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Artists, what's your favorite part to draw?

I love it when I see my composition taking shape, when I can dive into backgrounds, and I love painting different objects as halos, celestial objects especially. I've been working on another big painting in a similar vein that I'm finishing soon 🔥

A portrait in colour of Director Krennic standing in front of his creation, the Death Star, with its targeting systems right behind his head. His hands are clasped together, with his pistol in his left hand. Behind him orange light and dust is coming forward, spilling into the foreground, covering him partially. Behind all of it is the dark starry sky.

A colourful painting of my OC Xander, a pale man with golden eyes and long dark hair shaven on the sides of his head. A part of his tattoos of black flames and a lemniscate on the side of his head is visible. He is wearing black robes, three strings of golden pearls in his neck and chest and a golden crown of laurel leaves. He has an ornate sword in his hand, in front of a desolate marshland with russet grass, exposed rocks, and smaller hills with trees on them that have lost their leaves already. There's a white glory behind his head as if it the Sun seen as a white disk behind such grey stormclouds would have been brought to the foreground, to be in the middle of the mountains visible behind the marshland.

A coloured painting of my OC Xander, a pale man with long, dark hair, tattoos, and jewelry, sitting on an ornate brown-gold throne. He is wearing a golden draping over one of his shoulders, leaving the majority of his torso visible, along with a deep red draping on his lower body. His tattoos on his arms are visible, with dark fiery motifs, a skull with a parchment coming from its upper jaw, and the astrological symbols of Mars, Jupiter, and the Sun, the rulers of the Zodiac signs Aries, Sagittarius, and Leo, on his arm that he is resting on the armrest of the throne, with his hand facing us. He is wearing golden jewelry: two collars on his neck and three on each of his upper arms, and he is wearing nipple piercings with golden chains on his upper body. Behind his throne a segment of a simple wall is visible on the lower half of the painting, and on the upper half of the painting there are mountains and a blue sky with clouds above the wall. The back of his throne is like a gateway to the darkness of space, it is pitch black with small glowing stars seemingly coming out of it. He is slightly turning towards the side, and his eyes are covered with a whisp of yellowish flare that appear to connect him to the Sun behind his head.

A black-and-white painting of my OC Xander, a man in water up to his waist, approaching towards the viewer. His eyes are not visible, black liquid is pouring out from the place where his eyes should be. He has long dark hair that he shoves back, the sides of his head are shaved and tattooed, and he has several dark flame tattoos down his neck, shoulder and arms, along with a motif of a parchment and a skull holding a parchment with text on his left shoulder. Ports are visible on his body throughout (he is a Space Marine OC). The dark liquid from his eyes have accumulated behind him as he's approaching, and with his hand he seems to direct its flow forward, too. Behind him is a black hole enclosed in an armillary sphere with ornate rings. The front, horizontal ring has the Roman numerals XVI, XVII and XVIIII on it, there are two rings very tightly closing up the black hole, and two outer, concentric rings. The uppermost ring has the texts "XVI - LA MAISON|DIEV", "XVII - L'ESTOILLE" and "XVIIII - LE SOLEIL" on it, along with the alchemical symbols of sulphur, the element of fire, and the Sun, as well as the symbols of the following in pairs: the Sun - the zodiac sign of Leo, Jupiter - Sagittarius, Mars - Aries. The lower part of the rings is lit strongly. On the upper part of the painting, above the rings, the distortion of the black hole is visible on the background stars and interstellar medium as their images get "flattened" around the curved surface of the outermost ring.

October 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM Everybody can reply

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@corpsebod.bsky.social

My version and the artists stencil lol. I know he technically should be facing inwards but... He looks sick like that??? So let's go?

Drawing of a lobster on a woman's shoulder

Stencil of a lobster on a woman's shoulder

October 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM Everybody can reply

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@noimalright.and.cat

Define your music taste in eight artists:

Kyuss
Ratatat
Dengue Fever
Wes Borland
Tricot
Death Grips
Cojum Dip
Streetlight Manifesto

Glenn Tranzig @wheredidjasongo.bsky.social · 2h

Define your music taste in eight artists:

Soundgarden
Gorillaz
Édith Piaf
Eyehategod
St. Vincent
The Breeders
Neko Case
Kowloon Walled City

Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 15h

Define your music taste in eight artists

David Bowie
Nine Inch Nails
Underworld
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Wu-Tang Clan
The Knife
Goldfrapp

October 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM Everybody can reply

PS Furmeets

@psfurmeets.bsky.social

Beep beep 🚗
Make way for the vendors!
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October 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM Everybody can reply

Nhope

@nhope2025.bsky.social

For the MAMA Fan's Choice FEMALE CATEGORY, it is important to randomly pick different female artists & NOT stick to just one.

The Daesang has only one winner (from either the male or female category). It is advised to choose from the lower-ranked options.

October 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM Everybody can reply

AIC: Contemporary Art (Bot)

@aiccontemporary.bsky.social

Untitled https://www.artic.edu/artworks/184213/

David Wojnarowicz was identified by The New York Times critic, Michael Kimmelman, in 1992 as "one of the most influential artists of the 1980s." Wojnarowicz first emerged in the context of the brash and brief burst of energy that took place in New York’s East Village in the beginning of the 1980s. Fusing the aesthetics of the punk-music scene, a keen awareness of an ethnically diverse street culture, and a committed sense of political activism, Wojnarowicz’s earliest works were often informal and ephemeral. The 1980s East Village scene in which Wojnarowicz thrived produced a number of artists who went on to broader recognition, including Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Jenny Holzer, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. His paintings, photographs, installations, performances, and experimental films are distinguished by raw expressions of rage and personal longing. Wojnarowicz’s work, most often concerned with the inequities and disenfranchisement of living with HIV and AIDS, ranged from the intentionally shrill to the elegiac. A gifted writer, the poignant beauty of his vision is perhaps best glimpsed through his published journal excerpts, short stories, and autobiographical essays. Indeed, the artist is now widely recognized for the strength of his artistic expression both in the visual arts and with the written word. The artist died of AIDS in 1992 at the age of thirty-eight.

Gift of Stuart and Susan Handler

October 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM Everybody can reply

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Winter 🤍❄️

@hemlocksnowfall.bsky.social

Define your music taste in eight artists:

Lorna Shore
Arch Enemy
Worm Shepherd
Protest the Hero
Judas Priest
Cradle of Filth
Dethklok
Wax Fang

Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 18h

Define your music taste in eight artists:

the mountain goats
jeff rosenstock (and associated projects)
100 gecs
underscores
lady gaga
david bowie
sophie
guns n' roses

Amanda (OnionBug) @onionbug.bsky.social · 21h

Define your music taste in eight artists:

Deftones
Sleater-Kinney
Mars Volta
Melvins
Bjork
Fugazi
Tool
Callous Daoboys

October 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM Everybody can reply

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🔥 Gurepyon 🔥

@gurepyon.bsky.social

bbno$ is so fuckin based for supporting artists so much
you can love or hate his music but man that man uses his influence for the right thing
huge respect for him 🔥💪

October 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM Everybody can reply

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Gozer, 3D Printed Product Peddler

@gozariangoods.com

Define your music taste in eight artists:
Spoon
Rilo Kiley
LCD Soundsystem
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
clipping
Man Man
Pool Kids
IDLES

Kathleen De Vere @kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com · 6h

Define your music taste in eight artists:
Boards of Canada
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Horse Lords
Fat White Family
Magdalena Bay
Radiohead
Men I Trust
Pink Floyd

(just thinking about this was stressful, ha ha ha 😅)

Dix @dixonij.bsky.social · 7h

Define your music taste in eight artists:
OK Go
Steely Dan
The Beatles
Sum 41
Beastie Boys
The All-American Rejects
Huey Lewis and the News
John Williams

October 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM Everybody can reply

Mickie Faboo-lus 👻🎃😱

@mickiemarielove.bsky.social

Define your music taste with 8 artists!

Weird Al
Lamb of God
Babymetal
Cypress Hill
Kittie
Green Day
Amy Winehouse
Korn

Kate @x-pert74.bsky.social · 21m

Define your music taste with 8 artists!

Mystifier
Odz Manouk
Celtic Frost
Sarcófago
Judas Priest
Janet Jackson
eufonius
The Offspring

Nyah 🐰💕✨ @lichtsstar.bsky.social · 12h

Define your music taste with 8 artists!

Ado
SZA
Sleep Token
Polyphia
TWICE
Renee Rapp
TRIGGER
Jojo

October 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM Everybody can reply

Yulia Zhuchkova

@avalach.bsky.social

✨️Artists! Quote with long hair✨️

#darkart #fantasyart #portrait #raven #gothicart #characterart

October 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM Everybody can reply

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A Boy And His Computer

@aboyandhiscomputer.music

Dive into 'Rubicon Remixed by Voidscan'! A collaborative journey featuring multiple artists, including A Boy And His Computer with some fresh remixes. Experience the innovative sounds and unique interpretations that bring this album to life. Don’t miss it! #RubiconRemixed #aboyandhiscomputer

Voidscan - The Rubicon Saga Remixed

Choose your preferred music service

ffm.to

October 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM Everybody can reply

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KeithShawMusic

@keithshawmusic.bsky.social

How wonderful to be included with these outstanding Philly artists (Smash Palace, Ben Arnold, US Rails, and others) with my brand-new release Invisible Man!

#playitforwardphilly

October 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM Everybody can reply

👑🎃Axel Joseph Brave🎂🌀

@axeljosephbrave275.bsky.social

No one should defend these bully artists to me, they are just jealous! They bully others' beautiful drawings just because they draw well! They are not what they seem, do not believe them.Soon they'll be gossiping about you behind your back too.

October 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM Everybody can reply

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Star Ace Arts

@starace.bsky.social

Artists, what’s your favorite part to draw?

I love treating painting like sculpting. I love making shapes, hardening edges while softening others, and adding pops of color!

Digital painting hand study. The top left hand is outstretched, fingers flexed, while the bottom right hand is relaxed and palm-up.

Digital painting of a dark-skinned person whose vitiligo has been colored gold to mimic the Japanese art of kintsugi. They have short hair and are wearing a black top. The background is a simple yellow rectangle.

Digital painting of a study from the movie Alien. Lt. Ellen Ripley is in a white space suit, looking forward in horror. The background is the cockpit of a futuristic ship.

Digital painting of Thanos from Squid Game. A Korean man with short purple hair is flipping off the viewer while scowling. He is wearing a turquoise jumpsuit, nail polish, and some rings.

October 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM Everybody can reply

Marguerite

@margueritek.bsky.social

Define your music taste with 8 artists:
Sam Cooke
Tracy Chapman
Bob Dylan
Nina Simone
Allen Toussaint
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Macy Gray
Ry Cooder

John Allen @knowtea.bsky.social · 9h

Define your music taste with 8 artists:
- The Manhattan Transfer
- Lambert, Hendricks, & Ross
- Dave Brubeck
- Steely Dan
- Beatles
- Bob Dylan
- Miles Davis
- David Bowie

Kevin Mammamia @kevinmammamia.bsky.social · 1d

Define your music taste with 8 artists
- Guns n Roses
- Taylor Swift
- Hunrix
- Eminem
- Green Day
- Olivia Rodrigo
- Bowling for Soup
- anything Eurovision

October 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM Everybody can reply

The Warburg Institute

@warburginstitute.bsky.social

How can archives be used, configured and reimagined?

Join us for this conversation with artists Mary Evans and Ajamu X who will chart the legacies and contemporary resonances of Black archival practice.

Book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

6 November 2025, 7-8.30pm | 📍 Warburg Institute

In-conversation: Mary Evans and Ajamu X: The Archive Imagined and Reimagined

Artists Mary Evans and Ajamu X will be in conversation on how the archive can be used, configured and reimagined.

warburg.sas.ac.uk

October 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM Everybody can reply

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CtrlAltDemocracy(Pristine Cthulhu)

@ctrlaltdemocracy.bsky.social

#artists #art #fightback #propaganda #activists #activism #writers www.artshelp.com/positive-pro...

Attached are links to effectively learn how to manipulate people and get what you want, use this wisely, morally.

Positive Propaganda: A Double-Edged Necessary Tool

Propaganda [https://www.britannica.com/topic/propaganda] is a concept that is deeply misunderstood. This concept has been painted with a negative paint brush. However, in its essence, the word propaga...

www.artshelp.com

October 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM Everybody can reply

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Kageyama Satsuki

@kagesatsuki.com

Lately

Media: AI WAS A MISTAKE WE SHOULDN'T BE REPLACING HUMANS

Artists: *speaking from graves, having starved to death* Yeah no shit.

October 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM Everybody can reply

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yumePent ⭐🦕

@theyumeposterrrr.bsky.social

World’s most awful art offering ever but we prevail
I regret ever getting back into a Hoyo game bc the character designs are so fucking complicated for no reason 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 lord have mercy on your fan artists and cosplayers bc we cannot do this anymore

Sketch colored drawing of a person carrying Anaxagoras from honkai star rail in a bridal carry over a summoning circle

October 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM Everybody can reply

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⛧𝔚𝔶𝔯𝔡 𝔚𝔬𝔯𝔡 𝔚𝔦𝔱𝔠𝔥⛧

@wyrdwordwitch666.bsky.social

Define your musical taste in 8 artists

(there's definitely a tenuous theme here)

Slipknot
The Misfits
Die Spitz
Cigarettes After Sex
Florence and The Machine
The Breeders
Bikini Kill
Soft Scent

🦇🤘 Rigg-or mortis 🔶️🏳️‍🌈 @rigg.lgbt · 13h

Define your musical taste in 8 artists

Alice Cooper
Aretha Franklin
James Bernard
Halestorm
Iron Maiden
Nina Simone
New Years Day
Weird Al Yankovic

Down Bad Upper Midwest Dad @mn-snow-show.bsky.social · 14h

Define your musical taste in 8 artists

CHVRCHES
TV on the Radio
R.E.M. (80s)
Ulrich Schnauss
Perfume Genius
Kid Cudi
alt-J
Metric

October 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM Everybody can reply

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Rob McIvor

@rob-mcivor.bsky.social

Define your musical taste in 8 artists

The Beatles
Deaf School
Joe Jackson
Louis Jordan
John Martyn
Steve Newman & Tony Cox
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Neil Young

I’m also hearing a lot of new music that I like but I figure 25 years of listening is the baseline qualification for a “favourite”

Sarah Manvel with a🪝for a 🖐️ @cairdiul.bsky.social · 17h

Define your musical taste in 8 artists

Morphine
TV on the Radio
Bruce Springsteen
They Might Be Giants
Lorde
Ministry
Big Maybelle
Soul Coughing

Forgive me for being alive in the nineties and having two ears connected to a heart

j-e-l 🎃🎄🦇 @jelbugle.bsky.social · 1d

Define your musical taste in 8 artists:

- Aespa
- Disembodied Tyrant
- Poison
- Megadeth
- Avril Lavigne
- Ano
- DragonForce
- The Carpenters

Impossible!

October 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM Everybody can reply

Inky

@inkythoughts.bsky.social

I have the highest respect for 3D artists, and your renders look absolutely amazing!

don't worry about style too much, you'll find it with time 💜

October 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM Everybody can reply

Guggenheim Collection

@guggenheim.bsky.social

Mechanical Forms by Fernand Léger, 1919
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137646

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Hilla Rebay Collection

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

October 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM Everybody can reply

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Atana's art and comics

@atana-s.bsky.social

I wish I could go but this is so far from Spain 😭 You're one of my favourite artists ever. I hope one day I can see one of your exhibitions. I keep zooming in to see all the details ❤️

October 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM Everybody can reply