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Northerly | DTIYS Pinned
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Northerly | 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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Me kicking my feet and giggling about drawing art for my friends (technically doing a redraw of some much older art because they want it printed and when I first did it I had zero idea how to do A: backgrounds and B: size a canvas)
November 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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calypsolarts.bsky.social
[ #VgenComm #art]
Digital commission for DrunkenFirecat of their character standing in a snowy forest, there's small spruce trees covered in snow behind him and a purple-ish night sky. The character has his left hand on his heart with a fiery fireball around the hand, holding a sabre sword in the other hand and looking up towards the sky.
November 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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yulkradness.bsky.social
Illustration I did for a client on Vgen 💕 (@/corpseghost)

#illustration #art #commission #Vgen #darkart #darkfantasy #ttrpg #oc
portrait illustration of a character owned by client. He's a kitsune, so he has fox ears that extends from his medium wavy black hair. He has pale skin and bright red eyes, with rosy lips that contrast the crimson red of the drops of blood in his face. He's wearing a black blouse, has a tattoo on his neck and wears earrings with little stars on it. He also has a scar on his eye.
November 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Holiday specific art occurrence ehe
Digital art of my oc, Cecil, and her partner Samuel Barre. Cecil is a person with the torso and head of a human, but a long serpents body for legs. Their skin is purple and their hair is white. Samual Barre is a tanned, muscular blonde man. They are sitting in a low couch with Cecil in Samuel’s lap, sharing a kiss in the evening sunlight. The image is very purple, pink, and orange toned.
February 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
rtnortherly.bsky.social
Waking up knowing I don’t have a word count to reach very strange.
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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lyannatropes.bsky.social
Finch 🌿 Floral portrait commission for @elerryn.bsky.social

#art #dnd #ttrpg
Finch is braiding her hair with cosmos flowers among the strands. A glowing, golden light shines on her and the flowers surrounding her.
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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trapnaster.bsky.social
i’ll be hosting a Midwinter sale on my VGen! from today until Dec 17th at noon, all illustration services are 25% off.

this is to make buying comms a bit easier on yall for the holidays, as well as to sorta break in my VGen account.

vgen.co/trapnaster

#commissionsopen #vgencomms
Trapper 🩸🪚 (@trapnaster)
Check out Trapper 🩸🪚's commissions and portfolio! | Art • Comics • Commissions Artist and Medical Lab Tech from the US South, that/it/he Current project is my queer southern horror webcomic, ROADKIL...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
rtnortherly.bsky.social
Just finished my writing challenge with three days to spare!!! Huzzah!
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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carminedeville.bsky.social
Former Final Girl turned horror survivor badass, Sachiko "Sachi" Moriyama, for @beyondwhatisseen.bsky.social and their delightful storyteller, @mx-s-314.bsky.social.

I just think they're neat. 🔪

#scribbles
Digital sketch of Sachiko Moriyama (they/she), played by N. They are of Eastern Asian descent, with short bleached hair, and they wear a flannel over a bloodied white tank and cargo pants (which are definitely full of knives and improv survival gear). She stands with a hand on her hip and a katana-like sword propped on her shoulder.
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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rtnortherly.bsky.social
Here's that sketch that got wildly out of control the last week haha

#myart | #fantasyart
Digital art depicting an adventurer, older and scruffy, with strong features and build standing in a dark cave. He is dressed in both chain mail and partial leather armour with a heavy cape thrown over his shoulders. In one hand he holds an old fashioned lantern and in the other he holds an axe. The man is standing on a slight incline, but has turned his head to look back behind him at the many spectral arms which claw through the air after him desperately. In the dark reaches of the cavern beyond he is watched by the faintest of skeletal apparitions.
June 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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This is fan art of a character (and villain) from Mark of the Plague by Kevin Sands. Without saying too much: He was dreadful. And excellent villain. Lives in my head rent free.

Horrible, horrible guy. Also used it as a chance to study Arcane a bit. Kind of.

#myart
Digital art of a man from mid-chest up. He is slouching against a wooden support beam, his head slightly tilted to the side and his gaze focused somewhere off-screen. He is partially cast in shadow, and partially lit by a warm orange glow. The man has outgrown sandy hair, sharp and slightly crooked features, and is dressed in a dark greenish coloured shirt with an open blue jacket over it.
June 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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artasouki.bsky.social
I did re did some colouring and cooked.
THAT MAN IS IN PAIN.
Yami staring at the viewer, one single tear, blood across the face, Ryuji's hand blood on it, Hiroshi's hand holding Yami's hair. Red and dark mood light source.
November 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
rtnortherly.bsky.social
For a variety of reasons I chose not to write the story for this during the writing challenge, and I'm kinda glad I didn't. I've learned a lot about how I want to approach things and also what not to do. I'm looking forward to hopefully tinkering away at it in the new year with new knowledge.
rtnortherly.bsky.social Northerly | DTIYS Pinned @rtnortherly.bsky.social · Aug 10
My OC’s, Fletch and Émeric, looking just so pretty 😌💜

#myart | #fantasyart | #monsterart | #Beldin
Digital art of two characters standing 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 helm that 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.
November 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
rtnortherly.bsky.social
Incredibly funny to me that people like this one as much as they did across multiple platforms.
rtnortherly.bsky.social Northerly | DTIYS Pinned @rtnortherly.bsky.social · 25d
It’s cloudy and stormy and all my art pieces feel really involved so I did this doodle as a treat/break.

#myart
Digital art of a cartoonish creature that appears as a fish head with arms and legs. It has blue green scales, a pale belly, and fins for feet. In one four fingered hand it holds aloft a lantern with a blue green light. The other rests on its hip. The face is technically side on and facing upwards, mouth slightly agape and fish-eye staring. The background is blurry and indistinct implication of a forest.
November 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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lyannatropes.bsky.social
we are SO CLOSE to getting funded!!!please consider checking out this project!!
lyannatropes.bsky.social Lyanna 🌙 comms open @lyannatropes.bsky.social · 23d
A sneak peek of my piece for the Moonlight Soirée Zine hosted by @moonlitguild.bsky.social ✨

Please check out the kickstarter! The zine is full of fantastic art!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/moo...
Cropped preview of a digital artwork. It shows two characters standing together and holding hands on the right, and a partial view of a character dancing.
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
rtnortherly.bsky.social
Me at work: and to think I could be drawing my blorbos right now.

That said, someone like my butter tart recipe so much they wanted me to share (I do butter tart squares on a shortbread crust instead of standard pie dough).
November 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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edubenart.bsky.social
I'm looking for work this December, so I've finally opened new commissions! 😊🖌
(shares are much appreciated 💙)

All prices, info and examples here!:

👉 vgen.co/edubenart 👈

It's only 2-3 slots (there's 2 of each on Vgen but I'll close them once I reach my goal)
#commissions #vgen
Set of 4 illustration examples, with the text "Commission Style Examples - prices & form: vgen.co/edubenart", next to several examples of digital art in a painterly/oil style
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
Jensen can get into the sea.

Which is 240% warmer than in 1980, in no small part due to the devastating effects of AI & crypto on the environment.

Using AI is literally insane in a existential planetary climate crisis.

Every prompt you use, leads us closer to extinction.
November 27, 2025 at 1:47 AM
rtnortherly.bsky.social
Morning hijacked by cat putting his head directly in my palm and falling asleep.
November 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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trapnaster.bsky.social
it's super late so ill probs repost tomorrow, but my VGen is finally set up!!! Help me get verified???

vgen.co/trapnaster

#commissionsopen #vgen
Trapper 🩸🪚 (@trapnaster)
Check out Trapper 🩸🪚's commissions and portfolio! | I’m Trapper, a Southern MLT and comic artist! I do a lot of gore, beast, horror, and oc art mainly, and i have three comics I’m working on (one curr...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:57 AM
rtnortherly.bsky.social
I am so close to being done with my self-imposed writing challenge. 6,600 words left! Five days until December! I've been mostly focused on writing (trying to get the majority done by Friday because I'm hanging out with a friend on Saturday), but wow do I want to be drawing.
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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coyotehusk.bsky.social
and there his body lie—hidden among the golden grass; spirit spilling into soaked earth // < reclaimed by love > }youshallbereborningrief_^=?

#oc #gore #darkart
A naked corpse of a man lays on the ground, flowers and mushrooms protruding from his mouth, neck, and ribs.
November 21, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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ninawolverina.bsky.social
Umbra

[ #OC #OCSky #Art #FantasyArt #Darkart #DnD ]
A drawing of a man wearing dark robes an a silver mask with a crown of thorns. Between his hands he holds a ball of shadows that moves like ferrofluid.
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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danhawk333.bsky.social
The Observers
Sent from the void that we scream in they bend and warp to see why
11x17 pen and paper
#surreal #macabre #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #GrimDark
Full page pen drawing of a figure with a chain mail like hood draped over their head the flows into robes accented with tusks over the shoulder and holding an orb between their hands, one over, one under with a glowing white energy around a black, pupil like sphere. Flanking at a distance to either side are two others with the furthest back on the left having 3 horizontal, rectangular extensions off the headdress. Behind the one on the right is a large, ancient stone structure with black panels set into it where white, ghostly, humanoid and near-humanoid figures are visible, while branching like structures fill the upper part of the page where the sky would be, blotting out the starscape. On the left diamond shaped craft hang in the air while the top of structures emerge from a fog, including a large T shaped structure.
November 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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vantastrid.bsky.social
She gazes at her hand, an all-seeing eye refracting the vision of blood. Unable to remember where it came from, or whose blood it belongs to, all she can do is stare as she recalls the echoes of someone’s voice screaming “monster”.

#darkart #horror #monster
A dark ink art by vantastrid. A female creature, clad in green, looks at the blood on her hand located over the pupil of a floating eye. She looks strange and alien with her long pointed nose and has almost an armor plate look to the top of her head. A dark ink art by vantastrid. A female creature, clad in green, looks at the blood on her hand located over the pupil of a floating eye. She looks strange and alien with her long pointed nose and has almost an armor plate look to the top of her head.
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM