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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I feel like such a prude, but how do y'all make and post even relatively sfw pin-up work without feeling like a pervert? I'm genuinely asking how to get over this feeling, because I love pin-up art and 70/80s fantasy art. I worry people are going to think I'm sexist for showing hot lady ass.

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'll never understand the "AI is a tool, like a hammer" argument. I buy a hammer from someone that makes hammers. I don't steal hammers from a ton of carpenters, smash them to bits, and make a weird, fucked up hammer with the leftover pieces. #noai

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Bracken & Wrynn were never meant to be a couple. They're both #dnd characters that I've played at my table. They didn't even exist in the same world. Yet, I love the idea of them together. She's a reluctant hero and he's a reluctant villain. Both Warlocks. #ocsky #digitalart #fantasyart #daz3d

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Last year, I entered a piece into this contest, on a whim, never expecting anything ... and was one of the top 25 finalists in the digital category. I was *wracked* with fear about submitting this year. But I did anyway. Wish me luck! "Lost Photo of the River Witches of Appalachia, circa 1937"

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Decided to try a different color variation for this one, so I recolored it from b/w and changed the background a bit. Wanted to go for a bit more contrast between the light and fog, with more natural colors. Haven't decided which one I like more. #art #digitalart #fantasyart #daz3d #dazstudio

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I was looking at some vintage photos of women in Appalachia and I wanted to try to create that old slice of life photo look. WiP and is pretty low-res. I present: "The River Witches of Appalachia" or "Gertrude Summons a Distraction" #art #digitalart #fantasyart #3dart #daz3d #dazstudio

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I'm old. I've been through so many Legion reboots and retroboots and I gave up. Then this gets announced. And I gotta tell you, I love every bit of artwork that's been released so far. This is the first time I've been legit excited about the Legion of Super-Heroes since Zero Hour.

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

There is a person who posts a lot on an art group I'm in. The work isn't AI, but her 8 paragraph long captions are. Blatantly. And I just want to scream "oh my God talk like a fucking human!" No one fucking speaks like this. It's so weird and nonsensical while trying so hard to sound deep.

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Fuck me for getting political on here, but oh my God Dem voters never stop putting all their faith in Republicans. "Massie is going to be unrestrained now, to do whatever he wants!" Is a crazy cope. Saw someone say "Not a Republican but I'd vote for Massie for Potus!", shades of Cheney. Ugh /1

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Someone just tried very hard to insult me. Well, jokes on you, brother, I already think everything I do sucks.

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I use #Daz3D as a starting point for most of my work. I compose a shot, i take the renders into #Affinity and do a tremendous amount of post work. Light, color, texture, digital painting, etc. This is what opened up the world of character art for me. 3D. #NoAi /1

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Decided to do a variation of this where I build an environment around her. An underground temple, to play on her treasure hunter/adventurer personality. Really liked how this turned out. #digitalart #3dart #fantasyart #dnd #warlock #noai

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Played as this dude tonight in a one-shot. It was so fun. Gotta work on his personality and presentation, but his skill set was stellar.

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

New Warlock concept I'm working on. A Warforged mech suit being "piloted" by his Gazer familiar. He's got a big Pact Hammer and an Eldritch Blast gun on his arm. Pew-pew. Great old one Patron. #dnd #digitalart #3dart

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This is why I have like 80 unopened, unpainted miniatures sitting in a box. And why I have an entire drawer full of Legion of Super-Heroes HeroClix figures even though I have no idea how to play HeroClix.

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

As a man, one of the most embarrassing things--just embarrassing, not "worst" things--that I see men do is respond to *obvious* AI softcore porn as if the character in it is a real human woman they have some sort of shot with. Y'all cannot be this fucking horny and dumb, please.

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Someone was asking me questions about a piece of mine, I took them at face value, as one does, until it became clear that this person was not so subtly implying that because it was digital--not AI, just digital--that i had no actual talent. Ok. Cool. Just say it outright next time. Be an adult.

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Perhaps stupidly, this week I'm working on a YouTube video to submit to "Monster Week: Fey" being hosted by DnDtubers PointyHat and GinniDi. Can i make the art and the video in like 3 days?! Who knows?! Wish me luck!

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Been doing so much character stuff lately, decided to go in a different direction tonight. Rendered in #daz3d with postwork in #Affinity #digitalart #fantasyart #horrorart

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Pretty sure my CoC character is going to die in tonight's session. I'm genuinely upset about it. Dying in service to the story is good. Death being totally arbitrary and out of left field after months of playing, so we don't even get to do the end, feels like shit. Don't even feel like playing.

