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jkoznarek
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Artist. Copy Editor. Managing to somehow be both chronically online and chronically offline. Expect a response within 24 business hours.
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A velociraptor AND a raccoon? Anything is possible
A whimsical ink and colored pencil illustration of a light, feathery velociraptor that stands curled behind a raccoon sitting on grass among daffodils. The raccoon hands the velociraptor a piece of pink cupcake to eat, taken from a small plate with a hand-torn cupcake positioned in the foreground.
October 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Taking a poll:

Trans pride Punisher skull
OR
Trans pride Punisher skull with bow
September 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Grew a moonflower in 2023, the camera couldn't capture how vibrant it looked in person so I tried to replicate the effect with colored pencil
September 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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A commission for a friend 💚 Flowers native to the American midwest and a broken robin's egg.
a photograph of an art commission with soft, saturated colors and thick black lines depicting a pair of hands holding a broken robin's egg and three native flowers, a black eyed susan, yellow asters and forget-me-nots. A close-up of the commission's details showing colored pencil texture, matte watercolor and faded ink lines.
September 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Share 4 years of your #art!

2022 - 2023 - 2024 - 2025

Feel like I've been really honing my craft lately 😊❤️
An ink and watercolor illustration of a lush river with a waterfall cascading over a large sandstone cliff. A block cut print showing a thick man with dense body hair from the chest up. He reclines among oak leaves as he sensually eats a beaming ball of light the size of a large olive. A coffin shaped art frame houses a watercolor illustration of a South American woman. She is draped in the blue cloth of Our Lady of Guadalupe but wears a plain grey sweatshirt and dark jeans. She holds a single marigold as she stands in front of a dense starfield with the sun behind her and the crescent moon in front. The illustration is wreathed in yellow spikes that point directly toward the woman and catch her clothing where they get close to her. An illustration of a cove outside Dao Go Cave in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam. Fluffy clouds billow upward alongside soaring cliff-like islands as boats of all sizes cruise between them. The people on the boats admire the view.
September 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Latest addition in my quest to fill a sketchbook using only six colored markers. Really pushing the color/composition limitations here, I think it would have been better with a few more colors, but at least I got to draw the best part of kpop demon hunters!
The demon magpie and blue tiger from the movie "Kpop Demon Hunters" are drawn on a full sketchbook page with six colored markers. The magpie sits on the tiger's head with sunset clouds in the background as the tiger looks down at the viewer, mouth open with jagged white teeth as it presents a cute blue letter on its tongue. A ghostly hand is seen taking the letter from the tiger's tongue.
September 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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See also: Mussolini and the Milano Centrale Station

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milano_...
August 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Mimicked acrylic paint pour textures with markers. It took me 8 hours 🤠
Abstract marker drawing in a sketchbook. Deep blues, strong pinks and vibrant greens appear as though they are swirling from the upper right corner to the bottom of the page. A bright yellow circle and long red rectangle strike through the center of the swirl, anchoring the composition as it pours between them and through them.
August 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Older work from 2021 when I finally got serious about backgrounds.
A black and white ink illustration rendered with thick, loose brush strokes. A sea of wildflowers covers the entire space, with a woman's upturned face and fingers bobbing in the middle as if she was floating.
August 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Been challenging myself to fill a sketchbook using only six colored markers. Here's a page filled with a bunch of overlapping figure studies.
A sketchbook page with 20 or so overlapping figure studies, each drawn with one of six different colored markers.
August 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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ドロヘドロ #dorohedoro

There are dozens of fans of this manga, dozens!
A head-only drawing of a lizard-headed man with spikes for hair wearing a sturdy gas mask. There is black smoke behind him with large japanese letters spelling "doro." A drawing of a wild-eyed blonde woman with blonde hair, a ponytail, large breasts, black devil horns and a black devil tail. Her body is covered by a black leather apron, and her arms and legs are covered with thick black puffy chaps. She has kneepads in the shape of skulls and carries a giant metal rectangle from a strap on her back. She is holding a plate of gyoza with her right hand. Black smoke curls behind her along with red japanese letters spelling "hedoro."
July 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Sketchbook marker color tests and Breadhead, the objectively best part of The Gaslight District.
A colorful marker sketch of the character Breadhead from The Gaslight District YouTube show. Breadhead is a tall, clothed gangster with long arms, big hands and a giant loaf of bread with eyes and creepy teeth for a head. He looks imposing and unnerving but still feels silly and friendly. Color swatches for six bright markers on a sketchbook page. The page shows how one color layers over each individual color, testing how many colors can be mixed from just two layers of marker.
June 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Line art before coloring.
a portion of an illustration showing Chicago residents walking along the concrete wharf of a public park next to Lake Michigan. Sparse lines showing an unfinished illustration of far away cliffs dropping into ocean and sky. sparse lines in an incomplete illustration showing tall, jungle covered cliffs stretching into big fluffy clouds.
June 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Creativity Knows No Bounds™️.
June 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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These two are a pair from 2020, each around 7 feet tall. Desperately want to frame them, but for now they hang as just paper.
A long, tall illustration in black ink on tan butcher paper of a white woman with long straight hair walking out from an open, forested field. The moon hangs large behind her head as she steps outside of the outline around the piece. A seven foot tall ink illustration on tan butcher paper of a Black woman with long curls stepping out from a sunny wheat field. The sun hangs brightly behind her head as she looks outward with determination.
June 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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DnD illustrations I made as a gift for my party, featuring my darling aarakocra paladin Penn 🥰 #dnd #dndillustration #dndcharacter #oc
June 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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The amount of watercolor medium used to shape these edges was wild
An in progress watercolor and ink painting of the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland, a dramatic landscape with steep cliffs and distant sea. Only the sky and water have been painted with soft blue colors and crisp lines. A hand holding a wad of dried bright yellow gunk that looks a bit like a mass of dirty chewing gum. This is used watercolor medium, a kind of rubber that's painted on to keep watercolor off of certain parts of paper. Once it's dried, it can be peeled off, resulting in the giant wad shown in this picture.
June 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Ha Long Bay in Vietnam made as a commission, it would be so cool to visit this location
A watercolor and ink painting of Ha Long Bay in Vietnam. Tall stone cliffs shaped like columns covered in jungle plants stretch to the sky, stories above the cruise ships floating between them on tranquil waters.
June 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Another sketchbook page using only six colored markers. Didn't even need the dark green color for these. Used references from Hurfer Hand Painted sign services.
Colorful sketchbook drawings of panthers roaring on the page. They look stylistically like classic sign paintings with long brush strokes and curved, flowing poses.
June 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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A piece from five years ago. Happy with how my skills have grown but I miss this style sometimes.
A black and white drawing made of thick ink lines depicting the bust of a young man with roses wreathing his middle. He stands with his eyes closed and his arms crossed in front of him while a fully bloomed rose covers his mouth.
June 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Colored marker sketch
An elegant and colorful marker drawing of a topless woman with short fluffy hair smoking a cigarette. Her expression is glazed yet focused as if she has something on her mind.
June 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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omg I drew the cliffs of moher!
A scenic overview from the top of stone stairs looking down over grassy hills that drop into giant cliffs stretching for miles along the ocean's edge. An illustration of the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland.
June 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM