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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light

@rayalightart.bsky.social
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She/Her Trans Artist drawing horror, sci-fi, fantasy, dinosaurs, and comics. Monsters, creatures, characters from worlds near and far.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lunch sketch, sort of a badass mulan pinup. Good for looking up anatomy ref, kwan dao ref, and hun armor ref lol. #art #pinup
A nude woman standing in a field of hun corpse with smoking rising behind her, she stands with her back to the camera, a massive kwan dao in her hands.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Artists, show us how you draw black women! This painting was from art fight.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
WIP animation commission based on a yandere gif. Animating both gives me life and drives me insane.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sometimes I get jump-scared by obvious trans stereotypes in my past, like reinstalling the blizzard launcher so I can play wow forever when it comes out and seeing my female profile icon, my list of female wow characters... Etc. Sometimes the closet really is made of glass. At least digitally.
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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Girlhood
My art from 2020, a female werewolf eating meat
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A little Petra sketch cause I just love her so much. Not to get all JJJ about it but "I need more pictures of Spider-woman!" #petraparker
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The brush strokes in this painting of a mug
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Anytime I get a toy dinosaur I always bounce between enjoyment and frustration at how wrong it is. In this case what is supposed to be a Styrachosaurus but has brow horns and a nasal boss but no nose horn. Still think it's cute though. #dinosaurs #dinotoys
A small rubber Styrachosaurus with inaccurate facial horns.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Most recent DnD commission, for Meownica's character Herran. In her two different forms. Was a fun weekend comm. #art #fantasyart
A floating elf with short blood hair, a sheer green top, and a ruffled dark pink skirt against a teal background.A pale elf woman with long blonde hair and glowing red eyes.
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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh hey the guy in my archery and sword fighting reference pics is a cool dude.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Working on a dinotopia-esque painting. Black and white so far, gonna work on colors. #dinosaur #dinotopia
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Just my friend who apparently knows every plane on sight and I trying out Misery and hearing a plane. The timing was perfect.
Panel 1: Two women look up, hearing a loud noise in the sky.
Panel 2: A plane in the sky, one woman says, "Huh, that looks like a Tu-85."
Panel 3: Turning to look at Raya, she takes an educational pose and starts talking, "It's a type of..."
Panel 4: The speaking woman is blown up leaving a charred skeleton, a broken speech bubble says, "Bomber." While Raya has dove to the grass avoiding the explosion.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
4 different sketches for a Scutellosaurus painting not sure which one I like best, do any of them stick out as the best one to anyone else? #paleoart #dinosaurs
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Little sketch of the newish dinosaur juvenile Doolysaurus Huhmini attempting to chomp a Cordualadensa acorni out of the air. Might be biting off more than he can chew. #paleoart #dinosaur
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Hour long date night painting session. Working on the owlbear cub my wife got at Adepticon. Painting the fur and feathers is very therapeutic. Good break from 40k stuff. #minipainting
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Made a fun little tool to help with creating low rez PSX style textures, I keep doing it in software that just takes extra time so this is a light and fast tool to pump out square PSX versions with some color control. rtkillustration.gumroad.com/l/psxcrafter #gamedev #psx #retrogaming
rtkillustration.gumroad.com
PSX Crafter
PSX Crafter is a simple and straight forward way to turn any png or jpeg into a cropped texture designed for PSX style video games. It is also a fun and easy way to create portraits in the same style....
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Just a little Ankylo sketch during lunch. Addicted to acrylic paint markers now. Opaqueness is so nice. #paleoart #dinosaur #sketchbook
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Modified 1911 for Appraisal. Calling it the 1913. Not perfect but happy with the overall look. #indiedev #indiegame #3dmodeling
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I have now learned that a month long game jam is much harder than a week long one. Keeping a team focused and on task for a month is waaaay harder. #indiedev #gamedev
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I realize that I miss tech design from the 80s/90s because devices prided themselves on having knobs, buttons, switches etc requiring you to actually learn how to use a thing. Now everything just wants to be a black/white/silver box with a single button. No one needs to learn anymore.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
While I haven't made a psx style game yet I do enjoy making some quick low poly models with 256 res or lower textures just to sketch stuff out I guess? So here's a little soulsy fan art. #indiedev #gamedev #darksouls
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Nothing like Halloween and watching nightly horror/Halloween movies to inspire spooky game and art creation. First was Tremors, then Sleepy Hollow, followed by the first Haunted Mansion. I know I'm all over the place. #indiegamedev #horrormovies #halloween
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Haven't textured it yet but been enjoying modeling my games fictional retro PC so much that I made a little old magazine ad for it. #indiedev #indiegame #retro
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Looking for pumpkin carving inspo and just keep getting AI generated Etsy postings in my search results. Blech.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Another Jam done and dusted, all that's left is the voting. Really proud of our little team for getting this done. The follow up to The Prologue. Its a short simple little eldritch horror puzzle game that I did the environmental models, props, and ui for spection.itch.io/descend-into... #indiedev
spection.itch.io
Descend into Chaos by Spection Games, JCStudio, Abarice
Will you make it back or be trapped forever in endless chaos?
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Ah yes in my final desperate throws of completing our gamejam game the night before at 1:30am I find that itch.io has been ddossed and can't be accessed... Hope it's back before I go to work in the morning. #indiedev #gamejam
itch.io
Download the latest indie games
itch.io is a simple way to find, download and distribute indie games online. Whether you're a developer looking to upload your game or just someone looking for something new to play itch.io has you covered.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
From my short game jam experience I really enjoy that I am forced to accept what I can do in a shorter time frame. I don't have time to perfect it when I have 30 other things to model. Kind of generates a style of its own. #indiegame #indiedev #gamejam
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Painted my Greymon sketch, defending Tai from some Bakemon. Enjoying drawing fictional dinosaur heroes. #digimon #art #fanart
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Anyone else ever feel like you gotta go extra hard on the first page of a new sketchbook? Gonna add more to this but my hand's tired of stippling for now. A styracosaurus head #paleoart #dinosaur #sketchbook
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Honestly cannot believe how smoothly this #gamejam went. The team of Abarice on Level design and Game Design, JCStudio on Coding, and I doing the Environment/Props, Audio, and writing. Please enjoy our very short Scream Jam Warm-Up game! #indiegame spection.itch.io/the-prologue
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Man solo game jams were stressful but I'm on a team this time and it's so chill and confident, feels so much more fun.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I think it's so magical that we can both produce and consume creative content, that some of us exist to make experiences for others and for me that creating is my escape, while others can escape while enjoying what we create. It's just unfortunate that there is so much to escape right now.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
You may want to turn down the sound as my SFX aren't locked in, but I am happy to have successfully gotten the first puzzle of Scare-ab functional in grey box form. #indiedev #indiedev #horrorgame
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Based on years of artist alley tabling I felt like drawing a 2000s comic con goer this morning. Brought back fond memories. #comicon #sketchbook
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Greymon but trying for a more paleoart style. Fun way to do fanart. #digimon #paleoart #sketchbook
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Anyone else tired of getting messages from coworkers filled with blue diamond bullet points and the dashes, asking if this looks good. No, no it doesn't look good, and once I read it, it probably won't make a lick of sense either.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
So happy! The illustrations inside are amazing! #deathguard #warhammer #40k
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Get Thagomized, who doesn't love a Stegosaurus ungulatus thagomizing an Allosaurus. Thagomizing is a word right? #paleoart #dinosaurart #thagomizer
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Slowly teaching myself to animate in toon squid. #animation #indiegame #gamedev
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I end up making most of my own assets simply because it annoys me more to try and cleanup the extra stuff from asset packs. Though I am trying to use them more simply to speed up gamedev. Actually get the game functioning and looking okay then I can redo whatever I need to.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
@srkah.bsky.social Took me a couple days to get the time but hope you like it. Was a fun design!
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Someone just should set a horror game in a hotel convention center. Every room already has a ridiculous naming convention like state capitals are upstairs but downstairs are numbered and days that end in "Y". The puzzles are practically written for you. #indiedev #gencon #gamedev
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
#monumenthobbies
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Beginning of my main character concept art. Its set in 1993 so looking at men's haircuts from my childhood and some of the office outfits. Will be doing more before finalizing plus have 2 more characters to concept as well. #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev
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Stalin's Organist ☭ @immorscien1917.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
action.aclu.org/petition/mas...
action.aclu.org
Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy.
Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Sometimes you just want to sketch and ink a nice clean little Parasaurolophus. Might color a bunch of them different ways. #paleoart #dinosaurs #coloring
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I love making interactions, this one still needs sounds but just being able to rapidly open and close all these file cabinets is so satisfying. #gamedev #indiegame #horrorgame
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I spent too many years doing archviz as I work on my games office level and start adding a bathroom because legally they would have to have one but there probably isn't a gameplay reason for its existence so I'll probably end up cutting it and locking the door. #gamedev #indiegame
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Still working on the level design for my prologue horror game. The PIC offices, a mix of things I've made and assets I have, working up to that 90s boring yet mysterious government office vibe. #gamedev #indiegame #horrorgame
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🏳️‍⚧️ Raya Light @rayalightart.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Little sketch of my favorite dinosaurs the Parasaurolophus. Always fun to pick a pattern for the skin. I went for the broken up stripy look which I am sure has a proper name but I do not know it. #paleoart #dinosaurart
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