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Jarom Vogel
@jaromvogel.bsky.social
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Illustrator // Designer // Whatever

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moonjam.com
All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.

I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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thornockstudios.bsky.social
Wrapping up 2025 and #kidlitartpostcard day. This year has been fun. I’m Chris, picture book illustrator. Agent - Lori @steelworksliterary Web - thornockstudios.com have a safe holiday season!
December 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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redolaf.bsky.social
I’ve been making this postcards sized illustrations for fun lately and I think I’m gonna make at least 15 more.
November 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
jaromvogel.bsky.social
Finally had some time to work on a few animations for this guy! Definitely still some issues to work out, but I'm pretty happy with how it's coming along!

#Illustration #b3d #blender #character #gamedev
September 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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nedroid.com
In my experience there are three kinds of fantasy magic novels:
"There are three kinds of magic," said Wizzler, handing us each a balloon. "You can control tigers, you can shoot tornadoes from your fingers, or you can fly by holding your breath. The color of confetti inside your balloon will reveal which kind of power you have." I felt the panic rising in me. What if my confetti turned yellow, indicating that I was a Tiger-Talker? My family, a long line of proud Tornado-Fingers, would disown me. Could I ever return home, bearing such shame? I tried to calm myself as I readied the ceremonial safety pin. Green, I thought, willing my hopes into reality. Please be green. I popped the balloon, involuntarily shutting my eyes. When I opened them, would I see the green I hoped for? The yellow I feared? What if, gods forbid, the confetti were blue? I opened my eyes, seeing shock on the faces of my classmates. Wizzler himself stared at me, wide-eye. Looking down, I saw myself covered in confetti... purple confetti. “I don’t understand,” I growled, my body trembling with pain. “I combined eighty percent Earth-elemental mana with twenty percent Fire-elemental mana (Type B), focused through a twenty-four-sided icositetragon made of yellow topaz. This, in conjunction with my blood type, star sign, sense of humor, and nickname, should have produced a blazing column of lightning to vaporize my enemies. Instead, it made a big bubble that smells like fresh laundry. Why?” Skullgrumbler began to laugh. “You fool! You don’t even realize…” he squealed. “You’re facing east!” “It’s whatever you want,” explained Magemaster Grampledog. “Magic is just whatever you want.” I knew he was speaking in riddles, but I couldn’t grasp his hidden meaning. “So the rules are…” Grampledog lit a sliver of smokereed. “No rules. You say some words and you wave a stick and whatever you want just happens. You don’t even need the stick.” His wisdom still eluded me. I stared into his face, trying to decipher what he was really saying. “No, listen.” Grampledog snapped his fingers and his desk turned into a pile of chicken nuggets. “I didn’t even know that would happen.” His hat then came alive and began to yodel. “It’s pandemonium,” he explained. “It’s complete nonsense.”
July 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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I've been slowly working on this rabbit knight project to figure out the new(ish) Uniform app by @sparseal.bsky.social. The learning curve is pretty steep, but I think I'm starting to get the hang of it? Very interested to see where it goes either way.
#lowpoly #3dart #characterdesign #ipadart
July 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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creativeboom.com
You voted, we listened: The 20 illustrators inspiring us the most in 2025 👀 www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
June 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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burgerkingler.bsky.social
flappie
June 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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burgerkingler.bsky.social
walk
June 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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burgerkingler.bsky.social
Painting completed! And holy crap it’s way past my bedtime
May 27, 2025 at 6:22 AM
jaromvogel.bsky.social
So how do we start convincing clients to accept Affinity Designer files, or like, SVGs or something instead of Illustrator?
May 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
jaromvogel.bsky.social
I'm no economist, but surely this all must somehow be Obama's fault?? 🫠
April 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
jaromvogel.bsky.social
Very excited to share this 3D robot commission I made for @Procreate! I am, unfortunately, not in Tokyo this week, but if YOU are there, head over to Procreate's pop-up event to see an *actual* huge statue of this friend, and paint it in 3D!

#Illustration #Procreate #iPadArt #iPadPro #Art
April 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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I’ve been busy with client work this week, so while I don’t have anything *actually* new to show, let’s all cast our minds back to this fun AR project that I made in ye olden times and pretend it’s new together, yes? 🙏

#Illustration #Procreate #Art #ARKit #iPadPro #CodeArt #iPadArt
March 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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mohoanimation.bsky.social Moho Animation Software @mohoanimation.bsky.social · Mar 19
Developing AI tools is not in our plans. This will continue to be our position, at least until potential ethical and legal issues are resolved in a way that does not harm artists.
Moho will continue to be a tool for artists. We still believe that the future is 2D. And it is also human.
March 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
jaromvogel.bsky.social
I've been working on some new 3D things ahead of my @warriorartcamp.bsky.social workshop next month but none of it is quite ready to show yet, so here's a remote-control boy from a couple years ago instead 🎮👦✨

#Illustration #Art #Procreate #3DDesign #b3D #Animation #CodeArt
March 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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More color sketches 🖍️🌈✨

#Illustration #Procreate #ProcreateArtist #Art #Sketch
Color sketches of stylized characters featuring 3 wolf heads, something that looks vaguely like a kangaroo head, 3 dragon heads, a cow head of some kind maybe? Also features a deer standing on 2 feet with arms akimbo looking slightly down, a boy's head with blue hair in both a front and side view, and a smiling yellow robot. Color sketches including 3 dogs with hats, a green male child holding a red car while looking like he's plotting something, a semi-humanoid bird character, a camel head, a giraffe, a chimpanzee, a 2 girl heads (one glaring and one looking happy), a polar bear, a tortoise, and a snake about to eat its own tail. Color sketches of human character heads.
March 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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procreate.com
Try out 3D painting on our Robot Friend created by the talented @jaromvogel.bsky.social 💜
March 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
jaromvogel.bsky.social
Some client work from 2019ish to go along with an article about overcoming back pain (or something like that?). It's always interesting to see the ways my work has changed or stayed the same over a few years. Also I still really like how the guy's feet turn in on that dancing spot.

#Illustration
Illustration of a man in a jacket dancing with his hands in the air while smiling. Illustration of a happy man hiking through tall grass and wildflowers with a backpack.
March 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
jaromvogel.bsky.social
I'm teaching a workshop with @warriorartcamp.bsky.social in April!
We'll cover sculpting, retopo, and painting on the iPad, as well as some animation and rigging stuff in Blender and a bit of AR.

More details right over here → www.warriorartcamp.com/intro-to-3d-...

#Illustration #3DArt #iPadArt
February 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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mohoanimation.bsky.social
Have you ever felt an overwhelming need to animate an illustration? This “Poorly Researched Dinos” piece by the talented @jaromvogel.bsky.social l made us feel it! It took a few Moho bones, brushes, meshes and cycles and now they are alive!
#mohoanimation #2drigging #2danimation #walkcycle
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February 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
jaromvogel.bsky.social
More color sketches for your eyeballs!

#Illustration #Sketch #Procreate #Drawing
Sketches including a frustrated girl, a boy sitting dreamily, a blue boy running and swinging his arms, a boy's head with sparkles around it, and a determined looking small elephant. Sketches of various made-up birds, some plants, and a girl with red boots that have wings. Text around the girl says "Maybe my bright red boots, if they had wings" (lyrics from a song by the weepies) Various sketches of heads in rainbow shades
January 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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brauntown.bsky.social
Hi lovely bluesky people, I'm new here. Some may know my digital animal illustrations or other stuff from my Brauntown world. In my first post here I show you an artwork from my just started series of analog drawn animals. It starts with these two friends...
January 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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🔴🔥🔵 A little throwback code project from 2021-ish. I made 2 different-colored versions of this illustration, along with a few little fire frames, then used the angle of the iPad to fade between them and add a shiny effect.

#Illustration #Design #Art #InteractiveArt
January 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
jaromvogel.bsky.social
I am terrible at posting lately, but here are some color sketches I liked from the last month or so.

#Illustration #Procreate #Sketches #Art
Color sketches including a robot, a dragon head, a little girl cat character, a strong-looking man with blue hair, a red bell pepper with a hat (labeled "Pepper Dan", a cat, a girl hugging her legs and playing with a car, a starfish, a weird looking bee, three butternut squash characters (labeled "butternut boyz") and a surprised looking circle with arms and legs. Sketches including a young-looking man looking at a glowing sword, a cow, a man with a cape, torch, and staff, a boy, a girl with seaweed in her disheveled hair looking at a scallop shell, a low-angle view of a man who appears to be burying a bag of money, and a soldier looking stern. Color sketches including a small blue bird sitting on a nest, a cow head of some kind wearing a small hat and bearing its teeth, a small red bird, a girl head looking wistful, a chicken gossiping with a goose, a boy using heely shoes and a sleeping cat.
January 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM