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michael katchan

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illustrator D&D . Blackbirds RPG . Paradise Lost . Primal . Varia . Redline email: [email protected]

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michael katchan @michaelkatchan.bsky.social · Nov 12

Name: Michael
Pronouns: He / Him
Location: Denmark
Hobbies: mtg / building in Valheim / keyboards / music

Links: michaelkatchan.carrd.co

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Annie Stegg Gerard @anniestegg.bsky.social · 1h

Halloween is almost here, and the newest Moonlit March painting is nearly complete! 🎃 While I put the finishing touches on it, here’s a peek back at where the series began.

#MoonlitMarch #HalloweenArt #FantasyArt #AnimalArt #OpossumArt #WoodlandCreatures #AutumnVibes #SpookySeason

A group of animals including a pair of toads, a black cat, a bat, a snail, and a mother opossum and her children, march through a moonlit forest.

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Lena Lenkevich @lenkenvenom.bsky.social · 1h

#PortfolioDay

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Francesca Baerald @francescabaerald.com · 1h

I missed you, #PortfolioDay !

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SAJAN @planetsmudge.bsky.social · 1h

hey #portfolioday , I'm available for work from November onwards, but feel free to reach out now!
www.sajanrai.co.uk/portfolio

illustration of a disgruntled person wearing a helmet that is bustling with logos

illusttration of a knight in a forest holding a lamp

illustration for The Ostrich by Dove B Dagny, showing an ostrich flying against a sun, and bordered by winter trees.

Illustration for a single by Brother Zulu, a person holds flowers and looks into a mirror by their window - it sparkles. Behind them in the shadows is a chaotic room

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (StinaMarie) @stinasdemons.com · 1h

It's #Portfolioday!
I'm StinaMarie, and I make creepy and not-so-creepy art with traditional mediums. I have created book covers & book illustrations, commissions, and sell prints & originals. 😈🎨🦇🩸

🎨 stinasdemons.bigcartel.com

#DarkArt #TradArt #Illustrator #Horror

Gouache Illustration of a ghost sitting down reading a book in a darkened library where two candles float in the air around him to illuminate his book

A watercolor illustration of a misty forest scene with a lone skeletal tree on a hill in front of a large white moon.

A watercolor/ink drawing: haunted, dilapidated house looms in front of a stormy sky. A tree stands in the yard in front of it.

Acrylic painting of a weird botanical scene: blue mushrooms, an orchid with a face and mouth full of teeth, and a weird flower with an eye in the center and tendrils coming out of it. There are green leaves and bushes on the ground and it's all encased in a dome. Outside of the dome is a black starscape.

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Veto Zomer [Open to work] @vetozomer.bsky.social · 1h

Hello #PortfolioDay! (tarot version)

I'm Everton Zomer, also known as Veto. I'm a fantasy illustrator for TTRPGs/TCGs and currently the Art Director for an upcoming TTRPG based on Brazilian folklore.

I love a good storytelling, nature, and tarot cards 🃏.

💻 vetozomer.com
💌 [email protected]

A woman in dark leather armor with rivets and straps looms over her victim in a dimly lit stone hall. She grips a bloodied dagger in one hand and holds her opponent’s hair with the other, forcing their head down. Her face is streaked with blood, and she smiles with a cruel, triumphant expression. Behind her, cloaked figures stand in shadow, while the setting sun glows red through an archway, casting an ominous light. At the bottom, golden letters frame the title: “The Dagger.”

A wealthy man sits on a grand throne in a dark, decaying banquet hall, dressed in rich robes with a red cloak and fur collar. He gazes forward with a cold, disdainful expression, surrounded by a feast of rotting food and dusty gold coins. Cobwebs stretch across the platters of moldy meat, spoiled fruit, and untouched pies. The once-opulent room is now filled with shadows and neglect, emphasizing themes of greed, waste, and isolation.

A mystical figure with dark, cracked stone-like skin and glowing golden veins dances barefoot atop sunlit desert dunes. They wear white flowing pants and a red sash, their elegant form wrapped in a swirling veil of sand that billows like a cloak. The scarf they hold aloft is etched with celestial symbols, glowing softly in the sunlight. In the hazy background, ancient sandstone buildings emerge from the dust as the sun rises, casting a radiant glow across the scene. The mood is serene and powerful, evoking timelessness and elemental grace.

A tarot card titled "The Warden" featuring a determined female adventurer crouching atop a hill, illuminated by a large full moon behind her. She wears a wide-brimmed hat, a red cape, and armor, with an array of daggers and tools strapped to her belt. In her hands, she holds two gleaming short swords, ready for action. The background is a dramatic night sky with scattered clouds, framing her silhouette against the moonlight. The scene conveys vigilance, readiness, and protection, emphasized by the golden frame of the card.

