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Scott Murphy
@murphyillustration.bsky.social
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Traditional artist working on Magic: the Gathering, D&D, and other fantasy delights. Heavy Metal fan, Bike Nerd. All works are hand painted in oils unless otherwise noted. 🚫AI

Website: www.Murphyillustration.com
Shop: murphyillustration.etsy.com
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Scott Murphy @murphyillustration.bsky.social · Nov 18
Hello Bluesky! I'm increasingly bad at keeping up with social media, but happy to try something new! Thanks for following!
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aaronbmiller.com
Have you ever just wanted to unleash an entire screaming horde of winged monkeys on your D&D party?
Yep, we can help with that - in Primal Encounters: live on Kickstarter now!

Kickstarter.com/projects/aaronbmiller/primal-encounters-5e/
Oil painting in bright pinks and dark purple/blues. The main figure is a bone-and-corset clad lady with half a shaved head, screaming and gesturing into the night. Around her hordes of small winged monkeys fly off to do her bidding.
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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robreyart.bsky.social
Nebulae
12 x 16 in, oil on panel
A new painting from an earlier study, Nebulae debuted at the IX Art Show. It's now back and on my website, original and prints.

robreyart.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
murphyillustration.bsky.social
If you see this post your "bird" art! 🦅
An Ibis-headed humanoid creature is running through tall grass at the edge of a red colored pond. The creature has wings spread and a sharp hooked staff weapon with Egyptian-esque clothing. Old temple buildings can be seen in the background.
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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changelingart.bsky.social
Our annual Deck the Halls auction is live!
Check it out on our facebook page - www.facebook.com/media/set?va...
Deck the Halls auction banner - santa and his sleigh over a city Nov 10th - Nov 14th
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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zebotc.bsky.social
High Tide 🌊 ✨ Hey guys I just finished this new painting in my ongoing series of paintings called ‘A Starry Place’ where I explore spaces that are meaningful and nostalgic to me. This piece is inspired by overcoming insurmountable challenges.
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 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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alexkonstad.bsky.social
A brief respite.
October 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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elisabethalba.bsky.social
Check out Prehistoric Creatures Coloring Book by my good friend Owen Weber on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/owe...
Prehistoric Creatures Coloring Book
A dinosaur and prehistoric mammal coloring book for all ages, 66 million years in the making.
www.kickstarter.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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rpancoast.bsky.social
The Day To Shape The Days Upon
24”x36” oil on canvas
🦀 🌊
New work for my Myth America personal series
Painting of a girl standing in the shallow waters of a bay, fishing net in hand with a barrel around her chest. Some crabs are in the barrel. The sky swirls behind her.
October 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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scottbrundage.bsky.social
Along with many illustrations, I'll be showing this series of various monkey based experiments for your hungry eyes. Each available for purchase
October 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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donatoarts.bsky.social
Working on a new cover painting for a science fiction novel and playing with the themes of geometric abstraction which helped build this piece for an anthology, Down These Dark Spaceways.
Psychohistorical Crisis II
30" x 18" Oil on Panel 2005
collection of Edie Stern and Joe Siclari
September 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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schmandrewart.bsky.social
Signal boosting!!

If you see someone with this proof, they STOLE it.
josiahcameron.bsky.social Josiah “Jo” Cameron @josiahcameron.bsky.social · Sep 28
If you are at MagicCon ATL and see this AP painting it is MISSING FROM MY BOOTH
September 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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bettyjiang.bsky.social
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September 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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elisabethalba.bsky.social
"With hard work, and a little dollop of luck, our endeavors will eventually bear fruit. Celebrate the harvest!" 🌿

"Seasonal Harvest" from the Everyday Witch Oracle I illustrated, written by @deborahblakeauthor.bsky.social, for Llewellyn

Art prints + signed oracle decks: albaillustration.etsy.com!
Ink and watercolor illustration of a witch kneeling in her garden cutting herbs with a small sickle. She is wearing a black hat, red globes, a black sleeveless tunic, striped black and white leggings, and boots. Next to her is a basket filled with herbs and an orange scottish fold cat looking in the basket.
September 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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jameelawahlgren.bsky.social
Just did a big update to my starter pack of non cis male fantasy artists to follow!

bsky.app/starter-pack...
September 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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cmdrsealed.bsky.social
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Thanks to every person who helped out. Some timely matching from Trevor Project got our grand impact total over $100,000!!!

How will we break this next year? The best way you can help right now is the ol' "like follow share!"
Commander Sealed 2025 Raises over $104,000
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September 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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elisabethalba.bsky.social
My 3rd alter on a Magic: The Gathering Forest card (beta!) for one of my patrons who collects Halloween alters. So tiny!!!!

Frog tape for the win, btw. Such crisp edges!

#mtg #halloween #mtgalter #tiny #illustration #badger #redfox #otter #chipmunk #trickortreat
A halloween illustration painted on top of a Magic: The Gathering Forest Land card originally by Christopher Rush (not an expensive one!). The image depicts a badger dressed as a skeleton, a fox dressed as a wizard, an otter dressed as a pumpkin, and a chipmunk on the badger's shoulder - trick or treating in a forest and approaching a door in a tree with a jack o lantern out front.
September 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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emilyhare.co.uk
It's my birthday!! I'm 49 - how did that happen? I would LOVE it if you could share or follow my art for my birthday, that would be a brilliant gift! Thank you everyone who follows and comments, it is such a great place here! 49 feels ace btw. #artshare #birthday #watercolour
www.emilyhare.co.uk
huge dragon (only the head visible) resting in a body of water in a forest. Lots of vines and tree branches dangling down, a stream running over its head and a great white egret taking off from the water next to it. a mermaid with a pink tail resting on a rock and leaning back on her hands as her tail comes out of the water. In the background is a lagoon and some cliffs and further back the hint of a waterfall a precarious tall hill with a wizard's house sitting on top of it with a wisp of smoke coming out of the chimney. It is dusk and all the windows are yellow with the light from inside. a large winged blue dragon prepares to land on a nest with two baby blue dragons waiting in the nest for their dinner.
September 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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ashmackenzie.bsky.social
Here's the cover art I did for The Poisoned King, Book 2 of Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell, out today! In addition to the cover I also did 30 b+ w interior illustrations.

Many thanks to AD Carol Ly, type design by Jason Carne and additional interior illustrations by Virginia Allyn.
Cover art for The Poisoned King, Book 2 of Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell. Two kids stand back to back holding swords in the silhouette of an immense manticore
September 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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jimmymakepeace.bsky.social
BATTLE IN THE THRONE ROOM - 2025

been working on this over the summer, it's been really nice to work so much on a single image and I think I learned quite a lot doing it! please share it with your favorite art directors.

a little treat for you to bookmark.
a barbarian stands on a dias in front of a throne holding a sword backlit in crimson and surrounded by armed and decaying skeletons. their leader holds a cobra staff glowing with evil energy.
September 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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elisabethalba.bsky.social
It's Caturday!! 🌿💨🔥💦

These cats grace the back of the cards from the Everyday Witch Oracle (illustrated by me, written by @deborahblakeauthor.bsky.social, Llewellyn Worldwide).

The original painting, prints, stickers, coloring book (3 left!), AND signed decks are at albaillustration.etsy.com!
Illustration of 4 cats running in a circle around a large star and symbols of the four elements (fire, a feather for air, a plant for earth, and water). They are on a celestial background of stars.
August 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
murphyillustration.bsky.social
Here's a new character painted for the upcoming #humblewood book for @hitpointpress.bsky.social. "Zaya" is painted in oils on sealed paper. She's based on a great design by the amazing Steve Prescott. Love getting to do characters like this!
Character painting of a feline humanoid dressed in adventure clothing. She holds an open book in her hands
August 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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aaronbmiller.com
You notice the tiny grabby hands in 3… 2… 1…

(If this cute guy gives you tiny grabby hands, you can grab a proof here:
www.aaronbmiller.com/proofs/p/fri... )
Oil painting of a huge blue and white sea worm (with tiny little grabby hands along its belly) fighting a raft with a few unlucky people on it.
August 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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coil.bsky.social
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:

At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
AI impoverishes us at every step of the process: - data centers pollute our environment - energy use drives up costs - content theft robs creators of income - the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages - using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence - the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people
August 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM