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Jana Heidersdorf
@checanty.bsky.social
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Illustrator of dark fantasy. Also nature photography.
https://janaheidersdorf.com/
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Jana Heidersdorf @checanty.bsky.social · Mar 5
Hi--I'm Jana, fantasy artist and illustrator of everything hauntingly beautiful 🖤

You can find my (freshly updated) portfolio here: janaheidersdorf.com
Contact: janaheidersdorf@gmail.com
Artwork of a haunted house filled with the ghost of a boy reaching out to his mother portrait of a boy with slashes through his face though which roses and thorny vines grow Portrait of a boy emerging from a sea of thorny vines, some vines cover his eyes impassive portrait of a woman looking out of a mass of creepy crawlies
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natasailincic.bsky.social
The Yule ornament collection is live ✨
Do you have a favourite? :)
Painting these was the highlight of my November, art-wise. I hope they'll bring some magic to people's homes this Yule 🎄

etsy.com/shop/natasailincic
November 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
checanty.bsky.social
What do you do when your cat comes to sleep on you but you actually wanted to get up? It seems cruel to disturb her but also I'm losing hours to being a comfy cat bed, please send advice 🥲
November 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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kellymckernan.bsky.social
Sharing my art, my shop, my ko-fi… anything helps. I’m really struggling with the mire right now.

I’ll gladly accept a Kroger gift card, even. Thank you! ✨

Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/kellymckernan

Shop: www.kellymckernan.com/shop
November 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
checanty.bsky.social
As some of you might be starting to look into presents to buy, here's a little reminder of my Mermaid Book 🖤
You could support an artist, an indie publisher AND make a mermaid or fantasy creature lover very happy!
www.eyeofnewtpress.com/collections/...
Dr. C. Lillefisk's Sirenology
Dive into Dr. C. Lillefisk’s Sirenology. Sketches, notes, and details reveal the secret world of mermaids lurking just beneath the waves of planet Earth's lakes, oceans, and seas. Lillefisk studies ea...
www.eyeofnewtpress.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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elisabethalba.bsky.social
I've been a member of the Changeling Artist Collective for years + we are relaunching monthly auctions starting this week with our Deck the Halls event!

www.facebook.com/media/set/?v...

If you don't use FB that's totally okay! I can take anonymous bids. These are 4 of my 8 offerings.
Playful penguins leaping into water from an iceberg under the sun. From the Everyday Witch Oracle - Affirmation for Healing the Heart. A father comforts his daughter on a couch in front of a fireplace. Cozy home vibes. Two of Swords from Tarot of the Owls - an owl with closed eyes sits on a rock in a snowy landscape, wings folded forward holding two crossed swords. Painting of two kittens laying on a purple celestial blanket, tangled in yarn.
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
checanty.bsky.social
If you see this, post your bird art!
Artwork of a girl standing on a bridge watching the GIANT phantomlike figur of a swan pass by Artwtork inspired by the Tower card in tarot. A GIANT black swan curls around a dark tower Artwork of a bird of unclear species but with a very long beak swooping down on a human hand and piercing it with said beak artwork of a white corvid in front of a black background. Presumably a raven.
November 12, 2025 at 5:07 AM
checanty.bsky.social
is dreaming about starting a bookish business with your friends the millennial midlife crisis? 📚👻
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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ddbtorres.bsky.social
oak warden

-{ #art | #illustration | #fantasy }-
a red squirrel knight, with body armor and a cape, holding a lance in one hand and standing on its hind legs, with a golden halo aroung its upper torso and head
August 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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annadrawsstuff.bsky.social
My holiday sale is live 🦝✨ Grab a big ol' discount on your gift shopping until November 16th 💖

annadrawsstuff.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
checanty.bsky.social
Had a little cycling accident on Monday (those autumn leaves are as treacherous as they are beautiful). All is well, but my wrist & elbow are a bit dodgy. Yesterday it was just fine to draw, but today the joints complain. Hence today is rest day 🥲
November 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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fiercereads.bsky.social
@paperfury.bsky.social really is THAT author 😱 click the link to preorder your copy of HAZELTHORN today! bit.ly/4mianwm

#Hazelthorn #HazelthornBook #CGDrews
Find out what readers are saying about hazelthorn Five stars "I am unwell. This book deeply moved me and had me biting my nails at 1am" Five stars "No one writes botanical horror quite like CG Drews and the way they write longing between unstable teens is also UNMATCHED" Five stars "I'm gonna invoice CG Drews for the emotional damage they caused with this one"
October 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
checanty.bsky.social
Cover reveal! Happy to say CG Drews keeps writing lush queer horror YAs and I keep getting to illustrate them ✨
Book cover of Scorpion Deep written by CG Drews showing a portait of a boy with a concerning amount of red corals growing from his face.
November 5, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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loish.bsky.social
Hot take: Pigeons are majestic. Who agrees with me??
October 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
checanty.bsky.social
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Drawing of a creepy lady peeking out from behind a gnarly tree. She has white glowing eyes.
October 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
checanty.bsky.social
You'd think it was strategic planning to mail potential clients on Halloween with creepy art, but now--I meant to reach out in September and procrastinated 👻
October 31, 2025 at 4:39 PM
checanty.bsky.social
Shop update! Added the Hazelthorn cover plus this alternative version that got killed along the way but I still like a lot 🖤
www.inprnt.com/gallery/chec...
Artwork of a teenage boy drowning in the thorny vines of an overgrown garden. Around him statues are reaching for him, in the background a spooky mansion with one ominously lit window
October 30, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
If anyone has good photographs of European goldfinches that they're happy for me to use as painting references, I'd be so grateful. Thank you. 💛

Please share among birders, if you would! 🙏🪶
October 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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checanty.bsky.social
We're back with the endless rambling and the clunkiest of word choices 👻
Does your art follow the money or your passion? (rambling about career strategy for illustrators)
YouTube video by Bramblings
youtu.be
October 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
checanty.bsky.social
Do any of you have a favourite layouting software (for books, zines, etc) that isn't InDesign? Trying to slowly get off Adobe 😅
October 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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checanty.bsky.social
I hereby remind you of my print shop full of spooky art for the spookiest month 👻
www.inprnt.com/gallery/chec...
Painting of two hands folded upon each other, each raising a finger to create an impression of horns. Behind them a mysterious female figure without a face and in the shadow thrown by the hands two glowing red eyes. Drawing of a creepy lady peeking at the viewer from behind a gnarly tree. She has a piercing gaze of two white glowing eyes. A surreal artwork of a witch being oen with a landscape of fir trees and rolling fields. Two boys nearly kissing with thorny roses growing from their mouths. Much drama. Much dark romantic vibes. Also blood.
October 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
checanty.bsky.social
We're back with the endless rambling and the clunkiest of word choices 👻
Does your art follow the money or your passion? (rambling about career strategy for illustrators)
YouTube video by Bramblings
youtu.be
October 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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nooskadraws.bsky.social
2 slots left! thank you so much! 💖
nooskadraws.bsky.social 🌿viktor aleksander🌿 @ available for work! @nooskadraws.bsky.social · 24d
✨ 3 COMMISSION SLOTS OPEN FOR NOVEMBER! ✨
send me your beloved tavs, durges, rooks, dnd ocs, ocs to draw!

email me at 🌿alex_dingley@hotmail.co.uk🌿

if there is something else you would like feel free to contact me anyways!

🌸payment through paypal invoices🌸 (rts = 💖😭🙏)
nooska's commissions are OPEN! full body character with no background is £90 ($110 USD). payment through paypal! <3 Commission examples of full body character illustrations. 1. A digitial illustration of a full body character. Sidereal is a satyr of warm brown fur and long, grey-black horns. He wears yellow and orange flowing robes, and a harlequin-inspired checkered halfcape coloured in different shades of purple. He lifts his left hand and looks at the magic he conjures with it in wonder. He has a orange-brown ferret companion on his shoulder. 2. Digital illustration of a full body character: a tiefling trans man in his 40s. He has blue weathered skin, and light horns on his head. He has short, cropped black hair with strands of grey flitting throughout. He wears a dark navy coat, tied together with a colourful brooch. The coat's lining is a galaxy of stars. He wears a white shirt buttoned low, and smart pinstriped trousers. He holds a cane topped with an anchor in his right hand, and in the other holds a letter. His two stranded tail curls in front of his legs. He wears smart Oxford shoes. 3. Digital illustration of a satyr. He holds a twisted branch of a staff, it's wrapped in red plaid scraps of material, and has plants (ivy, rosemary, mint, and mistletoe) and bottles hanging from its crooked top. He wears a cream woolly jumper, and a green tunic over the top. It's held together at his waist with multiple belts, straps, and twine. His goat legs are cream coloured, with black splotches at the knees. He smiles, and his eyes are covered with a curtain of a black fringe. He has brown curved ram horns, and a white crop of curly hair. Commission examples of full body character illustrations. 1. A digital full body illustration of a merfolk man. He has tan skin and green eyes with long lashes. He has two horns that grow out of his head that fade from dark blue to green to teal. He has long wavy thick brown hair that ends at his waist. He wears a Grecian inspired tunic of blue and white fabric, and gold jewelry across his body. He holds a golden trident. 2. Digital illustration of a full body character. Opal is a white-skinned elf with pink hair that flows delicately down her back. Flowers grow in her hair. She wears a stay corset that flows into a pink petal themed dress. 3. A digital illustration of a full body character. Dalia is a white woman with wavy dark red hair. She has desaturated green eyes, and a confident grin on her face. She holds a lute decorated with leaves and patterns. She wears a green dress embellished with patterns and gold trim. Her skirt is dark green with a faded pattern of red flowers. There is a red scarf tied around her waist with gold beads hanging off it. She wears dark brown boots. Commission examples of full body character illustrations. 1. A digital illustration of 2 characters from Baldur's Gate 3. It is a take on a portion of Frank Dicksee's painting "La Belle Dame sans Merci". Helyne is a white woman with dark blue-ish black hair partially tied in a bun. She wears a blue dress embellished with silver jewellery. She looks down at Gale and smiles. Gale looks up at Helyne in awe. He wears a blue-purple robe embellished with silver jewellery. He holds a staff in his right hand. 2. A digital illustration of Astarion from Baldur's Gate 3. It shows a fancy gold framed ornate mirror leaning on the top of a table. Around the mirror are books stacked, roses growing, and candles burning. There is a gold and ruby necklace on top of one of the books. In the reflection of the mirror, there sits Astarion. He wears a black cape covering his naked chest. He sits in front of an ornate red velvet chair. Leaning against this chair is Woe: Cazador's staff. 3. Digital illustration of a full body character. Thy'la is a blue-skinned genasi with fully black eyes, and star freckles on their face. They have long black hair tied with a string of pearls. They wear a purple waistcoat, blue pinstriped trousers, and a cape detailed with a galaxy in the lining. They hold up their right hand which glows bright purple with magic.
October 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
checanty.bsky.social
some German politics. Wir sind stark im Prüfen 💪
Diese Strategie ist der Gamechanger: PRÜF!
YouTube video by Nico Semsrott
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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natasailincic.bsky.social
I've been enjoying painting small relaxed watercolours of the surrounding countryside lately. This piece was inspired by a walk in Falkland, when the rosehip leaves had just started turning.

🖼All originals at natasailincic.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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djamilaknopf.bsky.social
I challenged myself to paint this at A3 size, which is huge for me! medium: Schmincke Horadam gouache
a painting of a girl wading through a foggy lake
October 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM