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River (InkWells Illustration)
@inkwells.bsky.social
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Multidisciplinary artist & woodland creature

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River (InkWells Illustration) @inkwells.bsky.social · Mar 25
✨🥳 Prints have arrived! 🥳✨

inkwellsillustration.etsy.com/listing/1877...

#birdart #comicprint #magpieart #birdcomic #magpie
A print of the comic "Prototypes" being held up in front of a bare-branched tree with a magpie nest in it. Close-up photo of the first comic panel. Close-up of one of the ink drawing panels. Close-up of a painted panel, a magpie carrying a stick.
inkwells.bsky.social
It's sketching/ideation/playing with mediums time! While most of my "final" work ends up being in gouache or wax pastels, when I'm in my sketchbook I'm always reaching for ink.

#sketchbook #magpie #birdart #eurasianmagpie #birder #wildlifeart #wip #progressnotperfection
Photo of part of a sketchbook page. On the page are watercolour blobs in bright colours, each with a simple ink magpie drawing overlaid. This is a close up of the sneaky magpie, sort of crouched and stretching their beak forward as though to reach something. Low angle photo of the same page showing the TV in the background. A Twitch stream by ipaintbirbs is playing. A progress shot of the same sketchbook page. The ink and glass dip pen are shown at the sides of the shot. A completed magpie sketch is standing and looking over their shoulder with bill open. A magpie perching is in progress. A close up of a yellow watercolour patch with an inked magpie on it. The magpie is standing with their tail part raised.
September 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
inkwells.bsky.social
*BST 😂

WE'RE GETTING HADES STREAMS 🥳
rosiiie.bsky.social Rosiiie @rosiiie.bsky.social · Jul 30
My streaming schedule! Please do drop by if you fancy ❤️

m.twitch.tv/roundbee

#twitch #streamer
Streaming schedule update! Tuesday & Saturday every week @ 6pm GMT Please pop by and say hi!
July 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
inkwells.bsky.social
My gorgeous amazing girlfriend @rosiiie.bsky.social has promised me she'll stream my favourite game (Hades) if I share her posts and help her acquire some more followers, so please help me out 🙏🏻😂

Also I did her little art bits and there's more incoming when I get the chance!

#pngtuber #gaymergirl
rosiiie.bsky.social Rosiiie @rosiiie.bsky.social · Jul 29
I never use this platform but please, if you see this and are interested, follow me on twitch!

m.twitch.tv/roundbee

I play a variety of games like overwatch & killing floor!

I'm just getting started and I'd love to see other like-minded people in chat ❤️

#twitch
RoundBee - Twitch
Buzzin about, streamin ~ Welcome! Here for the chill video games & what have you, so feel free to come along if you fancy ^-^ - pfp & header: IG @inkwellsillustration ❤️
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July 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
inkwells.bsky.social
Trust the process 🙏🏻😅

Some sketchbook practice ponies in progress!

#gouache #horseart #horsesinart #equineportrait
Sketchbook page with two unfinished portrait paintings of a black horse. The magenta underpainting shows though and there are accidental blobs of magenta over the top of one.
March 31, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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danieljwilliams.bsky.social
AI 'art' is soulless to me. I can't truly call it art because it doesn't even meet the base level definition - 'expression' of 'human creativity and imagination'.

How can I feel emotion and interest from something that had none put into it?

I wrote way more on this on Insta if you're interested.
March 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
inkwells.bsky.social
Prints available now 🥳

inkwellsillustration.etsy.com/listing/1877...
March 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
inkwells.bsky.social
Stuck in the middle step -> finished! 💛✨

Sketchbook studies in gouache and wax pastel (Neocolor II).

#horse #horseart #horsesinart #equineart #equestrianart #equineportrait #warmblood #thoroughbred #sellefrancais #sketchbook
Photo of a sketchbook laid open on a desk, showing a page of paintings. The two painting studies are of horses' heads/faces in somewhat abstract colour palettes, with yellow circles behind them. The paintings are unfinished, with just main paint colours blocked in. The same sketchbook page, with the paintings finished with pastel details. The horses are stylised with back outline and semi realistic textural detail.
March 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
inkwells.bsky.social
✨🥳 Prints have arrived! 🥳✨

inkwellsillustration.etsy.com/listing/1877...

#birdart #comicprint #magpieart #birdcomic #magpie
A print of the comic "Prototypes" being held up in front of a bare-branched tree with a magpie nest in it. Close-up photo of the first comic panel. Close-up of one of the ink drawing panels. Close-up of a painted panel, a magpie carrying a stick.
March 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
inkwells.bsky.social
A lovely read! And got some excellent ideas for getting myself doing more art 💛✨
ruthhammond.bsky.social Ruth Hammond @ruthhammond.bsky.social · Feb 1
Just published my first blog post on my website & I’m very nervous but hope it’s at least coherent (I spent 12 hours on it yesterday)

Feel free to read if you fancy www.ruthhammondillustration.com/blog
March 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
inkwells.bsky.social
Willow ptarmigans 🥰 I'll admit I'm in a slight art slump right now and these are from a couple of weeks ago 😤 Anyone for ptarmigan stickers? Or is that a bit too obscure? 🤔

#birds #ptarmigan #willowptarmigan #birdart #wildlifeart #birdstickers
A page of small paintings of willow ptarmigans on grey paper. They are slightly stylised, and are surrounded by star and sparkle motifs. There is a side-on portrait of a male ptarmigan, a male ptarmigan running in snow, and two full body paintings of females. Close up of one of the female ptarmigans, showing more of the detail and texture of the wax pastel used for the plumage. Close up of the top part of the page: the male ptarmigan portrait against a pale blue halo, and a fluffed up female surrounded by yellow sparkles. Flatlay photo of the page on a desk, against a cork desk mat. It is next to another page of paintings, the tin of wax pastels, and a plate being used as a paint palette.
February 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
inkwells.bsky.social
Went to Peak Wildlife Park last week and saw lowland tapirs and all sorts of other critters 💛 I took a sketchbook but it was just too cold to get it out and draw, so I looked at some refs when we got home 🥰

#sketchbook #wildlifeart #natureart #gouachepainting #peakwildlifepark
Painting of a baby lowland tapir lying down. It is slightly stylised with linework in a deep purple-brown and a single broad brush stroke in pale blue painted around its front end in a circle. Close up of sketchbook pages showing a tapir on a front-on three-quarter angle walking, and an unfinished side view of a walking tapir. The front-on tapir is a pencil sketch with black linework over the top and a painted blue circle behind. The unfinished tapir has a watercolour like base coat. Sketchbook page including the baby tapir painting and other partial pencil sketches of tapirs, including one standing and one chewing while lying down.
January 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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kwatrousceramics.bsky.social
1 of 150+ pieces going up this weekend. #pottery #ceramics
White cup on black background. Cup says “pasteurized milk turned my cat gay” in a goopy font.
January 28, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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samikelsh.bsky.social
neither woman ever married, living their lives together in a modest one-bedroom cottage. historians believe they must have been very good friends.

sapphic victorian rodentia for the @streamink.bsky.social cozy january prompt, comfy chair 💜

#streamink2025 #queerart #cuteart #watercolour #hamsters
Two hamster ladies in Victorian casual dress, in their home. The room has violet wallpaper and a large framed painting of a violet flower, and a well-loved blue rug on the floor. One hamster sits in a comfortable velvet chair reading a book, while her wife brings her a cup of hot chocolate and is giving her an affectionate kiss.
January 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
inkwells.bsky.social
The lovebirds are done! 🦜💕✨

#birds #lovebird #parrot #birdart #traditionalart
January 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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lorraineturnerart.bsky.social
Check this group out!

go.bsky.app/GSeD3d5
January 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
inkwells.bsky.social
Anyone can fill this out, please do!
katriaraden.bsky.social Katria Raden @katriaraden.bsky.social · Jan 18
UK based illustrators, please fill out this survey from AOI by January 31st. The UK government is proposing a new AI policy that would let AI companies freely use copyright protected work without permission — unless you explicitly opt-out.

www.surveymonkey.com/r/ai_consult...
Graphic reading: “Attention illustrators! We need your help filling and sharing out most crucial AI survey yet” Graphic reading: “The UK government wants to let AI companies use your creative works to train their models. No license, no fee. Only a vague promise that you can opt-out. With no indication of how this option would work. Think this sounds fair? Neither do we.” Graphic that reads: “We are currently responding to the government’s current AI consultation, where data is king. We need to provide solid numbers in order to present a compelling argument to achieve change. Real data = better policy. This is where you come in.” Graphic that reads: “Your voice counts. Take 5-10 minutes ti complete our AI consultation survey today (link in bio) Share this post with your peers to help spread the word! The survey is for all illustrators”
January 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
inkwells.bsky.social
First coat down on some bird WIPs - fancy crayon layers next! 😌 lovebirds come in such lovely colours 💛

#lovebirds #birdart #birds #illustration
January 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
inkwells.bsky.social
The shame runs deep but so does the need to create.

open.substack.com/pub/amiemcne...
Let go of the shame for not wanting to work
You are not broken. You are not Lazy. You are magic.
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January 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
inkwells.bsky.social
Not much art done this last week but we did a lot of ikea furniture erecting/DIY to get Percyphone into her new house, so that she can watch when I eventually do do art 🥲 (if she can see anything after staring directly into the sun/her UV lamp)
Blurry photo of Percy the cornsnake waggling her tongue at her new UV lamp. Percy looking directly up and into her new UV lamp. Percy, a grey cornsnake, looking serene resting on a cork bark hide. Percy on her cork bark hide, doing a big tongue flick at her surroundings.
January 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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eloveart.bsky.social
Raising money for the Pasadena Humane Society and SPCA to help the animals affected by the fires in Los Angeles.

www.twitch.tv/charity/elov...
Twitch
Twitch is the world
www.twitch.tv
January 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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nepeteaa.bsky.social
new bumper stickers coming soon! 🪶👀🍄‍🟫
January 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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shanhoran.bsky.social
♥️
January 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
inkwells.bsky.social
I'm running low on lots of my stickers and don't plan to order the exact same ones in again, so grab them while you can!

inkwellsillustration.etsy.com
InkWellsIllustration - Etsy
Shop Nature art and portraiture by InkWellsIllustration located in Sheffield, United Kingdom.
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January 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
inkwells.bsky.social
Experimental mixed media comic, which - ironically - I had many crises of confidence over 🙃

"Prototypes"
Gouache, Neocolor 2 (wax pastel), and ink.

#birds #birdart #magpie #eurasianmagpie #comic #illustration #wildlifeart
A six-panel comic in mixed media. It depicts a magpie in close up, then carrying sticks, and finally, building a nest with them. The text reads, "The only way to find out if an idea will work is to start making prototypes."
January 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
inkwells.bsky.social
Trust the process trust the process trust the process trust the process 😅😂😭🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

#wip #trusttheprocess #theonlywayforwardisthrough #birdart I guess? #comic sort of?
Photo of a comic page in progress. The main element is a roughly bird-shaped close up that is mostly a brown blob with an eye and a bit of a beak. Some ink line art drawings are visible at the edges on the frame and text in the bird blob frame reads "the only way".
January 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM