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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️)

@lri.bsky.social

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36, UK based traditional media illustrator. Creature design, Dinos, monsters and creepy things. 🚫No AI&NFTs🚫. Commissions open✏️: [email protected] Store: https://linktr.ee/lrillustrations #illustration #creaturedesign #Paleoart

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · Jul 8

It’s #Portfolioday! 🥳

Hi everyone, I’m Luke. I’m a traditional media illustrator from the uk. I specialise in #creaturedesign, #Paleoart and #darkart. Prints and apparel at the link below.

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Thanks for your time 😊
#illustration @portfolioday.bsky.social #sciart #artsky

Four of my best portraits. All graphite on 110gsm paper. Edited via ‘Photoshop/KRITA/Photopea’. From top left, a self portrait, a zombie, a vampire and a portrait of Lord Maul from Star Wars.

Four monsters and fantasy pieces. All graphite on 110gsm paper. Edited in ‘Photoshop/KRITA/Photopea’. From top left. A TLOU inspired creature portrait, a knight devoured by tree roots, a Numanorian soldier from the Tolkien universe and my fan art of ‘The Eye of Webbish Bog’ from Star Wars.

Four of my best creature pieces. All graphite on 110gsm paper. Edited in ‘Photoshop/KRITA/Photopea’. From top left. The Space Pirate Commodore (creature concept), The Nightmare (creature concept), my version of ‘Enoch’ from ‘Over the Garden Wall’ and a ‘Xenomorph’.

Four Dino illustrations. All graphite on 110gsm paper, edited in ‘Photoshop/KRITA/Photopea’. From top left. Megalosaurus, Tyrannosaurs Rex, Another Rex and a Dilophosaurus

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 5h

Exceptional work, Shaun 😊

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vvilczy @vvilczy.bsky.social · 1d

Fly, you fools.

Inked for day 13 of #tolktober2025: shadow, organized by @rogueprintco.bsky.social

#darkart #art #drawing #balrog #lotr #lordoftherings #lotr #tolkien #fanart

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 5h

More skulls, all the time, forever

It’s #zombieskulltober Day.14.

#doodles #sketchbook #skulls #creaturedesign #monsters #handmade #pencilart #darkart #graphiteart 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

A skull, a human skull, a human skull screaming!. Jaws wide. No flesh, only bones.

2-4B graphite on 110gsm paper

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 5h

It’s #tolktober Day.14 - Bree

Prompt brought to us by Alice Gribble and Deirdre Doyle (both on Instagram)

#Tolktober2025 #LordOfTheRings #MiddleEarth #Bree #architechture #RingsOfPower #Handmade #pencilart #illustration #Fanart #graphiteart #drawing #graphitepencil @rogueprintco.bsky.social 🏠

In the Village of Bree, many house make up its streets. With tiled, pitched roofs over wooden beamed walls and white plaster. Each window lined with lead.

2-4B graphite on 110gsm paper

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 5h

Excited is an understatement 🥳

Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 5h

Our printer sent this video of an actual finished Mileships book in motion 👀

Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 8h

The World cup should be removed from #America in its entirety. Split the games across #Canada and #Mexico. If Gianni, #FIFA, any of the officials so much as think about succumbing to #Trumps noise, the damage done to world football will be catastrophic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "If somebody is doing a bad job and if I feel there is unsafe conditions, I would call Gianni, the head of FIFA, and I would say, 'let's move it to another location.' And he would do that ... I could say the same things for the Olympics."

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vvilczy @vvilczy.bsky.social · 12h

#portfolio day is today, I heard.

I ink things. Hi.

#drawing #art #darkart #illustration

A drawing of two characters sharing a moment of closeness.

A drawing of a barn at night, with a silhouette of a creature in the doorway.

A drawing about reading a book with a witch illustration.

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 12h

Still such a shock even with his failing health. 😔

Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 12h

Drew Struzan, the legendary cinema artists, illustrator and Poster art extraordinaire has sadly passed away.

Rest in peace, Drew. Your impact on the arts will live on forever more. 😔
#DrewStruzan

Drew Struzan sits at a San Diego ComicCon table in a denim shirt.

