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Erick Veil
@erickveil.bsky.social
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I have been making digital art since the days you had to plot pixels out on graph paper and hand-calculate their hexadecimal value to poke screen memory addresses while some old guy tells you the computer does all the work.

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Erick Veil @erickveil.bsky.social · Mar 6
Coloring with crayons today.

[ #art | #illustration | #artsky | #muppets | #cookiemonster | #sesamestreet | #fanart ]
A photo of Cookie Monster, rendered using crayons in a small sketchbook. Some of the crayons are on the table next to the sketchbook. The style is very scribbled and uses lots of layers of different colors scribbled on top of each other.
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erickveil.bsky.social
I just made this offline dice rolling app for you to play with for free.

benfranklinstein.itch.io/woodbine
Woodbine by benfranklinstein
A handy little dice roller app for Windows
benfranklinstein.itch.io
November 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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jvwest.bsky.social
At some point you must accept that you can't please them all. Stop chasing that ghost. It's paralyzing, isn't it? The fear that this person or that will not like what you created. You want everyone to like it, but they can't and won't and shouldn't. Everything is not for everyone.
Goofy color sketch of a bald man in glasses and flannel shirt saying "strong 5" but it's "stogrn" with a backwards five.
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
erickveil.bsky.social
I just made this offline dice rolling app for you to play with for free.

benfranklinstein.itch.io/woodbine
Woodbine by benfranklinstein
A handy little dice roller app for Windows
benfranklinstein.itch.io
November 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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gnarlyghost.bsky.social
Dragon Grotto
November 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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andicomics.bsky.social
Ritual
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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erickveil.bsky.social
I frequently have to take pictures of myself making funny faces "for my art".

[ #art | #illustration | #fantasy | #fantasyart | #artsky | #oc | #ocsky | #ttrpgart | #DigitalArt
#DigitalPainting | #Wacom ]
November 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
erickveil.bsky.social
I sometimes feel an urge to mock kids with broccoli hair, but then I remember all those dinosaur jerks who judged me by my liberty spikes and I remember I don't want to be that person.
November 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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mossworm.bsky.social
worm
a worm or snake like creature with a black head and square scales in a quilt-like pattern
November 17, 2025 at 1:59 AM
erickveil.bsky.social
Be an Interplanitary Spy!
Remembering one of my favorite series of books from when I was a kid. The art and the pulp from these books still influences my creativity today.
November 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
erickveil.bsky.social
I just finished this book and it is amazing.
stephanieburgis.bsky.social Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 11d
This week's Saturday snippet comes from Wooing the Witch Queen, in which a sweet, nerdy archduke in disguise takes a job as the witch queen's new librarian of magic. Grab it now: stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen

And preorder Book 2: stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen
An image of the front cover of Wooing the Witch Queen shows a sinister witch queen in a spectacular beaded dress embracing her handsome and adoring new librarian (in a black wizard's robe) inside a library of magic filled with crows and masks and flying books. Above and beside it is this snippet from the book: Felix had never been more grateful for his concealing mask and cloak than when he'd emerged onto the tower roof to find Queen Saskia with her head thrown back, lips parted, a cloud of crows swirling around her and energy crackling so intensely through the air that it lifted the hair at the back of his neck. It should have been a terrifying sight: the wicked witch of Kitvaria no doubt summoning a terrible storm of magic to rain down upon her enemies. But it had stopped his breath for quite a different reason.
November 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
erickveil.bsky.social
I frequently have to take pictures of myself making funny faces "for my art".

[ #art | #illustration | #fantasy | #fantasyart | #artsky | #oc | #ocsky | #ttrpgart | #DigitalArt
#DigitalPainting | #Wacom ]
November 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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shaferbrown.com
Dungeon Crawl (2022)
2022 limited color fantasy portrait with pets An adventurer with a scruffy beard and glasses raises his torch amid ruins, his dog reared back ahead of him, his cat gracefully stepping behind him.
August 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
erickveil.bsky.social
I'm going to need my favorite authors to write infinitely long books that never end. Thanks.
November 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
erickveil.bsky.social
Well. I've finished another book. My life is once again bleak and empty. I have no purpose any longer. My life is... Hold on...

Just got a notification from my library that my next hold is ready.
I'm good.
November 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
erickveil.bsky.social
#Frankenstein stole my look.
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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erickveil.bsky.social
Goblins of the Gloam
Updated

[ #art | #illustration | #fantasy | #fantasyart | #artsky | #oc | #ocsky | #ttrpgart | #DigitalArt
#DigitalPainting | #Wacom | #orc | #goblin ]
Digital painting of two goblins and an orc creeping through a misty vale.
November 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
erickveil.bsky.social
My digital art program journey 1/2

- Plotting pixels on graph paper, calculating their hexadecimal value, then POKEing screen memory locations to create a bitmap on a Commodore 64.
- Turning screen pixels on and off on a TI-81 with a rudimentary form of BASIC.
- MS Paint on Windows 98...
blushydemon.bsky.social ❀ *･ﾟ𝒫𝑒𝓃𝑒𝓁𝑜𝓅𝑒 @blushydemon.bsky.social · 17d
My digital art program journey

-ms paint
-firealpaca

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it
kitbeary.bsky.social Mimi 🌼 | Winter YCH on VGen @kitbeary.bsky.social · 17d
My digital art program journey

- MS Paint
- Photoshop
- PaintTool SAI

You can pry Sai from my cold dead hands. I love it and the one dude who made it 🥺💖
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
erickveil.bsky.social
Fantasy ttrpg religion idea: They believe their god is working against all of us and our only shot is to unify against him and take care of each other.
November 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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falseknees.bsky.social
Kneesvember 2025 Day 2
A large crowd of birds is gathered in front of the Queen, who is an ovenbird wearing a crown and a purple cape with white furry trim. There are three knights standing at the end of the royal rug: a redstart wearing a helmet with a red plume, a yellow warbler with a belted sword and metal boots, and a cerulean warbler who has some straps but we see nothing else. There are yellow and purple bunting flags and some banners showing the Queen's image. Growing increasingly eccentric in Her old age, the Queen ordered Her three finest knights on a most dangerous queste: to retrieve the head of a Dragon!
November 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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duncanfegredo.bsky.social
It's 20 years since @seanphillips.bsky.social and I exchanged a sketchbook back and forth in the mail, a drawn &painted call and response. INTERSECTIONS may be out of print but here is a flip through that sketchbook. You can still find the book out there :)
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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itch.io
Flak Arcana: Skirmish battles in a world of Machines, Magic and Fantasy Mercenaries.

kabewski-games.itch.io/flak-arcana
November 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
Goodnight.
🖼️ Francisco Fonseca
Sleepless Nights by Francisco Fonseca. Painting depicts a dense, winding town at night, with most of the houses dark. A single window in the centre of the image is brightly illuminated, suggesting one person is awake while the rest of the town is asleep.
November 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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franekk.bsky.social
Alchemist's crib

#pixelart
November 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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franekk.bsky.social
Some ruins

#pixelart
November 3, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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groomb.bsky.social
First Light on Primrose Lane, 2022, painting by Peak District artist Clare Allan. #WomensArt
November 3, 2025 at 8:40 AM