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

It's #PortfolioDay My name is John Lam and I am a 3D Artist. I do a lot of what I like to call #virtualphotography. I set up models, a scene, hair, costume, make-up, etc. I take some photos with a virtual camera. And I do a lot of post-work. #Daz3d #Affinity Here are some of my pieces:

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Question: #DnD is typically Medieval European #Fantasy. So, no cameras. Just hand made art. Art would be the way that most people would have ever seen monsters depicted, having no real world experience with them. Consider the way that foreign creatures are depicted in old European Art. /1

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Updating Rowan as well. This one feels very 90s to me. Like she's definitely into Kurt Cobain and Vampire the Masquerade. #fantasyart #oc #3dart #daz3d

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I'm currently redoing all of my #OC folks in #Daz3d ... this is a very low-res test of a couple outfits put together for Bracken. I'll be doing a lot of worldbuilding art on my channel later this spring, so there's a lot of testing going on right now. Thought I'd share this one. #3dart #fantasyart

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

It was 80 degrees yesterday and today it's snowing. Totally normal. Just a completely normal thing to happen.

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Saw a dude post an AI piece with the caption "some people create, others criticize" and the irony almost fucking killed me.

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Does anyone own a green screen that they'd recommend? One that isn't "omg, how much?!?"? I'll mostly be using it to put myself into my art sometimes for stupid jokes. #photography #visualeffects #vfx #art

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Rewatching old favorite shows is weird. Like, oh shit, this episode of Highlander introduces Methos, the oldest immortal! He's 5,000!! How exciting! And half the fucking epIsode is Richie joining a French motorcross team. You cannot convince me anyone gave a fuck about this.

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Keep watching the dumbest mother fuckers on the planet Earth accuse a woman of using AI in her videos because they don't know what a green screen is. Visual effects exist, bros, wtf?!

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Swear to god every halfwit has a youtube channel now. So, here's mine (go subscribe? Like the video? Drop me a nice comment so I don't nervous puke?) #art #artturtorials #fantasyart #bookteaser ... it's only a teaser video, but I hope it's neat.

youtu.be

Salt Water & Secrets: Channel Teaser

YouTube video by Salt Water and Secrets

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Been working on a "How-To" project and decided to design a #bookcover for a book full of my #fantasyart ... I really liked how it turned out. #art I may be launching a #tutorial series soon.

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Trying something a bit different than my usual style. But, as always, I like playing with light and color more than anything. Bracken, falling into the deep. #3dart #digitalart #horrorart #fantasyart #daz3d #daz3dstudio #lightandcolor #art #ocart

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

This is one of my favorite pieces that I've ever done. No 3D in this one, just 100% photo compositing and painting over. #digitalart #fantasyart #dnd #warlock #photobash #composite

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The hardest parts of having a pet is the responsibility of knowing when it's time to let go. My good gal Friday was nearly 15 and her bad days were outnumbering her good ones. We tried to make her last day as good as possible. I wish she could have stayed forever and I will miss her terribly.

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

"Dad, you're an artist. You know anything about color theory?" I mean ... despite what my early work would have you believe, yeah, I know a little.

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I forgot to go to bed and now it's 4am. This really sucks.

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

This was the piece. It's one of about 10 different lighting variations I'm working on, using a single base 3D model.

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I decided to do an "Is it AI?" test with one of my 3D pieces. And it failed. One of my base characters that i built in Daz, that i painted in Affinity, was analyzed and determined to be "92% Confidently AI. 86% Probability made in Midjourney." Do not trust these fucking things #digitalart #noai

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

r/isitAI is one of the most insane subreddits. I'm convinced only like 3% of people there are actual artists. I see people insisting that shit is AI because of things I was doing my first year of art school. Saw someone say "it's AI because why fully render this??" and it's literally line art.

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Republicans in 2026: "Federal agents have the legal justification to execute you on the street if you are seen with a gun. And are a Democrat."

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Awhile back, I went on a rant about "3D line art" tutorials, how they always use those god awful "toon" filters in post that make your art look dirty and gross. So, I've been working on a new workflow for to convert 3D art to line art. This is *still* in-progress. #daz3dstudio #3dart

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Study lighting far more than you think you need to. Become obsessed with it.

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Guy at dispensary: "Any good weekend plans?" Me: *motions to all the drugs I just bought*

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Visual update of my Fathomless Warlock, Bracken. This is *very* early, with updated ears and not-horns (they are a type of coral that grows out of her head, part of being a Sea Hag Hexblood). Flat lighting because multiple light scenarios are coming! #dnd #3dart #fantasyart #daz3dstudio

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I've tried hard to keep this page art oriented, and not let it turn into my old super-political twitter page that always made me feel like I was having a heart attack ... but is anyone else kind of terrified? People just acting like everything is totally normal and I can't wrap my brain around it.

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

New Goal for 2026: Stop believing that installing plumbing items myself will only take 10-15 minutes, especially if the video shows professionals install it in like 3.

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The Lamityville Horror @lamityville.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I hope everyone has a better 2026 than 2025. Mostly, I just want 2026 to be calm. But I do have some goals for the year: 1) Comment more on the works of other artists 2) Make more #art of my own 3) Launch a #Daz3DStudio & #Affinity tutorial YT series What do you want 2026 to look like?

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