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clairebaire @clairebaire.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

new #oc alert, cinder 🔥

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clairebaire @clairebaire.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

my #FFX25FanArt submission of my fave guy auron #ffx #fanart #auron

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clairebaire @clairebaire.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

some wips of a lux drawing #ocart #oc

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I'm sure you are zero surprised by me saying this: Emet Selch was right.

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Red riding a chocobo is one of the best decisions they made.

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Or Biggs getting uppercutted in to the camera. Yeah I dunno. I love FF7 and I have *a lot* of opinions about Remake/Rebirth, but I can't say it being silly is the bad part. If anything, I was scared they'd make them too serious because that's what all the spin offs did.

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Man, since the FF7 Revelations announcement, I've been getting a lot of youtube recommendations from a specific subset of fans that seems to hate the remake being silly because "the original wasn't this silly". And I'm just sitting here like, have they even played the original?

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

new OCs: Oberon and Iapetus ( @clairebaire.bsky.social ) #oc #dnd #art

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

new dnd character that @clairebaire.bsky.social peer pressured me into creating #dnd #oc

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clairebaire @clairebaire.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

lux returns home #oc #art

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clairebaire @clairebaire.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

messmer from elden ring sketch #art

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clairebaire @clairebaire.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

practicing my cartoon style with a me #art #selfportrait

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clairebaire @clairebaire.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

@samberry.bsky.social ‘s #oc caelius discovering something in the garden ~ #art (repost bc the background was messed up…i squished and squashed badly lol)

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clairebaire @clairebaire.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

another #oc doodle with adrienne~ honestly just happy to be in a drawing mood lately lol

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clairebaire @clairebaire.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

my #OC momo for our witch AU, noodling with outfit ideas

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clairebaire @clairebaire.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

forgot about this drawing of my fave princessssssss #oc

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RayDay @rayday.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Oh hey it's #meetthewebcomic day?! I don't know if I belong, since my work/body keeps me from updating City of Asah as often as I want to, but I did just build my website and semi emerge from Hiatus middle of this year 👍✨ cityofasah.com Plz enjoy my few pages so far! ✨

P1: Skully beast goes HRAHHH and lunges
P2: skully beast tackles Maverik onto his back and spit-snarls right in his face to Maverik's intense disgust/dismay. He's trying to keep it back with his legs, but boy it wants to eat his face off SO bad.

P1: Vore shot of its super tooth maw descending on him
P2: Mav is Filled With Determination
P3: Mav shouts "A Little help here?!" because actually this is a bit dicey
P4: Alert Eyeball shot of the beast realizing something is AMISS
Barok, off panel: Alright, already...
P5: The 3 beasts are SPOOKED, Maverik is still pinned god bless him.
Barok, still off panel: No need to shout~!
P6: the beast is sniped as Barok magic lasers it through the braincase via both its stupid eyeballs. It dies instantly, RIP
P7: Mav's face gets painted in dark blood splatter and makes the most grossed out noise about it.

Did I really fit 7 panels on this page? Damn, good job past me.

P1: Dead beast collapses on Mav, eye sockets smoking. He's pinned and also dismayed by this.
P2: Mav is looking up... somewhere, wherever Barok is hiding.
Barok, offscreen still: Haw!! You shoulda seen your face, kid! Did you really think we'd let you get eaten?!
Mav, annoyed: ..... Honestly?
P3 Mav punts the dead beast off him
Mav: I really did?!
P4: The two dead beasts are shocked and upset that their buddy is dead. Mav is also upset, but mostly mad.
Mav: and in case you didn't notice-- There's still two more down here!
P5: Barok is up on a wall looking down on the whole beast situation as the other two skully creatures glare up at him, still threatening Maverik on the ground.
Barok: Fine... you're no fun.
Beast 2 (notices him): YOU--!!
Barok: Hey, you HAIRY TURDS! Guess what!

P1: Barok is doing the bi-fingerguns, a common thing for him
Baro: I'm gonna... make a new pair'a smalls out of ya! <3
P2: Close up on da boy, his eyes are so glowy gold
Baro: Real FRISKY ones.
P3: He sing magic
The magic: ^)*&*(#&%& (I don't know how to translate this, just pretend it says EAT FUCKING LASER in god language idk)
P4: He fucks them with the magic lasers (again) Like literally he puts giant holes in these monsters as they try and run for their lives. Alas, they are cooked. Maverik is kinda impressed tho

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

had to try some quick colours before i fix things

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

trying out this comic thing

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clairebaire @clairebaire.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

#OC #art with caelius ( @samberry.bsky.social ) & adrienne (ft. cat adie) :3 :3 :3

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clairebaire @clairebaire.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

my girlllll adrienne c: #oc #art

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

why are you calling me out so early

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clairebaire @clairebaire.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

my best girl #oc adrienne 🩵

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frankie. (he/they) 🌻 @darinfearlvo.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

quickly approaching writing the end of my play moodboard: nzuri haar by darin f. earl ii "a tribute to the women in my family (a one act made with/from/for love.)"

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Quick and dirty clean up of an old Vampire Mech AU sketch with Caelius and Adrienne ( @clairebaire.bsky.social )

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I don't really post threads, but honestly if what I wrote keeps at least ONE person from feeling so disillusioned and discouraged from learning art as that person. I'll be happy.

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

And I’m not going to pretend it is easy. Being consistent is the hardest part, and god knows that I have not been consistent for most of my life. Learning is a skill that takes practice in of itself, and I hope my wall of text can motivate someone to keep going.

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

But even within those studies, I gave myself mini goals. Participating in those study sessions is how I taught myself and refined my pixel art process. 4 hours a week, that’s all I needed, as long as it was consistent. Small things add up over time. The important part is to keep at it.

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Self regulating is hard, then that’s when courses and the like are handy. Even something as simple as @paulscottcanavan.com (sorry for the name drop, lol) Study Buddy stream was enough to CONSIDERABLY improve my painting skills. It gave me a consistent schedule, clear parameters and a dopamine hit

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Whatever I struggled with during “play”, I knew I could address during “learning”. As long as I trusted the process and followed my protocol. It’s fine to skip or cut time spent short. You need to respect your own capacity and energy. Sometimes you have to deload your weights to hit that squat PR.

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

And in between all of that, you have “play” sessions. In martial arts, this is what sparring in class is. You get to play around, try things, make mistakes, have fun with what you’ve been practising in your learning sessions. So go and draw that OC brain rot, who cares if the anatomy is wrong.

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The idea here is to have dedicated time to your skill development. Much like strength training, you NEED rest in between learning sessions for your body to adapt. Otherwise you will burn out and injure yourself. You can schedule multiple sessions of different things, as long as you respect your rest

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Two hour self portraits every other day, with at least one study (master study or photo) per week. Some people might notice that it follows the typical 3 days a week strength training model, and that’s because it does. If it works for that, why wouldn’t it work for painting?

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Goals are also key. A big goal and smaller goals leading up to the bigger goal. For example, I only really started to make gains in painting when I decided I wanted to learn to do portraits. Big goal: learn how to paint, small goal: paint portraits. So I created a “training” protocol for myself.

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Like everyone has been saying. Practice is key. But even more so, structured practice and even more important is CONSISTENT structured practice. Much like an athlete training for a sport, an art student thrives off consistent structured practice. Otherwise you’re making things harder for yourself.

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

What I’m about to say works FOR ME and is based on my own insights from teaching myself and others. It is not meant to be a definitive approach to learning art. It is heavily influenced by my 30 years of practising martial arts along with teaching it for half of that time. Take what you need from it

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I consider myself a sorta good draftsman and an ok painter. But I consider myself a very good learner. If anything, I would say it is the one superpower I have. Anyone who’s known me or followed me for long enough knows how varied my work is and how I can pick up almost any style given the time.

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

A little background; besides the time I spent in university, I consider myself a self-taught artist. I taught myself how to draw as a kid and I taught myself how to paint after getting my BFA in animation. I briefly studied art education and I have 15+ years of teaching/coaching martial arts.

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Samuel b @samberry.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I’m late to the conversation, but I keep thinking about it and want to touch on the whole learning art is a miserable thing. I’m not going to share the screenshots, because I’d rather just talk about my thoughts on learning art. Hopefully, it helps people who feel discouraged about their journey. 🧵

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