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Mei

@meimaru.bsky.social
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MA Animation student, storyboard artist, movie lover, and DnD nerd ❤️ 26 | she/her | ace 🖤🩶🤍💜 No AI 🚫 18+ content warning❗️

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Mei @meimaru.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I attended it in Helsinki in January!💖 it was incredible!! So beautifully curated and so many fascinating pieces!❤️
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Mei @meimaru.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Ateneum Modern Gothic?👀💖
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Steve Lieber --> Bedrock City Comic Con @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Been a year. Time to repost this.
YOUR PORTFOLIO CRIT
THINGS I'D TELL YOU IF I WERE LOOKING AT YOUR WORK IN PERSON
1 Violating the 180 degree rule makes this sequence hard to follow
2 A few more incidental overlaps will make this foreshortening clearer
3 Symmetrical compositions with a character dead center imply an important moment. Don't draw every panel like that?
4 This __ looks kind of fake. Take the time to look at reference instead of just making it up
5 An establishing shot will help the reader understand where this takes place.
6 Find a life-drawing session to attend, or practice from photos online.
7 Show these pages to someone who doesn't know the story and ask them to tell the story back to you.
8. Nudge this part over a bit to eliminate that tangency.
9 You flattened out the depth by rendering the foreground, middle ground, & background with the same values. Create depth and direct the eye by organizing them into overlapping planes of light & dark.
10 there are better ways to use your time than rendering every brick.
11 these characters look like they're floating (or falling). Draw figures and bg  from the same eye level.
12 Unless this will be a wordless comic, leave more room for the lettering
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Calamari Cakes @calamaricakes.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
A little glimpse into some of my animation process! I sometimes do Timelapses while animating that end up being way too big+long to upload on socmed, but here you can see a bit of my underlying rough and initial linework for my Purrnice anim :> (More thorough process posts are on my sub sites! 🤗)
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Hoppity @hopalot.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Sculptor's workplace
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 31/07/2025
My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...
Well, everything. The death of art. [Laughs.] A thing that I’ve been struck by in the last year of tech development around art is that what makes us human is making art, even if you’re not a professional artist. This is kind of corny, but I think about cavemen, right? One of the first things we ever did as a species was put our handprints on a wall, and it’s just this drive that has always been there. It’ll always be there. And I think it’s preposterous that these people are suggesting that they develop this technology, and the first thing they want to eliminate is art, so you have more time to…what, email? I don’t know what they think I’m going to do with my fucking day. Most of the population is not artists, but a lot of the population has artistic hobbies, and if you replace that with a computer doing it for you or whatever, it’s just pointless. I think there’s a death drive in these people, almost, and an actual hatred of artists; they are jealous of people with imagination because they don’t have one, and they almost consciously want to eliminate it.
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Mei @meimaru.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
✨🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈✨ ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 #dndoc #pride #ttrpg #dndart
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Mei @meimaru.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
🏳️‍🌈✨Happy Pride!✨🏳️‍🌈 Cntd! Final piece of my Pride Parade - opportunistic, elusive and flamboyant, my rougish bard changeling, Phobia (a.k.a. Phoebe) ❤️💚💙 ✨❤️🤍💜🖤💙 #dndoc #pride #ttrpg #dndart
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ida ✸ blueguy brainrot 💎✸ @tujiux.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
❤️21k Couples Artshare! ❤️ 🌸 Repost this post❗ 🌸 Share your favourite couple art. 🌸❗❗ OR SHARE YOUR QUEER OCS. HAPPY PRIDE ❗❗ 🌸Interact with others❗ (сomment, repost) 🌸No AI or NFT's 🌸Label NSFW !!
two characters kissing suspended in shibari ropes over the ocean. the text reads: art share
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Mei @meimaru.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Congratulations on 21k!!✨️💖 I'm Mei, and here are my OC's at the Pride Parade!💖✨️
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Mei @meimaru.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
🏳️‍🌈✨Happy Pride!✨🏳️‍🌈 Cntd! Another contribution to the Pride Parade comes as a pair: Marasil, a bisexual, gentle-hearted love cleric, and Cedric, a centaur war cleric, and an honorary ally. ❤️💜💙 Two broken halves, that make a whole healing heart ❤️‍🩹 #dndoc #pride #ttrpg #dndart
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Mei @meimaru.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🏳️‍🌈✨Happy Pride!✨🏳️‍🌈 Next in the Pride Parade is the myth and legend himself, my very villainous and very gay alchemist wizard, Felyntyr. 💚🤍💙 He may look vampiric, but he's an albino Drow elf 🦂🤍 #dndoc #pride #ttrpg #dndart
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Mei @meimaru.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🏳️‍🌈✨ Happy Pride! ✨🏳️‍🌈 Contd! Continuing with the Pride Parade is the newest member of my band: a down-to-earth, kind hearted ranger, and a self-proclaimed gay otter - Therrion!❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 #dndoc #pride #ttrpg #dndart
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Mei @meimaru.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
🏳️‍🌈✨ Happy Pride! ✨🏳️‍🌈 Contd! Second piece of my Pride Parade - a bard-barian charmer, pansexual himbo, and my first D&D character ever - Edwyrd!❤️💛💙 #dndoc #pride #ttrpg #dndart
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Mei @meimaru.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
🏳️‍🌈✨Happy Pride!✨🏳️‍🌈 Here is the first piece of my contribution to this years Pride Parade - my fathomless warlock of Umberlee, ex-mermaid and a bisexual icon, Loreley ❤️💜💙 #dndoc #pride #ttrpg #dndart
Half-body of a pink-haired woman, clad in sea green bra, golden jewellery, and pearl necklace. She's holding a bisexual pride flag in one hand, the other end draped over her shoulder
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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Remember, the TrueRef timed gesture tool is 100% free! 🤍 trueref.art/trueref-gest...
Screenshot of the TrueRef Gesture Tool.
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SpecLion ➡️ Avoiding FF7 Spoilers @spectacledlion.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Time to post it again.
A meme from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In the top panel, one man labeled "literally every company" hands a plate labeled "AI" to a man labeled "me." In the bottom panel, the man labeled "me" nonchalantly tosses the plate down the hallway, discarding it with casual disdain while the first man watches.
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Jellybox Studio @jellybox.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
❇️ ❇️YAOI UNLOCKED ❇️ ❇️ THANK YOU FOR GETTING US TO $90K!!!
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AdorkaStock @adorkastock.com · 25/01/2025
Here's one of the shots from the Digitigrade Unguligrade Legs Premium Pack. Modeling and photography on this pack is done by Thire and Faol (facebook.com/ThireAndFaol) #PoseRef The full pack is 163 full body references and you can get it on my ko-fi shop: ko-fi.com/s/c1df836b7a
pose reference model walking on digitigrade leg stilts with horns and a staff
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Julie Dillon @juliedillon.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
My first completed illustration of the year is a follow up to one of my most popular illustrations (linked below). This new one is titled "Fealty." 😁
We peer through ornate curtains at a king kneeling before a man in armor who stands before him. The king gazes up at the knight and is in the process of shrugging out of his ornate robes, which trail behind him. The knight cradles the king's face in one hand, and the king has a hand on the knight's armored leg.
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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
how about some messy process shots :)🦇
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Alfred / Alfie @jookpubstock.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I put all of my free references from this year in one pack. You can download it via Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/s/ac47b53b1c
graphic with 6 previews of drawing refeference photos
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Sylessae @sylessae.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Backgrounds are HARD, and let's be honest - most of us want to focus on the figure. But backgrounds help tell the story of our characters, and they shouldn't be neglected. That doesn't mean we have to start by drawing huge, hyper-detailed scenes for our characters from scratch. 👇A thread.
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
This sums it up perfectly. It’s not a conversation.
“There is no ethical way to use the major AI image generators. All of them are trained on stolen images, and all of them are built for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing real human artists.”
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Bulgilhan Press @bulgilhanpress.com · 20/11/2024
A reminder: generative AI is antithetical to the human practice of art. No matter how "good" the result seems, it's a hollow and barren reproduction productsd without care, thought, motivation, or curiosity. You know it's ass - THEY know it's ass. But we're stuck in their sunk cost "reality".
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Julie Dillon @juliedillon.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Post your most popular art from Twitter ✨ This piece, by a mile. 😅
A king and knight, who both clearly yearn for each other, have found a private moment together. Both are in full regalia and armor, as though they'd only been able to step away for this one brief moment. The king leans in to kiss the knight, and the knight draws him closer despite making a half-hearted attempt to keep up the appearance of being on duty.
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Alexis Flower @alexisflower.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
been taking more WIP shots as I go & putting them on patreon if you're into that: www.patreon.com/alexisflower
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MAF @velnna.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
Incorrect quotes and dumbasses
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Fook🔞 @fookabit.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
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Box of Want @boxofwant.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
[3/3]
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Box of Want @boxofwant.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
[2/3]
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Box of Want @boxofwant.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
Comic commission for PurePazaak, who I had worked with previously, on the Harley Quinn comic. This time, Madame Web is on the hunt for a suitable ally, across Spiderman's multiverse. [1/3]
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Mei @meimaru.bsky.social · 22/01/2024
First propper try with Procreate!✏️🎨 "White Scorpion", Felyntyr Alear, or 'Flyn' for friends. He doesn't have any friends.
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