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@nollthere.bsky.social

Artist of wildlife, fantasy, and fears | Musician | πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ | Creating for games https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/nollgriffin

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I'm writing one book, yes, but what about second book? Book on the side that doesn't really have a plot yet? Secret book I won't tell anyone about for a while? Book that persists only in my imaginings as I fall asleep every night? You've heard about those, haven't you?

02.03.2026 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

02.03.2026 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2726    πŸ” 876    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 13
Photo of watercolor/colored pencil art, of a vaguely abstract half of a dove growing into and between spring flowers.

Photo of watercolor/colored pencil art, of a vaguely abstract half of a dove growing into and between spring flowers.

Would've loved to keep this for myself but it's going out for a good cause instead! #postcardartexhibit26

02.03.2026 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Art Challenges: March 2–8

Monday, March 2
#BlueSkyMonday (anything blue)
#MacroMonday (any macro)
#MountainMonday (mountains)
#MinimalMonday (minimalism)
#ColorADay (#PinkMon)

Tuesday, March 3
#RockinTuesday (rocks)
#TidesOutTuesday 
#TagTuesday (graffiti/street art)
#AnimalArtTuesday 
#ColorADay (#BlueTue or #CyanTue)

Wednesday, March 4
#WaterfallWednesday
#WindowsOnWednesday
#WallsOnWednesday
#WackyWednesdayArt
#ColorADay (#RedWed)

Thursday, March 5
#HumansOfBlueSky (people)
#UrbanGaze (anything urban)
#PalacesAndGardens (#FashionThroughTime)
#ColorADay (#YellowThu)

Friday, March 6
#Scape (any kind of scape)
#FishyFriday
#ForestFriday
#FoodOnFriday
#FlyDay (critters that fly)
#ColorADay (#BWFri)

Saturday, March 7
#BNWmacro
#ColorADay (#GreenSat)
#SmallBirdSaturday
#BlueSkyArtShow (#flowing)

Sunday, March 8
#Stunday (stunning)
#ImageAndVerse (photos with 
poems written by you or anyone)
#BNWmacro
#ColorADay (#OrangeSun)

ALL WEEK
#ArtYear (any art)
#ArtOfSelfPortraiture 
#BirdOfTheDay (see Alan H or Rob Crank for daily prompt)
#ClassicMono (monochrome)
#MixedMedia52 (#scribe)* 
#ShowHeart (hearts)
#Abstractia (#faces)
#AlphabetChallenge (#WeekIForInteriors)
#SensoryArt (#time)

*2 or more mediums

Compiled by @handcranked.bsky.social
Questions? @young-spartacus.bsky.social

Art Challenges: March 2–8 Monday, March 2 #BlueSkyMonday (anything blue) #MacroMonday (any macro) #MountainMonday (mountains) #MinimalMonday (minimalism) #ColorADay (#PinkMon) Tuesday, March 3 #RockinTuesday (rocks) #TidesOutTuesday #TagTuesday (graffiti/street art) #AnimalArtTuesday #ColorADay (#BlueTue or #CyanTue) Wednesday, March 4 #WaterfallWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday #WallsOnWednesday #WackyWednesdayArt #ColorADay (#RedWed) Thursday, March 5 #HumansOfBlueSky (people) #UrbanGaze (anything urban) #PalacesAndGardens (#FashionThroughTime) #ColorADay (#YellowThu) Friday, March 6 #Scape (any kind of scape) #FishyFriday #ForestFriday #FoodOnFriday #FlyDay (critters that fly) #ColorADay (#BWFri) Saturday, March 7 #BNWmacro #ColorADay (#GreenSat) #SmallBirdSaturday #BlueSkyArtShow (#flowing) Sunday, March 8 #Stunday (stunning) #ImageAndVerse (photos with poems written by you or anyone) #BNWmacro #ColorADay (#OrangeSun) ALL WEEK #ArtYear (any art) #ArtOfSelfPortraiture #BirdOfTheDay (see Alan H or Rob Crank for daily prompt) #ClassicMono (monochrome) #MixedMedia52 (#scribe)* #ShowHeart (hearts) #Abstractia (#faces) #AlphabetChallenge (#WeekIForInteriors) #SensoryArt (#time) *2 or more mediums Compiled by @handcranked.bsky.social Questions? @young-spartacus.bsky.social

Your art challenge cheat sheet for Feb 23–Mar 1 is here! Make art, have fun.

See comments for host list.

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#ArtYear #dailyart #art #traditionalart #painting #drawing #onlybeautifulthings #artchallenge #artprompt

02.03.2026 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 112    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 5
Digital painting of two AdΓ©lie penguins on a snowy hill, obscured with blurring lines going down the image and backed by ghostly shadows of their own silhouettes.

Digital painting of two AdΓ©lie penguins on a snowy hill, obscured with blurring lines going down the image and backed by ghostly shadows of their own silhouettes.

Digital art of hazy, pink and purple clouds at sunset with streaks of lighter pink overlaid on top like the viewer is looking through a dirty or rain-streaked window.

Digital art of hazy, pink and purple clouds at sunset with streaks of lighter pink overlaid on top like the viewer is looking through a dirty or rain-streaked window.

not much new this week to put on main due to an embarrassing new fascination. let me post some old art that looks good together.
#Art

28.02.2026 03:52 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Love to all trans people right now. Furious on your behalf.
Y'all are my friends and family. I don't forgive anyone who treats you badly.

26.02.2026 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 227    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Another small Condor oil painting. "Ugly" vulture heads are fun to paint!

24.02.2026 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 233    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0
Digital painting modeled after a close-up of famous painting The Meeting on The Turret Stairs by Frederic William Burton, except it's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and Ser Duncan has his bleeding face against Prince Baelor's armor-clad arm.

Digital painting modeled after a close-up of famous painting The Meeting on The Turret Stairs by Frederic William Burton, except it's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and Ser Duncan has his bleeding face against Prince Baelor's armor-clad arm.

jumped on the trend of famous paintings turned #akotsk
with one of my all-time faves: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mee...
i am so normal about devotion and also textures.
#art

24.02.2026 05:42 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

*saying affirmations in the mirror* I am a big horse. I am a beautiful horse with powerful legs. I am fifteen hands tall. No one can catch me because of my powerful horse legs and wild nature. I have all the apples I want

22.02.2026 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1847    πŸ” 546    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 24
Digital painting modeled after a close-up of famous painting The Meeting on The Turret Stairs by Frederic William Burton, except it's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and Ser Duncan has his bleeding face against Prince Baelor's armor-clad arm.

Digital painting modeled after a close-up of famous painting The Meeting on The Turret Stairs by Frederic William Burton, except it's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and Ser Duncan has his bleeding face against Prince Baelor's armor-clad arm.

jumped on the trend of famous paintings turned #akotsk
with one of my all-time faves: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mee...
i am so normal about devotion and also textures.
#art

24.02.2026 05:42 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A digital illustration of the world’s largest terrestrial arthropod, the Coconut Crab. It’s a beefy articulated tank of a beast: heavy and strong-looking claws and long legs emerging from under a roundish domed carapace, with a vaguely comical head segment and two long antennae amid all that. Colored in shades of brown and blue with linear striations along all its limbs and spots on its carapace. A speech balloon with a very long tail that wraps around one of the crab’s legs reads β€˜maybe it will happen today’. You should look up some coconut crab images soon.

A digital illustration of the world’s largest terrestrial arthropod, the Coconut Crab. It’s a beefy articulated tank of a beast: heavy and strong-looking claws and long legs emerging from under a roundish domed carapace, with a vaguely comical head segment and two long antennae amid all that. Colored in shades of brown and blue with linear striations along all its limbs and spots on its carapace. A speech balloon with a very long tail that wraps around one of the crab’s legs reads β€˜maybe it will happen today’. You should look up some coconut crab images soon.

02.05.2025 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 506    πŸ” 106    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4
Digital art of a buff, naked white man from behind in a powerful stance, holding a giant flower in front of him with a vinelike stem that wraps around his lower body.

Digital art of a buff, naked white man from behind in a powerful stance, holding a giant flower in front of him with a vinelike stem that wraps around his lower body.

Okay I love snow so much but even I was getting a little tired of it. So I drew this. Spoiler because butts.
#Art

21.02.2026 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
In the centre is a digital painting of Cyrus, a muscular Black man with long red dreadlocks and beard, kissing Niko, a light-skinned slim man with long wavy navy hair, underwater. They are literally by a bright sun above the water. Text above and below read, "How I Approach Lighting, by Oliver Niko," on a painterly pink and blue background.

In the centre is a digital painting of Cyrus, a muscular Black man with long red dreadlocks and beard, kissing Niko, a light-skinned slim man with long wavy navy hair, underwater. They are literally by a bright sun above the water. Text above and below read, "How I Approach Lighting, by Oliver Niko," on a painterly pink and blue background.

✨ How I Approach Lighting ✨

Lighting is often praised as the highlight of my work and is something I love dearly. Continue onto the thread to read about how I've reached this point and what I consider to achieve such lighting!
(1/4)

22.02.2026 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

Yes please!

22.02.2026 01:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A blackwater photo of Chtenopteryx squid. It has translucent skin, but it is covered in brilliant orange chromatophores, which completely cover the mantle, most of the head, the upper arms and lower fins. Its arms and tentacles are neatly spread out. Its fins have fin ribs at regular intervals, making it look like a comb or a ruffle chip.

A blackwater photo of Chtenopteryx squid. It has translucent skin, but it is covered in brilliant orange chromatophores, which completely cover the mantle, most of the head, the upper arms and lower fins. Its arms and tentacles are neatly spread out. Its fins have fin ribs at regular intervals, making it look like a comb or a ruffle chip.

I will never get over how beautiful the ribbed fins of Chtenopteryx are.

Truly, they are nature's perfect ruffle chips.

πŸ¦‘πŸ“·Steven Kovacs

21.02.2026 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 321    πŸ” 110    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

Might have to make a side account for fan art for the first or second time in my life.

21.02.2026 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy birthday!

21.02.2026 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A light grey colored flamingo chick standing on one foot with its little wings outspread. It is standing on a nest mound and an adult is standing right behind it with one foot on either side of the chick. The adult has a green band on its leg with the number 31 in white. The tail end of another flamingo can be seen in the background, blurred, as it sits on another nest mound.

A light grey colored flamingo chick standing on one foot with its little wings outspread. It is standing on a nest mound and an adult is standing right behind it with one foot on either side of the chick. The adult has a green band on its leg with the number 31 in white. The tail end of another flamingo can be seen in the background, blurred, as it sits on another nest mound.

A wee flamingo chick practicing its newfound ability to balance on one foot, with mom watching closely πŸ₯°πŸ¦©

#Birds #BirdOfTheDay #OneLeg #BabyBirds #Flamazing #Flamboyance #Photography #TracyAviary #BlueSkyArtShow #Two #Family

21.02.2026 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 217    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1
Digital art of a buff, naked white man from behind in a powerful stance, holding a giant flower in front of him with a vinelike stem that wraps around his lower body.

Digital art of a buff, naked white man from behind in a powerful stance, holding a giant flower in front of him with a vinelike stem that wraps around his lower body.

Okay I love snow so much but even I was getting a little tired of it. So I drew this. Spoiler because butts.
#Art

21.02.2026 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tunic, Night in the Woods Publisher Says TikTok Is Creating and Running Racist GenAI Ads for Its Games Without Permission - IGN Publisher Finji says that TikTok has been using generative AI to modify its ads on the platform without permission and pushing those ads to its users without Finji's knowledge, including at least one ...

what the fuck man www.ign.com/articles/tun...

20.02.2026 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 184    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 7
photo of a close up of a beech tree with thin dried cream-colored leaves still attached. a thin branch is going horizontally across the photo and has a infected carpenter ant attached with fine hairs of ophiocordyceps fungi coming out from the head.

photo of a close up of a beech tree with thin dried cream-colored leaves still attached. a thin branch is going horizontally across the photo and has a infected carpenter ant attached with fine hairs of ophiocordyceps fungi coming out from the head.

close up photo of the infected ant silhouetted against a light background. the ant has branching fungi protruding downwards from the head making up 4 "points" to borrow some antler terminology.

close up photo of the infected ant silhouetted against a light background. the ant has branching fungi protruding downwards from the head making up 4 "points" to borrow some antler terminology.

found this glorious Ophiocordyceps kimflemingiae on my hike yesterday! it was one of the best branching fruiting bodies I've seen.

#FungiFriends #Inverts #NaturePhotography #Hiking

20.02.2026 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Friendly reminder that I’m editing people’s books for free rn!! Which maybe sounds too good to be true, but I promise, it IS true!

Full disclosure: my editorial business is very, very, very new. But I’m a Poynter certified editor and I have a college degree in writing, so I’m qualified! 😊

20.02.2026 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

To anyone that needs clarification, "your best" is what you can accomplish without damage to your physical, mental and emotional health, not what you can accomplish by destroying them

01.02.2026 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2716    πŸ” 1487    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 67

Thank you! :D

20.02.2026 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
multiple art references of hand, featuring long pink nails.

multiple art references of hand, featuring long pink nails.

Hey artists, TrueRef is looking for your input!

Complete a quick survey, and get a set of free hand references along with 25% off site wide!

Link: form.typeform.com/to/QkENrL10

12.02.2026 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1460    πŸ” 446    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 2
Digital art of a pale woman in an orange gown looking out a stone tower window. Her face is contorted by a ring of large, brown mushrooms surrounding one tired eye, and mycelium hair streams down from her head and the window.

Digital art of a pale woman in an orange gown looking out a stone tower window. Her face is contorted by a ring of large, brown mushrooms surrounding one tired eye, and mycelium hair streams down from her head and the window.

funguary week 2 - fairy tale
finally!
#art

19.02.2026 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
a ink drawing of a man tackling another man swinging a sword by grabbing him around the waist and putting his face in his crotch

a ink drawing of a man tackling another man swinging a sword by grabbing him around the waist and putting his face in his crotch

swordfighting tactics, germany, 16th century

19.02.2026 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 9159    πŸ” 2357    πŸ’¬ 236    πŸ“Œ 797

This one's my favorite as well

19.02.2026 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A woman wearing a white hijab is riding a flying European Roller (bird). 
The colours of the bird are turquoise, brown, and a purble-ish blue.
The background is gold.

A woman wearing a white hijab is riding a flying European Roller (bird). The colours of the bird are turquoise, brown, and a purble-ish blue. The background is gold.

The "European" Roller is a migratory bird.
One can find it for exampe in Syria or Afghanistan.

Only humans build borders.
No human is illegal.

#illustration πŸͺΆ
#KleineKunstKlasse

ko-fi.com/s/cb0105297f

23.05.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 141    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2