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Erika

@erkshnrt.bsky.social
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storyboards + character design + birds Portfolio: www.erikaschnellert.com

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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 4h
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Animal Crossing: Sable Busy Sewing
ALT: Animal Crossing: Sable Busy Sewing
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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hand quilted con table fixins are almost all done!!! @erkshnrt.bsky.social has blessed me with treasures
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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Spoke to some wonderful students at my alma mater last week, and they really want to go to Lightbox next month but they're pretty far from their funding goals. Gonna help em out- if you have the means, consider chipping in! gofund.me/e80904047
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Donate to Rhode Island Students Head to Lightbox for Career Growth, organized by Alina Charles
Hello! Our names are Victoria Gambill, Alina Charles, and M… Alina Charles needs your support for Rhode Island Students Head to Lightbox for Career Growth
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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 31/05/2025
quilt beetle watercolor on BFK Rives paper
pincushion scarab beetle rolling a quilt ball
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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Actually you know what, let me just
A still of the character Chihiro in the film “Spirited Away”. A character called No Face is offering her a pile of false gold that has been edited and overlayed with the logos of Claude, OpenAI and Grok. She is saying, “I don’t want any. I don’t need any.”
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Mom, Dad & their 19 babies drinking some water from a backyard pond. These are Gambel's Quail (Callipepla gambelii) in the Catalina Foothills of Arizona. Let's ask why they drink via the 'sip-and-tilt' method... (📷: Desert Critters of Arizona via YT)
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Weeehehehehe
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Virginie Juteau @virginiejuteau.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Princess Pipin (AF) for @erkshnrt.bsky.social !
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Christina Gardner @christinagardner.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Artfight #07 is Maeve for Erkshnrt~!
This is an ink / watercolor illustration of Erkshnrt's original Character Maeve. She has long ears with large floofy puffs at the center, as well as large floofs at the top of her shoulders and big poofy hair. She is looking excitedly at a dragonfly while sitting on the grass.
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Panic Caption @captionpanic.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Submerged Castle
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
AF attack on @sleepybears.bsky.social
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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
enshittification ouroboros
the anti-ai symbol, where ai is depicted as an ouroboros, defecating and devouring it's own feces, while stabbing itself through the heartthe anti-ai symbol, where ai is depicted as an ouroboros, defecating and devouring it's own feces, while stabbing itself through the heart
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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Our little balcony cherry tomatoes and their sidekick nasturtiums have completely outcompeted everything else and are now trying to escape into the sky 😂
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
AF attack for @stariikat.bsky.social 🧵🪡
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
AF attack for user spectralswan
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Back into it. Art fight revenge for user Amedrawings
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
AF attack for @camisleeps.bsky.social 🐸🎸
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Wyrdwulf @wyrdwulf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Lovely pigeon princess for @erkshnrt.bsky.social! 💜🪻👑 #artfight #art
An art piece of a pigeon princess character. She is a German Owl pigeon wearing a purple cloak.
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
AF attack for @bimboozled.bsky.social :)
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Sarah K. L. ✏️ @bimboozled.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
For @erkshnrt.bsky.social (2026)
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(curseforks) @curseforks.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
#artfight attack for @erkshnrt.bsky.social !! such a cute birb #artfight2026 #teammystery
a white pidgeon with purple eyes and a purple cloak. there's a periwinkle flower brooch on the front of the cloak.
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kris 🌙✨ @kriinium.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
this is what artfight feels like to me
edited “they don’t know i’m (blank)” meme showing people dancing at a party with a guy in the corner holding a cup and a party hat. i’ve edited it so that he’s smiling mischievously, standing at a desk with a drawing tablet and a pen in his other hand. the text next to him says “they don’t know i’m drawing their ocs”
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
An attack back for user ArcticWeasel on Artfight
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Art fight attack! Sweet LoÏc for @comicsbydex.bsky.social
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Art fight day one! Got a lot done since it was a holiday in Canada. I wanted to draw a bunch of Tokyo Mew Mew ocs in the style of the manga and make them look like a scan. in order: _cheriyuki_ , @nijiellie.bsky.social , and kitty.sherbert
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Auk @aukkenopsia.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Beeples (playing around with shapes)
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
He doesn't know how to fold his wings in
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It's my first year doing artfight! Excited to draw some cute ocs! artfight.net/~erkshnrt
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Princess Pipin Periwinkle. Her favourite nesting material is coffee stir sticks
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
When I saw @fleebites.bsky.social's pigeon unicorns I knew it was only a matter of time before I drew one too
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
How the heck did I miss pigeon appreciation day
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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Dex @comicsbydex.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Made a little poster/flyer for the no ai protest coming up June 27th. Had a lot of fun drawing all the little guys in the crowd ☺️ #noai
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parker parrella @parkparr.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
another equinox, 2025
a landscape painting depicting a large star shining from a yellow column of light in a clearing behind two pink and blue trees on a slope
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DREW WISE @drewwise.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
UNOWN COOL S
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
oh hell yeah, come at me 2026
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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
We are juuuust beginning to christmasmaxx
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Jean Wei.... @weisanboo.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
made a zine last month about the bus !!!! I love the bus!! 🚌 (1/2)
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I can't get through this first look trailer of Wildwood without tearing up. Beyond excited 🪶 youtu.be/3HQ-HrwIgOc?...
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Wildwood First Look: Where Magic Takes Flight | LAIKA Studios
YouTube video by LAIKA Studios
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
She's thinking about buying more pearls
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
My grade 3 teacher told us: "If you're bored, you're boring." And I think that was a succinct way to redirect an 8 year old's whine of, "I'm bored!" But I've since come to believe that boredom is incredibly important and as this video posits: The path to creativity www.youtube.com/watch?v=BImK...
youtube.com
If you wish you felt more creative, watch this.
YouTube video by Jon Talks Beats
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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.
Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. 

