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Chau Pham Illustration

@chauphammoc51.bsky.social
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INFJ. Illustrator. Gardener. 🇻🇳 Thank you for stopping by 🌸 linktr.ee/chaupham_moc51

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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Finished reading The Pearl by John Steinbeck. It was a good story but it broke in my heart. I wanted the characters to have a happy ending. I was too invested in their happiness that I turned a blind eye to the real intention of the story. I have to write my frustration somewhere 🥲 #book 📚
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I told myself I would not draw today and spent time catching up on some books instead. Two hours in and I fell asleep. When I woke up, I found a bunch of books to add to my wishlist (again) 🥲 #book
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Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I wrote this in 2017 - never posted it anywhere - it's just been sitting in my notes (and in my brain): Orwell warned us that language could be used to control what we think. Huxley warned us that distractions could dull our ability to think. Now both are happening and no one seems to mind.
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Repost #kidlitartpostcard
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Hello #kidlitartpostcard My name is Chau. I'm an #kidlit illustrator currently looking for new opportunities and representation. - - ✉️ Email: chaupham.moc@gmail.com 🎨 More projects at: www.behance.net/chauphamillu...
Kidlit Art Postcard
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
#quote #theprisonoffreedom
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
#TheObsceneBirdofNight by #JoséDonoso I had a nightmare after putting it down last night. This stuff was SO WILD. I was both fascinated and nauseated. Never had a nightmare that woke me up at night like this one 😂 #books 📚📖
A screenshot of the book cover. Title: The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Sometimes, happiness is as simple as recording how many pages I have read in a day. Not much compared to others, but still a steady progress 📚📖
Screenshot from the app Storygraph
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
It's such a tragedy to fall in love with my parents' kitten. I miss her everyday but she will forget about me in a few months 🥲 #cat #kitten #pet
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Waking up from a good dream and realizing it was all just a dream is...heartbreaking 🥲
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I watched 7 Samurai in 4k today. The movie is long but the pacing is so clever. I completely forgot my existence and became part of the story.
A photo capturing the screen in the cinema. The Japanese text on the screen read: "Intermission"
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I watched Ghost In The Shell 1995 last night. They're running a Japanese film festival in my country. I was especially impressed by the background design. It was both nostalgic and inspiring. You can feel life everywhere.
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
(This is not a rant, just a self-reflection) When I’m busy with work, I wish I had more free time to work on my personal projects. When I’m unemployed, all my time is spent on looking for a job. I have my savings, but the fear of having no income is keeping me restless.
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
At the start of this year, I had so many dreams and goals. In just a couple of days, everything fell apart. Books no longer seem as interesting. Studying an "unpopular" language is meaningless. Now, I have to think about how to keep the roof over my head. Life is unpredictable...
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Self-learning Farsi, day two. There are some books I want to read that are only available in this language. I don't know if I will ever be able to read them, but I can take the little steps for now and see where it'll carry me. #language
A tablet showing hand written Farsi letters
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I'm reading 2 books about nature and got out of my humble garden for a broader scope. One book said human should "shut up" and let nature speak. The other said their ways of communication and their intelligence are different from our standard, so we shouldn't use ours to measure their capabilities.
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I have been having this thought recently and now to find a similar one in a book.
Quote from The Physics Of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I rewatched JOJO anime recently. I felt guilty that I had been consuming too much repetitive content, to the point I forgot how brilliant an original show can be.
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
#doodle
Upper part: A screenshot of a black fox walking in the zoo
Lower part: A little girl pointing at the screenshot while standing next to a humanoid black fox. She said, "They look like you, teacher." The black fox is confused.
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Quote with your 2025 accomplishments, no matter how small 📑 Started 2 short comics ✍️ Finished ~100 pages of line art (still need more polishing) 🖌️ Got better at inking 📚 Read more interesting books 🌞 Less anxious when expressing my thoughts Still have some space left so I love my catttttt 😺
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JesteniaS @citrusfoam.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Blue Winter Birds 💙❄️
Illustration of a House Martin, Dark Eyed-Junco, and Fairy Wren wearing sweaters, standing on pine tree branchesillustration if a dark-eyed junco wearing a sweaterillustration of a fairy wren wearing a sweater
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✨ Nou 🌱🌷✨ @nouconcept.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Some of my fav 15-20 minute food studies 🥐🧡✨ #art #artref #artstusy
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
I want a "space" with no rush, no hatred, no supervision. Humans respect one another and don’t have to step on someone else to live. #wip #art #oc
A WIP illustration of two girls sitting side by side in front of the bushes. The girl with the red hair is giving the girl with beige hair the berry she picked, while the latter is giving her a handkerchief to wipe her mouth
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
I have several relationships to reconsider this year, but it's not easy to discard something I have considered a part of who I am. Recently, I came across the phrase: “The river doesn’t apologize for changing its course”. I hope I can move forward like the river. #illustration #water #cpm51art
Portrait of a girl hugging herself, looking hesitant. She has light brown skin and aqua hair color. Her shirt is turquoise and it resembles water. There is a thin line of water circling her body
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
This little spider was trying to "hunt" my cursor, so I played with it a little 😁
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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 17/12/2025
The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out. This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
Swen Vincke @LarAtLarian

Holy fuck guys we’re not "pushing hard" for or replacing concept artists with AI.

We have a team of 72 artists of which 23 are concept artists and we are hiring more. The art they create is original and I’m very proud of what they do.

I was asked explicitly about concept art and our use of Gen AI. I answered that we use it to explore things. I didn’t say we use it to develop concept art. The artists do that. And they are indeed world class artists.

We use AI tools to explore references, just like we use google and art books. At the very early ideation stages we use it as a rough outline for composition which we replace with original concept art. There is no comparison.

I talked about how we use ML here if you would like to know more:
https://gamespot.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-dev-embraces-machine-learning-for-tasks-that-nobody-wants-to-do/1100-6531123/

We've hired creatives for their talent, not for their ability to do what a machine suggests, but they can experiment with these tools to make their lives easier.
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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Jeff spitting facts! Gonna parrot this-- when I was teaching, I would tell my students to not look solely at what other concept artists/popular illustrators were doing to inform their own designs. Go to your local museums and galleries, look at different mediums and fields, broaden that reach.
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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 10/12/2025
The machines will still be crafting deep fakes in our image to trick each other 100,000 years after we’ve gone extinct.
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
A friend gave me this and said it was a popular plushie. My circle is really, really small, so such a simple kindness is precious to me ☺️✨ I can't believe I managed to talk nonstop for two hours with her. I'm not a talkative person at all. #personal
Photo of a watermelon plushie with a smiling face sitting on a chair
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Wrapped Time!!! #music
Top artist and top songs from Spotify wrapped Top genres from Spotify wrapped Top artists from Spotify wrapped Top songs from Spotify wrapped
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
My OC and my virtual pets 🥹 #livlyisland
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Reading a few pages of book and pretending that I have no deadlines 🙃 #pet #cat
Photo of a tabby cat sitting on a chair with her human
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
[1/2] I’m so full of love today hehe, must be because my cat gave me her attention. Gave some away and realized I still need the community to feel inspired. I need to see what everyone is working on and compare to mine to adjust my vision.
Photo of a tabby cat sniffing the pen
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COMIC CELEBRATION @webcomicsparty.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
[Please share so more comic creators can see!] ComicFight is coming on January 2026! Comic Fight is an art trading game for comic creators who are split into teams. You can draw for anyone in any team, counter attacks by drawing back or choosing to draw the character of someone else! More info ⬇️
A picture that says "Comicfight 2026"
Moonlight VS Sunshine
Comic Celebration Event
@WebcomicsParty on Bluesky!

It has a picture of a moon with clouds and stars on the left side, with the hues of green and blue, and on the right side it has a sun with pastel orange and yellow, with a pink-orange background.

There are borders which are plants.
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
OCtober - The last piece 🌞 I made the pumpkin too big... #oc #ocart #ocsky #cpm51oc #ckaoctober #ckaoctober2025
A black and white illustration of a little boy and a black fox at the dinner table. The black fox, wearing a shirt and striped pants, is serving both of them the soup from the pumpkin.  The boy is wearing a hoodie and looking at the fox attentively. OCtober prompt list
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
OCtober - Witch Hat I love them 🌞 #oc #ocsky #ckaoctober #ckaoctober2025 #cpm51oc #halloween
A black and white illustration of two children and the Moon floating around them. The girl wears a knee-length dress with a sheer cape, smiling proudly as she places the black witch hat on the boy's head. The boy happily leans down to receive the hat. He's wearing a long-sleeved shirt with shorts. OCtober prompt list
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
OCtober - Kelpie My OC can’t swim in fresh water because it’ll damage her skin. Kelpie doesn’t exist in this universe either. I only draw this for the challenge :P #oc #ocsky #ckaoctober #ckaoctober2025 #cpm51oc
Black and white illustration of a girl diving with a kelpie. The kelpie's mane and tail resemble the seaweed. The girl has short hair and ears looking like fish fin. She wears a strapless top and a long dress, adorned with many accessories around her arms and legs. OCtober prompt list
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Happiness is this simple. To wake up and see a new life emerges 🌱 #garden #plant
Tiny spear of an asparagus fern
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Master and apprentice during a medical lesson. In this world, they use magic to heal people, however, there is a complex principle behind it, not one spell cures all. #oc #ocsky #ckaoctober #ckaoctober2025 #cpm51oc
Black and white illustration of the healer's office, where the master is teaching the apprentice by pointing at a model of a human skull. Books, documents and other materials scattered all over their table. The master is a slim woman in her 50s with short wavy hair. The apprentice is a young girl with long hair, who is taking notes attentively, with her chin resting on her left hand. OCtober prompt list
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Made this for #GhostsOfGalleriesPast challenge. Basically, choose an old artwork and create a new ghost version of it. I will add the 2017 version in the comment. #oc #ocsky #redrawchallenge #halloweenchallenge
Illustration of a humanoid cat with a bluish transparent body like a ghost. He wears a blue coat with gilded patterns, fastened by a red ribbon on his neck. Underneath the coat is a white long-sleeved shirt and grey pants tucked into brown boots. He carries a lamp made of tree branches on his left hand, which emits ghostly blue light. On his head, there is a tiny floating golden crown, and around him, several blue will-o'-wisps. The illustration is decorated with a border consisting of light blue tree branches.
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
OCtober - I have an OC in the shape of a crow. This is not its only form, but a frequently used one. The girl is named Ban Mai. #oc #ocsky #cpm51oc #ckaoctober2025 #ckaoctober #crow
A simple black and white illustration of a black-haired girl holding a crow in her hands. Her nose touches its beak. She wears a long strapped dress with patterns resembling the glow of lightOCtober prompt list
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
OC-tober. Her name is Tevy. She’s an errand girl who serves a variety of odd jobs. #oc #ocsky #cpm51oc #ckaoctober #ckaoctober2025
A simple black and white illustration of a brown girl dresses in a long dress with an apron, while holding a flying magic broom. OC-tober prompt list
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I can bend down and touch my toes without feeling painful now 🥹✨
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
OC-tober. I forgot to post on Bluesky... They are my favorite trio #oc #ocsky #cpm51oc #october #ckaoctober #ckaoctober2025
Two comic panels showing two boys encounter a ghost. The fair haired boy looks visually scared and grabs the dark haired boy's sleeve. The dark haired boy looks annoyed that his shirt is being pulled. On the second panel, the ghost turns out to be their friend, a short haired girl. OC-tober prompt list
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Chau Pham Illustration @chauphammoc51.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
[OC-tober] My region is not a part of this bird's habitat... #oc #ocsky #october #ckaoctober #ckaoctober2025 #cpm51oc
Black and white illustration of a brown-skinned boy looking at a robin perching on his left shoulder. The boy's ears are shaped like tree branches and he has little plants growing on his cheeksOCtober prompt list
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