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Jan-Jaap Schraverus
@javerusart.bsky.social
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I draw things professionally! Dutch. He/him. Mostly posts art. www.javerusart.com/
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Jan-Jaap Schraverus @javerusart.bsky.social · Jul 9
Oh, #portfolioday! A late entry. Been polishing up some older work I still like to get it too a similar level
Blue green twilight in a swamp. A five headed pearlescent heron landing on a nest made of bones. A griffin in mid flight fighting an invertebrate that looks like a cross between a centipede and a larvae A dark elf warrior stands amid a stream of his giant centipedes, with one curling around him and looking over his shoulder A flock of red imps fly from a cathedral, carrying off its treasures
javerusart.bsky.social
Work in progress I'm quite pleased with and wanted to share. Also, painting metal animals is hard
A black and white illustration work in progress. A medium shot of a hooded figure closely surrounded by his the chrome crow familiars
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Yes #portfolioday! I'm Jan-Jaap, a dutch illustrator of the mysterious and wonderful. Here's some of my most recent work
A blue and yellow snake coiling among big butterbur leaves A woman in a dark dress with brass adornment stands in front of a dragon's claw A flock of red imps fly from a cathedral, carrying off its treasures A dark elf warrior stands amid a stream of his giant centipedes, with one curling around him and looking over his shoulder
October 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Drop some snakes! 🐍
A blue and yellow snake coiling among a pattern of butterbur leaves
September 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Reposted by Jan-Jaap Schraverus
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Commission
September 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
javerusart.bsky.social
I notice that I often need spend quite some time with my personal work for it to develop into something I'm happy with. Often well into rendering. Which is not an ideal time to make adjustments. Maybe I should try working on multiple illustrations at once so I can sit with the sketches longer.
A blue and yellow snake coiling among big butterbur leaves
September 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
javerusart.bsky.social
Post a mage. Here's my A Deadly Education's El vs the Maw-mouth!
Galadriel from A Deadly Education casting spells against the Maw-mouth in the library
September 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Qrp with your watery art
A five headed heron landing on a nest made of bones in a twilight swamp
September 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Human artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you
A dark elf warrior in subterranean ruins, standing in a stream of his giant centipedes while one looks over his shoulder.
September 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
javerusart.bsky.social
QRP with your wings art! 🦇 Polished this guy up a while back to match my newer work. Glad I did!
July 19, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Occasionally I pick a painting that speaks to me and I study it to find out why. This time I wrote down what I found: www.linkedin.com/pulse/dean-c...
DEAN CORNWELL – "IT’S HARD TO EXPLAIN" MURDER COMPOSITION ANALYSIS
Dean Cornwell was an American artist from the early 20th century, also called the Dean of illustration. He painted this canvas for the 1921 book “Find the Woman” by Arthur Somer Roche.
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July 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Hey artists! Quote with you women art
July 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Aw maaan, I'm always late to the #PortfolioDay party! Why does nobody remind me? haha

Anyways.. Hi! I'm Simon, enjoyer of Pizza, LotR, Warcraft and Magic the Gathering and oh yeah, I also like to draw cool stuff!
July 9, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Reposted by Jan-Jaap Schraverus
morlevart.bsky.social
Howdy #PortfolioDay 👋 My name is M.E. Morgan & I'm a freelance artist working on illustrations for book covers, ttrpgs, & games. I like horror, folklore, fantasy, & romance. I'm always open to discussing new projects but have limited availability.
➡️https://morlevart.com
➡️mmorlevart@gmail(.)com
A digital illustration featuring two fairy characters standing together as a flock of pale teal moths swirl around them. One character has with pale blue-green skin, dark eye makeup and long orange-red hair, in blood-red and black helm and armor resembling the carapace of a Japanese rhinoceros beetle. They hold the second character, who has pale pink skin, soft features, and fluffy short pink hair, in a pink and green outfit reminiscent of a pink rose. A compilation of three book covers side by side. From left to right the books featured are: The Fox and the Dryad by Kellen Graves, A Bone in His Teeth by Kellen Graves, and Prince of the Sorrows by Kellen Graves A digital illustration of a pale horned masc-presenting character wearing black blouse and pants. He is standing against a blue background, surrounded by swirling wind and leaves, gesturing as though he is commanding them Digital illustration of a vampire with long claws in a torn white dress crouched on a ledge looking at the viewer. She is smirking, covered in blood. There is a moonlit gothic cityscape behind her.
July 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Reposted by Jan-Jaap Schraverus
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#PortfolioDay

