iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

anyone else feel like this

A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most of the art I love is nothing like mine. Work similar to mine I can appreciate, but there’s not much mystery to it. If anything, I tend to be hypercritical, since I understand the process so intimately. What blows me away is when people see the world in a way that I would never be able to.

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Well, that’s a depressingly apt metaphor.

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Anna Podedworna @akreon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

'Countersculpt' Magic: The Gathering | Reality Fracture AD: Zack Stella

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Artists, show how you paint stars!✨️

A painting of a striking, slender woman facing us directly and looking upward, from the shoulders up. She has dark, purple-black skin, large hoop earrings, and is wearing a bright orange top. Her round sunglasses reflect a gradient from orange to red to purple, and the sky behind her grades from a dark blue-green to a pale green at the horizon. Her hair is a perfectly round black afro, the silhouette of which is filled with stars.

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Oh, we’re doing THIS again? Well then, let me repeat one of my proudest moments of my entire life: Einstürzende Sauerbraten

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Emily Hare @emilyhare.com · 10/09/2026

Since it's my 50th time round the sun, would you care to share my art around? That would be a splendid gift, thank you! 🥰 emilyhare.com #dragons #fantasyart #watercolour #creatureart #unicorns

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Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 10/09/2026

Opinion | Democrats have lost Silicon Valley. Here's what it will take to win it back

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Old Saints of Blight's Hollow wish you a Joyous & Restful Labor Day. Don't work yourself to the bone.

A statue of a person with a many horned ramskull head holds a human skull with a candle lit atop it. Statues of many hands reach up from the ground.

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 04/09/2026

Night eyes 😎 Finally got proper pictures of this amazing phenomenon! Mantises change their eye color (and light sensitivity) at night by transporting pigments from the surface of each compound eye unit toward the deeper eye region. Same female Tenodera sinensis, two different times. #bugsky

A female Tenodera sinensis mantis with dark black eyes against a light background, seen from very close up.

A female Tenodera sinensis mantis with green/brown eyes against a light background, seen from very close up to show the details of her face. The pseudopupil is clearly visible on her left eye, facing the camera.

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I had hoped to get further on this before classes started, but c'est la vie. As always, feedback is welcome, even if I ignore it!

An unfinished painting of a woman wearing a white Edwardian dress and black boots sitting on a tree branch, looking directly at the viewer through binoculars. It is night, and she is surrounded by owls. Their eyes and the binoculars shine with reflected light.

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Happy Labor Day Weekend from Scabby and friends!

A photo of Scabby the Rat, a green inflatable rat with red eyes that's looking menacing. Scabby is in the center of the frame, looking towards the left. Next to Scabby is an inflatable fat cat and an inflatable pig wearing a top hat and smoking a cigar.

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There’s painting like ‘oh god this is a disaster’ and painting like ‘ok I’m killing this’ and I haven’t found a way to not have to do both kinds to make a painting.

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I had hoped to get further on this before classes started, but c'est la vie. As always, feedback is welcome, even if I ignore it!

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Horror vacuAI– the inability of AI image generators to not fill up every last bit of empty space.

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I will block you for moral/ethical reasons. I will mute you for esthetic reasons.

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Interesting. Artstation’s new owners seem to be making an effort to undo at least some of the damage that Epic did to the platform. I’m not rushing back yet (it was never particularly useful for the markets I primarily work in anyway), but I’ll keep an eye on things.

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ArtStation Should Put Artists First - ArtStation Magazine

ArtStation is enabling default NoAI protections and partnering with Cloudflare to limit AI crawlers and content scraping.

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Back in the Sijun/CA/EP forum days of the early 2000s, it was a big joke when people would post that they really wanted to become artists, but they just didn't like drawing. Oh how we laughed and laughed. Guess the joke was on us.

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Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!) @kimsokol.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Birthday post part 2: tried out the carousel to show off some images that tend to get squished, here’s some of my grid-appropriate MTG work!

