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Ian C Bristow
@iancbristow.bsky.social
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🎨 Freelance artist
📔 Author
🎵 Musician

▶️ For tutorials and other art videos: https://www.youtube.com/@artwithian2018/videos
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Ian C Bristow @iancbristow.bsky.social · Nov 15
Hey all! I'm a freelance artist, author and musician mostly interested in #Fantasy, #Sci-fi and #Historicalfiction.
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apbooks.bsky.social
Slowly adding more titles to our online #bookshop. If you want to help a small #indiepublisher you can buy directly from us. I will be adding more titles soon starting with our backlist and stuff we have large inventory of. Most will be on sale.

#booksky💙📚

artemesiapublishing.square.site/s/shop
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April 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
iancbristow.bsky.social
I recently finished recording this orchestral piece inspired by one of my favorite book series. I set the music to a slideshow of paintings I've done based on the series as well.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZNz...
The Shadow of Treason - Orchestral Score
YouTube video by Earth Forge
www.youtube.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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apbooks.bsky.social
Something Happened in Carlton by @pierrecarseneault.bsky.social

Letting go can be difficult to do, but sometimes the choice isn’t yours.

#booksky💙📚 #drama #smalltown #preorder

ARCs available for #reviewers!

Awesome cover by @iancbristow.bsky.social!

www.apbooks.net/product-page...
Something Happened in Carlton | Artemesia Publishing
Life in a small town can be hard, it's nearly impossible when the bonds between neighbors and friends begin to unravel. People used to say that nothing ever happened in Carlton, but there is a lot goi...
www.apbooks.net
February 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
iancbristow.bsky.social
Here's a piece I painted several years ago. The 90s Aladdin was one of my absolute favorite films as a kid.

#throwbackthursday #illustration #art #artwork #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #aladdin #drawing
January 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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grasshopper2407.bsky.social
Winter has exploded in Roshaven. Snow, ice and Jacks everywhere. Without Jenni on his team, Ned must turn to old friends and ask for help but... what exactly is lurking in the mountain?

Available everywhere: books2read.com/u/bz2zrD
November 20, 2024 at 1:37 PM
iancbristow.bsky.social
My last painting of 2024. I actually recorded a full painting process tutorial series for this one, so if you're interested in that sort of thing, episode 1 just dropped today. New episodes will release every Thursday.

▶️ youtu.be/4hGZxC0894E
January 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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psychmandril.bsky.social
Yo! I’m a #digitalartist and I love drawing illustrations! I’d love to meet up with more artists and I’m glad to finally take a breath from the hellhole that was X.

#conceptart #illustrations #digitalart #conceptartist
November 28, 2024 at 12:22 PM
iancbristow.bsky.social
Some work for several years ago. One of my favorite color palettes to work in, though I don't use it too often. Blues and purples make me happy.

#Dragon #Mage #Dragonart #Fantasyart #Fantasy #Illustration #Artwork #Art #Myart #Magic
December 23, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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artbyalp.bsky.social
I guess I should actually post here sometimes. Here's John Singer Sargent master copy I did earlier this year. #art #johnsingersargent #charcoal #drawing
Master Copy of a charcoal portrait by artist John Singer Sargent
December 10, 2024 at 5:00 AM
iancbristow.bsky.social
I was recently interviewed about my life as an artist. Might be of interest to a few here.

👉 canvasrebel.com/life-work-wi...

#freelanceartist #freelancer #artist #art #illustrator #interview
December 18, 2024 at 5:01 PM
iancbristow.bsky.social
Working on a new track for my third album. Can't wait until this one is ready to share.

If you're interested in listening to the second album, you can check that out here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWX5EAxM3sM

#progressiverock #moog #analogsynth #hammond #demo #newmusic #rockmusic #bass
December 13, 2024 at 3:24 AM
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vargasni.bsky.social
Another study
December 10, 2024 at 10:41 AM
iancbristow.bsky.social
Plotting his revenge against the man who ruined his face. Painted this one a while ago. Depicted is a man I love to hate from @emswifthook.bsky.social brilliant #historicalfiction series Lord's Legacy.

#illustration #digitalpainting #art #artwork #myart #17thcentury #historicalart
December 10, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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yossra.bsky.social
#toz
October 17, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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adrianodocouto.bsky.social
I spent a good portion of last year doing quick landscape studies like this. It was when I finally learned how to use the lasso tool for painting. I should go back to doing them. They were fun.

#Art #FantasyArt #Illustration
Stylized painting of a snowy landscape with a mountain ridge at the back. There are foot steps on the snow, and a dragon sitting atop one of the mountain peaks.
December 4, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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tangentgeoff.bsky.social
This is a great book. I liken it to Criminal Minds meets Ready Player One.
December 3, 2024 at 3:54 PM
iancbristow.bsky.social
I enjoying a bit of a less is more sort of rendering style for this one.

#fantasyart #artwork #art #fantasy #dragon #digitalpainting #myart #illustration
December 4, 2024 at 3:29 AM
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Book Review: The Fugitive's Sword, by E.M. Swift Hook (Now available in Paperback) tonyriches.blogspot.com/2024/09/book... @emswifthook.bsky.social #HistoricalFiction #BookReview
December 3, 2024 at 7:24 AM
iancbristow.bsky.social
Painted this a few years back.

#art #artwork #illustration #digitalpainting #painting #lute #forest #myart
December 3, 2024 at 1:45 AM
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babeandoak.bsky.social
Hi #PortfolioDay
I’m Élle - Freelance illustrator & surface pattern designer

Focus in occult, mythology/folklore related art heavy on details & research

Open for new projects in publishing, posters & private commissions

Reach out let’s chat
✉️ babeandoak@gmail.com
Portfolio: cara.app/babeandoak
Repeat pattern of the greenery crushed into a forest floor. tan leaf branches and grey slate branches with bright red and dark green large berries also small branches of tan leaves with red berries and slate grey branches with tan leaves on a dark navy blue background black and white illustration depicting the myth of Corvus and Crater. The entire background is black with grain shading and a star map showing the constellations Corvus and crater. In the top left is an outline of a sun with a glowing black snake winding around it. In the middle sweeping down from the top right is a large crow in profile. In the middle in a double handle crater with Apollo’s laurel leaf on it. In the bottom right is a black lyre and in the bottom left is a large fig tree with one fig cut in half. Behind in the bottom half are swirling water like white lines. Black and white ink illustration of a gigantic eldritch inspired underwater creature near a pier. There is a small dock to the left with a building on a pier above the water. In the middle below is a small fishing boat with dark ripples of water to the left of it. Behind is fog rolling in partially covering four giant tentacles coming out of the water 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, an ankh 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.
July 9, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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margawart.bsky.social
💜 It's time for an #artshare! 💜

✨ share your best work
🎨 all art media welcome
⛔ no GenAI/NFTs
🫶 be kind, support each other
👀 this one's optional, but feel free to brag about a recent achievement or tell me of an art goal you're pursuing!
December 2, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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janejago.bsky.social


Pop along and have a look
Within the covers of the book
And if you like the things you see
Chuck a couple of quid at me
And that is all I have to say
Support a sad old bat today!

MyBook.to/SFATDM
November 29, 2024 at 8:18 PM
iancbristow.bsky.social
Had a lot of fun with this painting.

#illustration #fantasyart #art #artwork #digitalpainting #pirates #myart #painting #skeleton
November 27, 2024 at 10:19 PM
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philipharveyart.bsky.social
Now and then I try to be all artistic and stuff..🧑‍🎨Here are a few of my efforts.🎨

#MyArt #Art #ArtistOnBluesky #Artwork #Creative #Artist

My art for sale site links,

FineartAmerica,
fineartamerica.com/profiles/phi...
Redbubble,
redbubble.com/people/Phili...
and Society6,
society6.com/philharvey
November 17, 2024 at 10:17 PM
iancbristow.bsky.social
Had fun with this one. A little more stylized in the rendering than some of my other works.

#fantasyart #art #artwork #digitalpainting #illustration #myart
November 26, 2024 at 9:34 PM