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Mayo Bous (Comms Open)
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Mayo Bous (Comms Open) @mayobous.bsky.social · Nov 20
Just a reminder that I do Illustration, Motion Graphics, Logos, Websites, Caricatures, Pixel Art, etc.

I'm Mayo Bous and I'm an illustrator and graphic designer with over 10 years of professional experience. Throughout my career I've worked across the music, publishing and gaming industries.
A professional designer looking at the screen. Behind him, samples of his work.
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First #FinalFantasy art of the year. This time I painted my favorite characters from FFVIII

#watercolor #illustration #squareenix #fanart #ps1
January 20, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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#tree for @lospec.com dailies. Made with @pixquare-app.bsky.social

#pixelart #lospecdailies #green #hope
A pixel art desert with a very young plant growing out of the center of the image.
January 20, 2026 at 8:57 AM
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She's seen the #future and it looks bright.
For @lospec.com dailies. Made with @pixquare-app.bsky.social

#pixelart #tarot #fortune
January 18, 2026 at 8:51 AM
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#beast for @lospec.com dailies. Made with @pixquare-app.bsky.social

#pixelart #marvel #xmen
January 17, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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#luck for @lospec.com dailies, made with @pixquare-app.bsky.social

#pixelart
January 16, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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kiwibeangirl.bsky.social
hi! i hit 500 followers and to celebrate i want to be brave enough to share my #artvsartist with you! late for 2025 but i am super shy and nervous! hope you like my kiwibean winter fashion with my friend jimbo! thank you to all 500+ followers, i greatly appreciate your support! 🖤
#artvsartist2025
artvsartist 3x3 grid featuring pixel art and me in the middle! from the top left to the bottom right, there is a blue wisp waving a hand above an isometric swamp a mouse study from above a super mario rpg inspired island with pipes and a mushroom house and a pond a scene from bomb rush cyberfunk with the antagonist huge and looking down on the tiny player character me in some of my winter fashion which includes my strawberry hat and black and pink checkered coat and a colorful mushroomy sweater and black tights jupiter with its four major moons and earth and other celestial bodies in the background four faces of an oc girl with green hair and expressive ears and mouth a snowy scene of a town that exists on an iceberg featuring three buildings with faces and a tree with a face and various residents fishing in a hole and a human heart study with some extra holes in it for making music as a horror themed instrument!
January 15, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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pikaole.bsky.social
How to draw eyes
December 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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omegachainoboy.bsky.social
Alucard 🦇 🌙
#pixelart
December 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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etheringtonbros.bsky.social
Our feature artist/reference today is this page of BACK ANATOMY studies by the talented @HighChaosKooks! Such brilliant break-downs, you learn TONS just by taking a few moments looking at this page! #manga #anime #gamedev #characterdesign #ART #illustration #drawings #ComicArt
December 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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hazelmonforton.com
Heading into 2026, I'm still looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! You can find my portfolio here: www.hazelmonforton.com
A scene from the High Heresy cinematic in Destiny 2: Heresy (2025) A scene from the Safiyah cinematic from Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted (2022) A scene from the final mission in Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017) A cutscene featuring the Outsider from Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017)
December 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Lenneth Valkyrie

#watercolors #ink #illustration #fanart #valkyrieprofile #jrpg #psx
December 27, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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elesrech.bsky.social
more slimes!!! some of them have faces now! knight for comparison.

#pixelart #gamedev
10 pixel art slimes shaded in diferent styles. 6 of them have eyes, one of them is red.
December 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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December 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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The name's the last thing you ate
#cute #watercolor #botanical
December 23, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Magic boi

#FinalFantasy IX #Watercolors
December 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Yesterday was Final Fantasy V's birthday on the SNES, released 33 years ago, so I made this watercolor fanart.

#watercolor #illustration #fanart #finalfantasy #finalfantasyv #snes #retrogame
December 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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I designed a cover for one of my favorite #books , #Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse.

#graphicdesign #literature #caricature #hermannhesse
December 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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faithschaffer.bsky.social
call me crazy but if the entire entertainment industry's reaction to the WB acquisition is "oh no" you probably are not, in fact, saving Hollywood
December 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Flexing my #ink and #watercolors with #Frieren

#fanart #anime #manga
December 4, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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I just wanted to try the pink #watercolor and one thing led to another. Anyways, here's #snes Link like I always imagined him.

#zelda #fanart #illustration
December 2, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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"This involuntary relaxation, possibly, kept him from preventing the accident..."

Fragment from "The Night Face Up" by Julio Cortazar, translated by Paul Blackburn and published by @newyorker.com on April 22, 1967.

#caricature #illustration #bookish #cortazar #graphicdesign
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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etheringtonbros.bsky.social
Get a MASSIVE 30% OFF my GIANT SKETCHBOOKS from 28th November to 2nd December using the code ELSKETCHBOOK30 at checkout! Just search "Etherington Brothers Sketchbooks" in google - the Lulu store page will be the top result :)
November 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Dawn - watercolor and acryla gouache on paper

If you want to give into your capitalistic urges, prints are
✨on sale✨ on INPRNT as part of their black friday thingy
a goddess spreads a veil of morning light across the night sky, bringing the dawn.
November 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM