iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

What i’ve been working on lately #gouache #art

Painting of a woman with deer in gouache

Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Going from tiktok to insta reels feels like i just did coke and now im writhing from withdrawals on the beach just before high tide

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Saw nosferatu with my sister last night after downing two margs each We sobered up 5 minutes in lmao

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

The dental hygienist telling me i can drink as much soda as i want so long as i rinse my mouth out after is going to do irreparable damage to…actually, nothing. Soda is one of the last things i got left

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Why is trying to get traction on instagram like pulling teeth 😭 i’m trying to get used to sharing art on there but it’s like shouting a tedtalk in an empty auditorium

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Did a little doodle of book daenerys in gouache #daenerys #asoiaf #gouache #art

Gouache painting of Daenerys Targaryen with baby Drogon

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Rewatching the muppet christmas carol really has me sad that we havent had many muppet adaptations…muppet pride and prejudice! Muppet 1984! Muppet die hard! Where is the fun, the whimsy?

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Anybody else only start getting in the mood for christmas the week after? Is it retroactively missing it because i felt like i didnt get the full christmas spirit or am i just meant to make up my own celebration

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Only in late stage capitalism would the incorporation of AI be primarily focused on the most human and creative endeavors that bring us the last few morsels of joy through the simple act of doing them :/ what about my dishes

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Against all odds, i completed my second draft!! #writing

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Any advice for someone who may potentially try to do an art business on the side in the next two years? It’ll most likely just be prints. I have experience with digital but currently i mostly work in gouache, acrylic, and watercolor #art

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Hyperbole, but the greatest crime music streaming committed against me was to never include the Scorpions Berliner Philharmonic album. It’s not available ANYWHERE. Those versions are incredible

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Okay y’all I’m so close to finishing this second draft. Now that i’ve rewritten 90%…i think my goal for next year is to get this book query-ready by 2026 🙏🏻 i think i can do it, and even if it ends up taking longer, i still tried 😤 #writer #writing #fantasywriter

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The fact that Disney bought Star Wars and bought the Muppets and haven’t done a Muppets Star Wars is a crime.

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MORGUES @mxmorgan.com · 04/12/2024

emotionally attached to daniel smith green gold watercolor, my beloved

screenshot of a daniel smith watercolor tube with a swatch of a light yellow-y green pigment similar to chartreuse called green gold

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I love how dynamic Leyendecker’s people are. I did some drawing studies during downtime at work — my skills depicting people need some work :/ #art #drawing

Four drawings of men, each taken from paintings done by JC Leyendecker

A drawing of an old man, a young man, and two women taken from paintings by JC Leyendecker

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Me after writing words today: fuck yeah, im a star. Fucking look at this, im weaving words together, it’s like a tapestry Me right before sitting down to write them: fuck why do i do this to myself #writing #writer

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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Lothlórien 💙Prints on saIe💙

The tree of Lothlórien, with a vingette of Frodo and Galadriel at the base.

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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Luna - Watercolour and acryla gouache on paper. This titan represents the night sky - she roams the world, her glittering cloak giving light to the inky darkness. ✨prints still 20% off✨

A personification of the moon and stars, a woman with a cloak of jewels over a snowy landscape

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/11/2024

Jurassic Park holds up so well. Why did I shriek when the velociraptor showed up behind Laura Dern like I haven’t seen this movie 40 times.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

New #paleoart posted to #Patreon yesterday: my take on #palaeocolour superstar #dinosaur Sinosauropteryx, a species for which virtually the entire protofeather colour scheme has been restored through melanosome analysis. Discussion and hi-res at www.patreon.com/markwitton?t.... #sciart

A long-tailed predatory dinosaur stands on a rock against a faintly painted background of forests, mountains and blue sky. The Sinosauropteryx is brown and white, with a brown stripe over the eye, a brown back and nape, and a brown and white striped tail. The arms are also brown, while the legs and snout are white and grey.

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

My dusty ass just realized we’re halfway through the 20’s already…I’ll be 30 before 2030. What the fuck

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judy 🌷 @judilyart.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I'm at a point where i have inspirations and ideas for paintings but I'm not very confident in my abilities and that makes me scared to try, but it's not like i lose anything if i try... it's a silly problem

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ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Three Swans in Flight - David Lloyd Evans

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I think the reason why im loving my current wip so much is because it combines so much of my favorite things: manmade ecological disasters that i spent until 2 am going down that rabbit hole, magic, and dragons #writer #writing

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

As soon as it gets cold outside im overcome with…urges (Mariah Carey whistle noting somewhere in the distance as i play Muppets A Christmas Carol)

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Did some studies of Nausicaa backgrounds over the holidays ^.^ i might continue to work on the toxic jungle today, i was getting very impatient with it last night #gouache #ghibli #nausicaa

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

those threads asking for people’s most unpopular opinions only to get very popular opinions feels like a result of people being stuck in their echo chambers on social media. “Ai art is destroying the art world” “i think we shouldnt have to pay for bare necessities” exile for you socrates

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Studied a Nausicaa background bc art block sucks

Painting of a castle with a bridge beside a lake from the movie Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Victorians at least had one thing right — telling scary stories on Christmas??? Very chic

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Nothing worse than wanting to get home all day to create and then you spend hours making garbage and hating everything :,)

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Life genuinely feels like that episode of bobs burgers with bob teaching tina to drive and he’s forced to watch as she just keeps driving towards the parked car despite him screaming for her to hit the brakes

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Man why am i feeling sad. I listened to house song by searows like 50 times the past two days but still—

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Writing tip: Write a book you can sell to publishers for a lot of money. You can then use the money to buy the things you want.

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Anybody else turn 25 and realize their life is in fact in their own hands and immediately decided to get back into their old passions so they can actually live the life they want instead of living in dread and regret or was that just me

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Mara 🦇 @maracrrt.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Saying that elden ring should have an easy mode in a room full of men just to feel something

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Looking for some mutuals! I like: 🌜art, i paint gouache and acrylic 🪺 writing (currently working on a second draft of a novel atm) 🌼 nature 🦄 asoiaf 🍓 history 🍐 zelda 🧁 skyrim, oblivion, morrowind 🥘 lotr ☕️ reading ✨ all things whimsical and medieval

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 22/11/2024

🍂 Today’s haiku: Scattered leaves now claim the lawn I call my own - truth rooted in their right. Inspired by the autumn leaves adorning my garden – which I shall not be picking up. ;-) (Image: Autumn Leaves by John Everett Millais, 1856) #Haiku #Poetry #BlueSkyPoets

A painting titled Autumn Leaves by John Everett Millais (1856). Four young girls stand outdoors at sunset, surrounded by a pile of fallen autumn leaves. The two girls on the left, dressed in dark dresses, hold and arrange the leaves. The golden-orange sky in the background contrasts with the muted tones of the leaves and their dresses, evoking a serene, melancholic atmosphere.

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Writers, when do you stop drafting a book? When you think it’s perfect or when you think you can’t think of doing anything else to it?

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Unfortunately, if you want to be a writer, you do, in fact, have to sit and write 😔 devastated

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

i need artists to really reconsider their album cover choices because i dont want to be sweating bullets every time i play music on apple car play with my father in the car

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Writing for most of my life has taught me a couple things: - Nothing matters in the first draft - It is much easier to write when you ignore the naysayers (including yourself). Do the damn thing! #writing #writer #writers

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𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧 @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 21/11/2024

Middle grade/YA writers, don’t stop. There are kids at the book fair waiting for you

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Grace @beargrace.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Me: *writes mostly dark stories in dark fantasy worlds, despair is everpresent, my characters are suffering* Also me: *paints exclusively happy, cute, pretty things, with my pop music and my lil purple sweater* #writing #writer #books

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