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Multidisciplinary artist. Currently freelancing and open to new projects, primarily in concept art, illustration, hand-painted textures, and real-time 3D assets. (they/them or he/him) https://cara.app/locus7 🚫A-I 🚫N-F-T

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Arrow 🍃🍂 @locus7.bsky.social · May 30

I do freelance game art! Concept design, illustration, pixel art, 2D sprites, tilesets, and 3D assets. Here are a few of my favorite 3D pieces.

For more, check out my portfolio: locus7.com

If this post is pinned, it means I have space in my schedule to take on freelance work in the near future.

A 2D digital painting of a crystal sword on the left, next to several rotated views of its 3D game-art recreation.

A retro 2.5D RPG environment and first person shield and axe. The stairway and aspects of the layout are inspired by the Rembrandt painting "Philosopher in Meditation".

Several views of an insect-like spacecraft, created for the overworld view of the game Steam Marines 2.

A low-poly revolver, sitting on a wooden surface. It is surrounded by cartridges, some fired, some unfired, as well as a partially-loaded cylinder. The base of a lantern is visible at the top of the picture.

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Drew Shields (commissions open) @gnarlyghost.bsky.social · 12m

Demonland

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🎃 Spoopy Leah.bat 🦇 @skullcat3d.bsky.social · 19h

✨ Happy #PortfolioDay! ✨

I'm Leah and I make hair for games! I've spent a chunk of this year digging into more character stuff so I might actually manage to update my portfolio by December!

✨ www.artstation.com/leahmcewen ✨

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Sublight Drive Crafts @sublightdrive.bsky.social · 18h

It’s that time of year again #PortfolioDay

Sublight Drive Crafts @sublightdrive.bsky.social · Apr 8

#PortfolioDay already? Don't mind if I do:
These models are all physical props that I built, painted and photographed myself. Don't let anyone tell you motion-control shots are a lost art, yet.

A model of the TIE Phantom from the Star Wars expanded universe

A model of the J-109 Atlas, an original starship designed by me.

A model of the Cantwell-class Arrestor Cruiser from Star Wars: Andor, along with a tiny Corellian-style transport for scale

A model of the Taiidan Attack Bomber from the Homeworld series of games, hanging from a docking clamp.

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Arrow 🍃🍂 @locus7.bsky.social · 15h

And yeah! I've been self employed for a while with various ups and downs so I can definitely relate to the sometimes omnipresent "I should be doing something" feeling. Usually a walk or sometimes mapping out goals/to-do lists helps things feel resolved.

I hope that things get easier for you soon!

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Arrow 🍃🍂 @locus7.bsky.social · 15h

Arranging your environment so it's easier to relax and be healthy is a pretty significant undertaking especially with a move involved! I always need a good six months to chill out after moving, and thats when it goes smoothly. It's tough to work on long term and short term stuff at the same time.

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Arrow 🍃🍂 @locus7.bsky.social · 17h

(I recognize that you probably know this, and the question was semi-rhetorical - I'm just answering super literally here in case it helps anyone exist in Stress World 2025)

Arrow 🍃🍂 @locus7.bsky.social · 17h

Mindfulness meditation is basically the be-all end-all answer to this question, since it builds the mental "muscle" of having autonomy when it comes to choosing how/if to engage with thoughts, but it's a long-term thing, and can be destabilizing.

Thich Nhat Hanh's writing is a very nice resource.

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Arrow 🍃🍂 @locus7.bsky.social · 18h

Sometimes it helps to take a sheet of paper (or text document) and just dump everything you're worried about or thinking about into it for 5-15 minutes. Some types of mental background noise are basically your brain thinking something hasn't been properly heard/addressed, and will quiet down after.

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 1d

Just sharing this again for #portfolioDay but really should be sharing my woodworking as that’s clearly why people follow me now not the fact I’m an experienced environmental artist with decades and half of experience.

Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hi #PortfolioDay I'm Des been working as a environment art for the past 14 years and available for work better look at some of the 14 titles iv been a part of so far and personal art can be found on my portfolio www.artstation.com/pikminman

Jurassic world evolution high poly helicopter

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RJducats @rjducats.bsky.social · 1d

Hi, #PortfolioDay 🌿

I'm RJ, a 3D Artist with a love for stylised environments and props.

