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floot "god's a fucking nerd"

@flootdraws.bsky.social

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I'm floot. art stuff. "and I said fewer" old af. https://flootzavut.carrd.co/
aka Sarah ze/zer fae/faer yelling about shit @flootzavut.bsky.social, in theory trying to keep things relatively chill here, will follow more political accounts from flootzavut ♥️

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floot "god's a fucking nerd"

@flootdraws.bsky.social

Quote in my handmade sort of black letter font coloured in a gradient of yellow magenta and purple.

Quote reads:

The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognising this may be incapable of morality.

James Baldwin

July 6, 2025 at 7:17 AM

floot "god's a fucking nerd"

@flootdraws.bsky.social

I'm so bad at posting art here! Have some very old trad media.

Scan of a pencil portrait of a young woman holding a tabby cat up to her face. The cat is quite young and has white paws and a white blotch around her nose and mouth. The young woman is smiling. Her hair is up in a ponytail with some strands framing her forehead. She's wearing earrings, a bead necklace, and a dark shirt.

June 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM

floot "god's a fucking nerd"

@flootdraws.bsky.social

Stylised art of three olives on a branch. There is a frame in the red of the Palestinian flags and the background is a stylised traditional kufiya pattern in black on white.

May 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM

floot "god's a fucking nerd"

@flootdraws.bsky.social

I think a bunch of motherfuckers would be slightly better people if they read.

"Motherfuckers" and "better people" are in impact font (the meme font) in metallic turquoises. The rest of the worlds are in metallic rainbow colours centred around turquoise and surrounded by light sprays of turquoise dots.

May 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM

floot "god's a fucking nerd"

@flootdraws.bsky.social

Another poible fawks. One of my howling foxes inspired by #amazingdevil #theamazingdevil The Calling. youtu.be/6ZMDsJJHJlE?...

A fox in an abstract style stylised to look like cloisonné or enamel. The fox is facing to the right and looking up with its mouth open, it appears to be howling. The parts of its face chest belly tail and feet that would be white fur are coloured shiny silver white. The rest of it is in shades of mostly purples with some pinks oranges & magenta. The outline part is coloured as if it's gold metal. The background is textured and shades from orange in the top right corner to purple on the bottom left.

April 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM

floot "god's a fucking nerd"

@flootdraws.bsky.social

QRP with your black and white arts

I just remembered that I do have some black on white art! This is a very old scan of an even older drawing but I still rather like it. Black fineliner on white paper.

Black on white drawing of a bird (might be a hornbill). Shows the bird's large beak, its head and neck, and the front part of its body, facing left.

April 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM

floot "god's a fucking nerd"

@flootdraws.bsky.social

QRT with your black and white arts

Since I draw a lot of pencil portraits (digital & trad), a lot of my stuff is basicallt monochrome, but I decided to go with a stricter interpretation of black & white. I don't know that I have anything that's pure black on white but these are all white on black.

A portrait of Madeleine Hyland in white on black in silhouette in front of a bonfire from a photo she posted on Instagram.

A portrait of my friend Alex in white on a black background

A portrait of Joey Batey in silhouette in white on a black background

A portrait of Anya Chalotra as Yennefer of Vengerberg with Geralt's sword, silhouetted against light beams, in white on black.

April 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM

floot "god's a fucking nerd"

@flootdraws.bsky.social

The gif isn't giffing so I'm just seeing if it'll upload as a gif if I do it on its own. If not, then I'm stumped.

A gif of a deer silhouette on a background that's looks like a nebula. The deer is black with a starfield arranged in constellations that fades in and out. There is a similar starfield down each side of the drawing.

April 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM

floot "god's a fucking nerd"

@flootdraws.bsky.social

If you see this, QRP with your animal painting 😻

I'm terrible at posting my art on here which is kind of an issue since it's supposed to be what this account is broadly for so since I was prompted today...

I didn't realise the gif was a gif till I uploaded so I hope it gifs 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

A digital drawing of a fox stylised to look like it's cloisonné in shades of orange purple and burgundy with the parts that would be white shiny silver and the outlines gold. The shapes in the fox are mostly abstract swirls but the parts that would be white from the back (inside its ears, the end of its tail, the sides of its cheeks) are in a more naturalistic shape. The background is an orange to purple textured gradient.

A picture of a swallow stylised to look like it's made from stained glass. The swallow is in stripy blue and white, the background is in various textures of pink blue and purple in a repeating pattern of random jaggedy blocks of stained glass separated by black fake leading.

A repeating pattern of stylised magpies in a vector style flying amongst pink blossoms on a blueish green background

April 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM

floot "god's a fucking nerd"

@flootdraws.bsky.social

It seems that I can now upload the full width of the TAD triptych! You may need to click on it or download it to see it in whole, I'm not sure, but I'm just happy to be able to display it somewhat as intended!

The previous three pictures but joined together as one art piece. All of the art is in a vector style with relatively simple shapes and shading.

From left to right:
Bracken a magpie thistles & stones
Madeleine Hyland dressed in a red version of her Dexys dress with her dark hair long & flowing over her shoulders. In front of her are some rock roses.
Next is a smaller magpie, forget me nots & a fox, with a branch of cherry blossom leading to the middle part of the triptych.

The middle is a cherry tree with blossoms in shades of pink; they are darker on the left & lighter on the right. There are petals falling from the branches, & a full moon behind the left side of the tree. There are stars visible through the blossom. The rightmost branch of blossom leads to the right hand part of the triptych.

On the right is a crow with iridescent plumage, more stones & bracken
Joey Batey with a beard & short hair wearing a white tank top & black braces (suspenders)
In front of him are sage leaves
There is more sage & more bracken behind him.
On the far right is a deer whose stylised antlers are coloured as if they're made of gold, & form a series of curlicues & swirls that form the rough shape of a heart. In the centre is a gold heart coloured pink on the inside.

The background is puppet-magenta on Madeleine's side, & a dark, slightly unsaturated blue on Joey's. The part behind the tree transitions smoothly between the two colours.

The tree branches shade from dark brown on Madeleine's side to a dark beige-brown on Joey's.

Both Madeleine & Joey & most of the plants are within an ellipse of green. The larger magpie, fox, crow, deer, & the blossoms of the rock roses break the frames.

March 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM

floot "god's a fucking nerd"

@flootdraws.bsky.social

without downloading any new pics, describe your gender

A sphinx cat in a bath of milky looking water with pink and orange gerbera blooms in it side eyes the camera

March 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM

floot "god's a fucking nerd"

@flootdraws.bsky.social

I keep adding examples but it's okay right 😂 this is a portrait I drew of Joey Batey, I went in after & took out all the layers that didn't have something to do with his eyes (idr why!) (also yes I know my layer usage is insane) & honestly I think the likeness might even be better:

Digital pencil drawing of Joey Batey in a realistic style in black and white on a grey background.

Digital pencil portrait of Joey Batey, the eyes are in a highly realistic style but the rest of his face is mostly just suggestions. His mouth is half done, his nose has some shade and light and a little line work, only a tiny bit of his hair is suggested, and his chin and jaw are basically just stubble floating in nothingness.

March 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM

floot "god's a fucking nerd"

@flootdraws.bsky.social

but I miss the feel & a lot of my digital experience is like how do I make this feel more like physical media so I feel more at home on this device?

(pen tips, a pen mat, & some really nice digital pencils & paper textures help a lot)

this is a pretty good example of digital drawing but pencils

Digital pencil drawing of a water droplet, using paper textures, real pencil feel brushes and traditional techniques to draw in a way that's deliberately as close to traditional media as I can.

March 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM

floot "god's a fucking nerd"

@flootdraws.bsky.social

Artist asks: 1 like 1 question

1. do you prefer traditional drawing, or digital?
2. how long have you been drawing?
3. how many classes have you taken?
4. what's your favorite thing to draw?
5. how often do you use references?
6. what's your least favorite thing to draw?
7. do you draw professional, or just for fun?
8. are you confident about your art?
g. do you prefer to keep your art personal, or do you like drawing things for other people?
1o. do you ever collaborate with others?
It. show a wip/ sketch/something that never saw the light of day.
12. how long does an average piece take you to complete?
I3. do you draw more today than you did in the past, or do you draw less?
14. what are you currently trying to improve on?
15. what is most difficult for you to draw?
16. what's the easiest thing for you to draw?
17. do you like to challenge yourself?
18. are you confident you are improving steadily?
19. do you feel jealous when you see other people's art, or inspired?
20. do you like to draw in silence, or with music?
21. for digital art, what program(s) do you use?
22. for traditional art, what medium do you like most? (pencil, watercolor, etc.)
23. what inspires you to not just make art, but to be a better artist?

March 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM

floot "god's a fucking nerd"

@flootdraws.bsky.social

RIP Little Bit. #dawnsummers #michelletrachtenberg

A stylised portrait of Dawn Summers from BtVS as played by Michelle Trachtenberg. Her hair is rendered in shades of green with stars, glitter and metallics in the shape of flames.

February 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM

floot "god's a fucking nerd"

@flootdraws.bsky.social

I'd like to get back into making my own art, but given the dearth of creative juices of late, following tutorials at least means I make something!

Based on a tutorial by siakulaart on insta/youtube/patreon.

A fairly abstract soft toned landscape drawing of mountains by a lake. The drawing is based in a round shape; the lake is dripping out of the bottom of the circle in large droplets. Some of the mountains and the three trees on one of the islands go outside the circle. There are stylised clouds in the sky.

February 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM

floot "god's a fucking nerd"

@flootdraws.bsky.social

If you see this, QRP with your #portrait #art

Also call this a celebration of #sirensofthedeep releasing today! #thewitcher #Jaskier #joeybatey

A digital pencil portrait of Joey Batey as Jaskier in The Witcher Netflix. Showing the left side of his face in black and white on grey paper, with his hair partially obscuring his eye. Glazed.

February 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM

floot "god's a fucking nerd"

@flootdraws.bsky.social

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie

A calico cat with someone pressing their finger to the top of its head. The cat looks deeply perturbed.

December 7, 2024 at 5:02 PM

floot "god's a fucking nerd"

@flootdraws.bsky.social

If you see this, post something monochromatic

Pulling from the glazed folder again; close up of Joey Batey's eye. I think this was one of the first ambitious digital things I drew when I first got a touch sensitive setup.

Closeup digital pencil drawing of Joey Batey's left eye

December 3, 2024 at 10:43 PM

floot "god's a fucking nerd"

@flootdraws.bsky.social

Cat in a mandalorian helmet. Text in impact font reads this is the way. Image credit: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1248987356/mandokitty-mandalorian-cat-helmet-stl

November 29, 2024 at 4:11 PM

floot "god's a fucking nerd"

@flootdraws.bsky.social

Trying to remember to catch up posting stuff to here, mostly from my glazed folder given certain parties fucking around 🤗 you know who you are. I need to try out the new and improved version to see if the artefacts are less noticeable for my own sanity 🤪

Anyway, here's the lovely Anya Chalotra.