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Victoria Maderna

@victoriamaderna.com

Quote with your horn art!
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The flower crown. Still pretty fond of this one.
Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/vmad...

Illustration in gouache. A faun making a flower crown in the forest. Little mushroom people are bringing her more flowers. A squirrel and two deer watch her work.

January 19, 2026 at 4:26 PM

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Stephne Tate

@quailtea.bsky.social

Cartoony ass vulture

December 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM

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Stephne Tate

@quailtea.bsky.social

Red panda teacup WIP

January 12, 2026 at 3:27 PM

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B A R S U K

@barssuk.bsky.social

Umbreon ⭐

January 14, 2026 at 7:35 PM

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JJJJ

@mercurypale.bsky.social

sorry, two tiny martens is the best i can do. take it or leave it.

#ceramics

January 13, 2026 at 7:28 PM

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𝖜𝖔𝖑𝖋 ⛓️ ➡️ surgery recovery

@wolf-kin.com

i got to design the @ane.boston poncho for the patron and donor reg tiers! i wish i was at ane to see folks wear em..

January 16, 2026 at 5:33 AM

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Elon Green

@elongreen.bsky.social

If you want to improve your writing, read more and work harder. That's it.

January 17, 2026 at 11:18 PM

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Saba 🏳️‍🌈

@ace-of-dragons.bsky.social

being an artist is really just realising that you've never actually known what anything looks like ever

January 16, 2026 at 7:36 PM

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becca | they/them

@beccaisoutside.bsky.social

or just the general circus that is cormorants. damn.
glorious creatures. i need to go outside.

www.inaturalist.org/observations...
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
www.inaturalist.org/observations...

🌎 🌿🦉 #bestofinat

3 cormorants lined up looking the same way

cormorant arching its back and wings for takeoff

cormorant splashing through the water with a fish in its mouth

cormorant with an enormous fish in its mouth

January 17, 2026 at 10:52 PM

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becca | they/them

@beccaisoutside.bsky.social

hitchin' a ride. #bestofinat
www.inaturalist.org/observations...

🌎 🌿🦉

photo of two cormorants standing on fake floating canada geese.

January 17, 2026 at 10:41 PM

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Anna Podedworna

@akreon.bsky.social

QRP with Sketch vs Final

January 17, 2026 at 6:56 PM

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UnfamiliarArts

@unfamiliararts.bsky.social

Hello everyone! I’m having a small shop update next Friday, January 23rd! I’ll have an assortment of little sculptures and even a few special prototype pieces! Here’s a preview of a little lynx sculpture. Keep an eye out as I preview more pieces over the next week!

A photo of a little ceramic lynx on a white background. The lynx is glazed light green and also has green geometric patterns on it.

January 16, 2026 at 7:01 PM

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Heffy

@awamboldtart.bsky.social

I have no idea how this got so many likes, but to people who don't follow me, hello! If you'd like to support queer art threatened by censorship, follow me for development on #LumiknightRiviere, an illustrated novel for ages 10+ about a trans teen in postwar France discovering they're half-faerie!

Rivière Petit
[they/she] [transfem non-binary]
"A meek but gentle young painter from the French countryside.
The night they turn thirteen, they transform and discover they're half-faerie, due to a pact their mother made with the Fae Queen - who takes her soul as payment.
To earn the Queen's graces and save their mom, Rivière must become powerful and heroic enough to be a renowned Lumiknight... if such a scrawny, anxiety-filled teen even can."

The character is a fae creature, with large pointed ears, a long fluffy tail, a pink nose, and pink butterfly-like wings (some of the time). They're a gangly young teen with messy short blue hair. They wear shabby but comfortable and cute pastel clothing, including a red flower-adorned knit beret, an oversized pastel blue cardigan, a red skirt, and a large white ribbon over their chest. They wield a large magical paintbrush, which in one drawing they're using to materialize a goldfish made of pink-and-blue paint that swims through the air.

Amelie Petit [she/her]
"Rivière's worn but warm and wry single mother. Her seamstress skills keep the two of them afloat, but only barely. She and "Remy" both are village misfits, but mean the world to one another. However, her secret past with the fae haunts her, and when the Faerie Queen comes to claim Rivière as 'payment', Amelie takes their place."

Amelie is a pale-skinned woman somewhere between her late 30's and early 40's, with short, dark bluish-grey hair tied up in a red cloth. She wears a pale green cardigan with flower accents on the sleeves, over a light green shirt and teal overalls with plaid patches - it's a vintage, handmade, working woman's look. Three other drawings depict her wearily rubbing her neck with her hair down, staring at something off-screen with wide-eyed dread, and hugging and heartily kissing her child Rivière, to their surprise (they are depicted as their closeted self, "Remy", a 12 year old boy with dark blue hair), while she playfully smushes a raggedy-looking plush goldfish against their cheek in a dual 'kiss'. Accompanying the goldfish toy is text: ""Soleil" was made by hand for Rivière when they were small."

Queen Nabotte
[they/she]

"The radiant Queen of the Faelands, descendant of the fabled Titania herself, beloved by her subjects - at least, those bestowed privilege by her. The "Low Fae" better know of the cruelty beneath her crystalline sheen. Her mysterious history with Rivière's mother Amelie is why Rivière is half-fae, but is also why Nabotte lays claim to Amelie herself for breaking their bargain.

Becoming Lumiknight would let Rivière free their mother, but would also submit them to the Queen's command. Will it be worth it? And is it truly the only way...?"

Nabotte is a faerie woman of the familiar elegant, winged humanoid variety - beautiful and sparkling, but with an unnerving air of sadism about her. She shines a sickly sweet grin at the viewer as she 'sits' in midair, one arm resting on one of her long, pink locks of hair as if it were an armrest, while her huge, shimmering, multicolored wings frame her like the back of a throne. Her arms and legs are covered in green-and-pink crystal, and her clothing is similarly crystalline.

Two other drawings below show her coyly threatening a blue-haired half-faerie child, Rivière, who is frozen with wide-eyed horror as Nabotte lifts a sharp, red, elongated claw under their chin.

The other drawing shows Nabotte clutching Rivière's mother, Amelie, by the top of her head, after having just frozen her in sparkling blue crystal. Nabotte's claws are elongated and glow at the tips, sinking into Amelie's crystal coating. Amelie's face is frozen in an expression of terror, while Nabotte strikes a coquettishly twisted smile at the viewer (presumably from Rivière's point of view).

Luna
[she/her]
"A feared, outcast fae sorceress, who lives as a hermit in a decrepit chateau amidst her various familiars.
Bitter, shrewd and prideful, she nonetheless strikes a begrudging alliance with the lost young Rivière, helping them in exchange for help
undoing a gradually worsening curse she suffers under.
Her remaining power is centered in her lair, so she's forced to take on a smaller, weaker form when accompanying Rivière, to her chagrin."
Luna is a tall, imposing inhuman and vaguely cat-like figure with greyish-blue skin, yellow eyes, spindly paw-padded hands, wild white hair, and four long ears that appear to grow out of her cloak's hood. Her cloak fades into a mysterious purple fog at the bottom. She wears various sorts of arcane-looking jewelry. In her hand, she conjures a purple serpent of flame. The art gives the impression of a sinister but haughty character. She's depicted in some drawings in a much smaller, snakelike form herself, which she appears displeased about.

September 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM

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Heffy

@awamboldtart.bsky.social

To keep myself sane lately I've been plugging away on this and FINALLY finished it. I worked on it very sporadically but the first sketch is about 7 years old!

At some point I would like to maybe make it into a print but we'll see. #art

A large spread of fauna from East Africa - large to small mammals, birds and a few reptiles. All are drawn in a stylized manner, walking, leaping or galloping left to right in alternating rows, in front of implied backgrounds of tall grass and acacia trees. The species shown are:

Mammals: African Savanna Elephant, Maasai Giraffe, White Rhinoceros, Black Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, Cape Buffalo, Eland, Greater Kudu, Sable Antelope, Waterbuck, Beisa Oryx, Topi, Wildebeest, Impala, Gerenuk, Thomson's Gazelle, Warthog, Plains Zebra, Grevy's Zebra, Lion, Leopard, Cheetah, Serval, Spotted Hyena, Aardwolf, Painted Dog, Black-backed Jackal, Bat-eared Fox, African Civet, Honey Badger, Springhare, Crested Porcupine, Olive Baboon, Vervet Monkey, Ground Pangolin, Aardvark

Birds: Ostrich, Grey Crowned Crane, Shoebill, Lesser Flamingo, Secretarybird, Lappet-faced Vulture, Southern Ground Hornbill

Reptiles: Nile Crocodile, Nile Monitor, African Rock Python

January 17, 2026 at 5:21 AM

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Nathan Daniel Hernandez

@natedhernandez.bsky.social

Hi #PortfolioDay I'm Nate,
Digital Painter & illustrator

☆ Bg Paint/Design, Vis-Dev + Key Art☆ Available in February ☆

📧: nathan.hernandez.art@gmail.com
🎨: ndhart.carrd.co

January 13, 2026 at 9:05 AM

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Cherry Wake

@shapeshifter.bsky.social

December 29, 2024 at 11:33 AM

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it’s always rat wednesday

@ratwednesday.art

HELLO #PortfolioDay - I'm Arlen, and I want to paint your dragons (and animal people)! I'm a full-time #fantasy artist working digitally and traditionally; keep me in mind for your book covers, TTRPG art, or spot illos!

🎨 ratwednesday.art
🐉 ratwednesdayart(@)gmail(.)com

additional links below ⤵️