Kristina Gehrmann

Sistah Samurai, the novel's main character, chilling on a meadow under a cherry tree in sunny weather, and looking very happy and content. She wears a light kimono with a flower pattern, and her swords lie next to her. She is listening to music from a teal colored walkman.

"Happy Place", endpaper illustration I drew for "Sistah Samurai" by @obeytheauthor.bsky.social .

For the special edition published by @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social !😊

In my 13th year of fulltime freelancing now, I'm not sure either how that happened, but I do think sometimes it's kinda crazy and involved a lot of luck.
On the other hand, I couldn't imagine what it's like being employed 😅

Finding & working with clients (a thread)

This is a general approach which should be broadly applicable. Although I’ll primarily be using book covers as an example, this approach should work for TTRPGs, TCGs, games, film, etc. to varying degrees depending on the industry and its needs.

damn, that sounds nice 👀

I do wanna! but it's not available in my country yet

Digital painting of a merman with sparkly pastel pink fish tail. He is wearing a matching pastel pink headpiece made of sea plant, and his tail coils and spirals in an almost 8 shape, and his caudal fin fans downward.

#MerMay

(needs an email address tho - I can't find one on your socials)

I can send you an invite!

Before I go on Etsy, are there any laid-off game artists in my follower/repost pool who would be available for a custom DnD party art commission? Four characters, a few special requests, preferably by Christmas? DM me! I have money!

Some Meta parts are just broken and they no longer care, I think. Recently I had some Instagram DMs from 7 years ago appearing that I never saw before. So strange, and regrettable that people thought I wouldn't reply to them.
I've also experienced messages that did not send.

a digital painting of a young girl in viking-style dress, sorrounded by a fluttering group of crows. The background is a foggy, cold, branble area of sorts with dried grass at her feet and her dress is a muted jean-blue. She has a woven belt, a pouch hanging off it and a fur cloak around her shoulders. there is some viking style brass jewelery around her neck. Her hair is blonde , tied back and she has short bangs. There is a determined exúression on her face and her fists are clenched as if getting ready to stand her ground. At the bottom of the page, there is a copyright bar reading: © Studio Agate 2025, Shadows of Esteren: Dearg 2, Charlie "Newt" Borovský 2023 @EyeOfTheNewt

"Heiress of the Crow Prince"

Another lovely vertical format I had the pleasure to paint for Studio Agate back in 2023.

AD: Aude Chenevas-Paule

A digital painting of a large tree in fall. A figure walks through a creek in the foreground, surrounded by fallen leaves.

Autumn’s Waning 🍂

screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

Hey all, do I have any UK based concept artists following me (or who knows anyone) who would be up for a long term 22 month contract working on Dragonwilds at Jagex? Remote with a very occasional day in office in Cambridge. Development experience and fantasy genre work is a must. Mid level role.

a black and white drawing of a person laying on a bench with their feet up and a sign that says 2 feet ALT: a black and white drawing of a person laying on a bench with their feet up and a sign that says 2 feet

SmallBu is looking for a freelance BG artist for a new animated project!

-multi month job
-must have significant prior experience working professionally on animation/game BGs
-must have several examples available online portfolio
-no students

Link your portfolio of BG work here if ur interested!

I haven't seen a post like this going around yet, so I'll make it myself! EU-based artists, tell us what you sell and drop a link to your shop in the replies ❤️

Everyone else: please spread the thread and check out the artists if you want to support human made art this holiday season 🌟

#shopsmall

The regular timeline is chronological, no algorithm. So it doesn't really matter!

Pleather corset with handmade finger bones and glowing eyes.

I just realized I haven't been sharing any of my own work, oops! I call this the creeper corset- I figured if I was going to get ogled for wearing a corset I'd be sure something was staring back. The bone beads were a fun challenge! #darkart #horror

How can one not be Utterly Enchanted with this perfect baby 😭

Illustration of an elven red head man with a forest and runes tattooed on his chest and arms and a human woman taking a bath together

Lily and Thorne🧼🖤 illustration done for author Rhiannon Hargadon

#art #fantasy

Yay! Enjoy reading 😁

digital sketch of a fluffy white cat looking up at a glowing sparkle

✨

HELL YES CONGRATS 🎉

Elphaba and Glinda from Wicked sit on Elphie's broom together and embrace each other

Because I knew you 🩷💚
#wicked #gelphie #art

the 'clubs' they mentioned are a thing that just does NOT exist anymore. I honestly think that's the biggest hole

like, clubs, or lj comms, or single-interest forums just do not exist. Today you toss fanart/discussion onto an open sea and pray other fans will see it and engage, and if not, too bad

Framed art featuring ornate frames with handmade traditional art rendered in watercolor, ink, gold paint, etc.

If you've ever wanted to collect one of my originals, here's a great opportunity! I'm offering these pieces currently via the @changelingart.bsky.social's Deck the Halls auction with extremely fair starting bids.

Place your bids here by commenting on the images:
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Gotta say I love the imagination tho. Wondering what other interpretations the young'uns around the world have xD

Photo of a hand holding a book opened, showing an horizontal illustration painted by Eleonor Piteira for the book 'Fallen City' by Adrienne Young. On the left side of the illustration, a man with shoulder-length dark hair is wearing Greco-roman inspired armour and a red cape, with a broken coin necklace. The background is made of broken mosaics framed by two columns and an archway, and on the foreground the silhouette of a city burns while birds fly away. On the right side of the illustration, a woman with long wavy dark hair wearing a pale off-shoulder Ancient Greek-inspired dress, with a coin necklace. The background is made of mosaics framed by two columns and an archway, and on the foreground the silhouette of a city burns.

Here's the endpaper illustration I painted for @adriennebooks.bsky.social 's 'Fallen City' ☀️

A green Snorlax sitting in some tall grass with trees in the background. Golden light frames the sleeping Pokemon, moss as grown over this rip van winkle goobermon

So I saw the new Snorlax 🪴

A painting on wood cut in the shape of a cathedral panel. The painting depicts a mausoleum in a dark swampy forest. The mausoleum is surrounded by lit candles, with a pile of small bones at the entrance. The door is slightly cracked open.

Desecrated Grounds

Acrylic on panel (original sold)