Helio 🔆

Blood Angel, 2026
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#Fairy #FantasyArt #GothicArt #blood #art

Commission for MistyFox
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#digitalArt #art #commission #jester

WOAH five whole pixels! :0

In the years since I began to write about Earthsea I’ve changed, of course, and so have the people who read the books. All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think. It’s unsettling. For all our delight in the impermanent, the entrancing flicker of electronics, we also long for the unalterable. We cherish the old stories for their changelessness. Arthur dreams eternally in Avalon. Bilbo can go “there and back again,” and “there” is always the beloved familiar Shire. Don Quixote sets out forever to kill a windmill… So people turn to the realms of fantasy for stability, ancient truths, immutable simplicities. And the mills of capitalism provide them. Supply meets demand. Fantasy becomes a commodity, an industry. Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivialises. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their action to violence, their actors to dolls, and their truth- telling to sentimental platitude. Heroes brandish their swords, lasers, wands, as mechanically as combine harvesters, reaping profits. Profoundly disturbing moral choices are sanitized, made cute, made safe. The passionately conceived ideas of the great story-tellers are copied, advertised, sold, broken, junked, replaceable, interchangeable.

What the commodifiers of fantasy count on and exploit is the insuperable imagination of the reader, child or adult, which gives even these dead things life—of a sort, for a while. Imagination like all living things lives now, and it lives with, from, on true change. Like all we do and have, it can be co-opted and degraded; but it survives commercial and didactic exploitation. The land outlasts the empires. The conquerors may leave desert where there was forest and meadow, but the rain will fall, the rivers will run to the sea. The unstable, mutable, untruthful realms of Once-upon-a-time are as much a part of human history and thought as the nations in our kaleidoscopic atlases, and some are more enduring. We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don’t live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. Enchantment alters with age, and with the age. We know a dozen different Arthurs now, all of them true. The Shire changed irrevocably even in Bilbo’s lifetime. Don Quixote went riding out to Argentina and met Jorge Luis Borges there. Plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change.

Urusla Le Guin, from the foreword of Tales of Earthsea

Seems particularly apt for the current era, which seems to be waging a war on thought itself.

little 1hr painting test - another professor from Grimwood, this time Baldair the street-magician turned illusions professor :]
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#fantasyArt #OCart #D&D

some littol character sketches I did based off some lovely photo reference i bought from @adorkastock.com :3
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#fantasyart #sketches #originalcharacter

Thank you again 💛 I can't get over how beautiful this turned out

finally getting around to drawing some of the other characters around Grimwood Academy.

Meet Shahjahan and Olivia :3
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#oc #originalcharacter #characterdesign #worldbuilding

info on the raffle; toyhou.se/37508339.the...

character design for a toyhouse raffle ^_^
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#characterdesign #fantasyart #dnd

Contemplating the Cycles
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#Furry #FurryArt #GothicArt

character design trade for a user on discord
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#commission #artrade #characterdesign #custom

HELLO I am open for work in animation as a BG Artist! I have over 3 years as a Bg painter for TV animation, and experience as a BG lead at Princess Bento!
I’m based in NZ, but capable of working remotely and adjusting to different time zones

✨ Http://fishwitches.art

✨ zoecroberts93@gmail.com

Blood Angel, 2026
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#Fairy #FantasyArt #GothicArt #blood #art

yay im so glad you like them ^_^ I'm so happy I was able to catch up with the campaign, your DM-ing is the best!

So excited for Daggerheart! Hope you and the gang are doing well :D

and some crops of the renders bc i like how they turned out~

(sorry bodger i ran out of steam, hopefully more in the future)

I've finally caught up with @vivaladirtleague.bsky.social's Azerim campaign - only a couple months late :'D

Enjoy some doodles of the gang I did while watching! I love my morons <3
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#vivaladirtleague #vldl #vldldnd #dnd #epicNPCman

this is my fav piece I did in 2025 :]

another tiny Rust, gonna clip him to my bag like a labubu
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#truedetective #rustcohle #chibi

meet the artist 2025 except I literally tell you nothing
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#meettheartist #artmeme #art #selfportrait #digitalart

"I tell myself I bear witness"
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#truedetective #truedetectivefanart #rustcohle #art #fanart #sketch

Alderbarran and Nyx

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#art #fantasyart #ocart #fairy #digitalart

haha i often frankenstein refs together like this XD even funnier when using doubles of the same model (or yourself!)

Lyra Wisteria Goldlily - Daughter of Aurelien and Nymphaea

New langurhali design bc i love them so much haha :'D
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#furryart #furry #anthro #langurhali #angel

trying to listen to my art block and it wants me to work on my realism skills so, drawing more portraits of characters from the story im writing/wanting to write.

this are lots of things im not happy with on this drawing but its def an improvement and felt enjoyable to draw,, for once

random photo studies

first experimental com yay! thank u leafy!
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#commission #furry #anthro #furryart

drew one of my partners as a werewolf -w-
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#halloween #werewolf

soldier is hot and im tired of pretending he's not. that is all.
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#tf2 #tf2soldier #pinup