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Original Magic Art @originalmagicart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We worked with @rbessaaa.bsky.social to make something cool happen. DND Pride Playmats now available in the OMA Store. As with our Bearscape and Collective Voyage mats, 25% of each sale goes to benefit @thetrevorproject.bsky.social Check them out here: www.originalmagicart.store/products/dun...

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Dungeons & Dragons Pride Playmat (Charitable Donation)

Offered exclusively through the OMA Store, we are proud to present the Official D&D Pride Playmat, illustrated by Ricardo Bessa for Wizards of the Coast. This mat was printed in a joint effort bet...

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Ricardo Bessa ✏ @rbessaaa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I should revive my little games log, I've played some bangers this year. Currently full-on addicted to BLUE PRINCE (help, it's nearly as frustrating as it is incredible)

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Eileen Kai Hing Kwan 🦇 @whereiseileen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The Back Endpaper for ‘The Bone Shard Emperor’ by Andrea Stewart 💙 (4/6) I got to draw a giant Sea Serpent! This was an absolute delight to paint 💛

My back endpaper for The Bone Shard Emperor by Andrea Stewart. SPOILERS. A majestic giant sea serpent caught in and surrounded by a massive cyclone of wind and water. It roars as broken splinters strike its coiling body. At the epicentre of the cyclone is a single small figure, Gio, who is controlling the power of the elements.

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

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Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

keep an ink only sketchbook; draw with a pen until it isnt scary anymore

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Ricardo Bessa ✏ @rbessaaa.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Overwhelmed by all the responses, ty and sorry if I can't reply to everyone! To be clear, this was a knee jerk reaction - I'm not sure yet what can be done bc it's official D&D artwork, maybe it falls under "fair use"?? (As lame as that headline might be) Idk. Rest assured I'll look into it tho

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Ricardo Bessa ✏ @rbessaaa.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Time to invoice the telegraph for using my illustration, I guess

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Ricardo Bessa ✏ @rbessaaa.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I'm in a pack 💛 and in GREAT company too

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shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I can finally say BUUZA!! is going to be PUBLISHED BY ABRAMS BOOKS! I've had to keep this under wraps for SO LONG, but the Pre-Order links went up today, so it's official!! BUUZA!! Vol. 1: Good Morning Salwa will be available in the USA on 14th April 2026! www.abramsbooks.com/product/good...

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

more concept art!

jello with a skull in it. text says "i know it was the '70s, but...why would you put that in jello?"

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Ricardo Bessa ✏ @rbessaaa.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Some favourite sketches from a life drawing session with the lovely @davidieuan.bsky.social, from before I left London. Should I start a thread with all my life drawing, or do people prefer separate posts? What's the consensus here? #art #lifedrawing

A 3/4 portrait sketch of a man with a mustache, done with coloured pencil in blues, yellow and pink.

A colour pencil sketch of a nude man on his knees, arms hanging as they touch the floor, in shades of purple and blue

A colour pencil sketch of a nude man, sitting back in a relaxed pose, in shades of pinks and blue

A quick sketch of a man standing with an arm up and over his head, and a leg up propped onto a bed

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Ricardo Bessa ✏ @rbessaaa.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

New one for @magic.wizards.com and it MOVES! SO happy to be a tiny part of the Edge of Eternities release! Full illustration coming soon 🌌

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Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Guess who's a new Magic Artist!! ✨ Haliya, Guided by Light, for the Magic: The Gathering set 'Edge of Eternities' 🪐 Many thanks to the AD, the lovely Sarah Wassel, for the opportunity and the trust! ©2025 Wizards of the Coast #mtg #mtgEoE

Haliya, Guided by Light, illustrated by Eleonor Piteira for the Magic: The Gathering set 'Edge of Eternities'. A young black woman dressed in light armour with an orange cape and holding a sci-fi-looking axe, stands triumphantly on top of a pile of dead enemies in dark bulky armours. Behind her there's a flat orange planet against a light purple background with stars, while the silhouette of a ship flies by.

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Ricardo Bessa ✏ @rbessaaa.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Thank you for stopping by, but mostly thank you for saying I'm nice 🥲🙏

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Ricardo Bessa ✏ @rbessaaa.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Actually sold out of a couple of things, thank you to everyone coming by 🙏

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Eren Angiolini @erenangiolini.com · 24/05/2025

DAY 2 of MCM London! Yaaaaaay ✨🙌✨🙌✨🙌

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Tiffany Baxter @tiffbaxter.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Day 2 of MCM! Come find us E-12 in Artist Alley 😘

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Cathy Kwan 🍅 @completelycathy.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

MCM DAY 2 with @whereiseileen.bsky.social 🫶❤️‍🔥 We’re at Artist Alley H-13!

Photo of my booth with Eileen Kai Hing Kwan at MCM London

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Ricardo Bessa ✏ @rbessaaa.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Late to the game as always, but MCM London is happening right now and I'm there!

Image reads "Find me at MCM London, Artist Alley P-24 (Last row, up from AA stage, facing the food court)"

A photo of my table setup, with a tall display of prints and playmats on both sides

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Ricardo Bessa ✏ @rbessaaa.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Here's Shaarif, drawn at @edfirth.bsky.social's East London Life Drawing a while back. #art #lifedrawing #queerart

Sketch in colour pencil (mostly magenta, yellow and blue) of nude man sitting on a big fluffy pillow. Annotation in the corner - 20 mins.

Sketch in colour pencil (mostly reds, yellows and blues) of nude man reclining in a pile of pillows. Annotation in the corner - 30 mins.

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🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞 @sonnyross.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Someone's gotta do it I guess New print here! www.sonnyross.com/shop/together

A marching style band illustration of woodland creatures carrying weapons with a banner that says " We Will Just Have To Kill Him" in a childrens book style.

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Alex Diboine @alexdiboine.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

painting

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Sean Lewis @seanislewis.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Sphinx tomb

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Franek @franekk.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Distant worlds #pixelart

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Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.

Newspaper stand with newspapers all carrying the front page Campaign 'make it fAIr'

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Natalia Rerekina 🌜 @rerekina.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

First art in 2025, hope there will be much more (⁠*⁠ﾉ⁠・⁠ω⁠・⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠♫

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Ricardo Bessa ✏ @rbessaaa.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

If you've got a Bearscape or a Collective Voyage that you've always wanted to have signed - I'm joining forces with @mountainmagesigs.com to make it happen 💛 #mtg

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晴晴 [On Hiatus] @sachinteng.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

QRP with something watery 🌊

$Movie poster illustration of Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo. Ocean water is filled almost to the top of the poster, flooding the page the way the ocean floods the town in movie. The water surface divides the poster into above and below the water. At the top Sōsuke, a little boy with a yellow shirt and short black hair, floats face down in the water, his hands and face refracted by the water. Below the water a plethora of sea creatures swirl around Ponyo, a little mermaid girl with long pink hair and a red dress with short puff sleeves. Ponyo and Sōsuke are looking at each other and reaching toward each other through the forest of kelp in the water that surrounds them all.$

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Ricardo Bessa ✏ @rbessaaa.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

So these guys kept me going for hundreds of hours while working (specially during the pandemic), helped me learn a game I love, have made me feel many feels. Then I was asked me to do a t-shirt for them, got a shout out from Laura Bailey, and I can't get over it. 💛 @criticalrole.bsky.social

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George @hannahtempler.com · 10/02/2025

Artwork for The Witches of Wederra Keep

A poster of The Witches of Wederra Keep with a cast of characters arranged across the field. In the center the heroes - (L to R) Minerva the Old Soul with a basket of mushrooms and a purple cloak with faint sun emblem, Charley the Pure Heart, with her kingfisher familiar on her shoulder and magic at her fingertips, and Circe the Wild Spirt, at the ready with her dagger.

In the background behind them is a spread of villains and the Wederra Keep - demons, hooded figures and cloaked and armed agents. An enormous shadow of a demon towers overhead in the clouds in the distance.

In the foreground beneath our heroes, a mermaid on a rock at the edge of the sea, an old grandfather clock, a regally dressed woman, a scarred warrior, a portly barkeep, a giant wolf, and armed figures marching after the shadow of a creature in the forest, weapons on their backs.

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Ricardo Bessa ✏ @rbessaaa.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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Eva Eskelinen @evelmiina.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Wings - don't tell anyone but you can just make shapes.

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salt∴ @wickedsalt.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

1/2021-1/2025 After 4 years, Howl is finally finished! A companion and a project of love to me; I hope it keeps inspiring magic and creativity. 🧿🩵 See the rest of the thread for close ups! #howlsmovingcastle #howlcosplay #katsucon2025 #embroidery

Photo of my Howl Pendragon cosplay on a sewing form, frontal three quarters view. White shirt and black pants with a pink and blue jacket thrown over the shoulders, like the Studio Ghibli design. The jacket is heavily beaded and covered in floss and ribbon embroidery. There are also two necklaces with blue pendants around the form's neck and a pair of green drop earrings pinned close by.

Photo of my Howl Pendragon cosplay on a sewing form, view from the back. Black pants pinned to the sewing form with a pink and blue jacket thrown over the shoulders, like the Studio Ghibli design. The jacket is heavily beaded and covered in floss and ribbon embroidery. The back of the jacket shows the scene from the Ghibli film as a young Howl standing on a meadow catches a falling star. There are other falling stars in the night sky. The meadow is completely beaded and framed in a golden velvet ribbon. Embroidered with golden floss beneath the golden ribbon reads: "You who swallowed a falling star, o' heartless man".

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ilana steinberg @lanibird.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

some greatest hits!

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juuni @juunipupu.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Knight and deep-set venom [ #art | #oc | #ttrpg ]

Knight oc Wreg is bare chested, his armor and clothes slipping off of him, as a venomous snake is biting into his chest. Trickles of blood are visible, and he looks sorrowful. He is gripping the snake, and with his other hand he’s holding a rapier sword, its head stuck into something and bending the blade. Borders are nature themed wood carvings, where the snake slithers within.

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Gracu ✨🌈 @prismagic.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

This is a friendly reminder that even if you can't support an artist you love through monetary means, your retweets have a MASSIVE amount of power here on Bluesky. Since there's no algorithm, every RT you give makes a post more visible to others!

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Ricardo Bessa ✏ @rbessaaa.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I got the D&D graphic novel as a Christmas present for my little cousin, obviously I had to read it for *cough* quality control... it's so utterly charming, amazing job by @xanthe.bsky.social and @mollyostertag.bsky.social 👏

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juuni @juunipupu.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Knight and the enemy within [ #art | #ttrpg | #oc ]

knight oc Wreg holding his one-handed sword to his inner thigh, the blade almost ready to puncture the white fabric of his trousers. His outer layers, belt and armor pieces are falling off, and his upper torso is bare. Only half of his face can be seen, looking stern. Background is dark, with illustrated rose thorns and blood drops.

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Ricardo Bessa ✏ @rbessaaa.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

LAST DAY! Thanks SO MUCH for all the orders so far, I couldn't have asked for a better reception! Shop will be closing tonight - if you're still planning to getting an order in, now's your chance!

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Ricardo Bessa ✏ @rbessaaa.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I've gone and done it! My shop is LIVE, right here: www.ricardobessa.com/store In addition to the usual prints, art books and MtG stuff (including APs, playmats and tokens), I'm also selling original life drawing sketches with proceeds going to Medical Aid for Palestinians. Thanks for looking 💛

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