iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

despite my best efforts I couldn't make the composition on this long tailed tit work. It made for a good floof study though

crop of a digital painting of a long tailed tit, focusing mainly on a fluffy belly and face

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I went full size and regretted it big time, but sometimes you just have to do a double page

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

some more paths through the woods

sketchbook spread, some ink drawn landscapes

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

timelapse of a guy who knows how to pose for mealworms

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

summer is nearly over, time to harvest post everyone

tomatoes, cucumbers and aubergine and some late plums in a crate

even more tomatoes, suggesting the user is in some sort of tomato hell

a crate with apples, squash, an aubergine and blessedly few tomatoes

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Another one: tried the 0.1 nib which looks good but maybe feels a bit worse to draw with (scratchy! ew)

photo of sketchbook page with an ink drawing of a path through woodland

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

i did it again, feeling unstoppable

Photo of sketchbook page: ink drawings of a path through the heath and a path through the forest

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

it's a risky move but is there a bigger mood booster than drawing an ink sketchbook page all in one sitting?? ps after asking on here about refillable pens I got some second hand rotring isograph nibs and I love them

photo of sketchbook page with ink drawing of a narrow path and big crack willow waving in the wind

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

cool to open Merlin this morning and see an even derpier sunbather!

screenshot of Merlin app showing a sunbathing blackbird

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

goes with these other paintings of various spots around east wirral

"roman" pavilion, birkenhead park - digital painting

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

st patrick's well really had to force myself to finish this one, all the while cursing my past self for thinking a huge void in the middle of the painting was a solid compositional choice

digital painting of a small pool of water surrounded by sandstone covered in various vegetation

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I heard herring gulls screaming right outside my window so I tentatively looked out... and saw a buzzard in the garden where the magpies usually perch.

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

sometimes all you can do is paint one single leaf and then you just have to force yourself to be like "good, one leaf down, I'm really getting somewhere :)" and then go back to bed for a week

close up section of a digital painting: there are leaves

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

this year I wanted to keep a drawn record of things I'm growing and eating. Haven't really been keeping it up but now I'm buried under so many cucumbers I can't see anything else

drawing of some spiky cucumbers and a green pepper. Text reads: 29.07.26 critical mass of cucumbers forcing me to learn about pickles and ferments

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

some common guys who are still beautiful

digital painting of a wood pigeon carrying a long twig

digital painting of a sunbathing blackbird

digital painting of a robin in a sunbeam

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

sunbather - digital painting I saw this female blackbird a few months ago airing out her feathers on the hot patio, looking utterly ridiculous

digital painting of a blackbird all fluffed up with tail feathers spread out on the ground

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

nest builder process - without the hours of dithering about lighting

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

everybody's best bird friend - digital painting

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

these silly glass dip pens are pretty good for left handers who resent directional nibs. Less good if, like me, you're easily distracted by bright colours and refracted light

sketchbook page, glass nib pen, radish drawing

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

happy fourth birthday to my long suffering avocado who still lives, despite being tormented by the wrong climate

photo of a small avocado tree in a terracotta pot, background of forget me nots, erigeron and raspberry

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

drew some beat up looking butterflies I recorded last year, all of them still flying and foraging

drawing of a comma butterfly with a big chunk bitten out of it's wing

drawing of a bedraggled and scarred peacock butterfly

drawing of a speckled wood butterfly with the edges of it's right wings missing

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

closest thing to a magic trick i can manage: 12 hours of painting a dunnock compressed to 80 seconds

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

sketchbook page to test out some new ink I feel so lucky that in the past someone had the foresight to plant three apple trees on my allotment.

photo of a sketchbook page: coloured pencil and ink sketches of apple blossom and pentaglottis

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

A beautiful dinosaur blessed my garden today

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Nest Builder - digital painting wood pigeons are so unbelievably *round* ! I had to triple check every shape I drew against the reference because it just didn't make sense

digital painting of a wood pigeon holding a long stick in it's beak

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

working on rhythm and simplifying shapes and forms and values etc etc

monochrome drawing of trees, understory, miscellaneous scrub

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

halfway through painting a silly little guy

In progress digital painting of a wood pigeon

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

trying to become an ephemeral beauty of flowers appreciator by bringing them indoors to die on my terms

photo: "wild" tulips and a snakes head fritillary (picked from my garden) in a glass bottle

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

the two faces of goose: "give me snacks" and "get the fuck away from my wife"

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

When you intend to work on your painting from yesterday but you look at it and don't know what to do because today you're a different person

wip digital painting of a dank corner in the forest

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Still got a couple left to paint tho...

screenshot of an unticked list of birds: great tit, grey heron, pink footed goose, herring gull, carrion crow, lapwing, peregrine, sparrowhawk, blackcap, gold crest, wren, redwing, sparrow, goldfinch, pheasant

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Some guys who belong at the beach but I see either flying past or joining the herring gulls looking for worms in the fields

digital painting of a little egret in water

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Last year I decided to put my health first and take an extended break from paid illustration. I found I had an inexplicable compulsion to document all the birds I can see from my house in the most time consuming way possible. Some predators:

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Golden Hour - digital painting

digital painting of a song thrush in a willow tree during a winter sunset

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I always like these drawings where I'm defining forms with varying values rather than outlines but I keep trying to do line drawings anyway

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

took a break from the sketchbook but trying to get back into it

sketchbook double page spread - on the left ink drawing of trees, on the right colour pencil drawing of the sky out of my studio window

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

cutting fabric, thinking about Her

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

the terrible beast - portrait of a grey squirrel When I find a photo with weird lighting in my camera roll I am cursed with the compulsion to make a study of it. Fur is kind of fun to paint tho.

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

you've seen my paintings but what about my true passion? Yes I'm talking about reimagining the labyrinth at Chartres as a hedge maze in Medieval Dynasty

a hedge maze patterned after the labyrinth at Chartres cathedral, in the game Medieval Dynasty

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