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Aowna

@aowna.bsky.social

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2D/CG Artist | creature in a trench coat | FR/RU/ENG

SFF/H Writer, rep: @chamomeriam.bsky.social

#Commission me : https://vgen.co/Aowna
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Aowna @aowna.bsky.social · Mar 10

Hi, I'm Aowna, a 2D/3D artist & SFF/H writer!

I take art commissions, and I'm open to work for Freelance projects.

✨ vgen.co/Aowna
☕ ko-fi.com/aowna
✉️ aohryna@gmail.com
📜 a link to my commissions doc is in my bio!

Illustration for my book CHD, featuring a person haloed by the lens of an antique camera. The lens is filled with a bright red light, like a dark room. Around the lens and the man is a vague impression of a hood (no face inside) and multiple dark hands reaching out of the shadows.

Illustration for my book TTFOD, featuring a person in a duster and a horned mask, holding a revolver. Behind them is a creature of shadows with a vaguely humanoid shape, a broken crowd, a halo, and a sword of pure radiant light.

Illustration for my book GOR, featuring its two main characters (a sister and a brother), as well as a metallic tiger automaton.

Somewhat abstract piece representing characters and scenes from my book TTFOD. On the left is a woman in armor summoning a levitating astral falchion. In the middle is a man in a coat and mask, with a floating magical rapier and a shadow entity behind him. On the right, standing on water among steeples and stained glass, is a person in dark clothes and with a black hole looking halo.

Aowna

@aowna.bsky.social

There's this art trend going on about favorite characters and people are making such cute posts
Meanwhile... (looking at my fav characters, aka my compilation of scheming villains and sad wizards)

November 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM

Aowna

@aowna.bsky.social

Uploading sketches through my phone bc wifi still down :')

Before GOR was called GOR, I sometimes referred to it as project Chronomancer.
So here's an older Val that I could see actually using that title.

Digital sketch of a man with long white hair, fancy brown clothes, black sunglasses, a metallic leg and a cane. There's red and blue magic surrounding him.

November 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM

Aowna

@aowna.bsky.social

Sitting at the dentist's
Waiting to hear how much (financial) pain I'll be in

November 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM

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Tru Skies

@trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com

It's transgender awareness week. Meet Hope from The Chosen One Con as designed by @aowna.bsky.social! She's a young trans girl and sister to main character Max.

She has a few POV scenes in the first book, but is going to be more important in the sequel 👀

A 16-year-old trans girl painted in a teal monochromatic style as designed by Aowna. She is wearing a school uniform and cloak. A heart-shaped locket is around her neck. Her hair is long and tied in a braid. Potion bottles are floating around her.

November 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM

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Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨

@cometkins.bsky.social

What's your main character's greatest virtue? #WritingPrompt

November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM

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Lyanna 🌙 comms open

@lyannatropes.bsky.social

Artists! Please show:

✨ the first piece you did in 2025
✨ your favourite piece of the year
✨ your most popular piece
✨ your most recent piece

On the right, Thalia leans forward Eirwen with a red flower in her hand. On the left, Eirwen reaches out, her fingers delicately brushing against the petals while her left hand brushes through Thalia's hair. Around them winter is thawing, flowers and foliage emerging still covered in a little snow.

Camellia is holding Ametista in her arms as she pierces her heart with her sword. Ametista looks peaceful, her arms wrapped around Camellia's shoulders.

In the background there is a scene from their past. Camellia and Ametista are kissing in the gardens, a warm light pouring over the scenery.

The artwork has a golden frame with ornamental swords at the bottom.

A portrait of Ipomoea resting against a bush of ipomoea flowers. Her hair is spread across the blooms and the leaves, and her left hand gently touches a flower close to the shoulder.

Ipomoea is a blue tiefling with gem horns, and long, wavy white hair that sparkles in the shadow. Her eyes have a dark sclera with a white iris. Three small stars shine between the horns.

Ryan is leaning forward, outside a painting frame, their lips close to brushing Rose's who is sitting over the frame, as their hand touches her chin. Ryan is wearing renaissance era clothing from her time, while Rose is donning a victorian gown. The frame is decorated with red roses and hawthorn flowers (the latter being a reference to Ryan's full current name, Ryan Hawthorne).

November 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM

Aowna

@aowna.bsky.social

Just remembered that Death Note has some really good chants (Kyriiiieeeee) so that's today's editing soundtrack

Actually the OST as a whole has songs that sort of have that sad rock Silent Hill vibe too. Perfect CHD music! Why didn't I think of it sooner!

November 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM

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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛

@serenamalyon.bsky.social

Krona, Keeper of Eons - watercolour, acryla gouache on paper with some digital touchups

For Hearthstone's latest expansion, Across the Timeways.
AD: Jim Nelson

A giant, multi-armed figure adorned in gold, skin blue and shimmering like the night sky. 3 glowing eyes surround his head, and his hands wield a golden time-magic. In the foreground we see a floating platform that holds many archways. Stars appear at each joint, he is a living constellation.

November 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM

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🌛Caio Santos Art🌜

@blacksalander.bsky.social

...Denji, you have another person you like besides me, right?...

Reze exploding all my emotional barriers #chainsawman #ChainsawManMovie

November 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM

Aowna

@aowna.bsky.social

For CHD:

Both of them are scared of change in different ways.
E has a fatalistic streak. It's easier for him to accept doom than step out of his familiar hell.
C never gives up, desperately clinging even to things that hurt her.

This is a ghost story :)

A sketch-painting with mainly flat reds depicting a a woman, a man, and a strange figure looming over them both. The figure only has the lower part of a face; the top half is a golden circle, like a saint's halo or an ancient camera lens.

November 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM

Aowna

@aowna.bsky.social

I am endlessly fascinated by genre labels

David Green @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social · 7d

This week, I was sent a proof from one of the big publishers. In their pack, they described it as an "anti romantasy".

An anti romantasy.

I have so many thoughts about this, I honestly don't know where to begin.

November 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM

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Seán

@wizardhill.bsky.social

The sorcerer Alzared muses upon the mark left by the Dragon’s Shadow, the wizard Carloman muses upon his encounter with horror in Ancient Crypts, and a shadowy figure steals into a Labyrinth of Curses--read em now!

shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/p/shadows-an...

#fantasy #flashfiction #indieauthor

Shadows & Sorcery #189

This week, the sorcerer Alzared muses upon the mark left by the Dragon’s Shadow, the wizard Carloman muses upon his recent encounter with horror in Ancient Crypts, and a shadowy figure steals into the...

shadowsandsorcery.substack.com

November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM

Aowna

@aowna.bsky.social

You know what I miss? Writing asocial little weirdos. E and C from CHD are too normal.

You know what will fix that? Bugs.

November 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM

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Leen 🌻

@luneillusoire.bsky.social

Resting by the fire – Roseblood [OC] 🥀🔥

#darksouls #soulsborne #ocsky #drawing

A digital painting of a knight from video game Dark Souls by FromSoftware. Illustration of a Chosen Undead - the protagonist of the game - sitting by the bonfire. She wears an Astora knight armor, has long red hair and melancholic expression.

November 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM

Aowna

@aowna.bsky.social

For Am: recognition, an appreciation of her efforts. If it furthers her career and gives her interesting projects to work on, she'll consider it

For Val: his only true temptation is something only a very powerful entity can promise him. Otherwise, tough luck, there's not much to tempt him with.

November 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM

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Tru Skies

@trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com

The start of Chapter One from The Chosen One Con.

Back it on Backerkit! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

A promo picture of The Chosen One Con with the book cover by Trudie Skies, and the following text: gaslamp fantasy of bad manners & magical text. For once, the glow of the cerulean city matched the people’s mood. Bells tolled the unfortunate and untimely death of Aefenhold’s greatest Archon, and the whole city wallowed in mourning. Not me, though. I had drugs to buy.

November 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM

Aowna

@aowna.bsky.social

I recently discovered The Last Dinner Party, and Sail Away is oddly fitting for the end of CHD :')

Aowna @aowna.bsky.social · 8d

🔥 We're getting out of the footnotes this time!
71k. I'm CLOSE.

Screenshot of libreoffice saying "The text formatting conveys additional meaning." over a dozen times

November 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM

Aowna

@aowna.bsky.social

One of my favorite details in GOR is how Val starts the book talking in the most roundabout and polite way possible, and as the plot goes on, he starts filtering his words less, eventually to the point of actual honestly. He doesn't even curse until the middle of the book.

November 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM