Aurum K. (@ak-illustrate) — Bluesky Profile

5 hours ago

"And That's Our Portkey?" - Drawing for Luamir and Wind-Wyrm featuring their dragons (and the lil' ducking!) continuing the journey by magical means OvO
#art #feral #dragon #eastern_dragon #noodle_dragon #noodle #wind_wyrn #Luamir #western_dragon #wings #feathers

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10 hours ago

Seraph in the Headlights

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20 hours ago

Anyway for anyone curious, I was testing inking brushes from these Krita Brush Packs!

Rakurri Brush Set V2:
krita-artists.org/t/rakurri-br...

INK brushes for INKTOBER 2023:
krita-artists.org/t/ink-brushe...

Mikhailasmo’s Inking Brush Set:
krita-artists.org/t/mikhailasm...

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20 hours ago

breaking the habit of making clean lines all the time is haaaaaard

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20 hours ago

I want to be looser and messier, but it's hard to:
1. Do that on purpose and still look good
2. Do that on purpose at all sddhgjhfghjk

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20 hours ago

trying some things. (mostly brushes)

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1 day ago

Llovecraft sketch scene! must a pretty boi
#neopets #neoart #blumaroo #myoc #digitalart #furryatist #furryart

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1 day ago

a sketch of a smartphone with tactile buttons for home/window/back, headphone jack, no AI BS, sim card thingy you can open with your nail, camera that doesn't cover the damn screen, and a 5 inch/127mm screen which is a reasonable size

I wouldn't say I'm massively into phones or anything but I sketched this out of frustration bc why are there no modern phones with these features, it would be so perfect and I'm mad the only ones are old and slow

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23 hours ago

Commission for Pakku_Sama!

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23 hours ago

I am really trying my gosh dang best, but the past year and some change have literally been my least creatively productive ever and I don't expect it to get better until the world does.

I fully expect to hit the end of my comic's backlog and if I do I am so sorry...

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1 day ago

Remember when people used to be all “hard times creates great art” because no actually it’s just this.

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1 day ago

Imagine the art that would be made if we weren’t all scrabbling to survive

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1 day ago

Dynamic composition of two characters fighting with plant magic.

Chimeran Legends - Book 2, Chapter 5, Page 7

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Really proud of this one. <3
You can read the full comic here:
chimeranlegends.thecomicseries.com

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1 day ago

Used to feel this way about the villains in my webcomic.

Now a self-important, entitled, imperialist dictator taking over the world with mind control helmets doesn't seem that far off. 😬

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2 days ago

took me like two minutes total. don’t have to talk to anybody, don’t have to make a phone call, just have to write what you can about how payment processors shouldn’t control what consumers can buy and hit send. that’s it

all hands on deck yall, this could make a huge difference

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1 day ago

三毛錦

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3 days ago

Ensemble 🇯🇲🌴☀️

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1 day ago

Trade with @paradoks.bsky.social

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1 day ago

( A group of three kacheek neopets resembling "The Blue Man Group" is illustrated smacking their paws against underlit drums covered in paint. In order from left to right the drums are red, yellow, and pink. Above them the text reads "Blue Kacheek Group" in white, set atop multiple-colored splatters of paint. The kacheeks have blank expressions and are underlit, giving them a slightly ominous look, despite the silly, colorful display. ) One of the first big projects I proposed at Geekify was doing a set of band posters for each of the performing acts at the Tyrannian Concert Hall, and I was so excited about it. This was for the group "Blue Kacheek Group", a fun spinoff of Blue Man Group. I wanted their band poster to evoke the same feel as the classic BMG posters, and while I definitely would've done some of this shading differently now, I'm still happy with how this one turned out.

( A poster depicting a chomby, surrounded by brown-tinted colorful swirls, yelling out "woo". The chomby, a dinosaur-looking Neopet with spots on its forehead and spines on its head, is wearing semi-opaque yellow shades, with their eyes pinched closed, and their mouth forming an "o" sound, hearkening back to the original flash performances of the band depicted. The text reads "Chomby and the Fungus Balls", a nod to "Josie and the Pussycats". The poster is drawn and colored in a way to resemble classic woodstock posters from the 60's, lending the band poster a whimsical, psychedelic quality. )
This was one of my favorite posters to work on back in the day, especially because I loved the game Chomby and the Fungus Balls! I'm still really proud of this one, as cute and simple as it was.

( a poster for the Neopian Philharmonic orchestra, featuring six figures. A green grarrl (a Neopet that resembles a t-rex) wears a black tux and plays a flute, a white zafara wearing a semi opaque blue gown plays a harp, a red kyrii wearing a tux plays a trumpet, a red meerca wearing a tiny tux plays a triangle, an older-looking yellow lupe (a neopet that resembles a wolf) plays a cello, and a blue lenny excitedly directs them with a conductor's baton. They're illustrated over sheet music for an orchestral arrangement of Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up, while the right side of the poster lists information for the real on-site information, as if it were a real concert. The text reads: "The Neopian Philharmonic at the scenic Tyrannian Concert Hall, performances 2nd of each month, admission 1250 neopoints". )
This poster in particular has a special place in my heart--not only because I managed to secretly rickroll everyone who bought the poster, but also because I was an orchestra kid growing up! It always bugged me how the musicians in the Neopian Philharmonic were drawn holding or playing their instruments incorrectly, and I get it, it's tough to draw anthro characters playing instruments! But I'm happy I was able to satisfy one of my biggest childhood gripes by drawing them with the right technique.

( a hand-drawn poster depicting the Neopets band Twisted Roses. The symbol of the band looms in the background while dark red roses twist around the borders of the image, tangling the band members in a mess of thorns and vines. The band consists of a grey Shoyru on vocals, with a pierced wing, wearing a dark dress with a red stripe down the middle. Helping on vocals and guitar is a pale white ixi with dark makeup, holding a black six-string electric guitar and looking at the viewer with aloof curiosity. Lastly on synth and keyboard is a grey zafara with dark makeup and pierced ears, looking at the viewer with a mix of disgust and annoyance. The three band members in turn have autographed the poster next to their pictures. The shoyru wrote their autograph along with a quickly scribbled note that barely reads "Keep reaching", the ixi kissed the poster then wrote their autograph, and the zafara quickly slashed an X onto the poster, with a note saying "stop calling me". )
This poster in particular was TONS of fun to work on, and I still love proudly hanging mine in my space. Twisted Roses perfectly captured that Hot Topic Punk Metal Girlie vibe of the 2000's energy, and I'm glad I could make a poster that taps into that. Like cmon, what teenage emo/scene kid wouldn't have wanted a poster like this one taped up in their room? I know I certainly would've, and I can think of at least five of my highschool friends who would've too. I think that was part of why working on neopets merch was such a dream come true for me, I got to think about good memories of freaking out with friends over cool fandom stuff as a teenager, and as an adult I was able to design a lot of merch I would've wanted.

Even though I'm mourning the end of Neopets' contract with us over at Geekify, I'm still proud of the illustrations and designs I drew over the years.
Here's a thread of my art from the collection, both published and behind-the-scenes 💐
[ #neopets | #art | #FunandAims ]

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1 day ago

EVERY SINGLE PART of a lily is toxic!

Petals, leaves, pollen, the water in the vase.

You can celebrate someone other ways besides killing their cat.

I worked as a vet tech for 10 years. Let me assure you, you don't want to see your cat go through this nightmare.

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2 days ago

A Basilisk/Cockatrice, a creature with a rooster head, forked tongue, four bat wings, and a snake tail

I still haven't thought of the colors for this basilisk. In the meantime, here's a better quality image ✨

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2 days ago

Drawing of a pink/dark blue faerie dragon character with a butterfly theme

Last com from this batch, a fae dragon cutie for @therougecat.bsky.social 🌸

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2 days ago

Please use every We The People cell in your body for this

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3 days ago

Individual websites will not save us. Running from platform A to platform B will not work as payment processors and legislation will simply follow our trail

You have to speak out against censorship and surveillance legislation. Its the source of all of this.

Call your reps

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3 months ago