iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Kieran 🦘🇨🇦 @hellbendermuseum.bsky.social · 5h

Proud to present my lifesize T. rex head, affectionately named Hannibal. I created this myself from start to finish- digital sculpture, resin 3D printing, painting, etc. Huge thanks to my friend @rj-palmer.com for instrumental crits and redlines during the sculpting process.

Life-size t rex head model from front 3/4 view. I am also in frame

Life size t-rex model, from front and staring directly down the barrel of the camera

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Alex Griendling @alexgriendling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Managed to stop playing CONTROL Resonant long enough to draw Samus Aran x The Hiss.

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dinosaurs in watercolor #sciart

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Brian Britigan @brianbritigan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Online version of this past weekend’s New York Times piece 🏜️

Digital illustration depicting an older laid-off worker abandoned in the desert, carrying a cardboard box filled with items from her desk and a small cactus.

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Sean Phillips @seanphillips.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I did a film poster!

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Brian Britigan @brianbritigan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Process steps from initial sketch to finished illustration for this past weekend’s New York Times piece about health insurance struggles faced by older laid-off workers:

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Brian Britigan @brianbritigan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m worried my neighborhood may be getting too fancy… 🧐

Photo of a limousine with a canoe strapped to the roof, taken in Northeast Minneapolis.

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Deb JJ Lee @jdebbiel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

another lil tutorial! (1/?)

image of first step of a flat crystalline shape, with a fully rendered one by its side

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Simon Roy @simonroy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it is indeed up on my patreon now too! As usual, completely magical work from @decassette.bsky.social www.patreon.com/simonroy/pos...

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fran riolobos @franxurio.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Bueno gente, pues ya tengo el zine de los Warhammers! Está mal que lo diga yo pero ha quedao muy bonito :) Próximamente en Gargot Fest, Guindazine y Oh! Comics

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Alex Griendling @alexgriendling.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Having fun making use case examples for Barrow, my upcoming blackletter-inspired pixel font.

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Drusilla Adeline (aka Sister Hyde) @sisterhyde.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Was recently fired from my full time job because my work as "not up to their level of polish".... So I'm currently available work if you or anyone you know is looking for work from a multi-Clio award winning poster designer!

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Alex Griendling @alexgriendling.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Trying something new. Here's a quick little walkthrough of how I make little isometric sci-fi terrain grids in Illustrator. May it help you make something you want to make.

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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 09/09/2026

It's so sad that for 99% of human history people with brains that crave rules and chores had to become Catholic because Stardew Valley wasn't invented yet

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mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

flawless creature

goofy minimalist doodles of an old german owl pigeon based on the image in the quoted post, where a hole in the wall behind the pigeon makes it look like it has one eye floating off the side of its head

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Alex Griendling @alexgriendling.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Daemon_Orb alexgriendling.com/work/daemon_...

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Richard Perez @skinnyships.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Colors look wild IRL

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Taylor Fischer @tcfischer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Tryin' to keep the sketch momentum up this week. #sketchbook

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art

A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’”

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Jabberwick ⭐🎪👁️ @jabberwick.com · 26/08/2026

Good morning strange bird

digital art by jabberwick. A tropeognathus stands in its nest atop a cliff, wings spread, beak open in a call.

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Alex Griendling @alexgriendling.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Got a good ready animation for Warden. GIFs limit animation to 50fps, so just pretend this a PAL version of the game.

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James Shedden @james.sh · 26/08/2026

Watching the rain

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Christopher Ferris @sweaterparrot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Picnic Bench Varieties

a 3D illustration of an arrangement of picnic benches

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s been two years and I don’t think I’ve ever shared this story here: When we were making an animated mural for the Chicago Archaeopteryx display, we wanted to make sure it didn’t upstage or compete with the 1920s Charles Knight paintings it would share space with. 🧵

Rich oil painting of a seaside scene with prehistoric plants, birds, small dinosaurs, and pterosaurs.

Museum display with projected sea side scene overhead. Bronze Archaeopteryx on a pedestal beneath.

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Brian Britigan @brianbritigan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Tomorrow’s the opening of Hold the Boundary!! 🫎 I’m super excited to be a part of this exhibition curated by ArtYouHeart, bringing together 50 posters by artists responding to the beauty, significance, and uncertain future of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Superior National Forest.

Promo flier for the “Hold the Boundary” poster show from ArtYouHeart, featuring my “Save the BWCA” artwork. Opening event at Can Can Wonderland in St. Paul, MN on Tuesday, August 25.

Artist roster for the “Hold the Boundary” poster show from ArtYouHeart, bringing together 50 posters by artists responding to the beauty, significance, and uncertain future of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Superior National Forest.

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 21/08/2026

This is a wild statistic, I had no idea it was so high here

Clip from the article that notes that 8.5% of US households are car free and 17.9% of Minneapolis households are car free

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Brian Britigan @brianbritigan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Between the Odyssey and finally getting to play Hades II, I’ve had the itch to draw something Greek mythology-ish all summer… But until I find the time to do so, here’s a little Cerberus sketch from a few years back 🐶🐶🐶

Colored pencil drawing on tan paper, depicting a Cerberus as a three-headed bloodhound

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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 16/08/2026

Today’s Exhibit of the Day is a blast from the past! Snapped in 1938, this archival image depicts Museum preparators sculpting a model Styracosaurus. This large ceratopsian dinosaur was related to Triceratops. Photo: Image no. 315713/© AMNH Library

A photo of a Museum preparator standing bedside a model Styracosaurus. The animal has a large sharp beak, a long nasal horn, and a spiked frill.

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Max @maximebourgeois.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Big walking

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I do not believe this is an unintended consequence. I think ebikes are a potentially revolutionary transportation improvement (especially for teens) and the people opposed to them hate them for exactly that reason

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Peter Steineck @petersteineck.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Selected wrong. Got used to it.

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Aggro Crab 💥🔪 @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

how have you all been enjoying the new biome?

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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

thinking of you

a stylized 3d render of two great blue herons in the foreground, with a cabin in the background. i'm playing guitar in the doorway.

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Alex Griendling @alexgriendling.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Revisiting my Untitled Medieval Fighter project. Got my screen target in a good spot, now I'm gonna start doing some animation work to bring the thing to life.

A screenshot from a medieval fighting game, with two characters facing off with a felled dragon in the background. The game is pixel art, made in the style and fidelity of Street Fighter Alpha 3.

The two fighters pictured are: Anne, a blonde barmaid wielding a cleaver and a broken bottle. Warden, a classic knight wearing a sallet type helm and wielding a broad, two-handed sword.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Laurie Rudling (British Artist, born 1950) "See...Birds", 2016. Collagraph printed with Oil-based Intaglio Etching Ink on Somerset Cotton Rag Paper, 80 × 60 cm. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Felix Colgrave @felixcolgrave.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

UFO (Unrelenting Flower Obtainer)

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Alex Griendling @alexgriendling.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

After almost 4 years of making ~60 tarot cards an hour at a time here and there after work, it feels pretty good to knock out two in one week. 🎴🔮

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Ryan V Lower @ryanvlower.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I tried to draw Pete Martell from Twin Peaks last night. Quite dissatisfied with the likeness but happy with some of the mark making. Time well spent. :)

A digital colored pencil drawing using blue and orange. It's an attempt at a portrait of Pete Martell, a character from Twin Peaks, but isn't a particularly accurate likeness. Sure looks like the guy who drew it had a good time trying, though.

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Andrew Kolb @kolbisneat.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

And more from the X-Men matchbox series!

Illustration mimicking a vintage matchbox design. The design depicts a Phoenix from X-men and says "Impregnated Safety Matches. Made in AannaDale-On-Hudson, NY".

Illustration mimicking a vintage matchbox design. The design depicts Storm from X-men and says "Kenya. Stormproof Matches".

Illustration mimicking a vintage matchbox design. The design depicts Psylocke from X-men and says "Safety measures. Match. Mind Hand Company. Quality selection" in Japanese.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

this is a picture of what a TV show in the 1990s thought the average middle-class man was: 75 feet tall and made of solid gold & encrusted with diverse jewels. it is fucked up that this is lost knowledge

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Klaus Scherwinski | story artist @storyboardklaus.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Fern alone is worth dropping by! 🤩(Sketching session with @creatureconsultant.bsky.social last year.)

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Seong Ryul (South Korean Artist, born 1994) "Seagulls", 2026. Acrylic on Canvas, 130 × 190 cm. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

your marketing is like the brown M&M test to customers. if you demonstrate laziness, rudeness and stupidity in how you market yourself, you will also probably demonstrate it in your customer service, store cleanliness, food preperation etc bsky.app/profile/pear...

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