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Purplishly Prosaic💀💜Illustrator/Sanguinaria Dev @purplishlyprosaic.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Portfolio Day! 🎊🎉💜 I'm Claire, an illustrator and graphic novelist specializing in historical fantasy and the macabre. 💀🖤

✉️[email protected]
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#portfolioday #art #oc #funger #castlevania #illustration #ocsky

Digital painting of Olrox
and Mizrak from Castlevania: Nocturne referencing their last scene in the anime. A nude flesgling vampire Mizrak straddles Olrox
, looming over him on a bed with a conflicted expression and blood around his mouth. Olrox
, disheveled in a gold-trimmed white shirt and black panel-front pants, looks up at him with a reassuring smile, his torso studded with fresh bite marks. Warm sunlight rim-lights them from a window out of frame.

Screencap redraw of Olrox from Castlevania Nocturne sitting up on a bed.

Lineup of four character designs in various fantasy
baroque style musketeer dresses and carrying weapons.

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R. Riekkinen ✦ @artvaris.bsky.social · 2d

Hello #PortfolioDay!
I’m Runo, a freelance fantasy artist specializing in characters ✦🌿

A black and white drawing of a character with curly horns and long dark hair worn in two loose braids, surrounded by a forest background and a decorative frame. There's a scar running across their mid chest and ribs. The character is gently holding their hands over the scar, with a calm expression on their face, eyes closed.

A black and white drawing of a long-haired character with antlers and fluffy ears, portrayed against a forest background. A circular shape frames their face from behind, and multiple sparkly shapes decorate the portrait.

A black and white drawing of a character with long dark hair and curly horns, surrounded by stylized foliage. A symbolic dagger seems to be piercing their throat. The character has a calm expression - eyes closed and a subtle smile on their lips.

A decorative and detailed black and white portrait of a long-haired character with pointy ears. They are dressed in fancy clothing and wear jewelry. Their eyes seem to be slightly glowing as they gaze at the viewer.

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LAUcifer, Sommelier of Gothic Male Vintage @elegantlab.bsky.social · 2d

Hello, hello #PortfolioDay!

I'm LAB, a comic artist & illustrator who has worked with indie comic publishers and fashion illustration.

I'm looking for projects for next year! I'm particularly interested in short comics, book covers/illustrations, and fashion related.

✉️[email protected]

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Carmine 🖤✨❤️ @carminedeville.bsky.social · 2d

It's #PortfolioDay again!

I'm Carmine, a rabid lesbian and hobby artist best known for pinups and original character design, often incorporating midcentury-modern themes and macabre elements.

Some of my other character designs are in the comments!

#CarmineArt
☕/tips: ko-fi.com/carminedeville

OC, Carmen Romero
Digital artwork of a woman in lingerie and heels posed confidently in an antique upholstered armchair. In one black, clawed hand she loosely holds a cigarette holder and lit cigarette, which trails smoke across the top of the image, and her other hand is draped over the armrest. A Columbian rainbow boa curls up her arm and around her shoulders, and a second set of shadowy black arms pose eerily behind her. The image is lit with iconic film noir slats of light and shadow, and a large, theatrical black hat casts much of her face into darkness, except for one shining golden eye visible beneath the brim.

OC, Victoria Sweet
Digital painting of a deathly pale woman with long dark hair, multiple curling horns tipped in gold, and fangs backlit by a full moon against a starless night sky. She ecstatically holds a fresh human heart in one clawed hand as the fanged mouth in her palm bites into it, spilling blood down her arm. Golden light pulses at the center of the heart and sparkles through the blood rivulets. Another mouth lined with jagged teeth gapes open at the center of her external ribcage, and she holds her translucent, partially skeletal bat-like wings at a low, casual angle.

OC, Mori
Image of a red half-fiend woman with long red hair pulled into a ponytail sitting in a pinup pose on a burgundy skull chair. She wears a spiderweb corset in such a dark purple it's nearly black, garters, and iridescent feather collar, and holds up a finger encircled in swirling, crackling purple magic.

OCs, Lucita and Zoya
Digital artwork of two backlit women holding each other on a grey and gold art deco background. The Latina woman in the left, Lucita, wears a smart dark grey suit and Panama hat as she romantically dips Zoya, a peroxide blonde white woman in a pink gown, who tips her head back as Lucita leans in to kiss her throat. In her right hand, Lucita delicately holds the handle of her silver sword cane, which she's driven through Zoya's heart and out her back, spilling blood down the back of the pink dress.

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Fukkatsu (cmm-close) @fukkatsu.bsky.social · 2d

Hello #PortfolioDay!🥀

I'm Fukkatsu, freelance illustarator. Mostly I draw my OCs, and I really love vampires and aristocrats🌹

Other galleries: linktr.ee/fukkatsu_sumi

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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 2d

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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✯ An Anxious Inkwell ✯ @aorticinkwell.bsky.social · 2d

Happy #PortfolioDay!

I’m Nicole and I specialize in fantasy portraits, commission work. I also dabble in comics.

Email: [email protected]

Portfolio: aorticinkwell.wixsite.com/nicoleellison

#Art #Commission #Illustration

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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · 2d

hi #PortfolioDay !

i'm zack, an illustrator and comic artist who likes to draw horror, fantasy, and romance 🦇

i'm available for illustration and comic gigs!

#oc #illustration #comics

[VGen](vgen.co/vampbyte) | [Portfolio](vampbyte.crd.co) | [Links](vampbyte.carrd.co) | [email protected]

An illustration of a long haired man with elf ears looking somberly at the viewer. He has tear tracks down his cheeks. he is standing in front of a series of eroded statues, each of which also has tears in its eyes and is overgrown with foliage. The sky is red and ominous behind them.

An illustration with a decorative white border. In the center, a large, dark gray skinned man with glowing eyes is lying on his back, and a much shorter man with pale skin and long hair is resting on his shoulder, nude and draped in a dark blue cloth. In the background, various versions of the shorter man are lying dead, with a ripple effect distorting them and the background.

A group portrait of five men (two at the top, one in the center, two at the bottom), with each of the outer four looking yearningly at the man in the center. The top-left man has dark skin, red eyes looking away from the viewer, and black coily hair which is tied back with a red ribbon. The top-right man has pale white skin and long, silver hair and yellow eyes, and is wearing a black bodysuit mask over his mouth and nose. The man in the center has medium tan skin and long, dark blue hair with silver streaks. His eyes are golden. The bottom-left man has light skin, short black hair with a silver gradient at its roots, a mustache, and is wearing a decorative red rose eyepatch over his visible eye. The bottom-right man has light skin, blonde hair cut into a choppy jellyfish cut with curls at the bottom, and pale blue eyes.

An illustration of a man with shoulder length wavy hair turned away from the viewer, looking over his shoulder with a smile. He is standing in a field of tall grass, touching a stalk of amaranth with one hand. The image is framed with a decorative gothic border.

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Blair Fujin - webcomic artist/visual novel dev|commissions open @blairfujin.art · 2d

Hello, #PortfolioDay
Level designer/2D animator by day, webcomic artist/visual novel dev by the evenings/weekends from Poland here

my works can be found at:
www.blairfujin.art
blairfujin.itch.io
blair-fujin.carrd.co

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KJETLL // dtiys pinned! @kjetll.bsky.social · 2d

hej, #PortfolioDay!

I'm Kjetll, a digital artist focused on cyberpunk and futuristic themes. I love bringing my OCs to life within my original spec-fic universe, Rhapsody.

✦ [email protected]
✦ kjetll.carrd.co/

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 2d

Hey #PortfolioDay! Nice to see you again. My name is Aimee, and I'm a dark-beautiful #DarkArt freelance #illustrator. My current wishlist for projects is: 📚 Book covers and 🃏Trading/Playing card games, but I'm open to anything!
💼: AimeeCozza.com
✉️: [email protected]

An illustration of a person from the chin down. They have both their arms around black wolves, which are asleep and cuddled against the person. Two more wolves are asleep and piled on top. The person and the animals are all smeared and smattered with blood, indicating they had a great meal together.

A man curled over onto his elbows, his head in his hands, amidst green leaves. A glowing, luminous dagger dangles above his neck and spine. His hands are cupped and outstretched towards the sky. Luminous liquid slips through his fingers.

A small child holding a bunny rabbit stuffed animal standing in front of a line of darkened forest. Inside the forest are lots of glowing sets of eyes

An oil painting of a foggy, monochrome forest with a singular man with glowing eyes standing in front of it. Before him are multiple shadows of wolves, their eyes glowing in the darkness as well.

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Purplishly Prosaic💀💜Illustrator/Sanguinaria Dev @purplishlyprosaic.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Portfolio Day! 🎊🎉💜 I'm Claire, an illustrator and graphic novelist specializing in historical fantasy and the macabre. 💀🖤

✉️[email protected]
celeslie.wixsite.com/celillustrat...

#portfolioday #art #oc #funger #castlevania #illustration #ocsky

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Indigenous Peoples day, I am indigenous Isneg/Apayao through my mother, who is in need of help. please help me take care of my mama at trying to manage a progressive disease and helping extend her life through mutual aid and the miracle of modern medicine, please 🙇‍♂️

🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you! Hey everyone, am an indigenous trans artist in the global south, in perpetual housing insecurity; also permanently disabled with nerve damage that impacts my movement. Id absolutely love if you guys could like my work, or buy a print or send me a tip 🌼 (comments)

School of fish drawn in a spiral in hues of teal and sea glass green

A transmasc sideview portrait in hues of faded green. Golden clouds and stars and fish float over him

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✯ An Anxious Inkwell ✯ @aorticinkwell.bsky.social · 9d

Pay what you want is still open!

✯ An Anxious Inkwell ✯ @aorticinkwell.bsky.social · 22d

I’ve set up a goal on Ko-fi for food and necessities while I’m job hunting. My disability case in in the appeals process so I won’t hear back from that for months. Comms and donations are what I rely on atm. Anything is appreciated! Thank you! 💖

ko-fi.com/aorticinkwel...

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Purplishly Prosaic💀💜Illustrator/Sanguinaria Dev @purplishlyprosaic.bsky.social · 6d

Homophobic moderation bot... 😒

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Purplishly Prosaic💀💜Illustrator/Sanguinaria Dev @purplishlyprosaic.bsky.social · 7d

I haven't had much time to draw lately and keep forgetting to post my backlog, but here's my current WIP of my OC Claude in sad wet cat mode.

#art #oc #ocsky #vampire #wip

Lineart bust of a sullen young man looking back over his shoulder. He has disheveled overgrown hair and stubble.

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Purplishly Prosaic💀💜Illustrator/Sanguinaria Dev @purplishlyprosaic.bsky.social · 7d

I haven't had much time to draw lately and keep forgetting to post my backlog, but here's my current WIP of my OC Claude in sad wet cat mode.

#art #oc #ocsky #vampire #wip

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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 22d

It’s my birthday, the autumn equinox and the first day of fall 💛🍂

It would mean a lot if you could share my work today.

Thank you for all the support this year. It’s everything to me

Hope Persephone’s blessings find you today ✨

Black and white illustration representing Persephone during the autumn equinox. A frame surrounds the whole thing split in half in black and white. The middle horizontal section is torn in half like a piece of paper representing the division between the above and the underworld. In the bottom right corner are wispy swirling smoke lines going towards the centre with 3 bats flying from right to left. In the bottom left is the symbol for Persephone. In the middle are two pomegranates one whole and one cut in half. In the top half on a black background is a bee in reference to Persephone’s name as “honeyed one” on a circular medallion with narcissus flowers dropping petals around it. In the top left is the Greek word for Persephone

Swatch card of my Forest Floor Repeat Pattern. Repeat pattern of the greenery crushed into a forest floor. tan leaf branches and grey slate branches with bright red and dark green large berries also small branches of tan leaves with red berries and slate grey branches with tan leaves on a dark navy blue background

Night Magic - Black and white ink illustration of a magic filled Victorian house with an ominous surrounding. of a shrub framing the left side and bottom of the page. In the middle is a Victorian revival house with a spire to the right and a porch. Over the porch is a bison skull and the windows are celestial stain glass. The roof is black with cosmic looking weather vanes. 5 Crows are flying overheard from the back to the front of the house and the sky is The sky is textured with swirling pattern of lines and with black dot stars

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Ooh, those first two... 👀💦

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Artists Quote with your queer characters! 🌈🖤

Dealer's choice. Nearly all my main characters, at least.

Digital painting of a man, ribcage-up, in a billowy white shirt against a teal background. He has pale skin, amber eyes, and bust-length, deep red hair in large spiral curls. He is ringed by a gold-leaf halo and above it, a spread of six bloody teeth, including fanged canines. Gold leaf tears adorn one cheek. An iron stake pierces his left chest, the wound issuing blood, which also spatters his lips and throat. His expression is impassive.

A comic page featuring versions of Faust and Mephistopheles against Lovecraftian figures Nyarlathotep and Abdul Alhazred.

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Purplishly Prosaic💀💜Illustrator/Sanguinaria Dev @purplishlyprosaic.bsky.social · 23d

I've been inactive lately due to irl stuff (nothing bad) but had to react to @bsky.app's cowardly, censorious TOS revisions despite promising creators a safe, free platform.

Fuck payment processors and the GOP

Keep calling, boycotting, and most importantly, making weird, gross art. #bskycensorship

Digital painting of a muscular young man, red dress shirt peeled away and clinging to one arm, lain back against a pillow as he's penetrated. He has loose, chest-length powder blue hair in choppy waves with long sideburns. Black underwear hands from his right leg and a gartered black sock is visible on his left. He is looking down his body, flushed, with fangs visible in his open mouth. He has pale pink skin and golden yellow eyes and wears silver studs in his ears and nipples. The image is sarcastically plastered with a speech bubble for each party reading, "I consent!"

Digital painting of two muscular men, Léon and Lazare, having sex in a tavern storeroom wearing disheveled late baroque/early rococo style fantasy clothing. Léon is a tall, broad man in his mid forties with chest-length, curly straw blond hair, a small, short beard, and warm olive skin. He braces himself against the wall with one hand, wrapping the other around Lazare's shoulders, as well as a leg around his waist. his head is tipped back with eyes closed and lips parted. Lazare is slightly shorter, in his late twenties, and has partly plaited shoulder-length wavy black hair, and medium brown skin with freckled cheeks. He wears grungy black eye makeup and black nail polish, as well as multiple lip, ear, eyebrow, and nipple piercings. He pins Léon to the wall as he penetrates him, gripping his leg with one hand as he leans his had against his chest, eyes squeezed shut through a moan. The image is sarcastically plastered with a speech bubble for each party reading, "I consent!"

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Purplishly Prosaic💀💜Illustrator/Sanguinaria Dev @purplishlyprosaic.bsky.social · 23d

I've been inactive lately due to irl stuff (nothing bad) but had to react to @bsky.app's cowardly, censorious TOS revisions despite promising creators a safe, free platform.

Fuck payment processors and the GOP

Keep calling, boycotting, and most importantly, making weird, gross art. #bskycensorship

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Junch @junchgaming.bsky.social · 25d

I'm incredibly ecstatic that we reached $100,000 for the Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle. With just 2 days left to go, please RT and support the bundle, and let's push it as high as we can go!!!

Thank you for the support!!

Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

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👻🌸 - Comms OPEN @paeonygalaxy.bsky.social · 25d

Got a little further on this thanks to a kind soul (who also wants to see me finish some work haha) we definitely still are in need of funds for food and my main account is still in the negative. ;w; Boosts appreciated and comms are open. #MABoost #KofiGoal #CommissionsOpen
ko-fi.com/paeonygalaxy...

Support Paeonygalaxy

ko-fi.com

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👻🌸 - Comms OPEN @paeonygalaxy.bsky.social · 25d

(Re-up cause I forgor alt oops) New post for easy boosting for me 🥹 Commissions still open! Vgen I offer both my illustrations and most YCH, Ko-fi is YCH options only.

vgen.co/Paeonygalaxy
ko-fi.com/paeonygalaxy...

#VGenOpen #KofiCommissions #ArtistSupport #KawaiiArt #YCH

Collage showing various pieces of fanwork (Miku, Sailor Moon, Pokemon) all in pastel/soft colors captioned with vgen.co/paeonygalaxy

Collage of various YCH options I offer (mainly chibi YCHs as well as a drifloon one) captioned with ko-fi.com/paeonygalaxy

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