iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Perennial reminder that the big corporation does not care about you and there are better alternatives.

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Happy 2nd birthday to TrueRef! 🎉 ⦿ 35% off EVERYTHING all through August ⦿ A new pose pack every week ⦿ Weekly freebies in the mailing list ⦿ A super secret fourth thing Look: trueref.io TrueRef: Just the reference you were looking for

composited photo of several different witch of the woods inspired art references.

composited photo of several different cyperpunk inspired art references.

composited photo of several different art references of a black woman with vitiligo.

composited photo of several different male warrior inspired art references.

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

TrueRef Draw This! 015 ❤️‍🔥 July's Draw This! challenge has started. We provide a pose reference, you draw it! More info below. Two winners will be chosen to receive a free membership to TrueRef+! ⦿ Use #TrueRefDT015 to enter.

art reference of a woman sitting while holding her hand out.

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Sneak peak! Collaboration with @intersectionscch.blacksky.app 🌊🧜‍♀️🤍 Dropping Monday! Just in time for #mermay TrueRef: just the reference you were looking for

art reference of a person standing in an elegant pose. They have long rainbow braids.

art reference of a person laying on the ground with long rainbow braids.

art reference of a person laying on their stomach.

art reference of a person whipping their hair up.

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Chirs @aesungaia.neocities.org · 01/05/2026

there's a cat tree in my house (1/6)

Comic panel showing the inside of a room. There's a cat tree by the front door, under a window. There's a dog door on the front door. The narration reads: 'So, there's this cat tree in our house. We got it back when we had cats, but we don't have any anymore.'

Panel 2. The cat tree now has cats in it, and the front door no longer has a dog door. The narration continues: 'Lately, it's been filling up with cats I don't recognize. I don't know how they keep getting in. We don't have a dog door or anything.'

Panel 3. The cat tree looks slightly different, the cats are gone, and other small details around the room have changed. The narration continues: 'So, we have this cat tree at our house. I don't know how it keeps getting in. We've never had a cat or anything.'

Panel 4. Instead of the room, we see an illustration of several cats walking single-file in a void, weaving around the text of the page and several heaps of pills. The narration continues: 'When I was a kid, I used to be on this medication. Long after I'd stopped taking it, it was revealed to me that one of the potential side-effects was memory issues. For the longest time, I couldn't recall a single thing that had happened to me during the years I was on it.'

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Zed @zednope.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I found the whole comic an uncanny and compelling read, thanks for sharing it!

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

i'll read any article of any length. i'll read any book. but i will not watch a youtube explainer or monologue that is longer than three minutes. write it down buddy

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

We're extending the deadline and adding on more week to this! The new deadline March 12th.

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Here's my twenty-ninth #fantasticaluniquities poster! When I was first thinking about doing this graphic design challenge, one of my ideas was a whole magazine-style series on #TTRPG adventuring equipment. Art credits: Zed Nope (@zednope.bsky.social). Fonts: Membra, FS Alvar, Comfortaa.

Poster titled Rubber Ball. A white ball bounces off a moonlit wall and down a set of dungeon steps. Text reads:
Delving gear spotlight #29: Rubber ball.
Triggers traps!
Uncovers illusions!
Distracts hellhounds!
Page 58: our full list of tips and tricks, plus recommended vendors!

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Hampus Flink 🐷💢 @hampus.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Strong observational skills will let you draw subjects from life instead of photographs, too, and will help with other art forms like sculpture, etc. Tracing is a dead end

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Sketches by Alex Toth. Because they’re sketches by Alex Toth.

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

New art contest! 🔥 TrueRef is hosting an art contest to design our first t-shirt. It felt more fun than a normal contest, so here we are! ✨ Prizes: $500 // 1 Year TrueRef+ // Free Shirt ✨ Ends: March 5th ✨ No weird thing that says we own all submitted designs. Info: trueref.io/pages/truere...

TrueRef art contest. Start date, January 5th. $500 cash prize. End date, March 5th. The theme is the phrase "aggressively pro artist."

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Hampus Flink 🐷💢 @hampus.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Branded, the first in a series of four-page horror comics. This is my first attempt at rendering a whole comic in "pure" black and white linework, without shades of gray. It's a style I've always admired but never felt strong enough to do. Enjoy! 👻 #comics, #art, #horror, #DarkArt

A black and white comic page with three panels.

Panel 1: A bedroom, seen from above, mostly shrouded in darkness. There is a big bed, and a poster above the bed featuring a demonic band called Beelzebabes. There is a bedside table with a lamp, spreading a circle of light around it. A young woman lies curled up on the bed, clutching a pillow. A rectangle of light falls from an off-panel doorway over the bed, and the shadow of a person appears in the light.

The title of the comic: "Branded", appears in the top left corner.
The shadowy figure says "You should go outside.""

Panel 2:
Closeup of the young woman's face. She looks haggard and frightened. The rectangle of the doorframe, with the shadowy figure within it, appears behind her in the darkness.

The young woman says: "I... I can't. That..."

Panel 3:
A slightly abstract rendition of a window with venetian blinds drawn. Insects buzz in the light filtering through the blinds, and something that resembles smoke rises across the panel.

The young woman says: "That thing is still out there."

A black and white comic page with six panels.

Panel 1: A white void, in which sits a rectangular stairway framed by a low brick wall, apparently leading down underground. A crooked sign post stands next to the stairs.

Narration boxes: "It followed me from the subway station. At first, I thought it was just a beggar, but..."

Panels 2-4: In a sequence of three panels, a pale, deformed humanoid figure emerges from the darkness, its arms abnormally long, its fingers long with claw-like nails. The figure seems to twist and bend in unnatural ways, and keeps poking at its own eyelids with its nails, as if its trying to force its own eyelids open.

Narration boxes: "With every step it took, it changed. I could hear its bones snap and slot into place. And somehow, I was trapped with it. Like a bird in an oil spill."

Panel 5: The young woman, now wearing an overcoat and hat, and a long scarf sustained on the wind, clasps her face in horror. Her face and hands have been blacked out with rough pencil strokes, but the whites of her eyes can still be seen, staring in terror. Her purse is flying through the air, spilling its contents as it goes: a set of keys, a book, a pencil, a smartphone.

Narration boxes: "And something passed from it to me. I can't get rid of it."

Panel 6: A closeup of the creature's eye, being pried open by two long, cracked fingernails. The pupil in the eye resembles a twisted reflection of the young woman.

Narration boxes: "You know how smoke sticks to your collar? Or when a sick baby puts its fingers in your mouth."

A black and white comic page with six panels.

Panel 1: The young woman is peeking out her window, parting the venetian blinds with her fingers. Her face is brightly lit, and her eyes look astonished with disbelief.

Narration boxes: "Ever since then, little by little... the world has fallen apart."

Panel 2: A bizarre view of the street outside the young woman's house. A gigantic dog is being walked by a tiny person, who appears to be much farther away than the dog, despite walking in front of it. The dog is intersected by lamp posts which appear to be at different distances from the viewer, and in each section the dog is much larger than the last. The curb itself appears to be a smartphone, and a broken clock is floating among some rubble in the void.

Narration boxes: "Pieces disappear, or appear elsewhere. Things change size without moving. Nothing is the same when you look again."

Panel 3: In a white void, a deformed figure, distinct from the one we saw on the previous page, is shambling around. It is dressed in a blouse and skirt, and its neck is long, snaking away from its body, head lolling.

Narration boxes: "There are others like it, shambling about. I can see them clearly now. Maybe they were always there."

Panels 4-6: Three panels of the young woman sitting on her bed, clutching her pillow, first seen as a white silhouette over pitch black, then straight from the front, then in closeup as she turns her head toward the figure in the doorway.

The young woman says: "There is no outside anymore. My room is the only place I feel safe."
The figure in the doorway says: "You should go outside."
Irritated, the young woman says: "Weren't you listening? I said–"
The figure in the doorway interrupts: "Outside."
Now suddenly anxious, the young woman says: "What..."
The figure in the doorway interrupts, this time with a scratchy, deformed word balloon: "You should go outside."

A black and white comic page with two panels.

Panel 1: The young woman is sitting up in her bed, clutching her sheet as it wraps around her lower body. She is looking over her shoulder, toward the doorway. Concentric circles with hatched patterns inside them frame her head.

The young woman says: "M... mom?"

A word balloon at the bottom of the panel extends into the next panel, with the letters spilling out of it as if entering the same physical space as the characters themselves, spelling out the words "Go outside".

Panel 2: In a big panel, seen from the young woman's point of view, a monstrous humanoid creature emerges from the darkness, reaching its long, clawed hands toward us. Its neck is crooked, head lolling, eyes apparently clawed open, with fresh scratch wounds running down its cheeks. The mouth is open, with worm-like appendages dangling from its lips. The young woman's hand reaches into frame, fingers spread, as if trying to ward off the monster in fear.

A small box in the bottom right corner informs us that this is the end of the story. Thank you for reading!

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Zed @zednope.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

She's been getting on my case all night.(Sound on to hear a

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Zed @zednope.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I'm not mad about it, but I gotta start finding Rembrandt lighting for selfies if I'm gonna do these.

A seft portrait drawn in soft pastel with bright yellow and orange background/lighting. The likeness is adequate but the construction of the face is lacking, with the eyes on a different plane than the rest of the face. Across the bottom the words 'who is zed nope?' are scrawled in orange.

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Dungeons & Possums @dungeonsandpossums.com · 26/11/2025

Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately. Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.

An art piece by Goran Gligovic of a sword resting against a battered tree in front of a rocky dungeon entrance amidst a snowy field. The text says UNBAN GORAN GLIGOVIC.

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Zed @zednope.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

A zine for the zine gods

The cover of a folded mini zine. A simple line drawing of Tim Gunn's face on a colourful background. Title: 'a dream about Tim Gunn'

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Frank Cvetkovic @gofrankgo.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Here's another good'un. (Performed here: youtu.be/MGSdYFR50Y8)

charlesoberonn: The song "Jolene" but the singer never stops describing Jolene, going into more and more details and getting more and more disturbing until you're not sure what Jolene is except that you're afraid her.
prettyokayray: your teeth are sharp / your mouth agape
your claws rend flesh / there's no escape from the judgement of the Eldritch One, Jolene
blad-the-inhaler: He screams about you in his sleep and when he wakes, does naught but weep in terror, of the one they call Jolene
butts-for-days: blackening the summer skies with burning wings and countless eyes we tremble at the sight of you, Jolene
animatedamerican: we cower here beneath your gaze that sets the earth and sky ablaze
have mercy at the end of days, Jolene

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 01/08/2025

Happy Friday guys, marvel at the power of collective action and make some calls with me today!

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Three watercolour illustrations by James McMullan for Nik Cohn, “Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night,” New York Magazine, June 7, 1976.

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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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Zed @zednope.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Bees and chickens enjoying the sun today.

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Zed @zednope.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

It was the cheapest scroll wheel tablet I could find on amazon. Has a handful of buttons I can't get working as well, basically an oversized intuos pro knockoff.

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Zed @zednope.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I had a huion for several years, I liked it fine. My current model is an artisul, which I picked for the extremely handy scroll wheel.

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Hampus Flink 🐷💢 @hampus.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I've updated my starter pack of cool #artists with less than 1k followers! I removed everyone who had passed the 1k limit to make room for dozens of new artists to (re-)discover. Some real gems in here, dark #art, #comics artists, traditional #painters, and more! Check it out: go.bsky.app/M45DcxP

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2025

The new hotness is blocking accounts that conform with one's politics but are clearly farming outrage and fear. They might be bots! They might not be! But whatever they are, they're not helping!

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Zed @zednope.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Trying to do more art again, when in doubt paint swatches.

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Chris Weisiger @byobattleship.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Announcing TORMENT HEXUS, a match-3 roguelike about putting technofascist CEOs on the wrong side of skyscraper windows! Please spread the word, and wishlist on Steam at store.steampowered.com/app/3238420/... And remember: they SHOULD be afraid of us. #indiedev #indiegame

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maat @maatdraws.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

GUYS GUYS, cooking a Severance Sticker Sheet & a Severance Shaker Charm ! Hopefully coming soon ( I already have the Sticker Sheet but the Shaker Charm is still in some process to know how to proceed correctly to make them #Severance

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Shivikai @shivikai.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Art Raffle! Get innnnnn. #artraffle

image describing an art raffle: yay 300 followers! ART RAFFLE smol bean edition I wanna draw you blorbo!
How-to: comment with a pic or description of your OC (both sfw/nsfw ok!), that's it, welcome to the raffle! Winner picked & announced Feb 15th! This is what you get, I will do this to your oc! I'm just a little guy! Lil bean boi!

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Zed @zednope.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

another zine! 1/3

The cover of a handmade zine. The title is 'Stung' and there's a simple illustration of bees.

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Zed @zednope.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I did this again a few weeks ago, not as nicely but still good.

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Zed @zednope.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

It's hardly detectable from my regular activity, but my life got shaken up a couple weeks ago. I had a sudden stroke. I'm recovering well,and in hospital(Canada) but a close friend who is troubled by my situation did this for me: gofund.me/9e4a0cf4

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For Zoe: horse boss, professional artist, & community pillar, organized by Laura Bain

Hi my name is Laura Bain and I am Zoe's neighbour and friend. … Laura Bain needs your support for For Zoe: horse boss, professional artist, & community pillar

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 28/12/2023

You have all seen this book as meme but I own it as myco nerd and the level of bonkers is as promised

A copy of all that the rain promises, and more…a pocket guide to western mushrooms

After a frantic few minutes, I came to the edge of a glade and there, perched on a large lichened rock, was a horned, barefoot Panlike figure, nimbly playing a flute. The others stood there spellbound; like me they were laden with lec-cinums and had been hopelessly lost.
Then the horned figure led us, like the Pied Piper, on a merry, meandering march through that glistening, mossy, mushroom-lush wonderland. It was unbelievable — herds of hawk wings, throngs of lofty leccinums, giant fairy rings of elegant amanitas, and logs so thick with clustered caps their bark couldn't be seen. We must have looked like wood nymphs as we danced along together, completely caught up in the abundance and exuberance of the moment.
Finally he delivered us to the gravel road, where our abandoned van stood like an empty, ominous shell from some remote and irrelevant war. We offered our savior the mush-rooms, which he, having a forest full of them, declined. He did allow himself to be photographed, however.

My First Mushroom Hunt
It was 25 years ago. There were plenty of mushrooms but no good mushroom books for California. People used to say things like if it peeled easily or if it grew on trees it was all right. Well, I picked a yellowish-orange mushroom and since it grew near an oak I thought it was a chanterelle. I cooked it for dinner, and spent the next couple days with both ends open, delirious. It was a jack o' lantern that I ate, and I'm glad I did because it humbled me. It taught me to be careful, to be discerning, to learn more. Now I eat chanterelles all the time, and there's no way I could confuse one with a jack o' lantern.
—Simon Kelly

Girls Just Wanna Have Fungus
Dashing Roberto Mortillero has thrown the perfect party: Shaggy Manes, Coccoli, Blewits, Bleeding Milk Caps, Matsutake, and the Prince, each with a human escort. As often happens in California, the party ends when the host is carried out on a stretcher. The following account of the Mushroom Party is taken from the Diary of Valley Unit "Gagme" Sappa, and is reprinted with permission of the author's roommates, who are dying to see her face when she finds out it's missing.
Dear Diary: That total babe Roberto had this party tonight
- I mean, if you could call it a party, like no keg! But all these babes came anyway, and I had on like this radical sequined tube top with my leopard-spotted spandex pedal pushers and high-heeled sandals, and like the babes musta thought I looked real Boss cuz they really gave me the hairy eyeball.
Like it started when I went to the hardware store cuz I read this article that all the babes go there, but like, you go up to a babe and

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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

Need some art for something Mork Borg, or fantasy art? want to be able to manipulate the images via effects or collage? Want a great price on over 100 pieces? perplexingruins.itch.io/mork-bork-in...

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Mork Bork Inspired Art Pack by Perplexing Ruins

141 Pieces of Royalty Free Art

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Hampus Flink 🐷💢 @hampus.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

Gothic III, painted in CSP using the brushes of Wes Gardner and Lane Brown. This is my tribute to and master study of the great George Ziel, pioneer of the gothic romance genre of book covers. Prints available here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/flin...

A digital painting in the gothic romance style of a dark-clad woman standing outside in the moonlight. Her hair and veil are blowing in the wind, and there is a dark building far in the background.

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Zed @zednope.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

Drew a bunch of 5-10 minute portraits for the art gallery tonight,whew. It's hard with an audience.

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Zed @zednope.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

I have been doing some reduction linocuts, it's a great medium for wrinkling your brain.

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Marren's Musings Thinking about Marathon and Miasma @marrensmusings.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

⚔️ LORDSWORN 0.7 is currently LIVE! ⚔️ The latest version of everyone's favourite Sad-Soldiers-After-God-War-Walk-Home TTRPG brings: - Bunch of new art! - Improved Layout Stuff! (Tables are better?) - Some minor edits/text changes!? Join the Journey Home here: marrensmusings.itch.io/lordsworn

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LORDSWORN by Marrensmusings

GMless game of tragic, broken soldiers trying to get Home in the apocalypse.

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Zed @zednope.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

Thanks! @marrensmusings.bsky.social really gave me a great mix of characters- iconic archetypes, blank slates, and serious weirdos.

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Zed @zednope.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

This page of Lordsworns is a bit out of date now, but it's a great look at how this project has improved my confidence and ability with black and white.

A recently finished Lordsworn. I'm really proud of the way I've captured their impeccable shiny armour and expression of grief and nobility.

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

Finished! Had a great time making these grotty grungy interlaced weird spaceships. Art pack up at 🚀 carlydraws . itch . io 🚀 for your grungy ttrpg needs, or you can pick up a special print version at my shop. Links in bio :-)

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