You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The king never requested statues of himself, though that didn't stop the sculptors. Their beloved king was immortalized in the woods where small creatures were inexplicably drawn to the simulacrum, just as his human subjects were drawn to the original. For the April True Ref challenge #TrueRefDT003
A textural illustration of a kingly statue (center), detailed with gold, over grown with moss and ivy, and standing in a forest grove. There are dark silhouettes of trees in the foreground where birds perch. The statue is facing the viewer straight on, resting his hands on a sword in front of him. Birds have taken up residence on the statue, making their nests in the mossy crook of his neck and arm.
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I know I shouldn't trust a faerie but this one has my back
A drawing of a long necked faerie. They have bug wings coming from their head and tall multi-branched antenna. She spiky. She is staring directly at you
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Got a bunch of magazines from a used book store and spent the day collaging ✂️📚
Magazine cut out collage of a face in a face. (It’s goldblum) Flower cut outs around neck, it’s thinking about a hummingbird in UranusMagazine cut outs. Three screaming animals on left (two birds and a horse). On the right a calm horse adorned with flowers looks on, unbothered.Magazine cut out collage of a squirrel with wings hugging a unicorn. A man to the far right wiggles his magic fingers at themHumming birds win the war against horses in this magazine cut out collage. A rearing horse with the face and wings of a humming bird, a horse with goldblum’s eyes, and just a normal humming bird all over da page.
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
If you're seeing this it means you need to gift someone you love flowers/plants. I don't make the rules
Watercolour painting of a woman cradling a bouquet of roses. She is wearing a gown, a flower crown, and has long hair to her waist. She holds an open hand near her face and looks at the viewer
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Queen Beatrice Bluebell of the Forgotten Kingdom She never married or had any squabs of her own. It is rumoured her mournful gaze is the result of an unrequited love with an empty headed princess
Oval portrait of a lucerne pigeon. Blue toned, with forget-me-nots surrounding her mournful stare
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Princess Pippin Periwinkle Huckleberry of the Schnerkle clan Some say if you stare at her portrait long enough you'll begin to hear a soft cooing and your head will empty of all thought
A purple toned oval portrait of a fancy pigeon (classic old frill) surrounded by periwinkle flowers. She sparkles with pure innocence and perfection. One day she will be my friend. Until then I placate my pigeon yearning by drawing them.
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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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