iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Lucas Durham @lucasdurham.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Thanks! I had you in my head reminding me to sharpen those edges on all the armor bits 😜

Lucas Durham @lucasdurham.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Another FanArt token mockup. Like so many, I found out about Chappell Roan when Hot to Go! went viral in 2024. One of my favorite costume sets was the Joan of Arc theme she had at the 2024 VMAs. This particular portrait study is based on a concert photo taken by Mike Coppola.

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Lucas Durham @lucasdurham.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

A fanart piece I created based on a photograph by Kelia Anne MacCluskey. It started as a practice study, and I started to think it could make a cool image for a Magic the Gathering token, so I mocked that up as well. I may do a series of these. What musician do you think would make a good token?

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Sho | Dora Ingrid @doraingrid.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

having too much fun with my boy here #kcd2 #wip

illustration wip of Henry from Kingdom come Deliverance, he's wearing dark heavy armor, looking to the right

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Colin Boyle @colinbphoto.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The No Kings March in Chicago is one of the largest gatherings I’ve seen here. Looking down from by the river, the crowd stretches for blocks down Michigan Ave and wraps around Wacker Dr. This video is from a few minutes ago and the end of the protest is nowhere in sight. @blockclubchi.bsky.social

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Aaron Miller Illustration --> SCGCon LA @aaronbmiller.com · 15/10/2025

Lucas Durham is my guest artist on my Patreon, with this stoic elf warrior token. @lucasdurham.bsky.social blends his love of pop culture, comics, and anime with his appreciation for art history and scifi/fantasy illustration. Find out more: Patreon.com/c/aaronmiller

Portrait painting in a card / frame. The text at the top reads "Elf Warrior" and "1/1" at the bottom. The painting is of an elf with grey hair in a white cloak outfit with gold trim, holding a staff with a gold crescent moon shape on top and a giant red stone.

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Helen Mask 🔜Oddities Expo Denver 🔜Geek Girl Con @hemask.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Started sketching this a few years ago and decided I’m ready to finish it. I completed the inking tonight and I have lots of details to add in coloring stage. (They are the morning and evening star)

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Lucas Durham @lucasdurham.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I haven't done it for sale, but Ive definitely made fan art sketches of characters solely from enjoying the character's Aesthetic. Like, I hadn't seen any critical role episodes but I started drawing Jester for myself because I enjoyed seeing some cosplayers I follow dress as her.

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Natasa Ilincic @natasailincic.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Tabled at a local market today. On my left: a woman selling "original" designed totebags (featuring AI cats). On my right: "hand burnt wooden artwork" (laser engraved AI images). Uuuuuugh. 🙃 On top of that I had to listen to them brag to customers about how long it takes to make them.

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Reid Southen @rahll.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Surprise surprise, I've been saying this for years. petapixel.com/2025/09/23/m...

Article, movie studio Lionsgate is struggling to make AI generated films with partner Runway, their catalog is too small, even Disney's is too small.

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 18/09/2025

Thank you, Damon. Thank you, Jamie. Thank you Gorillaz 🇵🇸 donate.togetherforpalestine.org/campaigns/to...

Photo of the Gorillaz performing while the members of the band hold the Palestinian flag

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 12/09/2025

you have to admit it’s funny that they cared about the Cracker Barrel logo as long if not longer than this

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

We are not in a tech race with China. We are sitting down and drinking a Gatorade while China does laps around us with solar innovation and electric vehicles. Dumping everything into "NFTs the Sequel" will not help us.

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Lucas Durham @lucasdurham.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

This is pure laziness. All those WPA posters that this slop is lifting from are in the government archive. They literally could just dig through the stacks of amazing golden age illustrations

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Carly Milligan @carlymilligan.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

This might be my favorite thing I’ve painted to date. I mean, glowy space angel made of stars and nebula stuff, does it get cooler than that? 24 x 18 mixed media and oil on panel AD: Vic Ochoa #mtgart #oilpainting #traditionalart

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Julie Dillon @juliedillon.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

just, painting my current vibes, like one does 🐍

A medusa in gold jewelry with gold rattlesnakes for hair, clutching the stone head of a king and breaking it to pieces while making intense eye contact with the viewer.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

An older piece but a perennial favourite. 'La même histoire' Ink on Moleskine sketchbook paper, approximately 127 × 208 mm, 2018. #MerMay

Ink drawing of a mermaid sitting atop a perpendicular, tree trunk-like rock in the water. Her long hair trails right down to her seat and obscures her face entirely. Her head is bowed, and there is a strong suggestion that she may be weeping.

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Kate Draws 🌈✨️ @tacticiankate.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

If you see this, post a sword! ⚔️ DIS ONE

A color illustration of a dragonkin/tiefling woman with deep blue skin, closed eyes, tall curved horns with a glowing crescent moon between them, and long wavy hair going from indigo at the top to pale gold at the ends. She is dressed in an indigo gown with lots of gold trim and accessories and sheer blue accent cloth. She is holding a large golden greatsword with blue roses and purple thorns around the guard. The background is an art nouveau-style circular graphic of gold celestial motifs on a black to maroon gradient.

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Lesly ✨️ @leslyoh.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

If you see this, post a sword! ⚔️

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

between the tariffs and genAI it makes any art that crosses your path, indie or mainstream, a hard-fought miracle. really appreciate the creativity you see because artists of all stripes are really working against an avalanche intent on burying us

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 08/04/2025

Just me banging on again that BROADWAY employs more people than coal.

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

guy pouring his feelings of dread and hopelessness at the crushing weight of existence into a painting friend: "ooooOoO spooky lol"

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aXL99 _(:3 」∠ ) @axl99.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Nightshade and glazing your art is an option too - it doesn't roll off the tongue as easily The heavily textured your painting, the better. Visual artifacts aren't as visible in areas with lighter values - Nightshade and Glaze affects the data in every pixel our naked eyes can't perceive

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aXL99 _(:3 」∠ ) @axl99.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

send this to every ai chud you see

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HELLhyana🏳️‍🌈 -Commissions open 2/3- @elhyana.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

It’s Sapphic Saturday! Share something sapphic!! Here's my girls!

The make up meme recreated with my characters, the knight in her casual clothes lying on the a bed of flowers, and the princess on top of her applying make up

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Lucas Durham @lucasdurham.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

If you see this, quote post your green art! 💚 Wow, I didn't realize how little I paint in that end of the color spectrum

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Lucas Durham @lucasdurham.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Post an old illustration you still like. 2015 "The Procession of Galactic Pope Mary Joan III" I did this for a class with @toddlockwoodart.bsky.social (WOW, a decade ago!) I learned a lot about composition and digital painting while working on this piece.

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Lucas Durham @lucasdurham.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Aw man, classic! Always really admired this piece.

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Julia Lundman 🩵🧚🦄🧌 @paintkatt.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I finished my Poe portrait today. Process coming soon on Patreon if you’re interested. I learned some new things on this one! 🐦‍⬛🖤🐦‍⬛

Edgar Allan Poe in the middle of a raven graveyard and old dilapidated mansion with a creepy pool in front (from the Fall of the House of Usher)

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

i feel so much rage whenever people try to justify LLM use in art by saying well what about disabled people? disabled people make art every day. they often do utilize tools to help them create. but they don't need a machine to make art for them, and that's all an LLM can do for a writer.

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 18/03/2025

Should I try this—

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SimzArt @simzart.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Waiting. ⌚

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Lucas Durham @lucasdurham.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

12. How long does the average piece take you? About 80-120 hours to paint. Maybe 140 if you count thumbnails, reference gathering, and sketches

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Lucas Durham @lucasdurham.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I still think it's hilarious that an Alt Girl was my attempt at a "bad girl" trope. Taking another look at her design, there's a kernel of an interesting character design. Maybe I'll try recycling her into a different story. She needs a name though, any suggestions for this OC?

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Lucas Durham @lucasdurham.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Thankfully, I found some friends and lovers who got me out of that mindset pretty quick 😅

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Lucas Durham @lucasdurham.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

11. Ok, I promised something really cringe. I found this in an old cabinet of childhood and adolescent drawings. Apparently, when I was around 16 I really wanted to write a dramatic romance manga. 🙄 I hadn't had a relationship yet, and looking at the story notes, I had a proto-incel philosophy 🤢

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Lucas Durham @lucasdurham.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

10. Do you ever collaborate with others? Every week day. That's my favorite part of working in Game Dev

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Lucas Durham @lucasdurham.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

9. Do you prefer to keep your art personal, or do you like drawing things for other people? I've spent 15 years trying to draw what I think would appeal to other people. I'm trying to learn how to make my art more personal, not only for my own fulfillment but because clients seem to like it more.

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