iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Drop some KNIVES 🔪🖤🗡️

For reasons I still can't explain I gave this ranged-only character a sword and knife in this scene and it's all I can think about every time I show it off now. ><;

DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you see this, post your marine-themed art! #artsky #madebyhumans

DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Ugh, it's definitely August QRP with your 🔥burning🔥 art #artsky #madebyhumans #summer #artshare

Remembering a time when things weren't completely engulfed in flames.

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DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Artists! Show your art with long hair.

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

TrueRef Draw This! 015 ❤️‍🔥 July's Draw This! challenge has started. We provide a pose reference, you draw it! More info below. Two winners will be chosen to receive a free membership to TrueRef+! ⦿ Use #TrueRefDT015 to enter.

art reference of a woman sitting while holding her hand out.

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DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Thanks for hosting! Here's what I have saved on my mobile in red, at least... #artsky #madebyhumans

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DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Quote-Post with something that is a circle! 💫

Aetros contemplates evil while casually admiring her own skeleton.

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DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Artists ! Quote with your yellow art !

Search and Rescue, why did it have to be both?

Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

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The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.

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DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Artist! Post your best elf art! Good a time as any to debut my next D&D character, Quill 💀 #artsky #madebyhumans #elf #ttrpgart

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DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

New philo sprout finished unfurling! It saved showing off its distinctive white streaks for the grand finale ✨ #indoorgarden #bloomsky

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DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

QRP with your art that has stars 🌌 Timelapse: youtu.be/VJ4mi0cdCMo?... #artsky #madebyhumans

The Scyphozoa Mothership orbits a distant world before voyaging onward once again into the abyssal depths of the cosmos

DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

If you see this, post a monster Timelapse: youtu.be/8baxLV1z0ro?... #artsky #madebyhumans #cosmichorror

DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

If you see this, drop a hero with a sword! #artsky #madebyhumans

DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

If you see this, post your dark/nighttime art 🎴 🖼️: www.DirePengin.io 📺: YouTube.com/DirePengin 🛍️: www.redbubble.com/people/DireP... ♟️: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher... #artsky #madebyhumans

This piece earned my personal favorite art compliment back on Twitter: "Cyberpunk Caravaggio"

📺: https://youtu.be/8baxLV1z0ro?si=MqNftCeKOYOGZ4qF

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DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I'm always nervous about adopting new plants to my #indoorgarden because they don't always take to it well, but my philo already has a new leaf sprouting! 💜

White Wizzard philodendron with a new leaf beginning to sprout.

DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Psst ... Hey you. Go stretch or take your meds or whatever. #bts #siofra #shrimpcheck #catsky

Siofra pokes in her adorable little head from out of frame to remind you to drink water, take your meds, stretch, touch grass, etc.

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DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Had to Google myself to get a link to my print shop just now --it's www.redbubble.com/people/DireP... btw -- and the AI summary described me as a mecha/furry artist, lol Probably not how I would've described myself, but then again, where's the lie? 😂 #mechafurryartist #art #madebyhumans

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DirePengin is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.

DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

QTP with your red #art! 🍎 "Diadem" from my N0NB1NA2Y collection Prints: www.redbubble.com/people/DireP... #red #art #madebyhumans

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I don't want to shoot videos I don't want to post tutorials I don't want to show my process I don't want to pour varnish I don't want to turn my canvas I don't want to record my screen I don't want to cultivate parasocial relationships I just want to make pictures and shitpost

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DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Not to mention a whole series of side tangents into Jung, the Dead Sea Scrolls apocrypha, Nietzche, Campbell, Butler...

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DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I was taking a break from Dune video essays, but then I watched Frank Herbert's Dune Series PHD by Doc Sloan and now I'm thinking it's time to re-re-re-read Children and God Emperor for season 2. #dune #illustrationsofdune #booksky youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Frank Herbert's Dune Series PHD (Piled Higher and Deeper) Remastered and Subtitled. - YouTube

A complete guide to Frank Herbert's Dune Series, with remastered sound and subtitles, narrated by Doc Sloan. #dune #frankherbert #dunemessiah #sciencefiction

DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Another classic moment from Mel, the comedy relief loot goblin in a team full of clueless murder hobos #D&D #ttrpgart

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DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

"I'm sorry m'lord, he was literally raised by goblins..." #ttrpgart #art #madebyhumans

DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

If you see this, drop a hero with a sword! I have finished pieces of heroes with every other weapon *but* a sword somehow, so here's a sketch 😅

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DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

"I am a theater of processes. I am prey to the imperfect vision, to the race consciousness and its terrible purpose." -Paul Atreides (Dune, Ch. 40) youtu.be/9-ar4HS-KTo?... #dune #art #madebyhumans #IllustrationsofDune

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Paul Atreides: Terrible Purpose

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 25/03/2026

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“Separate the art from the artist” is a nuanced concept that should be reserved for dead creators only, whose legacies we have to grapple with in the context of history. It should NOT be used for living creators actively doing harm. That’s my two cents.

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DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I'm officially done editing! New video will be up on Thursday. Meanwhile, I finally added chapters to the other videos so they should be more digestible for those of you who don't spend hours of your day on video essays. #dune #behindthescenes #IllustrationsofDune #booksky #art

DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Rendering my (hopefully) final draft for the next #IllustrationsofDune video ... so I definitely just jinxed it, lol #behindthescenes #gwyndolin

Gwyndolin is not pleased with my productivity

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DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

First render of the next video this morning! I still have so many corrections to do...

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DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

If you see this, post an elf! (a half-elf will have to do for me) #art #ttrpgart

If a cleric shits and there's no one around to interrupt it...

DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

digital artists, share (one of) your first digital artworks and year vs. now 2012 > 2022 10 years of practice in lighting, composition, and necromancy

A *very* edgy Jrock fan bothers a skelly that was just trying to relax, ffs

Aetros sets aside her survival instincts to inspect the mysterious magical artifact by holding it barehanded directly in front of her face.

DirePengin @direpengin.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I really need to learn how to have medium-sized projects 🙃