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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing
@bluedotjpeg.bsky.social
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🐝tattoo artist, illustrator, beanie baby enthusiast
🪳 one day i will wake up as the big kafka bug
✨️open for work✨️
✨️Booking Raleigh NC✨️
artbybluej@gmail.com
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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing @bluedotjpeg.bsky.social · Jan 31
✨️🤡clown tats clown tats clown tats! 🤡✨️
flash: www.artbyblue.com/available-fl...
#clown #tattoo
tattoo of a caterpillar clown. it is on a pale lower leg, layered under 2 black tattoos. it is teal, red, and purple, and curls up crying cutely A tattoo of a rat clown on a pale arm. It is white with gray speckles, wearing a red nose, clown makeup, a pointy hat, red ruffled collar, colorful striped and spotted jumpsuit, and balances on one foot on a large blue ball A large healed tattoo on a pale thigh. It is a clown girl with a mushroom theme, rendered in reds, oranges, pale browns, and hints of light purple in the shadows. Her collar is a slime mold, she wears a poncho with amanita like spots, her pants are baggy and look like a mushroom stalk. little orange mushrooms sprout from her short, glossy red bob. a tattoo on a pale lower arm of a clown caterpillar. It is mostly green with a brown and cream saddle pattern on its lower back, and accents of red and teal. It's body is covered in Stripes polka dots and little Diamond patterns that look like a mix between a clown outfit and true caterpillar markings. Its face is orange red and brown, with cream red and teal accents forming the shape of clown makeup. It has two horn-like protrusions from its head that have little balls on them looking like the jingling cap of a jester. It's bottom pseudo legs have round ball embellishments on the toes. It has 2 false antennae on its back end that are striped red and cream
bluedotjpeg.bsky.social
finally finished this massive piece and this app is the only place i can put it so all of y'all better be grateful!
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#tattoo #furry #pupplay #queertattoo
A large tattoo on a thin white person's lower back, butt, and thigh. It depicts 3 anthropomorphic dogs in an erotic scene. It is rendered in blacks, blues, reds, and whites. A Doberman and a tricolor American Bully hold a white Shepherd dog upside down between them. The white dog fellates the AmBull, who supports him, while the Doberman sits above, fisting him. The Shepherd and Doberman are both cumming. The tattoo is mostly healed, and shown complete at its final session. A slightly different angle of the previous picture, showing how the tattoo wraps around the leg.
October 20, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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They have a friend 👀

[ #spider #bug #plush #plushie #plushart #peacockspider #cuteart]
A cute handmade plush from peacock spider
May 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
bluedotjpeg.bsky.social
feminine ideal
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#imaginativerealism #fairy #illustration
a young, thin, green fairy woman lounges on a rocky outcropping in a fantasy world with floating mountains in the background. she has 4 iridescent, pink-veined wings on her back and 10 small wings growing from her head. she has an enormously long tongue, which winds around her arm to collect blood dripping from a dismembered male head suspended by tongue tendrils over her hand. the man is in his fifties, has white skin, fine blond hair, and blood trickling from his eyes and mouth
July 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
bluedotjpeg.bsky.social
i could never even begin to predict where this @sarahz.bsky.social chess video would go. ive missed my calling as "guy who sits at dork sport events chi blasting them with fake hypnosis"
July 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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bluedotjpeg.bsky.social
predrawns available for the 26th and 27th in Brooklyn! DM or go to the booking form in my bio to claim one!
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#tattoo #tattooartist #pridetattoo #nyctattoo
illustrative tattoo designs in color. a sad cat head, fox head with tongue out, girl head with ethereal lighting, an echidna, a newt, a fluffy rainbow dog, a hamster eating celery. illustrative tattoo designs in color. a cat goblin made of mushrooms, a fantasy shrew, a large dog made of a gourd illustrative tattoo designs in color. pride flash. 3 rats with colorful spots spelling the word "GAY" together. a frog and toad with tongues tied in a heart shaped knot. a lion dandy with no mane and a dandelion in their lapel. a female chicken with rooster spurs. A punk masc poodle holding a pink femme doberman. illustrative tattoo designs in color. "extra rare beanie babies. 5"-8", $300-$500." Jersey, a jersey devil Beanie Baby. Lure, a kelpie Beanie Baby. Pleasant, a mothman Beanie Babie.
June 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
bluedotjpeg.bsky.social
predrawns available for the 26th and 27th in Brooklyn! DM or go to the booking form in my bio to claim one!
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#tattoo #tattooartist #pridetattoo #nyctattoo
illustrative tattoo designs in color. a sad cat head, fox head with tongue out, girl head with ethereal lighting, an echidna, a newt, a fluffy rainbow dog, a hamster eating celery. illustrative tattoo designs in color. a cat goblin made of mushrooms, a fantasy shrew, a large dog made of a gourd illustrative tattoo designs in color. pride flash. 3 rats with colorful spots spelling the word "GAY" together. a frog and toad with tongues tied in a heart shaped knot. a lion dandy with no mane and a dandelion in their lapel. a female chicken with rooster spurs. A punk masc poodle holding a pink femme doberman. illustrative tattoo designs in color. "extra rare beanie babies. 5"-8", $300-$500." Jersey, a jersey devil Beanie Baby. Lure, a kelpie Beanie Baby. Pleasant, a mothman Beanie Babie.
June 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
bluedotjpeg.bsky.social
turned a shirt i don't wear into a cropped collar shirt with a horse on it (that i hopefully will wear more often)
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i really wanna airbrush more shirts, this was my first try and i'm pleased
photo of a white person modeling an airbrushed black tshirt. the shirt has an existing logo on the top right breast, and the painting is a unicorn facing towards it. the unicorn is seen neck-up, in profile, with a glittering, spacey background. The animal is glossy black, and the whole image is rendered using teal, cerulean, hot pink, and white pigments. it is realistic in style, similar to 80s fantasy art
May 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
bluedotjpeg.bsky.social
at least in fiction AIs are people choosing evil on purpose (sexy and fun). really disheartening to lose all hope in a good future bc of the idiot plagiarism machinations of The Worst Guy You Ever Dated.
May 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
bluedotjpeg.bsky.social
painting digital again?? maybe?? this committee went soooo quick painted on my phone
a warcraft forest troll seen in 3/4 view, shoulders-up. He is green-skinned, muscular, with simple geometric torso tattoos, long ears and nose, and tusks curling up from his bottom jaw. his nose is tattooed black, as are strips of skin from hairline over eyes to cheeks. He has a tall red mohawk with long braids trailing off the sides. His eyes glow orange, and he smiles maniacally at the viewer.
May 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Reposted by blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing
jaystor.bsky.social
yall wanna see my... magnum opus?
April 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Has anyone else caught on to this?
An ambiguous brown creature with two legs, an eye, and a long pointed nose. Text: the animal. Three animals: a weevil, an echidna, and a kiwi bird. They are all drawn with similar silhouettes, highlighting round body shape, short legs, and long snouts. Text: snout collective.
April 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM
bluedotjpeg.bsky.social
listen pal i don't care how "great and powerful" you are, that thing is at least a dozen segments over street legal, and it just destroyed a crate of good seasonal fruit!
made for @ascalaphid.com 's latest Art Telephone game, more info below
Prints: www.artbyblue.com/store/that-t...
A large acrylic painting showing a busy city street populated by anthropomorphic insects. The scene takes place in the lower city, while the richer and more pristine upper city extends up the mountain in the background. It is late afternoon/early evening, and the colors are dramatic, with warm light and sharp cool shadows. At the center of the image, a yellow weevil in wizard robes and hat rides a massive, rearing millipede. He shrugs dramatically at an angry wasp on the ground in front of his steed, whose hands are raised antagonistically. A few feet away, on the ground, is a spilled crate of red fruits. Many insect onlookers watch on from street level, balconies, and flying above.
April 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
bluedotjpeg.bsky.social
happy Neil Banging Out The Tunes Day
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#illustration #neilbangingoutthetunes #rat #painting #fantasyart
a painting of Neil, the hairless rat, as a rockstar tumbling through a purple space. He plays a small purple toy keyboard, which glows pink and leaves a commet trail behind it. Neil wears rockstar accessories; funky yellow cheese-shaped shades, two earrings, and rings around his tail.
