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Bianca M. Balan
@biancambalan.bsky.social
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Co-founder and Game Artist @Single Effect Studios
Colourful corner in the deep dark web ✌️
Commissions: https://vgen.co/BiancaMBalan
Website: https://biancabalanm.wixsite.com/portfolio
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Bianca M. Balan @biancambalan.bsky.social · Aug 27
On a monsoon summer night, an apprentice, a healer and a warrior gather around a fire. One has come for refuge, another for healing, and the last to discover her truth.
In the glow of the fire and the warmth of their companions, help them find a way to tell their stories.

#indiegamedev
Reposted by Bianca M. Balan
supergiantgames.bsky.social
Happy Halloween from the Crossroads!🎃

May you have a bewitching eve, and thank you for all your support of Hades II and our team. 🌒🌕🌘
May moonlight guide you!
October 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
biancambalan.bsky.social
Happy I managed to finish week 2 of #cursedrelics before the end of the month ✨🍻
Definitely let myself play around with rendering techniques and colours for this challenge, and used it as a way to decompress from work.

Can't wait to render the final one!

#cursedrelics2025 #fantasyart #oc
Artwork of a fantasy archer with 6 arms knocking back an arrow on her wooden bow. She has pointed ears, long blue hair and many white freckles all over her body. She is wearing a sleeveless blue top, an orange and purple sash and blue skirts, and has a several-winged face decoration at her ear, a flower and stone necklaces, a bird-shaped ocarina, an old dagger and one leather glove. There are also two colourful crows fighting over a dark piece of fruit, their eyes shining unnaturally. The colours show it's night-time.
October 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Zofia and the Exarch of the Dream Timelapse

#arttimelapse #horror #fantasyart #oc
October 29, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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One thing I've learned from taking part in an art challenge is how difficult it is to resist the temptation of other ideas that pop up.
As much as I'm enjoying the challenge, I'm absolutely dying to draw fanart of Thimble and Octis 💀
October 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
biancambalan.bsky.social
#cursedrelics week 1 finally rendered ✨
Prompts: abyss crown, eclipse orb, moonlight scythe, lunar scars and starry cloak

#cursedrelics2025 #digitalpainting #fantasyart #monsterart #creaturedesign #horrorart #fantasycharacter
Artwork depicting one of my OCs Zofia in the embrace of the Last Exarch of the Dream, who is trying to keep her in an endless sleep. Zofia is an older muscular woman with pale skin on which she has lunar scars. She also has long brown hair with greying streaks and wears a yellow sleeveless top, a blue skirt, banner symbols tied to her waist, as well as a pearl and fish necklace and a crystal necklace. The Exarch has light purple skin and a skull head with a glowing blue eye. It also has several clawed and skeletal hands sprawled into a wing and on the other side one holding a scythe made from a ribcage that ends in a blade with the stages of the moon depicted on it. The scythe also has an eclipse orb at the end. The Exarch wears an abyss crown and a starry cloak. Behind them there is a starry night sky.
October 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..." "not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..." "...you're rich. If you have, whatever-" "- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Reposted by Bianca M. Balan
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Cover reveal for Ann Leonard's "Cold Moon"! It was such a pleasure for me painting this cover! <3
#coverreveal #artist
Book cover featuring a girl on a black horse with black and golden scales. They are threatened by the shadow of a Centurion.
October 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
biancambalan.bsky.social
The worldbuilder 👌
Still learning a lot about crafting magic systems, but thankfully VIS has a soft magic system that revolves around dreaming.
inkythoughts.bsky.social Inky @inkythoughts.bsky.social · 27d
the worldbuilder (obviously 😂)

no magic system in the current one but I have one with magic, one with sci-fi flavour, and one with alternate history as side projects as well
October 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
biancambalan.bsky.social
Berry: Damn, Figboy, were you born such a hater?
Figboy: You fucking made me!

#timelapse #animation #oc
October 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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That last fish scene is so relatable
catsuka.bsky.social Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 29d
"How Hayao Miyazaki Creates" (from Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron documentary)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x01T...
October 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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#daily 46: #study snake
Study of a snake
October 20, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Figboy in his unripe, early morning state.
You know, as he stares at you from behind the rim of his black coffee, that he'll happily bite your head off if you as much as say 'hello'.

#oc #fantasyart #graffitti
Artwork of one my the OCs from my surrealist project VIS about dreams. Figboy has the body of a man and the head of fig and he ripens as the day goes on, going from surly and temperamental, to a constant sigh, to eventually grinning and loving and ready to party. In this artwork he is green and has an annoyed expression. There is graffiti around him, including his name at the bottom.
October 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Reposted by Bianca M. Balan
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a digital pencil drawing of a black crowned night heron in red. it has VERY large feet. text says "its ok to be a weird little guy."
October 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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I recently hit 3.8k, so let's have a celebratory

🪷 ART SHARE 🪷

• share this post for visibility
• comment with your art
• try to use Alt Text
• tell us about yourself & your art
• share & comment on other people's art
• no AI
• no hit and run

#artistsupport #artshare
Digital art of three goldfish swimming between lilypads and willow leaves. The words "Art Share" are written across it.
October 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM
biancambalan.bsky.social
#cursedrelics week 3 🗝️⚱️🐉☀️

For this sketch I wanted to bring Fien and Zofia together, and what better way than the Lughnasadh celebration? Plenty of dancing and laughing, hot food and cold ale, games and tender moments.

#oc #sapphicromance #sapphicfantasy
Sketch featuring two female characters inside a wooden-panelled room with bound stars hanging from the ceiling, as well as a main star centrepiece with bells at its end. The more muscular woman is holding a more slender woman up as they dance. The slender woman has 6 arms, dark blue hair with water plants tied into it, pale skin, and is wearing a navy dress with a high collar, navy fingerless gloves on two of her arms and a pale belt to which a portal key and a water skin with a dragon crest tied to it. The muscular woman has rosy skin and long brown hair with gray streaks and colourful bits of ribbon tied into a braid on her right side, and a forget me not flower behind her left ear. She is wearing a purple jerkin with blue and lime green accents, as well as purple trousers tucked into thigh-high leather boots. Tied to her waist she has a gourd containing a solar elixir and an urn of a demonic creature, held up by two green frogs.
October 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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I don't usually post political things but the Green Party's Zach Polanski is giving me hope for the future of the UK. With Labour pandering to the Reform voters and Reform sowing hatred and division, this man feels like the first voice to actually call out the real issues and fight to fix them.
October 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Selene
October 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
biancambalan.bsky.social
Dipping my toes into #Vgen with these three types of commissions.
This gobbo here is super excited to rub her paintbrushes together and give you and other adventurers a piece of her art and a cheeky +1 on your rolls!

#artcommissions #fantasyart #characterdesign
Character Full Render Commission Type, showing three artworks: a red tiefling male fighter wielding a flaming mace; a human monk of the astral self, astral arms weilding a large spear; two Tabaxi, one a druid and the other a paladin of the crown. Character Sheet Commission Type, showing a bust, half-body and full body cell-shaded render of 3 characters, as well as 4 different props and 3 expressions Character Sketch Commission Type, showing the same female changeling, first as a plain sketch and then with colours, shadows and highlights added on.
October 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Hello #PortfolioDay ✨

I am Bella! I love creating atmospheric and gothic artworks ❤️
October 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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I'm now available on Vgen: vgen.co/BiancaMBalan
Any reposts are greatly appreciated 🙏

#commissions #charactercommissions
Bianca Balan (@BiancaMBalan)
Check out Bianca Balan's commissions and portfolio! | Hello there! You've found a colourful (and a bit silly) corner of the internet, where a Romanian artificer rubs her paintbrushes together to give...
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October 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
biancambalan.bsky.social
Hello #portfolioday!
My name is Bianca and I am a fantasy artist working on character designs and narrative games about human connection, trauma and the immigrant experience.

I welcome new and interesting collaborations!

✨ biancabalanm.wixsite.com/portfolio
✉️ biancabalanm@gmail.com
Astral Self Monk, Anaiya, depicted in a confident and intimidating position, with her arms crossed over her chest and head slightly tilted up. Her Astral Arms are behind her, one placed on her hip and the other holding a long spear with several coins and woven decorations attached to it. Anaiya has her red hair tied up with a headband and wears a sports top and robes at her waist, which are waving to the side as a splash of water coils upwards behind her. She also has a mask tied to her waist, as well as several other accessories. The colours are red, pink and blue. Way of Healing Monk Jimi, with her companion, Humphrey Ticklebelly the Third. She is an elderly lady with short, wavy hair and eyes stricken by glaucoma. She is wearing a lime green t-shirt, with a jacket on top of it with the body in lime green and the arms in beige. She has long earrings, a nose ring and several beaded, long necklaces. She also has a wooden staff tied to her by a blue rope, at the end of which there are several golden rings and also Humphrey, with a butterfly in his mouth. In front of her there are several orange flowers and many colourful butterflies, some on the flowers and some flying upwards towards the sky. Character Sheet featuring one of my OCs, Hel'em av Sant. Hel'em is royalty, has dark skin and pale, long hair, braided and hanging around her. She is wearing a revealing dress with long, sheer black sleeves, as well as an earring with the Queen's moth symbol. The expressions depicted are: Annoyed, Pleased and Contemplative. The props depicted are several technical drawing implements, her crown, her sketchbook, a pen and ink bottle, a pouch and her Sun Ray Vessel, a glass necklace containing light from the sun. Character sheet showing another one of my OCs, Ris Yige. Ris is gender neutral and is depicted in an action pose with their sword. They have pale skin and green hair braided to one side and short to another, and have a long scar across the face where the mouth is, showing they're missing their tongue. They wear an olive-coloured top, brown, loose trousers and a veil tied to the waist and flowing in the wind. They also have a tattoo down the left arm of some sort of runes or writing. The expressions depicted are: Sadness, Amusement and Anger. The props are: a jewel scarab that they wear as a decoration, two rings, a curved green dagger, a water flask and their sword.
October 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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impavid.us 🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · Oct 9
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
biancambalan.bsky.social
Week 2 sketch, just as the week ends 💀
This time I'm going to be drawing Fien, Zofia's companion. She is Ayle, hails from Lochan Tulla, very superstitious and a vegetarian.
Prompts used: Nightroot fruit, Shadowfang blade, Stormclay ocarina.

#cursedrelics #fantasyart
Flat colour sketch of a young woman with 6 arms, depicted with her bow and arrows. She has long blue hair, large and long ears and has shining pale freckles all over her body and face. She is wearing a dark blue sleeveless top, an orange and purple belt and has a purple rope tied to her waist, to which a crow-shaped ocarina and an old dagger are tied. She also has a necklace with a flower and a water stone. At her ear she has a 5-winged decoration with a human face, a stone earring and a long strip depicting flowers and leaves. To the left of the artwork there are two colourful crows with shining eyes, fighting over a dark piece of fruit that one of the crows has in its grasp. Behind the characters there is a tree with thick branches. The colours show it's night-time.
October 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Gravehearts chapter 1 is now live on itch! 🪦💛

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and an illustration of 3 characters surrounded by an orange autumnal tree and graves. One character is a cat clown doll floating above the right shoulder of a large buff man with a beard and overalls, then floating over the man's other shoulder is a slightly transparent cowboy with green hair and heavy scars.
October 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Come and have a cup with Reggie, £ free.99

#fantasyart #oc #digitalpainting
Reggie, the husky coffee shop owner, as made by Cameron (the Ruleweaver). Reggie is a brown and white husky and in this artwork he wears a baggy teal, beige and orange hoodie. In his paw he has his signature coffee, the Bull Special. Behind him the background is purple and teal graffitti (Cam's area of the Dream World is full of graffitti).
October 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM