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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 30/09/2026

I cheated when making the portrait for this lovely wombat. I used another illustration I had done before, and just changed her arms (gave her a salad) and redid some of the line work to match the style of the other portraits. #NossSaga #Illustration

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 29/09/2026

BABY RACCOONS CLAMMING! With a bad-ass, limping, short-tailed mom hero to protect them! Spotted them right past sunset at a Washington beach. 🦝🦝🦝

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 29/09/2026

ALT of Kulak with more softness exposed <3 <3 #NossSaga #Illustration

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 27/09/2026

I also saw @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social’s Passage around, but I had already run out of Certifiably Mellified stickers.

Paperbacks of Jared Pechaček’s The West Passage on a shelf with a Staff Pick label under them.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 27/09/2026

Was at Powell’s in Portland and saw @wiswell.bsky.social’s books in the award winners section, so I dropped a Certified Gay sticker inside one (unpeeled—I’m not that much of a vandal).

Me holding a paperback of Someone You Can Build A Nest In, opened to the first page, with a holographic Certified Gay label sticker inside.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 27/09/2026

when you're close to me 🐻💖🐺

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 24/09/2026

things found in the forest spore ravine why would you serve us so much syrup too many people at this beach

Canid mask in a redwoods forest sunken between a bunch of clovers in a rotten log

A deep canyon full of ferns with a creek running at the bottom

Two massive disposable cups full of syrup they gave us at breakfast. Didn't even use 1% of that.

Timothy staring at Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach during sunset

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 23/09/2026

Have a timelapse! With a bonus of @tfiddlerart.bsky.social's art I used for reference at the start of it. #NossSaga #Illustration #Tutorial

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 23/09/2026

Here's a still photo of the tree from inside the other tree. Guillermo del Toro, for licensing inquiries please have your agents contact my agents.

Pic of a redwood tree taken from a hole from another redwood that is hollow and big enough to walk into. It looks like a tunnel to a dark fairy world.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 22/09/2026

Everyone's favorite kitty. Here's my new illustration of Kulak. #NossSaga #Illustration

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 20/09/2026

T A L L Also, saw an otter splooshing downriver. #Cosplay

Cosplaying with the canid mask and blue tunic at the redwoods forest. Shot looking up into the impossibly tall trees, super wide angle, me looking like a tall tree as well in the one point perspective.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 19/09/2026

Breakfast, a whale (maybe two?), and too many pelicans

Breakfast at Alta Bakery in Monterey, out in their garden/farm. Having the 9 grain pancakes. Timothy sits across from me, having some salmon thing.

Sunset over the ocean with a whale breaching under the sunbeams (just a dark tiny blob)

Sunset over pointy rocks in the ocean with a billion pelicans

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 18/09/2026

Yep, been up there before! So much better from above.

Prismatic spring from a higher viewpoint up the trail

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 18/09/2026

It begins. Gas prices will destroy us.

Map of our planned roadtrip from LA to Seattle to Yellowstone and back, making a huge loop of 3400 miles (minimum without detours, will likely end up at around 5000 miles)

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 17/09/2026

Heading to Yellowstone soon! Here's a photo I took ages ago, which is still one of my favs. The sunset was tinted by smoke from forest fires nearby, making it extra glowy. #Photography

A hunky male bison silhouetted on a grassy field. The image is painfully orange and gold, tinted to the extreme by a setting sun.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 17/09/2026

Always use a blintz origami base so that your cheese doesn’t spill out of the burger when cooking.

Two slices of cheese on a plate, folded in a blintz origami base to make their area smaller.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 16/09/2026

It's coming! Book 5 is nearly here! 🦅🐦🐦‍⬛🐔🐣🐤🐥

Wings of the Wayfarers cover reveal, October 6. Graphic shows a wrapped book with the covering partially burning out. The backdrop is a mountainous landscape tinted lavender, sprinkled by flocks of birds.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 15/09/2026

Here's the finished painting of Lummukem and Olo. I revealed two other characters to my mailing list just this morning! #NossSaga #Illustration

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 11/09/2026

Gonna be headed to Yellowstone again next month. Can't wait to sit by stinky pits for hours again, trying to get a photo of the perfect mud bubble <3 <3 #Photography

24 photos of mud bubbles in a 6x4 grid. They all look alien and neat as fuck.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 10/09/2026

I am double-jointed only on my left thumb, while I am right handed, so I feel as if a certain new product was designed just for me.

Two photos of my hand showing my left thumb bending backward for additional reach for Apple devices that keep getting larger.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 09/09/2026

Life hack to make any movie more cinematic.

Setting screens for a TV with sharpness, contrast, and saturation sliders set to the max

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 09/09/2026

Still in love with this commission I got from @gatoiberico.bsky.social of Kulak and Sterjall. #NossSaga

Kulak the caracal walking alongside Sterjall, gesturing excitedly with his arms while the dark-furred wolf acts a bit shy and reserved. The caracal is wearing a leather kilt and an open-chested green jacket, and the wolf is wearing a blue tunic and decorative tan trousers.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 07/09/2026

You could interlock them like a Cool S ™ design:

Zio's sketch duplicated and rotated so that the two bears interlock into an S shape.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 04/09/2026

🪶 Also finished painting Olo, the azure-hooded jay. If you wanna see the finished piece, I'll be sharing it with my mailing list next week (including an alt 😉). Get on it, joabaldwin.com/list

Sketch and final painting of an azure-hooded jay about to land on a clawed reptilian hand. The jay is blue with a black chest and head, and has a bright azure hood.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 04/09/2026

Tail armor is now painted. Moving on to other props.

Tail armor is now fully painted in black with filigreed details, and with a spiked mace portion at the tip.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 03/09/2026

I added a random moo doodle to a paperback I shipped yesterday. #Doodles

Red-ink doodle of a mini-minotaur with a big axe.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 02/09/2026

Yep! I was just showing a non-canon alt for fun. I have it all in layers just so it's easier to tweak things. Here's the shaved version with her true skin colors.

Same face crop of Nalaníri but her pink skin now has black spots in the same patters as her fur had in the original.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 02/09/2026

Sketching the next character(s) for the lineup.

Sketch of Lummukem the dragon holding a claw up so that Olo, a jay, can perch on their claws. They are "standing" on their curved tail, legs folded up, and are holding a halberd.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 01/09/2026

And you might like her with some layers removed <3

Crop of the boar's face but without any of the fur or skin coloring (just pink, more like a pig).

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 01/09/2026

Nearly finished with this painting. I have 13 Noss Saga character paintings for the lineup already, plus tons of alts.

Photo of iPad with Procreate with a painting of a smiling boar with fur of black and white splotches, small tusks, ears up. She is wearing a green vest and holds an axe with glowing stones, just like the ones lighting up her nosering. My hand holding a stylus blocks part of the image.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 28/08/2026

It's a good combo! I tried lots of variations. Steal everything.

22 color variations of the Ockam illustration, set in a 7x3 grid. Two are highlighted, the ones I liked most and ended up blending together.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 28/08/2026

Portrait of Ockam, a scout from the Free Tribelands. #NossSaga #Illustration

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 28/08/2026

#Eclipse happening right now. Go outside, look at moon. Just took this pic. It will be at its maximum in 15 minutes or so. #Astrophotography #LunarEclipse

Blood moon eclipse photo with the moon about 75% covered, the other 25% glowing through a veil of misty clouds.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 28/08/2026

NEW! I added decorative line dividers / separators to the Noss Map Brush Pack: www.joaquinbaldwin.com/products/nos... I designed 14 different ones for my own illustrations, so I thought I'd drop them in there as an extra. #Cartography #FantasyMaps

Decorative Line Dividers title over a paper texture with 8 examples of these flourishes / ornamental designs.

All 14 divider designs displayed over a textured paper.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 25/08/2026

The Seed of Yggdrasil An old piece I designed and 3d-printed in full color. #3D-Printing

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 25/08/2026

LA friends! I'll have a table at the #QueerlasticBookFair this Saturday. I'll bring hardcovers and paperbacks of all Noss Saga books. Stop by, say hi! August 29, 2026 2pm - 8pm at @precinctdtla.bsky.social 357 S Broadway, Los Angeles This is a 21+ event Hosted by @huckandpuckbooks.bsky.social

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 23/08/2026

How to pointy: Trying to make a pointy bit on the line art removes volume and makes things flat. Make pointy more round.

Two paintings of a pointy something (maybe a tusk?). One has the line drawing end in a sharp tip, but it feels too flat. The other has it curving around a sharp bend, and it feels more volumetric and awesome.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 23/08/2026

Kitjári with fewer things on her. Don't try to understand how that piece of clothing works, alright? I tried a bikini-like thing with six cups but it just looked ridiculous. #NossSaga #Illustration

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