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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

this thing is based on a real animal/violation of nature

colored pencil drawing of a cartoonishly thin and knobby horse with a fucked up face

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

happy terrible comic day, i am feeling maternal towards the boiled one . #terriblecomicday #theboiledone

shitty 4 panel comic read from left>right, top>bottom. panel 1, self portrait sits on couch with pillow. "oh shit right terrible comic day." panel 2, hand holding phone closeup. it is 11 pm. "what is boiled one" on web search. boiled one drawn from memory on bottom of screen. panel 3, self portrait holds up cat-sized boiled one quizzically, it squeaks loudly when squeezed. panel 4, self and spouse in bed, looking at boiled one asleep happily at the foot.

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

oh man I'd never heard this before hell fuckin yeah

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 15/05/2026

My Trungo Army grows......

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

oh yeah babey it's Trungo Time. thank you so much @ascalaphid.com for this project it was so fun! . #sculpture #polymerclay #ocart #commission

Glamour shot of a sculpture in polymer clay and resin on a black wooden base. The sculpture is of Trungo, a humanoid character with 4 arms, clear wings, and a radially symmetrical head of fly faces. Trungo is teetering backward on one leg, holding 3 different alcoholic beverages and a cigarette. His trunk-like mouths and bulbous red eyes convey a series of expressions, all indicating drunkenness. He wears a touseled white button up, red tie, blue knit short sleeved jumper, brown slacks and leather shoes.

Another angle of Trungo. He is viewed from the side at an intense angle, the focus on a hand holding a glass of red wine perilously close to spilling, while one of his mouths reaches for the glass.

A close up shot of Trungo showing him tipping a small glass of amber liquid into one of his mouths.

A shot of Trungo from behind, showing his back pockets, where his wings connect into his back, and a mouth raised jubilantly into the air.

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

was gonna warn a guy that the home tattooer he was soliciting for work edits all her posts with AI, but it turns out he's a huge misogynist, so yknow what they're made for each other

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Frank 🐏 @tytonidaeus.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Finished the most recent batch of bird doodle commissions!! Thank you SO much, everyone <33 If YOU 🫵 would like a bird, and help me out in buying some food for my cats for next week, YOU TOO can get a bird of your choice for $10 at my KoFi! ko-fi.com/tytonidaeus

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

it's been so long since i updated this account. i make so much stuff and then forget about it. here's shrew

black and gray digital illustration of a shrew. the rendering is very particulate and fuzzy, and the shrew's proportions are exaggerated

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

happy Neil Banging Out The Tunes Day . #illustration #neilbangingoutthetunes #rat #painting #fantasyart

a painting of Neil, the hairless rat, as a rockstar tumbling through a purple space. He plays a small purple toy keyboard, which glows pink and leaves a commet trail behind it. Neil wears rockstar accessories; funky yellow cheese-shaped shades, two earrings, and rings around his tail.

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

my spouse insisted i post these here as well as my ig stories. chris fleming please star in the Muppets Phantom of the Opera project im developing (i.e. doing sketches of on my phone)

digital line sketches of comedian Chris Fleming in a series of expressive and comical poses. the only text is above a very loosely sketched, tiny rendering of them crouched animalistically over a microphone: "SETH MEYERS"

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

woagh hello #portfolioday i didn't see you there. my name is Blue, my site is artbyblue.com, and i make scifi and fantasy illustrations for print and animation and maybe You.

Feminine Ideal, 2025, acrylics. A green, fairylike alien woman sits in a mountain range of huge floating peaks. She has 4 pairs of pink, insectoid wings on her back and 5 sprouting from her head. Her long, many- tendriled tongue wraps around the decapitated head of a man. He appears to be in his 50s, of European descent, with wispy blond hair.

Jellycat Snow Dragon and her Warrior Companion, 2025, acrylics on paper. A Heavy-Metal/Frazetta-inspired, 80s scifi-fantasy styled painting. A warrior woman, dark skinned and chubby, is scantily clad in spiky, twisting chrome armor. She rests in the mossy branch of a huge jungle tree, backlit by the setting sun. Beneath her, resting in the grass, an enormous fuzzy white plush dragon lays flat. She has earrings that match the Warrior's armor.

Grampa Improves A Bad Day, 2025, acrylics on paper. A little boy, around 10 with dark olive skin and brown hair, sits forlornly on a stone floor. Golden hour light hits him from above and behind, throwing his shadow across the snout of his companion, a massive, elderly golden dragon with scars, a blind eye, and twisting horns.

The Beneficence of Magic, acrylics on paper, 2025. Children and one adult of fantasy races clamber and race across misty mountains to beseech the massive Ty Beanie Baby dragon Magic, who nests in an abandoned mountaintop city with her babies.

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

rest in piss to my personal enemy, the Dilbert Man, whom i swore to outlive. you filled the tumblr tag of my teenage special interest with conservative fetish diatribes, and your facism worship did not save you.

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

happy Hogswatch everyone, my spouse and i made ornaments . #discworld #hogfather

close up image of sculpted ornament amongst pine boughs and rainbow christmas lights. it is the head of Death from Discworld, a skeleton with glowing blue eyes in a rugged Santa hood and obviously fake beard, with hooks attaching it to his cheekbones. He faces out to the right at a 3/4 angle.

2 sculpted ornaments hanging next to each other in a tree. On the right is Death, and on the left is a full-body Death of Rats.

A shot of Death facing straight, held dangling in front of a hand. It is small, about 2 inches at its longest point.

The hand holding Death, this time facing 3/4s left, so the stitching on his hood is visible.

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

but you're correct. it's fascinating as A Text to me though. "what if we attempted to sanitize the morality of monster fucking by trying to create a reality where colonialism cultural genocide and total loss of bodily autonomy were actually justified because the mommy plant knows better than you."

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

ah thank you! it is Very nsfw, you might need to adjust your filters!!

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

finally finished this massive piece and this app is the only place i can put it so all of y'all better be grateful! . #tattoo #furry #pupplay #queertattoo

A large tattoo on a thin white person's lower back, butt, and thigh. It depicts 3 anthropomorphic dogs in an erotic scene. It is rendered in blacks, blues, reds, and whites. A Doberman and a tricolor American Bully hold a white Shepherd dog upside down between them. The white dog fellates the AmBull, who supports him, while the Doberman sits above, fisting him. The Shepherd and Doberman are both cumming. The tattoo is mostly healed, and shown complete at its final session.

A slightly different angle of the previous picture, showing how the tattoo wraps around the leg.

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Nazfx Studios @nazfx.com · 29/05/2025

They have a friend 👀 [ #spider #bug #plush #plushie #plushart #peacockspider #cuteart]

A cute handmade plush from peacock spider

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

i could never even begin to predict where this @sarahz.bsky.social chess video would go. ive missed my calling as "guy who sits at dork sport events chi blasting them with fake hypnosis"

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

predrawns available for the 26th and 27th in Brooklyn! DM or go to the booking form in my bio to claim one! . #tattoo #tattooartist #pridetattoo #nyctattoo

illustrative tattoo designs in color. a sad cat head, fox head with tongue out, girl head with ethereal lighting, an echidna, a newt, a fluffy rainbow dog, a hamster eating celery.

illustrative tattoo designs in color. a cat goblin made of mushrooms, a fantasy shrew, a large dog made of a gourd

illustrative tattoo designs in color. pride flash. 3 rats with colorful spots spelling the word "GAY" together. a frog and toad with tongues tied in a heart shaped knot. a lion dandy with no mane and a dandelion in their lapel. a female chicken with rooster spurs. A punk masc poodle holding a pink femme doberman.

illustrative tattoo designs in color. "extra rare beanie babies. 5"-8", $300-$500." Jersey, a jersey devil Beanie Baby. Lure, a kelpie Beanie Baby. Pleasant, a mothman Beanie Babie.

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

predrawns available for the 26th and 27th in Brooklyn! DM or go to the booking form in my bio to claim one! . #tattoo #tattooartist #pridetattoo #nyctattoo

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

turned a shirt i don't wear into a cropped collar shirt with a horse on it (that i hopefully will wear more often) . i really wanna airbrush more shirts, this was my first try and i'm pleased

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

save me Rokos Basilisk. your torment nexus seems more fun

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

at least in fiction AIs are people choosing evil on purpose (sexy and fun). really disheartening to lose all hope in a good future bc of the idiot plagiarism machinations of The Worst Guy You Ever Dated.

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

yeah. i got some advice from a rep to pivot from making new art to learning to prompt midjourney. i think maybe we're all cooked.

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

painting digital again?? maybe?? this committee went soooo quick painted on my phone

a warcraft forest troll seen in 3/4 view, shoulders-up. He is green-skinned, muscular, with simple geometric torso tattoos, long ears and nose, and tusks curling up from his bottom jaw. his nose is tattooed black, as are strips of skin from hairline over eyes to cheeks. He has a tall red mohawk with long braids trailing off the sides. His eyes glow orange, and he smiles maniacally at the viewer.

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✨ jay °˖➴ tattooer ✨ @jaystor.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

yall wanna see my... magnum opus?

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Has anyone else caught on to this?

An ambiguous brown creature with two legs, an eye, and a long pointed nose. Text: the animal.

Three animals: a weevil, an echidna, and a kiwi bird. They are all drawn with similar silhouettes, highlighting round body shape, short legs, and long snouts. Text: snout collective.

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Art Telephone is an art game where each artist must make their interpretation of the piece before theirs. This one, the Hydraphone, was a large number of artists split into teams, each receiving the same starting prompt image, but creating multiple threads. ascalaphid.com/telephone/hy...

ascalaphid.com

HYDRAPHONE 2025

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

listen pal i don't care how "great and powerful" you are, that thing is at least a dozen segments over street legal, and it just destroyed a crate of good seasonal fruit! made for @ascalaphid.com 's latest Art Telephone game, more info below Prints: www.artbyblue.com/store/that-t...

A large acrylic painting showing a busy city street populated by anthropomorphic insects. The scene takes place in the lower city, while the richer and more pristine upper city extends up the mountain in the background. It is late afternoon/early evening, and the colors are dramatic, with warm light and sharp cool shadows. At the center of the image, a yellow weevil in wizard robes and hat rides a massive, rearing millipede. He shrugs dramatically at an angry wasp on the ground in front of his steed, whose hands are raised antagonistically. A few feet away, on the ground, is a spilled crate of red fruits. Many insect onlookers watch on from street level, balconies, and flying above.

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Alex Jade @castlehavven.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

When portfolio day is just DAYS before you finish that big portfolio project

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

oh hey #portfolioday ! i'm blue, an illustrator and tattooer looking for work! books, albums, or concepting, i love everything scifi & fantasy (especially dragons, apparently!) www.artbyblue.com

imaginative realism acrylic painting. a jungle at sunset. a chubby warrior woman with dark skin wearing only skimpy metal armor lounges in a mossy tree. on the ground rests a massive Jellycat Snow Dragon with earrings of similar metal.

imaginative realism acrylic painting. in late afternoon light, a young boy with tan skin and brown hair sits hunched sadly, resting his hand on the massive head of an elderly dragon, who looks up at him sympathetically.

imaginative realism acrylic painting. a group of travelers of fantasy races, mostly children, climb misty mountains to catch the attention of a massive Ty Beanie Baby Magic the Dragon, who had made a nest of a ruined mountaintop city. her young perch around her.

imaginative realism acrylic painting. an upward shot of warped perspective, showing a nightclub lit all in pink. Chappell Roan dances euphorically in an angel costume heavily resembling Christine Daaé 's nightgown in the Phantom of the Opera musical. patrons of the club in the audience behind her resemble other characters from the musical. Above her, on an otherwise empty balcony, is a butch Phantom, lit from below by a strip of red LEDs.

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

guy who just followed me i am happy for u for deconstructing from MAGA but if you are calling America "the greatest country on Earth" i am sorry to say you are not out of the woods yet

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tori💫 @likeawindyday.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

so beautiful! and wonderful to see you here, Roger! 😊 my horseshoe crab healed up nicely 💜

close up of a beautiful lineart tattoo of a horseshoe crab, done by tattoo artist Roger Hauer

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Outside

A two panel comic. The top panel depicts an adult June beetle talking to their child, a grub. They are both in a dimly lit living room, with the grub in front of a TV depicting a video game taking place in a lush, green meadow. Adult beetle's dialogue: Ugh kids these days! When I was their age I'd climb trees! And ride my bike... outside!

Second panel, captioned "Meanwhile, outside..." Depicting a wide, hazy stroad (street-road). Cars are backed up at a stoplight and tall signs and billboards for vaguely fictional fast food and convenience stores can be seen. It looks like a desolate, unpleasant place.

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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

i love squid transgenderism and phantom opera types

comical purple line drawing of Emperor bg3 eating a brain like a sandwich. they sit, legs straight out and eyes huge and shiny and sad. text reads "left out of every bg3 "main cast" art (minsc and ketheric are there)

line drawing in black in. tav as a mindflayer punches the air, tentacles flowing revealing their diamond mouth in a little grin, eyes sparkling. next to them, text reads "GENDER AFFIRMED!" to the right, Gale, Karlach, and Astarion all wince or look concerned. ">everyone disapproves." to the left, the Emperor holds both hands to their chest, eyes heart-shaped.

cartoonish, simplified continuation of "gender affirmed" piece. mindflayer!tav and the Emperor float facing each other. Tav grips the Emperor's cape, eyes huge and teary, and wails "MY **TATTOOS**." the Emperor looks down in bewilderment

detailed watercolor painting. a shirtless Emperor bg3 is seen waist-up in a 3/4 view, contemplatively petting Scratch the dog with both hands and a tentacle. Scratch happily presses his muzzle to the front of the mass of tentacles, tongue hanging out, nose scrunching from the pressure.

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lillin ࣪ ִֶָ☾.⋅˚₊‧ @lillin-karin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

speaking of birthdays - everyone please wish aquarian vampire icon @missmalice.bsky.social happy birthday! 👹🩸 this is the most recent tattoo we worked on together - it’s a coverup! here the lines are healed and the color is fresh. #tattoo #qttr #queertattoo #coverup #venusflytrap #drag

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lillin ࣪ ִֶָ☾.⋅˚₊‧ @lillin-karin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

how it feels to have spent all day working on a totally cute frivolous flash sheet while you are also the target of a rapidly escalating fascist culture war in which the past week has felt like a decade and the past 5 years has felt like an aeon immeasurable by mortal minds

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