Kerston ✍️🩵

First #art in months, woohoo! Proud of myself for picking up my (apple) pencil again. A little #portraitstudy to get back into the groove ✨️ #artsky #procreate #digitalart #characterart

[oc] lady lilith.

i tried painting her from different angles and try to keep her look the same. Its fckin hard xD

[ #art #oc #ocsky #procreate #tiefling ]

digital illustration of a coral reef. occupants of the reef include titan trigger fish, cleaner wrasse, butterfly fish, box jellyfish, foxface rabbitfish, moray eel, dusky gregory, clownfish, parrotfish, garden eels, crabs, ray, octopus, and crown of thorns starfish.

coral reefs are one of the most fascinating ecosystems on our planet!! been watching a bunch of documentaries about them, so i had to draw a little snippet of one.

(also a non-square illustration so i hope it posts okay!)

I’m so grateful for all the support this year 💖
To celebrate 1000 followers, I’m giving away an commission slot! ( •̀ ω •́ )✧

To join:
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Ends Sept 13th!
I'm grateful for this amazing and talented community! 🥹

#bg3 #baldursgate3 #bg3fanart #artraffle #dnd

A four-panel comic highlighting the brutality of shark finning and human indifference: Panel 1: A shark with its fins cut off, bleeding, and a knife nearby. Caption: "They hacked off my fins alive. It didn't kill me, it just crippled me." Panel 2: The shark sinking into the ocean, finless and bleeding. Caption: "They dumped me into the sea... to await a slow and painful death." Panel 3: The shark lies on the ocean floor, suffering. Caption: "I thought it was because of human vanity." Panel 4: Two people in a restaurant, one looking at a menu, the other upset. Caption: "There's fin..." "Don't make a scene!" Lower caption: "But it's just the menu."

Shark finning is a cruel practice that causes immense suffering and a slow, lingering death - all for a bowl of soup 🍲

🎨 Just Comics

#SharkAwarenessDay 🦈

An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below).

If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.

Retro videogame inspired art, my beloved.
#myart #characterart #highfantasy #devil #devilart #jrpg #charachterdesign

Thank you!! I found the reference photo on Pinterest and I just had to draw them 💜🥹

Digital portrait of a young man with golden, shoulder-length hair, slightly bent forward to smile at the orange cat standing on his shoulders.

My OC Xanthos with his cat Ermanos (he's that kind of cat that's an absolute dick to everyone but his owner) 💜 definitely missed drawing my characters!

#art #artsky #ocsky #myocs #digitalart #characterdesign #cats #ocart #originalcharacters

Im so sick of going to conventions and seeing authors using AI generated filth for their book covers. Instant turn off. I have no interest or respect for your writing if you have no respect for artists.

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Character portrait of a white haired girl facing sideways

Cover design of a Dutch TTRPG zine called 'Roll for Inspiration'

Digital drawing of a bearded vulture atop a rams skull

Digital illustration of a girl floating in the sea surrounded by a school of manta rays

Hi #PortfolioDay ! ✨️🩵

I'm Kerston and I do illustrations and occasionally cover design. I love making fantasy and marine themed art.

Sounds great indeed, whenever I find my energy back to do art I wanna do the same 💜

These look so good already aaaaah

if i see one more artist call themselves "content creator" or their art "content" i am going to throw something brittle at the wall. call it what it is!!!!!!!! u are an ARTIST. u r making ART. im begging u!!!!!!!!!!

Digital artwork of a woman representing the North. She wears blue and red clothing and holds a chunk of barley.

Digital artwork of a woman representing the East. She wears yellow and red clothing and holds a burning incense stick in her hand.

Digital artwork of a woman representing the South. She wears a bright blue tunic, a red headscarf and an orange sash. She holds a brown amphora.

Digital artwork of a woman representing the West. She wears a blue dress and an embroidered vest and she holds a yellow fan in her hand.

🌬 North, East, South, West

A little art series I made some eyars ago. It was fun combining elements of traditional clothing from all kinds of cultures ✨️

#art #artsky #digitalart

Finished a character ref!! I'll be on team crystals this year on artfight 😤
#characterart #myoc #myocs #artfight

If you have no moral objection to producing your book cover with AI then why the hell would I believe you didn't use AI to write your gd book ✨️

check your values! illustrations should be legible and readable and should work composition-wise in both black-and-white and colour 🙏 i always use a fully black layer over the illustration set to colour layer mode to do this

If you don't know what colors to use for a piece, try out a random color palette generator online (e.g. coolors.co). Perfect for getting inspiration and trying out different combinations ✨️

After noticing patterns over the years, I created this list with 13 points to score the level of stereotypes about sharks present in a work. I believe that most of these stereotypes have their main origin in the film Jaws (1975). With the scarcity of works that explore other creative approaches to sharks, beyond the “man-eating ” narrative, Jaws ended up consolidating itself as the greatest source of inspiration and creative reference for many productions to this day. This was called “The Jaws Effect”. I've noticed that certain patterns in the creative world repeat themselves to the point of being tedious, which bothers me. Not because they're bad, but because in many cases they're harmful. With these points, I hope to show sharks in a new light.

Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of Jaws

🩸🦈I made a list to score, with 13 levels of stereotypes about sharks, I hope it is useful for those who want to create works beyond the fear ingrained by Jaws and seek new creative representations of sharks.

#shark #jaws #jaws50thanniversary #jaws50

Wow such a milestone 😂 thanks, I was wondering the same thing

I read this twelve times and I still don't understand what you're trying to say lol

Such great loot! ✨️👏 Thanks for stopping by and getting my cat sticker!

A mermaid swims towards the viewer through lilipads and duckweed. She holds out a glowing, enchanted sword, staring mysteriously up at the viewer.

The Offering 🗡 (at a price) #art

I don’t want to be a content creator. I don’t want to be thinking about when is the best time to post or what is the best type of content to post for maximum engagement. I just want to be an artist and I just want to make art.

Waaaah this is so cool!!

QRP with your header art ✨️

My #oc Melissa💙 #art

Digital portrait of a young woman with a rusty green background.

Digital painting study from last year ✨️ #art #artstudy #digitalart #procreate #digitalportraits