Arka 🌸 Comic Artist

i just started sketching firewalker 3 revision too 😔✋

thanks for the boost, @callmerux.bsky.social!

my name is arka, a queer disabled illustrator. i make book covers and interiors. here are some of my works for personal projects

Tumblr post screen capture by nocryptographer about how to tell AI slop from a story that was created by a human being.

If the writer’s eyes light up when asked, “why did the character do that?” then it’s real.

drawing of a man, pale skin, dark hair with two straigh horns protuding from his head. He's looking as smug as always in a Romanian ie, holding his staff? spear? weapon thingie.

Lil fanart of @rkrn.me 's Somes from her comic Solomon's Ledger (which you guys should totally read wink wonk)

I love him

A digital drawing of a unicorn made of opal trapped in a boulder covered with vines of morning glories as parts of its legs break off in segments. An armored blue-skinned woman with long black hair blowing in the breeze places a hand over the rock as she sheds a single tear. A sword with a guard made of gold unicorn heads is buried halfway into the grass behind her. Several small yellow flowers dot the scene as the sunset colors the clouds pink and purple.

remembered in opal

My Matcha Witch sitting on a rock surrounded by water and aquatic plant life and just plants in general. There's also two lanterns.

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this is gorgeous! ramadan kareem!

The finished headscarf! The indigo is a tradition of the Tuareg people (like Ousmane, the OC I threw into this historical AU to fit @taplingzines.bsky.social queer history zine), and the color was so rich and fun to paint

(Even though it did take me 3 hours 🫠)

#OCSky #Watercolor #Acuarela #ArtWIP

HOMO (happy on missing out)

A graphic design like illustration featuring murder of crows, dagger, peonies and a ribbon that says 'murder them with kindness'

Ominously Kind Crows ⚔️💕

#originalart

a commissioned illustration of an original character undead tiefling lich boi named Casimir pondering around a graveyard

| By The Grave |

Commission for the lovely @gainstrive.bsky.social of their OC Casimir. Had a lot of fun! Thank you so much! 💕

sounds heavenly! i hope you had fun!!

people who do physical sports and stuff are always talking about how fun it is despite it being difficult and effortful. snowboarders are literally slamming into rocks and breaking their wrists and shit And being like man i love snowboarding. I think this is a good mentality for artists to have too

Sakura season soon! ( wallpaper link in bio! )

An illustration of Claudia, Lestat and Louis from the TV show Interview With the Vampire. They are gathered around a dining table in their house in Rue Royale, holding up glasses of what is presumably blood. The mood between them is tense.

A comic page depicting a scene from the Interview With the Vampire novel, not previously adapted by the TV show. In it, Lestat yells at Louis for not being able to accept his vampire nature.

A comic page depicting a scene from the Interview With the Vampire novel, not previously adapted by the TV show. In narration, Louis describes the intensity and horror of his dreams as a vampire.

Dear @annerice.amc.com and @iwtvwriters.bsky.social please hire me to draw an IWTV graphic novel, I have the credentials and I think it would make my 14-year-old self reach nirvana... also I really enjoyed drawing that blond man freaking out... #IWTV#InterviewWithTheVampire

the things i see on the internet 😔

Artwork of a star entity with long flowing golden hair wearing golden accessories. She has a golden halo behind her. Character belongs to @soluumis

esmée 💫

#vgencomm #solismée #art #ocsky #commission

not to brag but i know each one of my artist friend's ship, style, and preferences. if i want to commission something specific, i know where i'm going. i don't need some machine making me slop.

this isn't like buying a commission from an artist. you can't replicate an artist's style, just like you can't replicate a homemade grandma recipe. my mom's been cooking for almost as long as she's alive yet she can't make my grandma's signature sambal. instead, she develops her own signature sambal

i don't understand the point of commissioning an AI "artist". it's redundant. i can just use the AI myself. heck, i CAN DRAW it myself.

this is like buying factory made mac n cheese for 100 times the price. i can just go to the grocery store for cheaper. or better, make it from scratch.

Illustration of a catacomb saint; a bejeweled and decorated skeleton. #kimgakaku

Hot Skeletons in your Area, Pt.VII

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

#onmyoji
ともだち

because they don't think writers are providing them those stories, instead to them AO3 is a fanfic-production machine

⭐✨𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗛 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗨𝗣⭐✨

Before our pre-orders opening on March 9th, we are excited to show you the lineup of amazing merchandise that will be tied-in to the anthology. Mark your calendar and don't miss out!

#phaidei #厄敌 #ファイモス
👇our artists & more info

Sweetness keeps both our tongues and our hearts sharp.

#WutheringWaves 
#LuukHerssen

FFXIV Fourchenault

Fourchenault for the FFXIV playing card deck today
#FFXIV

People will be like “AO3 gives me life” and then say they don’t read works in progress, don’t comment because they “don’t know what to say”, and actively despair when fics get abandoned and writers quit writing.

YouTube video by Genshin Impact Cutscene Animation: "The Dragon-Slaying That Fate Set Aside" | Genshin Impact #GenshinImpact #Varka

Cutscene Animation: "The Dragon-Slaying That Fate Set Aside" | Genshin Impact
#GenshinImpact #VarkaTheLegend

youtu.be/Ly2c4oPZHLU

No turn of fate can change the character a person already carries. But sometimes, it can make the ending a little less tragic.

mom had a motorbike accident. can this year just. NOT???