iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

i'm never done a #PortfolioDay I'm Lesya. i'm a digital artist. I enjoy painting characters and hoping to one day make another comic.

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

late night mood. i would kill to get in a car, with another interesting soul and just drive all night. as the passenger, cause i don't drive XD

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

today's accomplishments. face mask and did my nails. also finished a painting but never mind that. nice shiny new nails!

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

omg i miss tomatoes. its so long before the good ones are available.

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

random thing. black nail polish chips so fast for me. i think its my nails. anyway i recently got this very nice gold one. and that shit does not want to lift even with remover. so what if i just paint it gold, in the bits where the black chips off.

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

i watched The Rational Life and The First Frost and its forever changed something in my brain. american's just don't tell stories like this. when it comes to love and romance, these are so far beyond any american tv show i've ever seen.

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

after i finished season one of Silo all i wanted was season two. after i finished season two of Silo all i wanted was my time back. my god the ending especially made me so pissed. i had to sit through this boring, worse written season to get that ending?! are you mad?

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

how do i start this? there is something i've noticed about myself and the way my brain works. when playing some sandbox games, i found i have a hard time building anything from the usual approach or the typical goals. I.E. a base should look good from the outside and then you fit yourself inside.

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

i am so over winter. i keep the heat on the lowest possible setting cause i can't afford more. bills are mad during winter. and right now my toes are too cold to keep sitting at the desk and working. MELT!

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

i need Welcome to Elderfield to come out already. the demo is not enough. take to spooky farming town. i like it there.

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

i'm only just now watching season one of Bridgerton. i am a fan of the books, some more than others and i never like adaptations that change so much so dramatically. had to take time to separate it in my mind, with varying degrees of success.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.

Two pigeons on a London street, pecking at crumbs.

Pigeon 1:
"I'm sorry you missed out on the Booker prize. I thought your novel was wonderful."

Pigeon 2:
"It’s a stitch up! They always give it to a human!"

Pigeon 1:
"It’s nice they considered it."

Pigeon 2:
"Nobody cares about the longlist, Janet!"

Pigeon 2 again:
"Zadie Smith had a bestselling novel and an armload of literary prizes before she was 25*."

Pigeon 1:
"You’ve got to stop comparing yourself to Zadie Smith"

Pigeon 2:
"Why?"

Pigeon 1:
"We’ve all got to find our own path through the world. Plus, it’s much harder to type with claws."

pigeon 2:
"That’s true."

They both go back to pecking.

Pigeon 2:
"I’m glad you liked my book."

*Pigeon 2 is 3 years, 11 months and 22 days old, the equivalent of 42 in human years.
https://pigeonpedia.com/pigeon-years-to-human-years-calculator/

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

you know what pisses me off? well a lot of things, but this! the whole of human society is about beauty and doing all to not age. and yet every vampire story has some idiot character going "oh no, this is not me! Flesh that never changes! I don't want it!" like shut the fuck up. what bullshit!

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

every day i go for a walk to exercise my demons. they have grown big and strong.

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

i refuse to go to sleep cause i'm not ready for monday

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

"Ribbons" fanart for I AM MADE OF DEATH by Kelly Andrew there is a part in the book that describes a feeling she's having. it stuck with me and as always i wanted to draw the unreal symbolic thing.

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

doing another rereading of the whole of #discworld in order of publication. and once again Wyrd Sisters had something that caught my attention enough to make me want to draw it. its fun to just pick a random bit of a scene or conversation and doodle.

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

@instagram on pc. fucking fix this shit. why can't i see what image someone liked or commented on? why can't i click on it? what have you done! its terrible and stupid and makes life worse.

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

i'm doing writing, here and there, between other things. mostly if i can grab a coffee somewhere and sit down for at least half an hour. but its like big chisel things and not little fine details and i feel out of control and stressed. ...or maybe i'm just stressed. writing is hard.

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mikoriin🌸✨ON VGEN ✨🌸 @mikoriin.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

me to my clients in this trying time

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

i wish you could redream a dream the same way you can reread a book or rewatch a fav movie.

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

i'd like to settle the dark souls 2 argument once and for all. is it any good? dark souls 2 is too sunny. the answer is no.

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

i was born with a little too much confidence and simply not enough fucks. as an introvert, this makes me massively off beat in my current social environment.

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

i want a game where i'm a dwarf, establishing my own mine but where the rest of the game play is not 'now go fight a boss' i dont care about fighting. i want to mine! and smelt. and craft things. and maybe even establish an underground farm. and i know that minecraft gives me a lot of that, but

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

huh. three INFJs and one ENFJ. who's surprised. Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

i never keep on top of new games, so i'm sure everyone already knows by now, but WOW South of Midnight is so beautiful! i adore the art style. esp for the characters.

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

"Rose" commission for @cobielajeanne from her book BLOOD IN THE CRADLE July 2025 #commission #digitalart #bookart

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

the problem with me is, if i get enough sleep, the gap between waking up and getting sleepy again is much much bigger than the 'human' time everyone else is on.

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

been watching The Walking Dead. my first time. this show is weird. started as a zombie apocalypses and then turned into a post apocalyptic world where the greatest evil is men. again. and oh yeah sometimes there are zombies. both zombies and "humanity is the greatest evil" is deeply boring to me

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

i fucking hate this day. most of you assholes are not funny.

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

fuckk writing is hard. having a visual memory kinda messes with me when its my own writing. i spend so much time imagining and planning things ahead of me in the story, and only then do i write it. with some things being also created on the spot. so i can never remember if i already wrote a scene

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Ana Fedina @anafi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Vastara, the Hanged One 💀

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Anato Finnstark @anatofinnstark.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The Fasle lady of the lake

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

"Vorian and Nirith" a commission for Mary Freeman.

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

i am trying to get through Empire of Silence. i heard good things...but its turning out to be rather hard going. the narrator does a good job, so i turn it back on, but i keep wondering why is this good? where is the good? its not bad, i'm just kinda bored. i don't like anyone in the story.

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

"Sarai" from Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor its been a while since i've drawn anything from these books. time to reread i think.

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ӄɨռɢ유령👻 @kingyuryeong.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Fanart of Er Lang from The #GhostBride by Yangsze Choo Tools: prismacolor Pencils, moleskine sketchbook

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

you know when a booktuber says "i hated this, but if you like this book, i'm happy for you" ....why? i'm not. i'm never happy for people to like something i hate. its like wishing ill upon them. i get it for a book i just didn't vibe with. like its fine and well written, but not to my taste

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

"Olena" from The Curse Between Us by Tiffany Daune

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

"Thomas Walsh" and "Vivienne Farrow" from I AM MADE OF DEATH by Kelly Andrew Book is out March 2025! GET HANDS ON IT NOW!

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

omg why is Walkin On Water HIP Ver. is so much better then the original!

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

third person omniscient gets too much hate.

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

For my friend @kingyuryeong.bsky.social i wish you all the chill times in the world.

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

"Yelne and Wenna" one last commission done in time for a christmas gift. #commission #sketch

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LesyaBlackBird @lesayblackbird.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I really want to reread Threshold by Caitlín R. Kiernan, not so much for itself, which is fine, but more so for book two, Low Red Moon. I really love that book. and at the same time, I want to reread Hogfather by Terry Pratchett. for the holidays XD

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