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pkostek @pkostek.bsky.social · 1h

Hello #PortfolioDay! ✨

I’m pkostek and I paint portraits. I hope you’ll enjoy my work 🙏

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michael katchan @michaelkatchan.bsky.social · 1h

ethereal, moody and captivating as always.

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Yorgos Cotronis @cotronis.bsky.social · 2h

Hello hello #portfolioday
My name is Yorgos, I'm Greek and I make book covers. I'm available for new projects from December onwards.

Here's some of my work!

Painting of a woman with a facial tatoo in long black robes holding a Zweihander

Painting of a woman wearing a crown, in a field of rye. A wolf stands besides her, mostly in shadow.

Book cover for the novel EPIPHANY. It depicts a woman half submerged in water with flowers growing around her.

A book cover for the novel "The Moss," showing a girl covered in flowers and moss with glowing white eyes.

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MarcoMaps Bernardini @marcomaps.bsky.social · 2h

Hi #PortfolioDay !
I'm Marco, a queer cartographer specialized in creating maps that make you want to live and have adventures in them! 🏰🌲

A map of a 80's themed American suburban town

A map of a Dwarven city built on the side of a giant waterfall

A map of a continent with diverse biomes and zoomins of various locations

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ValentinaPaz @valentinapaz.com · 2h

Hi #PortfolioDay, I'm a freelance illustrator from Chile!

I've worked for a TCG, and mostly work with private clients nowadays.
Starting next year I'll be available for book covers, TCGs, TTRPGs, as well as personal commissions.

🌐 www.valentinapaz.com/portfolio/
✉️ [email protected]

A scene after an Old Gods of Asgard concert, featuring a myriad of characters from Alan Wake and Control videogames.

Chaotic scene of the cast of characters from Control struggling to contain all the altered items and objects of powers.

Hawke walks into Kirkwall, assisted by Bethany and Fenris because she broke a leg. On the foreground, Varric and Merrill can be seen smiling at the scene in front of them.

Scene from Dragon Age 2, Hawke fighting against the Arishok

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Dan H Artworks @danhawk333.bsky.social · 2h

Happy #PortfolioDay

I'm just a Dan who is sharing what I draw with pens and paper on my personal art journey. Art is what I do to process my feelings about and escape from the world for a bit in the evenings and on weekends.

Pen drawing of a ghostly upper torso, neck, head and shoulders of a bald human emerging from a mass of organic shapes that suggest organs, musculature, veins and other structures. Facing left it is looking with solid white eyes and a third eye towards an area of alien writing and shapes in white on a black background next to what appears to the left half of a viewer facing grey style alien being in an embryonic pose in a container and hooked up to wires and is propped up by the same structure of the background

Pen drawing that is mostly black and white focused on a humanoid figure with many different organic growths coming out of their back that contain eyes, while the upper part of their face is covered by a solid plate that has the skin of the lower part of the face connected to it by rivets. The rest of their body is covered by strange techno-organic growths and in the background is another figure reclining and holding their hands above their head into the arched walls that frame the scene. The surrounding area makes an oval portal like shape that filled with a yellowish hue and a number of orange ringed elongated eye like shapes with white centers with black filaments.

Pen drawing with the main element being a serpentine figure with vaguely feminine human features and a spiral shell like structure on the head, leaning from the right with large black eyes and a body covered with various bony growths like armor down it's back, kneeling on an uneven stone floor. One arm with a couple of large claws is slightly pointed at another figure is visible just below a large obsidian stylized skull pendant. The other figure is standing, holding a flowing robe at the waist, but has a smooth stone face but is otherwise human. In the background, lounging on the ground or on a pillar amount he strange organic shapes while in the background are stone structures that appear to be a temple like complex with a large circular structure that looks to be plugged into the large stylized skulls below it.

Pen drawing of a stylized, thin, feminine figure with a face that is just a black void with three white orbs sitting cross-legged in tattered black gown floating under an arch surrounded by runes and vegetation. They are floating amoung ruins flanked by a winged figures with bodies made of starry sky with smaller beings with animal skull type heads in black robes in the foreground of the floating figure. The wings of the crouching figures are in front of organiseh-yellow portals in the blue and purple sky while a feline humanoid figure slinks in from the right in the foreground.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 2h

Hi #PortfolioDay! 🎨

I'm a fantasy cartographer from Brazil working on hand-drawn maps for novels and RPGs.

I have a Patreon with maps + stock art for indie RPGs.

💼 cara.app/salvaterra
🗺️ www.patreon.com/tomeofsalvat...
+🔗 fernandosalvaterra.carrd.co

#cartography #ttrpg

fantasy map illustration depicting a landscape full of ragged mountains up and down, crossed by crooked roads, some on giant stone structures. There is a valley with hills and woods to the south, a desert with wretched lands just east of it, wetlands to the west and east with flooded cities and temples, snowy plains to the northeast with a giant skeleton and tree and an impossibly tall mountain in the northwest whose peak is obscured by dark clouds.

a fantasy map illustration depicting a continent with a bigger mainland and a large island to the west of it. the biomes go from snowy mountains, a vast wetland, grasslands with many hills. the prevalent features here is that it is crossed by many rivers in all directions and it is surrounded by a the shades of a vast submarine landscape that where part of this land before a big flood catastrophe.

colourful drawing of an island crossed by a mountain range, rivers and forests scattered around.

a planar map in the shape of a compass rose. The direction arrows are the four classical elemental planes with the material plane in the centre and several layers of other planes of existence around it.

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 2h

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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Evelyne Park @evelynepark.bsky.social · 2h

Happy #portfolioday to all who celebrate!

I'm Evelyne, painting book illustrations in acrylics... especially for Gothic horror, fantasy, but also colourful sci-fi, always focused on characters.

www.evydraws.com/portfolio
✉️ [email protected]

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Kate Blagodatskikh @blagodatskix.bsky.social · 3h

Hello #PortfolioDay 👁
I'm Kate, freelance illustrator who works on illustrations, book covers and loves to paint horror, mythology and nature 🌿

Portfolio: blagodatskix.carrd.co

• Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/blag...
• Socials: linktr.ee/Blagodatskikh
• Contact: [email protected]

The illustration of the woman with blind eyes that is surrounded by light.
She has peony flower in her hands and many, many eyes in her body that are visible from the cuts.

The illustration of the woman, siting in the dark with coral and tentacles emerging from her back.

The illustration of the sand watch, figure of woman inside the glass. Watch surrounded by two hands - one old and one young.
Also, there a lot of mushrooms on the bottom and top of the illustration.

The illustration of the mermaid lounging under lily pads in dusk light.

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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 3h

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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SAPRO @saproartist.bsky.social · 2h

Hi #Portfolioday !
I am a freelancer always open to drawing for your projects, particularly fantasy and horror!

Please contact me at saproartist(at)gmail for inquiries.

Illustration for Lunacid: Tears of the Moon

Illustration of the OC Strahd created by sabbathism

Design of a jester character for J.E. Lynn

Illustration of original characters created by Goetia

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Cu Sith @cuarsith.bsky.social · 5h

Hello, #PortfolioDay!

I'm Cu Sith, digital and traditional artist. I like drawing all kinds of creatures and dark atmospheres 🖤

Links: cuarsith.carrd.co

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michael katchan @michaelkatchan.bsky.social · 1h

<3 thank you

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Thanks! :)

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Adam 🪿 @vexnir.bsky.social · 3h

Hi #portfolioday ☀️

I’m a Polish illustrator & full-time 2D Game Artist. I love to create cozy art, usually celebrating nature or small moments of everyday life. I want to bring feelings of comfort to everyone and brighten their day with my work!

✸ Store: vexnir-shop.com ✸

Gouache illustration of a black cat wearing a scarf with various geometric patterns on it. The scarf is in warm shades with some green accents.

Watercolor illustration of a bunch of colorful pumpkins, with a beige striped cat sleeping on top of them curled up into a ball, slightly resembling the round pumpkins itself.

Traditional fan art in watercolor and colored pencil. It’s an illustration showing the Pokémon Ampharos, with a little Togepi in its arms, standing among bushes full of yellow flowers. A small house, trees and electrical poles can be seen in the background, with Mt. Fuji faintly hovering over them in the distance.

Traditional drawing in mixed media of a white cat with a yellow straw hat sitting inside a blue cardboard box. It’s surrounded with other boxes full of oranges.

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Jose Solano @josesolano.bsky.social · 4h

Hello #PortfolioDay

I am a professional freelance illustrator. I have worked for card games and role-playing games. Clients like: Wise Wizard Games, Modiphius and Nosolorol.

Currently looking for new projects.
💼 www.josesolanoart.com
✉️ [email protected]

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Francesca Resta @niji707.bsky.social · 4h

Hey #portfolioday!! 👋

I’m Francesca, Italian artist based in London. I paint digital SFF illustrations and oil portraits, hopefully these two things will converge at some point! 😂

I’m an artist for MtG, I love SFF books and I would love to paint more cards and more covers in the future ❤️🤞

Cover for the Grim Oak limited edition of The Book of the Ancestor by Mark Lawrence

Illustration for the card “Inspiring call” in the Final fantasy x MtG set

Fanart - Portrait of Ezra, from the webcomic “Electric Bones”

Illustration for the card “Balance”, in the Deck of Many Things for D&D

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Akane ⚔️🫀 DTIYS pinned! @akanelogics.bsky.social · 4h

Hey #portfolioday! ✨

I'm Akane, a freelance digital artist from Spain whose work is dark fantasy and medieval themed.

I've worked for Critical Role, also as a cover artist, doing private commissions and on my own comic Kaelis. 🪶⚔️

💼 akanelogics.carrd.co
✉️ [email protected]

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