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awakenedgolem.bsky.social

@awakenedgolem.bsky.social
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Archiving my personal and physical progress on works Main mediums: Prismacolor pencils, and dip pen and ink, occasional digital

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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Rabbit skull to add the growing amount of bunnies filling in the empty spaces. Sketching with a pen is more prefered to me then pencil. At least normal graphite. Colored pencils seem to be fine. I think its more about the color then the material. #skull #rabbitskull #animalanatomy #sketching
A rabbit skull, in profile, ruffly sketched out in blue pen. More shading is through hatching
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Redoing an asignment from a class i took a while ago. It was about value but it was done in graphite and i could never get it as black as i wanted. So now I’m redoing it again with inks and hatching. About to ink. #veryexcited #undersketch #pointofnoreturn
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Just more sketches. #bunnies #snail #sketches.
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Decided to go a bit bigger with this bunny. Is it good? Idk. Also here are some other bunnies from today
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Just more #bunnies. The reference looked more annoyed and bothered but mine looks absolutely befuddled. 🐇
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Decided to do some practice. I went to stock photos for rabbits and didn’t allow myself to skip a photo. Plan to fill all the empty awkward spaces in this sketch book with practice sketches since this book is almost out of pages. #art #sketching #rabbit #bunny #sketch
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It is complete. This one was a struggle to start and work through until I stopped trying to be super accurate. Its something I want to work on but I like the results. #sciart #bug #bluecarpenterbee #coloredpencils
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Doesn’t look like I ever posted the reference for this project. So here is a close up shot and a shot of my working station while gridding out the area for the letters. Also my doodle for all my measurements.
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The one art supply I didn’t know I needed until I had it was a large quilting ruler! Because of the clear grid i can see exactly where i am on the paper and with the other axis, i can make sure the side of the page is square. Its wonderful. #unexpectedartsupply #artsupplies #quiltingrulers
On a white piece of paper is most of an upside down blue carpenter bee that is going off the edge of the picture. Also in frame is part is a transparent quilting ruler with green as an accent color. Very faintly on the paper below the bee is a very light blue 1/8th inch grid.
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Mirroring a physical piece sure does highlight some uneven places. I might tru to fix them tomorrow but well see if i remember.
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It looks like the bee has a 5 o’clock shadow and it both brings me much joy and annoyance. Why does it look like hes had a long day at work and want a cigaret and a beer?? #wip
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The difference a little highlighting can make. (Left without and right with)
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Did i wait till the last day to draw this bird too?? NO! I actually took a fair few days to work on this and am very pleased. 😊 #birdwhisperer
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I’ll see id it was a good choice or not when the bee is closer to done
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I don’t know why this bee has been so daunting. But going in with a new bold color is both terrifying and exhilarating! Time to add burnt ochre!
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Worst part of going back to physical art after years of mostly digital is the lack of all the tech. I know I’m not the only one to try to zoom in on paper. In this case its the symmetrical canvas assist form procreate. I know the thorax is uneven but what is there to do
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Using non photo blu is both a blessing and a curse. Getting a photo has been a challenge. #nonphotoblue #sketching #bee
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Getting prints made of my own art is such an amazing feeling. Having people who want to have may art feels so special. Maybe one day getting prints made will be run of the mill but not today!! Also the added bonus of seeing a digital work in the physical is to see bigger than the screen. #goodday
A pile of papers on a desk. On tops is the physical print of the Awakened Golem getting its name as it reanimates in a forest the grew up as it slept. Under that is 3 prints of my green sleeping salamander on moss with the original back in the protective portfolio.
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
@pixeloutlander.bsky.social got inspired by your “Nightmare” and decided I’d spend the most time on this attack compared to the others so far🤣 #artfight #artfight2026 #sharemyattack2026 #teamcomedy
In a pixel art style, a large, bare tree with a moon and star. Hanging from a branch is a bat with a jack-o-lantern head.
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
TAKE THAT @therealbagman.bsky.social!! Attack #2 #artfight2026 “POV:missed a payment” #sharemyattack2026 #teamcomedy
The night surgeon looms over you. You missed a payment. Sucks to be you. Seems this graffiti covered alley is where your story comes to an end. Or maybe your humanity has finally run out… what is up with their eyes?
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Finished up this ‘doodle’ after 3 days. 😂 Anyway, I like how the dark blue contrasts with the orange paper. The little rocket is so cute for no reason. 🚀 I’m not super happy with the blue of the glass but it’s what it is. Over all very happy. #doodle #art #bottle #thinginabottle
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
First attack for #artfight2026!! This is Esca by Envypersonified. I had a lot of fun making drawing this and looking forward to more attacks. Go #teamcomedy 🎈 #ShareMyAttack2026
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
If you spend more then one setting on a drawing, can it still be called a doodle? 🤔
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Blue carpenter bee is the next project.
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I thought this bird was going to eat a whole white pencil while coloring it in. Thankfully it only wanted half. I do think this is my best bird yet. Took me about 2 and a half hours to complete. #birdwhisperer
A colored pencil drawing of a white little egret standing on a rock surrounded by water.
