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Christine Ridgway [Commissions Open!]
@skidarstudios.bsky.social
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🎨 Illustrator: Commissions open!
🌵 Author of #Skytown
🦎 Environmental Conservation Major
🦚 Bird Nerd
🎲 Dungeon Master
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I got that bog in me 🌱

Watershed Restoration Class field trip to a nearby bog/fen
Selfie of me in a rain coat and ball cap on the edge if a bog in the rain Wild bog cranberries and peat moss Deep black water at a peat bog lake and a floating island Reddish peat moss bog and a small lake in the rain
November 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Bush tits can strip a suet cage clean in minutes, like tiny winged piranhas
A flock of small brown birds, bush tits, all gathered on a empty suet cage feeder eating cleanup
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Finally played on my tablet again for the first time in ages.
In our last Bellinghamlet campaign Murkia got a new scar from her god's holy weapon.
Umbra Dave, a large black pegasus talking to Murkia, a large-eared goblin with a jagged lightning bolt scar on her shoulder. Umbra Dav: Nice scar. Murkia: Bite me.
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Without downloading any new pics describe your gender
Photo of a bittern, a heron like bird, from the neck up poking out of some rushes looking bewildered
November 20, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Josh is playing his own game
A sketched of an anthro deer in a basketball jersey with a basketball in his antlers angrily shouting: Dammit Josh! Pass it to my chest!
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Our regional puffins are tufted puffins and they have cute pigtails ☺
A bust pen and marker sketch of a tufted puffin with its head tufts in ribbon like pigtails
November 20, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Quote with your art on fire 🔥
An anthro thick billed Raven look up at his flaming Crow goddess emerging from a fiery tornado carrying a burning stick
November 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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If you see this. Post a bird! 🪶 #birdart
And ink and markers sketch of a eurasian oystercatcher looking bedraggled in a white tank top smoking a cigarette A gouache painting of a belted kingfisher with a abstract starry colorful background and a moon A gouache painting of a California quill with a abstract colorful sunset and canyon background Digital art of an anthromouse with a black spot over his eye writing a king quail mounted up with a saddle and tack like a horse
November 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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He's having a rough couple of months
An anthro oystercatcher bird wearing a grungey white tank top and smoking a cigarette looking bedraggled
November 19, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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So rusty drawing Sonya 🙃
A sketch of a long hair anthro doe mouse tying back het long curly hair with the ribbon in her teeth
November 19, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Some bully stuffed him in a thimble.
Jokes on them he's chill in there
Pen and marker sketch of a button quail chick in a thimble next to a needle and thread
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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He's tryinggg
Doodle of a bearded vulture trying to pick up a dinosaur bone
November 19, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Trow Back Tuesday
I need to draw more Lulu. One if my characters from Skytown: Ghosts of the Past
An anthro doe mouse dressed like a bandit with a black mask across her muzzle. In one hand she holds a rifle and the other has a revolver
November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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I left a gift on the lab whiteboard for the morning class (it's like 2 ft across)
Weird hybrid salmon headed griffin sketch on a whiteboard
November 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Bonus very ripe Pacific Banana Slug
A large pacific banana slug on a mossy tree trunk
November 16, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Had a very good day in the rainy, foggy, soggy woods with the Skagit Land Trust doing the annual Heron Colony Nest Count

Being outside with good people and doing bird-related science was a big pick-me-up despite the soaking drizzle and stinging nettles
Bare alders and maple trees with clusters of great blue heron nests in the branches against a flat gray sky A handful of old and broken great blue heron bones A shell from a hatched great blue heron this past spring A blow down, a fallen great blue heron nest, on the forest floor. It's roughly the size of a large laundry basket
November 16, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Made myself go outside. I've been having a rough few days, I can't tell anymore if it's seasonal depression or regular depression.
Feels the same.
Mossy rocks and fallen leaves next to a stream
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Throw Back Thursday to the time I dm'd at the bar and made up a scene girl ancient silver dragon npc who's entire horde was early aughts memorabilia.
The table instantly became her besties and it was so adorable 😍
#Bellinghamlet
Midea, a bust sketch of an ancient silver dragon with scene makeup and accessories
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Cover Artists!

QRP with your covers!

First is my novel, Skytown, an anthro western I finally published in 2017. (www.skidarstudios.com/skytown-novel)

The next two are the box art covers for two different board games for Plague Island Games I did a few years ago
Skytown by Christine E Ridgway, A book cover with an anthro mouse dressed like a cowboy riding a quail tacked in horse gear, riding through poppies at sunset a boardgame cover for Sparta! greek pillars with Athena statue over the logo and a trereme ship on the sea with a greek temple on an island in the background a boardgame cover called 2 Minutes to Midnight with symbols of the US and Russia during the cold war: eagles and bears, sputnik, missiles, aircraft carriers, submarines, tanks and fighter jets
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Using my imagination for the northern lights tonight
Cloudy night sky
November 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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If you see this post your bird art 🪶

I got lots 😛
digital art of a seaweed draped double crested cormorant in front of dazzling, sunset-colored water. a colorful gouache painting of a female belted kingfisher with a colorful abstract starry background. There is a crescent moon behind it and its holding a star in its beak An anthro American Kestrel mage holding a magical handful of flames An anthro hummingbird rogue in fantasy western themed clothes, she is on a train with a torch in one hand and a crossbow in the other
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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🍂 Raven Eclipse 🔴
Gouache on watercolor paper, approx 6x9"

I've been having a lovely time playing with my paints again 😊
This will be up on my Inprnt shop soon!
a gouache painting of a raven with its beak open in front of a red moon surrounded by patterns in leaves in oranges reds and purples
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Describe your cat's personality with one photo:
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A ginger kitten in a paper bag chewing on the handles looking manic
November 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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SpongeBob Narrator 🇫🇷: Four Hours Later

I got to paint a mural for the back of a display case today 🎨 🖌

Now my teacher is arranging for me to paint a more permanent mural 👀
Double strips of packing paper mounted on the hallway wall Blocked in painting of Mt baker and a lake below Finished mural of Mt Baker with lush trees and a lake in the foreground
November 7, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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I found the fattest tree frog I'd ever seen yesterday. Lil guy was CHONKY and ready for a big winter sleep.
Large fat pacific chorus frog in hands Pacific chorus frog on a moss and fallen leaves strewn log Pacific chorus frog on a moss and fallen leaves strewn log
November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM