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Isabel Burke

@isabelburke.bsky.social

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✧ she/her ✧
✧ comic artist ✧ illustrator ✧
✧ clients include Del Rey Books, Critical Role, Brink, Rainbow Crate ✧

✧ rep’d by Sheyla Knigge at High Line Literary Collective ✧

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Isabel Burke

@isabelburke.bsky.social

the bug collector🪲🪿🦋🐚

#illustration #bugs #edwardian

An illustration of an edwardian-era woman sits in a chair in warm afternoon sunlight in an office covered floor-to-ceiling in natural curios. Shells, tree matter, feathers, bones, frames full of bugs, and plants litter the room. The woman sits in a moment of pause, holding a pen, her other hand leafing through a notebook filled with scrawlings. The woman has brown skin that glows in the warm light, glasses, and textured hair pulled into a Gibson-girl-era sweeping updo. She wears a white blouse with billowing mutton sleeves that extend just beyond her elbows, and a deep green skirt lined with black ribbons.

July 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM

Isabel Burke

@isabelburke.bsky.social

here are at least 3 towards the front i found hope this helps x

April 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM

Isabel Burke

@isabelburke.bsky.social

In the spirit of today’s festivities, I’m sharing a sneak peek full of ✨yearning✨ of a piece I had the pleasure of doing for @metalweavegames.com new project, How to GM Romance! AD’ed by the always incredible Nala J. Wu🥹🩵

Two women dressed in regency-style wear kiss passionately between the bars of a wrought iron garden gate. One women, with dark skin wears a sumptuous velvet red gown with puffy white sleeves and lacy trim, her curly dark hair is pinned with pearls, brooches inlaid with gems, and fluffy plumage. One hand clutches the shoulder of her lover, the other lingers on a stone barrier, holding a folded fan. The woman on the other side of the gate, of South Asian descent, wears a simple woven bonnet and a plain dress, her dark hair tumbles loosely down her back. One of her hands wraps around the waist of the woman in velvet clutching a single pale rose. Their expressions convey a sense of yearning, separated by barriers of rigid class expectations —their love is forbidden but inevitable. The hue of the piece is pinks and reds, the color of sinking sunsets and blushing cheeks.

February 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM

Isabel Burke

@isabelburke.bsky.social

sending a text to my partner asking him to fill my waterbottle because the cat is sleeping on me

February 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM

Isabel Burke

@isabelburke.bsky.social

sprinkling starlight across the fallen snow✨❄️

Digital artwork of a woman dressed in early medieval robes carries the moon suspended from a chain as she backs across a snowy forest clearing. Underneath her arm is tucked a wicker basket that is tipped to the ground, spilling with stars and twinkling light that scatters to the snow on the ground. The snow sparkles in the light of the moon she carries, and in the valley of the clearing is a small herd of tiny deer, dwarfed in size by the goddess above them. The artwork is colored in shades of pale blues and yellows to emphasize a wintry atmosphere.

February 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM

Isabel Burke

@isabelburke.bsky.social

milky way🥛🌌

January 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM

Isabel Burke

@isabelburke.bsky.social

we clown on democrats a lot for those cringy-ass fundraising texts but a couple years ago i signed up a spam email to a tr*mp mailing list to see what it looked like and this was the inbox just today