I'm still aiming to find my first break into the games industry though it has been a rough year.

Would deeply appreciate any guidance from fellow devs 💙

🌐 www.artstation.com/rjducats
✉️ [email protected]

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Callum 🕹️ @fentlegen.bsky.social · 21h

Almost forgot #PortfolioDay !
I'm Callum , a 3D artist in Scotland. I'm also currently looking for work! So if you need someone with 7 years experience crafting environments and figuring out how to make your ideas look cool in engine, think of me!
Contact info on my website.
www.callumfowlie.com

A large greenhouse in a desert, overgrown with alien plants. Colourful and celshaded.

A wrecked and abandoned truck. It is rusty and beat up but still colourful. Stylised and celshaded.

A towering robot, abandoned in a repair bay. It's yellow paint is flaking away to reveal rust.

A dense and towering city encapsulating roads. The buildings are like mountains forming a valley.

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Kayleigh Danieli @ka-leidos.bsky.social · 21h

Happy #PortfolioDay !! I am available for freelance and full time work as a 3D environment artist or world builder 💚 I'm passionate about hand-painting and all things stylized 🌱

📧[email protected]
🎨artstation.com/ka_leidos

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Sarah M 🌈🍉🌻 @braverobynart.bsky.social · 21h

Hi hello #portfolioDay! Im Sarah, a snr concept artist in games, indi Dev, freelance #cartographer & #TTRPG designer from Scotland. I love being an artist and over the last 15 years I’ve worked on projects like #DeathsDoor, #SpyroReignited, Possessor(s), Campaign Builder: Cities & Towns & more!

A shipwreck on a mountain top, with a Japanese-style noodle bar inside.

Secret area of deaths door. a ruined templed inside a cave covered in snow.

Exterior and interior concepts for an old rundown bar with stained glass. Inside is a smokie dive with lots of plants and hanging cages for different creatures.

Flooded street with a character skating over the water, ruined buildings and tech to either side of the street. Large trees grow through old buildings.

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Arrow 🍃🍂 @locus7.bsky.social · 18h

Hi #portfolioday !

I'm Arrow, a senior generalist with over a decade of experience, available for freelance or full-time work in 3D character, prop, & environment art, as well as concept art & illustration. I love scifi, painterly, and retro 3D game art!

💼: www.locus7.com
📧: [email protected]

Three 2D illustrations of swords, made for the first three days of Swordtember 2025.

An in-progress scifi character sculpt - a personal project from the second half of 2025. The image shows several views of a feminine person wearing a form-fitting mechanical counterpressure suit, boots, a partial climbing harness, and some life-support gear, all rendered in an untextured marble material. Several elements such as the hair are placeholders from the blocking out stage, and most elements will have another refining/polishing pass. Zbrush + Blender.

A top-down game environment art study for a top-down scifi strategy game. This is concept art, visualizing height-map blended terrain textures and overall color schemes.

Renders of several Playstation 1/Y2K low-poly low-res game assets. The top image shows a first-person view of the player holding an old kerosene lantern and a Gasser M1870 revolver. The bottom image shows both the lantern and revolver on a table, surrounded by fired and unfired cartridges and a spare cylinder.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 1d

RIP the legendary Drew Struzan (1947-2025) 😩

Even though we were expecting the news any day now, it makes me very sad. What an artist.

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sophie🍉 @merilwenart.bsky.social · 21h

hi #PortfolioDay ! it's been a while since i posted anything on here 👉👈 so let me re-introduce myself! my name's sophie and i do stylized environments and props for games! 🎮

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kate @kateprob.bsky.social · Nov 14

hi! im kate! this is some of my recent and older work.

im in a confusing void between handpainting and stylized pbr

🖌️ www.artstation.com/kprobeck

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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 1d

#PortfolioDay again! I'm a West Coast artist named Samantha and I specialize in editorials, publishing (mostly book covers), and branding

✉️[email protected]
🧡samanthamash.com
🧡samanthamash.etsy.com
🧡inprnt.com/gallery/samanthamash
🧡patreon.com/samanthamash

Illustration of woman with short hair kneeling back on the ground and pulling the string of a bow tight. She is holding a white arrow and prepared to let go. Around her is the Sagittarius constellation that is made of orange and pale yellow stars. The background is a pale peach, the woman is made up of oranges and reds.

Illustration of a pale antelope on a dark background with orange plants around it

Five herons, two black, three white are circled around one of the black herons holding an orb of light

Pale woman with dark hair in periwinkle one piece swimsuit swimming with fish and other sea life in a dark ocean with a pink sky and peach sun

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 1d

I'm castpixel, a senior illustrator and art director with more than 20 years of experience (ok, it's 21 years). One of the best pixelartists working today. I'm looking for a project.

Clients: WB Games, Minecraft, SEGA, HASBRO

Hire me! I make your game look good.

[ #portfolioday ]

My cover illustration for the game Space Jam a New Legacy, which I also art directed and animated #art

Screenshot from a pitch for a TMNT point-and-click adventure game featuring April o Neil as a mystery investigator

Isometric pixelart illustration for Minecraft, while I was working at Mojang. This is meant to show off the world and it's thrills. It lives in the how-to-play section in-game

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Fabiola @fabiolaa.bsky.social · 1d

#portfolioday Hello I'm Josefin, prop and Environment Artist from Sweden. I have worked in the game industry for 8 years.
I'm looking for a new job in the game industry, I'm open for a full-time position, contract,remote in Europe.
[email protected]
Portfolio: www.artstation.com/josefin

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mismedleym (COMMS CLOSED) @mismedleym.bsky.social · 1d

hi #portfolioday !

i’m sam, an artist in canada using both 2d and 3d to explore the surreal and fantastic :)

mismedleym.carrd.co

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Von Pixel @vonpixel.bsky.social · 23h

#PortfolioDay

Hi- Im a 3d generalist who has been doing 3d for vfx, motion and games (and some other stuff) for 15 years! Im currently looking for work. I love stylized 3d and enjoy environment art, characters, props, animation, rigging, shaders- a little bit of everything.

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Tom Daga Walker @dagaproduction.bsky.social · 1d

Its #PortfolioDay once again this one is filled with regret for me as I was planning on updating my portfolio last night with new props but I didnt get a chance to do it 😅

Im Tom a 3D artist from the UK looking for a full time or freelance in the games industry!

www.artstation.com/daga

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Reiko Murakami @reikomurakami.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #PortfolioDay !

I do book covers and comic covers, working on both full color digital and traditional media using graphite and ink.

Cover art for Black Sun be Rebecca Roanhorse, The Broken Binding

Minor Arcana #2 variant cover,
Boom! Studios

Cover art for The Black Phone by Joe Hill,
Suntup Editions

Personal work from my exhibition last year.
“Identity” 11x15 inches, Graphite mixed media
Available at Keep Contrmporary

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CarsonDrewIt @carsondrewit.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #PortfolioDay
I'm Carson, a Chinese Canadian illustrator who's been working in freelance illustration since 2012
I've run my own t-shirt company, made emotes and overlays for twitch streamers, and also worked on a couple indie games.

I'm also a partnered twitch streamer - I stream 4 days a week!

A digital sketch of a woman-like shape made of gnarled wood, flesh, and flowers. The majority of the upper half of her head hollowed out and missing.
In a void in the figure's back, the face and hands of a woman peers out, cold eyes looking at the viewer.

A digital sketch of a nightmarish elk made of humans, bone, and gristle with its head raised toward the sky.
A four armed figure wearing a helmet holds up a small object that looks like a foetus.

A digital sketch of a person holding up a gnarled staff to ward against a large horned and feathered creature and several other humanoid creatures.

A digital sketch of a 3 armed woman. Between her palms is the brightly glowing form of a cat. Erupting out of the cat are various flowers and plants. The woman is a teal colour, and the flowers are a warm purple.

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