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Sierra 🌷 @sierrasketches.com · 14h

Hi, I'm Sierra! I'm a Background Artist & Illustrator who aims to capture peaceful scenes and magical moments. Currently available for freelance opportunities! 🌼 #PortfolioDay

💌 [email protected]
🎨 Portfolio
🔗 Carrd
🛒 Shop

A digital painting featuring three tents in a forest as a campfire burns between them at nighttime. The only sources of light—the campfire, the moon, and the fireflies scattered about the scene—softly illuminate the tents, grass, and surrounding evergreens. A large, bearded monster with glowing eyes and great tusks can also be seen looming in the distance.

A digital painting featuring Yugiri Mistwalker from Final Fantasy XIV standing with her back turned to the viewer, outstretching her arm for a falcon that is about to perch as she stands on a tiled rooftop in the city of Kugane. Across from her is Kugane Tower, a massive wooden structure that touches the clouds. Other birds seem to be flocking to the tower as they soar across the orange sunset.

A digital painting featuring two Final Fantasy XIV characters—a Raen and a Xaela Au Ra—standing with their backs turned to the viewer in a grassy field in the Azim Steppe. Across from the pair is The Dawn Throne, a massive dome with a stone carving of a horned man wearing a crown. Many pillars surround the structure, and Yol birds are soaring in the blue sky overhead.

A digital painting featuring three Final Fantasy XIV characters—a Seeker of the Sun and Keeper of the Moon Miqo'te, as well as a Raen Au Ra—standing with their backs turned to the viewer as they survey the landscape of Saint Mocianne's Arboretum from atop giant water lilies. Across from the trio are a group of korpokkurs—small creatures with round, green bodies and leaves that sprout from their heads. Moss-covered trees, butterflies, and even more korpokkurs appear out of focus in the foreground, adding depth to the blue green scene.

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Sierra 🌷 @sierrasketches.com · 14h

Hi, I'm Sierra! I'm a Background Artist & Illustrator who aims to capture peaceful scenes and magical moments. Currently available for freelance opportunities! 🌼 #PortfolioDay

💌 [email protected]
🎨 Portfolio
🔗 Carrd
🛒 Shop

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Sierra 🌷 @sierrasketches.com · 1d

HELLO

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Untamed FFXIV Creature Zine @Preorders✨ @ff14untamedzine.bsky.social · 1d

🐥 Preorders close in 4 days! 🐥
69 Creators | 180+ pages | TT Cards | Merch

✨ This project was made by fans for fans! A celebration of the incredible creatures & primals of ffxiv

🐉 Learn more about the project & claim a bundle here: ff14untamedzine.bigcartel.com

#ffxiv #ff14 #finalfantasyxiv

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Sierra 🌷 @sierrasketches.com · 3d

Aww, thanks so much for your support and kind words! 🥺💕

Sierra 🌷 @sierrasketches.com · 3d

I'M SO PROUD... you are the coolest 😤

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XI 🌱 熙 @shiximi.bsky.social · 3d

If you were at the Critical Role Ties-The-Knot Pop-Up Shop in NYC last weekend, chances are you might have seen this lovely Cantrip Candle with my art on it, featuring Jester and the Traveler! 🧁

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Lo 🎨🔞 @lodrawsfilth.bsky.social · Jan 24

I do think it’s important.

A comic of a black spikes figure speaking to a white figure with a rectangular head. Black figure: “Everything fucking sucks. And everyone online is like… Make art! Art is, you know, super important! But what if nobody cares about my art? Who is that going to help? Who is that gonna SAVE?” White figure: “You. And a few people like you, maybe.” Black figure: “Yeah. Maybe.”

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Untamed FFXIV Creature Zine @Preorders✨ @ff14untamedzine.bsky.social · 11d

🔑 Stretch Goal 8 UNLOCKED!
🐥 Untamed 3 preorders now include 3 more Triple Triad cards!

✨ Arion TT Card: @halybs.bsky.social
✨ G'raha Tia TT Card: @dapandabanda.bsky.social
✨ Surprise TT Card: To be revealed

🔒 Next goal unlocks at 450 orders
#ffxiv #ff14

Stretch Goal graphic for Untamed Vol 3. It displays that this is the 400 order stretch goal and that there are 3 cards that are unlocked. It also says that all 18 of 18 Triple Triad cards have been unlocked and that these cards are a free bonus included with each Untamed 3 zine preorder.

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Untamed FFXIV Creature Zine @Preorders✨ @ff14untamedzine.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Untamed FFXIV Creature Zine @Preorders✨ @ff14untamedzine.bsky.social · 13d

🔑 Stretch Goal 7 UNLOCKED!
🐥 Untamed 3 bundles now included 2 more Triple Triad cards!

✨ Lyngbakr TT Card: @cataoshi.bsky.social
✨ Major General TT Card: @sierrasketches.com

🔒 Next goal unlocks at 400 orders
#ffxiv #ff14

Untamed Vol 3: A FFXIV Creature Zine is OPEN for preorders. We have a bunch of preorder stretch goals that unlock when we hit a certain backer milestones! We just hit 350 orders!! THANK YOU!

This image showcases the 2 items that were unlocked. A Lyngbakr Triple Triad card and a Major General Triple Triad card!

Preorder now to get these along with every other unlocked stretch goal for free! Tell your FC mates to join in and help unlock more freebies!

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Sierra 🌷 @sierrasketches.com · 13d

The Major-General Triple Triad card that I created for @ff14untamedzine.bsky.social was just revealed! 🦈

Preorders are still available for a limited time, and #FFXIV fans won't want to miss out!

➡️ Big Cartel

A graphic depicting a Triple Triad Card featuring The Major-General, a round, sharklike creature with legs from Final Fantasy XIV. The sun shines brightly in the blue sky behind it as it leaps out of the water with a splash. The text reads: "Illus. sierrasketches, Untamed 3 A FFXIV Creature Zine 2025, 34/54, Major General - Untamed 3: A Gleaner's Duty."

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Untamed FFXIV Creature Zine @Preorders✨ @ff14untamedzine.bsky.social · 14d

🐥 Only 3 days left to preorder Untamed 3!

Visit our shop before preorders close - We have bundles, zines, digital editions, triple triad cards, & merch~✨

⟡Untamed 3 bundles include all unlocked stretch goals

🐥Take a look: ff14untamedzine.bigcartel.com
#ffxiv #finalfantasyxiv

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XI 🌱 熙 @shiximi.bsky.social · 16d

i finally started redesigning him 🌘

✦ #art | #oc | #ocsky | #aysel

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Untamed FFXIV Creature Zine @Preorders✨ @ff14untamedzine.bsky.social · 18d

🐥Do you love #ffxiv creatures?🐥
Only 𝟏 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 𝐋𝐄𝐅𝐓 to preorder Untamed Vol 3

📖 180+ pages of illustrations, comics, writing & a bestiary
✨French flaps & lay flat binding for a premium finish
🎁 Bundles + Merch available - See our pinned post!

#ff14 #finalfantasyxiv | ff14untamedzine.bigcartel.com

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Sierra 🌷 @sierrasketches.com · 19d

You popped off for this piece, Gris! He looks amazing 👏👏👏

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DrGriswald @drgriswald.bsky.social · 19d

Here's the official reveal for my Kefka Palazzo TT Card, that you can acquire for yourself by supporting the @ff14untamedzine.bsky.social !!! This card will be featured along with two other of my pieces in Untamed 3!

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Sierra 🌷 @sierrasketches.com · 20d

I'll allow it if it means I still get to sit in the fujo cuck chair 🪑

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Sierra 🌷 @sierrasketches.com · 20d

FIRST

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Sierra 🌷 @sierrasketches.com · 20d

ASOBARO 🙏

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Sierra 🌷 @sierrasketches.com · 22d

a person is holding a pig 's head in their hands and washing it .

ALT: a person is holding a pig 's head in their hands and washing it .

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 26d

I've seen some reactions from struggling artists along the lines of 'I give up' and I feel your pain—but please do not.

Most people don't want to live in a world where artists are automated away, art production is captured by AI firms. Most people hate this idea.

Organize. Build solidarity. Fight.

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 27d

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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霖晴🍎 @phosphorus1104.bsky.social · Sep 12

Commission from @/shiximi
Thank you so much!

🔴🌕🐺

#VGencommission
#commission
#委托

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Sierra 🌷 @sierrasketches.com · Sep 12

Haha, thank YOU for the support! ❤️

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Untamed FFXIV Creature Zine @Preorders✨ @ff14untamedzine.bsky.social · Sep 11

💎 Collect treasures from each volume

🌟 Ultimate Bundle: For the true creature enthusiast: every item from Untamed Vol. 1-3, all in one massive treasury bundle.

*available while supplies last

An image that shows only in part the massive collection of zines and creature themed merch! Introducing the Untamed 3 Ultimate Bundle! (Eligible for all stretch goals)

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