Lyss Menold

In honor of the crowdfund for WHAT ELEGANT STARS, which desperately needs your spacebucks to get over the finish line, we have the ultimate question:

🚀 What neckline is the most space opera and why? 🚀

I'm so glad you like it 💖💖💖!!!

A digital painting of a cup of hot chocolate with capybara marshmallows

An art exchange I did for @estefaniar88.bsky.social! The weather is getting warmer here but that won't stop me from drinking hot chocolate, gotta maximize the coziness of the season 😌🍫☕️

“Good Night, Sleep Tight” Cover art for Brian Evenson’s book of the same title, published by Coffee House Press

“Identity” Personal project made for my solo show at Keep Contemporary

I’m thrilled to find out I got the Silver award and Honorable Mention in Pen/Ink/Pencil category for IBA14! Thank you so much to the jurors for the recognition.

Digital painting of a pile of bodies in orange spacesuits. Alien centipedes swarm towards the living person on top of the pile.

Just found out that my cover for Mickey7 was selected for inclusion in Infected by Art 14! Thanks so much to the judges, and to Petrik Leo for the amazing project 🧡. It's an honor being chosen alongside so many incredible artists!

Thank you!!

Cover for book "Trans in the Machine" showcasing a woman rising upwards, a city made of digital noise emerging from her hands

Just finished a cover for an upcoming book "Trans in the Machine," art directed by the wonderful @foxenlock.bsky.social! Check out the campaign here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

I've gotten a sneak peak of this book, and I am SO excited for it.

You should back this if you want a fascinating analysis of the history and current state of the art of (trans) cyberpunk!!!

(I'm also writing the forward for it!!)

Powered by community.

The forward will be written by @robotleblanc.bsky.social. Editing will be undertaken by Lillian Boyd. Artwork by the phenomenal @lyssmenold.bsky.social.

And featuring dozens of insights and interviews with Trans+ creatives & media experts, including:

These paper dolls are SO COOL!!!

Paper dolls of WHAT ELEGANT STARS cover butch with a low grav outfit and a fashiony one and a casual hoodie situation. Illustrated by Matthew Spencer.

And then for some swag to go with paperbacks, @mspencerdraws.bsky.social has illustrated paper dolls of our butch cover babe.

I’m obsessed with these sorts of artist inspired by artist moments (kinda like Dante Luiz doing a comic inspired by Matt’s cover for SHATTER THE SUN)

The president's dumbass long tie turning into blood as it stains the presidential seal on a podium

Fuck ICE

It can get lower!

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position,

Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

Thank you!! I'm so glad you like them (and good luck on your submission!)

Cover for "what elegant stars," featuring a person in blue smokey robes filled with stars walking forward in front of a sci-fi city and Saturn.

Sketch for the final cover

Sketch showing a person rising from a planet, reaching for a hand.

Sketch showing a black hole dress with light swirling around it

Here's a cover (along with some sketches) for neonhemlock's new book, "What Elegant Stars." Thanks to dave ring for the super fun project! You can check in out now on Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav... 💜🪐

Omg I LOVE IT that voice is incredible

Get Ready for Trans in the Machine: Chronicling the New Cyberpunk Canon From Stefanie Carter Cuthbert - Get Ready for Trans in the Machine: Chronicling the New Cyberpunk Canon

Trans in the Machine: Chronicling the New Cyberpunk Canon

A first-of-its-kind book exploring transness in cyberpunk.

Featuring interviews with @jessiegender.bsky.social & @tillybridges.bsky.social & insights from dozens of Trans+ creators.

Crowdfunder launching 1 Feb. Sign up now!

#Booksky 💙📚

I love this SO MUCH

Goodbye December ❄️

Wishing everyone a beautiful ending to the last day of the year tomorrow and a beautiful start to a new one!!

I’d be grateful if folks followed this project on Kickstarter 🖤

Aiming right now to go live in January, depending on when I get all my materials ready.

We have some exciting invited authors and @mspencerdraws.bsky.social is on board for interior illustrations.

An excerpt from The Washington Post's interview with photographer Christopher Anderson: Question: "Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor?" Anderson: "I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, 'Should I smile or not smile?' and I said, 'How would you want to be portrayed?' We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, 'You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.' And I looked at him and I said, 'You know, you do, too.'"

Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot

Swen Vincke @LarAtLarian Holy fuck guys we’re not "pushing hard" for or replacing concept artists with AI. We have a team of 72 artists of which 23 are concept artists and we are hiring more. The art they create is original and I’m very proud of what they do. I was asked explicitly about concept art and our use of Gen AI. I answered that we use it to explore things. I didn’t say we use it to develop concept art. The artists do that. And they are indeed world class artists. We use AI tools to explore references, just like we use google and art books. At the very early ideation stages we use it as a rough outline for composition which we replace with original concept art. There is no comparison. I talked about how we use ML here if you would like to know more: https://gamespot.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-dev-embraces-machine-learning-for-tasks-that-nobody-wants-to-do/1100-6531123/ We've hired creatives for their talent, not for their ability to do what a machine suggests, but they can experiment with these tools to make their lives easier.

The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out.

This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.

Watching someone toss away S Tier good-will for the sake of…AI is…kinda hard to watch.

Hope companies start to figure out the toxicity of AI, because their employees and consumers do.

LOOKING FOR WORK!! i’m merlin and i’ve worked in animation, games and comics as a visual developer and illustrator 🫶🎨 past clients: netflix, d&d, magic the gathering, volta

🎨 www.artstation.com/merlin-gg

📧 merlin.artworks@gmail.com

A digital painting of a large tree in fall. A figure walks through a creek in the foreground, surrounded by fallen leaves.

Autumn’s Waning 🍂

Cover illustration for The Broken Binding special edition of ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM by Ken Liu

acrylics on watercolor paper

Painting of a woman descending digital stairs that originate from a mind, with psychedelic elements like robot dinosaurs and matrix-y lines of code around her.

I got to do an endpaper for the Broken Binding edition of Ken Liu's All that We See or Seem. And I got to paint little robot dinos in it!! Thanks to Petrik Leo for the super fun project 😁

A woman with pale skin, white hair in two braids, and delicate gold tattoo on her face floats in the night sky with a full moon and starry sky behind her. She is wearing a thigh length purple dress with long sweeping sleeves. There are glowing blue lines etched on the fabric of the dress, and two ribbons of light with geometric patterns are trailing behind her. A ring of magic with glowing orbs is circling around her as she floats.

Commission work done for YeetMaur A dark skinned man with dark brown hair and a beard framing his jaw, dressed in a white robe and dark brown pants crouches with one hand on the ground as he swings at demons with his katana. The enemy demons are dressed in red rusting armor that looks worn and damaged. The scene is set in a bamboo forest with a path cutting through it, red banners on either side of the road. It appears to be in the afternoon, with a rich orange glow streaming in between the bamboo.

A man sits in his study, contemplating a dark, box shaped artifact, while a dark spirit looms behind him. This was a commission work done for JacenLandry

It's my birthday today! ☺️
If you could spare a repost, it would be much appreciated!

Hi, looking for some illustration work at the moment, send me a message if you'd like some art for your project. You can also email me at olliemnjones@gmail.com
Thanks!