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Christine Ridgway [Commissions Temp Closed]
@skidarstudios.bsky.social
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🎨 Illustrator: Commissions closed temporarily due to injury
🌵 Author of #Skytown
🦎 Environmental Conservation Major
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Christine Ridgway [Commissions Temp Closed] @skidarstudios.bsky.social · Jan 13
Help it's again

Happy #PortfolioDay!

I'm Christine, I'm an animal fantasy and wildlife illustrator and Environmental Conservation student.

I do a lot of digital art but I'm branching into gouache and loving it ;)

See more of my work and my commission sheet: linktr.ee.com/skidarstudios
digital painting of an anthro deer, a dik dik, in glasses and a pack filled with flowers. he's crouching to pick a flower in the forest Gouache painting of a California quail with a fantastical colorful desert sunset in the background A female bolted kingfisher in gouache on watercolor paper. Colorful patterns with stars and a moon behind her Digital painting A mule deer buck eating apples in a golden forest
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February 16, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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This was drawn a few years ago but might as well be apt for how I'm feeling this #YearOfTheHorse. Riding #PudgyHorse onto a pyre of my sketchbooks and materials. 🙃

Obvious nod to Arthur Rackham's 1911 illustration of Brünhilde's immolation scene from Götterdämmerung.

#ChineseNewYear #LunarNewYear
Drawing in brown pencil of a red-crowned crane (a kind of 'self portrait') with wings raised, head thrown back as though uttering a cry, standing on the back my character, #PudgyHorse, a baroque type horse with luxuriant mane and tail and deliberately exaggerated proportions, including an extremely generous girth and short, delicate legs with dainty hooves, who in turn is standing upon a burning pyre of books and art materials, issuing stylised flames and smoke. The drawing is a deliberate tribute to Arthur Rackham's illustration of Brünhilde riding her horse, Grane, onto Siegfried's funeral pyre, from the book, Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods.
February 16, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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Happy Year of the Horse! 🐴 🎆
Featuring some of my favorite horses I've drawn, including a peek at a fire horse I almost but didn't quite finish in time 😅 🔥
A black horse jumping through an inferno, trailing flame and smoke A dark bay pegasus against a starry galactic sky A golden horse standing in a pond, glowing mane trailing in the water, with stars overhead A dark nightmare stalking among acid green smoke
February 18, 2026 at 3:31 AM
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February 17, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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Mine's not hard to pronounce but its mispronounced a lot anyway 😅

Skidar is skee-durr

I've heard Skitter, Skee-dar, and Sky-dar

Skidar is a mashup of my first two online handles: Ski-Machine on dA and Cedarpaw on a warriors rp forum. Nicknames Ski and Cedar, then mashed together as Skidar.
chrissamnee.bsky.social Chris Samnee @chrissamnee.bsky.social · 1d
Hard to pronounce creators, sound off!!
Samnee— SOM-nee
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Marvel pronunciations
February 17, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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Spring Banner commission for @bosonicvinegar.bsky.social of Emmet and Scully
a springtime banner background of a green forest and a mossy creek with a bridge in the distance. an anthro wombat sits on a grassy bank with a book in the background while an anthro ferret in the foreground excitedly holds up a frog he just caught
June 9, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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I legit can't remember if I ever shared this or not but here's a gouache painting of Murkia from a few month's back.

Murkia is my goblin bard from our Bellinghamlet games 🥁🎨

She's also one of my Artfight characters 😜
artfight.net/character/47...
a gouache painting of a goblin bust, she's wearing a spikey leather jacket. she has large bat-like ears with earrings all over, and large yellow eyes. She's smiling and surrounding by colorful paint splatters
July 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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#Artfight attack of Legs Washington for @wynbird.bsky.social
digital art of a two headed fawn with and extra pair of legs between the forelegs running happily through a grassy mwadow
July 12, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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#Artfight revenge attack for Starmouse
a black and white striped parasaurolophus dinousaur drinking some water
July 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Patreon wallpaper award for July, a lovely double crested cormorant!

I went to the spit today to birdwatch and gain inspiration.
They have the most gorgeous eyes.

Full res download available to all paid tiers!

www.patreon.com/skidarstudios
digital art of a seaweed draped double crested cormorant in front of dazzling, sunset-colored water.
July 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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#Yeehawgust Day 1: Stars of the Midnight Range

Dan from #Skytown #HiddenStars
an anthro rat in cowboy garb lit below from a glowing fire and looking up at a starry sky. swirls of smoke spiral up from his lit cigarette
August 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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#Yeehawgust Day 2: Running With The Wolves

Murkia can be pretty vicious if she has to be, watch out

#Bellinghamlet
a glaring goblin with large batlike ears with a snarling wolf behind her, lightning sparking from its eye
August 2, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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#Yeehawgust Day 5, Boot Scootin' Boogie
the lower half of an anthro zebra tailed lizard in star-patched sparkly jeans and purple and gold boots dancing surrounded by stars
August 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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#Yeehawgust Day 9, The Shifting, Whispering Sands

Windy, from Skytown: Web of Lies
a half cropped close up of an anthro kangaroo rat, a purple slot canyon with a sandy floor behind her
August 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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#Yeehawgust Day 11, The Gambler

Jared doesn't often employ his 'party trick' as his bunkmates call it. But being bitter and jaded against everyone means sometimes he has to show off if only to put some yokel in their place.

Been a long time since I drew my sour boy, Jared is from Skytown
an anthro black and tan fancy mouse in western wear holding a pistol in one hand and a silver dollar with a hole through it in the other. his speech text reads: Tricks are for the slow and dim. and while you certainly fit that bill I can assure you this is all skill. now pay up.'
August 12, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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#Yeehawgust Day 14, Riders in the Sky

This is one of those rare pieces that came out exactly as I wanted it to in my head ☺️
a desert landscape at dusk. a small girl and her dog looking up at the clouds, within the clouds are the figure of a man and woman riding horses
August 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Sunflash the Mace and Skarlath (2021)

Despite the everything wrong with Outcast of Redwall, Sunflash and Skarlath do their damndest to save the book with their wonderful freindship.
🪶 #Redwall
And anthro badger in armor with a Mace over one shoulder smiling as a European Kestrel lands on his arm. Sunflash the Mace and Skarlath from Outcast of Redwall by Brian Jacques
August 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Finally finished a belated birthday gift for my brother. His circle of the shepherd druid, Quinn, a sockeye salmon lokatha. He was a fun challenge!
an anthro sockeye salmon in fantasy garb hunched over carrying a large crook shaped like a fish hook with lures hanging off of it
September 22, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Fall Banner Commission for @bosonicvinegar.bsky.social of Bryce the caribou and Franz the plushy ferret!
🍂🍁🍂🍁

Fall Banners are available now-December
Info: bsky.app/profile/skid...
fall banner of an autumn forest creek. an anthro caribou in hiking gear and a blue trek pole climbs over a log near a small waterfall and nervously smiles and beckons caution to a living plushy ferret scampering up a fallen log across the falls.
October 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Queenfisher 🪶
6x6" Gouache on Watercolor Paper
Art from my time up at the cabin in September, I really want to do more birds like this :)
a colorful gouache painting of a female belted kingfisher with a colorful abstract starry background. There is a crescent moon behind it and its holding a star in its beak
October 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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🍂 Raven Eclipse 🔴
Gouache on watercolor paper, approx 6x9"

I've been having a lovely time playing with my paints again 😊
This will be up on my Inprnt shop soon!
a gouache painting of a raven with its beak open in front of a red moon surrounded by patterns in leaves in oranges reds and purples
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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So rusty drawing Sonya 🙃
A sketch of a long hair anthro doe mouse tying back het long curly hair with the ribbon in her teeth
November 19, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Finally played on my tablet again for the first time in ages.
In our last Bellinghamlet campaign Murkia got a new scar from her god's holy weapon.
Umbra Dave, a large black pegasus talking to Murkia, a large-eared goblin with a jagged lightning bolt scar on her shoulder. Umbra Dav: Nice scar. Murkia: Bite me.
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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This months Sticker Goblin patron sticker reward is the Weasel Pretzel!
A wetzel... a preasel? With sprinkles!

Becaome a Sticker Goblin tier patron by the end of the month to get this reward :D
patreon.com/skidarstudios
an illustration of a white weasel twisted like a pretzel covered in rainbow star sprinkles, this is the december patreon sticker reward
December 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Been unable to make art so I'm gonna repost some older art that I like 💪🖌️
February 17, 2026 at 5:50 PM