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Astrid (yeehaw) 🤠🌈 ✨

@ansitru.bsky.social

Fuck AI.

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A pixel art illustration of beads and sequins. The text in the middle reads "genAI is for losers".

January 14, 2026 at 5:12 PM

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🔸Bazteki🔸FC2026

@bazteki.com

Polaris.

Colorful abstract blue, red, and yellow painting of a wolf’s face.

January 9, 2026 at 11:32 PM

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Natalia Jagielska (娜塔莉)

@nataliajagielska.bsky.social

#PortfolioDay
I'm Natalia, a 🇵🇱-born, 🇬🇧-residing, 🇭🇰 & 🇨🇳-based palaeontologist, with a doctorate in pterosaurs, currently specialising in blasting fossils with lasers. On the side, I'm an award-winning artist, drawing for magazines, books & museums (recently, Palestine Museum of Natural History)

January 13, 2026 at 4:43 PM

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Lauren

@tinylongwing.bsky.social

An assortment of semi-recent delights for #PortfolioDay.

🪶🌎 #SciArt #BirdArt #paleoart

Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/tiny...

Digital illustration of a Dark-eyed Junco, a dark brown sparrow with a pink beak, looking down from the background at a patch of red clover. The clover is covered in a variety of insects from Graham's work, including Harmonia axyridis (Asian ladybeetle), Scaptomyza terminalis (a small fly), Altica sp. flea beetles (tiny iridescent green beetles), Forcipata loca (pale yellow small leafhopper), Evacanthus interruptus (yellow and black leafhopper), and Anaspis rufa (small golden-brown false flower beetles).

Digital illustration of two pterosaurs flying over a lush forest and lake area. The sky behind them is blue with soft white clouds. Both pterosaurs are the same species - one is near to us with wings lowered as it turns in flight, the other is farther behind with wings raised. They have a brilliant black, red, and yellow display crest, a long red pair of jaws with short teeth, a green crown, golden iris, black eyestripe, and cream-colored breast fuzz. The wings are long and pointed, dark blue-gray with a red band and black tips. They each have a long tail with a red arrow-shaped point. For NorthStar Games: Nature

Illustration of a woman in a green floral skirt and white floral cowgirl boots walking through a field of desert flowers lit by sunrise. They glow brilliant orange-gold in contrast to the dark cool blue shadows. The sky is a pale blue, and the background mountains are jagged and barren.

Digital painting of a pair of Sandhill Cranes in summer copper-stained plumage. They stand in shallow water running over meadow grasses, next to blooming larkspur, irises, and corn lily. In the background, Ackerson Mountain with its prior burn scar rises above a forest of conifers. The meadow is bordered with clumps of willow.

January 13, 2026 at 4:13 PM

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Tam||maT

@tamvmat.bsky.social

Oh hey it's #portfolioday again is it?
I am a freelance artist in Canada 🇨🇦
Traditional mediums are my favourite, but I also work with digital. No 🚫AI.
Here are some of my ink drawings, and my portfolio page link
tamvmat.myportfolio.com/work

An ink drawing of a spotted Ratfish on a white background

An ink drawing of an Anna's Hummingbird sitting on a twig

An ink drawing of a parasaurolophus eating seeds from a river bank

A body horror & gore ink drawing of a woman's head atop mechanical jagged legs

January 14, 2026 at 12:21 AM

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Orribec

@orribec.bsky.social

#PortfolioDay

January 13, 2026 at 9:19 PM

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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪

@literallymiguel.bsky.social

Got encouraged to do one of these lol

#Portfolioday #paleoart

I love pretty scenery and accurately depicting animals in their enviroments!!! :P

January 13, 2026 at 7:04 PM

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Melinda Vass

@whiteraven90.bsky.social

Fire horsie. Brought to you by metal horse (me). I think a horse of metal and fire is typically called a motorbike

Stylized drawing in the shape of a restless horse, with parts made to resemble flames. Drawn with gel pens on paper, and edited digitally.

January 12, 2026 at 4:55 AM

Birchleahf - Leah

@birchleahf.bsky.social

Swallow✨
First art of 2026!

#BirdArt #BirdDrawing #BirdIllustration #Birds #Procreate #DigitalArt #Art #🎨

Two barn swallows trying to eat/swallow the same fiery and glowing star. Lots of blues, and highlight on the birds from the star. On a black background

January 13, 2026 at 11:02 AM

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social

Everything is really scary and horrible, and on the utter flipside, we made these really adorable valentines.

The dissonance of seeing horror, then posting "hey buy some cute valentines" is making me feel loopy.

But also nice things persist despite terror? Ugh idk.

Get 'em at SquidFacts.net

4 valentines in a grid, a pelican eel with the words "You make my jaw drop", an anglerfish that says "You're my light in the darkness", a grimalditeuthis that says "I find you a LURE ing" and two octopuses and a snailfish on the skeleton of a whale that says "I've Whale Fallen for you" lmao. The octopuses are making a heart with their arms together.

January 13, 2026 at 1:46 AM

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Dragons of Wales

@dragonsofwales.bsky.social

It’s #portfolioday (again)!
I’m Andy, an illustrator of small dragons and big dinosaurs, in both digital and traditional media.
Find me at: www.andyfrazer.com

A digital portrait of corythoraptor, a feathered dinosaur with a parrot-like beak.

A digital illustration of a tiny, colourful dragon perched on a leaf against a blurry background.

A monochrome pencil sketch of tyrannosaurs rex.

A digital illustration of a tiny, colourful dragon perched on a mushroom against a blurry forest background.

January 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM

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Shey

@strflr.bsky.social

American Kestrel 🍃✨

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Posted: September 28, 2021

A painting of a flying American kestrel, holding a leaf in its beak. There are pieces of leaves, blue petals, and sparkles around it.

January 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM

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Faunwood ✦⁺◦

@faunwood.bsky.social

ocean soup ✨

(2021, acrylic paint)

an acrylic painting featuring an array of semi-fictional ocean creatures. Near the bottom is a coelacanth with branching plant tendrils that lead to a seadragons, nudibranchs, and mollusks.

January 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM

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Jack The Vulture

@jackthevulture.bsky.social

Reindeer are so cool. I love their shapes and their huge antlers and their puppydog faces. Watercolor, gouache, and ink. I love the pentel brush pen but the ink itself is fairly glossy even when dry and its kind of a pain to take pictures of, but its so fun.

Sketchbook page showing a reindeer standing and looking off to the right. It has very large antlers, almost as tall as the deer itself. It is rendered in purple and white on a base of bright green watercolor wash, and embellished with black ink.

December 29, 2024 at 11:32 PM

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Herboreal

@herboreal.bsky.social

Another winter solstice piece from a few years ago!

digital art of a reindeer near some snowy spruce trees at night wit ha full moon. the reindeer's eye is glowing white. the colors are extremely dark and muted grays, blues, and browns.

December 22, 2024 at 11:51 AM

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Natee (they/them)

@himmapaan.bsky.social

From 2016, another piece featuring my favourite 'thing under tree' motif, 'White Hart.' Ink, 85 x 125 mm.

Trivia: the stag here combines features of both the red and fallow deer to suggest a mythological creature rather than a real animal.

#ArtAdventCalendar

Drawing in black ink of a stag lying beneath a tree in the snow.

December 11, 2023 at 3:33 PM

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Natalia Jagielska (娜塔莉)

@nataliajagielska.bsky.social

Manfred Reichel's Archaeopteryx (1941)

December 6, 2024 at 9:05 PM

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Nicole 🪲

@fossilforager.bsky.social

Post your most popular art from Twitter!

Reminiscing about Southern Island ☁️✨

A wide aspect-ratio illustration inspired by an oil painting. There are large billowing soft pastel sunset clouds over a flat golden and olive meadow with small white flowers. Two Pokemon (Latios & Latios) float over the meadow. The entire illustration has a whimsical nostalgic feeling to it.

November 17, 2024 at 8:55 PM

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Jason Rainville

@jasonrainville.bsky.social

Hey folks, a reminder:

Don't use Gen ai.

You can either afford an artist/stock art, or you can't.

If you can't, you can make your own art/designs or abstain.

Or you can cheaper your entire brand and communicate to your audience that you peddle low-effort garbage by using a plagiarism machine.

November 17, 2024 at 6:27 PM

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Kirjolintu

@kirjo.bsky.social

Some Finnish coniferous forest birds

September 19, 2023 at 10:16 AM

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Darren Naish

@tetzoo.bsky.social

This is not a drill, a mummified sabretooth cat has been published from the #Pleistocene permafrost of Russia. It's a Homotherium cub! The team (Lopatin et al.) reckon it's Homotherium latidens. It's too young to have enlarged upper canines. Paper is OA ... www.nature.com/articles/s41... cont...