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Kerston ✍️🩵
@kerston.bsky.social
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She/her || Fantasy artist/writer || The Netherlands 🇳🇱🌷

Hi all! My name is Kerston and I'm lowkey obsessed with the sea ✨️🩵🌊

🚫 A/I and N/F/T is a big fat nope

@kerstonic on Instagram
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Kerston ✍️🩵 @kerston.bsky.social · Jan 14
Hi #PortfolioDay ! ✨️🩵

I'm Kerston and I do illustrations and occasionally cover design. I love making fantasy and marine themed art.
Character portrait of a white haired girl facing sideways Cover design of a Dutch TTRPG zine called 'Roll for Inspiration' Digital drawing of a bearded vulture atop a rams skull Digital illustration of a girl floating in the sea surrounded by a school of manta rays
kerston.bsky.social
First #art in months, woohoo! Proud of myself for picking up my (apple) pencil again. A little #portraitstudy to get back into the groove ✨️ #artsky #procreate #digitalart #characterart
October 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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inoaart.bsky.social
[oc] lady lilith.

i tried painting her from different angles and try to keep her look the same. Its fckin hard xD

[ #art #oc #ocsky #procreate #tiefling ]
October 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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lauraillustrates.bsky.social
coral reefs are one of the most fascinating ecosystems on our planet!! been watching a bunch of documentaries about them, so i had to draw a little snippet of one.

(also a non-square illustration so i hope it posts okay!)
digital illustration of a coral reef. occupants of the reef include titan trigger fish, cleaner wrasse, butterfly fish, box jellyfish, foxface rabbitfish, moray eel, dusky gregory, clownfish, parrotfish, garden eels, crabs, ray, octopus, and crown of thorns starfish.
September 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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astarfruity.bsky.social
I’m so grateful for all the support this year 💖
To celebrate 1000 followers, I’m giving away an commission slot! ( •̀ ω •́ )✧

To join:
🔸Be a follower!
🔸like and repost this post!

Ends Sept 13th!
I'm grateful for this amazing and talented community! 🥹

#bg3 #baldursgate3 #bg3fanart #artraffle #dnd
August 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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herbivoreclub.bsky.social
Shark finning is a cruel practice that causes immense suffering and a slow, lingering death - all for a bowl of soup 🍲

🎨 Just Comics

#SharkAwarenessDay 🦈
A four-panel comic highlighting the brutality of shark finning and human indifference: Panel 1: A shark with its fins cut off, bleeding, and a knife nearby. Caption: "They hacked off my fins alive. It didn't kill me, it just crippled me." Panel 2: The shark sinking into the ocean, finless and bleeding. Caption: "They dumped me into the sea... to await a slow and painful death." Panel 3: The shark lies on the ocean floor, suffering. Caption: "I thought it was because of human vanity." Panel 4: Two people in a restaurant, one looking at a menu, the other upset. Caption: "There's fin..." "Don't make a scene!" Lower caption: "But it's just the menu."
July 14, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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barnabyedwards.bsky.social
An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below).

If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
July 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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fizzleston.bsky.social
Retro videogame inspired art, my beloved.
#myart #characterart #highfantasy #devil #devilart #jrpg #charachterdesign
July 14, 2025 at 7:22 AM
kerston.bsky.social
My OC Xanthos with his cat Ermanos (he's that kind of cat that's an absolute dick to everyone but his owner) 💜 definitely missed drawing my characters!

#art #artsky #ocsky #myocs #digitalart #characterdesign #cats #ocart #originalcharacters
Digital portrait of a young man with golden, shoulder-length hair, slightly bent forward to smile at the orange cat standing on his shoulders.
July 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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megglesart.bsky.social
Im so sick of going to conventions and seeing authors using AI generated filth for their book covers. Instant turn off. I have no interest or respect for your writing if you have no respect for artists.
July 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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animalphotorefs.bsky.social
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
www.animal-photo-references.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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kerston.bsky.social
Hi #PortfolioDay ! ✨️🩵

I'm Kerston and I do illustrations and occasionally cover design. I love making fantasy and marine themed art.
Character portrait of a white haired girl facing sideways Cover design of a Dutch TTRPG zine called 'Roll for Inspiration' Digital drawing of a bearded vulture atop a rams skull Digital illustration of a girl floating in the sea surrounded by a school of manta rays
January 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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yoysterfrog.bsky.social
if i see one more artist call themselves "content creator" or their art "content" i am going to throw something brittle at the wall. call it what it is!!!!!!!! u are an ARTIST. u r making ART. im begging u!!!!!!!!!!
July 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
kerston.bsky.social
🌬 North, East, South, West

A little art series I made some eyars ago. It was fun combining elements of traditional clothing from all kinds of cultures ✨️

#art #artsky #digitalart
Digital artwork of a woman representing the North. She wears blue and red clothing and holds a chunk of barley. Digital artwork of a woman representing the East. She wears yellow and red clothing and holds a burning incense stick in her hand. Digital artwork of a woman representing the South. She wears a bright blue tunic, a red headscarf and an orange sash. She holds a brown amphora. Digital artwork of a woman representing the West. She wears a blue dress and an embroidered vest and she holds a yellow fan in her hand.
June 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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fizzleston.bsky.social
Finished a character ref!! I'll be on team crystals this year on artfight 😤
#characterart #myoc #myocs #artfight
June 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
kerston.bsky.social
If you have no moral objection to producing your book cover with AI then why the hell would I believe you didn't use AI to write your gd book ✨️
luvamiart.bsky.social Luvamiart @luvamiart.bsky.social · Jun 28
A thing that bothers me a lot is the lack of solidarity from some writers and musicians that use AI for their book or album covers. I bet those people hate books written with chatGPT or AI music. If you value one art, you value all arts. Don't throw other artists under the bus for your convenience.
June 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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nooskadraws.bsky.social
check your values! illustrations should be legible and readable and should work composition-wise in both black-and-white and colour 🙏 i always use a fully black layer over the illustration set to colour layer mode to do this
castrnaut.bsky.social Casper ✨ @castrnaut.bsky.social · Feb 24
🌟🌱Artists! QRP with what would be your loading screen tip!

For me it's that when drawing hands, the back of the hand usually slopes just slightly to the knuckles.
#artsky #artisttips
June 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
kerston.bsky.social
If you don't know what colors to use for a piece, try out a random color palette generator online (e.g. coolors.co). Perfect for getting inspiration and trying out different combinations ✨️
June 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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requinoesis.bsky.social
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of Jaws

🩸🦈I made a list to score, with 13 levels of stereotypes about sharks, I hope it is useful for those who want to create works beyond the fear ingrained by Jaws and seek new creative representations of sharks.

#shark #jaws #jaws50thanniversary #jaws50
After noticing patterns over the years, I created this list with 13 points to score the level of stereotypes about sharks present in a work. I believe that most of these stereotypes have their main origin in the film Jaws (1975). With the scarcity of works that explore other creative approaches to sharks, beyond the “man-eating ” narrative, Jaws ended up consolidating itself as the greatest source of inspiration and creative reference for many productions to this day. This was called “The Jaws Effect”. I've noticed that certain patterns in the creative world repeat themselves to the point of being tedious, which bothers me. Not because they're bad, but because in many cases they're harmful. With these points, I hope to show sharks in a new light.
June 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
kerston.bsky.social
Such great loot! ✨️👏 Thanks for stopping by and getting my cat sticker!
killvannah.bsky.social KillVannah @killvannah.bsky.social · Jun 23
Dutch Comic Con haul! Tagging accounts I can find here. Else Instagram in photo 🫶
@katzenjammerpins.bsky.social
@evaboneva.bsky.social
@saravidigal.bsky.social
@kerston.bsky.social
@plebsian.bsky.social
June 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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hannahartwork.bsky.social
The Offering 🗡 (at a price) #art
A mermaid swims towards the viewer through lilipads and duckweed. She holds out a glowing, enchanted sword, staring mysteriously up at the viewer.
June 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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abeehatariqart.bsky.social
I don’t want to be a content creator. I don’t want to be thinking about when is the best time to post or what is the best type of content to post for maximum engagement. I just want to be an artist and I just want to make art.
June 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
kerston.bsky.social
QRP with your header art ✨️
June 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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valentaine.bsky.social
My #oc Melissa💙 #art
June 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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kerston.bsky.social
Digital painting study from last year ✨️ #art #artstudy #digitalart #procreate #digitalportraits
Digital portrait of a young woman with a rusty green background.
February 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
kerston.bsky.social
Went on a short trip to Scotland last week, it was so beautiful ✨️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏰 #landscape #travelphotos
A photo of a Loch in the Scottish Highlands.
June 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM