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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 3h

Congrats on the milestone! 🎉 Here's some of my spooky arts!

A digital painting of a stone disc with an eye set in a concrete wall. Instead of a normal pupil, a six pointed, elongated star is in the center of the iris.

A dark art digital painting of portrait of a headless figure in a suit and tie with two glowing halos of different sizes floating where the head would be.

A digital painting of a giant, multi-armed, skull-headed figure in a large thunder cloud with several bolts of lighting generating from it.

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Manuel Fallmann-Kerrutt @mindistortion.tv · 08/10/2026

✨ ART SHARE ✨ Thank you for 3.2K followers, time for an #artshare! Bonus points for #spooky #art! 👻 🖤 Share your art! 💜 Like and repost! 💙 Tag friends, if you like! 🧡 Add alt text, if possible! 💛 Label NSFW! 🤍 Support each other with a comment, repost or like! ❌ Human-made only, no A👁️ or NF🍵s

Art Share promo art. Mixed media artwork of an ethereal canine silhouette drawn in charcoal being illuminated by the last glimpse of sunset, in a fiery yet calming way.

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 3h

#hARToween2026 Day 9 - Haunted Doll She just wants to play! Painted with M. Graham artists' gouache and drawn with Sakura Pigma Micron pen on Strathmore cold press watercolor paper. 🖼️ 🎨 #DarkArt #TraditionalArt #gouache

A gouache painting of a rag doll with yarn hair in pigtails, wearing a pink dress with a blue apron, and black and white stockings and black shoes. The doll is floating in the air and surrounded by an eerie blue glow.

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#Spooktober Day 8 - Magic Circle Drawn with Sakura Pigma Micron pen and Tombow dual brush pens on Strathmore smooth surface bristol paper. 🖼️ #art #TraditionalArt

A pen and ink drawing of a magic circle featuring an eye at the center, a crescent moon, and a comet on the outside.

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#Spooktober Day 7 - Darkness Painted with M. Graham artist's gouache and a Faber-Castell polychromos coloured pencil on Strathmore cold press watercolor paper. 🖼️🎨 #DarkArt #TraditionalArt #SolarEclipse #GouachePainting

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Maturing as an artist is being at peace with yourself when you can't come up with anything to fulfill an art challenge prompt and just moving on to the next. 😌

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#PortfolioDay @portfolioday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tuesday, October 13th is #PortfolioDay! If you are a creative looking for work, this is the tag for you. Read on to find out how to participate and visit portfolioday.art for more!

Instructions for how to participate in #PortfolioDay. It reads: ARE YOU A CREATIVE LOOKING FOR WORK? Write a post that includes -a short video -the kind of work you are looking for -portfolio link -a way to contact you -a selection of your best pieces composed into a single image Nightshaded and Glazed! -#PortfolioDay + tags relevant to your work NOT LOOKING FOR WORK? Look through posts using the #PortfolioDay tag and like, comment, or share people’s work to help them make that coin! WHEN IS #PORTFOLIODAY? #PortfolioDay happens quarterly on the second Tuesday in Jauary, April, July, and October. Visit www.PortfolioDay.art to learn more! Managed by @AudreyGonzalez

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One card has been sold already! Thank you so much! ☺️

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

All the original artist cards I've created thus far for this year's October art challenges are listed on my Ko-fi shop! ko-fi.com/cobaltcorvus... (Unfortunately I'm only able to ship within the US. 💔) 🎨 #bsnm

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thank you! That's the bit I really wanted to get right so I'm glad I was successful. ☺️

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#Spooktober Day 5 - Entity Painted with Grumbacher Academy watercolors with just a slight touch up of M. Graham artists' gouache on Strathmore watercolor cold press paper. 🖼️ 🎨 #DarkArt #TraditionalArt #watercolor #gouache #illustration

A watercolor painting of a blue, ghostly phantom entity with four will-o'-the-wisps floating around it set against a dark background.

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#Spooktober Day 4 - Candle Painted with M. Graham artists' gouache with some details done with Kimberly watercolor pencil on Strathmore cold press water color paper. 🖼️ #art #TraditionalArt #gouache

A gouache painting of a stubby, orange candle set against a black background.

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#hARToween2026 Day 3 - Owl Be Seeing You A pen and marker drawing made with Sakura Pigma Micron pen and Tombow dual brush pens on Strathmore smooth surface bristol paper. 🖼️ 🎨 #DarkArt #TraditionalArt #owls

A drawing done with ink and marker of a great horned owl with many eyes on its wing and a bright star-like light shining from its left eye, perched on a sort of tree stump covered in lichen and eyes in the knots of the bark. All set on a dark background with equally dark eyes barely visible in the darkness.

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Cody Vrosh @codyvrosh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hello Spooky Season!💀 On Wing and Mourning. Watercolor and ink. #art #watercolor #darkart

A horned apparition with white hair and a raven.

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you so much! I was worried the scan looked a bit choppy so I'm glad it still holds up. ☺️

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you! And thank you for creating the prompt list! 🖤✨

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#Spooktober Day 2 - Moon Drawn with a Sakura Pigma Micron pen, a Pentel black ink brush pen, and a light gray Zebra Mildliner brush marker on Strathmore smooth surface bristol paper. 🖼️ 🎨 #DarkArt #TraditionalArt

A pen and ink drawing of a crescent moon with one eye set against a black sky with a few twinkling stars.

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sharks hockey tonight, bby let's gooooo!!! 🦈 #TurnItAllTeal

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Whoa, that is an incredible cover. What a great find!

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PTX💀🖤🔪🔞 @pitoyatux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wisptober Day 1: Castle Back to the beginning- #wisptober #wisptober2026

A castle set far back on a hill shrouded in the darkness of a starry sky. An unevenly paved path snakes through the countryside towards its dimly lit entrance. This piece is done in greys and black.

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💀PhaseMoth Art💀 @phasemoth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yooooooooo I've designed some of the Furb pins now & you can check them out ( and follow the project! ) here - www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p... Suuuuper excited to be part of Pintober this year! It launches in 20 days, go go go! #bsnm #pintober #furby #darkart

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Frightful Furbs - An Enamel Pin Badge Set

Get notified when Frightful Furbs - An Enamel Pin Badge Set launches on BackerKit!

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#Spooktober Day 1 - Eyes Drawn with a Sakura Pigma Micron pen and painted with M. Graham artists' gouache on Strathmore cold press watercolor paper. 🖼️ #art #DarkArt #TraditionalArt #bugs

An ink and gouache painting of a lady bug with a bunch of eyes were the spots would be.

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Standard-winged Nightjar for A.E.! Thank you for your #Waymakers donation! 🎨🪶 #SciArt #BirdArt We're down to the last day for donations, don't miss out! Every dollar goes to helping immigrant kids in the US! Donate here: youngcenter.donordrive.com/campaigns/Bi... @theyoungcenter.bsky.social

Illustration of a Standard-winged Nightjar doing a display flight in front of a big beautiful glowing full moon. The nightjar, a mottled gray/brown/white bird, has long pointed wingtips, a short stubby beak, and a big black eye. It is flying with wings bent low in an upside-down U shape while wiggling its strange "standards" - elongated huge shiny black primaries that bend upward from the wings and look like black pointed flags.

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The hockey season finally starts for my team tomorrow, aaaaaaaahhhhhh!!! 🦈🏒

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Unfortunately I'll only be able to ship within the US. 💔

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Working on some more October art challenge prompts today. Also, an announcement! I'm drawing and/or painting these on artist trading cards so I will be putting them up on my Ko-fi shop for purchase! So make sure you have it bookmarked: ko-fi.com/cobaltcorvus...

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🎶 F.L.Y. feat. Buddy Nielsen - Ice Nine Kills ⚠️Photosensitive Seizure Warning: Flashing Lights www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwyr...

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Ice Nine Kills - F.L.Y. ft. Buddy Nielsen

YouTube video by Ice Nine Kills

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you enjoy my art, you can support me to create more by sending me a tip! I appreciate whatever you can give. 🖤✨ ko-fi.com/cobaltcorvus

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Support Ren Varela on Ko-fi with a one-time donation or sign up for a monthly membership for additional art related rewards!

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Every Day Original Gallery @everydayoriginal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

FROM OUR ARCHIVES: The Spirit of October by Mark Stroud - Compressed charcoal and graphite portrait, on 9×12 Canson illustration boa... Available now! Join our mailing list to get new art every day. (Link in the profile) f.mtr.cool/lqmzhh0jt4

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah, it's not great but I so enjoyed it and agree it's worth a watch. It also makes me excited to see how much more Kane Parson's skills as a director develop going forward. I've watched some of his stuff on his YT channel and I def want to see another full feature film from him.

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've been having a lot of fun sketching up things to fulfill some October challenge prompts today!

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

THE LOST ROOM IS ON TUBI, REPEAT: THE LOST ROOM IS ON TUBI!

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Spooky month is approaching! 🎃 Can I interest you in some spooky art for your walls this spooky season? Prints of my work are available over on INPRNT! #bskyart #bsnm #ArtPrints #DarkArt #HumanMadeArt

A dark, digital painting of a figure that is just a torso with arms that are shrugging and has a floating skull wearing a golden laurel. There's a glowing orb beneath the torso.

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Rose Gold, Rose Quartz 2020, Ren Varela Digital (Clip Studio Paint EX) 🖼️ #art #DarkArt

A dark art, digital painting of a haloed, skull headed figure floating in a void with arms stretched to its sides, palms facing forward, and with rose quartz protruding from its shattered, decaying body.

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That was me the past two weeks. 🫠

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Quico Vicens-Picatto @quicoarts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Mount Thurai is a mythical location in the Dreamlands created by Lovecraft. It is said that the gods once resided there, and that to this day some return to dance there as they did in the past. Perhaps merely as a simulacrum #lovecraft #artshare #digitalart #dreamlands #cthulhu

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Also I don't actually think Knight is that basic, it's just basically the "cover art" class, I guess.

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I decided to be basic this time and play a Knight.

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Don't ask me how many times I've started over from my last attempt, I've lost count... >.> I love the setting, I just suck and keep thinking, "I could make a better build than this one." 😅

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think tonight I'll start an attempt at playing through and completing Dark Souls.

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hockey season is starting soon. 👀 I missed my team's preseason game yesterday but it looks like that was for the better... 😅 Not looking forward to Tuesday's preseason game either... I still hope they somehow win but track record against that team isn't great so...

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Artist! Quote with smoking character!🚬

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Shout out to all my fellow artists with day jobs. Especially those of us that have to work the weekends when it seems like almost everyone else has those days off. Hang in there. 🫶

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Ren Varela @cobaltcorvus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you would like to support my art monetarily, you can either drop me a tip over at my Ko-fi page or join one of my membership tiers. I'm also reviving my Patreon page if that's something you would prefer. You can also purchase prints of some of my work over on INPRNT!

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