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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨

@jayless.bsky.social
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// any pronouns part-time artist ◦ full-time roleplayer ◦ sometimes a writer jaysmine.tumblr.com vgen.co/jayless artfight.net/~jayless

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fane's sacrum @fereldancheese.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
damn #dragonage #da2
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AlexDreamArt - commissions open @alexdreamart.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A revenge on @jayless.bsky.social ! None is safe >:) The character is a beautiful Sylvari Anidar on a frost elemental raptor #artfight #artfight2026 #sylvari #gw2
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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
an attack of Valemar on @alexdreamart.bsky.social! #artfight #artfight2026 #teammystery #sylvari #gw2
a colored and shaded sketch of a sylvari. his bark, hair, and eyes are silver white, and he's wearing a cloak with a fur collar. he looks at the viewer holding a sword made out of shards of shattered pink glass.
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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
finally joining this year's #artfight! artfight.net/~jayless
art fight profile for team Mystery, featuring five characters
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False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The Seed Song
A chipping sparrow is humming to itself while hopping around a forest floor in early spring. New plants are sprouting through fallen years from the year before. Zoom in on the bird in the second panel as it sings "I never had a seed that I didn't like / dry ones hard ones sharp ones even taste alright / if you don't eat them fast, they turn into a grass! / if you let them be, they become a tree!" It stops to munch on some morsels of sparrow food, whatever that is, at the base of a plant that towers over its head. It looks up and up. The final frame is zoomed out to see the top of the plant, which is a trillium. The sparrow cheerily says "Good morning!". And that's how you make a comic!
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binary sunrise @clarascintilla.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
ad astra
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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
April VSArtParty! ♥️ #gw2 Ragna Stormchaser - @/northssketchbook on tumblr Maelmordha - @/lady-quen on tumblr Avalon - @theseenflower.bsky.social
three sketches of original characters from GW2: a femme norn, a masc sylvari, and a femme sylvari. they're drawn in simple lines and warm colours on a blue gradient background.
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Kas ✨ Commissions open @kasimova.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
April VSArtParty ✨ #GuildWars2 #gw2
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Mabi (Comms Open) @mabaki.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Close ups! And tagging @marmotta.bsky.social and @jayless.bsky.social (Everyone else tagged on tumblr)
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Mabi (Comms Open) @mabaki.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
#VSArtParty EU, April 2026! #gw2 #guildwars2 #gw2art
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/04/2026
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
That's home. That's us.
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Fraine ✨ open comms! @fraine.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Thank you Veilguard #DragonAge #Rook #Morrigan
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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
it's my birthday today! i'd appreciate it if you shared my art as a little gift 😌❤️
Varo, a sylvari mesmer, stands in-between parted, see-through curtains. His bark is a pale coral, and the white foliage on his head is shimmering with opalescent magic. His red eyes are bright as he looks at the camera with a slight smile. Around Varo, magic dissolves in swirls of illusory shards and streams as he dismisses his glamour. Behind him, a vast desert stretches beyond the horizon, glowing golden with the afternoon sun.A tall, androgynous sylvari stands in with their arms wrapped loosely around their upper torso. Their bark is a dark mossy green, and their foliage, styled like a mullet, is a dull beige. Their keen, lilac eyes are looking to the side.
Their clothing is composed of overlapping layers of leaves that vary in different shades of green, which shift in sunset hues at the elbows, and to lilac at their wrists. Vines in the same lilac shade curl about their form, with their leafy ends wrapping around their back and extending over their shoulders, pointing upwards like a mantle.
The background is an edit of the Landscape (1890 - 1925) painting by Magnus Enckell.A digital painting of a masc sylvari dressed in loose, fur-lined robes in warm colors. His bark is a dusty charcoal, and his fronds, gathered into a loose ponytail, are white, with markings similar to silver begonia leaves. His face is in profile as he stands in front of a bright, snowy landscape, holding a dagger made out of glowing ice in a loose grip.Two charr keep night watch, standing side-to-side on a cliff overlooking Orr. Arventia, the charr further away from the viewer, is dressed in leather armor with a fur collar. Her fur is a powdery grey, which fades to russet on her tail, limbs, and muzzle. She looks off into the distance, her maw slightly ajar as she speaks, her expression solemn. Vestris stands closer to the viewer, don in an intimidating set of heavy armor. Her helmet is made with jagged plates of metal arranged into a tri-horn shape, with the longest horn extending from the forehead like a sabre. Her fur, barely visible because of her attire, is white with grey tiger stripes, and her mane is messy and braided in places. Vestris looks sidelong at the viewer, her intense orange eye sharp and defiant.
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Spikulec @spikulec.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Here's something fun (I hope!). This is a large illustration of a character I've recently been commissioned to paint! She's everything I love - large, cosmic horror-y and SHE'S A BUG! Rendering those space clouds was a treat <3 #illustration #illustrator #fantasy
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Spikulec @spikulec.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Hi hi! I have some finished sketch art for you, and it's a comm I painted for a client last week. This is Miskaria, a sylvari from Guild Wars 2 game. Hope you like her! #guildwars2 #sketch #fantasy
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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
GUYS have you seen this. antarctica on google maps. go look at it. this is tech struggling to process the Sublime
composite satellite image of Antarctica, the snow & ice appearing as different shades of blue and beige, the sea is black. following three images are variations of this theme.
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Flan 💖💜💙 @sharkflan.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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Dustin Van Wechel @dustinvanwechel.com · 13/02/2026
Here’s one from a wayzzz back, “Slow Drift,” oil on linen, 30”x24”.
A white trumpeter swan drifts across the glass surface of a pond peppered with lilly pads. Stacks of submerged deadfall lie undisturbed.
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Sho | Dora Ingrid @doraingrid.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I both expected you to come and am surprised to see you, O Son of Hades. #art | #hadesgame | #zagreus
illustration of a pale young man with spiky black hair, wearing black/red ancient greek clothes, his feet are bare, glowing orange and scalding hot, he is floating in the middle of a floating platform, surrounded by falling broken pillars, holding his hand out, reaching for a purple boon by the primordial god chaos, whose grey-ish face is emerging from the darkness behind him, giant in comparison.
in the foreground we can see chaos's hand holding the platform
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Bee Maia [on hiatus] @maia-beans.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Comm for @felassanfan.bsky.social of THE Felassan!! Ty friend for giving me the opportunity to do this for ya <33 #DA #DragonAge
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wwxwashere.bsky.social @wwxwashere.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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miah 🔜 blfc @sergals.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
HAPPY 10TH BIRTHDAY SFW SASUKE
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AJ 🌧 @dovexii.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Oh Lord, return me to dust ✦ [ #art #ocs #angeloc ]
A muted-blue halfbody illustration of a male character, Eden, long white hair wild around him and centered by two columns, surrounded by chrysanthemums. He looks blankly upward, half of his face completely white and dripping down to pool into loosely cupped hands, then falling further as "dust".
He wears loose, draping fabrics and shining gold jewelry accents.
A red string cuts through the lower half, circling around his wrist.
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fadesense @fadesense.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
watch out, viper, he's getting suspicious #tarquin #ashurvesperian #theviper #datv #veilguard #dragonage #dragonagefanart
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.
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ririarts (comms closed) @ririsfilthyart.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This. Fuck, this so often
Tumblr post: [guy whose bedtime is approaching fast] I need to write one billion words right now. and draw everything that has ever existed.
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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Siobhanoor has been on my mind a lot recently, and it just so happens that they have been in dire need of a portrait ✨ #oc #gw2 #sylvari
A tall, androgynous sylvari stands in with their arms wrapped loosely around their upper torso. Their bark is a dark mossy green, and their foliage, styled like a mullet, is a dull beige. Their keen, lilac eyes are looking to the side.
Their clothing is composed of overlapping layers of leaves that vary in different shades of green, which shift in sunset hues at the elbows, and to lilac at their wrists. Vines in the same lilac shade curl about their form, with their leafy ends wrapping around their back and extending over their shoulders, pointing upwards like a mantle.
The background is an edit of the Landscape (1890 - 1925) painting by Magnus Enckell.
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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
My favourite pieces from 2025!
A digital painting of a masc sylvari dressed in loose, fur-lined robes in warm colors. His bark is a dusty charcoal, and his fronds, gathered into a loose ponytail, are white, with markings similar to silver begonia leaves. His face is in profile as he stands in front of a bright, snowy landscape, holding a dagger made out of glowing ice in a loose grip.Varo, a sylvari mesmer, stands in-between parted, see-through curtains. His bark is a pale coral, and the white foliage on his head is shimmering with opalescent magic. His red eyes are bright as he looks at the camera with a slight smile. Around Varo, magic dissolves in swirls of illusory shards and streams as he dismisses his glamour. Behind him, a vast desert stretches beyond the horizon, glowing golden with the afternoon sun.Two charr keep night watch, standing side-to-side on a cliff overlooking Orr. Arventia, the charr further away from the viewer, is dressed in leather armor with a fur collar. Her fur is a powdery grey, which fades to russet on her tail, limbs, and muzzle. She looks off into the distance, her maw slightly ajar as she speaks, her expression solemn. Vestris stands closer to the viewer, don in an intimidating set of heavy armor. Her helmet is made with jagged plates of metal arranged into a tri-horn shape, with the longest horn extending from the forehead like a sabre. Her fur, barely visible because of her attire, is white with grey tiger stripes, and her mane is messy and braided in places. Vestris looks sidelong at the viewer, her intense orange eye sharp and defiant.
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Ben Hart @pavlovforgoths.com · 09/01/2026
the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence lies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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GerGerGer @germanich.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Сommission #DragonAge
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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
hold me like water / hold me like a knife #oc #gw2 #sylvari
A digital illustration of Varo - a masc sylvari from Guild Wars 2. His bark is pale coral, his eyes are red, and his messy fronds are variegated white and sage green, with antennae growing at the inner base of his brows.

Varo looks at the viewer with focus, his chin held up by a finger of one Void-made arm holding him possessively by the collarbone, and another wrapped around his waist, with fingers splayed against his torso. He's wearing a deep v-neck, sleeveless dress sewn with metallic velvet fabric, and a Void-colored shawl falling in loose folds over his arms. He's standing poised, with one arm held behind his back, and one hand, ending in crystalline claws, held loosely next to his face. Suspended in-between his those claws is a shard of the same crystal as they are made of, emitting jagged lines of Chaos and Void magic.
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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Celebrating my return to RP with some much needed art of my elementalist 😌 #gw2 #sylvari #oc
A digital painting of a masc sylvari dressed in loose, fur-lined robes in warm colors. His bark is a dusty charcoal, and his fronds, gathered into a loose ponytail, are white, with markings similar to silver begonia leaves. His face is in profile as he stands in front of a bright, snowy landscape, holding a dagger made out of glowing ice in a loose grip.A digital painting of a masc sylvari dressed in loose, fur-lined robes in warm colors. His bark is a dusty charcoal, and his fronds, gathered into a loose ponytail, are white, with markings similar to silver begonia leaves. Orange glow, like burning embers, curls along his features and fronds in flowing lines. His face is in profile as he stands in front of a snowy landscape at night, holding a dagger made out of glowing ice in a loose grip.
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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
i'm back to using Varo as a test subject for trying out new art things. nature is healing 😌 #oc #gw2 #sylvari
A stylized digital drawing of a masc sylvari from GW2, painted in vivid colors against an ultramarine background. His bark is light pink, and the leaves on his head are mostly white, with some pale green variegation. His intensely red gaze is directed at the viewer in a dispassionate sneer.
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ionomycin @ionomycin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
my favorite pieces from 2025
drawing from earlier this year of a large humanoid octopus creature on building near the seashore. two women, one dressed in a lab coat are studying them drawing of an old building sunken underwater. there is a diver approaching itdrawing of a dark room with a red light coming from the other room. a huge eel is swimming in a fish tank towards the woman dropping pellets into the water
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GerGerGer @germanich.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Xallergh and Woljif #Pathfinder
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naomi @mimimaruuu.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Human made #dragonage fanart 💘
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naomi @mimimaruuu.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
“Always a dance with you” powder & ekko as leyendecker’s dancing couple ⏳💣💙 #Arcane  #ArcaneSeason2  @arcaneshow.bsky.social
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Athanaca @athanaca.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
🔸Existence and Paleness🔹 Always amazed by the natural colors of the birds✨ #swallow #birdart #illustration #originalart #animalart #albino #birdwatching
Illustration of an albino barn swallow and the normal colored swallow
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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Jagal @jagalart.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
HUE 24
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ionomycin @ionomycin.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
nursery
a young woman sweeping the floor with a mop in a room full of fish tanks. the room appears to be underwater, as there are fish visible behidn the windows
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Jagal @jagalart.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
HUE 29
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Las 🐺🪽 @featherfangart.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
‘Look, I’ve had a miserable week or two. Don’t test me, because I am losing my patience.’ Aka first date ideas (followup comic doodle in the reply) 💕😌 #dragonage
a fake screenshot like illustration of the Warden Ulric Cousland meeting Zevran Arainai for the first time. Yeah, it's the scene after Zevran ambushed him, attacked him and Ulric's not exactly. Happy. About that. He's a bit cranky even.

Zevran's pushed down into the mud, Ulric's sort of kneeling on top of his chest, resting his weight on the other leg and his greatsword which is stabbed (for the lack of better word on my brain rn) into the ground right next to Zev's head. Cutting some strands of his hair.

The rest of the party - Morrigan, Leliana and Alistair (who's ready to strike) are watching the scene.

Ulric's usually pretty friendly and fun to be around, but he doesn't like being attacked u_u also he's been mourning his unscarred face for the past week or so
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Nate @bigratgames.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
american indie developer deciding on a setting: in a cozy mountain town surrounded by wholesome yokai, ghibli inspired cooperative sustainable cherry blossoms and you can pet the dog

french indie developer deciding on a setting: in a world where the gestalt misery of colonisation's victims has manifested into a sort of misery elemental, three church-like religious organisations hav[nine more paragraphs that leave you feeling like you know less than you knew before you started reading]

polish indie developer deciding on a setting: warsaw👍🇵🇱 it is very bad
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RIFU☢️ @rifuhata.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Today is my 26th B'day ( ´ ꒳ ` ) Thank you for being here with me Repost is the best gift for an artist
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Athanaca @athanaca.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Walking towards Spring🌱 #illustration #artwork #digitalart #birdart #animalart #bird #decorative #originalart #wildlife
illustration of white wagtails walking on grass
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Velodus✨ @velodus.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
From @acablart on Twitter: "november sucks. cant shave cant nut and you have to write a 50k word novel
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✨Mimoru✨ @mimorugk.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
yaoi enjoyers #dragonage ✦︎ #dai ✦︎ #HoangTrevelyan ✦︎ #DragonAgeInquisition ✦︎ #CassandraPentaghast
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Athanaca @athanaca.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Family time! 💞 #grebe #bird #illustration #digitalart #originalart #animal #animalart #birdwatching #birder #cute #artist
Illustration of Great-crested grebe and it’s chicks
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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Celebrating my return to RP with some much needed art of my elementalist 😌 #gw2 #sylvari #oc
A digital painting of a masc sylvari dressed in loose, fur-lined robes in warm colors. His bark is a dusty charcoal, and his fronds, gathered into a loose ponytail, are white, with markings similar to silver begonia leaves. His face is in profile as he stands in front of a bright, snowy landscape, holding a dagger made out of glowing ice in a loose grip.A digital painting of a masc sylvari dressed in loose, fur-lined robes in warm colors. His bark is a dusty charcoal, and his fronds, gathered into a loose ponytail, are white, with markings similar to silver begonia leaves. Orange glow, like burning embers, curls along his features and fronds in flowing lines. His face is in profile as he stands in front of a snowy landscape at night, holding a dagger made out of glowing ice in a loose grip.
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