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Randy
@rivaldi22.bsky.social
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cute & good. heir of Skorri: a writer, artist, & otherwise teller of stories. any pronouns.

🌐portfolio: http://circlestrafe.net
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · Oct 14
Hey there, #PortfolioDay! I’m Randy, a writer and artist with particular affection for engaging, emotional stories with monsters, robots, and other nontraditional characters.

I’m looking for illustration and narrative work in the games industry, especially in the indie sector!

🌐: circlestrafe.net
A digital illustration of an Exo Warlock from Destiny. Her chassis is teal with brown/maroon markings on her shoulders, fingers, and a stripe down the middle of her face, where she also has a single horn protuding from her forehead. She is wearing an olive green dress with bits of lace, and her hands are up grasping her shoulders. Heulog holds herself as close as she can and continues to hum. She couldn’t yet form the vocalizations, and maybe would never be able to do so, but she hoped that for now the acrid notes alone would suffice. That through the burgeoning haze of unchecked anxiety Kysurax would be able to recall the invoking words and hear the earnest appeal to her inner strength, the words that define that strength as extant and obligate it to come forth, to inhabit her bones and manifest as the truest form of her will. The words that assert that she, as a single unified force of will and body—in defiance of all existence—shall persist. Heulog feels the thrumming slow, its rhythmic cadence aligning with her own deep breaths. She gently removes her hand from Kysurax’s torso and feels the Wizard’s arms close around her, pulling her into a tight embrace. “I am afraid,” Kysurax finally says, calm returned to her voice. “But I temper that fear with the certainty that I will be alright, because you are with me.” She looks down at the Exo in her arms, into the starblue flames that are her eyes, and smiles. “I do not doubt, for I have seen your heart. As you have seen mine. That is the power intrinsic to the Yielding Inquisition: there is no obfuscating act of misdirection, no factor of deceit that can withstand the abrading blade of trust conjured by the ritual. Truly, I have known you, and that secret knowledge is a weapon with which I joyfully flense and cast aside any and all flesh given over to the rot of doubt.” A digital illustration of Dûl Incaru, the Eternal Return, daughter of the Witch Queen Savathûn, from the game Destiny 2. She is holding herself tightly in a sentimental pose, arms crossing her chest with her head resting on one hand. She is a Hive Wizard with a unique model, with tall flanges on the side of the crest on her head, which gives the impression of wings or ears. She has three glowing green eyes. She has broad, spiky pauldrons that are pierced with spiked rings. Around her wrists are spiked bracelets inscribed with glowing Hive runes. She has more spiked rings attached at the waist, from which flow crimson ribbons. She is flanked by shattered columns, and looming behind her are Savathûn's three eyes. Cover art for the podcast "Real Lich Hours" hosted by Kaye Ross and Gary Butterfield over on their network "Duckfeed.tv" for their new season wherein they are covering "Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines" The art is of the two hosts as vampires, looking menacingly at the viewer. They have glowing eyes, Kaye is glowering over her indoor sunglasses and sipping upon an IV blood bag. The background is a gothy bar setting, with wine bottles and skulls and candles and the like. The logo for the show has been stylized to look like a neon bar sign, specifically one for Miller Lite.
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rivaldi22.bsky.social
It is upsetting that I don't have enough art this year for a month-by-month summary.

It was a terrible, soul-fracturing year for multiple reasons, and I can count the finished, polished pieces I produced on one hand.

But I still made art, and I would do well not to disregard that.
A digital illustration of Dûl Incaru, the Eternal Return, daughter of the Witch Queen Savathûn, from the game Destiny 2. She is holding herself tightly in a sentimental pose, arms crossing her chest with her head resting on one hand. She is a Hive Wizard with a unique model, with tall flanges on the side of the crest on her head, which gives the impression of wings or ears. She has three glowing green eyes. She has broad, spiky pauldrons that are pierced with spiked rings. Around her wrists are spiked bracelets inscribed with glowing Hive runes. She has more spiked rings attached at the waist, from which flow crimson ribbons. She is flanked by shattered columns, and looming behind her are Savathûn's three eyes. A digital half body portrait of Chioma Esi and Maya Sundaresh from Destiny 2. Chioma is holding Maya close, and holding her chin in one hand, looking at her very romantically. Maya, with a slight smirk, is distracted, looking down at a glowing tablet. They are framed in pink and turquoise light, and are surrounded by glowing turquoise particles. Drawing of Hornet from Hollow Knight and Silksong. She is a bug woman with a cloak and a large needle weapon. She is standing facing away from the viewer and putting some of her weight on her needle. Cover art for the podcast "Real Lich Hours" hosted by Kaye Ross and Gary Butterfield over on their network "Duckfeed.tv" for their new season wherein they are covering "Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines" The art is of the two hosts as vampires, looking menacingly at the viewer. They have glowing eyes, Kaye is glowering over her indoor sunglasses and sipping upon an IV blood bag. The background is a gothy bar setting, with wine bottles and skulls and candles and the like. The logo for the show has been stylized to look like a neon bar sign, specifically one for Miller Lite
December 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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rivaldi22.bsky.social
Kulve Taroth, the Glorious Dragon

An Elder Dragon that protects herself with a glittering coat of metal over her scales. Some of the precious metal comes from the weapons of defeated Hunters who once tried to slay her.

& I love her

pls put her in gen 6🥺

capcpom pls

#myart #MonHun
A colorful illustrative portrait of Kulve Taroth from Monster Hunter: World. She is a dragon with black scales, who is covered in gold that was melted and cooled, so it drips from her ram-like horns, neck and face. She is lit from below by a soft greenish-blue light. There is a glow from within her mouth which portends her use of her incredibly high-temperature breath weapon. Most importantly: she is beautiful.
August 12, 2023 at 10:03 PM
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eiramew.bsky.social
2025 Art Newsletter is live! Get it for free here, or pwyw if you wish to support me 🤍 rt are appreciated
> ko-fi.com/s/41209d370c
#art #artsky
December 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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energyfalcon.bsky.social
Commission.
#Destiny2Art
December 28, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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austinwalker.bsky.social
Me logging into this website so that I can “get a sense of what’s going on in the world”
jjvincent.bsky.social James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 4d
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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bioluminosity.bsky.social
everything was super spread out but also clumped together at the same time, so I had to sort these by months the most work was done/when they were started.

mostly commissions. loved the return of dragons 🌌

#2025summaryofart #2025artsummary #noAI
12 month block of artworks, 10 of which are commissions, one is unfinished, and the summer all dragons
December 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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rincewind.run
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable." REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. "Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—" YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. "So we can believe the big ones?" YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING. "They're not the same at all!" YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED. "Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—" MY POINT EXACTLY.
December 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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percivale.bsky.social
Happy Dawning nerds #destiny2art
December 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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goddammitsarah.bsky.social
if you patronize hospitality services today and tomorrow please consider showing them some more generosity than you normally would
December 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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kosmicwraith.bsky.social
On a dashing one titan sleigh ❄️🛷
#Destiny2AOTW #Destiny2Art #D2Art #Destiny2Dawning

Collab between me and @techstomper.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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satelitesnaturales.bsky.social
Okay let's do this again. Emergency graphic design commissions. Simple stuff only (i.e. title treatments), starting at 30 US dollars without revisions.
Buy me almond milk and keep my heart unexploded 👍
DECEMBER ALMOND MILK DEBACLE i'll do: titles, mockups, flyers, other simple stuff. from: 30 U$D* *Revisions not included
December 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
rivaldi22.bsky.social
bit of a longshot here buuut: if I were to be considering a New Vegas revisit in the near future, does anyone here have any particular mods they recommend? Esp graphical/QoL mods

I'm very likely gonna be using Josh Sawyer's Survival mod because I consider that the "Director's Cut" gameplay mod
December 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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papapishu.bsky.social
If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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holboldoart.bsky.social
Happy Solstice ❄️
A snowy scene in which a humanoid figure in long black robes with the head of a rook stands in a churchyard holding a long spear. By its feet is a red fox. Both are flecked with fallen snow. Around them are many weathered snow-covered graves. In the background is a medieval church of warm coloured stone with large rectangular windows and a battlemented parapet topped with pinnacles. Behind the main body of the church is the tower with clock face and belfry. Behind the church are tall but bare trees dusted with snow. More snow falls in the air.
December 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
rivaldi22.bsky.social
Now more than ever.

Trying not to feel completely lost and alone on this Longest Night.
rivaldi22.bsky.social Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · Dec 21
Happy Longest Night, everyone.

At the end of everything, hold onto anything.
December 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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bioluminosity.bsky.social
diptych - angels (2022)
acrylic on canvas

#ArtAdventCalendar
two 18x36 canvases with nondistinct figures, veins, branches, and fire, framing central orbicular figures that repeat
December 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
rivaldi22.bsky.social
The fact that one of the scant few things I was able to produce this year was cover art for a great podcast hosted by podcasters beloved by myself and many others is something over which I am constantly and desperately urging myself to have the smallest nascent glimmer of pride
rivaldi22.bsky.social Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 12d
It is upsetting that I don't have enough art this year for a month-by-month summary.

It was a terrible, soul-fracturing year for multiple reasons, and I can count the finished, polished pieces I produced on one hand.

But I still made art, and I would do well not to disregard that.
A digital illustration of Dûl Incaru, the Eternal Return, daughter of the Witch Queen Savathûn, from the game Destiny 2. She is holding herself tightly in a sentimental pose, arms crossing her chest with her head resting on one hand. She is a Hive Wizard with a unique model, with tall flanges on the side of the crest on her head, which gives the impression of wings or ears. She has three glowing green eyes. She has broad, spiky pauldrons that are pierced with spiked rings. Around her wrists are spiked bracelets inscribed with glowing Hive runes. She has more spiked rings attached at the waist, from which flow crimson ribbons. She is flanked by shattered columns, and looming behind her are Savathûn's three eyes. A digital half body portrait of Chioma Esi and Maya Sundaresh from Destiny 2. Chioma is holding Maya close, and holding her chin in one hand, looking at her very romantically. Maya, with a slight smirk, is distracted, looking down at a glowing tablet. They are framed in pink and turquoise light, and are surrounded by glowing turquoise particles. Drawing of Hornet from Hollow Knight and Silksong. She is a bug woman with a cloak and a large needle weapon. She is standing facing away from the viewer and putting some of her weight on her needle. Cover art for the podcast "Real Lich Hours" hosted by Kaye Ross and Gary Butterfield over on their network "Duckfeed.tv" for their new season wherein they are covering "Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines" The art is of the two hosts as vampires, looking menacingly at the viewer. They have glowing eyes, Kaye is glowering over her indoor sunglasses and sipping upon an IV blood bag. The background is a gothy bar setting, with wine bottles and skulls and candles and the like. The logo for the show has been stylized to look like a neon bar sign, specifically one for Miller Lite
December 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
rivaldi22.bsky.social
It is upsetting that I don't have enough art this year for a month-by-month summary.

It was a terrible, soul-fracturing year for multiple reasons, and I can count the finished, polished pieces I produced on one hand.

But I still made art, and I would do well not to disregard that.
A digital illustration of Dûl Incaru, the Eternal Return, daughter of the Witch Queen Savathûn, from the game Destiny 2. She is holding herself tightly in a sentimental pose, arms crossing her chest with her head resting on one hand. She is a Hive Wizard with a unique model, with tall flanges on the side of the crest on her head, which gives the impression of wings or ears. She has three glowing green eyes. She has broad, spiky pauldrons that are pierced with spiked rings. Around her wrists are spiked bracelets inscribed with glowing Hive runes. She has more spiked rings attached at the waist, from which flow crimson ribbons. She is flanked by shattered columns, and looming behind her are Savathûn's three eyes. A digital half body portrait of Chioma Esi and Maya Sundaresh from Destiny 2. Chioma is holding Maya close, and holding her chin in one hand, looking at her very romantically. Maya, with a slight smirk, is distracted, looking down at a glowing tablet. They are framed in pink and turquoise light, and are surrounded by glowing turquoise particles. Drawing of Hornet from Hollow Knight and Silksong. She is a bug woman with a cloak and a large needle weapon. She is standing facing away from the viewer and putting some of her weight on her needle. Cover art for the podcast "Real Lich Hours" hosted by Kaye Ross and Gary Butterfield over on their network "Duckfeed.tv" for their new season wherein they are covering "Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines" The art is of the two hosts as vampires, looking menacingly at the viewer. They have glowing eyes, Kaye is glowering over her indoor sunglasses and sipping upon an IV blood bag. The background is a gothy bar setting, with wine bottles and skulls and candles and the like. The logo for the show has been stylized to look like a neon bar sign, specifically one for Miller Lite
December 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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bioluminosity.bsky.social
Today’s #faventcalendar is one im so glad I did in 2022

Resonant fire//knife
#Destiny2Art
Red swirling motions like heat distortions and resonance surround the witness in a back view; its cloak split on the spine in transformation
December 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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bioluminosity.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar

Revelation (2022)
Acrylic on canvas
36x48 (I think)

#astroluminescent
3 angelic blue figures in a sky above a planet, surrounded by beams and clouds: below them are likewise 3 skulls in flame, all influencing dark orbs balanced atop eachother
December 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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airbagged.bsky.social
It's that time of the year again
December 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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ninthriven.bsky.social
Field Guide for @delpickle.bsky.social & @s4r4htonin.bsky.social ✨

#Destiny2
#Destiny2Art
A field guide featuring a hunter and warlock holding hands and playing with different abilities with their free hands. The guide features the Slammer, the Mountaintop, Buried Bloodline (Synthetic Connection), and Coldheart (Sub-Zero), Warlord’s Ruin seal, and the Nine Lives shell. Text reads: Del Pickle: > I am SPEED > vault status: 699/700 > lives in the walls S4R4HTONIN > trace rifle collector > dkwtd but can explain the while encounter > would die for Riven > fashion first DPS second
December 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
rivaldi22.bsky.social
lest we—or the Senate—forget: trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️
December 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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steelpeach.bsky.social
Ovelia and Agrias (bodyguarding)

#FFT #art
Monochromatic drawing of Princess Ovelia and Agrias Oaks from Final Fantasy Tactics. Agrias is behind Ovelia and holding a hand in front of her protectively. A decorative frame is around them
December 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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bioluminosity.bsky.social
I forgot the name..(Entities series)

Fall 2023
24x30 Acrylic on canvas
#ArtAdventCalendar
A large neon pink, scarlet, and or age angelic figure with dark eyes, many hands in motion, and wings
December 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM