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@ratwednesday.art
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full-time guy who draws and paints. mixed media fantasy & folklore artist ⭐️ he/they. support me on patreon: www.patreon.com/ratwednesday put my art in your house: www.ratwednesday.shop

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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 29/09/2026
like 9.5 hours in according to steam and the thing I keep getting caught by is how genuinely funny this game is. there are bits of humor that I do not expect at all and they are really delightful
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🐓 PENDRAKE 📦 MOVIN'! @peripendrake.art · 28/09/2026
BYCATCH PDF 👾🐟 Available now over on my ko-fi! It contains all pages of the final book, and on top of that I have the M.U.T.T.S. PDF listed as well! 🙇 Come check it out! 🎣 ko-fi.com/peripendrake...
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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...
"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look
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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Eyvind Earle (1916-2000), concept paintings of Maleficent as the Dragon produced for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
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Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I illustrated a whole book of comics about learning to cohabitate with Imposter Syndrome and I think everyone already knows about it but am constantly reminded that they do NOT! So here it is: buyolympia.com/Item/lucy-be... (For you #GraphicMedicine types, this has been a real hit with therapists!)
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100 Demon Dialogues by Lucy Bellwood
Navigating the rocky shores of self doubt with charm and honesty, 100 Demon Dialogues is a collection of comics for anyone who wants to talk back to the little voice in their head that says “You’re no...
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Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com · 27/09/2026
Be patient and kind to those who are making art right now. We're all self-funded and the richest, worst people in the world are trying to plaster over and erase our hard work.
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 27/09/2026
after moving a bunch of shit off my SSD to the hard drive, uninstalling control resonant, then reinstalling on the SSD and proceeding to play without any issues for about 2 hours: yeah this shit whips
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 27/09/2026
me: yay time to play new control :) the malevolent hard drive with a poor read/write speed: bet???
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Kurrikage 🔜 BLFC @kurrikage.me · 09/09/2026
I honestly don't care if its got an embed fixer on it, if someone posts art in a chat with a twitter link and I want to share it, I'll go find them on bluesky or FA to link it. If I can't find them elsewhere, I just won't share it.
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Kurrikage 🔜 BLFC @kurrikage.me · 09/09/2026
Sees twitter link
An icon from the sims for relationship showing two silhouettes with two red minus signs for lowering the status.
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 26/09/2026
who might I be able to encounter in portland around the end of november…………..
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 25/09/2026
not the best photo but I am obsessed with the other new color I got recently, this is Holbein’s blue-black from the Irodori line - I’d been looking for a good Payne’s grey analogue (my local shops don’t have the brands w/ it) for the gouache palette; this isn’t exactly PG but it is *stunning*
photo of a swatch test of a deep blue grey color. it’s very pale grey at the wash, transitioning to a deep almost over-dyed denim blue-black, with a slight ultramarine band at the transition point.
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 25/09/2026
This week really got away from me, but I will be reaching out to folks today to confirm interest and invoices!
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 24/09/2026
guy who has REALLY got his work cut out for him this week
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 23/09/2026
so uh. has anyone else ever had Krylon's 1311 matte finish spray react very poorly with gouache or did I just have a freak accident occur on a painting I was getting ready to ship out @_@
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BigCatDen Crafts @bigcatdencrafts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Did you re-instate your Nitro? Did you not cancel the subscription earlier this year? Now's the time to let them hear your wallet speak out against this, because money is the only thing they truly seem to care about.
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 21/09/2026
I told myself I wouldn’t look at the commission inbox until after the weekend which MEANS I finally got to dig into it TODAY, and omg… there are some very very fun ideas in here and I am STOKED
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 21/09/2026
starting to feel autumnal around here 🐉
WIP watercolor and gouache painting of a dragon colored like autumn leaves in gold, orange, brown, and green
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 21/09/2026
I’ve been playing minecraft for 15 years and I just started my first modpack save, and so far it is VERY FUN (I tend to play with a handful of QOL mods, namely stuff like Sodium and Continuity and ones and reduce how much I need to click i.e tweakeroo/mouse tweaks, so this is a whole new experience)
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 21/09/2026
starting to feel autumnal around here 🐉
WIP watercolor and gouache painting of a dragon colored like autumn leaves in gold, orange, brown, and green
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 21/09/2026
finally picked up a tube of dioxazine purple for my gouache palette and uhhh yeah no I get it now. this color rules
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Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!) @kimsokol.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
One thing they don’t tell you about being a working artist is that every once in a while a picture is simply Haunted and, for reasons beyond the reach of man, simple things you have done a thousand times will be Very Hard and Look Bad and you will lose ten years of skill for the duration of that job
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Selkie Harbour @selkieharbour.com · 20/09/2026
🟥 Virtue and a Sledgehammer is coming. 🟥 27 October 2026. Just one month until you confront your past. 🔨 store.steampowered.com/app/3743260/...
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Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Making a sticker of a portrait of Wyrm as a wyrm I think
Work in progress screenshot of a design of a long ribbon like dragon with bat wings framed in an unfinished frame
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 18/09/2026
heard you needed a blade for hire? line & tone for pons - thank you again, friend 🐉 #dragon #dragonart (september & october slots are available! ratwednesday.studio for details)
A digital line drawing of a very tall anthro dragoness leaning against the roof of a building. She’s dressed in casual armor over a loose dress tied at the waist, and is smirking at the viewer. A large jeweled sword is held in one hand, with the other extended upwards to show a lick of flame.
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 19/09/2026
thank you everyone for enjoying: the dragon
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 18/09/2026
good bit of the way in at this point! it’s definitely missing the background elements, so that’ll probably be my next step… after a break lol
Same dragon as in the quote repost except now they’ve been inked in black pen
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 18/09/2026
Drawing Time
photograph of a WIP drawing featuring avery happy fluffy Eastern-style dragon, lifting their head in the wind.
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 18/09/2026
heard you needed a blade for hire? line & tone for pons - thank you again, friend 🐉 #dragon #dragonart (september & october slots are available! ratwednesday.studio for details)
A digital line drawing of a very tall anthro dragoness leaning against the roof of a building. She’s dressed in casual armor over a loose dress tied at the waist, and is smirking at the viewer. A large jeweled sword is held in one hand, with the other extended upwards to show a lick of flame.
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 17/09/2026
Going BEAST MODE 🐉🔥 An acidic speedpaint for Dante! #dragon #dragonart (Slots for September & October are open: ratwednesday.studio)
An action shot of a grey-purple anthropomorphic dragon with large tusks, readying a blast of acid magic to throw at her unsuspecting victim. She is lit by a sickly green glow and has an intense snarl of a smile.
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 18/09/2026
I was EXTREMELY BRAVE and DID NOT YELL but I did just have to relocate one of those bizarre many legged house centipede guys and I simply did not need that excitement at 3:30 in the morning
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🐓 PENDRAKE 📦 MOVIN'! @peripendrake.art · 17/09/2026
🌟SHOP CLOSING SOON 💫 On SEP 21st 8:00PM EST I'll be closing my shop to prepare to move! I still have a TON of things on sale right now (essentially everything but originals!) with FREE SHIPPING for sticker and small print orders domestic or international! 📮 peripendrake.com have a look! 💌
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 17/09/2026
Going BEAST MODE 🐉🔥 An acidic speedpaint for Dante! #dragon #dragonart (Slots for September & October are open: ratwednesday.studio)
An action shot of a grey-purple anthropomorphic dragon with large tusks, readying a blast of acid magic to throw at her unsuspecting victim. She is lit by a sickly green glow and has an intense snarl of a smile.
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gale 🔜 Anthro SoCal @galestormkitsune.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Opening some digital badge commissions on ko-fi! Each one is 70 USD for a single character bust. At this time it is digital only since I do not have a laminator ko-fi.com/c/37a1656053 #furrybadge #furrycommissions #digitalart #openbadgecommissions
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Furry Convention Badges
Commission available on Ko-fi.com
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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Onion's back in triage at the emergency vet, fingers crossed nothing serious is wrong and I hate to ask again after yesterday's visit, but I can't pay for the care he needs without help. My PayPal is jeeyon.shim@gmail.com and my Venmo is Jeeyon-Shim. Every little bit helps, thank you so much <3
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
rip annie dillard
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 16/09/2026
My commission inbox will be opening… today!!! In about an hour and a half a post with the link will be going out to everyone following my patreon, free tiers included 🐗 It’ll be open for two weeks, not FCFS, September and October slots available for digital + trad projects! patreon.com/ratwednesday
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Hilary Purnamasari @hilary-ps.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Had a lot of fun painting these with a new painting program my friend has been working really hard on. If you're looking for a non-subscription program with a dev who genuinely cares about artists and is constantly improving it, please check out @kalapaint.bsky.social 😤 #digitalpainting
A tree painting, focusing on its organic branches and bark textures, foliage, and loose painterly brushwork.A collection of cactus sketches exploring different shapes, silhouettes, and forms.
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Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"In the Ancient Hallowed Places" Ovenbird with Six-spotted Tiger Beetle 10"x24" oil painting on panel The beautiful conglomerate rocks of an ancient sea floor; buried and lifted and revealed and eroded, the life that once was and is again, complex and beautiful and interconnected across time. 🪶🐡
A long format oil painting showing a cropped rock formation of ancient conglomerate, cracked and looming in its current form by water, ice, and time. A wash of moss and lichens crawls across the surfaces that allowed it to grow, with stunted mountain laurel taking root in the mossy nursery, and large brownish rock tripe lichens clinging here and there. A few aged white oak leaves sit in the moss, bug eaten and worn, and near the center sits an Ovenbird, the tiny stripy warbler pausing in its day. On the rock closest to us on the right is a metallic green colored Six-spotted tiger beetle. The artist watermark reads: copyright 2026 Jennifer Miller "Nambroth" featherdust dot com
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 15/09/2026
eueueeeee I have to put together a project submission form for my next commission opening
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 14/09/2026
one of my favorite things I saw at SPX this year was an abundance of paper engineering in handmade comics and zines - it feels like so many people are finding interesting ways to play with visual formatting and presentation. pop-ups, fold-outs, origami, handcrafted *stuff* everywhere. it RULED
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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hey guys, if you're gonna share that one meme I made like a million years ago on Tumblr, share the original, not the horrible auto-smoothed traced version. Don't smooth out my angry, "it's 11 at night and I have FEELINGS ABOUT ART" hand wobbles, they're part of the piece!
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Arlen! 🐗 @ratwednesday.art · 12/09/2026
comics soon…….
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🐓 PENDRAKE 📦 MOVIN'! @peripendrake.art · 12/09/2026
Hi #SPX 2026 I'm here at W34A! It's my first time vending at SPX! I have Bycatch and M.U.T.T.S.! I cut out a bunch of fish for my goofy little setup! Come by and say hi :)
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Inkmaven @ FM @inkmaven.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We're all set up at #FurryMigration! Come see us at booth E63. I have at-con commissions open, and we have absorbed a pillar (by choice!) #FM2026 #FurryMigration2026
The Inkmaven Art booth set up in the dealer's den at Furry Migration 2026. The table has been moved next to a nearby pillar, which has been covered with prints. Screen printed shirts, wall scrolls, lanyards, stickers, and other colorful goodies are displayed.
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🐓 PENDRAKE 📦 MOVIN'! @peripendrake.art · 11/09/2026
Adopt Batch ✨ Now for something new! Patrons just got a heads up about this massive adopt batch that's dropping soon- the when and where will be in a secret shop at 5pm GMT-4! If you'd like to be sure to snag them when they drop, check out my Patreon! <3 www.patreon.com/peripendrake...
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sfé r. monster @sfemonster.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🐉🏳️‍⚧️ #sfedrawing
An ilustration by Sfé of a serpentine dragon-like creature holding the trans symbol, drawn on top of the trans flag.
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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sketchbook page panels.
Black and white nature drawings in a sketchbook
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daryl "crimetime after primetime" 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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