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Jarom Vogel @jaromvogel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A bunch of little sketches I liked from the last couple years that I put together for some kind of client presentation thing. #Illustration

A large variety of silly character sketches including some animals, people, robot, fetus, and a happy red pepper guy

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AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 04/12/2025

All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI. I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".

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Christopher Thornock @thornockstudios.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Wrapping up 2025 and #kidlitartpostcard day. This year has been fun. I’m Chris, picture book illustrator. Agent - Lori @steelworksliterary Web - thornockstudios.com have a safe holiday season!

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Alfredo Cáceres @redolaf.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I’ve been making this postcards sized illustrations for fun lately and I think I’m gonna make at least 15 more.

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Jarom Vogel @jaromvogel.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Finally had some time to work on a few animations for this guy! Definitely still some issues to work out, but I'm pretty happy with how it's coming along! #Illustration #b3d #blender #character #gamedev

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Anthony Clark @nedroid.com · 28/07/2025

In my experience there are three kinds of fantasy magic novels:

"There are three kinds of magic," said Wizzler, handing us each a balloon. "You can control tigers, you can shoot tornadoes from your fingers, or you can fly by holding your breath. The color of confetti inside your balloon will reveal which kind of power you have."
I felt the panic rising in me. What if my confetti turned yellow, indicating that I was a Tiger-Talker? My family, a long line of proud Tornado-Fingers, would disown me. Could I ever return home, bearing such shame?
I tried to calm myself as I readied the ceremonial safety pin. Green, I thought, willing my hopes into reality. Please be green.
I popped the balloon, involuntarily shutting my eyes. When I opened them, would I see the green I hoped for? The yellow I feared? What if, gods forbid, the confetti were blue?
I opened my eyes, seeing shock on the faces of my classmates. Wizzler himself stared at me, wide-eye. Looking down, I saw myself covered in confetti... purple confetti.

“I don’t understand,” I growled, my body trembling with pain. “I combined eighty percent Earth-elemental mana with twenty percent Fire-elemental mana (Type B), focused through a twenty-four-sided icositetragon made of yellow topaz. This, in conjunction with my blood type, star sign, sense of humor, and nickname, should have produced a blazing column of lightning to vaporize my enemies. Instead, it made a big bubble that smells like fresh laundry. Why?”
Skullgrumbler began to laugh. “You fool! You don’t even realize…” he squealed. “You’re facing east!”

“It’s whatever you want,” explained Magemaster Grampledog. “Magic is just whatever you want.”
I knew he was speaking in riddles, but I couldn’t grasp his hidden meaning. “So the rules are…”
Grampledog lit a sliver of smokereed. “No rules. You say some words and you wave a stick and whatever you want just happens. You don’t even need the stick.”
His wisdom still eluded me. I stared into his face, trying to decipher what he was really saying.
“No, listen.” Grampledog snapped his fingers and his desk turned into a pile of chicken nuggets. “I didn’t even know that would happen.” His hat then came alive and began to yodel.
“It’s pandemonium,” he explained. “It’s complete nonsense.”

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Jarom Vogel @jaromvogel.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I've been slowly working on this rabbit knight project to figure out the new(ish) Uniform app by @sparseal.bsky.social. The learning curve is pretty steep, but I think I'm starting to get the hang of it? Very interested to see where it goes either way. #lowpoly #3dart #characterdesign #ipadart

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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 18/06/2025

You voted, we listened: The 20 illustrators inspiring us the most in 2025 👀 www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...

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バーガー @burgerkingler.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Painting completed! And holy crap it’s way past my bedtime

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Jarom Vogel @jaromvogel.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

So how do we start convincing clients to accept Affinity Designer files, or like, SVGs or something instead of Illustrator?

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Jarom Vogel @jaromvogel.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I'm no economist, but surely this all must somehow be Obama's fault?? 🫠

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Jarom Vogel @jaromvogel.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Very excited to share this 3D robot commission I made for @Procreate! I am, unfortunately, not in Tokyo this week, but if YOU are there, head over to Procreate's pop-up event to see an *actual* huge statue of this friend, and paint it in 3D! #Illustration #Procreate #iPadArt #iPadPro #Art

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Jarom Vogel @jaromvogel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I’ve been busy with client work this week, so while I don’t have anything *actually* new to show, let’s all cast our minds back to this fun AR project that I made in ye olden times and pretend it’s new together, yes? 🙏 #Illustration #Procreate #Art #ARKit #iPadPro #CodeArt #iPadArt

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Jarom Vogel @jaromvogel.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I've been working on some new 3D things ahead of my @warriorartcamp.bsky.social workshop next month but none of it is quite ready to show yet, so here's a remote-control boy from a couple years ago instead 🎮👦✨ #Illustration #Art #Procreate #3DDesign #b3D #Animation #CodeArt

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Procreate @procreate.com · 12/03/2025

Try out 3D painting on our Robot Friend created by the talented @jaromvogel.bsky.social 💜

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Jarom Vogel @jaromvogel.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Some client work from 2019ish to go along with an article about overcoming back pain (or something like that?). It's always interesting to see the ways my work has changed or stayed the same over a few years. Also I still really like how the guy's feet turn in on that dancing spot. #Illustration

Illustration of a man in a jacket dancing with his hands in the air while smiling.

Illustration of a happy man hiking through tall grass and wildflowers with a backpack.

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Jarom Vogel @jaromvogel.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I'm teaching a workshop with @warriorartcamp.bsky.social in April! We'll cover sculpting, retopo, and painting on the iPad, as well as some animation and rigging stuff in Blender and a bit of AR. More details right over here → www.warriorartcamp.com/intro-to-3d-... #Illustration #3DArt #iPadArt

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Moho Animation Software @mohoanimation.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Have you ever felt an overwhelming need to animate an illustration? This “Poorly Researched Dinos” piece by the talented @jaromvogel.bsky.social l made us feel it! It took a few Moho bones, brushes, meshes and cycles and now they are alive! #mohoanimation #2drigging #2danimation #walkcycle 4m

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Dieter Braun - Illustration @brauntown.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Hi lovely bluesky people, I'm new here. Some may know my digital animal illustrations or other stuff from my Brauntown world. In my first post here I show you an artwork from my just started series of analog drawn animals. It starts with these two friends...

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Jarom Vogel @jaromvogel.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

🔴🔥🔵 A little throwback code project from 2021-ish. I made 2 different-colored versions of this illustration, along with a few little fire frames, then used the angle of the iPad to fade between them and add a shiny effect. #Illustration #Design #Art #InteractiveArt

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Jarom Vogel @jaromvogel.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I am terrible at posting lately, but here are some color sketches I liked from the last month or so. #Illustration #Procreate #Sketches #Art

Color sketches including a robot, a dragon head, a little girl cat character, a strong-looking man with blue hair, a red bell pepper with a hat (labeled "Pepper Dan", a cat, a girl hugging her legs and playing with a car, a starfish, a weird looking bee, three butternut squash characters (labeled "butternut boyz") and a surprised looking circle with arms and legs.

Sketches including a young-looking man looking at a glowing sword, a cow, a man with a cape, torch, and staff, a boy, a girl with seaweed in her disheveled hair looking at a scallop shell, a low-angle view of a man who appears to be burying a bag of money, and a soldier looking stern.

Color sketches including a small blue bird sitting on a nest, a cow head of some kind wearing a small hat and bearing its teeth, a small red bird, a girl head looking wistful, a chicken gossiping with a goose, a boy using heely shoes and a sleeping cat.

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Dom2D 💜 @dom2d.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Sketch dump from my "doodle" folder 🧵

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Jarom Vogel @jaromvogel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I forgot you can post videos here now! This is one of my favorite personal AR projects from a while back. It was sculpted in Nomad Sculpt, painted in Procreate, and coded in Swift Playgrounds. #Illustration #3DArt #CodeArt #Procreate

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Jarom Vogel @jaromvogel.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

🪈 🎶 🐊 Happy to be able to share this commission I made for Procreate's 5.3 release last year! I had a lot of fun with this one.

Illustration of a boy playing a flute while a happy crocodile watches from a swamp below

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Jarom Vogel @jaromvogel.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

Playing with some gradient maps in Procreate. Which do you like best?

Illustration of a girl smiling and sitting on a rock. Green and orange color scheme.

Illustration of a girl smiling and sitting on a rock. Orange and dark blue color scheme.

Illustration of a girl smiling and sitting on a rock. Pink and blue color scheme.

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Jarom Vogel @jaromvogel.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

Hey #PortfolioDay! I’m Jarom Vogel and I mostly do commercial illustration and editorial work, though I also occasionally dip my toes into children’s books or character design or really whatever people will pay me for 😅

An illustration of a colorful robot who’s smiling while listening to headphones and walking.

Illustration of a boy sitting on a rock having a staring contest with a sunflower with a face.

Illustration of a colorful sword floating in front of some trees and plants and other shapes.

Illustration of a girl holding a sort of portal around her waist. Beneath the portal her legs appear to have turned into plants.

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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

An editorial piece I did in 2020. This one was for the New Republic about the California wildfires and what it means to be a Californian during such intense times of climate change I enjoyed how this one turned out, and as a person who was born and raised in CA it was near and dear to my heart

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Jarom Vogel @jaromvogel.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

Hey everyone, guess I’m here now! I draw things and here are some of those things.

Illustration showing an astronaut lady on an alien planet with colorful plants and mushrooms. She’s holding out her hand toward a butterfly-like creature.

Illustration of a deer walking past a skeleton who is wearing a crown and sitting on a throne. The deer is saying “I’m not scared of the skeleton prince”.

Illustration of a woman walking on a beach with wind and seagulls swirling around her

Illustration of a girl with a backpack wading in a swamp surrounded by fireflies.

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