April 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Reposted by blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing
bluedotjpeg.bsky.social
The Beneficence of Magic
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#fantasyart #illustration #painting #beaniebabies #magic #dragon
An acrylic painting on paper. In the foreground two children of fantasy races - a blonde, pale skinned halfling boy with large ears and rabbit-like digitigrade legs, and a dark skinned girl with pointed ears, wings, and a dark afro - run over a grassy, misty hill, holding hands looking into the distance. In the middle ground, climbing another misty hill, this one steeper and rockier and more in shadow, are three additional figures. Two, a large adult tiefling and a small human child, have reached the summit and are waving into the distance. The third, an elf child, holds on to a dead tree to hoist herself over some rocks that block her path. Over several misty mountain tops, half illuminated by the morning sun and half in cool atmospheric shadow, once a path that caps at the ruined wall of a large abandoned city at the top of the highest peak. An enormous Magic the Dragon Ty Beanie Baby sits in the gate, perched on/in the city like a nest. She has 3 baby Magics, 2 on her body and 1 further away, perched on a building around the side of the mountain. She us so far away and so large, her color is hazily blue from distance and mist, except a few sharp points of light where the low sun catches her. She bends her head down to look at the waving figures
February 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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castlehavven.bsky.social
When portfolio day is just DAYS before you finish that big portfolio project
April 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
bluedotjpeg.bsky.social
oh hey #portfolioday ! i'm blue, an illustrator and tattooer looking for work! books, albums, or concepting, i love everything scifi & fantasy (especially dragons, apparently!)
www.artbyblue.com
imaginative realism acrylic painting. a jungle at sunset. a chubby warrior woman with dark skin wearing only skimpy metal armor lounges in a mossy tree. on the ground rests a massive Jellycat Snow Dragon with earrings of similar metal. imaginative realism acrylic painting. in late afternoon light, a young boy with tan skin and brown hair sits hunched sadly, resting his hand on the massive head of an elderly dragon, who looks up at him sympathetically. imaginative realism acrylic painting. a group of travelers of fantasy races, mostly children, climb misty mountains to catch the attention of a massive Ty Beanie Baby Magic the Dragon, who had made a nest of a ruined mountaintop city. her young perch around her. imaginative realism acrylic painting. an upward shot of warped perspective, showing a nightclub lit all in pink. Chappell Roan dances euphorically in an angel costume heavily resembling Christine Daaé 's nightgown in the Phantom of the Opera musical. patrons of the club in the audience behind her resemble other characters from the musical. Above her, on an otherwise empty balcony, is a butch Phantom, lit from below by a strip of red LEDs.
April 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
bluedotjpeg.bsky.social
guy who just followed me i am happy for u for deconstructing from MAGA but if you are calling America "the greatest country on Earth" i am sorry to say you are not out of the woods yet
March 20, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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likeawindyday.bsky.social
so beautiful! and wonderful to see you here, Roger! 😊 my horseshoe crab healed up nicely 💜
close up of a beautiful lineart tattoo of a horseshoe crab, done by tattoo artist Roger Hauer
February 17, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Outside
A two panel comic. The top panel depicts an adult June beetle talking to their child, a grub. They are both in a dimly lit living room, with the grub in front of a TV depicting a video game taking place in a lush, green meadow. Adult beetle's dialogue: Ugh kids these days! When I was their age I'd climb trees! And ride my bike... outside! Second panel, captioned "Meanwhile, outside..." Depicting a wide, hazy stroad (street-road). Cars are backed up at a stoplight and tall signs and billboards for vaguely fictional fast food and convenience stores can be seen. It looks like a desolate, unpleasant place.
February 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
bluedotjpeg.bsky.social
i love squid transgenderism and phantom opera types
comical purple line drawing of Emperor bg3 eating a brain like a sandwich. they sit, legs straight out and eyes huge and shiny and sad. text reads "left out of every bg3 "main cast" art (minsc and ketheric are there) line drawing in black in. tav as a mindflayer punches the air, tentacles flowing revealing their diamond mouth in a little grin, eyes sparkling. next to them, text reads "GENDER AFFIRMED!" to the right, Gale, Karlach, and Astarion all wince or look concerned. ">everyone disapproves." to the left, the Emperor holds both hands to their chest, eyes heart-shaped. cartoonish, simplified continuation of "gender affirmed" piece. mindflayer!tav and the Emperor float facing each other. Tav grips the Emperor's cape, eyes huge and teary, and wails "MY **TATTOOS**." the Emperor looks down in bewilderment detailed watercolor painting. a shirtless Emperor bg3 is seen waist-up in a 3/4 view, contemplatively petting Scratch the dog with both hands and a tentacle. Scratch happily presses his muzzle to the front of the mass of tentacles, tongue hanging out, nose scrunching from the pressure.
February 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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lillin-karin.bsky.social
speaking of birthdays - everyone please wish aquarian vampire icon @missmalice.bsky.social happy birthday! 👹🩸

this is the most recent tattoo we worked on together - it’s a coverup! here the lines are healed and the color is fresh.

#tattoo #qttr #queertattoo
#coverup #venusflytrap #drag
January 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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lillin-karin.bsky.social
how it feels to have spent all day working on a totally cute frivolous flash sheet while you are also the target of a rapidly escalating fascist culture war in which the past week has felt like a decade and the past 5 years has felt like an aeon immeasurable by mortal minds
January 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
bluedotjpeg.bsky.social
The Beneficence of Magic
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#fantasyart #illustration #painting #beaniebabies #magic #dragon
An acrylic painting on paper. In the foreground two children of fantasy races - a blonde, pale skinned halfling boy with large ears and rabbit-like digitigrade legs, and a dark skinned girl with pointed ears, wings, and a dark afro - run over a grassy, misty hill, holding hands looking into the distance. In the middle ground, climbing another misty hill, this one steeper and rockier and more in shadow, are three additional figures. Two, a large adult tiefling and a small human child, have reached the summit and are waving into the distance. The third, an elf child, holds on to a dead tree to hoist herself over some rocks that block her path. Over several misty mountain tops, half illuminated by the morning sun and half in cool atmospheric shadow, once a path that caps at the ruined wall of a large abandoned city at the top of the highest peak. An enormous Magic the Dragon Ty Beanie Baby sits in the gate, perched on/in the city like a nest. She has 3 baby Magics, 2 on her body and 1 further away, perched on a building around the side of the mountain. She us so far away and so large, her color is hazily blue from distance and mist, except a few sharp points of light where the low sun catches her. She bends her head down to look at the waving figures
February 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Reposted by blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing
diortheartist.bsky.social
A bug-catching Wizard I did recently. Another member added to the Wizard Club! #tattoo #tattooartist #wizardtattoo #sillytattoo
January 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
bluedotjpeg.bsky.social
✨️🤡clown tats clown tats clown tats! 🤡✨️
flash: www.artbyblue.com/available-fl...
#clown #tattoo
tattoo of a caterpillar clown. it is on a pale lower leg, layered under 2 black tattoos. it is teal, red, and purple, and curls up crying cutely A tattoo of a rat clown on a pale arm. It is white with gray speckles, wearing a red nose, clown makeup, a pointy hat, red ruffled collar, colorful striped and spotted jumpsuit, and balances on one foot on a large blue ball A large healed tattoo on a pale thigh. It is a clown girl with a mushroom theme, rendered in reds, oranges, pale browns, and hints of light purple in the shadows. Her collar is a slime mold, she wears a poncho with amanita like spots, her pants are baggy and look like a mushroom stalk. little orange mushrooms sprout from her short, glossy red bob. a tattoo on a pale lower arm of a clown caterpillar. It is mostly green with a brown and cream saddle pattern on its lower back, and accents of red and teal. It's body is covered in Stripes polka dots and little Diamond patterns that look like a mix between a clown outfit and true caterpillar markings. Its face is orange red and brown, with cream red and teal accents forming the shape of clown makeup. It has two horn-like protrusions from its head that have little balls on them looking like the jingling cap of a jester. It's bottom pseudo legs have round ball embellishments on the toes. It has 2 false antennae on its back end that are striped red and cream
January 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM