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a reminder for creative people that art is one of the most powerful tools we have during times of struggle and you should never feel guilty for making art even if it’s not explicitly political ❤️

Repeat pattern of the greenery crushed into a forest floor. tan leaf branches and grey slate branches with bright red and dark green large berries also small branches of tan leaves with red berries and slate grey branches with tan leaves on a dark navy blue background

Corvus & Crater - Black and white depicting the myth of Corvus and Crater. The entire background is black with grain shading and a star map showing the constellations Corvus and Crater in the southern sky. In the top left is an outline of a sun representing Apollo with a glowing black water serpent winding in and around it. In the middle sweeping down from the top right is a large crow in profile. In the middle in a double handle crater with Apollo’s laurel leaf on it. In the bottom right is a black lyre and in the bottom left is a large fig tree with one fig cut in half. Behind in the bottom half are swirling white lines representing water.

Altar prayer card for the goddess Diana. A rectangular card has a black border with parts of the Orphic hymn for Diana surrounding it as a border in white text. In the bottom right are twin arrows over a crescent moon representing her and Apollo. In the bottom left and top right are white outlined 8 point stars. Inside the border is a marble shockwave black and grey pattern with white outlining that forms an arch at the top with lining to look like columns on both sides. In the middle is a stag skull with painted antlers of a diamond and star pattern. Behind the skull are smaller 8 point stars and cloud ripples. Above the skull is a scraggly branch of queen Anne’s lace with small dots above. In the top corners are two constellations for Sirius as her hunting dogs and Roman numerals for 13 and 8 for the date of the Nemoralia festival.

Dark Vibrations - Inktober 2022 black and white ink illustration. Plain rolling hills lead to the door of a building with a large central spire and a small covered porch. To the left side of the building is a three facet bay windows and the other windows have ornate stained glass. On top of the central spire is a lighting conductor in the shape of a 5 point star. In the highest window of the spire is stain glass in the shape of an eye. Converging at the start is a large vortex spiraling and expanding through the whole sky. The vortex is pulling party’s of the building up towards it and cracking parts of the wood and foundation. The vortex is casting light and highlights on the building and the tress behind it. Converging towards the building is a circle of 12 white bird silhouettes.

Hi #PortfolioDay
I’m Élle-Canadian illustrator & surface pattern designer
Specializing in B&W work

Passionate about occult symbolism, research, folklore & mythology

Open for projects in publishing, TTRPG & private commissions

Reach out Let’s Chat🖤 🎨
✉️ babeandoak@gmail.com
🔗 babeandoak.carrd.co

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Slide 1: Trans Rights Readathon Prompt: 2025 Releases. A series of books can be hazily in the background (books named on next slide).

Slide 2: Book Recs 1/3: Strange Bedfellows by Ariel Slamet Ries (Already Out!). This Feast of a Life by Cynthia So (Already Out!). They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran (Already Out!). The Cosmic Color by T.T. Madden (Already Out!). Glitch Girl! by Rainie Oet (Already Out!). Born Sacred by Smokii Sumac (April 3).

Slide 3: Book Recs 2/3: When the Harvest Comes by Denne Michele Norris (April 15). Somadina by Akwaeke Emezi (April 15). Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa (April 15). Genoc*de Bad by Sim Kern (April 22). Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson by Tourmaline (May 20). Costumes for Time Travelers by A. R. Capetta (May 27).

Slide 4: Book Recs 3/3: Going Overboard by Caroline Huntoon (May 27). The Glade by Naseem Jamnia (May 27). Vesuvius by Cass Biehn (June 3). This Princess Kills Monsters by Ry Herman (June 17). Donut Summer by Anita Kelly (July 29). The Golden Boy’s Guide to Bipolar (September 16).

As the readathon winds down, we hope people continue to read and support trans+ stories (and organizations!) throughout the year. This isn’t an exhaustive list, so if you’re an indie author especially, we’d love a 2025 released self-rec. #trr25 #booksky #transrightsreadathon

Hey CSP gang check this out! 🧡

An illustration based on the Norwegian folk tale "The Three Billy Goats Gruff." Done in a simplified, colorful storybook style, it shows a smiling longhaired goat crossing a short bridge, with a grinning troll lurking in the water beneath, it's fingers curling over the side of the bridge.

Trip Trap

moody botanical illustration of the blackberry. features a blackberry branch with berries in the middle of the frame, against a moonlight sky. surrounding this is botanical details of the leaf, flower, bud and fruit. on the right there are three different blackberry species drawn.

the blackberry ✨️

As i had a bit of a hard time finding it (because im dense) The settings section is bottom left. The place is already swamped with genai slop, now they want to cash in. Fuckers.

A digital drawing of a polaroid photo of a frog and bunny in cute outfits standing in a hilly landscape. Surrounding the polaroid photo are some decorative flowers.

They are girlfriends :)
#art #illustration

ello #portfolioDay - looking for more projects to work on this year! sajanrai.co.uk/portfolio

me, sketching on random scraps of paper: i really like how this turned out! 🥰
me, attempting to redraw it on nice paper: i suddenly forgot how to draw 🥺

Illustration based on the The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, where the phrase “albatross around your neck” is derived from. An albatross is tangled in rope, with the rope forming a noose around a skeleton’s neck and tied with a bowline knot. An arrow intersects the knot, and tears drip from the point of the arrow.

Illustration of a rat king (multiple rats tangled together by their tails). The rats are all clustered in the top half of the composition, with their tails forming a loop below. A dripping crown is overlaid on the loop, and the rats all have small crowns.

Dual-color illustration (gold and black) of two owls with stars for heads against a black starry sky, perched on a branch and staring at the viewer.

Illustration of a snake with saliva dripping from its mouth, about to bite downward onto persimmons. The snake’s tongue is extra long and is curled around the persimmons.

happy #portfolioday
I'm open for client/commercial work, would particularly love to do more cover work

✉️ acorviart@gmail.com
🎨 acorviart.com
🔗 acorviart.carrd.co
🛒 acorviart.bigcartel.com

A graphic showing three email / calendar alternatives to Gmail—it lists Tuta, Fastmail, and Proton.

A graphic showing two office suite alternatives to Google Workspace—it lists Libreoffice and Cryptpad.

A graphic showing three search engine alternatives to Google—it lists Vivaldi, DuckDuckGo, and Brave.

A graphic showing three alternatives to Google Docs—it lists Obsidian, Cryptpad, and Ellipsus.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day. 💔 

Ready to #degoogle your life? We’re rounding up a handful of privacy-forward alternatives for:

📧 Email
🔍 Search
🌐 Browsers
📝 Writing tools
💼 Office suites
🗺️ Maps

Check out the full list here: ellips.us/4gIabn4

a digital illustration with a traditional appearance on yellowed paper, of a reimagined banjo-kazooie. kazooie has a speech bubble saying "art share!"

ARTISTS! Let’s do an art share!

There are now nearly 31 MILLION Bluesky accounts!

In a world that feels particularly chaotic, let’s take a moment to find each other and celebrate one another.

Spread the post to reach the most! 💙

เจฟกับเจฟกับเจฟ 😌🫰🪐

#ChiengNueafest3xJeffSatur
#เฉียงเหนือเฟส3
#TheRhythm4BalloonFestxJeffSatur
#TheRhythm4
#WaterfallMusicFestxJeffSatur
#WTFMusicFestival
#JeffSatur

Repeat pattern of the greenery crushed into a forest floor. tan leaf branches and grey slate branches with bright red and dark green large berries also small branches of tan leaves with red berries and slate grey branches with tan leaves on a dark navy blue background

Corvus & Crater - Black and white depicting the myth of Corvus and Crater. The entire background is black with grain shading and a star map showing the constellations Corvus and Crater in the southern sky. In the top left is an outline of a sun representing Apollo with a glowing black water serpent winding in and around it. In the middle sweeping down from the top right is a large crow in profile. In the middle in a double handle crater with Apollo’s laurel leaf on it. In the bottom right is a black lyre and in the bottom left is a large fig tree with one fig cut in half. Behind in the bottom half are swirling white lines representing water.

Altar prayer card for the goddess Diana. A rectangular card has a black border with parts of the Orphic hymn for Diana surrounding it as a border in white text. In the bottom right are twin arrows over a crescent moon representing her and Apollo. In the bottom left and top right are white outlined 8 point stars. Inside the border is a marble shockwave black and grey pattern with white outlining that forms an arch at the top with lining to look like columns on both sides. In the middle is a stag skull with painted antlers of a diamond and star pattern. Behind the skull are smaller 8 point stars and cloud ripples. Above the skull is a scraggly branch of queen Anne’s lace with small dots above. In the top corners are two constellations for Sirius as her hunting dogs and Roman numerals for 13 and 8 for the date of the Nemoralia festival.

Night Magic - Black and white ink illustration of a magic filled Victorian house with an ominous surrounding. of a shrub framing the left side and bottom of the page. In the middle is a Victorian revival house with a spire to the right and a porch. Over the porch is a bison skull and the windows are celestial stain glass. The roof is black with cosmic looking weather vanes. 5 Crows are flying overheard from the back to the front of the house and the sky is The sky is textured with swirling pattern of lines and with black dot stars

Hi #PortfolioDay
I’m Élle • Toronto based freelance illustrator & surface pattern designer

Passionate about occult history, mythology, symbolism & horror

Open for projects in publishing, TTRPGs & private commissions

Get in touch Let’s chat
✉️ babeandoak@gmail.com
Portfolio: cara.app/babeandoak

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Illustration of a Catacomb Saint, bejeweled skeleton #kimgakaku

hot skeletons in your area, pt. II

Hey, I am Jasmin. I'm a freelance illustrator from Hamburg/Germany. Open for new work! 🌿✨

🌱portfolio: jasmindreyer.com
💌mail: hello@jasmindreyer.com
🪲IG: www.instagram.com/jasmindreyer

Close up of my Howl Pendragon cosplay, please refer to the alt text of the first post of the thread for a detailed description. Shown here the embroidery on the back, young Howl catching a falling star.

Close up of my Howl Pendragon cosplay, please refer to the alt text of the first post of the thread for a detailed description. Shown here the back and shoulder from the right.

Close up of my Howl Pendragon cosplay, please refer to the alt text of the first post of the thread for a detailed description. Shown here the front left part of the jacket.

Close up of my Howl Pendragon cosplay, please refer to the alt text of the first post of the thread for a detailed description. Shown here the embroidery of the meadow on the back. Embroidered text reads "You who swallowed a falling star, o' heartless man".

More close ups! 🧿🩵

!!!! ooooohmygod i am in love with this. gorgeous work <3

a botanical illustration with a warm, bright pink background. a frame decorated with hearts, stars and flowers surrounds 7 botanical plants. the plants featured are yarrow, cinquefoil, bladder campion, elecampane, valerian, clover and pearlwort

the herbologist reward for february is love charms! these are plants used in love folklore, charms and spells, both sinister and benign 💖🏹

botanical postcards with bright pink background laid out on a cluttered wooden desk. they are being packed up to be sent to patreons

busy packing up patreon rewards today!

A collection of six white ceramic jars stacked on top of each other. They all feature unique, snake inspired designs. They were painted with blue or black underglazes and finished with gold luster details.

Here's a look at some of the Year of the Snake inspired memory jars I made specially for my QCCC crew over on patreon! 🐍✨

#art #pottery

Pixel art landscape at night - front: mountains, a pink lake on the left side and a castle on the right side. Background: planets and a dark sky full of shining stars. Big planet behind the castle, another two planets in the dark purple sky.

Peaceful, purple pixel art ✨

#pixelart #art

Pokémon Cards 🎏 Water team #fanart

A six-panel cartoon titled "real and implied birds". In the two panels in the top row, there's a rough legged-hawk sailing through the sky, next to a smooth legged hawk, which has smooth human legs. In the second row, there's a great-crested flycatcher looking dapper, next to an ok-crested flycatcher that has just a slightly less nice crest. In the third row, there's a mountain chickadee standing up on stones, next to a valley chickadee peeking out from a dip between stones. In the fourth row, there's a least bittern standing in some reeds, next to a most bittern that is enormous and stomping through a city, with people running in fear, helicopters overhead, and an overturned car on fire.

Another thing I made this year: Real and implied birds.

Illustration for Max Martelli’s horror short, surreal horror depicting dark figures surrounding a running man

Illustration for Max Martelli’s short horror story, “The Dreamers”

A photo collage of some of my warm toned art: A profile of an orange tabby cat, a field of peachy coloured poppies, red and orange tulips, little red mushrooms, an autumn wildflower landscape, a red fly agaric toadstool.

Art in warm tones. Reds and oranges are bright and warm and cosy up a space really well.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheWeeOwlArt

#flower #fungiFriends #mushroomSky 🍄 #animalart #OriginalArt #Drawing #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ScottishArtist #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #EtsyHandmade #bsnm