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 15h

Hi #PortfolioDay - I am Kim Hu
Freelance Illustrator & Concept Artist

Looking for cool new projects to work on in 2026 💫

Portfolio: kim-hu.com
✉️ [email protected]

Cover of Killtopia Comic Anthology, featuring a despairing man in a tech helmet.

The cover to Blister City
In the background in orange and pink tones sits a massive city, behind which orange mountains rise into a dusty orange sky
In the foreground 3 punks perch on the edge of a building, surrounded by litter and soda cans. The punk on the left wears a blue jacket that says die young on the back.

The text Blister City can be seen in the sky above the city.

Illustration of Clippy the Paperclip in a Mad Max style truck, blasting through the wasteland; Done for Autonocast.com

Photo of a shirt, showing a girl with a nailbat on top of a smashed robot, holding up its severed head. The text says: Destroy AI; Done for Aftermath
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#kimgakaku

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Jimmy Makepeace @jimmymakepeace.bsky.social · 18h

Hello #Portfolioday

My name is Jimmy Makepeace and I am an illustrator and sometimes animator based in Bristol UK.

A woman rides on the back of a dragon with a bow and arrow over a blasted landscape.

A barbarian stands surrounded by skeletons in a throneroom backlit in red

A sleep paralysis demon sits atop a burned out tank against a crimson sky

Elric of Melnibone is gently pushed forward into the future by an unseen breeze, he's stood atop a boat surrounded by candles

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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 17h

Hi #PortfolioDay

I’m Élle • Freelance illustrator & surface pattern designer

Specializing in detail heavy B&W work & passionate about occult history, horror & symbolism

Open for work in publishing, book covers, TTRPGs, private & commercial commissions

✉️ [email protected]
🎨 babeandoak.carrd.co

Altar prayer card for the goddess Diana. A rectangular card has a black border with parts of the Orphic hymn for Diana surrounding it as a border in white text. In the bottom right are twin arrows over a crescent moon representing her and Apollo. In the bottom left and top right are white outlined 8 point stars. Inside the border is a marble shockwave black and grey pattern with white outlining that forms an arch at the top with lining to look like columns on both sides. In the middle is a stag skull with painted antlers of a diamond and star pattern. Behind the skull are smaller 8 point stars and cloud ripples. Above the skull is a scraggly branch of queen Anne’s lace with small dots above. In the top corners are two constellations for Sirius as her hunting dogs and Roman numerals for 13 and 8 for the date of the Nemoralia festival.

Victorian Ward - Black and white illustration of a Victorian wall with a scarab ward framed. The border of the whole piece is a torn paper. Inside is Victorian black and white striped wallpaper with damask type filigree in the black and smaller stripes and speckles in the white with small vertical black stripes on either side. In the damask pattern are slightly abstract symbols of infinity, an hourglass and other resurrection symbols. In the middle is an ornate rectangular frame framing a large scarab beetle with its wings out. On its wings are celestial symbols like Jupiter, stars and the moon. Around the scarab are peony flowers and branches of a tree branching towards the top left with a vine white line swooping in an out and around the frame in the same direction. The scarabs body is engraved like metal with filigree. Behind the scarab in the frame is grain shading grey over black.

Dark Vibrations - Inktober 2022 black and white ink illustration. Plain rolling hills lead to the door of a building with a large central spire and a small covered porch. To the left side of the building is a three facet bay windows and the other windows have ornate stained glass. On top of the central spire is a lighting conductor in the shape of a 5 point star. In the highest window of the spire is stain glass in the shape of an eye. Converging at the start is a large vortex spiraling and expanding through the whole sky. The vortex is pulling party’s of the building up towards it and cracking parts of the wood and foundation. The vortex is casting light and highlights on the building and the tress behind it. Converging towards the building is a circle of 12 white bird silhouettes.

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Teeg @teeketch.art · 14h

I am here for another #portfolioday 👋

I am Teeg, and I like to draw a bunch of little weirdos. I am a character artist, illustrator and designer working in video and tabletop games. You can see more of my work and contact me through my site at teeketch.art

An illustration for Heepo the sentient healing potion being ambushed by a large mimic cheat.

