Bianca M. Balan

May moonlight guide you!

Happy Halloween from the Crossroads!🎃

May you have a bewitching eve, and thank you for all your support of Hades II and our team. 🌒🌕🌘

Artwork of a fantasy archer with 6 arms knocking back an arrow on her wooden bow. She has pointed ears, long blue hair and many white freckles all over her body. She is wearing a sleeveless blue top, an orange and purple sash and blue skirts, and has a several-winged face decoration at her ear, a flower and stone necklaces, a bird-shaped ocarina, an old dagger and one leather glove. There are also two colourful crows fighting over a dark piece of fruit, their eyes shining unnaturally. The colours show it's night-time.

Happy I managed to finish week 2 of #cursedrelics before the end of the month ✨🍻
Definitely let myself play around with rendering techniques and colours for this challenge, and used it as a way to decompress from work.

Can't wait to render the final one!

#cursedrelics2025 #fantasyart #oc

The song is: Holly Amber Church- Cabinet of Curiosities Main Title

Zofia and the Exarch of the Dream Timelapse

#arttimelapse #horror #fantasyart #oc

One thing I've learned from taking part in an art challenge is how difficult it is to resist the temptation of other ideas that pop up.
As much as I'm enjoying the challenge, I'm absolutely dying to draw fanart of Thimble and Octis 💀

Thank you too for sharing 🙏

So, so gorgeous

Artwork depicting one of my OCs Zofia in the embrace of the Last Exarch of the Dream, who is trying to keep her in an endless sleep. Zofia is an older muscular woman with pale skin on which she has lunar scars. She also has long brown hair with greying streaks and wears a yellow sleeveless top, a blue skirt, banner symbols tied to her waist, as well as a pearl and fish necklace and a crystal necklace. The Exarch has light purple skin and a skull head with a glowing blue eye. It also has several clawed and skeletal hands sprawled into a wing and on the other side one holding a scythe made from a ribcage that ends in a blade with the stages of the moon depicted on it. The scythe also has an eclipse orb at the end. The Exarch wears an abyss crown and a starry cloak. Behind them there is a starry night sky.

#cursedrelics week 1 finally rendered ✨
Prompts: abyss crown, eclipse orb, moonlight scythe, lunar scars and starry cloak

#cursedrelics2025 #digitalpainting #fantasyart #monsterart #creaturedesign #horrorart #fantasycharacter

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Book cover featuring a girl on a black horse with black and golden scales. They are threatened by the shadow of a Centurion.

Cover reveal for Ann Leonard's "Cold Moon"! It was such a pleasure for me painting this cover! <3
#coverreveal #artist

The worldbuilder 👌
Still learning a lot about crafting magic systems, but thankfully VIS has a soft magic system that revolves around dreaming.

The song is: Moonbeam Rider by Slugabed.

Berry: Damn, Figboy, were you born such a hater?
Figboy: You fucking made me!

#timelapse #animation #oc

That last fish scene is so relatable

Big, big fan of the way you draw glowy eyes too. Totally not spooked...

Study of a snake

#daily 46: #study snake

Artwork of one my the OCs from my surrealist project VIS about dreams. Figboy has the body of a man and the head of fig and he ripens as the day goes on, going from surly and temperamental, to a constant sigh, to eventually grinning and loving and ready to party. In this artwork he is green and has an annoyed expression. There is graffiti around him, including his name at the bottom.

Figboy in his unripe, early morning state.
You know, as he stares at you from behind the rim of his black coffee, that he'll happily bite your head off if you as much as say 'hello'.

#oc #fantasyart #graffitti

So true, it's one of the best parts of being an artist. Glad you enjoy it too

You can tell you enjoy it from how well you do it. Really love Bluesky because I constantly find artist like yourself that teach me how to be better 🙏

So, so stunning! Never hit follow as quickly as that

a digital pencil drawing of a black crowned night heron in red. it has VERY large feet. text says "its ok to be a weird little guy."

Digital art of three goldfish swimming between lilypads and willow leaves. The words "Art Share" are written across it.

I recently hit 3.8k, so let's have a celebratory

🪷 ART SHARE 🪷

• share this post for visibility
• comment with your art
• try to use Alt Text
• tell us about yourself & your art
• share & comment on other people's art
• no AI
• no hit and run

#artistsupport #artshare

Absolutely in love with these 4 pieces, especially the Gorgon

I really love the ethereal mood you captured in these 4 artworks. Gives an otherworldly/nostalgic feeling.

Thank you so much ❤️ Reggie is definitely one of my favourites to draw because of his attitude

Astral Self Monk Anaiya A muscular woman with golden skin and curly, red hair tied up with a scarf Her pose is intimidating, with her arms crossed over her chest. She is wearing a blue tank top and blue robes at her waist which as swirling to the side, making way for a wave of water travelling upwards. She also has a mask at her waist, earrings, a beaded necklace, a knot necklace and ankle beads. Her astral arms are also very muscular, one of them on her hip and the other holding a large spear with several tassels and decorations hanging from it.

Male tiefling fighter, wielding a flaming mace. The tiefling is red with large horns and long, black hair and is wearing a full plate of armour with furs on the right side, leather boots and robes tied to the waist. There is ash in the air around him.

Coffee-Shop owner Reggie the Husky from VIS Reggie is a brown husky and is wearing a baggy hoodie in yellow, teal and beige. He's holding one of his famous Bull coffees. Behind him there is graffiti and his name at the top right.

Cam and Remy, the Ruleweaver and the Artist from VIS, depicted leaning close to each other to light each other's cigarettes. Cam is made from copper with patina and has dark, red hair and glowing eyes. He is wearing a sleeveless hoodie and has his arms crossed over his chest. Remy has skin that is made from roiling colours as if paint pours and is wearing a grey vest. Behind them there is a spray painted love heart.

Congratulations on 3.8k! What an achievement ✨
My name is Bianca and I'm a Romanian character artist with two personal world building projects in the works, one about a Dreamworld and its keepers and the other a mythic fantasy.
Looking forward to getting inspired by this thread!

Sketch featuring two female characters inside a wooden-panelled room with bound stars hanging from the ceiling, as well as a main star centrepiece with bells at its end. The more muscular woman is holding a more slender woman up as they dance. The slender woman has 6 arms, dark blue hair with water plants tied into it, pale skin, and is wearing a navy dress with a high collar, navy fingerless gloves on two of her arms and a pale belt to which a portal key and a water skin with a dragon crest tied to it. The muscular woman has rosy skin and long brown hair with gray streaks and colourful bits of ribbon tied into a braid on her right side, and a forget me not flower behind her left ear. She is wearing a purple jerkin with blue and lime green accents, as well as purple trousers tucked into thigh-high leather boots. Tied to her waist she has a gourd containing a solar elixir and an urn of a demonic creature, held up by two green frogs.

#cursedrelics week 3 🗝️⚱️🐉☀️

For this sketch I wanted to bring Fien and Zofia together, and what better way than the Lughnasadh celebration? Plenty of dancing and laughing, hot food and cold ale, games and tender moments.

#oc #sapphicromance #sapphicfantasy

I don't usually post political things but the Green Party's Zach Polanski is giving me hope for the future of the UK. With Labour pandering to the Reform voters and Reform sowing hatred and division, this man feels like the first voice to actually call out the real issues and fight to fix them.

Selene

Character Full Render Commission Type, showing three artworks: a red tiefling male fighter wielding a flaming mace; a human monk of the astral self, astral arms weilding a large spear; two Tabaxi, one a druid and the other a paladin of the crown.

Character Sheet Commission Type, showing a bust, half-body and full body cell-shaded render of 3 characters, as well as 4 different props and 3 expressions

Character Sketch Commission Type, showing the same female changeling, first as a plain sketch and then with colours, shadows and highlights added on.

Dipping my toes into #Vgen with these three types of commissions.
This gobbo here is super excited to rub her paintbrushes together and give you and other adventurers a piece of her art and a cheeky +1 on your rolls!

#artcommissions #fantasyart #characterdesign