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Kristina Gehrmann
@kristinagehrmann.bsky.social
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Freelance illustrator for books & publishing. Fantasy, romance, history.
Clients include: HarperCollins, Penguin, Hachette, Darrington Press, book boxes etc.
She/her, deaf. #NoAI

www.kristinagehrmann.com
info@kristinagehrmann.com
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Kristina Gehrmann @kristinagehrmann.bsky.social · Jul 8
Hi #PortfolioDay! I’m an illustrator with a focus on fantasy, history & narrative illustration.

My dream is to illustrate more book covers with beautiful badass characters, especially women in armor. Please make it happen, universe 🙏

🌎 www.kristinagehrmann.com
📩 info@kristinagehrmann.com
Illustration of a knight or paladin or swordfighter in chainmail and cloak, drawing her sword, stepping over a water surface towards the viewer. Behind her, a flock of swans rises up into the sky. A young woman in 15th century inspired black plate armor, looking wistfully and holding a longsword that has a magical golden light emanating from it. Behind her is a rich colorful tapestry with late Medieval motifs that's interwoven with gold thread. King Arthur sits on the ground next to a mossy rock, proudly thrusting the sword Excalibur up into the air, suggesting that he's just drawn it out from the stone. It has a magical blue glow. In the background, some people cheer his success, while a few others seem miffed about it.
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celinesartstudio.bsky.social
Happy Lunar New Year! 🐴 Year of the horse but I haven't drawn the illustration yet. You'll have to deal with this dragon instead
An East princess with a crown wearing a fancy purple and blue toned dress. There's a dark dragon in the background
February 17, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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evelynepark.bsky.social
❤️🦄 새해복 많이 받으세요!

Happy Lunar New Year! I've been experimenting with traditional Korean paints for this illustration inspired by "The Unicorn in Captivity" - using elements from Minwha 민화 but also fantasy and tarot cards. Truly a mixture of everything!
An illustration painted in ink and traditional Korean paints, reinterpreting the tapestry "Unicorn in Captivity" by combining it with Korean Minhwa elements. The unicorn itself is painted in an intense red to symbolize the Year of the Fire Horse, and the background flora include lotus plants and a peach tree.
February 17, 2026 at 9:11 AM
kristinagehrmann.bsky.social
Random question!
Who is the earliest born person you can remember meeting?

For me it was one of my great-grandmas (and the only one I remember seeing in person), whom I met as a kid. She was born in 1907.
February 17, 2026 at 7:40 AM
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katherinelam.bsky.social
watercolor is less 'painting' and more of putting down a stroke and going wow i really shouldnt have done that
February 17, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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emilylorange.bsky.social
Dreaming of Spring
(aka 73 hours of painting leaves in CSP. you know, for fun!)
#art 🦢🐡
a digital painting, showing an extremely detailed strawberry patch, though only one tiny red strawberry is seen in the bottom left corner. there are occasional pops of yellow buds of new flowers, but over the image is angular shapes of leaves in various shades of green, yellow, and blue.
February 13, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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nord-sol.com
Second illustration from Cynthia Sheppard’s course at Smarter Artschool. The focus was on showing the story through characters interactions. I struggled a lot with ideas for the second part of the course, but I like what I came up with.
A grim illustration showing us a mysterious place. Children are standing in line, their heads bowed, l their parents behind them, holding them tensely. A weird old creature covered in a mix of rugs and jewelry, slowly goes by, gesturing towards one of them, a girl, marking their choice with creepy white hand, decorated with many bracelets. The girl is the only one looking at the creature, her face is tense but not scared.
February 13, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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kellylianne.bsky.social
Morgawr, Sea Serpent of Falmouth Bay.
Digital pastel illustration. A sea serpent makes it way through the water, crossing in front of a blood moon. It’s nighttime and foggy.
February 12, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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madeleinefjall.bsky.social
✨A midsummer's swim ✨

This year's valentine's drawing of my boys got a little bit out of hand 😌❤️
Image of my characters Ulvar (left) and Niketas (right) looking into each other's eyes in a swedish lake in the early morning. There are reeds, water lilies, a rock and two dragon flies in the foreground.
February 12, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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emilyhare.com
This spring I'm launching a brand new Mini Book Of Monsters! Diddy little creatures to put giggles in your tummy and smiles on your face. Get notified of launch here:
buff.ly/MbjucyL

This is Gareth. He enjoys crochet and making friends.

#monster #cutemonster #monsterbook #watercolour #art
a chubby green six legged squidgy monster with a pale green tummy, purple feet and tail. He is laughing happily and his eyes are closed in glee.
February 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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natasailincic.bsky.social
I keep seeing authors getting duped by AI users pretending to be artists (and then sadly realising it when everyone calls their book AI slop).

These grifters are everywhere and I don't have a solution, but I have a few pointers:
February 11, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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coreybrickley.bsky.social
gosh well :( artwork for a cancelled book cover
YA Fantasy book cover of two character portraits, vertically stacked in the composition. The top portrait is of a young woman with octopus tentacles sprouting from her back, holding an ornate sword above her head. The bottom portrait is of a young man in a white suit leisurely holding a sword by his side, wearing an ornate crown with wrought iron bars sprouting from said crown, bending downwards and forming a cage.
February 10, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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hearoto.bsky.social
Oh, your love is sunlight.

#art #oc #dnd #ocsky
Painting of a half-orc man holding his lover, an aasimar man in a reinterpretation of an artwork by Joe Bowler
February 10, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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patsux.bsky.social
dancing dragons
Digital painting of a Mega Dragonite, dueling with a Mega Altaria. The shiny mega Dragonite is wielding a spear with a curved blade, clashing against a white sword wielded by the mega Altaria. They are dueling in the sky, surrounded by seven other Altarias aiming to attack the Dragonite, and there thunderclouds brewing in the backdrop.
February 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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logicfairy.bsky.social
Remembering that time my man Solomon beat the very literal hell out of @kovah.bsky.social's Aysel. Good times, good times ;)

#Sulbook #illustration #fantasy
A vampire and a demon battle in the winter woods at sunset
February 9, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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jaspermillerart.com
Lace Harding - The World

Tarot merch made for @dragonageannual.art

[ #jasperdraws #dragonage #dragonageannual ]
Stylised illustration of Lace Harding (dwarven woman, red hair, pale skin, freckled) as The World tarot. In one hand she holds lyrium, in the other a sapling. Behind her is a titan, and she is framed by branches (at the top) that merge into red lyrium (below).
February 9, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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eleonorpiteira.bsky.social
Here are the cover illustrations I did for the special @illumicrate.bsky.social edition of VENGEFUL by V. E. Schwab!

This is the combined version of the acetate dust jacket (with the characters) and the case cover (with the city). I posted the cover for Vicious on a separate post.
Book cover illustration by Eleonor Piteira, of Vengeful by V. E. Schwab, featuring a woman with dark short hair floating above two men. The two men, one dark-haired and the other blond, are in profile, glaring at each other. From the woman's hands, she is manipulating red threads linked to the red dotted halos around the men's heads. On the background there is a city with multiple high-rise buildings, and the sun is setting behind them.
February 9, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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davis.social
Digital illustration with vibrant colors. A woman is seated nude on a planet, her hair is vibrant and bright colors. She is facing slightly away and is looking down at a glowing star in her hand. The star is emitting lights that appear like the Northern Lights around her head.
February 8, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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kristinagehrmann.bsky.social
The Knight's Favorite

A wildcard for a medieval-themed tarot (that might or might not happen in the near future) where I had complete artistic freedom for the subject! ✨
So I went with "what if courtly love at the tournament, but make it gay?" 💜

Client: 78 Tarot
Scene at a tournament in the 1300s: A knight in full armor on his horse (only without the helmet, which a page is carrying) rides up to a richly decorated stand of spectators. Subverting the expectation that he'd ask for a "lady's favor", he instead receives said favor from another, younger man who is tying a ribbon around the knight's jousting lance. Ladies look on surprised/shocked/delighted.
February 7, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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scherville.com
A mixed-media commission for @lindwyrm.bsky.social of Mirssa 💙

acrylic gouache on hot press paper

[ #art #commissions ]
A photo of a mixed-media commission next to a bunch of acrylic gouache tubes. The person in the painting is a blue-skinned tiefling with curly hair and ram horns. He's wearing a long brown coat with a white shirt and high-waisted trousers underneath. Behind him is a bright window decorated with filigree ornaments. Mirssa Védova belongs to lindwyrm.bsky.social
February 6, 2026 at 2:07 PM
kristinagehrmann.bsky.social
The Knight's Favorite

A wildcard for a medieval-themed tarot (that might or might not happen in the near future) where I had complete artistic freedom for the subject! ✨
So I went with "what if courtly love at the tournament, but make it gay?" 💜

Client: 78 Tarot
Scene at a tournament in the 1300s: A knight in full armor on his horse (only without the helmet, which a page is carrying) rides up to a richly decorated stand of spectators. Subverting the expectation that he'd ask for a "lady's favor", he instead receives said favor from another, younger man who is tying a ribbon around the knight's jousting lance. Ladies look on surprised/shocked/delighted.
February 7, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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gwillow.me
The quality of art is not the quality of the art; if it were, art would begin and end w/photorealism. The quality of art is in the quality of the artist's observations. Some of the greatest novels have workmanlike prose; they are carried by jaw-dropping truths about human life. Or take cartooning--
February 7, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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lackingceremony.bsky.social
Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.

Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
scumbelievable.bsky.social Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 11d
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 7, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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elisabethalba.bsky.social
"The Lovers" from Tarot of the Owls 💜
Art by Elisabeth Alba
Written by Pamela Chen
Published by Llewellyn Worldwide

Signed art prints and signed decks (in full size and adorable mini!) at albaillustration.etsy.com
Painting of a pink owl and blue owl nuzzling on the branch of an apple tree (the tree is bursting with apples), and the blue owl is on top of a captured white snake.
February 6, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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eyeofthenewt.bsky.social
'The Deaths of River Dart'

AD: Fen Inkwright
#fantasyart #D&D #TTRPG
Digital painting depicting a dangerous-looking old woman with long dark hair, long pointy nose, yellow glowing eyes and a wicked smirk. She is up to her thighs in river water, washing a bloodied sheet of linen. The scene is in darkness, with a strip of lighting illuminating her only partially. The surface of the water is covered in duckweed and there are ravens flying around the figure. The figure has metal coin jewelry woven into her wild, dark hair that falls down her back and into the water like a thick blanket. There is a full moon visible in the reflection of the water. The credit text at the bottom includes: Crow&Crown logo, Aquarium logo, “Charlie Newt Borovský @EyeOfTheNewt” and “© Crow&Crown 2026”.
February 6, 2026 at 6:54 AM
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coeykuhn.bsky.social
𝖂𝖍𝖆𝖑𝖊 𝕱𝖆𝖑𝖑
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COEYandSHY.com
A personal piece part of a larger ongoing project 🩶 detail shots attached-
Skeleton of a blue whale suspended in a dead beach tree. Seagulls ominously loom and buoys hand from tired ropes.
January 30, 2026 at 11:22 PM