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Ensorcelled to draw and tell stories somehow. - Currently making a comic! Find under the ENRH feed, or here: https://enrh.webcomic.ws/ - Carrd: https://rtnortherly.carrd.co/

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RT North | DTIYS Pinned @rtnortherly.bsky.social · Sep 6

IT IS FINALLY HERE 🎉 I’m hosting a DTIYS featuring my OC Cricket (it/its, they/them).

- Use the hashtag #rtnorthDTIYS
- Tag me please 👀
- Ends December 7th, three months from now!
- Feel free to crop/change colours/adjust however you need.

Digital art of my OC, Cricket. They are leaning back in a chair that's pushed into a desk. The chair is tilting back, and Cricket has their legs up on the top of the desk. Cricket's head is tilted back and slightly towards the viewer and it has a lax sort of smile on its face. One arm is draped across its stomach, and the other hangs free so the fingers nearly brush the floor. Cricket is dressed in a loose, partially unbuttoned shirt, suspenders, and nondescript brown pants. It has a black stylized cricket tattoo on both forearms, and a striped neck tattoo that ends in feathers under the collarbone, and then a skull over the sternum. They appear to be in ramshackle office, and pinned to the side of their desk is a notice advertising "RTnorth's DTIYS. Join in until Dec. 7th. Use #rtnorthDTIYS". The lighting is entirely an artificial neon pink.

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RT North | DTIYS Pinned @rtnortherly.bsky.social · 1m

Thank you!!! I'm looking forward to what the final piece look like 😆

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yulkradness🌹TTRPG @yulkradness.bsky.social · 5h

So happy to share one of the three cards I made for @saharian.bsky.social Briardark!
For more info about the books please visit their profile 🌱

#art #illustration #darkfantasy #book

Illustration I made for S.A. Harian's book Briardark. The scene is showing a young woman wearing a blue coat lost in an heavy atmospheric forest in which the trees tangles with each other and the roots are everywhere on the ground. The woman is sitting - knees down - on the grass, the look on her face seems scared and hurt while she tries to extract a glow arrow from her chest, dripping blood as she's looking at the viewer, terrified. Next to her, on the grass, there's a bloody knife almost hidden.

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Izzy.PumpkiNG | comms open @izzypetersart.bsky.social · 2h

painterly character cards (like this) are $40 until saturday! Pass it along :)

(contact via link in bio please, someone's been impersonating me on discord - I will NEVER reach out via discord)

portrait of a haggard man in a red polo shirt and headphones, smoking a cigarette

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RT North | DTIYS Pinned @rtnortherly.bsky.social · 3h

One of the things I've been slowly working away on in my spare time. I decided out of nowhere to arbitrarily make it harder for myself by reducing the amount of layers I use. We'll see how long that lasts lol.

A zoomed in screen shot of some incomplete digital art. In it is a player character design from the game Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. The character has auburn hair swept back but for two flyaways at the front which are sticking up. One one eye is a golden monocle designed like a steam-punk google which is corded into his cheek via three thin tubes, a gold chin plate, and a golden aperture at his temple. The navy blue overcoat she is wearing has a huge, fluffy fur collar with the head of the animal apparently still attached. The environment is still incomplete though a golden skull for an arm rest is hinted at, and behind the character is a rich blue expanse of space.

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Spooky Saba 🏳️‍🌈 @ace-of-dragons.bsky.social · 18h

fellow Canadians! if you have a moment, please sign this petition telling Carney to reject Alberta's pipeline proposal for BC 🙏🏻

Prime Minister Carney: Reject Smith's BC Pipeline - Leadnow

leadnow.ca

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Astra @astrawitch.com · 17h

Hey there #portfolioday! I'm Astra and I make big vibrant pixel art and arcade sticks✨

🛒Shop: www.astrawitchart.com
☕Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/astra_witch
🎨Portfolio: www.astrawitch.com

Closeup of my earthbound piece with the party standing facing Guygas, all in red and purple tones. Guygas has more of a horror-style spin and stretching faces can be seen winding out

Closeup of my kpop demon hunters Derpy Tiger piece, you can see the feet of the sussy bird standing on his head and a temple behind

Silk Song piece with hornet balanced atop the bell beast while it climbs up a pile of discard bells, light beaming down with chains and bells hanging

Planet Express building an the Planet Express ship with a cosmos of purple clouds flowing behind

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✨Kiki✨ @setenza.art · Apr 9

Hi #PortfolioDay!! 🎨
My name is Kiana/Kiki and I love to do original works with my OCs while also being a graphic designer!
I'm currently taking comms on VGen!
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✨ Portfolio: setenza.art
✨ Commissions: vgen.co/setenza
✨ Links: bio.site/setenza.art

Two lop-eared girls in chibi form waving at the viewer. Background has shooting stars.

A lop-eared marionette posing while holding a chakram. Rel, a tiger-like character asks, "Well? What do you think?" with Nadya, another lop-eared character squealing while saying "I LOVE HER!!"

Karin, a bat-like person blushing while handing the viewer a box of chocolates. The background is the color pink with white flowers.

In order my ocs, Erem, Karin and Nadya posing while standing together facing to their right. The background is a halftone pattern. Erem is taller, muscular with pointy ears. Karin is bat-like while grinning. And Nadya is a lop-eared bunny girl smiling cutely.

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scare-ron "actual ghost" shanxnywy @thxnywy.art · 20h

it's #portfolioday and I'm making that your problem

I'm heron and i draw critters and beasties and so forth!
i got a ko-fi with commissions and stickers and all! 🫀 ko-fi.com/thxnywy 👀
wow wowy wee wa!

a noodly rat, possum, and raccoon fly out of a garbage bag

a neon castle sits beneath three gloopy meteors hurtling down toward it

a pyramid descends from space, reaching tentacles out toward a huge structure on the ground

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Viper 📌 DTIYS! @viperiumprime.com · 20h

Kinda in honor of Portfolio Day, why not reshare my site?

Since I’m paying for a domain, getting my money’s worth out of by double dipping as a Graphic Design portfolio AND Personal Illustration portfolio, so ignore either one of those tabs if it’s not your thing lol

www.viperiumprime.com

Viperium Prime

www.viperiumprime.com

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RT North | DTIYS Pinned @rtnortherly.bsky.social · 20h

also my carrd:
rtnortherly.carrd.co

RT North Portfolio

The portfolio site of my digital art, displaying my fondness for all manner of strange creatures as well as fictional character art.

rtnortherly.carrd.co

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✨ Vash Taylor ✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ Open For Work @deuxdel.bsky.social · 21h

Hi #Portfolioday ! I'm Vash, a concept artist and comic illustrator, with a healthy obsession for ttrpgs, scifi and weird fantasy!

✨ vashtaylor.squarespace.com

A comic page picked out in blues and reds. Its dark and foreboding. A girl sits by a campfire. She begins to cry

concept art for ambrosia sky - Dalia lays gerald to rest.

The musician Tamino, painted in blocky, muted colours

three witches stand around a cauldron, a noxious mist surrounds them. They're dressed in ornate clothing. The forest around them bares the grim evidence of their passing.

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Trapper, MLT 🪚🇵🇸 - COMMS OPEN @trapnaster.bsky.social · 23h

ohhhh it’s #PortfolioDay again

i’m Trapper, a queer southern manthing and MLT that makes comics and draws beasts n gore! you can commission me or buy prints (and trinkets, soon) thru my ko-fi, and you can read my queer southern horror webcomic Roadkill on tapas! 🍂🫀

linktr.ee/trapnaster

painting commission of zinogre from monster hunter

artfight attack of @unholycock’s character, navid

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Lizzi 🐦‍⬛🌸 @spiritcrowart.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #PortfolioDay ! I'm Lizzi, and I like illustrating birds and fantasy creatures. Sometimes I dabble in pixel art! 💜

🎨 Art-Only Feed: bsky.app/profile/spir...

☕ Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/lizzi
💸 VGen (Comms): vgen.co/spiritcrowart
🔗 Links: linktr.ee/SpiritCrowArt
✉️ [email protected]

Portrait of Gyr, a gryphon with white feathers that wears a silver winged helm with a unicorn horn, and a silver chestplate and wing covers. His eyes glow bright red as he casts magical lightning around him. (oc belongs to Severedfeather)

Artwork showcase of the characters I drew for a DnD manual: Lineages of the Long White Cloud vol 2. It features a ranger based on the harlequin gecko, a bard based on the kokako bird, a kakapo-bear creature, and a rogue based on the sacred kingfisher.

Playing card design featuring the two forms of Atlas the dragon (OC belongs to lyka-ios). In their default form, they have white feathers and golden horns. In their alternate form, they have black fur and dark horns.

Pixel art of Malzeno from Monster Hunter, in flight with its wings spread in front of a full moon. It has white scales, a gray underbelly, crimson wings, and golden horns, claws, and tail spikes.

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Carmine 🖤✨❤️ @carminedeville.bsky.social · 1d

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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普普通通的 @bem.bsky.social · 23h

Hey #portfolioday! I'm bem, a visdev / storyboard artist. My bsky is more for my personal projects though which is what you'll see here!

vgen: vgen.co/Bem
Other links: bemdraws.carrd.co
Email: bemdrawsart(@)gmail[.]com
#bemdraws #art #rangkai

A man carries his battered comrade with a vindictive look on his face. The color palette is limited to grays and reds.

A poster type drawing of Rangkai and Yan Qiang. Rangkai has commoner clothes and his hair in a braid while Yan Qiang has intricately embroidered clothing and carries a decorated sword. The color palette is mostly blues and some tans.

Rangkai and Yan Qiang meet at balcony seats of a restaurant. One is slumped in his chair while the other is upright and pours wine.

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RT North | DTIYS Pinned @rtnortherly.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #PortfolioDay!

I‘m an artist who focuses largely on fantasy, and sometimes light horror. I love drawing knights, monsters, and frequently the undead! Currently I’m in the midst of creating a comic, but I am also open for commissions.

enrh.webcomic.ws/comics/1/#co...
ko-fi.com/rtnortherly/...

Digital art of a dragon curled up and sleeping within a grassy glade. The dragon is a light ashy grey with darker, larger scales along its spine and joints. It also has large tooth-like spikes going in a ridge along its spine from the top of its head to its arrow-shaped tail. Its legs, snout, the tip of its tail and wings are a darker stormier grey, speckled with light grey in the style of a blue roan patterning. The dragon looks peaceful and has a contented smile on its face. Sunlight dapples across its leathery skin where it filters through the green leaves. There are also many little wild flowers of different types amidst the foliage.

Two characters stand in front of a large, full, purple moon against a deep navy sky. They are surrounded by brilliant lupine flowers in hues of purple, pink and blue. One character is a hulking werewolf facing to the left and snarling while clutching onto the second character, a knight in a tunic and purple cape of deep violets and fuchsias. The knight is looking down sombrely at a gleaming knight helm he holds in his hands. The helm is surrounded by eight, silvery, spectral swords. Everything glows with the light of the moon, creating magical and maybe even mysterious atmosphere.

A two panel comic page: In the top left is the first panel, showing a close up of a gaunt man with sharp features and unnaturally pale skin looking over his shoulder. This is Wrathmor. The second panel, which takes up the entirety of the remaining page, shows a full shot of Wrathmor standing in front of an altar with a monstrous corpse on it. His posture is regal, and his attire consists of dark robes with a slight web theme. He is lit by magical purple flames burning atop the candelabras. Wrathmor says: “Ah. The Hero. As foretold.” This is followed by a thought bubble which reveals he is thinking, “at last”. Then he says “And here I thought you’d perished, thus sparing me from this farce.”

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Caly✨comms open✨ @calypsolarts.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, #PortfolioDay ✨

I'm Caly, a queer freelance illustrator from Latvia. I mostly draw humanoid characters and couples!

I'm open for commission work!

🌸Vgen Commissions
🌸Kofi
📧: [email protected]

Digital illustration of Zen from Mystic Messenger and my friend Ame dancing in the moonlight with a lake view behind them while wearing elegant outfits.

Art meme redraw with my OCs Elio and Caspian. Caspian is holding a dagger to Elio's throat with the text "I'll cut your throat! That'll shut you up." and Elio is laying in the grass looking up at him with the text "You're beautiful..."

Digital portrait drawing of my OC Elio with his pet snake wrapping around him and the snake's head is in front of his mouth.

Digital illustration of Ray's OC Flicker the bard sitting on the ground during a sunny day with a forest behind him.

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 1d

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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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 1d

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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alma 🌼 | VGEN COMMISSION OPEN @nimasain.bsky.social · 1d

Hi there! I am alma and I am the pixel baker. I love to draw food, flowers, and other cute things in pixelart!

Links: linktr.ee/artanimasain
Commission: vgen.co/nimasain

#PortfolioDay #pixelart

A pixel art badges set with 18x18px size for each badges
The first set is purple desserts and the second one is strawberry desserts

A pixel art walking animation character sheet, It's only the first frame

A pixel art character portrait made in 96x96px canvas size

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🍄Just a Mushroom🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 1d

Seems it's #PortfolioDay

Canadian artist focused in horror, monsters and weird wildlife!

Have a few pieces :)

A lion bull monster snarling at the viewer.

Three wide-eyed hares looking at the viewer. They surround a decaying canine carcass. One has its hind paw in the canine's lifeless jaws.

A skeleton with a decaying albatross tied around its neck. The albatross has a golden star in its beak, and the skeleton has golden designs on its forehead. Feathers float at the forefront.

Frank, from Go Home Annie. A monstrous deer with no lower jaw. Instead, a toothy flap of skin hangs there. He is looking at the viewer with blank eyes.

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Ghoul - comms open @poisonghoulart.bsky.social · 1d

t's #PortfolioDay again!

I'm Ghoul, a freelance artist open for commissions and looking for work in ttrpg's - anything that specialises in lesbians or robots is my jam ✨

✉️ [email protected]
✨ ko-fi.com/poisonghoulart
✨ vgen.co/poisonghoulart
✨ poisonghoulart.carrd.co

A black and white illustration of a cathedral inspired warforged who is holding a giant censer that fills the ground with smoke. They are backlit and standing in an archway

An illustration of a female presenting person standing in a body of water with long magma hair that flows out onto the water.

An illustration of Devexian from Critical Role in a workshop repairing other aeormatons

A linework illustration of a bow and tapestry depicting various scenes from Epic the musical

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SAPRO @saproartist.bsky.social · 1d

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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nic.tattoos @nicterhorst.com · 1d

Hello #PortfolioDay!!

I'm Nic, a queer tattooer in Toronto, ON. I specialize in illustrative tattoos of characters ✨ I love working with black ink & textured fills

Portfolio: www.sofarsogoodtattoo.com/nic
Flash book: www.sofarsogoodtattoo.com/nic-flash-drop
Booking form: forms.gle/PHNRSoBPPrvw...

Tattoo of a black dragon filled with stars on light skin

Tattoo of a celestial woman with a sun face and starry hair on dark skin.

A dragon tattoo on a shoulderblade on light skin

Three tattoos of snapshots of characters, collected on a thigh. Light skin and black and grey inks, with a pop of red.

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frayed @frayed-symphony.bsky.social · Apr 8

Happy #PortfolioDay!
I'm frayed; I like bright colours, jrpgs and cats and am currently studying to be a better illustrator!

Portfolio🎨
cara.app/frayed-symph...

A colourful painting of Link and Marin from The Legend of Zelda Links Awakening on a small island with a coconut tree. The wind fish’s mountain and egg is silhouetted in the background and the two are surrounded by the sea. Link is facing to the left holding his sword and shield while Marin is sitting down playing the harp

A drawing of Lloyd Irving from Tales of Symphonia in his Tales of Festival 2019 painting outfit. He's holding a paintbrush near a canvas and the background is white with splodges of rainbow paint colours

A pokemon team drawing of Trace’s Champion team from Let’s Go Pikachu / Let’s go Eevee. He is standing in the middle throwing a poke ball into the air while mega pidgeot sits on his shoulders. Clockwise around him is vileplume, slowbro, jolteon, marowak and rapidash with a washed out watercolour background fading from orange to pink

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