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bonnie
@abonbon.bsky.social
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hello bluesky! i’m a mom, artist and animator living in MN.

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”

⛔️ anti-ai, anti-fascist ✊🏼

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bonnie @abonbon.bsky.social · Apr 9
Happy Portfolio Day! I love drawing women and flowers and playing with beautiful colors!

#PortfolioDay #DigitalArt #PixelArt
pixel art of a girl in a mushroom hat surrounded by similar mushrooms, little bunnies play at her feet, colors are vibrant, red, blue, yellow and green #pixelart #digitalart #portfolioday pixel art of a woman with a sunflower crown, two doves hold a ribbon that read MNP (peace), her hands are raised, third fingers touching thumbs. the colors are cyan/blue and yellow (ukranian colors) #pixelart #digitalart #portfolioday pixel art of riju from zelda tears of the kingdom, the colors are muted as if in a sandstorm #pixelart #digitalart #portfolioday pixel art of a women holding tulips, 4 colors, blue, purple pink and cream. she is looking directly at the viewer and dithered dots surround her #pixelart #digitalart #portfolioday
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zikoure.me
Day 510: memories
#pixelart #ドット絵 #art #dailies
A pixel art cityscape of a small town at sunset.
January 28, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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evanskyarts.bsky.social
🦊 💛 🦝

Keychains available 🌱 evanskyarts.com/en/collectio...

#art #handmade #fox #raccoon #cute #giftIdeas #ShopSmall #SmallBusiness #Artist
Picture of two silly looking, raccoon and fox keychains handmade with felt. They are photographed on a black and wooden background with a few decorative plants around.
January 14, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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trungles.com
Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis.

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls
Just before Christmas, I got a puppy. Her name is Minerva, and we call her *Minnie. I'm still learning how to understand her. Me: Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go outside, little baby? Do you need to do a poo? Do you need to do a widdle piddle? Minnie: Arf! *I just call her "little baby" most of the time. I'm also realizing I can't turn off the baby talk now. Nobody tells you about that. I got so lucky with my first puppy. Her wonderful foster parents had her completely house-trained by the time we adopted her, so taking her outside for potty time has been pretty easy. I've got the puppy poopy routine pretty much down, now. Me, putting on my coat: Let's see... I got the little poopy bags, puppy treats for bribes, jacket, scarf, phone… I think that's everything… Oh yes! And my passport. I had been carrying around my passport for a while, but I knew it didn't matter. This is wrong. Nobody is required to carry around their papers. I became a US citizen when I was seven. Since I was born in a refugee camp, I was stateless. The US is the only nation where I've ever held citizenship. It's the only passport I've ever had, and it still felt important. Protective. I would hold it in my pocket like a talisman, like it might ward off ghosts or something. But I realized I was holding onto it basically out of superstition. ICE will pick up anybody. I know that. So I tucked my passport away. And I largely avoid leaving my house. I live a few blocks just South of George Floyd Square. I was in the neighborhood for that, too. And all the neighbors came together to protect each other. We're already organized. We'll do our best to get through this. Me, to my dog: I hope I can take you for a walk someday soon. Won't that be nice, little baby?
January 16, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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trungles.com
Cartoonists, I’d love to hear your stories! For local resources, please check out @defend612.bsky.social
defend612.com
ICE OUT Cartoonists against ICE Calling on cartoonists and artists to tell your stories about the ICE occupation of your towns and cities! *4-panel comics* *3:4 Instagram format* Use this Blue: *There is a color drop block of blue to copy * Use these hashtags: #iceout[your city] #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics
January 16, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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colindickey.com
Hey folks Calvary Food Shelf has been helping out people in Minneapolis for 30 years, and now they’re ramping up to meet the crisis, including doing home deliveries so people don’t have to risk going out.

They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?
Support Calvary Food Shelf: Emergency Response Fundraiser on GiveMN
Help us respond to urgent community needs
www.givemn.org
January 15, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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erikaleesears.bsky.social
Snow flurries #art #oilpainting
January 16, 2026 at 1:16 AM
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goawayimcrabby.bsky.social
Since June 2025, I've been learning to code in #gamemaker as I rebuild #Moonshell_Island from scratch after losing another programmer. Follow my #gamedev journey one day at a time in this thread!

More recent #devlog sprints available to paid patrons, starting here: www.patreon.com/posts/21-day...
Moonshell Island's protagonist Sam (a young purple haired girl) talking to Douglas (a large beaver guy) in a verdant lakeside area near his carpentry shack. Douglas: Sounds like you've got something radical in mind... Lay it on me, bud! Sam: I'm rebuilding this game from scratch! [unselected dialogue option]: Where's the self-destruct button on this thing?
January 15, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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ventiique.bsky.social
Horizon Beyond ☀️ #pixelart
January 15, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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clone.bsky.social
Human artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you.
January 10, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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ilta222.com
happy new year!
may you be as content as the sleepytime tea bear this year 🫖
January 1, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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dmitrydeceiver.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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yuzukikino.bsky.social
星空オーナメント
December 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Protoparmeliopsis muralis and friends. Northwest Territories, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
An oval, frilly-edged pale greenish lichen is mixing with a bright yellow crustose lichen.
December 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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tommchenry.bsky.social
Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find.

They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.
INTRODUCTION Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling. You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse. You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life. TIPS 1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything. 2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought. 3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt. 4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you. 4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you. 5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook. 6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes. 7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case. 8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes. 9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out. 10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.
March 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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clarigaricus.bsky.social
pixel art but it's bread
a set of pixel art breads a set of pixel art breads a set of pixel art breads a set of pixel art breads
December 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Tapping my sign again.
An embroidery hoop with floral designs and text that reads, "I Like People Who Do Stuff," displayed on a wooden surface.
December 7, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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mrmotarius.bsky.social
-Verification?
-You betcha.
-Sweet mother.

Some RA2 traced stuff in Deluxe Poly :)
December 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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ophi.bsky.social
Oh, to form a heart with our bones after death 🦴🤍

#skeletonart #pixelart
a pixel illustration of two skeletons wrapped up together
November 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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beachboogeyman.itch.io
looking back at an old draw-over experiment. "The Face of Horror" from 1950s comic, Chamber of Chills
December 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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evanskyarts.bsky.social
I personally think that my super duper cute owl keychains really suits the checkered ribbon I sometimes use! It gives them an extra rustic feel 🦉

Adopt an owl: evanskyarts.com/en/products/...

#art #handmade #cute #birds #sewing #artist #SmallBusinessSaturday #ShopSmall
A felt owl keychain photographed on a black and wooden background with decorative plants and felt around. The keychain features an owl with a brown body and beige face and little feathery horns. Its beak and wings are brown, and the tip of its wings are beige. The owl has a beige rectangular tail with a brown little triangle at the base. The owl is looking over its shoulder, its embroidered eyes in a happy squint and its big round cheeks are pink. Attached to its head is an ivory ribbon with brown checkers, linking the owl to a small bronze key ring.
December 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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otapxl.bsky.social
Kirby Adventure Redrawn!
@retroredrawn.bsky.social
Pixel Art of Kirby jumping over a Wheelie with their umbrella
December 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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fausto-giurescu.bsky.social
STAKE & STEP
👺

#buffythevampireslayer
#pixelart #1bit #ドット絵
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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tacocrepe.bsky.social
early alien taco concept #pixelart #green
pixel art portrait of myself (tacocrepe) as an Alien. Used a slightly altered version of my FroggyOS palette.
December 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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mrmotarius.bsky.social
Crow tracing in Deluxe Poly, with some of my CRT processing on top :)
Retro low-res vector illustration; traced image of a crow's head. Processed to look like it's been displayed on a CRT.
December 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM