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Socar Myles @packbawky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Artist! Quote with your most cursed artwork 🖤 I don't know if this is fully cursed, or more "blursed." I mean, yeah, it's nightmare fuel, but isn't it cute? It was a panel I drew on "Drawception," a fun game of Internet telephone.

A digital doodle of a...kind of a ghost, maybe? It has tendrils of fog coming off it, and a big red toothy mouth, and red eyes.

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harlequinade shadows @outsidershadows.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hi, everyone. Unfortunately, things have gotten a little worse. Something happened to my sciatic nerve, so I won’t be able to work the night shifts. I’ve been prescribed a course of treatment and some tests. So I really need some commissions for a while. Thanks for your help!

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harlequinade shadows @outsidershadows.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Guys, just 2 more commissions and that's it. Thank you all so much for the help!

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korraiko @korraiko.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you see this, QRP your green art 💚

The digital painting shows an elderly man. He is holding a book in his right hand and a bright green ball in his left.
The man is elderly, has a beard, and four horns growing out of his head. He wears a dark robe, and thorns and leaves hang from his shoulders like a collar.
Behind the man are bookshelves

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Socar Myles @packbawky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Quote with your bird art 🐦 This one is very, very old. I hardly remember drawing it, but I must've done. This was from my phase of always drawing birds with antennae on their heads. #birds

A pen-and-ink drawing of mostly bare branches, with a small bird sitting on the end of one branch. The bird has antennae.

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Elisa - Ellie - Serio 🏴‍☠️ @eserioart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My contribution to the exhibition "What if... altre menti, altre mani" for Fantastika - Biennale Dozza 2026! I was assigned Tim Burton, and I chose to reimagine a scene from The Lord of the Rings in the style of Sleepy Hollow. #darkart #fantasyart #lotr #sleepyhollow

Scene in which Frodo fights against a Nazgul for the first time, with the eye of Sauron watching them. The scene is reimagined with the style of Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow

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harlequinade shadows @outsidershadows.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hi, everyone! Does anyone have a Vgen invite code they can share?

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harlequinade shadows @outsidershadows.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hi, guys. I just need to take on 2–3 commissions in working to resolve the problem and finally catch my breath. Thanks for your help!

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harlequinade shadows @outsidershadows.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

„my light is shattered“

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eli @elimenise.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yrliet Lanaevyss - The Hermit #roguetrader

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ceffyl Dŵr of Welsh folklore

A horse diving underwater through some seaweed

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Return of the Living Dan @danlarson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Writers/Musicians/Artists told you from Day 1 that this was theft. Straight up. Always has been.

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joão ruas @feralkid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

st christopher II - pencil on paper

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Thierry St-Laurent Dion @tstld.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sketch of a Hawk Ballpoint pen on paper #art #birds #nature #sciart

Sketch of a Hawk, made with a black ballpoint pen on mixed media paper.

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radical lisa loebotomy @nfornihilism.net · 17/09/2026

and the portrait for the priorly mentioned undead elf in our new blood lords campaign was done by the incomparable @emahriel.bsky.social

a dark monochrome painted portrait of an undead elven woman. tanit shraen, desecrator of urgathoa, my character in my pathfinder group's new blood lords AP campaign. the elf had pale skin, blank white eyes, and long, limp black hair. she is wearing plate armour with a low bevor, and a small tilt shield bearing a symbol of urgathoa.

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Abz-J-Harding ☾ @abzjharding.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Prehistoric stuff on the table today

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komodathrax66.bsky.social @komodathrax66.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

On my Patreon, I just made posts about the work I did for Kong:Skull Island in 2015. I bid you welcome! www.patreon.com/PaulKomoda?f...

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Socar Myles @packbawky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Artists, show how you paint/draw stars!🌟✨

A pen-and-ink drawing of a long-snouted creature buried under a suburban street, with the tip of its snout poking up and masquerading as a manhole. The sky is full of stars.

A pen-and-ink drawing of a sparrow surrounded by a night sky full of stars. It has its beak open, so it looks like it's eating the stars.

A pen-and-ink drawing of three sparrows landing on a tree. In the background, there's foliage and a starry sky.

A closeup of the previous drawing, showing one of the sparrows' feet, and glowing stars all around them.

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komodathrax66.bsky.social @komodathrax66.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Triceratops mount from The American Museum of Natural History.

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martyfive @martyfive.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The Awakening

painting based on the “final” boss fight of the game Hollow Knight: Silksong, Hornet vs. Grand Mother Silk. there’s a lot of silk, GMS is very big and bright, and Hornet is very small but brave and her cloak is the only bright spot of the painting.

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Djamila Knopf @djamilaknopf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is my favourite painting from my calendar! Which one do you like best? You can see all of them below.

a painting showing a character picking persimmons

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Scazrelet ~ Spooky Flavored @scazrelet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Quit writing fluff pieces that give AI any sort of internality. AI does not want. AI does not think. AI does not, and can not, have sentience. That's not how it works. Quit selling this narrative on behalf of the people trying to foist it on the masses. It's misleading and actually dangerous.

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Took in the ref I used for this and tried correcting some shapes and work over the armour

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Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!) @kimsokol.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Artists, show how you draw flowers! 💐💐💐 (A very old but still well-loved piece which I may or may not have posted for this very same art chain before I honestly don’t remember)

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Socar Myles @packbawky.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Quote with your blue art! (This is so old, probably from 2001, 2002, in around there. Back when I tried digital painting with Photoshop.)

A digital painting of a small, puffy dog standing with its forepaws on a fallen log. All around it are lantern plants. Behind it is a blue sky full of fluffy pink clouds.

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ignoring it and not giving it far too much extra exposure is a valid strategy. The bros need outrage and clicks to be part of its narrative of it being everywhere. Jumping on every bloody post like it’s the end times helps the tech not you or artists. Engage with the real art not the fake crap.

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I improved this guy a little

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Artist! QRP your flowers 🌹🌺 (Oddly enough I rarely paint them, something to remedy I think)

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Lizzie Harper Illustrator @lizzie-harper.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Really looking forward to taking #insect drawing workshops at #Ento26 tomorrow. Ill be on the 4th floor all day; selling cards, prints & original #entomological #naturahistoryillustrations; and painting a peacock butterfly. Come and say hi! @royentsoc.bsky.social

Cut to white #sciart #naturalscienceillustration #entomologicalillustration of the #Forestermoth #Adscita statices on a Scabious flower.

Cut to white #sciart #naturalscienceillustration #entomologicalillustration of the #Apple #maggot fly #Rhagoletis pomonella with larvae, pupa, and damaged fruit.

Cut to white #sciart #naturalscienceillustration #entomologicalillustration of a bright green iridescent #junebug

Cut to white #sciart #naturalscienceillustration #entomologicalillustration of the #Belted #Bumblebee #Bombus soroeensis in flight

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Bleak⋆Squeak @bleaksqueak.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Quote with your blue art Big Dog Time #art #monster

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia). Illustration from my book A Field Guide to Cape Cod, Yale University Press. a.co/d/eK4A0sd 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #BirdArt #sparrows

My illustration of a perched brown and white sparrow.

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Zoe Badini @zoebadini.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Quote with your blue art

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

BUFFO (1982)  Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 32" X 22"   Reading a novel by M. John Harrison always leaves me with the feeling that I've experienced some vivid, chaotic dream full of important but indecipherable symbols and images. 1/3

A man wearing the skull of a horse with antlers clasps the long tube of a telescope tightly to him. One sleeve of his tattered white garments is rolled up past the elbow. Ridges of veins are raised in the tense grips of his hands. Red orbs fill the sockets of the skull while green ribbon twists around the bone until loosely draping over antlers. Filaments sprout, oddly feathery, from the curling rack. On the dingy shelves behind, a small assortment of hardbound books lean with more stacked haphazardly on the long shelf below. Charts tacked to the wall curl with age. Points of light, more like street lamps than stars, gleam in the cracked glass of a many-paned window.

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Anthony Avon .Art @anthonyavonart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I mostly paint landscapes. Mostly.

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The Wee Owl Studio, Art 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @theweeowl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My art shop has a collection of my original landscape and nature art. For buyers in the USA, your art will be sent duty paid, and art is exempt from the tariffs! folksy.com/find/shop/th... #Animals #Birds #Insects #Mushrooms #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #GiftIdeas #ShopIndy #NatureArt #bsnm

A photo collage of some of my recent nature artworks:
A badger with a dark blue background with lilac coloured flowers, A harvest mouse on poppy seed head with a warm hued background in red, orange and yellow, a composition of various mushrooms with berries, a letter hedgehog, a ladybird on clover and a portrait of a hare.

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Elwyn Rain @elwynrain.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I got some really good feedback on this one on a portfolio review recently so I reworked it accordingly and its time for a repost, all hail to the goat god it all its glory ! #art

An illustration showing a group of person in red cloak kneeling in front of a food covered altar. Just behind the altar stand a giant goat, looking at the salt block in the middle of the food. The scene takes place place in a mountain pass.

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Elisa - Ellie - Serio 🏴‍☠️ @eserioart.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Quote with your blue art 💙

A girl in a forest, in the night, "holding" a thin moon

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Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Trying to channel all my frustration in a polite and clear way to write something decent in the EU consultation thing about 'AI strategy for cultural and creative sectors' but so far I only have swear words, screeches about idiocy, and complaints about failure of communication between neurons.

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Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I see A LOT of SFF publishers in Europe gleefully using AI in covers and getting away with it. You don't notice it in translated books (from English) because they license the original covers from the US and UK, where they usually work with actual artists. But the covers from local authors? Oh boy.

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Emily Hare @emilyhare.com · 07/09/2026

Last chance to get early access to my next art drop (tomorrow) which is monster sculptures! Newsletter subs get access 24hrs before the public! buff.ly/177g8YI Wilbur and Ignatius here both have very shiny pink bottoms, in case you might find that as amusing as I do. #monsters #artdrop #sculpture