The knight from my project knight light walking by an abandoned shrine with paper and embyrd strewn about.

King of demons illustration featuring a small demon boy standing strong in the center surrounded by large faces of hostile adversaries.

The feog swordsman kero standing ready to draw hos blade with the taninki leader in the background lit by the full moon.

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Marc Laming all singing, all dancing comics guy. @marclaming.bsky.social · 14h

I'm Marc Laming and I draw comics. Here's my work for this #portfolioday

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Utopies Selectives @utopieselective.bsky.social · 14h

Hey #portfolioday !!
Im Nico, concept artist & art director
With a love for scifi!

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michael katchan @michaelkatchan.bsky.social · 18h

Gday #portfolioday

I’m Mike, an illustrator in the fantasy/rpg/TCG space

I love expressive characters, moody spaces and lingering moments

If you’re looking for work like this I’d love to talk

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 17h

It’s #portfolioday!

I’m Luke, a traditional media #illustrator from the UK specialising in #creaturedesign and creation. You can find prints and Apparel via the link below. 😊

linktr.ee/lrillustrati...

Commissions open ✏️

#handmade #pencilart #monsters #sciart #artshare #graphiteart #PaleoArt

Commissioned piece. A version of ‘Grendel’ with a huge crustacean clawed arm in place of one he lost a time before. Over his shoulder a huge sword. His black eyes bulge, jaws wide. 2-4B graphite on 110gsm paper. Edited in ‘Photopea’

Personal piece. A human head, portrait. Zombified and engulfed by a fungal infection (thing ‘The last of us). Nothing much is left of the person he once was. 2-4B graphite on 110gsm paper. Edited in ‘Photopea’

Personal piece, a T-Rex hunkered down releasing a mighty roar. Full figure illustration. 2-4B graphite on 110gsm paper

Personal piece. An ancient Dragon. Huge, twisty and very long. His body swirls around itself. He places one claw on the ground for stability.

2-4B graphite on 110gsm paper. Edited in ‘KRITA’

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 1d

The Empire Strikes Back (1980): Filming the Executor-class Star Dreadnought model

Filming the Executor-class Star Dreadnought model in front of a blue screen

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 1d

Mmmmm wonderful pencil strokes and lines. Ace work, Ken 👌

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 1d

It’s time for #tolktober day.13 - Shadow

Prompt by @vvilczy.bsky.social and @izmaus.bsky.social

#Tolktober2025 #LordOfTheRings #shadow #fellbeast #wraith #RingsOfPower #Handmade #pencilart #illustration #Fanart #graphiteart #drawing #Portrait #graphitepencil @rogueprintco.bsky.social

Overhead, a dark form moves over you, the wide wings and long form of a Fellbeast.

2-4B graphite on 110gsm paper

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, we’re back!.

#zombieskulltober days.11-13

#illustration #handmade #pencilart #graphiteart #skulls #doodles #drawing #monsters #darkart #creatureart #zombies 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

$Three human skulls staring right at you. All with varying amounts of teeth and fractures. Hand drawn with 2-4B graphite on 110gsm paper.$

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 1d

At first I was like “how dare you!, SOTE is a classic’”. Then I got the joke 😅

You are excused

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 2d

It’s #tolktober day.12 - Darrowdelf

Prompt brought to us by Gabriel Midgley (Instagram)

#Tolktober2025 #LordOfTheRings #MiddleEarth #Dwarrowdelf #Moria #RingsOfPower #Handmade #pencilart #illustration #Fanart #graphiteart #drawing #Portrait #graphitepencil #Balrog 🔥

Through the vast chambers and corridors of Dwarrowdelf, the Bane of Durin walks. Now sole caretaker of Moria’s once vast subterranean grandeur.

2-4B graphite on 110gsm paper

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry sorry folks, triple header for #zombiskulltober tomorrow. Just too busy this weekend 😬

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KENNETH SCOTT 2: KENNETH’S REVENGE @superactionfunboy.bsky.social · 3d

#zombieskulltober day 11! #darkart

A bluish zombie on a yellow background. Inky style illustration. Zombies lower jaw is missing

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