iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ven Locklear @venlocklear.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

First it was Graphic Designers who used AI to rid themselves of Illustrators. Now it's Illustrators using AI to rid themselves of Graphic Designers. The visual design world is a snake eating its tail. Don't they know that soon it'll just be "Art Directors" with no real design skills typing prompts?

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Ven Locklear @venlocklear.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Neighbors fireworks went nonstop from 8pm to 1am last night. Thousands of them. Fireworks are illegal in CT. We live three blocks from the cops. Cats were terrified. And now they're starting up again for night 2....

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Ven Locklear @venlocklear.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

New artwork for "Club XL" from Excision and Level Up. Mostly painted in Photoshop, building background modeled in Blender.

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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

✨I have 2 spots left in my August commission queue! ✨ Please share around so I can fill these two spots by month’s end. If you are interested, check out my TOS and send me an email. 💌 Thank you everyone! 🌱 [ #art #commsopen #supportartists ]

A commissions info card. The image shows a bunch of illustrations cropped into rectangles. They are mostly dogs and cats, but there are also a few birds. They are all mixed with various plants and flowers. The text across the image reads “commissions are open”

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Ven Locklear @venlocklear.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Belated art post here, single artwork for Excision and Subtronics. It was a collab with Subtronic's creative director Ray Elemento, who did the space background and other parts of the environment. Of course I did the big silly monster. Song in comments (with lightly animated art!)

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Ven Locklear @venlocklear.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

If you're someone like me that has to use Adobe for industry reasons, just a reminder to read the fine print in the latest plan changes. "All Apps" is now "Pro" which is $170/yr more expensive, but you can change to Standard, keep all the apps, and just forego some extra AI features.

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Ven Locklear @venlocklear.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Caught up on Stranger Things, didn't hate the finale like some! Maybe because I was never a superfan? I was just here for the synthwave, the monsters, and the friendship themes, and Season 5 delivered those. I'll miss the show!

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sleepyrogue 🔪 @sleepyrogue.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

anti ai, pro hag

Text reads: USE AI? No thanks. I'd rather get my misinformation from the local swamp hag.

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Ven Locklear @venlocklear.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

My most recent artwork on Subsidia for Excision and Sullivan King. I'm not on twitter, but apparently there was a kerfuffle over there with some fans claiming it was AI art. HA. HA. HA.

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Ven Locklear @venlocklear.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Predator Badlands was a delight. Maybe Predator movies shouldn't be delightful. But I was delighted nonetheless 😁

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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Happy whale explosion day to those who celebrate! 🐋

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Ven Locklear @venlocklear.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

New single artwork, always fun to draw meat and chrome.

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Ven Locklear @venlocklear.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Great movie weekend! Saw Frankenstein in theaters, really felt the love from Del Toro. Beautiful and thoughtful....aaaand for a palette cleanser rented the new Toxic Avenger, lol

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Ven Locklear @venlocklear.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Spotify's newest trend is AI tracks and albums impersonating smaller artists who either aren't producing music anymore, are on a hiatus, or have passed away. So now when I go to hear new releases from my favorite artists, I regularly encounter illegal AI slop. And it makes me want to cry.

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Mar Julia ➰〰️➰ @marjulia.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

CHINGA LA MIGRA 🐊💥 risograph prints will be with me at SPX on some kind of sliding scale, with sales donated to the Florida Immigrant Coalition, a coalition of advocacy groups across the state, and CASA, a group active here in Maryland as well as Virginia and Pennsylvania.

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Ven Locklear @venlocklear.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Ah, there's nothing like waking up to see a post from a past client where they've used AI instead of a real artist. I shouldn't look at Instagram in the morning.

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Ven Locklear @venlocklear.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

RIP Graham Greene. I've never seen Dances With Wolves, I guess it won 6 Oscars. What didn't win six Oscars was Clearcut, but god damn is that a fascinating movie with an eerie performance from him. He goes from hilarious to scary just like that, and oh boy that de-barking scene. GO WATCH IT NOW!!!

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Guilhem Bedos Art @guilhem-bedos-art.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

💗 ARTSHARE 💗 To celebrate my 500 followers milestone, I host my very first #artshare thread here on BlueSky! You know the drill: - share this post so others can join - present yourself (optional) - show your art (obviously... 😅) - no NSFW please (artistic nudity/erotica is allowed) - have fun!

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Ven Locklear @venlocklear.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I got my copy of Bad Space Comics!!!!!!

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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Stop using generative AI. There is no legitimate use of generative AI. There is no “I hate AI but this is ok”. Not everyone is using it. We do not have to “get used to it or be left behind.” Just don’t. Just stop. Delete the app. Close your account. Save some money. Take the first step. #noai

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Dusty Ray @sloppjockey.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

reminder that every print ordered from my shop is made, proofed, and hand signed by me personally and never dropshipped from some anonymous print factory farm <3

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Priya @gingerpk.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

A blue summer 💙

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Ven Locklear @venlocklear.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I started learning some After Effects around 2019, and now use it pretty regularly to (among other things) make visualizers out of my album art on Subsidia. Here's a fun one: youtu.be/ergI7kIUwOs?...

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EXCISION, SVDDEN DEATH & YMV3 - INSANE! | SUBSIDIA

YouTube video by Excision

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Ven Locklear @venlocklear.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

New single artwork for Excision, Svdden Death, and YVM3. #dubstep #bassmusic

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Ven Locklear @venlocklear.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Yeah I draw dark stuff but I also like CUTE STUFF. And this is cute stuff from a friend and for a good cause!!!

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Ven Locklear @venlocklear.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

8 years of doing artwork for Lost Lands... #dubstep

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K. Wroten 🍏 @jukeboxcomix.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I can’t believe I can finally hold her. ESBY day!!

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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

CALL YOUR REPS. 5calls.org #resist

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Hampus Flink 🐷💢 @hampus.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Happy 40th birthday to me! Thank you all for helping me through another year and firmly into the middle ages. 🎈Rumour has it people share your #art when it's your birthday, but I don't know if that's true! Maybe time will tell

A digital painting of an undead woman in a red, flowing dress. She is standing on top of some stairs outside, her head framed by a pale blue moon, and reaching her bony hand toward the viewer.

A digital painting of a naked woman kneeling before a gigantic honey-colored flower with a skull in the center. The woman is rendered in shades of purple and red, her head cast back, eyes closed and lips smiling. Her long black hair is flowing down, covering her butt. Her arms are stretched behind her, bent slightly at the elbow

A digital painting of the character Vampirella. She is sitting on a brown stone pedestal with a grotesque face engraved into it. Her knee is raised and she is resting her crossed arms on her knee, looking at the viewer. An angel head with spread wings is embossed on the wall behind her.

A digital painting of a female Aasimar Hunter, wearing a metallic-blue mythril armour and gladiator-style skirt and plated boots. She is holding a great sword in one hand, and a stream of magic circles her other hand. Her hair is silvery white, and there is a halo behind her head. Behind her, a gryphon springs into action, wings spread.

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Drawfee Show @drawfeeshow.com · 09/05/2025

📅✨Mark your calendars for the return of Drawfee Variety Hour! We'll be raising money for Trans Lifeline, June 7th 2pm ET-8 on Twitch!

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Ven Locklear @venlocklear.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Okay I'll bite, but I'm going to post wildly different styles I've done for client work. Gotta get paid!!! Show me your style...or your most different style lol. @franckbesancon.bsky.social @juancalleart.bsky.social @sergeight.bsky.social @vales-arts.bsky.social @jimmymakepeace.bsky.social

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Eduardo Valdés-Hevia 👁️ @valdevia.art · 29/04/2025

Crowd gathering at the landing of the Nidhogg (1917). Every autumn, the Nidhogg comes back to the same beach where it was born. This is where it chooses to die. In the spring, it will emerge from the ground anew.

A large well-dressed crowd gathers in a beach. In the distance, the massive corpse of the Nidhogg rots.

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Ven Locklear @venlocklear.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Quote with your fanart. Okay so this was FOR a fan of JJK (Felmax), but then I was like hey that's cool and became a fan so...fanart? #jjk #fanart #dubstep

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Chuck Lukacs @lightpusher.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Signature Sphinx & Rashel Fists of Torn Proofs are here!!

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Matt Stricker @reaching4divine.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Messmer, the Impaler

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Ven Locklear @venlocklear.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Lots of you have appreciated this piece here on bsky, so I thought I'd also post the link to the process video I made (Only the painting portion, I didn't record the sketch). youtu.be/mN66iTfRMc8?...

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Process Video - Corpus Ligua

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Franck Besançon 🩸 Ecstasy&Agony artbook available! @franckbesancon.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I worked on the trailer for this game (yes, I don't just cut up bodies, I also make videos) and believe me, the game is fantastic and deserves your attention.

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Ven Locklear @venlocklear.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

#portfolioday Hello I'm Ven! How about some variety from my first concept art job (Borderlands 2 expansions) to NOW (Excision) and a couple of personal illustrations in between! Not currently looking for work, but always open to making connections...and if a MTG AD sees this, well...hello there...

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michael katchan @michaelkatchan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

well hello #portfolioday Michael here. I mostly flow between depressive self expression and fantasy art - cant stay away from those SKULLS!!! if you're a MTG AD and see this, yes i am 100% interested and will continue to make fanart even if hired

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John Chen @johnchen.com.au · 02/04/2025

5K #artshare . Hey Thanks! I'm happy there are over 5,000 of you here! 🤘 🖤 Share your best DARK ART. 🦇 Share this post for visibility. 👁️‍🗨️ Paintings, sculptures, digital 2d/3d welcome. 🚫NO A.i .

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