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Runesael Flynn
@runesael.bsky.social
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#Art Director, Stations and Starships #ttrpgs • Character #Artist, Cartomantic • 3D printing • fountain pen nerd • neurodivergent • rhythm games #itg #ddr • worldbuilding + conlangs • NO GENAI 🚫 • dicemaker • #projectzomboid RP • amateur VA + musician
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Runesael Flynn @runesael.bsky.social · May 22
“If things do get bad—“

“Then the work before us is the same as it always was, and always will be.” He gave her a reassuring smile. “We must take care of each other.”

-The Map and the Territory, by
@/amtuomala.bsky.social
runesael.bsky.social
Quick question, why the hell do Americans feel the need to be so goddamn loud in public?

Talking on their phones or with each other at shouting volume for no good goddamn reason.

This post brought to you by: I hate airports.
January 7, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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runesael.bsky.social
1999 - 2025.

26 years of my life right here.

That's about 76k hours. There have been seasons in my life where I didn't paint at all, and seasons where I was painting 12-16 hours a day.

Keep going. You'll get there. <3

#art #digitalpainting #portrait #oc
A very rudimentary sketch on old paper with coloured pencils of a feminine figure maybe with black and purple hair and pale skin and red eyes. It is made in a very childish fashion, and was created in 1999 by Runesael when they were 11. A portrait painted digitally in teal and red, with a smear effect across the face of the figure. They have short black hair and are wearing an outfit in rusts and blues. The background is black and red. They wear a jade pendant as a choker. Their expression is a slight smirk.
October 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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runesael.bsky.social
The visual progression of this character is lowkey heartbreaking.

Violet got trapped in the Knox Exclusion Zone with her two best friends, and they both died very early on. Things have gotten substantially worse for her from there.

(Her hair got turned white due to an expired dose of the cure.)
This is the same image as the original post. A white haired feminine person with pale skin and blue eyes looks off to the side, her hand held up in a thinking posture to her chin. She wears a slightly mischievous smile and looks away from the viewer. She is also wearing glasses. A white-haired feminine figure with red dyed streaks in her hair and blood spattered across her hair, face and clothes stares off into the middle distance. A smoking cigarette hangs from her lips. She looks exhausted. Her hair has been drawn into a loose, messy ponytail.
December 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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runesael.bsky.social
I draw Violet a lot as my “test” character. She’s had a lot of different appearances, but the white hair and all of the scars are constants. Visual storytelling and all.

She added the red streak in her hair as a reminder of the weight of her decisions. (She’s a combat medic and fighter.)
A number of Violets, a pale, white-haired feminine person with blue eyes wearing different outfits and expressions. Top left is “startled”, middle is “slightly disgusted / shocked,” top right is “sentimental.” Bottom expressions are “smug” and “probably about to shoot you,” as she is holding a marksman’s rifle of some variety. A white haired feminine figure viewed from the side, wearing a grey and pink cat eared hoodie. She looks away from the viewer and looks tired. A portrait of a feminine individual with short-cropped white hair with a red streak through it at the temple. She has a Mosin Nagant slung across her shoulder and wears a fur-collared military jacket with the callsign “Gremlin.” Embers float around her and she stands in a dark background. A white haired feminine figure viewed from the front, though she looks up and off to one side. She wears a black leather jacket with silver studs in the collar. Her hair is worn in an asymmetrical style, and she wears a black choker around her throat.
December 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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runesael.bsky.social
/ Do you ever wonder what it’s like
losing what you cannot be without
(I’ll keep running.) /

(A very young Violet, my #ProjectZomboid RP PC.)

#art #procreate #oc #digitalart #noai
A young feminine person with blonde hair, blue eyes and tanned, freckled skin looks at the viewer from the side. She has a slight smirk on her face, and her hair has been rendered in such a way that the reflected light is iridescent. She wears a grey tank top and a black ribbon choker around her neck. The image has a soft focus on it around the edges of her hair.
December 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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runesael.bsky.social
“Do you wish,” Wit asked, “that you could go back to not being able to see?”

“No,” she whispered.

“Then live. And let your failures be part of you.”
January 6, 2026 at 9:53 AM
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runesael.bsky.social
A more stylized sketch of Sophie (redhead), Violet (middle) and Liam, sometime in their early secondary school years. This is an in-world Polaroid of them on a field trip to Birmingham sometime in the 80s.

(Sophie and Liam didn’t survive the first week of the KEZ.)

#projectzomboid #sketch #oc
Three young people stand together in a stylized colour sketch. The girl on the right has red hair and wears a blue grey school uniform. She’s hugging a small blonde girl who looks deeply uncomfortable in a similar uniform without a jacket. Behind them, a tall, skinny teenage boy throws up devil’s horns with one hand, and is putting bunny ears on the blonde girl. He wears a leather jacket with spikes on the shoulders and many patches and pins.
January 6, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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runesael.bsky.social
Violet at 16 and 26.

(This version of the younger Violet is without the iridescent shading in her hair, and was done as a reference image for the roleplaying server I’m part of.)

The second image is Violet as she is now in game, sans a few scars.

#projectzomboid #oc #art #illustration
A young, teenaged feminine person with blonde hair and blue-green eyes smirks at the viewer. She wears a grey tank top and a black choker. A feminine person in their twenties smirks at the viewer. She has white hair and blue-green eyes. Her face as a number of scars, to include one across the eyebrow and one horizontally across her face. She wears a black jacket with a fur collar. Her white hair is done up in a messy ponytail, and a nearly shoulder-length section of bangs hangs over the far side of her face, concealing her eye. There is a red streak in her hair that runs from her temple into her ponytail.
January 6, 2026 at 7:27 PM
runesael.bsky.social
A more stylized sketch of Sophie (redhead), Violet (middle) and Liam, sometime in their early secondary school years. This is an in-world Polaroid of them on a field trip to Birmingham sometime in the 80s.

(Sophie and Liam didn’t survive the first week of the KEZ.)

#projectzomboid #sketch #oc
Three young people stand together in a stylized colour sketch. The girl on the right has red hair and wears a blue grey school uniform. She’s hugging a small blonde girl who looks deeply uncomfortable in a similar uniform without a jacket. Behind them, a tall, skinny teenage boy throws up devil’s horns with one hand, and is putting bunny ears on the blonde girl. He wears a leather jacket with spikes on the shoulders and many patches and pins.
January 6, 2026 at 7:40 PM
runesael.bsky.social
Full illustrations can be anywhere from 20-60 hours, depends on complexity.

Sketches / simpler stuff is anywhere from 30 minutes to 2-6 hours.

Concepts take as long as they take, includes a lot of referencing and research.
keyokku.com emi エミ | illustrator @keyokku.com · 3d
hey artists on bluesky, how long does it take you to finish a piece to post?
January 6, 2026 at 7:34 PM
runesael.bsky.social
Violet at 16 and 26.

(This version of the younger Violet is without the iridescent shading in her hair, and was done as a reference image for the roleplaying server I’m part of.)

The second image is Violet as she is now in game, sans a few scars.

#projectzomboid #oc #art #illustration
A young, teenaged feminine person with blonde hair and blue-green eyes smirks at the viewer. She wears a grey tank top and a black choker. A feminine person in their twenties smirks at the viewer. She has white hair and blue-green eyes. Her face as a number of scars, to include one across the eyebrow and one horizontally across her face. She wears a black jacket with a fur collar. Her white hair is done up in a messy ponytail, and a nearly shoulder-length section of bangs hangs over the far side of her face, concealing her eye. There is a red streak in her hair that runs from her temple into her ponytail.
January 6, 2026 at 7:27 PM
runesael.bsky.social
“Do you wish,” Wit asked, “that you could go back to not being able to see?”

“No,” she whispered.

“Then live. And let your failures be part of you.”
January 6, 2026 at 9:53 AM
runesael.bsky.social
Kinda been doing some music things again; good old, “make it exist, then make it good.” Except not sure if it’ll ever be good. That’s okay.

Not sure if I’ll ever share that stuff here but I’m doing something that isn’t just grinding art for once.
January 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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runesael.bsky.social
some character #sketches from the #projectzomboid RP server I play on.

#art #illustration #procreate
a greyscale sketch of a white haired feminine person kissing the forehead of a masculine Asian person. Both are wearing dark colours. The feminine person is shorter than the masculine person. a greyscale character sketch of a scruffy looking masculine person with a beard and sad eyes. He wears a hoodie and a collared button up shirt. a greyscale sketch of a pale feminine person with a fur-collared coat and chin length dark hair. a colour sketch of a young feminine person viewed from the side. her face has spatters of blood across it, and her white hair has streaks of blood and red dye in it. she is smoking a cigarette and staring out into the middle distance, looking as exhausted as I feel these days. She wears a black choker around her throat with a single 9mm round hanging off of it, wrapped in a thread basket weave pattern. Her hair is done in a loose, messy ponytail.
December 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
runesael.bsky.social
I want to find my voice again.
rj-palmer.com RJ Palmer @rj-palmer.com · 6d
What are your art ambitions for 2026? Make sure to post them here so we can publicly shame you if you achieve none of them!!
January 1, 2026 at 7:43 PM
runesael.bsky.social
/ Do you ever wonder what it’s like
losing what you cannot be without
(I’ll keep running.) /

(A very young Violet, my #ProjectZomboid RP PC.)

#art #procreate #oc #digitalart #noai
A young feminine person with blonde hair, blue eyes and tanned, freckled skin looks at the viewer from the side. She has a slight smirk on her face, and her hair has been rendered in such a way that the reflected light is iridescent. She wears a grey tank top and a black ribbon choker around her neck. The image has a soft focus on it around the edges of her hair.
December 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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runesael.bsky.social
(stay your pretty eyes on course)

#projectzomboid #art #fanart #OC #sketch #cw #blood #injury #guns
CW: gun, blood, violence, firearms, injury. A sketchy figure with short hair and bright blue eyes points a Glock 21 at the viewer. The figure has the silhouette of a large rifle on their back, crossed with the outline of what might be a sword. Their expression is fearful, angry and sad, and tears run down their face. They have flecks of blood across their fur-collared jacket and their skin, as well as blood trailing from a wound on their forehead. The character has white hair with red streaks through it on the right temple. The image is in grey save for the blood and the person’s eyes. The focus is also on the character’s face as the background has been blurred and is simple and white. This is a piece of Project Zomboid fanart of Runesael’s roleplaying character, whose name is Violet Alexander. It is vaguely reminiscent of the style of Arcane.
December 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
runesael.bsky.social
Mimic + Laser Focus/Librarian, but with -100% to visual memory, (I have aphantasia, but a very large library of references.)
December 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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kendrawcandraw.bsky.social
"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist
December 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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looseendsproject.bsky.social
Loose Ends in 60 Seconds 🩷
January 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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phantomarine.bsky.social
"but we have to use this technology or our shareholders-"
"but if we don't make games faster then-"
"but if our company doesn't exist then hundreds of jobs will be-"

maybe the companies that will survive will be the ones who actually still make art

because they'll stand out in a sea of slop
December 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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phantomarine.bsky.social
"but we need to iterate on a bunch of ideas so our artists need to-"

concept artists have been iterating on ideas for decades, they're trained to do it efficiently

if you as a company want to sacrifice quality for quantity then that's on you, and it WILL show in the product, it WILL look sloppy
Concept art of Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite by Claire Hummel, showing several versions of her outfit
December 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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phantomarine.bsky.social
"concept artists can experiment with AI to make their lives easi-"

wrong

I smack you with Claire Hummel's immaculate and detailed understanding of costume design, which she got by studying historical references, which made her strong, which you will not become by relying on AI

get good
Concept art of Rosalind Lutece's wardrobe and outfit construction from Bioshock Infinite, drawn by Claire Hummel
December 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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tkingfisher.com
There are some great suggestions here, but I feel like Elrond deserved at least one F-bomb somewhere. “Men. Men are fucking weak.”
thecallisandra.bsky.social Callisandra @thecallisandra.bsky.social · 12d
The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering to insert the most useful swear word?

"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
December 27, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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aiviwave.com
@surasshu.com & i are doing the music for this together ✨
ashmakes.games Ash | Wishlist Cartomantic on Steam! @ashmakes.games · Nov 11
Our game was spotted in the Just Revealed section of HypeTrain's event. Finally looking kinda real with the art 😭😭

So uhh, if you wanna wishlist and check us out, you can 👉👈
store.steampowered.com/app/2219850/...

Screenshot courtesy of @glitchinggogo.bsky.social (one of my strongest playtesters 💪)
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 AM