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Sometimes I like to flip back through the sketchbook and get some ideas. This is a combination of when I was first solidifying my golem character’s design and today’s idea to have their carvings be from multiple eras then just one. More to consider but excited to continue #sketchbookpage
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Did I forget it was the last Wednesday of the month? Maybe. Still trying to work on more gestural, fast painting. Thing I did pretty good for 45 minutes #birdwhisperer @birdwhisperers.bsky.social
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I’ve been told the fish “looks like an old man”. Don’t know if this is good or bad but the goal is to do a more painterly style. Half success I’d say #bubble #wip #digitalart
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Guess it’s back to digital art for a while. This has been sitting in #procreate for a while and now I’m diving back into the one. The fish was the giving me the most trouble. #bubbles #surrealism (? Let me know if I’m wrong) #wip
On a purple-grey background, several bubbles of varying sizes float. Including some triangle, square and star shaped bubbles. In the round bubbles are an orange fish with a surprised expression looking at a yellow butterfly in a separate globe. There are also a sleeping purple cat, a coiled green snake, some green leaves and the start of what is going to be fire. All of this is in a ruff sketch style in the beginning stages of a work
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I decided I needed a digital signature stamp. I have made one that I am quite proud of. Also want to show off this piece I did a while back before I was posting anywhere. It’s been the background on my iPad since then and is a personal favorite. #digitalart #digital #cat
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Decided to do #digital this month since I’ve been busy recently. Was a bit of a struggle after months of traditional. #procreate #birds #BirdWhisperer #GoldenWhistler
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Been a bit detracted with other things but I’m hopping on the #whimsy train. I got “Designa” by Wooden Books for Christmas and I’ve been working through the contents. Highly recommend the book. #knotwork
The lower, square panel of a door painted dark blue. In graphite, there is the outline of Celtic knot work. In the corners are larger squares with self contained knots with the under structure drawn.
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Since I did the lettering for the butterfly, stylized letters have taken up so space in my head. So I have dedicated one page to every letter so I have space to doodle when an idea comes to me. This was today’s. #lettering #stylizedletter #illumination #B #bunnies
An incomplete drawing of a capital B. In the whole of the top and bottom of the B there are 2 bunnies looking at each other. Behind them are partial Celtic knots. Around the edge is the beginning of a 2 strand braid. Underlaying everything is a grid with dots on every other line.
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
May have gone a bit overboard with this grid but I had fun making it. #newwip
A white background with five points across the top and side of the middle third of the page with lines connecting all points to each of the other points
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I’m calling this one done. If this is the wrong name for this insect, please let me know!! #butterfly #moth #physicalart #sciart #coloredpencels #complete
A green and blue butterfly with black stripes. At the top, in green, green-banded Urania” and along the bottom, in the same green “Urania leilus”
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Looks like I am doing the lettering since I spent the last day working on a front I can replicate. #lettering #inking
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
A very productive day apparently #almostdone
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Been a very productive day. #wip #moth #greenbandedurania
A butterfly with the top wings green with stripes of black. The bottom wings also have black straps but with blue at the top and inner edge, green near the body and yellow in the center. Yellow tips. All on a white paper with green, white, and blue pencils in frame. The same butterfly previously but with black veins now on the wings. Black pencil resting to the sideA butterfly silhouette with the top wings green and the bottom two wings a combination of yellow, blue, and green. Matching Copic markers are resting to the side.
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Been a bit. Was on a road trip but now I’m back working on the #butterfly
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
First month joining. Excited to continue!! @birdwhisperers.bsky.social #BirdWhisperer
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Starting up my next longer project. The plan is to recreate this green-banded Urania moth as close as I can. I find this stage so beautiful in its own way. #wip #sciart #moth #sketch
An above shot of a desk with a green quilting ruler, a framed green-banded Urania moth, an open sketchbook and a started sketch of the moth. On the sketchbook page are two diagrams. The top is original measurements. The second is the scaled up measurements for the drawing (x2.25) A close up of the started sketch. There are crisscrossing lines and marking to denote the measurements from the sketchbook. This is done with a 6H pencil so the lines are very faint
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Can you see the resemblance? #doodle #art #animalart #alligator
A drawing of a chubby yellow green alligator on blue paper with a brass alligator sharpener sitting next to it. A black liner, white liner and a yellow, green and brown colored pencils sit below it.
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Been a bit sense I’ve done a little colored pencil doodle #art #coloredpencel #snorb #tinyart #doodle
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Just a little guy. Little quick piece from a photo i found on Pinterest. #penandink #dippen #animalart #mouse #justaguy #art
A mouse reaching for seeds on a stalk of grass, tail wrapped around the stem and clinging to the bent tuft. Rendered in black ink with gold highlights and out line. Reference photo from previous image. Brown mouse leaning over to nibble at seeds from a bent over piece of grass. With blurry brown outline. Also has “reference image not mine :)” in black text in hopes to draw attention to original photographer
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
After a month of work, I’m calling this one complete! Had a great time with this piece. What was planned as a texture study turned into a lighting study of sorts. Love the results and can’t wait to look back at it in a few years. #salamander #illustration #art #physicalart #art #artwork
Large green salamander with brown spots sleeps on large round rocks covered on moss
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
It’s been a minute but I had to let this marinade in the background of my studio for a while before I made any final decisions. I think I’m going to dedicate to finishing this tomorrow. Hope I don’t mess it up with the final step. Don’t think I will. But here to hoping 🤞 #wip #almostdone
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Looks like I am nearing the end of this piece. Seems like every time I take a picture I see somewhere that needs touching up. Problem for later me. #wip #prismacolor
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
When I went to buy more green prismacolors, the cashier asked if green was my favorite color. When I said kind of, they pointed out I was wearing all green. They had me there 💚 #green #favoritecolor I guess.
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Just highlights and lowlights tonight.
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awakenedgolem.bsky.social @awakenedgolem.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Nothing fancy today. Just trucking along.
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