Hi, I'm Patsu and I'm a fantasy illustrator!
A collage of two digital paintings. Image on the left: Digital painting of a fairy knight. He has pale blue skin, green hair, and he is covered in spiny black armor from head to toe. He has a beetle horn in the middle of his head, and a beetle helmet to match, as well as small beetle wings. He is also wielding a spear. Image on the right: Mixed media painting of a demonic lady. She has a pair of horns that are curving downwards, creating an arch shape; she has six arms with bloodied hands, and there is a blood red crucifix nailed to her chest. Floating atop her head is a human eye, almost looking like a halo. The illustration is painted with gouache and finished digitally. Digital illustration of a half man, half orchid praying-mantis hybrid. The creature has an upper torso of a human in a praying gesture, with a teal crown floating on his head, and a teal sword impaled through his chest and out his back. His mantis half is doing the same gesture, and its wings are splayed open. The character's skin is a pale pink with rosy pink hair and mantis legs, but with teal green embellishments; his upper torso has green tattoos, and his mantis body is adorned in ornate patterns, and his wings are a vibrant teal and turquoise color. Collage of two digital paintings. Image on the left: 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. Image on the right: Digital painting of a centaur. He has a unicorn horn on the middle of his forehead, his sclera are bloodshot but his iris are icy and blank, and he is baring a devious sinister smile. He is wearing a necklace made of severed ears, tongue, and jaw-bone, and there are several decapitated heads hanging by his waist. He is wielding two curved blades. a collage of two digital paintings. Image on the left: a man kissing a merman on the cheek and they are surrounded by fish. The illustration is almost abstract, with a color palette of vibrant and dark blues, and pale grays. Image on the right: Digital painting of a fairy with giant blue morpho butterfly wings and a faint halo, holding a lantern that attracts butterflies.
April 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
javerusart.bsky.social
Oh, #portfolioday! A late entry. Been polishing up some older work I still like to get it too a similar level
Blue green twilight in a swamp. A five headed pearlescent heron landing on a nest made of bones. A griffin in mid flight fighting an invertebrate that looks like a cross between a centipede and a larvae A dark elf warrior stands amid a stream of his giant centipedes, with one curling around him and looking over his shoulder A flock of red imps fly from a cathedral, carrying off its treasures
July 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Loved the mentorship! If you're interested in learning @abigbat.bsky.social's painting process for Magic style art, definitely have a look. I benefited a lot
paulscottcanavan.com Paul Scott Canavan @paulscottcanavan.com · Apr 10
7 slots remaining for my illustration mentorship in June! Learn about it here:

www.masteringimaginativerealism.com

Here are some previous student pieces to get your heart pounding (picking 4 was so hard) 💀

Art by @elif7.bsky.social, @javerusart.bsky.social, @looceyloo.bsky.social & @northyme.com
Art by Elif Siebenpfeiffer (@elif7.bsky.social) Art by Jan-Jaap Schraverus (@javerusart.bsky.social) Art by looceyloo (@looceyloo.bsky.social) Art by North (@northyme.com)
April 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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ARTISTS!
I'm sharing my contract template with simplified language and easy to fill in sections

This will be most helpful for smaller clients bc corps have their own contracts

But providing the contract will help protect you from giving away rights to your art!

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Contract Template for Limited Rights
***NOTE: This is a View Only document. Go to File > Make a Copy to create your own editable copy. Please do not request edit access. Delete this note before using*** This Agreement, entered DATE, be...
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April 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
javerusart.bsky.social
Hi #portfolioday! I'm Jan-Jaap, a fantasy illustrator based in Amsterdam. Here to draw clawed and winged things
A dark elf warrior stands with their centipede companion, underground A griffin locked in a fight with a centipede-like creature A group of imps leaving the scene of a crime with their arms full of loot A woman in a dark dress with brass adornment stands in front of a dragon's claw
April 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Man, it only took 20 minutes looking through portfolio websites with the eye of someone hiring, rather than just appreciating, to have it hit home how important clarity and ease of use are.
April 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Blue Sky’s open, quote one piece of art to promore yourself
A dark elf warrior standing amidst a stream of companion centipes, in some underground ruins
March 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Details of a digital painting I've been working on!
The head of a griffin, beak open, with some insect around its neck. Blue and yellow palette. The head and coiling body of a bug that looks like a centipede without legs. Pincers opened threateningly
March 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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And another one for Clash Royale!
A ghostly hand holding a ghostly axe burst forth from the grass of a Clash Royale arena. In shades of cyan and purple
March 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Some recent work done for Clash Royale I quite enjoyed :)
A cute green dragon is trapped under a hunters net. Arrows flying. On a grass field surrounded by castle walls
March 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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QRP with your wings #art!
A group of flying red imps making off with looted gold. A cathedral tower in the background
February 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Signed! If you object to AI exloitation of creators, here’s one tangible and easy thing you can do
rahll.bsky.social Reid Southen @rahll.bsky.social · Feb 8
🔴CALLING ALL ARTISTS🔴

Christie's NYC is planning an AI art auction expected to bring in over $600,000 to creators who've used models trained on copyrighted material from non-consenting artists.

If you object to this, please sign and share this open letter.

openletter.earth/cancel-the-c...
8 February 2025 Cancel the Christie's AI Art Auction Nicole Sales Giles & Sebastian Sanchez Christie’s, New York Dear Nicole and Sebastian, We are writing to express serious concern over your upcoming auction of AI art at Christie’s. Many of the artworks you plan to auction were created using AI models that are known to be trained on copyrighted work without a license. These models, and the companies behind them, exploit human artists, using their work without permission or payment to build commercial AI products that compete with them. Your support of these models, and the people who use them, rewards and further incentivizes AI companies’ mass theft of human artists’ work. We ask that, if you have any respect for human artists, you cancel the auction. Yours sincerely, The undersigned artists
February 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM