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Art Dad
@artdad.bsky.social
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Definitely your dad // definitely some sort of artist
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Think I'm going to redo some of my old #TTRPG art (right) since my art style has changed a good bit in the last year. I'm still amazed that project turned out half as good as it did.

But there's enough about the drawings I did for that project that hit weird to my eye and redoing them is in order.
November 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
artdad.bsky.social
Sunday Morning Coffee -- It's so nice to have Pinterest functional again holy shit

#art #digitalart #sketching
Three female figures. One standing on a train, another woman in some fancy/Middle-eastern-ish garb, and a third woman, sitting and smoking. All have have high contrast black shading for their clothing. On the right side of the image are the three photo refs I pulled from Pinterest.
November 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Spooky Blorbo

Happy Halloween, kids. Don't let the Monsters getcha tonight

#halloween #art #monsters #markers
A worm-like monster with bug eyes, fuzzy antenae, and a creepy smile, with a humanoid torso and arms
October 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Okay so I definitely flubbed #zombieskulltober this year, but that flub was a gateway for catelizing some art improvement so I can't be upset! Here's a repost of my favorite for Day 31

#art #traditionalart #spiders
Blue zombie with spider eyes, sandy blonde hair, brown pedipalps and three dog-like spiders perched on him.
October 31, 2025 at 12:13 PM
artdad.bsky.social
Ended up scribbling out my Dnd Toon Asmon and his demiurge spirit Ma'alinan (during our down-time session last night).

Whatever has been happening to my art style lately is extremely welcome 😅

#digitalart #art #sketch #DnD
A girlish spirit looking over the right (your left) shoulder of a scruffy looking necromancer/warlock/thunder mage named Asmon. The sketch is on the scribblier side.
October 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
artdad.bsky.social
More noodling for this concept. I think it's gonna have to be sandals, or I gotta research early boot designs.
October 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
artdad.bsky.social
Idk, might do a one-shot soon and finally do my first comic.

Exiled viking sent to kill monsters till the revive when killed magic is used up.

#art #traditionalart #pencil #fantasy
Character sketches of a Viking-like man. More Scotsman/Celtic than Viking. On the left is the initial sketch with the character shirtless, and wearing torn pants + shaggy furs around his waist. The image on the left is a redraw of the character walking towards the viewer and wearing a shirt.
October 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
artdad.bsky.social
The crop indeed did me dirty
October 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Been taking some time off #zombieskulltober, sorry folks. I was feeling like I was just going through the motions after the first few days.

I did sketch this lovely harpy in Leonardo tonight though!

#art #digitalart #inktober
A harpy with flared feathers coming off her upper chest, and tufts of feathers on her arms and legs. More humanoid than beast.
October 23, 2025 at 3:49 AM
artdad.bsky.social
No Zombies today. Brain really needed to do a little figure drawing.

#art #drawing #pencils #figuredrawing
3 quick figure studies (about 5-8 minutes each). The top left was my just being loose with the model shapes, the second was blending two refs together (the rightmost drawing), and the third (bottom left) was a quicker and smaller study. All done with HB mechanical .05 graphite
October 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Days 17-20 | Twisted Sisters, Barnacle Head, Just Following Orders

#zombieskulltober #art #pencils #darkart
Two female zombies sketched in pencil. On the left is a small head shot of a zombie with alien-like barnacle creatures growing from it. On the right is a zombie soldier hoisting a missile scrawled with WWZ on it.
October 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Day 16 | Molting

#zombieskulltober #inktober #art #penandink #darkart
A shell of a zombie with an oozing shape pulling out of its back. To mimic a creature molting. The husk is kneeling. Just a sketch, with some basic hash shading.
October 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Day 15 | Napalm - Vietnam '71

#zombieskulltober #darkart #horror #art #digitalart
A zombie wearing a dented helmet, missing its lower jaw, with a giant tongue hanging out of his mouth. It's framed by an old school photograph that says "Napalm" - Vietnam '71. This image is black and white and the background is white flames of a burning forest (you can't see any trees).
October 16, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Day 14 | Experiment 3: Jack the Ripper

#zombieskulltober #darkart #digitalart #horror #art
A female zombie with green skin, a bone arm with a giant pair of scissors attached, and a shredded dress.
October 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Day 12 and Day 13 | Bound in Death

Quick and dirty doodles for the last two days. Thankfully getting some lucrative freelance work coming my way, but that's also meant I'm busy! I plan to redraw any pencil pieces later for the end of the month :)

#zombieskulltober #art #darkart #pencils
October 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Day 11 | Survivorship Bias

I really missed graphite! But I also don't have the time to do a thorough graphite render today, so a sketch will have to do.

#zombieskulltober #art #graphite #pencil #darkart #sketch
A pencil sketch of a zombie survivor dragging the corpse with them into the fog. They have a sheathed machete hanging off their waist, a backpack, and are leaning on a tree with their right arm. There's the silhouette of another zombie in the distance.
October 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Day 10 | Migraine

#zombieskulltober #art #digitalart #inktober
A portrait of a big-mouthed zombie with fingers pushing out of its eyes and its wrists sticking out of the back of its head.
October 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Day 9 | Containment: Experiment 5

#zombieskulltober #markers #inktober #art
A blonde, female zombie torso with severed arms, floating in a tank. The liquid is ice blue.
October 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
artdad.bsky.social
Noodling after beating @jlhgames.bsky.social's Prototype Mansion (a low-poly Resident Evil homage). Very funny, some fantastic slapstick gags throughout. Highly recommend!

(Ignore the weird arm thing that's not part of the game)

#digitalart #art #spooky #zombies
A gaggle of drawings featuring a male and female cop, a derpy looking child, a silly cat, big-ass wasp, and a zombie nurse. It also has a weird arm thing, so ignore that.
October 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Day 8 | Double Tap

(taking a page out of @stringerseven.bsky.social book today and doing digital b&w heavy hashing)

#zombieskulltober #darkart #art #inktober #digitalart
A black & white zombie being slashed or blasted from the neck through the face. It's falling backwards.
October 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Return to MONKE

#digitalart #art
An approximation of a yeti/bigfoot in black and white. He's sitting on teh ground and most of his lower body is in silhouette.
October 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
artdad.bsky.social
Day 7 | Grin

Fighting off a cold, so a quick and dirty one today

#zombieskulltober #inktober #markers #art #darkart
A grinning zombie with long black hair, a blue t-shirt, and oversized, chipped teeth. It is grinning. Done mostly with markers, so it's more "sketch-like" and messy, compared to an inked and meticulously colored piece.
October 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
artdad.bsky.social
Been in the thick of it with #zombieskulltober so great timing dude!
October 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Day 6 | Scorched Earth

#zombieskulltober #art #darkart #markers
A burned up husk of a zombie, with a fire bursting out of its chest, and fire visible within the skull. It's also actively smoldering with smoke plumes wafting out of it.
October 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Day 5 | Apocalypse Courier

#zombieskulltober #art #darkart #scifi #markers
A female skeleton zombie wearing burnt orange/yellow gear, with large leather gloves giving a thumbs up. She's carrying a container over her shoulder, and outlined in a dark-blue gray. It's positioned as an ad, so at the top of the page it says "WORLD'S END DELIVERY! FAST! SAFE! DEAD!"
October 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM