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They/he 🥖🇫🇷 Adult I draw No AI / No NFT

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The Latest Kate @thelatestkate.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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A drawing of a crow standing in the rain. The caption reads, "It's okay to just muddle through right now. "Good enough" is, in fact, good enough."
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Merlin @illumerlin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Is anyone ever unable to get things done because they have to pace around angrily for a few hours thinking about the state of the world and the handful of people who are responsible for it, or is it just me?
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f. lee @ Everfree NW @fleebites.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
throwback thursday: recharge
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Merlin @illumerlin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Just going about my life while being punched in the gut by some random IA poster in the wild several times a day.
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Merlin @illumerlin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
He #projecthailmary
Rocky from Project Hail Mary Fanart.
6 identical digital drawings of Rocky, except 5 of them have accessories and costumes added: googly eyes, cat ears, cowboy hat, post it note with a smiley face taped on Rocky, James Ortiz glasses and Hair.
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Merlin @illumerlin.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Ryland Grace side profile appreciation (Again) Still thinking about Project Hail Mary
Digital illustration, fanart for the Project Hail Mary movie. 
A bust drawing of Ryland Grace facing right. He is painted in warm colours on a green background reminiscent of the surface of Adrian.
A stylised red shooting star is drawn above his head. 
At the bottom of the drawing is a row of three foxes running with a hand written quote "you know who you are" underneath.
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Merlin @illumerlin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
In my gnome era It started as a quick sketch but I got carried away. #illustration #fantasy
Detailed graphite illustration of a tiny gnome petting a snail's head.
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Merlin @illumerlin.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Forgot to post this here, in my Project Hail Mary era #projecthailmary
Fanart drawing: a side profile portrait of Grace from Project Hail Mary. The drawing was drawn with pencil and coloured digitally with light beige and orange colours. A red line is drawn across the picture under the portrait to reference the Petrova line, it ends in a star shape.
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Merlin G.G 🌻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ VisDev Artist @everydaymerlin.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
adhd is crazy cause you can rot for an entire week and finally on day 7 your third eye opens and all the tasks you were procrastinating on get done in 3 hours
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Merlin @illumerlin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
👉🏻👈🏻 send help I have an idea for a Fanart that will cause me at least one mental breakdown #projecthailmary
A rough pencil sketch of Grace from Project Hail Mary
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Turtle-Brownie 💧🎭Team Tragedy🎭💧 @turtlebrownie.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
blowing him up with my mind
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Merlin @illumerlin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Urban sketching in Bordeaux (Completed at home, I am not that fast) and a bunch of dudes to fill in the page. So far in terms of enjoyment, I haven't found a medium that tops a good old pencil. Ref for bottom left portrait: Earthsworld #bordeaux #urbansketching #traditionalart #portrait #drawing
Sketchbook spread with several graphite drawings. On the left page there are three portrait drawings: the stylised profile of a vampire-ish man, the bust of a fantasy dwarf, and a realistic portrait of a thoughtful old man with a beautiful nose and mustache.
The whole right page is a drawing of a medieval tower that used to be part of a fortress, but is now surrounded by three stories stone buildings.
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Merlin @illumerlin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Dwarf #sketch #illustration #traditionalart #fantasy #dwarf
A picture zooming on a sketchbook page focusing on a pencil drawing of a dwarf from the bust up.
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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Kickstarter officially banning adult content now. Knew this was coming, but it still sucks to have yet another part of the internet that I've been explicitly evicted from. Digital gentrification is exhausting.
Screenshot of Kickstarter's new rules against mature content, in which everything pornographic is banned. It's a long document that's formatted in a way that I can't copy and paste all the text that's in it, but the first is that all point and anything sexual is now banned.This part of the document outlines how even self censoring your own work will not work, because even the implication of sex is too much. Even in prose works.This document is confusing because it says that erotic comics ARE allowed... you just can't show sex acts or genitals or try to arouse people. Also you can make sex toys, just so long as they're not for sexual gratification. This is how Kickstarter's email began: 

"Hello,
Kickstarter has always been a home for bold, boundary-pushing creative work, including mature content projects like romance novels, nude art books, and provocative comics. Creators working in this space are a valued part of our community, and that hasn’t changed." And yet it definitely has changed.
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Renewed "Ren" Synergy (ECO-NAT 90d3) @theonlyren.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
<-- The shitty MSpaint vs What @nerior.bsky.social gave -->
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Tenæbron Art @tenaebron.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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The Sun, XIX |shop & comms open @thesunxix.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
the reason why I love all art so much is because someone loved it enough to make it, and loved themselves enough to know they had to make it themselves. I love people. You can’t love art if you don’t also unconditionally love people.
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Merlin @illumerlin.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I want to thank every person who took the time to 3D scan their cat and put it up on sketchfab. You're doing important work
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🌓ⒼⓁⓄ🌗 @glopossum.com · 06/05/2026
One of your greatest tools as an artist is googling "[object I need a reference for and from a very specific angle] + SketchFab" please enjoy
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Merlin @illumerlin.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I am really trying to choose joy but it's difficult when a minority of people is actively making everything increasingly worse.
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Xuan Ha @swandraws.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
april was such a fun month to experiment with color
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Est Florane @estflorane.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Guardian 🌿
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Merlin @illumerlin.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Finally done with this piece after struggling with the colors for a while. Drawing these little guys is giving me some momentum to go back to doing figure drawing and more art experiments. #oc #ocart #ocsky #illustration
A digital illustration of a small character with a sun shape for a head sitting near a window while playing the Nintendo DS. The character is sitting on top of a washing machine. The room is rather dark and lit only by some orange light coming from the window. We can see a cat at the character's feet and houseplants in the foreground.
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willie 𖹭 @epona.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
they're making beautiful people with interesting hobbies work 40 hours a week
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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I do not want to be on guard when I read manuscripts. I do not want to be on guard when I read slush. I do not want to be on guard when I listen to music, when I look at visual art, when I WATCH A FUCKING COMMERCIAL. I hate Altman so much I burn with it. He and his kind have stolen the WONDER.
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Merlin @illumerlin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Old cat study from at least two years ago. Cursed by the Hello Kitty hat
Digital painting of a sad tabby cat wearing a hello kitty helmet shaped hat.
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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 19/04/2026
The way profit maxxing corpo culture has invaded every form of art through algorithms pushing people into daily posting is really weighing on me lately. Efficiency and regularity of making "content" being prized above all else feels so grim, man.
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Merlin @illumerlin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Lived as a girl without ever having to experience being flirted with by a very pushy man. As soon as I pass as a dude, I have to share a car ride with a gay guy in his forties who is all over me with no subtlety whatsoever. I had to transition to learn the joys of older creeps hitting on me #trans
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Merlin @illumerlin.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Doing two difficult things at once: -Mentally preparing myself to color in watercolor (a medium I haven't used seriously in years) on really fancy paper -Trying not to cry at the Hail Mary soundtrack playing in the background #wip #artwip
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꒰ᐢ..ᐢ꒱颖琦Gwyn @gravenmyth.com · 09/04/2026
it do be like this sometimes
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Merlin @illumerlin.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Pinterest sketch (in classic Pinterest fashion I couldn't find the source for my ref...) Also, happy TDOV
Pencil and graphite portrait of a young woman.
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Simon Hintermann @aurumek.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
𝑭𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏
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Merlin @illumerlin.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
If you see this, show your orange art (The boi!)
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Merlin @illumerlin.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
"I love art, I love drawing" I say through gritted teeth while making myself draw one of those:
A picture of an armillary sphere
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless
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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
nymph with a green knife
mixed media (graphite, watercolor and digital) sketch of a woman dressed in green, in the woods, holding a knife made of jade or green glass
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The Doom That Came to Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future. mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...
three panel webcomic
1st panel: one man says to another "we invented a robot that answers questions"
2nd panel: he continues "we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day"
3rd panel: the other man asks "but it answers the questions correctly?" and the first man replies "oh my goodness, no. no no no no no."
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Margaux Saltel @margauxsaltel.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Allez, après des mois d'avoir un fichier note pour ça, je poste enfin mes bingo sur les "artistes" IA et leurs "arguments" ! N'hésitez pas à faire les vôtres pour compléter haha
bingo "artiste IA sur instagram

case 1 : entrepreneur / variante : infographiste, designer, dev perso, coach
case 2 : crypto bro / variante : NFT, passion pour les nouvelles tech
case 3 : "digital artiste" au lieu d'écrire numérique / variante : anglicisme linkedin
case 4 : commence à poster en 2022-2023 
case 5 : change de style régulièrement 
case 6  : poste trop souvent / bonus : au moins 3 versions d'un même visuel
case 7 : adore la fantasy ou le cyberpunk
case 8 : visuels de femmes sexy / bonus : fétichisation de femmes racisées et / ou juvéniles
case 9 : coche vérifiée bleue
case 10 : décrit son travail comme un mix d'outils "digitaux"
case 11 : un visionnaire qui dépasse les conventions de l'art
case 12 : emoji clin d'oeilbingo "arguments" ou "excuses" des pro IA

case 1 : "c'est la faute à ..." / choix multiples : prestataire, graphiste etc
case 2 : "c'est juste un outil"
case 3 "faut s'adapter" / variante : "on disait ça de wikipédia ou internet", "les peintres vs la photo", "la voiture vs les chevaux" etc
case 4 : "vous êtes des luddites" / variante : "poujadistes" "vegan de l'IA" "woke" etc
case 5 : "vous critiquez depuis un iphone" / variante : "les réseaux sociaux polluent autant"
case 6 : "j'ai déjà travaillé avec des artistes" / variante "on vous connaît, vous les artistes"
case 7 : "c'est un post pour rigoler / rapide / pour les réseaux"
case 8 : insultes
case 9 : "tout le monde s'inspire / plagie"
case 10 : "les artistes font du gatekeeping"
case 11 : "j'ai pas de talent"
case 12 : "ça rend accessible la création pour les personnes handi et précaires" / variante : "ça émancipe la créativité
case 13 : "l'art est un milieu de bourgeois, un monopole"
case 14 "hollywood is cooked"
case 15 : "il faut abolir le droit d'auteur"
case 16 : "c'est difficile d'écrire un bon prompt"
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I love finding things that explain the screwed-upness of how major studios get away with blatantly bigoted nonsense while solo queer creators get eaten alive by self-professed innocent small beans for creating art that steps out of line
There's a lot of misogyny in that, obviously, and in many awful flavors, but I think there's also mixed in there a very peculiar kind of consumer-brained entitlement. We expect that the big corporations will fuck us over every two seconds, and we expect to be utterly powerless to do anything about it because all they give a shit about is Line Go Up, but indie creators (especially if they are not men) are expected to be the balm to that infected rash. Where everything else in the world is painful and mean and uncomfortable, independent queer creators are expected to produce the comfortable swaddling bandage that dulls the pain and soothes the sensitivity. This is supposed to be our happy place, our safe place. It's supposed to be ours and belong to us and serve us. 

And so they moment they produce friction, any friction, literally the tiniest amount of friction imaginable, well that's a failure! You are failing to live up to your purpose, and that's not just a creative failure but a moral and personal and spiritual failure too. It's a sin, in fact, it is a kind of evil. Friction hurts, and that means you are hurting me!
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Merlin @illumerlin.bsky.social · 05/06/2024
HIM
A hummingbird Hawk-moth, a grey, black white and reddish species of moth, flying above a pink valerian flower. 
Its very long tubular mouth is curled on itself preparing to pollinate the flowers underneath.
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Thiago Lehmann @lehmannthiago.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
oh, it's been centuries since i've posted here. time to reactivate? mushrroooom knight!
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