iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

We originally decided to see how far we could get in a weekend (of course, it ended up taking far, far longer in the end) so I settled on a quite simple artstyle with an easy workflow and very minimal animation. Animation was done with a combination of rigging in Godot and spritesheets.

An illustration of the playable character of our game, Cat the Great.

An illustration of a noble cat character from our game.

An illustration of a noblewoman cat character from our game.

An illustration of the general cat character from our game.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The concept of this game came from our love of the series the Great, combined with these fancy portraits I made of our kitties at some point. Add in lots of cat puns, and Cat the Great was born! I did all art, animation, and gamedesign, while Bjorn did all the programming and dialogue.

A photoshopped classical painting of a white cat wearing fancy Elizabethan clothes, and wearing a crown.

A photoshopped classical painting of a tabby cat wearing an admiral's uniform.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The Artist - Cor Blok's illustrations were on the front of the first Dutch LotR paperbacks from 1965. They were the first LotR edition I read, as my mom owned them, and seeing this art always fills me with nostalgia. #tolkien #tolkientrewsday

The cover art for the Dutch Fellowship of the Ring by artist Cor Blok.

The cover art for the Dutch The Two Towers by artist Cor Blok.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I was out menacing @cindyvliet.bsky.social's cute kitties with my camera today. #cats #catsofbluesky

A photo of a tuxedo cat looking intensely at something next to the camera

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Thank you for the tag and congrats on the 7K! Hi, I'm Karin! I do ink and watercolour and digital, and I mostly draw trees, fantasy art, or both!

An ink and digital drawing of a crooked tree, covered in moss. There's a bird sitting below the tree.

A digital drawing of the hobbits underneath Old Man Willow. Merry and Pippin are sleeping between the roots, while Frodo is sitting on a root with his feet in the water.

An ink and watercolour drawing of a twisted, knotty tree.

An ink and watercolour drawing of Treebeard with lots of leaves and green hues. It's a portrait from the side.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The brew for the brave and true! (It contains tea tho) #Tolkien #tea

A photo of a green dragon themed ceramic mug.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I love this! I'm always eager to find more traditional artists on here :) Hi, I'm Karin! I'm currently trying to transition to doing more traditional artworks and leaving digital behind. I mostly work in ink and watercolour.

An ink drawing of the exterior of a hobbit hole.

An ink and watercolour drawing of a tree stump with moss and mushrooms on it.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

A while back I was really stuck with my art, so I did a bunch of DnD character requests over on Reddit. I barely do character art any more nowadays, so they were a nice refresher! Although the backgrounds did start to creep back in, trying to take over :) #art #DnD #characterart

A digital drawing of an Owlin wizard wearing a purple robe, holding up a staff that has an owl on it.

A digital drawing on a tiefling cleric, wearing a green and pink robe. She's standing in a field with pink flowers.

A digital drawing of an earth genasi druid, who has long, green, leafy hair hanging all the way down her back. She's holding a spear and she's standing in an eerie forest with glowing mushrooms.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Hi, I'm Karin! I love trees, moss, fantasy art and anything Tolkien. I draw mostly nature and landscapes.

A digital drawing of moss covered rocks with a bird on top of them.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Congrats on the 12,7K! Hi, I'm Karin. I love trees, moss, fantasy art and anything Tolkien, and I'm currently trying to get more into traditional art.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Happy two years #TolkienTrewsday! Trees - Treebeard is one of my favourite characters. I really appreciate how Tolkien gave voices and personality to the trees, giving them agency. There are many times I've wished our RL trees could speak up and defend themselves. #art #watercolor #ink #Tolkien

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Congrats on the 1200 and thanks for hosting! Hi, I'm Karin! I love moss, trees, and fantasy art (particularly Tolkien). I'm currently trying to do more traditional art!

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

No trees today, but just some cute little houses! I used to draw these kind of stacking houses all the time while traveling by train, trying to add on different houses that I went past. #art #watercolor #ink

An ink and watercolour drawing of tiny houses stacked up top of eachother. Yellow light is coming out of the windows.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Congrats on the 3k! Hi, I'm Karin! I love moss, trees, and fantasy art (particularly Tolkien). I'm currently trying to do more traditional art!

An ink and watercolour drawing of a detail of a gnarly tree.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Introduce yourself with four video games! Impossible choice really... I'm only 100% sure on Hollow Knight needing to be up there. Honorable mentions go to Monkey Island 3, Rayman 1, Diablo 2, Terraria, Kingdom, Hades!

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

If you see this, post your purple #art 💜✨ This is also mostly purple!

An ink and digital drawing of a mountain landscape/ In the middle is a steep mountain with a castle on top of it. Bats are flying around the castle and there is a big moon visible behind it.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Still trying to catch up on posting old art here. This is another Fangorn I drew a couple of years ago. I wasn't too happy with it back then, but it's grown on me a bit since. This was when I was in my homemade custom brushes for everything phase. #art #tolkien #luinellë

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I used to be quite bad about alskdjflk.png and doesn't name layers, but working in a bigger team in a studio made me obsessively start to name everything. It's such a pain in the ass to work on someone else's stuff and having to search through all files/layers.

Bad habit artist bingo. One million WIPs, Comes up with ideas does nothing, Forgot to sleep/eat/etc, The urge to draw in the most inconvenient times, hunched over desk like a gremlin, too hard on self, free space, saves 100 tutorials uses none, where's my pen/stylus?, 100 empty sketchbooks, Forgot to sign/watermark pie, Gets distracted in the middle of drawing with another idea are all marked off

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I should make a pinned post or something. Hi everyone! I'm Karin, and I love to draw trees, moss, and fantasy art. My goals for this year are to do more traditional art (mostly ink and watercolor) and more Tolkien art! #art

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Have a Ravi pic! He's still a bit intimidated by my camera (specifically by the shutter sound) #caturday #cats

A photo of a tabby cat with white bits lying in a basket, with his paws hanging over the edge. He's looking straight at the camera

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Congrats on the 1k! Your stuff is so cool, you really deserve all the attention and more! Hi, I'm Karin. I love trees, moss, and fantasy art!

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Sleep/dream. The hobbits take a little involuntary nap underneath Old Man Willow. Hi everyone, it's my first time participating in #TolkienTrewsday! I had to rush a little to get this drawing done on time. So lovely to see the #Tolkien community active on Bluesky! #art

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Hi, I'm Karin and I love landscape art! Particularly ones involving trees, moss, and/or fantasy elements!

An ink drawing of a wizard,Radagast the Brown, with a raven on his staff, walking through a wild looking Mirkwood.

An ink and watercolour drawing of pine trees and mossy rocks.

An ink and digital drawing of a lady standing in a colourful field of flowers. She's holding a flower basket.

An ink and digital drawing of a tree standing in the middle of a rocky plane, being hit by lightning.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I was out photographing some #moss in the neighbourhood yesterday. Love me some moss! 💚

A close-up photo of some moss growing on a wooden plank.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

So when I'm too tired to work on bigger drawings but really want to draw, I tend to speedpaint Fangorn with Merry and Pippin in it. Fangorn is basically everything I love: dark, wild forest (with plenty of moss!) + Tolkien. #art #speedpaint #tolkien #luinellë

A digital speedpainting of a twisted dark forest, with two figures standing in a rare sunny spot.

A digital speedpaint of a dark, twisted forest, with two figures sitting on a fallen tree in the distance.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

If you see this, QRP a character with long hair.

A digital drawing of a creepy figure with long hair sitting on a tree stump.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Here are some ink drawings I did based on Tolkien works. Glaurung and Nienor, a hobbit hole, and Radagast in Mirkwood. All of Tolkien's works, as well as the LotR movies, are really dear to me. They've been a big part of both my personal and artistic journey <3 #art #ink #tolkien

An ink drawing of Glaurung, a dragon, and Nienor, a human, from the Silmarillion. Glaurung is huge and encircles Nienor, who is tiny in comparison.

An ink drawing of Radagast, a wizard, walking in the woods. He has a staff with a raven sitting on it.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Congrats on the 200!! Hi, I'm Karin, and I love moss, trees, and fantasy.

An ink and watercolour drawing of a tree with a fairy in it.

A digital drawing of a twisted, mossy tree with a crow under it.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Hi, I'm Karin! I'm a digital artist trying to turn tradional artist in love with trees, moss, and fantasy.

A digital drawing of a crooked tree covered in moss, with a crow underneath it.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Roxy is a small ladycat who is deaf. She has very big opinions, and because she can't hear herself meow, she proclaims them very loudly! #cat

A photo of a white cat lying in the sun on a windowsill. She's lying on her back.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Ravi is a big chonky tomcat who's very shy but an absolute cuddle bug when he's comfortable. #cat

A photo of a tabby cat with white spots looking up at the camera while lying in a basket.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

These are my adorable kitties, Ravi (left) and Roxy (right). I love them to bits <3

A photo of a tabby cat with spots of white. He's lying in a cat basket, facing the camera.

A photo of a white cat with blue eyes lying in a cat basket. She's slightly looking up.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Congrats on the 500! Hi, I'm Karin! I recently returned to Bluesky after a long social media break, looking to connect with the awesome art community again! like to draw trees, moss, and fantasy art.

A digital drawing of a crooked tree covered in moss, with a crow siting beneath it.

A digital drawing of moss covered rocks, with a bird sitting on top of them.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Hi, I'm Karin! I'm a digital artist trying to turn tradional artist in love with trees, moss, and fantasy.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Some older digital art today. I loved moss back then as well 💚 #art #digitalart #moss

A digital drawing of a crooked tree covered in moss with a crow sitting under it.

A digital drawing of some moss covered rocks with a bird sitting on top of them.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Congrats on the 3k! You totally deserve it, your art is amazing. I'm currently watching S2 of Arcane again, because I need a rewatch to really do the visuals justice. Here are some of my ink and watercolour drawings.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

‪This is a drawing I made of a view in Iceland. I'm thinking I should still paint it sometimes, because the greens are so vibrant. But I also just like the texture of the filled in ink lines! #art #ink

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Congrats on the 1,5K! Hi, I'm Karin. I love making ink and watercolour art, mostly of nature and/or fantasy. I've recently returned to Bluesky, looking to engage with the art community more!

An ink drawing of a mountaintop with grass on it.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Hi, I'm Karin! I've just returned to Bluesky after not having done social media for quite a while, trying to connect to the art community a bit more! I mostly used to do digital art, but recently I've been trying to get into ink and watercolour

An ink and watercolour drawing of a tree with a fairy on it.

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