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Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️‍🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Comics were more popular with kids in the 1940s than either video games or social media today are today.

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I thought the article image was some stock photo capitalizing on the "pervert glasses" narrative, but no, the credit is from Meta. Meta released this image of a man looking like a combination of Barry and Dexter secretly plotting to murder women

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Yorgos Cotronis @cotronis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Steelborn is a USA Today and Sunday Times best seller! Congrats to Taylor J. Larue and everyone at @waywardtxf.bsky.social. Big thanks to @jennykimura.bsky.social

Book cover for Steelborn, illustration shows a redhead woman wearing armor, resting a sword on her shoulder.

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

People who claim to be leftists and shout "tHe ReAl PrObLeM iS cApItAlIsM" while carrying water for billionaire tech oligarchs can eat a bag of dicks.

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 08/08/2026

worst chili peppers album ever

A small gas station named “Mobilubrication”

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Qsy @qsy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

tol

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Alex Parks @parkerbro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

my fav @michaelhobbes.bsky.social hot take that i have now stolen as my own: we need broken windows policing for white collar crime.

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Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!) @kimsokol.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Ea-Nasir as a meme is so funny to me, imagine a client sends you a pissy email and as a result, MILLENIA later, future people wielding sorcerous, unfathomable technology use it to clown on your ass

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Stephen King: guys, i'm really excited King: tonight we've got an actual, genuine humor writer to talk to us! Piers Anthony: oh gosh, steve! you Anthony: you flatter me! King: i uh King: i wasn't actually talking about you, piers Anthony:

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

WIP update. I am inordinately fond of these sleeves.

Detail of a work in progress illustration: a woman in a white Edwardian dress against a black background looks directly at us through a pair of binoculars.

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Some kind of invasive ape 🏳️‍⚧️ @wargonopsid.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Ink sketch of a waffle yaga. Seagull feet bc dumpstercore. Sketch w inks

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Just a quick reminder that talking about dpi without specifying dimensions is nonsensical, but also that setting your resolution to 5000dpi for any reason is also nonsensical.

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Socar Myles @packbawky.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

QRP with your most popular piece on bsky ~ (In fact, I'm not sure this IS my most popular, and I don't know how to check. But it's MY favourite, so pthbbbt.)

An ink drawing of a crow getting hit in the head with a paper dart and shouting "fuck off!"

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

QRP with your most popular piece on bsky ~ Gotta be this one. It was also my most popular on the birdsite. Also my most popular on Tumblr (I don't even have a Tumblr). It's nearly thirty years old. Sometimes I feel like a one-hit wonder.

An oil painting of a witch floating in a sitting position within a magic circle, typing on a computer. A black cat bats at the floating computer mouse.

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Not every good idea is a good idea *for you*

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Julie Dillon @juliedillon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I am looking forward to painting this new drawing 😊👌

A pencil drawing of a skeleton wearing very thick, flowy and draping robes with hood. It is very gently embracing a human figure, who presses their head against the skeleton's chest and shoulder area as though seeking comfort.

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

i do in fact want trains

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Christine Griffin @creepypretty.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Show us your long-hair art, freaky people...

Traditional drawing of a spooky woman, digitally colored

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✺ 𝕸𝖔𝖙𝖍 ✺ @mothsprout.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Rennfaire pics from yesterday <3

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

HELL YEAH!! Look at what we did TOGETHER! Comic-con has quietly changed their language and will NOT allow GenAi imagery in their art show! And this happened because you all wrote letters, and shared your concerns! Speaking up works EVERY time! So congrats friends! We did this together!!! 🙌🙌💖💖💖

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

That thing where somebody posts something that looks like a joke, and people react to it like it's a joke, but it's 100% real.

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Progress. I went with boots rather than bare feet. Feedback welcome.

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Paulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A favorite story— Petitioner: Would you like to sign a petition to require voter ID? Person: Do I have to show ID to sign? Petitioner: No. Person: Then how do you verify? Petitioner: We do address and signature matching. Person: Do you hear yourself?

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