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Jess Vandenberg
@vandyink.bsky.social
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📒 Freelance Designer & Illustrator
🤓 Open to new projects!
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eye-see.jpg 📄👁️ #art

8” x 5.75” acrylic painting on recycled cedar
A physical version of a jpg icon hanging on a green wall. The icon is a piece of paper with the top right corner “folded over”. There is a “photograph” painting of a white barn with a red house in the middle of green garden rows. The sky is a bright blue. The barn is also slightly dimensional and rests on top of the rest of the jpg piece.
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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west.jpg 📄🏜️ #art

8” x 5.75” acrylic painting on recycled cedar
A physical version of a jpg icon hanging on a yellow wall. The icon is a piece of paper with the top right corner “folded over”. There is a “photograph” painting of red western canyons, yellow sand, and a moon between them.
November 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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sauron.jpg 📄👁️🔥 #art

8” x 5.75” acrylic painting on recycled cedar
A physical version of a jpg icon laying on a rocky surface. The icon is a piece of paper with the top right corner “folded over”. There is a “photograph” painting of the eye of Sauron.
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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red-moon-desert-XP.jpg 📄🌌 #art

8” x 5.75” acrylic painting on recycled cedar
A physical version of a jpg icon hanging on a blue wall. The icon is a piece of paper with the top right corner “folded over”. There is a “photograph” painting of the Windows XP wallpaper, Red Moon Desert, which features a red planet and a lone moon in the corner.
November 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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I made a real.jpg 📄🏞️ #art

8” x 5.75” acrylic painting on recycled cedar
A physical version of a jpg icon hanging on a pink wall. The icon is a piece of paper with the top right corner “folded over”. There is a “photograph” painting of two triangular green mountains with a bright yellow sun between them. Lego flowers are next to the icon in the picture.
November 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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We’re now a family of 8! (Omg wut) My wife FaceTimed me on Saturday, and this baby found her in a shopping mall parking lot, & she laid right at H’s feet. 🥺

Her name is Penny, & she’s SO sweet. About 10 month old Pittie, and is super submissive to our cats & lil Riley. She loves to cuddle. 😭💕
A brown pitbull sleeping against a person’s legs. The pup’s tongue is sticking out.
October 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Just finished Blindness and wow; what a read. I borrowed Seeing, so I'll start that soon. DELIGHTED to learn there's a movie (watching now); love to watch a movie after finishing a book!
A book cover featuring a grid of geometric shapes/patterns in blue, black, red, and white. The text reads "Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature; SARAMAGO; Blindness."
October 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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I finished Doctor Sleep on our trip! I was enjoying it so much that I was reading it at the club on Dyke Night. I'm so excited to watch the movie now!
A red-tinted photo of a woman with a hat looking at the viewer. The text reads "Stephen King - Doctor Sleep - A Novel" in a text that resembles smoke.
October 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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what they asked for vs what they got
🚲☠️💎✨ #art #design #logo
A screenshot of a text that reads "I like the idea of something involving the pyramid and the crystal skull we made a lame flyer with Canva for reference" and below is a flyer that reads "MEMPHIS BIKE POLO PRESENTS MONSTER MASH SHUFFLE" over a photo of a crystal-eyed skull shining imposed over a giant pyramid. A black & grey patterned background with a logo design that reads "MEMPHIS BIKE POLO". The crystal-eyed pyramid-esque skull has bike polo mallets as crossbones, and is contained in a bike chain ring.
October 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Grizz, Smokey’s cousin, ain’t ducking no smoke. 🐻💨 #art

4 DAYS UNTIL GRIZZLIES BASKETBALL! 😍
An illustration of a "Smokey Bear" style blue grizzly bear wearing a GRIZZ snapback hat.
October 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Maybe if we all do this, something good will happen!!
A screenshot from Dragonball Z, featuring the people of Earth putting all their energy towards a Spirit bomb.
September 18, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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but how am I supposed to do anything when this sweet boy is asleep on me 🥺
An orange cat peacefully asleep on a brown and orange blanket over legs. The background shows a living room. Close up is part of a computer with stickers that read “ICE MELTS - TURN UP THE HEAT” and “I’m not you and that’s cool too!”
September 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Stayed up late last night finishing & crying to Kid Cudi's memoir. I listened to him a LOT in high school & early college, and his music got me through a lot of really dark times. I'm so happy and grateful that both of us made it through and kept going. 🥲
The bookcover the memoir "CUDI; THE MEMOIR" by Scott Mescudi (Kid Cudi). The background is light blue with yellow, red, green, and dark blue triangles around the edge. A simple brown oval with a big smile in the center represents Cudi.
September 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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3. You are a Badass (which I really loved the idea of getting out of your own way)
4. Mickey7 (read it after watching Mickey17; I enjoyed!)
A cover of the book "You are a Badass – How to stop doubting your greatness and start living an awesome life" by Jen Sincero. The cover is bright yellow, with the title & author type taking up the whole cover. A cover of the book "Mickey7" by Edward Ashton. The cover features Robert Pattinson as Mickey in snow gear, from the major motion picture Mickey17 (directed by Bong Joon Ho).
September 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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2025 Reading List so far:
1. Remarkably Bright Creatures
2. Parable of the Sower (so glad I got my own copy because I loved it)
A cover of the book "Remarkably Bright Creatures" by Shelby Van Pelt. The cover features a watercolor cut-paper style illustration of a woman looking at an orange octopus that is surrounded by coral. A cover of the book "Parable of the Sower" by Octavia E. Butler. It features a white background with a woman in a red & orange dress & headpiece.
September 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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I’m making this Magikarp out of cardboard & other recycled materials + joint compound and honestly I’m having such a blast.
A “paper mache” type of sculpture of the Pokemon Magikarp.
September 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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I got my drains out yesterday (praise BE kitty girl) but my chest/skin still feels so tight, but that's okay; recovering more each day!
Bilbo Baggins from Fellowship of the Ring; the quote reads "I feel tight, sort of stretched, like skin pulled over too much bone"
September 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Yesterday marked a whole DECADE of me working for myself full-time! It’s wild that it’s been that long; I am so grateful for those that have passed my name along. I am open to new opportunities to work together; I do design, illustration & animation. You can check out my work at vandyink.com 💕✨ #art
A yellow badge with an illustrated sun and flowers in the center. It reads “10 years of freelancing”. The background is light blue, with rainbows in two opposite corners, with sparkles in the other two.
September 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Do not rip that!!!! #SurvivorAU
Damien, from the movie Mean Girls, reaching out in surprise as if to stop what is happening.
September 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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These two are giving the same energy
Screenshot of Aaron from Bring it On, smiling. Screenshot of the Mask Salesman from Majora's Mask, smiling similarly.
August 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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oh my god, I finally got the Snowager avatar today!!!! I've absolutely peaked!!!!
A screenshot of the Snowager from Neopets.com; at the bottom shows a "Something has happened!" blurb. It reads "You are now eligible to use 'Snowager - RAWR!' as an avatar on the Neoboards!"
August 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Here’s the original video my bestie Emma took that inspired this piece!
July 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Is that the f*cking early bird?!
🪱 🪱🪱🪱🐦‍⬛✨
#art #procreate #birds
A distressed illustration of a blue tinted bird with 12+ worms in it's mouth. The background is a creased piece of plain white paper.
July 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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🐉🔥SCORCHED EARTH🔥🐉
#art
An illustration of a red and gold dragon breathing fire everywhere on a black background. A yellow and pink sun shines above in the upper left corner.
July 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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This started as a sketch for a new more designy selfie like I usually do, but I really liked my initial sketch, so I just kept going with it instead. 🥰✌️✨ #art #procreate
An illustrated selfie of a person with spiky messy brown hair, black and brown glasses, and a black bandana. The background is yellow, and 4 hearts are around the portrait.
July 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM