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artgroves
@artgroves.bsky.social
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terminally enabled. offering art in these trying times.
freelance illustrator working in pencils and pastels

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You mattered to me first
#elliewilliams #tlou #TheLastOfUs #rileyabel
Pencil sketch of Ellie and Riley, surrounded by symbolic references, including Ellie's headphones, and Ellie's werewolf mask spitting out bones like Mileena. Riley has Firefly wings and hair tendrils both styled like fungus, and between the wings is a close-up of Ellie and Riley's kiss. Below them, Ellie's hands are applying stitches to an infected anatomical heart.
September 15, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Bucky Barnes, for Jessie, and @marveltrumpshate.bsky.social
Soft Pastel drawing of Bucky Barnes, looking at the viewer, long hair floating whimsically, on a red, gold and orange background featuring blue accents, surrounded by branches of blossoms.
September 14, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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A peek at one of the pieces I made for @tdvzine.bsky.social

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A horizontal digital manip base featuring a black background, and Bauhaus, streamlined moderne designs elements in various shades of purple along the bottom and sides (with blocked shapes at the bottom, and lines that culminate into a curved edge towards the top). A silver frame outlines the main feature of the post, and four purple stars are in each corner. The main logo of the zine, which reads: “Theatre des Vampires: an IWTV fanzine - Volume Two” is on the bottom right corner over the image of Lestat and Louis's entwined hands and a hint of their faces nestled close to each other, with vine leaves scattered on the ground around them.
July 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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More Clint and Bucky for dr_girlfriend's "Forevermore"
#ClintBarton
#BuckyBarnes
Pencil drawing of Clint and Bucky standing close together. Clint is taller and standing behind Bucky. Clint is wearing a hearing device and they are both dressed in medieval clothing.
July 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Medieval fantasy style Winterhawk for dr_girlfriend's "Forevermore"
#ClintBarton
#BuckyBarnes
Pencil drawing of Clint Barton standing protectively behind Bucky Barnes, who is kneeling at his feet. Both are dressed in medieval clothing. Clint has a quiver of arrows slung over his back, and a hearing device over his ear. Bucky looks resigned and dejected. Clint looks concerned and is placing one hand gently over Bucky's nape.
June 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Teng She, a heavenly snake in human form
#LoveAndRedemption
#TengShe
#琉璃
Pencil sketch of Teng She, looking superior and snarky, and judging you.
May 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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For @marveltrumpshate request for a callback to the Captain America panel "a flag is a piece of cloth"

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Captain America comic page, featuring the panel with the following dialogue: "Listen to me -- all of you out there! You were told by this man -- your hero -- that America is the greatest country in the world! He told you that Americans were the greatest people -- that America could be refined like silver, could have the impurities hammered out of it, and shine more brightly! He went on about how precious America was -- how you needed to make sure it remained great! And he told you anything was justified to preserve that great treasure, that pearl of great price that is America! Well, I say America is nothing!! Without its ideals -- its commitment to the freedom of all men, America is a piece of trash! A nation is nothing! A flag is a piece of cloth! I fought Adolf Hitler not because America was great, but because it was fragile! I knew that liberty could be snuffed out here as in Nazi Germany! As a people, we were no different than them! When I returned, I saw that you nearly did turn American into nothing! And the only reason you're not less then nothing -- -- is that it's still possible for you to bring freedom back to America! https://www.cbr.com/captain-america-greatest-speeches/
April 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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#HandsOff our future
Painting of Marvel's Natasha Romanova, aka Black Widow, styled after the 1943 American wartime "We Can Do It" poster by J. Howard Miller. Natasha, an immigrant with a past who testified in front of congress and worked to root out the Nazis inside government, is rolling up the sleeve of her punching arm. She is wearing an upside-down American flag bandanna, with the caption #HandsOff above her head.
April 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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He looked right at me like he didn't even know me.

Happy Birthday #BuckyBarnes
#WinterSoldier #CATWS
Black ink drawing of The Winter Soldier with a red handprint smudged over his face.
March 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Inspired by "Hope Is Not a Bird, Emily, It’s a Sewer Rat" by Caitlin Seida.

Fight, get ugly, get brutal in the face of fear.

Hope is "an ugly thing
With teeth and claws and
Patchy fur that’s seen some shit."

#captainamerica #steverogers
Pastel painting of pre-serum Steve Rogers, both fists up and ready to fight. His fists are bloody, he has a bloody nose and a blackened eye. His shirt sleeve is torn, revealing the tattoo of a rat beneath.
February 15, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Bucky Barnes
#art #commission
Pencil sketch of Bucky Barnes. His hair is shoulder length and his metal arm is reclining against soft furnishings. He is looking into the distance with a small smile, and there are twining grape vines behind and above him.
January 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Howl Jenkins Pendragon - Howl's Moving Castle
#art #commission
Pencil sketch of Howl Jenkins Pendragon, with the Moving Castle and a mountainous landscape in the background
January 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Samwise Gamgee and his potatoes.
That's it. That's the (vegie) plot.
#art #lotr
Pencil sketch of Samwise Gamgee kneeling in his garden, holding a basket of produce in one hand while pulling up a potato plant with the other.
January 25, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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My illustration for "Water, which laughs at all things", by T.K. Rex & L. Ann Kinyon, for the New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine Issue #2

Issue #0 is a free download if you want to check it out:
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Website: newedgeswordandsorcery.com
Pencil drawing of a serene woman with her eyes closed, sitting cross-legged on the ground at the base of a bare tree, the leafless branches reaching out over her. Several sharp spears and swords are pointed at her back, held by unseen hands. Beside the tree is a show which has been pierced through by a sharp stick-like object.
February 8, 2024 at 10:03 AM