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hydrozoa.bsky.social
amara
@hydrozoa.bsky.social
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Artist and designer, Seattle
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hydrozoa.bsky.social
Just a girl and her cigar against the world 🌘
October 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
hydrozoa.bsky.social
This life hack never fails 👍
October 3, 2025 at 1:38 AM
hydrozoa.bsky.social
When it’s time for your 45 minute coffee break
A girl sitting on a box and staring at the coffee mug she’s holding.
June 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
hydrozoa.bsky.social
She’s making moves 📈
A girl working on a computer while sitting on the floor with a large houseplant by her right side. The room has large windows.
June 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
hydrozoa.bsky.social
My first time trying cel animation 🌺💙🩵
May 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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anthonywhite.studio
here for those who are interested
January 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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poqu.bsky.social
small swims (2022)
illustration of baby goslings swimming in a kitchen sink full of water. The water is reflecting light from the windows above. There are small lily pads in the water, and one gosling is in a tiny boat. Behind the sink are potted plants and a watering can that was reshaped into a small gosling house. A frog is on top of the watering can.
December 6, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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annehero.world
some orders from my shop
December 3, 2024 at 5:42 AM
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lauraknetzger.bsky.social
Angel in the Woods. Watercolor, 2024.
Watercolor painting depicting a glowing white figure walking through green trees at night.
November 25, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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czechwun.bsky.social
(intro) hi my name is iya and im an illustrator!
October 18, 2024 at 1:55 AM
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blackjoseipress.bsky.social
ALL PROCEEDS from digital downloads from this phenomenal essay will go toward Palestinian relief and GoFundMe!

✏️ @ashantifortson.com @shanfiction.bsky.social @lilliejharris.bsky.social and Sunmi

🇵🇸 lilliejharris.itch.io/the-broken-h...
The Broken Heart at the Center of Comics by lilliejharris
lilliejharris.itch.io
November 23, 2024 at 9:38 PM
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shingworks.com
omg, the SDCSS club pins I designed are IN. Cute!!! (plus my original drawz). Very happy with these. The USA will probably collapse before I have a chance to distribute the Melocactus, but you know what, uhhhh let's hope for the best lmao
Six circle enamel pins, one large and five smaller. The large one reads "CSSA 2025 San Diego" and features a Dudleya on a cliff. The smaller pins feature a Huernia zebrina, Opuntia basiliaris, Boophane disticha, Melocactus azureus, and Lithops sp., and are the pins for the SDCSS club years 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, and 2028, respectively. Same desc as the previous image but it's the production file/ original art. The production file art for the larger CSSA pin.
November 13, 2024 at 12:24 AM
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whoismonday.bsky.social
SYSTEM ERROR risograph print !
risograph print of a three-armed woman holding a many-legged translucent alien cat, superimposed over a background of different illustrated and labeled UFO varieties. forum posts are visible in french and english discussing the search for alien life. the image is encapsulated by a window labeled SYSTEM ERROR with 'OK' and 'cancel' buttons in the lower right hand corner
November 5, 2024 at 11:50 PM
hydrozoa.bsky.social
Color theory is a powerful thing
portrait of a content girl with her eyes closed
October 27, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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shingworks.com
I recently remembered that I make art, lol. New platform, new friends, great vibes, so I'll just be making a little thread here with some stuff I've done in the past.

This one I did in 4 hours and 2 layers, randomly, in 2010, and I have never painted like this again since OTL
blue-teal fairy thing person with dragonfly wings looking bored, very blurry bg because I was lazy. Looks like. idk. honestly looks like faux-Pixar AI slop to me now, except I know I made it, lol
October 22, 2024 at 2:02 AM
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waneella.bsky.social
We had a technical issue, but everything should work well now!

You can pledge to help this art book happen here: vol.co/collections/...
October 19, 2023 at 3:33 PM
hydrozoa.bsky.social
It’s time to put on your ultralight rain suit and go outside🫵
A drawing of a girl, wearing a translucent rain suit, happily sitting in the grass during a rainstorm
October 3, 2023 at 1:57 AM
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saint-vagrant.bsky.social
SUPERPOSE UPDATE!
▮ 2 pages
superpose.superposecomic.com/comic/arc-ii...

SUPERPOSE is a dark, sprawling trans sci-fi comic written & illustrated by @kingfishercove.bsky.social & i
🔭 prism won & ignatz nominated
📼 warnings & extras on the home site
September 11, 2023 at 9:31 PM
hydrozoa.bsky.social
🎉🎊🍾👏🎉👏👏🎊🎉🍾🍾🥳🙌🥂🙌🎊
oliveoilcorp.bsky.social Olivia Stephens @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social · Sep 10
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
An awards graphic that reads: IGNATZ AWARD WINNER OUTSTANDING ARTIST The center features the cover of DARLIN' AND HER OTHER NAMES, a comic by Olivia Stephens.
September 10, 2023 at 5:07 PM
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saint-vagrant.bsky.social
a scene from the town that hasn't happened yet, and by now already has.
(painted from a reference photo taken in curaçao years back)
late morning on a humid day, the kind when everything living and not is sweaty to the touch. two siblings under a grove of banana trees, the older one further away and leaning against a red stucco wall. they're brushing sweaty hair from their forehead with the back of their wrist and smoking, wearing their work jumpsuit, white except where smeared with oily fish blood. the one closer to us is the younger, in sneakers, shorts, and windbreaker, uncut hair falling wild behind their shoulders. illuminated by wet light hanging lazy above. they're waiting for a ride home.
August 25, 2023 at 4:39 AM
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oliveoilcorp.bsky.social
To celebrate the Ignatz nom, DARLIN’ AND HER OTHER NAMES is available to download for FREE/PWYW for the next month:

https://oliveoilcorp.gumroad.com/l/darlin
https://oliveoilcorp.itch.io/darlin-and-her-other-names-part-1-marta

Thank you to the judges and to everyone who has supported DARLIN'!
A black and white comics page rendered in fountain pen and Photoshop. The silhouette of a woman moves through a deeply forested area. A large tree bisects the page, splitting a panel that depicts water rushing in a stream. We see that the woman's face is covered in blood and there's a yellow glint in her eye. A black and white comics page rendered with fountain pen and Photoshop. Panel 1 A nude Black woman hangs a faintly stained dress from the branch of a tree. She's standing on her tiptoes, a bucket at her feet. Dappled light hits her from behind. She's alone in these woods. Deep scars adorn her stomach and one arm. Panel 2 Close shot of the woman's face. Her facial expression suggests exhaustion, resignation. Maybe both. Panel 3 The woman shifts into the form of a wolf with dark fur and bright amber eyes. A black and white comics page rendered in fountain pen and Photoshop. Panel 1 A woman with long, thick hair faces away from the reader, framed by heavy foliage on either side of her. She addresses someone offscreen: "...In a few ways. I'm strong. I can smell things. Hear people comin'. Sometimes it's harder. All together, I'd say it's about the same. Can't say why I do it, but...You ever..." Panel 2 The woman turns to face the reader, a complex emotion crossing her face. Dappled light creates a halo around her. She continues: “You ever get sick to death of bein’ a person?” Panel 3 The camera lands on the person she’s addressing: a man with chin-length hair, sporting a busted lip and a black eye. He doesn’t know what to say back to that, so he says nothing: “…” Panel 4 Back to the woman. She’s smiling sadly. She finishes the conversation for both of them: “Mhm. You know.”
August 10, 2023 at 10:47 PM