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Swandog / Xenia Eliassen

@swandog.bsky.social

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Old (53) cryptid-thing ΘΔ, furry/fantasy artist & crafter, birbmom, nonbinary ⚧️ (she/they), demi/ace, disabled/chronically ill ♿️ (MS, PsA, etc.), neurodivergent ♾️ (AuDHD) & US import in Norway. 🇸🇯 Socialist/antifascist! ✊️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🍉
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Swandog / Xenia Eliassen @swandog.bsky.social · Jan 13

Happy #PortfolioDay! I'm a nonbinary disabled and chronically ill furry/fantasy illustrator living in Norway (originally from the US). I love drawing all kinds of animals and fae creatures, and have been a traditional artist and crafter for years, but am slowly learning my way around digital art. ☺️

Digital art done in Medibang of a stylized, anthro pertyon doe (upper body view) with bowed head, closed eyes, folded wings and crossed arms, holding an owl feather and a hunting knife. She's also covered in various types of flora and wearing a torq, and there's a full moon behind her head like a halo.

Digital art done in Medibang of a masked, pink fennec kitsune wearing a sakura kimono and wooden sandals, and holding a paper lantern in one hand, while creating a fire wisp with the other. She's strolling thru a field of windy reeds at dusk, with a crescent moon behind her, and fireflies amongst the reeds. There's also a grey mouse hiding by her feet, and a pink spirit moth on the lantern.

Traditional art, done in ink and digitally colored, of a winged, maned sea dragon holding a sanddollar and surrounded by various other sea creatures, shells, driftwood, branches and flora that form a border around her.

Traditional art, done in ink and digitally colored, of a pink fairy armadillo with rosy maple moth wings, sitting in the grass and gently holding and inspecting a small ladybug friend.

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FINNKY! 🐾

@felinequine.bsky.social

full body for samdeer 🍃

Bay pony wearing a red beanie, blue shirt collar and traveling harness cantering on a green background

February 19, 2026 at 5:19 PM

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Kim Myatt⁷

@ysvyri.bsky.social

Throwback to when I made this. I was trying to find a sense of serenity in a very stressful time.

Digital painting of a young woman with a dark bob haircut, wearing a blue high-necked dress tied with a ribbon. She floats calmly among soft, white flowers as small glowing particles drift outward from the centre of the blossoms, creating a gentle, magical atmosphere

February 19, 2026 at 5:20 PM

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faun

@faungrove.bsky.social

the prince of sunlight and the queen of night

#thestolenheir #thefolkoftheair #hollyblack

February 19, 2026 at 5:21 PM

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Heartlilly

@heartlilly.bsky.social

Guess who's on their way to their new home?
#sculpey #sculpture #jackalope #furryart

February 19, 2026 at 11:28 AM

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Kour

@artkour.bsky.social

OBSESSED with how @ SubuRabbit (on X) finished my rabbit base! They did SUCH A GOOD JOB!!!!!!

x.com/m4lt_m315114...

February 19, 2026 at 2:04 PM

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Roman The Painter

@romanthepainter.com

Been in a rut since last fall. Then I found oil pastels over oil paint and everything clicked. "Big Red" — my first large piece with this new approach. 24×36 in., oil & oil pastel on canvas. Haven't been in the zone like this in a long time. #art #charlevoix romanthepainter.com/products/big...

February 19, 2026 at 2:04 PM

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Muffin☆

@britishmuffin.bsky.social

🏮 Happy Lunar New Year 🧧 🐴

Continuing my tradition of drawing the Fruits Basket cast every year with the fieriest horse I know

Digital artwork of Isuzu Sohma from Fruits Basket, often called Rin. She is drawn with in tones of grey, pink, and purple, sat next to a horse while caressing its chin. She wears a dark patterned qipao accessorised with a lot of gothic style jewellery, and holds a closed fan in the other hand. She looks down at the viewer, staring with a serious expression. The text reads New Year 2026.

February 18, 2026 at 2:58 AM

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🇺🇦 Runa Solaris 🔞

@runasolaris.art

Made a little art with her to distract myself a bit <3
I'm happy with this aquarelle/pastel.
And of course, once in a thousand years I draw her, haha. I'd still like to do some art with Algo, but.....commissions are holding me by the throat :'>

#art #runasolarisart #украрт #dragon #furryart

A smiling feral dragoness on a warm summer day. Against a background of greenery and sunflowers, work in warm tones

February 7, 2026 at 1:11 PM

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Stigmata 🤟🐵

@jonathanvair.bsky.social

Commission for Fallboard, 2026, PS (but fuck Adobe).

More furry art w/instruments, please! 🎼

An anthropomorphic possum plays a large metal handpan drum in a small interior. His hands, feet, and nose are pink flesh, his ankles forearms, backs of hands, tops of feet have dark fur, and top of head has dark hair. He is looking down at the instrument while his hands blur mid drumming, with a gentle pleased expression on his face. I hate using the word "cozy" because of all the videogame marketing I've experienced, but unfortunately I would describe this environment as "cozy". It is almost cramped. The space behind the character has a circular ceiling with a pattern moving around. Music production equipment appears just behind each shoulder. A triangle is loosely implied behind the character's head.

February 19, 2026 at 2:35 PM

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periwinkla ❀

@periwinkla.bsky.social

Hey artists, show me your greenery art! 🌿

Greenery is what I draw 90% of the time but I don't use green itself very often weirdly enough haha

A digital art illustration depicting Yuna from Final Fantasy X. She's sitting on a branch of a sea hibiscus tree. The sea hibisci are red. Yuna has her eyes closed and her left hand on her heart.
The colors are mainly greens, pinks and reds.

Digital art illustration featuring all grass type starters from Pokémon, at different stages of evolution. They're surrounded by succulents. They're all in a pile, cuddling together. Some are napping, some are just relaxing.
The pokémon are: Venusaur , Bayleef , Treecko , Turtwig , Serperior , Grookey , Chespin , and Rowlet .
The colors are mostly greens, yellows, and bright pinks.

Digital art illustration depicting Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth as kids surrounded by shaymin, sitting in a field of gracidea flowers.
The colors are mainly pinks and greens.

Digital art illustration depicting Mia Fey and Diego Armando embracing each other, surrounded by red camellias. The colors are mainly greens and reds.

February 19, 2026 at 12:03 PM

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Jabi Sanz

@jabisanzphotography.com

A faerie landscape in Iceland 🇮🇸

February 19, 2026 at 2:20 PM

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Pascel

@pascelfalcon.bsky.social

Character design for @musingfor.bsky.social

February 19, 2026 at 1:13 PM

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MJ Smiles

@misajoy.bsky.social

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

February 19, 2026 at 2:36 PM

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Felt Mistress

@feltmistress.bsky.social

More info on this new guy soon

February 19, 2026 at 11:53 AM

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Vlada Repina Art

@vladabotanica.bsky.social

Studying Eastern White Pine 🌲
The closer I look, the more tiny details I discover — needles, cone scales, subtle rhythms of growth.

Botanical drawing truly teaches you to slow down🤍

#botanicalart #naturestudy #pinecone #sketchbook #slowart

February 19, 2026 at 4:00 PM

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Outre Generation

@outregeneration.bsky.social

I added these green spider gloves to my Ko-Fi shop! You should check them out!

https://ko-fi.com/s/91ab53d093

#spiders #gloves #knitted

February 19, 2026 at 4:04 PM

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Brutal Sun Art

@brutalsun.com

A few of the handmade cuties available in my shop. Notice the moon cats actually have tiny moons in their chest cavities.

You'll find them here: bazaar.brutalsun.com/collections/...

#resinat #cats #catfigurines #catart #catcollectibles #purrmaid #catart #kitty #catartist

Arthur, a glittery green moon cat. He is translucent with a hand-painted moon in his chest cavity, and goes from dark teal to yellowish-green. He has an adorable white mustache.

Amalthea, the yellow moon cat. She has a dark amber head, but her body is a very pale see-through yellow, making her inset hand-painted moon easily visible. She wears a handmade headdress crafted from seed beads.

A beautiful transparent red mercat with gold glass eyes. She has plenty of cute white markings on her.

A festive purrmade cast in ultramarine, deep transparent violet, and translucent hot pink. She sparkles with glitter, and wears handmade seed bead jewelry. Her large glass eyes are yellow.

February 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM

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Michi

@michiwrap.bsky.social

- The Nightingale and the Rose -

"All night long you must sing to me, and the thorn must pierce your heart, and your life-blood must flow into my veins, and become mine." (Oscar Wilde)

🖤 [ #art | #digitalart | #darkart | #illustration | #bird ] 🖤

A digital illustration of a brown Nightingale crying in a rose bush. One of the thorns is piercing the nightingale's heart and a rose flower is blooming from that stem.

February 19, 2026 at 2:27 AM

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Thomas S Brown

@tomsbrown.bsky.social

and further good morning.
Not slept for some reason.
Got some work done, though.
I hope you find or make joys.

An apricot orchard in autumn, heavy with fruit. A porch post is visible and a path which leads to an ominous shed which emits green smoke from its chimney. Pencil drawing with colour applied.

February 10, 2026 at 8:26 AM

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Tamsin Abbott

@tamsintheshed.bsky.social

Hello, sadly neglected Bluesky. I explain more about what’s going on in my life on Instagram but here’s a slightly late horse to welcome in my year- the Fire Horse. Engraved, painted glass.