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Azure Chi Art
@azurechi.bsky.social
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Artist and History of Art Enthusiast studying at the University of Oxford.
My life consists of art, photography, video and tabletop games, D&D, EDM, cats and good food.
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Behold! I drew this as a gift for a friend. They always get this fellow in their starting hand - a dragon named Deathfang (based on Flamecraft by Cardboard Alchemy, art by Sandara Tang).

Media: Winsor&Newton pastel watercolours, drawing inks, watercolour paper.

#art #tabletopgames #dragon #fantasy
A photo of a framed drawing. It depicts a cartoonish 2D depiction of a dragon resting regally over a ladder of illuminated letters that spell their name: Deathfang. They have a bluish white body with silver-grey swirly patterns on the head and the back. The dragon is standing facing sideways, and we see their profile: they look rather sassy. They have two sets of horns adorned with jewellery, and we can see one of their wings. Their long tail coils around a golden chalice with a fiery crystal floating above it, surrounded in light-blue flames. The background features a red-and-blue diamond pattern. The illuminated letters are gold in black boxes. The edges of the drawing are adorned by two bands: one with a gold-on-black sun pattern, and the outer band with a red-and-blue pattern over the golden band.
August 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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It's been a while! Life is hectic, but here is an update on the latest piece: it became a painting on a suitcase.

Materials: Posca acrylic markers

#art #decoration
A small square black suitcase with a colourful painting of a bunch of grapes. The grapes are magenta-coloured with fluorescent blue shadows and white highlights. The plate is bright yellow with a red rim.
July 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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A little something I am working on. It will become an acrylic marker decoration on a suitcase.

Materials for the grape plates: Caran d'Ache Neocolour II crayons

Marker swatches (top right and bottom left): Posca markers

#art #food #graphicdesign
A sketch image of two near-identical plates with a bundle of grapes. The top left sketch features a yellow plate with red grapes that have blue shadows and red outlines. There are two grapes laid separately on the right side of the plate. The bottom right plate has a similar composition. The plate is yellow, the grapes are pink-magenta coloured, with blue shadows and outlines. There are marker and crayon swatches in the top right corner of the sheet, and a marker test of grapes in the bottom right corner.
July 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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A little work in progress: a sketch for a future lino. A great blue heron, if I am not mistaken.

Blue pencil on tracing paper.

#SciArt #sketch #art
A photo of a table with several art supplies scattered upon it. There is a chunky red-and-blue pencil, a tracing paper pad with a sketch of a bird, and a notebook with several smaller stylised bird thumbnails. The big bird sketch is a pencil lineart of a big blue heron. It spreads its wings and twists its neck in a stylised manner.
June 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Let's remedy the fact that I have not posted my art for a while. This piece is for an upcoming #TTRPG campaign (Dishonored 2d20 system). It will be a disaster expedition inspired by At the Mountains of Madness, Dishonored franchise, and The Terror.

#watercolour #art
A watercolour painting of a cliff view from a lower ground point. The cliff is taking up the majority of the drawing. The drawing is done in grey and blue colours, leaning towards cool colours. The ambience is dark and foreboding, cold and menacing. The cliff is comprised of tall basalt pillars. There is a tunnel entrance in the middle of the cliff, a rock lip drawing a narrow path to it across the painting. The entrance is dark, nothing can be seen inside. Over the cliff, a few threads of blue smoke cut through the white clouds in the sky. There are two small silhouettes at the left of the clifftop. Their features are barely defined.
June 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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My partner said 'Oh! Fauvism!' looking at this garlic bulb I drew today. It's quite unusual for me to use so many colours... It was a scary, but fun session with Caran d'Ache Neocolour II crayons.

#art #botanical #sciart 🧄
A bright and saturated bulb of garlic is drawn on a white background. There are two cloves peeled off from the main body, although they are still attached to the bulb at the bottom. The stem is directed into the upper left corner. It is white with gentle yellow and blue undertones. The outer skin of the garlic is purple, with blue showing up in the shadows. The flesh is orange-y yellow and red in the shadows.
April 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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More Caran d'Ache Neocolour II experiments. I think I like the saturated colours and the softness of the resulting image.

(still calibrating my scanner, is the image quality any good?)

#art #botanical #sciart
A small branch with three olives. The branch is depicted on a white background. There are eight leaves in total; they are mostly green, with speckles of brown, red and yellow colour. The olives are black with blue and white highlights.
April 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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And to follow it up immediately: some goggles. I really struggled with the lenses, but in the end, I think it looks okay. Same media as in the sprout below.

#mARTch #art #markers #stillife
A pair of goggles is depicted on a white background. It has a stretchy brown strap, black plastic and bronze-esque oculars. The lenses are transparent and tinted in light blue. There are colour samples underneath the goggles, while above, there is a title '08. goggles'.
April 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Yeah, I know that I am a month late, but here is the seventh prompt from the #mARTch challenge. A lovely little sprout, media: Faber Castell PITT Artist brush pens.

#art #botanical #sciart
An image of a plant sprout. It has a long white body, slightly brown at the bottom of the stem. The top of the sprout is crowned with two leaves splitting in different directions. The leaves are green with some cold blue-green undertones and yellow highlights. The green gradients into yellow and then white down the stem. The stem ends with a large yellow-brown seed and three wiggly roots. The plant is depicted on a white background with colour samples on the sides. There is a title '07. sprout' on the image.
April 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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A short break in #mARTch - no, not a year long, I promise - for some other arts. An hour-long study, Schmincke watercolours.

Now, repeat after me: I love alliums. I. Love. Alliums.

#art #botanical #watercolours #sciart
A saturated watercolour depiction of an onion bulb. It is depicted realistically. Seven strong stems sprout out of the top of the onion, while the roots are small and short. The brown outer layer is partially broken, revealing the purple flesh of the inner layers. There is a bit of dry, brown tunic on the left side of the onion and a slimmer petal covering a section in the middle of the bulb. The right side of the onion is uncovered. The onion is depicted on a white background.
April 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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And, finally, of an unrelated note - I detest April Fools, and yet I drew a little jack-in-the-box today at work. Testing out Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils. The paper might not be the best (unknown provenance, possibly tinted watercolour), but I quite liked the patchy effect.

#art #pencils
A pencil drawing of a jack-in-the-box. A cartoonish clown head is springing out of a box from the bottom left corner to the top right corner. The palette is muted and the colour looks patchy on textured paper. The clown is wearing a hat with two tails - green and blue - with jingling bells at the end of each. There is a pseudo-crown on the headband of the hat. The clown's eyes are looking in different directions in a comedic fashion. They have blush, a round red nose, and a wide grin. The face is somewhat squished, wider than it is tall. The bluish spring connects the head to the box. The outside of the box panels is white with a red rim along every box rib and yellow stars in the center of each panel. On the inside, the box is dark brown.
April 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Not quite done today just yet! Here is another #mARTch25 drawing. I had a lot of fun with this one, did not expect to be able to mimic the skin well enough. Faber-Castell PITT Artist brushpens again.

#art #sciart
A marker drawing of a red newt on a white background. The newt's lighter parts are yellow - the muzzle, inner sides of appendages, the belly and bottom of the tail. Their eyes are also yellow. The prevalent colours of newt's skin are dark red and raspberry red, with red and orange colours blending in with the yellows. The newt is crawling across the drawing, towards the viewer. There are colour swatches at the bottom of the drawing. Above them, there is a title: '06. newt'.
April 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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And another #mARTch25 prompt, a vase. No colour swatches because this one was also for work, I was testing out Winsor&Newton Promarkers, plus some Copics.

#art
An orange acrylic vase with a blue branch is on a white background with a light texture. The vase is transparent, and it has ribs on the left side. We cannot see the right side, but there is a hint of the vase's bottom reflecting on other sides. The light blue branch splits into two as it leans onto the vase's rim. There are several fuzzy dark-blue flowers; they look fuzzy.
April 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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March might be gone, but not #mARTch25 - yes, I am catching up.

As always - Faber-Castell PITT Artist brushpens.
#art
A bar of lavender-coloured soap lies in periwinkle bubbles with peach-y accents. The bar has a raspberry-coloured border in its center and similarly coloured letters saying 'soap'. There are colour swatches on top of the drawing, and a title '04. soap' in the top right corner.
April 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Hold on, I have some #mARTch peppers to add to this 💚🧵
A trio of green chillies is arranged in the shape of flame tongues, with their tips pointing upwards. They are surrounded by a yellow halo. To the side, there are colour samples.
March 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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I am finally done with my latest essay, so here is another #mARTch entry.

#art media: Faber-Castell PITT artist pens
A short, blue-tinted ladder is leaning against a white wall with a circular opening to the outside world. There is a bright blue sky with sunset clouds that are in shades of yellow, orange and red.
March 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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I am late to the party, and I don't know how many I'll manage to finish; however, I'm hopping on the #mARTch train!

#art media: Faber-Castell PITT artist pens
A bunch of vibrant blueberries in blue and purple tones. The leaves are bluish-green. There are colour samples in circles to the right of the berries.
March 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Did I forget to post more arts after threatening to do so? Yes. Let's catch up a bit - a simple sea + sunset combo. Again, Caran d'Ache, and some white ink.

#art #ink @bsky.art
A vibrant image of a sunset sky over the sea. The sun is white and close to the horizon. The sky is red the closest to the sea, slowly mixing into orange, then yellow, faint teal, light bluse and, finally, saturated blue. The sea water is serenely light blue and sea green, white lines and dots of ink highlighting the waves.
March 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Sharing this wonderful eclectic and electric cat (Louis Wain style) that graces a TTRPG book cover! #WorldBookDay
March 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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In the next couple of days, I'll be sharing a few drawings I did at work to showcase some new art media at the shop I work for. Let's start with these pomegranates, 30 min sketch with Caran d'Ache water-soluble crayons. I am in love.

#art #floralart #botanicalart #sciart @bsky.art
A drawing of juicy pomegranates hanging down from a short branch. The leaves are fluorescent green with flecks of yellow, brown and purple. The fruits are extraordinarily red, towards a carmine colour, with purple in their shadowed parts. There are 3 pomegranates, with the lowest being the largest and pointing downwards. A medium-sized fruit is almost entirely hidden by the leaves on the left side of the drawing. On the right side, there is the smallest and roundest pomegranate.
March 4, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Are you an art admirer, enjoying a weekend in #Oxford? Come join me at James St. Tavern today for an #art market! Myself and a bunch of wonderful local artists are displaying today!
A picture of author's booth at an art market. There is a scatter of small colourful paper leaves atop a wooden table. There are many various art pieces on the display: prints of plants, gouache paintings, cat linoprints.
February 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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I took part in a local art event yesterday; it was a joy to see a community canvas. The wizard and the fancy pants warrior are mine! #Lines25 #art
A white canvas with an assortment of doodles from various artists, ranging from basic smiley faces and down to works with complex colour palettes. Among the doodles, there are: a pink dinosaur, a sword, several bat-orc heads in 80s dark fantasy style, a cartoonist fish, an Adventure Times character, a Knight and a barbarian fighting an evil wizard.
February 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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If you see this post, post a pic from your device without an explanation.
A photo of an evening urban street. You can't see people here until you look deeper into the image. The focus of the image is a tent trade booth with Pokemon plushies. A giant Gengar pokemon takes up a considerable part of the image. It is taller than an average human. It is eerily lit both by orange street lights and a cold booth light, making it more believable that it is a real-life creature. The image feels empty and haunted, but also mischievous due to Gengar's nature and its wide grin.
January 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Am I late to the party? No? Cool!
HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you 💚
A tarot-card inspired image depicting a hag and a woman. The hag is blue-skinned, her arms are long and her hands are bigger than her head. She has deep green eyes, a set of horns and a long tongue that goes from black to green to purple. The hag is delicately embracing a woman standing in front of her. The woman's face is hidden; she holds a dagger in one of her hands. There is a snake biting onto her chest, over a loose styled dress. The woman seems to be pregnant, a halo ornament accentuates her belly. The background of the image is a gradient going from dark blue to pastel green-blue; there are white and gold ornaments on it.
January 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Day 2 of cool #Art : another one by Aivazovsky, he painted spectacular nights! #Skystorians
A depiction of a midnight sea and sky. The water is brightly lit by a full moon partially covered by ripped clouds. There is an island on the right side of the painting, with a mountain range behind it. A sloop and a ship are on the left side of the painting, almost fading into the darkness of the horizon. The painting is done in dark blue, pale green and light yellow colours.
January 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM