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Happy Valentine’s Day! 💝

emily ✤ comms open @fourofdiamondsart.bsky.social · Jul 30

faint heart never won fair maiden 💝

a new greeting card design I’ll have at future events

#wlw #fantasyart #art #knight #oc #medieval #valentinesday

Digital illustration of two women kissing. One is a knight, the other a lady of the court. The lady is wearing a hennin and a high waisted dress. The knight is wearing plate armor and a tabard. They both have long hair. The color palette is red and pink monochrome. They are surrounded by a red border with handlettered text that reads “with this brief line, I greet thee, valentine.”There are also bleeding heart flowers in the corners.

February 14, 2026 at 3:00 PM

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weird medieval guys

@weirdmedieval.bsky.social

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

A medieval illustration of a hedgehog with grapes skewered on its spines

February 13, 2026 at 11:26 AM

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@fourofdiamondsart.bsky.social

just dating a vampire things! Happy Valentine’s Day 💝

#ttrpg #dnd #art #paladin #vampire #dndart #oc

Digital doodle of my dnd character, Aurophine immediately after being bitten by a vampire, Alcio, one of her partners. Aurophine is a werewolf paladin/rogue multiclass who keeps getting herself into situations. This is from our homebrew Darkon campaign.

February 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM

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star rider! you can’t escape your fate 💫

Album art for Hällas’s Excerpts of a Future Past, one of the albums of all time. Three color risograph print

#art #knight #fantasyart #scifi #albumart #characterdesign

Scan of a three color risograph print: hunter green, mint, and florescent pink. A knight, Hällas, stands in the center of the image, holding a two handed sword. Instead of a helmet, there is an astronaut-style glass bubble around the head. Hällas is also framed by a halo of stars and planets. The central figure is surrounded by a gothic style frame, somewhat reminiscent of a saint’s icon. In the far background, stars, space, and planets are visible. The image is close to square as it was designed as album art.

July 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM

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spaceseer

@spaceseer.bsky.social

Beneath The Wasatch Peaks

Happy to finally share this compilation of dungeon synth songs exclusively by Utah artists 🏰

Features an exclusive new spaceseer song called “Royal Cistern”

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#dungeonsynth #compilation #bandcamp #synth #electronica

Green monochromatic album cover for “Beneath The Wasatch Peaks”

Castles on mountaintops. Lightning strikes a the top of the right castle.

January 31, 2026 at 3:34 PM

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🌱 MK/RET

@retquits.art

so don't get too comfortable.

#art

A digital painting of an ice cube, followed by several hands closed over each other with water pouring from them. Bold text on the art reads: "ICE MELTS".

January 24, 2026 at 7:00 PM

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Natasa Ilincic

@natasailincic.bsky.social

Turned my frustration into art.

📜You can watch the full video & read the transcript at natasailincic.com/fuck-ai

January 23, 2026 at 7:37 PM

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Critical Role

@criticalrole.bsky.social

FAN ART GALLERY: Gathering 🦁 🧚 🕯️ 😈 🐺

Featured art by instagram.com/wabbibox

View Our Full Fan Art Gallery ⬇️
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January 22, 2026 at 4:00 PM

emily ✤ comms open

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my dnd character: a paladin-rogue multiclass and werewolf, for our Darkon campaign 🗡️

#oc #art #ttrpg #characterdesign #dnd #rpg #fantasyart

Digital illustration of a character design of my dnd character. She has red hair, and wears a collar of office and a rapier. One hand rests on her waist, the other flourishes a coin. As this is for a fantasy setting the clothing is inspired by a number of different historical periods, although it’s less apparent here (I have done different versions with more layers of her clothes). The background is plain green.

January 20, 2026 at 2:06 AM

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Or you can acquire a full size print here! 💝

www.inprnt.com/gallery/thef...

January 9, 2026 at 8:15 PM

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There’s still time before Valentine’s Day to acquire this card for your lady love! dm me if you’d like one 💝

emily ✤ comms open @fourofdiamondsart.bsky.social · Aug 30

💝 a little video of my greeting card in action with its matching envelope!

dm me if you’d like one of your own! $5 USD + shipping

#wlw #fantasyart #art #knight #oc #medieval #valentinesday #lesbian

January 9, 2026 at 8:14 PM

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lucien

@mynqzo.bsky.social

Hi #PortfolioDay - I'm a Georgian 🇬🇪 artist who focuses on character design, concept art and illustration. worked with lines studio, troglodyte games, ico partners, several indie authors etc

contact: mynqso@gmail.com
portfolio: www.artstation.com/anakik

January 13, 2026 at 3:47 PM

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Tiffany Baxter

@tiffbaxter.bsky.social

Hello #PortfolioDay ! I'm Tiff, an illustrator of the historical & fantastical; I have a passion for well researched historical detail.
Lately I've done a lot for ttrpgs & book projects!
I'm available for long & short term projects.
💌tiffany.baxter@btinternet.com
www.tiffanybaxter.com

Illustrations done in an early medieval manuscript & Pictish artwork inspired style of St. Columba and St. Oswald. L: Columba is dressed in a brown monk's habit and has a grey beard and thinning hair. He holds a book with a red and gold chequerboard pattern cover and a simple crozier. He is on an orange background with stylised representations of his 12 companions in red linework. In a section beneath, on a black background is the Loch Ness monster and fish. R: Oswald is dressed in a blue tunic with gold edges and a red cloak. He has chestnut coloured beard & long hair which is curled and long. He has a scabbard at his waist and holds out a silver plate of bread. He wears cross-gartered boots over green leggings. Below are 3 figures shown much smaller representing those he is giving alms to. Behind is a knotwork design in yellow, orangey red, and green.

An intimate scene at a party in 17th century France. Two vampire women gaze at each other, holding hands at a card table. They are radiant in pink, drops of blood on their lace. Around them other party goers in purple-blue, wearing half-masks, oblivious to the true nature of the women. Behind an intricate decorated mantlepiece in warm pale gold.

A drawing of Bathsheba Everdene from Thomas Hardy’s book ‘Far From The Madding Crowd’ within an oval. She stands amid lush green ferns, her long black curled hair worn loose. She wears a navyish mid 19th century riding habit with pink waistcoat, tan gloves & a red necktie. Four green caterpillars of the large white butterfly border the oval.

A medievalesque red dragon is coiled within a blue square border on a gold background.

January 13, 2026 at 12:15 PM

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Jonah Walker ❄️ Hibernating Wizard

@galacticjonah.bsky.social

Greetings, #PortfolioDay !!

I'm Juno, a full-time artist working both in the TTRPG industry and with private clients. I love painting knights and all sort of fantasy folks.

Looking for work throughout 2026!

🎨 galacticjonah.com
💌 galacticjonah@gmail.com

Digital fantasy illustration that shows a young rider mounted on an unusual creature. The creature resembles some sort of jungle cat but has a long body with six limbs instead of four. It's neck is long and bent and it's face while feline has a snout similar to a tapir's. The rider is dressed in red clothing, with a blue hat and goggles and is looking out over the landscape. The creature is perched climbing over rocks and trees above a waterfall. Behind them is a river, lush forests and ruins. Two massive towers loom in the distance against blue skies.

Digital illustration by galacticjonah. The illustration shows Thjazi Fang on his death bed, covered in tributes by friends and family. Thjazi is an orc man with a greying beard and hair, dressed in a wine red shirt, lying in peaceful rest.

Digital Illustration of all 13 player characters from Critical Role Campaign four. They are all rendered in a sketchy line style and coloured in reds, blues and greens.

Collage of two images:

1) Scan of a painting showing a man in armor drawing his sword. the background is bright blue.

2) digital illustration: Pictured is a knight in full armour, bar helmet. their hair is long and dark and they have curling horns on their head. They face away from the viewer, looking into a stylized nightsky with a crescent moon. The frame of the image contains thorned rose bramble, parrying daggers and an illustration in each corner: a weeping skull on the left and a armoured gauntlet holding a rose on the right.

January 13, 2026 at 10:24 AM

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Christopher Burdett

@christopherburdett.com

I see it’s #portfolioday.

I'm Christopher, and I make monsters and tell stories about them. My career started in film and TV, and now I work in tabletop games (MtG, D&D, Star Wars).

Portfolio: christopherburdett.com

Blog: christopherburdett.blogspot.com

Store: christopher-burdett.myshopify.com

January 13, 2026 at 2:06 PM

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martyfive

@martyfive.bsky.social

name’s marty! i’m a visual developer and freelance illustrator, working on personal projects and commissions in a garden shed i turned into a workshop. i wrote this post in a vicinity of a lawn mower.

you can hire me to draw anything:

✉️: info@martyfive.com
🗯️: patreon.com/martyfive

#portfolioday

a variety of small drawings i made for a personal project i’m working on

a variety of concepts of people dressed in fancy clothes

one very green painting of my OC, mysterious skeleton girl, posing down on her knee. she has unnaturally long limbs. she’s holding a fossilised ichthyosaur skull sword on her shoulder and is wearing weird clothes that make her skeleton visible like on an x-ray. there’s a spirit of a hare in the background, running around with its eye gleaming red.

digital painting of hans and henry from
kingdom come deliverance games. they’re standing facing each other, with henry’s back turned to us. only the upper parts of their bodies are in the light. henry is keeping his right hand on a sword that’s red from smithing, his left hand is on hans’ right shoulder, left side of his face touching hans’ left temple. hans is holding a golden cross that hangs from his palm on a chain, it shines dimly. he’s looking down on it, hesitant. the background is bright blue, like the sky happens to be on a cloudless summer evening. the characters are bright too, with red and yellow accents where the light shines upon them. there’s a single four-pointed white star above their heads.

January 13, 2026 at 3:20 PM

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greetings, #portfolioday

I’m Emily K. Leary, a queer fantasy illustrator and handletterer. I’m interested in TTRPG work, music album art, character design, book covers, poster design, and personal coms!

💌 thefourofdiamondsart@gmail.com

📜 thefourofdiamondsart.squarespace.com

Digital book cover illustration for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The Green Knight rides into King Arthur’s court, axe held aloft. He is surrounded by handlettered blackletter title text. Courtiers watch him enter, including Gawain in the right corner.

Scan of a two color risograph print. A Nazgûl at Weathertop prepares to strike. Below the primary image is a depiction of a Morgul Blade, the end broken. Handlettered blackletter text at the very bottom reads “one of nine”

Digital scan of a low contrast riso print on red paper. Illustration based on Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe. Text at the bottom is handlettered: “and now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death”. Prospero kneels before Red Death, his dagger fallen to the floor. Red Death, a figure in a cloak, reaches out to Prospero.

Digital book illustration of a jester waiting for a train to arrive in a modern city during daytime. The jester is juggling balls and a cell phone.

January 13, 2026 at 3:38 PM

emily ✤ comms open

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Or you can acquire a full size print here! 💝

www.inprnt.com/gallery/thef...

January 9, 2026 at 8:15 PM

emily ✤ comms open

@fourofdiamondsart.bsky.social

There’s still time before Valentine’s Day to acquire this card for your lady love! dm me if you’d like one 💝

emily ✤ comms open @fourofdiamondsart.bsky.social · Aug 30

💝 a little video of my greeting card in action with its matching envelope!

dm me if you’d like one of your own! $5 USD + shipping

#wlw #fantasyart #art #knight #oc #medieval #valentinesday #lesbian

January 9, 2026 at 8:14 PM

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#PortfolioDay

@portfolioday.bsky.social

The next #PortfolioDay is just a few days away on Tuesday, January 13th! Get those portfolios ready!

Go to portfolioday.art for more info!

Good luck! 💛

Image of the #PortfolioDay mascot Oli holding art supplies and running towards screen right under information that reads: #PortfolioDay! January 13th, 2026 MORE INFO AT WWW.PORTFOLIODAY.ART

January 9, 2026 at 5:47 PM

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zmeess

@zmeess.bsky.social

finally finished a painting i've been cooking in my mind for a few years! shadowgast as The Devil, one of my favorite tarot cards and one of the three cards i associate with their relationship

#CriticalRole #CriticalRoleFanArt #shadowgast

a painting of Critical Role characters Essek Thelyss and Caleb Widogast, based on the Rider-Waite Tarot's The Devil. it is styled like a square painting on a vertically oriented tan canvas, with narrow unpainted strips above and below it. a looping leaning script reads "XV" above and "The Devil" below.
Essek is a dark elf with gray-lavender skin and short white hair, dressed in elegant long dark robes and a silvery metal mantle piece, with the breastplate shaped like a beetle's back and long spikes curving off of his shoulders, radiating from his neck.
Caleb is a light-skinned ginger human, with messy chin-length hair and a beard, wearing a gray tunic with a brown leather coat over it, a thick scarf wrapped around his shoulders. his spell book is just slightly visible at his side.
the characters are facing each other, with Essek standing on the left and Caleb on the right. their right hands are raised between them, hovering under and over a floating hourglass that Essek is offering to Caleb; the violet sand in it is equally distributed between the top and the bottom halves and is not flowing down. Essek has his chin raised with a cool expression of confidence, while Caleb is looking at the hourglass with a deeply conflicted face, his eyebrows furrowed and eyes shining. Caleb's left arm down at his side is engulfed in orange flames.
above them is the dodecahedron shape of a Beacon, pale gray and iridescent; the pentagonal plane facing the viewer is oriented with one of the corners pointing straight down. six silvery threads weave around it, intersecting at nine shining points, one thread each passing behind Essek's and Caleb's heads, and one each wrapping loosely around them. their figures, dark purple and brown, illuminated by the faint glow of the hourglass and the flame, are silhouetted against a much lighter gray and overcast light spilling from tall pointed arches behind them.

January 7, 2026 at 7:05 PM

emily ✤ comms open

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Portrait of the Vampire Lestat, 16th C.

So delighted to finally post my full piece for Blood & Brocade, a historical fashion inspired #iwtv zine hosted by @thevelvetcompote.bsky.social!

#art #interviewwiththevampire #lestatdelioncourt

January 7, 2026 at 5:53 PM

emily ✤ comms open

@fourofdiamondsart.bsky.social

Greetings #metalsky 🗡️

I’m an illustrator very interested in drawing some album art this year, so shoot me a dm or an email if you’re in the market! I’m also available for poster design.

thefourofdiamondsart@gmail.com

#art #heavymetal #dungeonsynth