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Belle 🦇
@gwenypatu.bsky.social
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Ysabel Gwen • She/her • Illustrator inspired by the dark and wild • folklore, fantasy & nature enthusiast🕯️

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(Human artist, no A/I or N/F/T)
Links: https://linktr.ee/gwenypatu
Portfolio: https://gwenypatu-art.crd.co
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Belle 🦇 @gwenypatu.bsky.social · Oct 14
Hi #PortfolioDay ! I'm an artist with a great fondness for the dark and beautiful in the natural world. I adore all things strange and surreal, and I'm deeply inspired by fantasy, folklore and horror. 🌙

🕯️ Portfolio: gwenypatu-art.crd.co
🕯️ Links: linktr.ee/gwenypatu
🕯️ Contact: gwenypatuart@gmail.com
Illustration of a black deer in a field, with a shadowy crow sat on her back and a bright crescent moon hanging in the sky behind. Illustration of a pale woodland witch. Illustration of two foxes taking shelter from the approaching shadows. Illustration of a woman with a hollow face, sat beside a window. A candle flickers where her face should be, and a trail leads from her to the woods beyond.
gwenypatu.bsky.social
Quote your art with horns! 🐐
Witch covered in blanket of fur, with pale glowing hair and black horns protruding from her eyes.
November 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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iniquitousfish.bsky.social
A small black and white comic. The comic shows me in four stages. At the beginning I am lurched over in my office chair, prepared to work hard. A speech bubble says: 'Okay. Time to lock in and-.' My cat's head is peeking up from around my lap. In the second part, my cat has started to crawl into my space. I look down at her, but am still distractedly saying: 'Time to lock-' In the third part my cat is starting to make herself comfortable on my chest, where she likes to be. I am succumbing, looking off in the distance saying: 'To-' By the fourth section, I have fully surrendered. She is sleeping on chest. It's all over.
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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mirandakm.bsky.social
Duality of woman
Frankenstein’s creature Frank
November 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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davis.social
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

#Frankenstein @realgdt.bsky.social
Digital illustration in purple, ochre, and white. Guillermo del Toro’s monster of Frankenstein is walking into the ruins of the tower in which he was created.
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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hollycircling.bsky.social
also if you guys enjoyed gdt’s frankenstein please watch crimson peak. one of his best movies that got absolutely slept on bc there was like no marketing.
November 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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dryad.technology
A thing that I think is good is when a human creates a piece of art
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 AM
gwenypatu.bsky.social
Art train ! 🚂🚃🚃
Share 4 artworks and tag 4 (or more) people !

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Woman sitting by an old window, face hollowed with a candle lit inside. There are two small puncture wounds on her neck, and a black trail leads from the window to the forest beyond. Black deer in a field, a shadowy raven sat on her back. A crescent moon sits in the sky, lighting the field and the forest below. Two mirrored rats, tails entwined around a dagger. Sickly looking flowers glow around them, a skull on the hilt and a gathering of flies buzzing around. A tiger with a 'butterfly' shape mask, a darker extension of his face. (From a DTIYS).
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Art train ! 🚂🚃🚃
Share 4 artworks and tag 4 (or more) people !

@alinefraenkelart.bsky.social
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"Regret" presents Beatrice, a character from the animated series Over the Garden Wall. Beatrice was cursed after throwing a rock at a bluebird: all her 12 relatives, as well as her, were transformed into bluebirds. The illustration shows us her transformation, looking in shock and crying as her right arm transforms into a bird's wing. She stands in front of a dark forest, the deep orange of autumn slowly being consumed by cyan and blue. Flying around her and into the forest we spot 12 bluebirds. The illustration also brings a foot frame, with four pumpkins and Enoch - another character, the ruler of Potsfield - in the center. a raccoon warrior, holding a morningstar made of stone and wearing medieval armor a dryad, her head blooming with twigs and branches in the middle of a dark forest. An illustration of mother Goethel, the witch from Rapunzel. She stands in the center, surrounded by thorny bushes and between two crooked trees, holding a baby wrapped in luminous white cloth and her eyes glowing a malicious golden color. In the foreground we see rampions growing from golden vines which intertwine like braids; in the background, in the distance and in the middle of a forest, we see a lone tower
November 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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RED SKULL #zombieskulltober
A red skull, rising out of red smoke. White wisps emanate from the eyeholes, and above the skull is a crescent moon.
October 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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mikez.bsky.social
Sleepy moon. #art
A crescent moon with a sleepy face hangs in the night sky below a gnarly, leafless tree that stands on a ledge. Watercolor and gouache.
October 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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yulkradness.bsky.social
Sharing the third and last card I made for @saharian.bsky.social Briardark!
It has been a really fun project to work on🖤

#art #illustration #commission #darkfantasy #book
Illustration I made for S.A. Harian's book Briardark. The image is showing a deer skull in a central composition, with songbirds on its horns. The songbirds are chirping and flying around, with white flowers and climbing plants intertwined around it.
October 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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waltjan9.bsky.social
Waiting at the gate
A painting of the gate from a decaying village. Pumpkins are growing in front of the gate's walls, a woman is carrying a lamp waiting at the door. A character with a top at in the foreground is still, watching at the gate. The mood is orange, moody, atmospheric and a bit eery, mysterious.
October 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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blagodatskix.bsky.social
"Knight"

There was quiet in the garden. 🧠🥀🗡

#darkart, #illustration, #art, #horror, #darkfantasy
The illustration of the knight standing in the garden and surrounded by roses. There is a cut on knights head so we can see that her brain is infected by the plant with berries as eyes that grows inside.
October 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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hbtyson.bsky.social
Drifting Thoughts • 2021
Digital illustration of a figure standing in a dark field. The top half of the figure's head is missing similarly to a piece of broken ceramic. The opening in their head emits a smoke-like substance that floats into a cloudy, green sky.
August 20, 2023 at 2:15 AM
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littleevil0ne.bsky.social
💔🗡Heart on Her Sleeve🗡💔
#Halloween #Halloweenart #myart #art
a weeping woman with a heart stitched onto her sleeve. The heart is been stabbed by a dagger and bleeds a line of red blood. At the bottom of the page text reads Heart on her Sleeve
October 16, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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lunegrimm.bsky.social
#WerewolfWednesday

Custom tarot card "Death" based on 15/16th century "memento mori" motifs
Illustration of a werewolf representing "Death"
October 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Using ChatGPT
edithcharles.bsky.social Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23
What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?
August 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
gwenypatu.bsky.social
✨️Artists! Quote with long hair✨️

I love painting long hair so much
October 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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yulkradness.bsky.social
I'll never shut up about how it's so important to reshare artists works because sometimes they never show up in my feed unless it's reposted by someone else or they show up in the "discover" section 🥲
October 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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babeandoak.bsky.social
Hi #PortfolioDay

I’m Élle • Freelance illustrator & surface pattern designer

Specializing in detail heavy B&W work & passionate about occult history, horror & symbolism

Open for work in publishing, book covers, TTRPGs, private & commercial commissions

✉️ babeandoak@gmail.com
🎨 babeandoak.carrd.co
Altar prayer card for the goddess Diana. A rectangular card has a black border with parts of the Orphic hymn for Diana surrounding it as a border in white text. In the bottom right are twin arrows over a crescent moon representing her and Apollo. In the bottom left and top right are white outlined 8 point stars. Inside the border is a marble shockwave black and grey pattern with white outlining that forms an arch at the top with lining to look like columns on both sides. In the middle is a stag skull with painted antlers of a diamond and star pattern. Behind the skull are smaller 8 point stars and cloud ripples. Above the skull is a scraggly branch of queen Anne’s lace with small dots above. In the top corners are two constellations for Sirius as her hunting dogs and Roman numerals for 13 and 8 for the date of the Nemoralia festival. Victorian Ward - Black and white illustration of a Victorian wall with a scarab ward framed. The border of the whole piece is a torn paper. Inside is Victorian black and white striped wallpaper with damask type filigree in the black and smaller stripes and speckles in the white with small vertical black stripes on either side. In the damask pattern are slightly abstract symbols of infinity, an hourglass and other resurrection symbols. In the middle is an ornate rectangular frame framing a large scarab beetle with its wings out. On its wings are celestial symbols like Jupiter, stars and the moon. Around the scarab are peony flowers and branches of a tree branching towards the top left with a vine white line swooping in an out and around the frame in the same direction. The scarabs body is engraved like metal with filigree. Behind the scarab in the frame is grain shading grey over black. Dark Vibrations - Inktober 2022 black and white ink illustration. Plain rolling hills lead to the door of a building with a large central spire and a small covered porch. To the left side of the building is a three facet bay windows and the other windows have ornate stained glass. On top of the central spire is a lighting conductor in the shape of a 5 point star. In the highest window of the spire is stain glass in the shape of an eye. Converging at the start is a large vortex spiraling and expanding through the whole sky. The vortex is pulling party’s of the building up towards it and cracking parts of the wood and foundation. The vortex is casting light and highlights on the building and the tress behind it. Converging towards the building is a circle of 12 white bird silhouettes. Swatch pattern card on top of matching pattern background. Swatch card is a large white rectangle with a square swatch of the NESS magazine brand pattern I designed in the 2025 summer issue colour-way. Swatch card has font at the bottom corner that read “BABE&OAK endpage repeat pattern summer 2025 client: NESS magazine” and the stamp for Babe&Oak in the bottom right corner.
October 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
gwenypatu.bsky.social
#Drawtober no.3 - Mushroom Fairy 🍄
Two little friends waiting for the rain to pass

#fantasyart #fairytale #illustration
Illustration of a mouse and a fairy sat beneath a mushroom in the rain.
October 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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hbtyson.bsky.social
📌 My name is H.B. and I'm a fantasy artist specializing in a nostalgic style. My work is inspired by woodcuts and vintage children's books.

🔗: hbtyson.carrd.co
🖼️: www.inprnt.com/gallery/hbty...
A digital illustration in the style of a block print. A humanoid figure wearing a red cloak stands next to a long, segmented creature that resembles a carrot. The creature’s body weaves in-and-out of dark bushes. A digital illustration in the style of old print. It displays three plants in various states of transformation. All are growing vague animal-like bodies: one birdlike, one serpentine, and the other humanoid. Digital illustration in the style of old print. A large two-headed beast with dark fur emerges from a cave. It lifts its heads to make eye contact with a redheaded child sitting above the cave’s entrance. A digital illustration in the style of a woodcut. It depicts the upper half of humanoid figure whose “head” is a flattened organic shape. A serpentine creature delicately wraps around the figure’s arm and into an opening in their face. The figure handles the creature gently.
August 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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waltjan9.bsky.social
Hey #PortfolioDay

I'm Jean, French illustrator & concept artist.

Email: walterjean75@gmail.com
A painting of a giant cemetery in the fog. The colors are based of orange but with different values going from dark to light in the background. A character with a top hat is holding a lamp in the middle of the composition. A painting of a character with a top hat in a forest walking confidently into a bright light. A painting of the interior of a clock tower, a character with a top hat is sitting in front of the clock dial, his lamp next to him. Small metallic creatures are next to him. A painting of a Character with a top hat dancing in a cemetery at night
October 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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ddbtorres.bsky.social
hello #PortfolioDay,
I'm Torres, a freelance artist and illustrator.
I love medieval fantasy, whimsical creatures and dark fairy tales.
I'm always on the lookout for new projects in book publishing, TTRPGs and TCGs.

Email: torres.ddb@gmail.com
An illustration of mother Goethel, the witch from Rapunzel. She stands in the center, surrounded by thorny bushes and between two crooked trees, holding a baby wrapped in luminous white cloth and her eyes glowing a malicious golden color. In the foreground we see rampions growing from golden vines which intertwine like braids; in the background, in the distance and in the middle of a forest, we see a lone tower 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. the beast (from beauty and the beast), appearing in the middle of a dense rose-bush foliage, gently holding a tiny bird in its huge paws and looking at it with tenderness. the castle tower can be seen in the distance. toe-thrasher, a rat lord wearing a royal mantle made of white fur, thrashing in the middle of a swamp in its hind legs and holding a black flail. in the swamp, there are numerous yellow eyes
October 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM