know, doing the absolute minimum by acknowledging that trans people are people, and TERFs/“gender essentialists” are complete C-words. “Dryad of the Vines”: An ink line drawing of a female-appearing figure wrapped in vines, which are supporting them as they sleep. Their face is mostly hidden by their left arm (on the right), which is raised, with vines loosely wrapped around it. Their legs are bent up in a seated position, and their fingers and toes (six on each appendage) stretch out into vines. Their hair is made of vines, and drapes down behind them, and over their torso. Some of the vines have leaves and flowers along them, curling around in spirals and loops. They are nude, but have no visible gendered body parts, just the curves of their body giving an overall female appearance. A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a toy mechanical mouse, facing left. The mouse is grey metal, with brass screws, and a brass key in the middle of its back. It is sitting upright on segmented articulated legs and feet (and toes) that are joined to the body with a round dome with brass screws. The head has large round eyes and ears edged with brass screws, with red lights in the center. The front legs and paws are also articulated/segmented, and are curled around to the nose, like the mouse is eating. The tail is long and articulated/segmented, bending as it reaches the ground, and goes to the left, behind the body. Background is blank. It’s a little toy mouse made of metal, with a key to wind it up. It’s cute, but I am not mechanically inclined, so I have no idea how it would actually move.
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Congratulations on 3.9K+ followers, @kiraelric.bsky.social! 🥳💜💜💜💜💜🥳
TYSM for the share! 🥰😊💜💜💜
kiraelric.bsky.social Kira Elric || Comms Open || King of the Puffs 🏳️‍🌈♾️ @kiraelric.bsky.social · 12h
Thanks for 3.9k (almost 4k) & that's just insane guys! Thank you so much! So let's have an #artshare to celebrate!

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November 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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#sketchaday #artsky #blueskyart #bskyart #art #patterns #leaves

Testing gold fill on another piece; I did the design slightly differently to test the look, but I like the previous leaf pattern better.

I’m leaning towards thin gold curved lines. 💜
A marker, pencil, and paint drawing of two diagonal lines of overlapping leaves, the edges and the leaf veins in light purple, and the background of the leaves in dark purple. The design is outlined in gold, and the dark spaces between the leaves are filled with an assortment of test designs in gold; circles, straight lines, curved lines, chevrons, alternating directional lines, and dots. This is a test piece (3x5”) for a larger piece (5.5x8”).
November 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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#silentartshare #somanyartists

@soturisi.bsky.social’s silent art share is the most epic share I’ve ever seen! So many fantastic artists, so much amazing art! Thank you for the share, and thanks to @lddarts.bsky.social, @rpgenesis.bsky.social, and @angrychango.bsky.social for tagging me! 💜💜💜💜
A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing (with digital note) of an orange-red segmented worm with caterpillar-like legs, head and five segments raised up to look straight on at the viewer. They have enormous shiny black eyes and antennae with three curls, almost like antlers. They are smiling (I think that’s a smile), and their sharp, jagged teeth are visible. The rest of their body is stretched behind them to the right. They are bright orange, with darker spots all over, and each segment of their body is ribbed (lengthwise along the whole body) in darker orange stripes. They have a pair of feet with six flexible digits on every segment, and they are using their top three pairs of feet like they are hands. The top pair (nearest the head) are holding a white paper that says “Thank You!” in scrolled handwriting, with a little red heart. The second pair are holding a grey stone, the third pair are laced together, resting on that segment of their body. On the next segment, the feet are on either side, digits pushed up on the ground to raise their body. Below that, the feet are on the ground under each segment. The background is brown like dry earth, with little white spots like small stones. Above the worm’s head is a little framed sign that reads “STONE WORM”. They use these digits to burrow through the heavy clay soil prevalent in the eastern U.S. next to the Blue Ridge Mountains, and they are very small. They shed their teeth regularly, like a shark, so sharp-eyed gardeners will often see their shed teeth when digging, though most people mistake the teeth for quartz chips. Despite their bright colour, they are not poisonous, but they might bite. No one has ever seen one, so no one knows for sure. The only evidence is their shed teeth!
November 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Reposted by Laura Mellin
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✨ SILENT ARTSHARE!✨

🪐 Reply with your art!
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🌌Keep it SFW - No N.F.T/Al

#artistsupport #artshare #bskart #artist
ART SHARE
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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😱😍😍😍😍😍😍💜💜💜💜💜💜 Especially the last one, @mithruel.bsky.social! 💜
mithruel.bsky.social Mithruel @mithruel.bsky.social · 1d
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Digital illustration of Anardil, an OC/TAV from DnD/BG3 campaign (belongs to a friend) He's a tall, proud elf; with strong, muscular body, blond hair and golden eyes. Dressed in simple clothes with elaborate details. Behind him a dimmed Sun shines, glowing as if it was his halo. Digital illustration of Zagreus, character from Supergiant studio's game "Hades". Depicting him at the moment when he first reaches the surface world, and admires the sunrise. Digital illustration, depicting an autumn nymph, sitting on a red patch of grass, with a spot open next to him, as if he's inviting us to sit next to him. The nature around him is getting a white hue of winter. His body is strong, and colour of the red autumn leaves. Branches spread from his shoulders and head, with some foliage still sticking to them. His eyes are black, with bright irises hauntingly shining. Digital painting of a man, who is standing nude in water in a night scenery. His back are turned toward us, and we see a pair of translucent, blue, shimmering butterfly wings on his back. His skin is pale, and dark in the night, body strong and muscular. His hair long and deep purple, eyes bright and yellow, and ears pointy like that of an elf or a fae. He's a character from a game Genshin Impact, a fae named Chiril Chudomirovich Flins.
November 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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MUSHROOM SPIDER!!!!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
kiirokeishi.bsky.social Kiiro Keishi @kiirokeishi.bsky.social · 1d
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Spider with mushrooms Tiefling with green horns, big curly pink hair Halloween themed scarecrow Pop art goth kid
November 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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@fonscordi.bsky.social is one of my favourite surreal artists on Bsky! 💜💜💜💜💜💜😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
fonscordi.bsky.social FonsCordi Art @fonscordi.bsky.social · 1d
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"The wood dwellers" "You are not from here are you?" ____ A child like creature with a dress, an apron, and the head covered in a burlap sack is standing holding a bucket dripping red liquid in one hand, nd a rope in the other. The rope is holding a creature without he body of a pig, the mane of a lion, 4 horns, and a face with black eyes and a bright red third eye. "The creation of the synthetic messiah" And if the ancient Gods fail us, we will create our own, with our own morals, and our own ideas of divinity. _______ A humanoid creature is in the center of the image, cables coming out of its body from where the arms are supposed to be, they tied it to a cross. Cables come from its stomach and conect to an artificial cristal womb below, where a deformed fetus with a glowing red eye is suspended in liquid. Is the depiction of an artificial god being created. In the background there's a stormy unnatural sky and electrical poles with twisted cables. "The lamb" Blessed be the lamb who follows blindly, for they will deliver their kin in a silver tray. ______ This is an image of a blonde girl wearing a lamb mask. An ominous all seeing eye is behind her inside a halo. "The philosopher" Killing must be feel good to God too, he does it all the time, and are we not created to his own image?- Hannibal Lecter _____ A fanart of NBC series Hannibal. In the image we can see Hannibal sitting at the head of the table raising a glass of wine, he has no face but a halo around his head. A lamb head crying blood is serve in front of him, surrounded by pomegranates in a golden plate. Behind Hannibal is a stag man with six arms, imitating the pose of the Goddess of death Kali.
November 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Such amazing noir work, @kholbatar.bsky.social! 😎😍😍😍😍😍💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Gorgeous dragons! @floverale.bsky.social, these are amazing, and I love them so much! 😍😍😍😍💜💜💜💜💜
November 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Beautiful digital work by @tirameeksu.bsky.social! 😍😍😍💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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And @soturisi.bsky.social is open for commissions! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
soturisi.bsky.social 🍂 Soturisi 🍂 Comms open! @soturisi.bsky.social · 1d
My watercolor commissions are open!

bsky.app/profile/sotu...
soturisi.bsky.social 🍂 Soturisi 🍂 Comms open! @soturisi.bsky.social · 3d
[reposts appreciated 💜]

Hello!! I'm opening up a few watercolor commission slots over on VGen
I want to draw your ocs!

👉 vgen.co/soturisi

#commissionsopen #artcommissions #bskyart #vgen
November 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Watercolours! These are WATERCOLOURS!!! Amazing work, @soturisi.bsky.social! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
These are so beautiful, I squeaked out loud! 💜💜💜💜💜
November 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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#sketchaday #artsky #blueskyart #bskyart #art #pattern #leaves

I didn’t manage my time well today; this took longer than I intended, and I wanted to garden.

Visual asmr?
A marker and paint pen drawing of a repeating pattern of leaves, tip angled right, outlined in gold. The veins and edges of the leaves are bright red, the leaf between veins is red and green in alternating lines. This looks simple, but was surprisingly time-consuming! They make me think of monstera leaves, though they are not any specific leaf.
November 29, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Lovely Thanksgiving art share from @cryptidcorvids.bsky.social! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
cryptidcorvids.bsky.social ☀️Kiri☀️ @cryptidcorvids.bsky.social · 2d
🦃🥧HAPPY THANKSGIVING🥧🦃

In celebration of Thanksgiving I wanted to make a starter pack filled with the artists we are thankful for!!!

Started the pack off with some people I am thankful for ;v;

To join:
🍂 Share some of your art!
🍂 Who are you thankful for
🍂 Spread the love🧡

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November 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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#sketchaday #artsky #blueskyart #bskyart #art #rat #rats #thanksgiving #food

A happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the U.S. who celebrates, while acknowledging this is a day of mourning for Indigenous Americans. 💜💜💜
A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of two rats drawn in the style of Japanese artist Yoshitoshi, sitting on a red carpet, eating a turkey, with sides of seaweed salad and dumplings. The left side mouse is sitting back on one paw, while holding a partially eaten turkey leg in the other. The sides are in blue bowls behind them. The right side rat is sitting up, holding carving tools (a two-pronged fork and a carving knife) in their front paws. The right mouse is a slightly darker brown than the left one. Both mice have black eyes, both are smiling. Below and to the right, fancy gold lettering says “Happy Thanksgiving!”. Background is green-black.
November 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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#thanksgivingUS #cooking #roasting

I’m glad I’m just doing sides; we’re having a late lunch/early dinner (linner!) @ 3pm, so I’m roasting duck fat potatoes, today, hoping to time it so they’re still crispy.

(W/ A-g, I can eat birds, fish, and humans.
Mmmm, human. /Homer Simpson)
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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#sketchaday #artsky #blueskyart #bskyart #art #rat #ghostrat #love

I’m desperately trying not to eat the bread dressing I made (it has roasted apples & onions in it), so Bob made me lunch.

Ghost Rat loves other Ghost Rat. Do I use a lot of purple & orange? Yes, yes I do.
A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing in the style of Japanese artist Yoshitoshi, of an orange ghost rat reaching up, smiling, tangling their whiskers with another ghost rat who is floating above them. Only the head and tail of the floating ghost rat are visible, and they are purple. Their tail is curled in a heart shape over the orange ghost rat’s right ear. They both have glowing eyes. Inspiration: 19th century Japanese print artist Yoshitoshi, from his “Thirty-six ghosts”.
November 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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#sketchaday #artsky #blueskyart #bskyart #art #rats #ratghost

We’re getting ready for a shared T’giving dinner w/friends, and so I’m going to be offline except for sketch most of this week (I’m doing 2 pies, gf dressing, roast taters, & gf gravy).

Ghost Rat.
Inspiration: Yoshitoshi.
A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a ghost rat drawn in the style of Japanese print artist Yoshitoshi. The rat is pale purple, with glowing eyes, curled claws and tail, floating on a background of almost black purple-blue. This was inspired by the tale of the priest turned into a giant rat in Yoshitoshi’s “Thirty-Six Ghosts”. I hope my rat is more friendly.
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Congratulations to @catfishpond.bsky.social on 1K followers! 🥳💜💜💜💜💜🥳
(TY, @alex-the-ahsum.bsky.social & @lddarts.bsky.social for tagging a new to me artist!) 💜💜💜💜💜
catfishpond.bsky.social 🐱🐟 Spider King Plushie in PINNED @catfishpond.bsky.social · 5d
I wanna celebrate reaching my first ever 1k followers on social media with an ART SHARE!! ✨

💖Share your favourite artworks
💖Like/Comment/Repost others
💖Like and Share for visibility
🚫 NO AI

#artshare #art
November 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Omg, the umbrella!!! Check out @cryo16.bsky.social, y’all! 😍😍😍😍💜💜💜💜💜💜
cryo16.bsky.social CryooArts🥀 @cryo16.bsky.social · 4d
Congrats for your 1k!
I'll add to the chain
I'm Cryo and I draw eerie stuff🖤
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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This piece by @ainh.bsky.social is a masterclass in detail, lighting, and colour! 😍😍😍😍 #artgoals
ainh.bsky.social AInh.bsky.social @ainh.bsky.social · 5d
Congratulations on 1k and thank you for sharing🤍
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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#sketchaday #artsky #blueskyarat #bskyart #art #hares #flowers #amaranth

This will be the last of my flower hares for a bit. This is Joseph’s Coat amaranth, from a 1613 botanical text. Pretty, but phew! This was hard! 🙂💜
A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a hare up on their hindquarters, grooming their shoulder. The hare is decorated with leaves from a variety of amaranth called Joseph’s Coat; each leaf starts purple at the base, then fades into yellow, then green at the tips. The hare’s nose and tail are balls of amaranth seeds. (Amaranth is an ancient grain used by the Aztecs, among others.) The hare has their back to the viewer, with their head turned towards the viewer from the left side. Their ears are single amaranth leaves. Hare reference: 19thC public domain prints. Flower reference: The Besler Florilegium, 1613.
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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#embroidery #myotherhobby #embroideredjackets #museumoflondon

Apropos of nothing, I was reading my copy of The Besler Florilegium (1613), & thought a painting of laburnum looks kind of like the motifs on the embroidered jacket from the Museum of London. *sigh* Need to completely rebuild my website.
An ink drawing of the monochrome embroidered jacket (1600-1620; exact date unknown) at the Museum of London (I think it is in the V&A’s costume archive now), showing the cascading flower motif repeated all over the jacket. Embroidery thread is silk, jacket is linen. The jacket is drawn as if worn, with the front pulled closed, an high neckline, and the arms out in front (figure is facing 2/3 left), to show the embroidery design. Digital text underneath reads: Museum of London embroidered jacket, 1600-1620, drawing by Laura Mellin. A colour photograph of plate 8 from the Besler Florilegium, 1613, showing two kinds of laburnum flowers. Left is Alpine laburnum, with long bracts of small yellow flowers, seed pods, and green leaves. Right is Laburnum (false ebony), which has larger yellow flower bracts, and no seed pods. The false ebony laburnum has a resemblance to the embroidered bracts on the Museum of London jacket. An ink drawing by me of the individual motifs repeated on the Museum of London embroidered jacket. They are somewhat abstract, but the top of the false ebony laburnum in the Besler Florilegium (plate 8) shows how the upper part of the branch matches both the leaf and the drooping bracts in the embroidery. So, instead of a vine, as I suggested on my very old (and in need of rebuilding) website, these could be construed as false ebony laburnum, since the Florilegium and the jacket are from roughly the same date. It’s just a theory. A colour photograph closeup of plate 8 in The Besler Florilegium (1613), showing the top of the false ebony laburnum, which shows the crossing stems, leaves, and drooping flower bracts that may have inspired the Museum of London embroidered jacket.
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Congratulations on 400 followers, @sasoartsisb.bsky.social! 🥳💜💜💜💜💜🥳 Thank you for the themed share! I love monsters, Cryptids, and weird! 😁💜
sasoartsisb.bsky.social 👁 Sa So 👁 Commissions: Open @sasoartsisb.bsky.social · 6d
👁 400 FOLLOWERS ART SHARE👁
Greetings, and thanks for following and appreciating what I created!

👁 Post your monster art or anything weird
💚 Like, share and comment on other's art
🚫 No A*I "art"
🚫 No N $f ₩
👻 Have fun!
November 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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TYSM for the silent #artshare, @meltingcore.bsky.social! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
meltingcore.bsky.social meltingcore @ Apokolips Ω @meltingcore.bsky.social · 6d
Time for a silent #artshare! 🤫

Ω Share your art silently!
Ω Like/repost this!
Ω Tag your friends!
Ω Support each other!

I'll tag... @double-4-designer.bsky.social @quinini.bsky.social @aerifiretruck.bsky.social @jazzytyfighter.bsky.social 🛸
A traditional manga drawing that was scanned and had the colors brightened. It depicts a girl in side profile with long black hair, horns, a red eye, and black dress. Her arm is abstractly turning into squiggly shapes that flow throughout the canvas. The background is bright red. A digital manga drawing of a silver skinned woman in a deep purple dress. She has long flowing dark grey hair and silver horns. She has red eyes and lava flows from the front of her dress without harming her. The background is orange with lava streams and a reflection of the woman. A digital manga drawing of a dark skinned woman surfing. Her hair is lavender and her eyes are dark green. She wears a short black surfing bodysuit. The sun is setting and pink clouds are in the sky. Stars are just coming out. A digital manga drawing of a woman in deep space. Her eyes are ice blue and she has short black/blue hair. Tears flow from her eyes and turn into globules due to the lack of gravity. The space behind her is purple, pink, and blue; stars are everywhere and light flows in spirals.
November 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM