Josh Purple

Josh Purple

@joshpurple.bsky.social

Freelance artist https://www.artstation.com/joshpurple

9,063 Followers 8,318 Following 1,894 Posts Joined Dec 2024
2 months ago
In short, I showed the dragon's face, and I'm not going to play noble: put a couple of likes for me and we're even. But seriously, it's very difficult to make body renderings when there are such huge wings, and also when the model is not small. The model is already in UE, and I'm already tired of looking for locations, making compositions, and feeling sick.
I have drawn conclusions for myself, and therefore there will be further HDRI renderers, just depth renderers and UE renderers separately. This is more convenient for me, and given the statistics of VK, DA, FA, I found out that just a rendering of a model with .... smoky on a black background is also very interesting to the public. So I'm going to test, study statistics, and draw conclusions.

Adult Red Dragon DnD
#3DCG #Dungeon #dungeonsanddragons #RedDragon #Dragon #ForgottenRealms #DnDcharacter #DnD #WOTC #3d #Fantasy #Sculpting #Zbrush #quadruped #Design #Art #Reptile #Scalie #Monster #Mythical #Hasbro #Spike #Artwork #Creature #CGI #Art #Render #Monster #Horror #Chromatic #Realistic

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If you're interested in watching more processes like this, with watercolor or other traditional materials, let me know — that’ll give me more reason to film and post them here.

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Wow, never seen this but it is *gorgeous*.

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There are three sketches on the page of a wyvern with a bony frill on the back of its skull resembling vaguely a cathedral front face, long exposed teeth, two pointed ears, and small eyes. The sketch of the fullbody flying facing us has cut up flayed wings, and a long, curling tail covered in spikes. Then two headshots, one side profile and one frontal

Sketches of a dragon that I dreamed last night. I tried my best to represent the few bits left in my memory of this thing.
Its head should resemble a cathedral

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A little guy in a little jar

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Gore: Avatar of the Gods

Cover illustration for Zach Cole and Cody Bratsch's upcoming sequel to their novel "Gore vs The Cryptid Kaiju"!

AD Zach Cole, 2026.

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🥳😄🏆!

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Good morning

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A smooth galaxy, possibly merging from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 46 volunteers.

A smooth galaxy, possibly merging, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey.

It is at redshift 0.079 (lookback time 1.08 billion years) with coordinates (213.36392, 54.72941).

46 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

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An acrylic drawing of Eurasian Blackbird which is sitting on some foliage. It's super round and chonky, a rather small, black bird with yellow beak and yellow ring around its eye. It doesn't bother getting to bird feeder, it's waiting for other birds to get these seeds down for it to eat.

BLACKBIRD || 20x21cm || acrylic markers
Looking from below, waiting for these S E E D S to fall.

🖼️PRINTS🖼️
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#art #bird

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Cropped screenshot of the Cigar Galaxy, M82.

Stacked and Stars Removed (except for the ones closest to M82 because StarX kept removing the starburst regions). Otherwise unprocessed image.

Taken with the Askar 120APO (review coming soon).

#astronomy #astrophotography #telescope #Nebula

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A stunningly violet violet

Day 1350 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and I shared white ones the other day, but how about this, for a stunner of a violet for today then?
In memory of a much loved Aunt who passed away today 💔 😥 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild

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Mutant head.

Practicing some more with penciling. Smooth Bristol is probably my favorite paper, it picks up fine marks most other papers I’ve used don’t.

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Wagtail standing on a rock with reeds and water in the background. Galway Ireland.

Bird Of The Day - (Black & White) Wagtail standing on a rock in the sun... Galway Ireland. #BirdOfTheDay #Wagtail #Birds #Black&White #Wildlife #Ireland #Nature #EastCoastKin #Photography #Birding #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #PhotographyIsArt #BirdsSeenIn2026

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Didn't mean to but the more I look at this I get 007 vibes.

www.patreon.com/posts/151220...

#manga #anime #comics #graphicnovel #writer #author #ink #sketch #art #japaneseart #action #adventure #fantasy #horror

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Two D&D red dragons

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Dino Dragon 2026.

Added a photoshop body to a procreate head render. The head got the same amount of time as the rest of the body, around 6 hours for each (12 total).

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"Hector"
Art by Vanessa Lubach
Linocut print

"Hector"
Art by Vanessa Lubach
Linocut

Good Afternoon Blue ones

#MenWithCats

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QRP with your sketch vs final!

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😁❤️🙏

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3 weeks ago

Artist friends: post a monster!

One of my pieces for the 2024 revamp of Dungeons & Dragons.

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Green Dragon Practice.

Made in Procreate.

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The young stars of the constellation #Taurus: GN 04.32.8 is a reflection #nebula, clouds of dust in space that don't emit their own light, but reflect light from nearby newly forming stars. 480 ly from Earth.

Link for more info: esahubble.org/images/potw2...

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, G. Duchêne

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3 weeks ago
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Little guy I animated for my game

#pixelart #indiedev

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3 weeks ago
March 28, 2026 
NO KINGS
Land of 10,000 NOs 
(a reference to Minnesota's 10,000 lakes)

TY & good morning, Annette!☕️
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I love how AI slopmeisters refer to themselves by bullshit titles like “Hybrid Artist” like they’re the next stage of human evolution and not, you know, frauds.

Anyway, here’s a real painting.

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Artist Proofs!

If you’ve ordered one and are still waiting on it, please send me a reminder— I’m making an order book to better keep up with what’s outstanding.

If you’d like to order one, they’re $75 for a sketch and $200 for full color with rare exception.

All pictured are available as well.

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A flocculant galaxy surrounded by stars an a dark background.

Had a clear night this week so I photographed M63 (Sunflower Galaxy). It could use more integration time but not bad for about 5-hours.

#astronomy #astrophotography #eastcoastkin

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SPACE/SATURN1.GIF

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