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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
Let Me Speak: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3964800/Let_Me_Speak/
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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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#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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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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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
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Congratulations on 3.8k! What an achievement ✨
My name is Bianca and I'm a Romanian character artist with two personal world building projects in the works, one about a Dreamworld and its keepers and the other a mythic fantasy.
Looking forward to getting inspired by this thread!
Astral Self Monk Anaiya A muscular woman with golden skin and curly, red hair tied up with a scarf Her pose is intimidating, with her arms crossed over her chest. She is wearing a blue tank top and blue robes at her waist which as swirling to the side, making way for a wave of water travelling upwards. She also has a mask at her waist, earrings, a beaded necklace, a knot necklace and ankle beads. Her astral arms are also very muscular, one of them on her hip and the other holding a large spear with several tassels and decorations hanging from it. Male tiefling fighter, wielding a flaming mace. The tiefling is red with large horns and long, black hair and is wearing a full plate of armour with furs on the right side, leather boots and robes tied to the waist. There is ash in the air around him. Coffee-Shop owner Reggie the Husky from VIS Reggie is a brown husky and is wearing a baggy hoodie in yellow, teal and beige. He's holding one of his famous Bull coffees. Behind him there is graffiti and his name at the top right. Cam and Remy, the Ruleweaver and the Artist from VIS, depicted leaning close to each other to light each other's cigarettes. Cam is made from copper with patina and has dark, red hair and glowing eyes. He is wearing a sleeveless hoodie and has his arms crossed over his chest. Remy has skin that is made from roiling colours as if paint pours and is wearing a grey vest. Behind them there is a spray painted love heart.
October 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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#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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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!
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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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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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
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What a lovely idea, thank you for spreading love and kindness! Here are some of my OCs (painfully, I can never find enough time to draw them :') )
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). Cam and Remy, depicted in a cigarette 'kiss' with a spray-painted loveheart behind them. Cam's body is made from copper with dark patina (especially here, as it's after a darker time in the story), shining eyes and red hair. He wears a sleeveless hoodie and has his arms crossed over his chest, towering over Remy in a self-assured and slightly annoyed way. Remy's body is made from roiling colours that either look like paint pours or oil rainbows. His head is tilted upwards to reach Cam's cigarette. He wears a grey, sleeveless vest and an earring of the 'See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil' but made from skulls. Earlier version of Remy, from a few years back, as an exploration of the possible cover for VIS. In this version the colours have poured off his skin and fill the image. He's releasing a mouthful of smoke and has colour tears floating up and to the right of the image. His skin is red and his hair is blue. One of my first D&D characters, Yuri the Kalashtar Grave Cleric. He has a mongolion-inspired hat with colourful strips tied to the top, a bright green scarf, a tattered long, brown coat with a furry collar, dirty black trousers tied at the shin with dirty, green strips and a chainmail vest. He also has various other knick-knacks, most of them salvaged from dumpsters. He is all about repurposing things, saving common items from untimely deaths. He has long blue hair and rosy skin and dirty, bare feet. In his left hand he has a wooden staff with a jar full of fireflies tied from the top. He is depicted saying a prayer for whoever is buried to the right. There is a makeshift wooden cross placed to mark the grave. To the left of the image there is a green pergola with pale pink lillies tied to various part of it.
October 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Still sickly but I managed to fix the Week 1 sketch and do some colour explorations. Which one is your favourite👀?
Zofia is part of the prequel to Nyr Voluspa, an idea I explored as a DM and had such fun in the world I couldn't put it down.
Muscular woman held by a skeletal monster with a wing made from several clawed arms. The monster has a crown and one skeletal arm holding a scythe made from a ribcage and spine, with a glass orb at the end and the moon depicted on the blade. The woman has her eyes closed and her arms wrapped around herself, has moon-shaped scars, a sleeveless top, tassels at the midriff and banners tied to a rope at the waist. She has tousled hair with one braid coming down over her right shoulder, and pale streaks in her dark brown hair. The colour scheme in this image is mostly blues with purple, yellow and beige. Muscular woman held by a skeletal monster with a wing made from several clawed arms. The monster has a crown and one skeletal arm holding a scythe made from a ribcage and spine, with a glass orb at the end and the moon depicted on the blade. The woman has her eyes closed and her arms wrapped around herself, has moon-shaped scars, a sleeveless top, tassels at the midriff and banners tied to a rope at the waist. She has tousled hair with one braid coming down over her right shoulder, and pale streaks in her dark brown hair. The colour scheme in this image is mostly greens with black, orange, gold and marroon. Muscular woman held by a skeletal monster with a wing made from several clawed arms. The monster has a crown and one skeletal arm holding a scythe made from a ribcage and spine, with a glass orb at the end and the moon depicted on the blade. The woman has her eyes closed and her arms wrapped around herself, has moon-shaped scars, a sleeveless top, tassels at the midriff and banners tied to a rope at the waist. She has tousled hair with one braid coming down over her right shoulder, and pale streaks in her dark brown hair. The colour scheme in this image is mostly greens with black and yellows.
October 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Seasonal sickness, like always, picks its moments well.
So for #cursedrelics week 1 I've only managed to make a very rough sketch (prompts: moonlight scythe, eclipse orb, abyss crown and starry cloak) featuring one of my OCs, Zofia Boglá. Trying to channel Dark Souls with this one.

#fantasy #sketch
Rough sketch of a muscular woman with short hair held in an embrace by a creature with a skull as a head, half its body is human but there are many clawed hands making a sort of wing at the top and another skeleton arm holding a scythe that looks like a ribcage. The top of the scythe ends in a glass orb that will look like an eclipse and a scythe blade with the stages of the moon depicted on it. The creature also has a crown with a skull at its front and a dark cloak draped on it, with stars twinkling on top. For context, this creature is trying to keep Zofia in an endless sleep, to keep it company inside the Dream.
October 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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*Screenshots contain minor spoilers for Hades 2*
I'm in love with the character designs (and everything else, really) in Hades 2. So much to learn from all the artists involved, but as a character artist I'm especially awed by @0jenzee0.bsky.social art ✨
#hades2
Screenshot showing Hephaestus, the God of the Forge, from Hades 2. He has dark skin, long black hair tied at the top in a bun and a long, black beard. One of his legs is missing and he is depicted sitting in a wheelchair whilst carrying a big hammer over his left shoulder. Screenshot showing Chaos from Hades 2. Their design has changed from Hades 1 and they now have long silvery hair and are wearing beautifully elegant pale clothes trimmed with gold. Screenshot showing ???. You'll have to play to see who this is, though if you know your mythology you might already know. The character has short blonde hair and clothes trimmed with golden details, as well as a blue veil. Screenshot showing Moros, Doom Incarnate, from Hades 2. He has long, silvery hair that is trailing down from two horns, and has golden and gray armour and clothes, as well as a needle with fate threads.
October 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Congratulations for 8.3k and thank you for hosting!
Difficult to choose but here are Ophelia&Erebus, Remy&Cam (all 4 part of the same story inside a dream world), Laurent and Jaem (both part of the same mythic fantasy story).
I look forward to everyone's cool OCs!
Pale skinned, muscular woman with golden kintsugi veins around her face and body, sat listening to an old gramophone with her green and black spectral cat Two men leaning closer to light their cigarettes off one another. The man on the left is taller, has red hair and dark copper skin with green patina. He's wearing a hoodie sleeveless top. The man on the left has skin made of roiling colours that trail upwards and out of the artwork. He's wearing a vest with ripped threads and a See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil skeleton earring. Behind them is a spray painted love heart. Man with two Windhounds The man has short hair and shining blue scars across the right side of his face and neck. He's wearing a Burgundy top with intricate golden collars and lap, and holds a book in his left hand. With his right arm he holds the neck of one of his hounds. The two hounds are pale with beige and brown speckles and have large pointed ears and tails that curl and look fluid. Both of them have intricate collars with tassels. Dark skinned man sat with a knee up and his hands held together in his lap. He has white hair and two marks on the face, one shaped like a V for being a Vol mage and the other to show he's from a traitorous nation. To the right of the image we can see 4 props (his Sade mask, chocolate, his Sun Lamp and his Sun Blade) and 3 expressions (sad, annoyed and amused).
October 1, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Timelapses of the recent artwork of Remy and Cam.
I Iearned so much from just obsessing over Gigi Cavenago's art, which you can see in the way I rendered Cam's hair.
September 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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An indulgent birthday gift for myself: drawing my OCs 💚💜
Cam's skin is darker because of a distressing part of the story he has to endure, but at this stage Remy's love for him also grows.

#queerart #fantasy #originalcharacter
Artwork of two fantasy men, one tall and with dark copper skin and red hair and the other with skin showing liquid, flowing paint patterns. They're leaning close to each other and lighting their cigarettes off one another. Behind them is a spray painted neon pink heart.
September 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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The art, the artist, the inspiration
Mash up of some of my favourite artworks I made: Jimi Hendrix, Bowie, John Lennon, a husky character with a coffee, way of the serpent monk on top of a giant golden serpent, kalashtar death cleric, half-hag with her serpent companion, warlock of the great old one, Ophelia and her spectral cat Erebus listening to an old gramophone, Remy in a sea of colour with tears trailing up out of his eyes Dweeb abroad Lovely pick me up Description: guy wearing sunglasses and giving a thumbs up. The text says: Nothing in life matters!
September 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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HUMAN artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you
Pale-skinned muscular female character with golden kintsugi lines, holding a green spectral cat. Behind them you can see an old gramophone and a wooden stand with a trailing plant. The text at the top says Ophelia.
September 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Best purchase this year 🐸
(taking name suggestions)
Keyring of a frog with a rubber tire body and human legs. The frog looks content (it would be tbh, it came from a sunny place)
September 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Lovingly tend to your plants, put on a record you've not heard in a while and have a restful cuddle with your best boy 🐈‍⬛
This artwork was inspired by those little joys that we can savour in our busy lives 🍵🎶🪴

#art #digitalart #originalcharacter
August 30, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Meet the protagonists of our new narrative game, Let Me Speak.
If you'd like to learn more about them and their stories 🐦🪾, you can find our trailer and more details up on Steam (link in bio).

#indiegamedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #fantasy
Game screenshot showing three female characters, one with a detailed inner world and the other two seemingly comforting her. Game screenshot of a female character with trees and flowers growing out of her arms. Mountains are shown in the bottom half of her body. Game screenshot of a female character made from ice, with polar bears and selkies fighting in the water of her lap. There are also otters cuddling in her palm. To the left of the image you can see a question with two choice boxes.
August 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Sit down and enjoy an unhurried inking timelapse (and cup of freshly brewed tea 🍵) with Phea and Erebus.

#art #artreel #originalcharacter #inking
August 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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You've scrolled this far, take a well-earned rest (featuring Ophelia and her spectral best boy, Erebus)

#art #characterdesign #originalcharacter
Artwork of a muscular woman with pale skin and golden kintsugi marks all over her body. Her hair is covered with a golden scarf and she is wearing a purple tank top and olive shorts tied with a woven red belt. In her lap you can see a green spectral male cat, with some of his bones showing. Behind the two there is a vintage gramophone and an art deco shelf on top of which rests a trailing plant. The vibe of the artwork is colourful and friendly.
August 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM