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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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thecreepingmoon.bsky.social
Desecrated Grounds

Acrylic on panel (original sold)
A painting on wood cut in the shape of a cathedral panel. The painting depicts a mausoleum in a dark swampy forest. The mausoleum is surrounded by lit candles, with a pile of small bones at the entrance. The door is slightly cracked open.
November 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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pakornart.bsky.social
#watercolor #art #medieval #painting #graphicnovel #fantasy #comics #illustration #castle
City sliding into water Arsenal Alleyways
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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markus-erdt-art.de
I want to do some more Lorcana fanart to extend my portfolio.
Mirage was the one I did already. Who else to do? Chaos? Mozenrath? Queen La? or somebody from Gargoyles perhaps?
#mirage #Lorcana #fanart
A fan art piece by Markus Erdt for the Lorcana card game. Mirage, a cat lady in red Egyptian style clothing floats towards us in front of a moon lit sky and Egyptian temple walls. She wields green flames in her hands.
November 11, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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serenamalyon.bsky.social
Not my usual style, but an illustration for a puzzle I made a long time ago.

If you've put together this puzzle, I'm so sorry for the swan and the hair 😘
women gather and make art in a lush garden space
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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wolfskulljack.bsky.social
I’m trying to pass portfolios of other artists to clients I can’t take and the amount of you that don’t have your contact details readily available! I want to give you woooorrrkk!
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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thecreepingmoon.bsky.social
The front cover that I did last year, for Illumicrate’s special edition of Until We Shatter by Kate Dylan
A painting of a massive fantasy cathedral overlooking a gothic cityscape. The sun is setting and the city is bathed in twilight.
May 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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johannamation.bsky.social
Artist propaganda I’m not falling for (and you shouldn’t either):
ARTIST PROPAGANDA I'M NOT FALLING FOR: X Pulling all-nighters to make art proves you’re dedicated to your craft X True artists draw every single day X Only make friends with fellow artists cuz they’ll get you gigs someday X Freelancing is for artists who can't get a "real" studio job X Drawing fanart is cringe X Your portfolio should only have what studios want to see
June 4, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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elisabethalba.bsky.social
Cozy Caturday Cottage Cats! 🐈🔥

Art by Elisabeth Alba
Created with ink, watercolor, and acryla gouache

Prints at albaillustration.etsy.com
Illustration set in a cozy Victorian cottage kitchen/living space. A cat sits on the ground by the hearth, reading a book. Another cat sits in a nearby rocking chair, knitting a blanket.
November 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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brianlarossa.com
Hey illustrators/agents!

I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS!

Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.

💙❤️ #artcommissions
November 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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replica004.bsky.social
Sea elf Ezac 🦈🌊
[Comm for xravenloves]
Ezac is a muscularly slender male sea elf or merman, with bright blue eyes and ashy blonde short hair. He looks young but a bit rugged. He has a giant unique tail and fins: at the base of his tail he has large manta fins and shape and as it ends it forms into a fierce shark tail. On the background a coral reef in blue gradients.
November 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Curaniel (commission)
Digital painting. A portrait of a female elf, she has a very pale skin, long ears with many simple earrings, dark blue eyes and long black hair. Her hair is loose behind her back, and there are some braids in the front, one braid is decorated with pearls. Her dress is almost transparent with sparkling details.
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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riseupcomus.bsky.social
The thing I like the best about Frank Franzetta's EOWYN VS THE NAZGUL LORD is that Eowyn was disguised as Dernhelm, just another one of the boys. Which means that this is how all the Rohirrim were dressed.
Frank Frazetta's Eowyn vs the Witch King. Eowyn is clad in a chainmail bikini as the necromantic witch king looms over her, ready to strike with his mace.
November 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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tobidahmen.bsky.social
Guten Morgen, hier kommt ein kleines Interview, das der Spiegel mit mir im Sommer im Zusammenhang von generativer KI in der Arbeitswelt geführt hat.

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(S+) Künstliche Intelligenz im Job: Comiczeichner verliert Aufträge durch KI-Nutzung
Tobi Dahmen arbeitet seit Jahrzehnten als Comiczeichner. Doch immer öfter brechen Aufträge weg, weil Kunden lieber KI nutzen – und diese mit seinen Bildern trainieren. Ein extra Honorar bekommt er daf...
tinyurl.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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naladraws.com
I’ve had maybe four (???) freelance gigs fall through over the last month with nothing lined up. If anyone needs art pls consider me! my portfolio is on naladraws.com

if you have disposable income and want to help me pay my bills this month, I’ll put links in replies.

#mutualaid
October 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM
kristinagehrmann.bsky.social
The key to realistically paint materials is to understand the "Specularity Spectrum" (term made up by me).

Once you understand how reflective or not something is, you can roughly deduce how much you need to emphasize form shadows vs reflections (highlights), or whether to combine both.
Info graphic explaining the specularity spectrum (a term I made up), comparing how reflective or dull some materials are compared to others. On the one extreme end there's a mirror (maximum reflectivity); on the other end a dull material like Vantablack or rough wood (least reflectivity).
October 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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suwisuwii.bsky.social
wip
sketch of orin and a drow looking into each other's eyes while orin holds the bloodthirst dagger with an arm around them
October 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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danliimatta.bsky.social
#Dailyart 55 : Mage + Soul bound
Mage tethered to her soul, and has a glowing green/white skin
October 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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snarkylamassu.bsky.social
Chrono Trigger: Waiting

Fiona dreams of growing a forest to save the land laid waste, but it'll take centuries, so Robo stays behind to help tend to the trees long after her lifetime. 400yrs later you find him, rusted and broken down amid a lush forest, Fiona's dream accomplished🌳

#ChronoTrigger
Deep in a lush forest, a deactivated robot crouches beneath a tree, cradling a magical sapling. Nearby is the tombstone of the woman who grew the forest from seed, whose work the robot continued long after she passed.
October 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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thewhalergirl.com
More SoIaF calender art! This time ALL the horses. I really enjoy painting horses but this one was a challenge with so many. Oberyn arriving with his cohort. I managed to sneak the Hogg family banner in there as it's legit a family he travelled with :D

Oil on panel 19 x 19" #art #gameofthrones
a traditional oil painting of a scene from a Song of ice and Fire, where Oberyn and his Dorne cohort, all on horseback with family banners and crests visible, arrive to meet Bron and Tyrion, meant as a snub. Oberyn rides a white stallion bedecked with orange and yellow barding, while Tyrion and Bron's dark horses and decked in red and gold barding of the Lannister household. The landscape is dramatic hills and low lying clouds
October 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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jeleynai.bsky.social
"The price of your Nature"

I've been a little upset at the world lately, so uh... personal work?
A painting featuring a four-armed spirit of nature tenderly 'helping' a greedy 'king' into the next life. She's holding a set of scales that drip blood. The man is lying on a forest floor littered with human skulls. It's all a very thinly veiled metaphor for a rich governing minority making careless, devastating decisions that affect all of us and have the potential to ruin our planet c: (I have been a little bit upset with the world, idk if that shows (°◡°)
October 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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laurenwalshart.bsky.social
Hey artists

Just keep posting.
Last post didn’t get many likes? Keep posting.
Not 100% happy with what you made? Post it.
Feel like you aren’t getting anywhere? Keep posting.

You never know who will find you and when.
October 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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suzannehelmigh.bsky.social
If you're an artist wanting to break through in TTRPG illustrations and feel like you need an Art Directors feedback on your current portfolio. Feel free to reach out, comment or DM me here.
I feel like the industry is hard enough as is. I will reply slow but I'll do my best to support! 💜
October 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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kortizart.bsky.social
As promised, a recent painting!

“Roja”
Oils 16x9

You can still view this one in person (always looks so much better in person!) at @spoke-art.com NY!

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Close up of the portrait in an oil painting. Close up of an oil painting, focused a wolf A woman dressed in a red robe, holds her chest. Behind her a wolf eats an indescribable piece of bloodied meat. The wolf’s muzzle is as bloodied as the woman’s hand. Framed oil painting of a woman in red, a massive wolf behind her
October 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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rhigu.bsky.social
Commission for luffer! Thank you so much!
A dark and foreboding figure stands in white garb in front of a temple. There is a strong yellow glow coming from the door behind her.
October 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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kylewbanks.com
Folks! I’m looking for an illustrator to do some in-game artwork for an unannounced project on a contract basis in November.

Feel free to shoot me a DM with your portfolio if you’re interested!

Must be based in the UK, and absolutely no AI 🌟
October 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM