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Liam W.

@v762cas.bsky.social

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California based freelance artist, creator of The Errant Wraith webcomic (he/him) Portfolio: v762cas.wordpress.com Contact: [email protected]

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Liam W. @v762cas.bsky.social · Jan 16

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I’m Liam, an illustrator, comic artist, and character designer.

Portfolio: v762cas.wordpress.com
Contact: [email protected]

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 1d

I'm still thinking about this show two years later.

A still from Scavenger's Reign. A man sits on the floor of a space capsule. An alien creature emerges from a porthole in front of him.

A still from Scavenger's Reign. A landing capsule sits upon red soil with large white structures erupting from the ground.

A still from Scavenger's Reign. Some characters explore an alien forest.

A still from Scavenger's Reign. A character sits among alien vegetation.

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Liam W. @v762cas.bsky.social · 1d

How I feel when I’m tired and my textbook says some shit like “consider a pipe, such as the wing of an airplane”

Double exposure image of Liam O’Brien on Critical Rile looking distraught and confused

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LV @v460cyg.bsky.social · 5d

TJ and Letas

(Characters belong to @eyeballplanets.bsky.social!)

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Anthony Hurd @anthonyhurd.bsky.social · 4d

When my world is feeling heavy or I’m feeling on the verge of overwhelm, my go to is to put something good out in the world. Hoping I can brighten someone else’s day in return brightens mine. Closest thing I can provide to a hug via the internet.

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Liam W. @v762cas.bsky.social · 5d

The bisexual twinks in question have been posted

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If artistic talent is God given, I believe drawing bisexual twinks in lingerie kissing each other is exactly what He would want me to do with it

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Liam W. @v762cas.bsky.social · 7d

More character designs for The Abyssal Well, a sci-fi horror WIP written by @eyeballplanets.bsky.social

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Zara H Art 🔜 MCM London L22 @zarahartist.bsky.social · Apr 8

Hello #protfolioday!
I’m Zara H, a SWANA ☪️ character designer, book covers, and MTG artist.

A painting of Astarion from Baulder’s Gate with pomegranates

A painting of an elf with dark skin and light henna tattoos

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Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 6d

Hey hey #portfolioday
I’m Amalas and I’m open for cover work.
I love to draw urban scenes and human connections found between concrete and steel, sprinkled with some nostalgia

[email protected]
cara.app/amalasrosa
azantianlitagency.com/our-artists/amalas-rosa

Book cover for the YA book ICEBREAKER by A.L. Graziadei showing the two male main protagonist facing each other and holding onto each others collar.

Digital art of my original characters Aran and Tao as young adults out at night in their local nyc neighborhood kissing. Tao sits on a bicycle and Aran bends down slightly to kiss him.

Mock cover of Suzanne Samin and my upcoming graphic novel. The title still r wads Fear Of Falling but we changed it now to Wherever I’m With You.

The cover shows a brick house fall and Aran and Tao sitting on the rooftop, their legs dangling down the edge, and in big letters underneath them it reads “fear of falling”

Digital art of original characters Aran and Tao as young teenagers on a hot summer day walking down the streets in their local nyc neighborhood and playing around with a basketball.

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 7d

an Indigenous Peoples Day reminder that borders are bullshit and every Indigenous person from across the Americas deserves to be in the US more than every person of European origin

fuck borders, fuck ICE, land back.

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Liam W. @v762cas.bsky.social · Aug 6

Character designs for The Abyssal Well, a sci-fi horror WIP written by @eyeballplanets.bsky.social

Digitally illustrated lineup of six character designs.
-Tiffany, a middle aged butch Chinese/Polish woman with short hair in jeans and a work jacket.
-Curtis, a young Black man with jaw length locs tied in a ponytail, wearing a green field jacket and jeans.
-Nalleac, an ambigender demon-like humanoid with southeast Asian features. He has long black hair, black horns and split forked tails.
-Jason, a young Samoan man with short curly black hair in a fictionalized gendarme uniform.
-Miranda, a young mixed white and indigenous Mexican woman with long black hair in a fitted cropped red leather jacket and slim black pants.
-Erica, a young muscular white woman with long red hair wearing glasses, a tank top, and cargo pants.

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Liam W. @v762cas.bsky.social · 7d

More character designs for The Abyssal Well, a sci-fi horror WIP written by @eyeballplanets.bsky.social

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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pat | COMMISSIONS OPEN @patsux.bsky.social · Jul 1

I'm (slowly) building my own world!

Collage of two digital paintings.

image on the left: Digital painting of a man called The Wanderer. His hair is short and white, with a teal green streak on the left bang, he has brown skin, and his brows and goatee are white. His left eye is also icy white, he has pointy ears, and he is wearing a feather shaped earring.

He is wearing a hooded open vest, showing his bare chest, two elbow length gloves with both hands out. He has a sling bang and an obsidian black sword in a sheath hanging from his belt.

His loin-cloth is teal colored and has a fish-tail shaped train on the back. Underneath is a pair of blue pants, and he is wearing a pair of cream colored boots with white and teal parts.

His expression is serious and determined.

The background is a vibrant blue sky with clouds on the horizon, and the ground he's standing on is a shoreline with the water directly mirroring the sky.

Image on the right: Digital painting scene of an aquatic humanoid warrior, perhaps leading a battalion of other merfolk and aquatic warriors into an attack on land.

The warrior general has thick, scaly silver skin, adorned in gold armor and plating, and he's wielding a giant golden axe with an odd shape. He's standing on an elevated rocky platform covered in moss, with three aquatic creatures surveying the attack alongside him.

The creatures in the foreground have humanoid bodies, but heads of fish and merfolk. The same species of creatures can be seen rallying in the background. Lastly, there is a giant serpent towering the scene in the far back, it is pale in color, and it seems like it has a man-made golden structure attached to its face, like a helmet of sorts.

Digital painting of a merfolk-monster mutant. The merman is mostly humanoid; with human legs and barely any aquatic features, but on the nape of his neck is a fleshy appendage, that tethers him to the spine of a giant, mutated anglerfish, as if he's the lure and bait instead of a faintly glowing appendage.

The merfolk is floating above the large and open jaws of the anglerfish.

Digital painting of a giant ominous man, sitting cross legged, levitating in the sky, surrounding by flying giant oarfish, overlooking structures and buildings.

The man is a merfolk; mostly humanoid, but with a giant oarfish tail that he's sitting on. He's dressed in a religious tunic, with a red band resting over his shoulders, a helmet fashioned to look like an oarfish head, and he is holding a horn closely, as if he's about to blow it. The his sclera are bloodshot.

Around him are dozens of giant oarfish, rising from the sea and floating mid-ar. Beneath them are deserted buildings, homes and infrastructures.

Digital painting of Patsu.X's KaiJune entries. It's a layout showcasing all 11 creature designs of the series so far.

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Liam W. @v762cas.bsky.social · 9d

Not really sure what I’m doing with my art these days but for the first time in a long time I’m having fun with it, so that’s okay

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Liam W. @v762cas.bsky.social · Sep 3

Test pages for The Abyssal Well, story and script by my dear friend @eyeballplanets.bsky.social
(1/2)

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11d

Ireland has approved plans to permanently implement a basic income program that will support up to 2,200 artists.

A cost-benefit analysis found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 back.

Officials from other countries are now expressing interest in the program.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 12d

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 14d

Greta Thunberg releases a video describing the conditions faced by Palestinian adults and children in Israeli custody after her release.

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Sajankenstein was the name of the Sajientist not the Sajonster @planetsmudge.bsky.social · Oct 8

hi #PortfolioDay - available to make otherworldly work from 2025.
TTRPGs, board games, more vinyl covers and concept + visdev stuff for games/film/tv would be cool!

illustration for Haunted Table's Triangle Agency adventure 'rom dump' - of adventurers zapping out of a barn window - a horned cyclops witha book of spells, a protagonise-looking goblin girl, a blue demon with some kind of spirit mace. A grim reaper hovers in front of the crescent moon.

Illustrated cover to the monkey man soundtrack vinyl. The monkey god hanuman opens his ribcage out, behind Dev patel's head. Hanuman's tail is a flaming circle that frames the figures, which dev patel graps. There's flame, blood, fleshy vomit.

the busts of two figures, one looks in pain, as they're having their vocal cords yanked from a hole in their throat by the other, who clutches them in a bunch with their furthest hand. With their other hand they concentratedly use a stringed instrument bow on the vocal cords. A rainbow bridges the heads, and is dotted with fantastical music notation. Their busts rest above a small basin.

a dark starry background, and a blue room where a bed sit next to windows looking out to the night sky. Psyche lies naked on a patterned bedframe amongst plants, her white hair arching around to the foot of the bed. She looks in wonder at Cupid - who is illuminated by the three candles she holds up. Cupid appears as a fleshy mass, strung within a halo, from which arrows eminate haphazardly.

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juuni @juunipupu.bsky.social · 15d

Show me how you draw armor! 🛡️

(ignore the half-dressed handsome guys accompanying the armor)

knight oc Wreg sitting down looking sad. He's wearing a chainmail armor with leather mittens, but is missing lower half of his armor. In the background are illustrated a black wolf and lilac flowers.

digital painting of knight oc Wreg unbuckling another knight's cuisses. He looking up at the other knight, whose face is not visible, and cries silently. The other knight is gripping into a bright red curtain, pulling it to hide them from a passerby knight.

knight oc Wreg in his armor kneeling down before another knight. The other knight has taken off his helmet, but his face is not showing. Rather, he has lowered his helmet to 'kiss' Wreg's brow and his helmet's pink feathers touch his hair. Wreg's hands are in the other knight's cape.

digital painting of burly knight oc being kissed by an angel. The angel is flying towards him, and is fully armored and holding a red banner. Wreg on the other hand is facing his back at the viewer and is very much naked and gripping the banner.

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Liam W. @v762cas.bsky.social · 16d

Art vs Artist

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 20d

KOSA is now in red alert priority.

Please contact your representatives, dem and gop alike, and demand they oppose KOSA

We need to turn out in numbers against this!

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 27d

#SaveSpeech

Ive updated this infographic with additional bill info, issues, etc

Find your federal and state reps below and make your voices heard!

www.congress.gov/members/find...

www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20d

Today your voices were heard. We will need to be loud throughout the shutdown and continue to put pressure: No anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in the final negotiated bill. Only clean bills that don't throw trans and queer people under the bus.

Kicked butt today y'all. Good work.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21d

These scripts are GREAT and these calls are EASY and ESSENTIAL. Call your senators and reps today and tell them to vote against ANY bill that contains cuts to trans health care.

#DidThisToday

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · Sep 16

so: what do we need you to do? two things.

1.call your D/I senators. find contact info here: reps.fyi

what do we need you to say? try the call script below. adapt it; make it your own! there are bailout points written in, in case you get nervous. but please *call.* 🧵

Hi, my name is [YOUR NAME] and I'm one of Senator [THEIR NAME]'s constituents. House Republicans are trying to insert a multiple articles of anti-trans legislation, including a full transgender healthcare funding ban, into the F-Y '26 budget. I'm calling to tell the Senator to stand up for trans Americans and vote NO on any bill with that language. This IS worth forcing a shutdown.

[you can stop here at 0:20 if you want to bail out—but it's better if you don't]

This care funding ban follows the map the G-O-P charted while attacking abortion. Democrats lost that fight by giving in to the G-O-P an inch at a time. Giving an inch at a time on trans care will devastate trans Americans and it'll get Democrats nothing in return but contempt.

[you can stop here at 0:40 if you want to bail out—but it's better if you don't]

Right now, the most popular Democrat in the U-S, [Zo-RAHN Mom-DA-nee], is campaigning on making trans healthcare cheaper and easier to access, and he's only got more good will because of it.

[you can stop here at 0:50 if you want to bail out—but it's better if you don't]

I'm asking the Senator to refuse to allow any anti-trans language including a healthcare ban in the F-Y '26 bill. Do not vote for any bill with that language. This IS worth forcing a shutdown. Standing with trans people is the right thing to do and it's politically smart. Voters and donors show up for Democrats who fight.

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