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Julie Dillon
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Artist in the PNW. She/Her. Previous clients: WotC, Simon & Schuster, Tor.com, Macmillan Publishers, Llewellyn Worldwide, Dark Horse Comics
jdillon82@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/juliedillonart
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Julie Dillon @juliedillon.bsky.social · Oct 17
Hello BlueSky! :) My name is Julie Dillon,and I'm a freelance fantasy artist living in Portland, OR. I like making character focused illustrations that touch on mythological and fantasy themes.
Instagram: @juliedillonart
website: www.juliedillonart.com
email: jdillon82@gmail.com
A minotaur with a sword sunk in his chest and several cuts on his body, but from each cut flowers and flower petals flow instead of blood. His face looks sad and pleading, and he raises a hand as if to fend off an attacker. A king and his knight steal a quiet moment away together in a hidden alcove. The king leans in for a kiss and the knight subtly draws him close. The yearning is palpable, haha. Medusa stands proud and regal atop the stone statues of many soldiers that she's petrified. A sad selkie woman floats below the water, tenderly embracing one of the seals that swim around her.
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A reminder to any canadian (or any) #watercolor artists. Beam Paints is an Indigenous owned company with beautiful plastic-free hues. Their sparkly metallics are to die for

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a beautiful palette of 4 watercolor paint hues , 2 teals and 2 golds
January 4, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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getting this sketch scanned in, touched up, and printed on watercolor paper to paint 🐍
A pencil drawing of a figure in profile shouting angrily. A large rattlesnake with its fangs bared is coiled around them, as if to strike at whatever the person is angry at.
January 4, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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Finished this one up after some reworking. 👌 The watercolors got too dark and heavy, so I ran the painting under water and scrubbed a lot of it off, but ended up really liking the softer ghosted look that resulted. I went over the line art again with walnut ink and called it done.
A watercolor painting of a woman with mushrooms and slime mold sprouting out from her body in a decorative fan patterns. Her arms are crossed over her chest and her head is tilted down with her eyes closed. The lower half of her body is missing, aside from her pelvis which is spouting fungal tendrils that weave between the gaps in the bone.
January 4, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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james.sh
A world beneath the waves
January 4, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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meadekrosby.bsky.social
Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.
costasamaras.com Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d
Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.
January 4, 2026 at 2:34 AM
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Available today on @everydayoriginal.bsky.social
Portrait of a woman gazing forward, half covered by textured paper Portrait of a woman gazing forward, half covered by textured paper
January 3, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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⭐️JANUARY SALE⭐️
This little drawing of a Clouded Yellow butterfly is now just £15. That is an absolute steal for original art - go get it!
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A drawing of a Clouded Yellow butterfly on a small white flower. The Clouded Yellow is one of the truly migratory European butterflies and a regular visitor to Britain and Ireland. An original art work, please note that the frame is not included. Colour pencil and mixed media on acid free toned artist paper 5 by 7 inches (12.7 by 17.8 cm). This is a standard photo size in the UK and USA and should be easy to DIY frame. Sold unframed
January 3, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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i am enjoying painting with watercolors so much more than I thought I would ❤️🐍
A cropped progress shot of a watercolor painting, featuring a large python descending from the upper part of the image to wrap its coils around a guy's neck and eat his heart, while the guy feebly struggles. It's more abstract and symbolic, not gory.
January 1, 2026 at 9:09 PM
juliedillon.bsky.social
i am enjoying painting with watercolors so much more than I thought I would ❤️🐍
A cropped progress shot of a watercolor painting, featuring a large python descending from the upper part of the image to wrap its coils around a guy's neck and eat his heart, while the guy feebly struggles. It's more abstract and symbolic, not gory.
January 1, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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I am still working hard on learning/improving with watercolors. I like how this one turned out; the flowers got a little messier than I'd have liked, but I still learned a lot. 👍 And I have a good scan of the sketch that I can print on watercolor paper if I ever want to take another crack at it.
A watercolor painting of two men tenderly embracing; one has his head resting on the other's chest, and the other holds him gently. The colors are soft and muted. There are chrysanthemum flowers in the foreground as a decorative element, with strong red outlines to contrast with the softer shading on the figures. The pencil sketch for the previous watercolor painting of two men tenderly embracing with decorative chrysanthemum flowers in the foreground.
January 1, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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I am still working hard on learning/improving with watercolors. I like how this one turned out; the flowers got a little messier than I'd have liked, but I still learned a lot. 👍 And I have a good scan of the sketch that I can print on watercolor paper if I ever want to take another crack at it.
A watercolor painting of two men tenderly embracing; one has his head resting on the other's chest, and the other holds him gently. The colors are soft and muted. There are chrysanthemum flowers in the foreground as a decorative element, with strong red outlines to contrast with the softer shading on the figures. The pencil sketch for the previous watercolor painting of two men tenderly embracing with decorative chrysanthemum flowers in the foreground.
January 1, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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FUCK YOU IT'S JANUARY!!!
January 1, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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What Mathnet failed to instill in me when it comes to math skills, it succeeded in instilling a wider range of pop culture references than our mostly PBS watching household would not have had otherwise
mathelman.bsky.social Mathew Helman @mathelman.bsky.social · 5d
The gritty modern reboot to MATHNET that we've needed for some time.
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December 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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father's last escape
a stylized 3d illustration featuring a family getting surprised by a large crab with a man's face leaping out of a pan. based on a short story by bruno schulz of the same name
February 19, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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looking within, looking without
a stylized 3d render of a person in a robe chiseling a large face sculpture.
April 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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I wrote up a long post about all my traditional media experiments these past few months over on my patreon 👌
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Traditional Painting Explorations (Long Post) | Julie Dillon
Get more from Julie Dillon on Patreon
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December 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Thank you for atshare!
Illustration of the green knight kissing sir’s gavain severed head in the frame of two trees with human hearts impaled on branches and green man’s mask in the middle. Headless figures of sir gavain and green knight stand by the sides of the frame. On the ground there are animal skulls and the fox. Illustration is monochrome green with the fox, hearts in the branches and the blood oozing from gavain’s severed head red accents Finrod/Beor fanart. A blond elf standing on his knees in front of a man with dark curly hair and beard who is sitting on the edge of the bed in warm golden lighting Art nuvo stile art of king Arthur/Lancelot/Guinevere in poliamour relationship with Lancelot in the center, Arthur holding him from the back and Guinevere leaning to kiss him,framed as the lovers tarot card Fanart of Eowyn and Faramir from lord of the rings in a bright summer forest. She is standing in the stream and lifting up her dress and he’s looking at her from the shore and smiling
December 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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"draw it badly dude - but draw it" meme
December 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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A posca experiment I don’t think I posted
December 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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sketchin' stuff, trying to find the balance between "too weird" and "not weird enough" lol 🫣
A pencil sketch of a satyr embracing a man from behind; the skin on the mans' chest is peeled back (but not in an overtly gory way) and the satyr places his fingers in the man's ribs in a suggestive manner. I feel weird typing this, lol
December 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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eaton.fyi
We don’t need AI to “be creative” for us; we need a world in which there is time and space to wonder, joke and play with words. To fuck around with color and texture, to experiment with an intriguing sound, without the need to immediately convert process and artifact into engagement to stay solvent.
December 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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royalsea.bsky.social
QRP to reintroduce yourself!

Hii I'm Mars, an illustrator/concept artist who loves fantasy and character design, looking for freelance work for 2026 ✨ I've worked with indie videogame studios and with TTRPG projects
December 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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The nice neighbor cat that Sophie hates came by the visit. Sophie made sure to let everyone know her opinion on the matter.
Sophie, a spoiled indoor cat with white fur and brown tabby spots, crouches in a window sill and screams at the camera. A neighborhood cat (a slender spotted tabby with white socks) who is super chill and a nice boy.
December 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Merry Christmas eve everyone! If you'd like to donate & be entered into the raffle, you have 3 days left! Lots D, E, and F all have very few tickets in them so you have an excellent chance to win them!

All the info is below, let's beat the goal & raise some money for the kids of the Fuller Center!
December 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Day 22 #ArtAdventCalendar

Snowy seal // Pencil & white charcoal on moleskine paper
Sketch of a little seal (no idea which type!) in black and white pencil. The seal's face is visible, and there are tiny bits of snow in the background.
December 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM