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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Which version do you prefer? Big hat or no hat?

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Little note about how much I love drawing horses

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

A quick note on not getting stuck in your drawings. Sometimes you luck out and you draw an amazing elbow and your drawing is completely screwed because you refuse to delete it. Here's the medicine I take. (I am not cured and still fall into this everyday, help!)

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Feels good to have time to dedicate to my own drawings again. been a while

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

sword swing & some thinking about my sketching process ?

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I love colour. Let me show you part of my thinking process :)

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I'm announcing a new class based on everything I've learned from teaching artists over the last 2 years. It contains the best advice I know. Check it out! www.skool.com/ilovepainting

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Had a great time talking with Victor Maury. Using a bribe of cakes I had him explain the process of how he arrived at the final destination of this painting of Warwick. If you are interested in Splash art check it out!

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Riot Artist Victor Maury demonstrates what goes into making splash art

YouTube video by Seen through Jonathan

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Favorite perch, licking the last bits of sun before greeting the night.

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I love looking at my own work. What I like most is having the initial idea and the final image side by side for comparison. One represents the quick initial idea and the other several days of effort. Why? Because during the process I barely spend any time with either of them! /thread

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Patrick Leger @patrickleger.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Trying something new recently with my style to meet tighter deadlines. #portfolioday

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Damn. You have to pay for premium to download high res images from other people who also pay for premium from 15th of May. So many good high res albums will become useless overnight. (thinking of some great scans of books I found for instance) Goodbye flickr. :/

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Service Update: Original & Large Size Download Limitations on Free Accounts

Starting May 15, Flickr will restrict the downloading of original and large (larger than 1024px) sizes of photos and videos on free accounts. Read more about this service update on the Flickr blog.

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Yumyan A commission for @perseuspercy.bsky.social Was an honour to paint him

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Lazy Nezumi @lazynezumi.com · 28/03/2025

Lazy Nezumi Pro update 25.03.27 adds locking and other new features to the Perspective Ellipse ruler! It also adds support for TVPaint 12, and adds a workaround for an XPPen wintab driver bug that was blocking pen input. lazynezumi.com/news2025#03.27 #LazyNezumi #Photoshop #ClipStudio #DigitalArt

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Hey gang which one is the chatgpt scammer? 1: "Hey we have a project that fits you, are you interested in hearing more?" 2: "Having encountered your breathtaking artwork on Art station, I must admit I am truly impressed by your masterful creations and distinctive style..-"

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I love art! I think you do too! If you feel frustrated with your current process or feel stuck and don't know where to go then I can help. I still have mentorship Spots open for April! If you are interested in learning from me this is a great opportunity.

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Absolutely obsessed with these 3 pieces done by Paja Jovanović.

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Here's how I learned anatomy so that it stuck! First of all you don't need to know all the muscles for it to be useful. Going into great detail is exhausting and worse sometimes we do a big dedicated study and we come out no better. We must test our knowledge right away. Let me explain

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Turn me to stone! I loved working on this piece. It's so beautiful! I just want to stare at it's gorgon gaze and adjust small things over and over. Turning vague imagination into reality is the best. Painting is the best.

Painting depicting the staircase to a temple. There is a vast cityscape behind it leading up to a mountain that is spewing out magic rays.

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Don't sleep on Lazy Nezumi. If you are using Windows this might just be one of the most powerful art tools for all your art programs you can imagine.

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Exercise for my students: Painting Analysis Effort is not enough. We need to think about our paintings deeply. How do we learn thinking? Questioning our favourite painters pieces! What does "that" do? Paint it out and find out! It's a digital file. Torture it for information. You'll learn so much!

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I am opening up a few more spots for private mentorship students in March & April. If you want support to make paintings you care for & cherish for years to come. Get in touch :) Here is a brochure:

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Ritual. I was going to give them a light- wash treatment ala Ivan Bilibin but never found the time. If only there was a day in a day.

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Being on a board and moving is objectively cool. Snow, Water - boards: Amazing things. Now Air-- Honestly a death sentence even if "magic". You lose your balance and bye-bye. Wont stop me from sketching them. Let's call them Flying Coffins because first you fly then you'll need a coffin.

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

If you have any questions about drawing anatomy specific stuff comment on this post and I'll do a follow up later with answers & examples. Remember: Drawing any part of the body creates a limit where the rest can go. Knowing these limitations gives us so many options to draw believable creatures.

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Simple. Simple! All the whimsical and fancy brush work you admire is built on this universal principle: Do one thing at a time. Don't overcomplicate & skip steps. It'll get you in trouble 💯% of the time. Here is a demo from last months class if you are interested in more info: youtu.be/ik0KKWZWVeM

Depicts the 4 stages of blocking out a rendered painting. Lines for accuracy, Block out so we can judge light. Painting the edge that depicts the form and then: Repeat for every light in the scene. Be it another directional light or sky.

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

A confession: Every 3 or 4 months I am overcome with a compulsion to sketch, ink & paint images featuring horses. This has been an enduring theme of my working life for several years at this point. Weeks go by without sparing a thought to that beautiful equine creature. Then, suddenly! Horse.

knight riding on a horse through a landscape

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

A trap that is easy to fall into as an artist is "I must finish this epic idea!" Ok: 3 years later how is it going? Why is that shameful? You've done NOTHING WRONG. You took a big bite and got a tummy ache. Spit it out! Quit bad projects. Reflect, start something else.You can't quit? OK:ASK FOR HELP

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This treat of a painting marked the end of the project it was made for. It felt so complete & sincere in it's emotional quality. It came out like a fully formed rose bush through a concrete road. Was the way I approached painting wrong? The path it took me down is great. I'm so happy I made it.

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I'm tired of the toxic sentiment sentiment that one must despise ones own work to make "true art". Why is it wrong to enjoy your own work? I love it, why else would I continue despite it's enormous difficulty? I love them. I love my paintings, I love my sketches. They demand: Do your best! So I do.

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

In 2014 I made this piece titled "They stood like memory". I've kept a print of it at my desk ever since. It's the piece that convinced me that I should truly pursue being an artist. Not from any external response but from how it stirs me. Makes me think.

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Jonathan Livslyst @livslyst.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

There's something nice about this painting. I come back to it and it makes me imagine. Plots and threads going anywhere and no where. I leave the experience wanting to paint more usually. What a lovely piece, even with it's flaws.

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