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Alvar Monroy
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ADHD & Autism HIV+ He/They
Mexican artist living in the Netherlands. Illustration, miniatures & painting. TTRPG
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Big news! “Avery and the Fairy Circle” is a finalist in the Oregon Book Awards hosted by @literary-arts.org!!

Go peruse the other finalists here: literary-arts.org/2026/02/anno...

Thanks to my readers! If you haven’t read Avery yet, get it here or at your library! <3
bookshop.org/p/books/aver...
Image reading “Oregon Book Award Finalist!” With the cover of “Avery and the Fairy Circle” underneath it, illustrated with a girl and a fairy beneath a mushroom.
February 9, 2026 at 8:07 PM
gaymerpainter.bsky.social
A fantasy twist on the Pont Valentré in Cahors! 🏰✨
This is from a postcard series I did a while back, based on photos I took of real locations. I couldn't resist adding a dragon to the French skyline. 🐉
Do you prefer painting from life or from your imagination? 🎨
#ArtSky #TravelArt #Cahors
February 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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Inspired by #Bloomburrow, I painted this "adventuring party" for my MTG trade binder! ⚔️🌿

Featuring a badger warrior, frog druid, raccoon wizard, fox sorcerer, and crane bard in acrylics. It's also my banner image here!

#MTG #MagicTheGathering #TraditionalArt #ArtSky #FantasyArt
A vibrant acrylic painting of five anthropomorphic animal adventurers standing in a grassy field. A burning village and a fiery sky serve as the backdrop. The party includes a badger with a mace, a small frog casting a blue spell, a raccoon holding a glowing green staff, a fox in green robes casting a fireball, and a crane playing a lute.
February 9, 2026 at 9:39 AM
gaymerpainter.bsky.social
​Looking back at this "Viral Beholder" I made a few years ago during a pandemic-era art group for people with HIV. 🎨🩸
​I used D&D logic to design it: the tentacles end in keys to represent how the virus "unlocks" and enters cells.
​#ArtSky #HIVAwareness #DnDArt #CreatureDesign
A watercolor and ink illustration of a fantasy creature inspired by a virus. It features a large, single central eye with a purple iris and a reptilian slit pupil. The creature has a translucent teal body with yellow circular segments. Inside the body, pink RNA strands are visible. Several thin tentacles emerge from the body, each ending in a different type of key, with one holding a credit-card-style keycard.
February 8, 2026 at 5:04 PM
gaymerpainter.bsky.social
Happy new year!
I wanted to design a merman that felt a bit more unique, so here is my Catfish Merman. He’s not here for the aesthetics; he’s just here to clean up the neighborhood.
Mixed media on paper. What kind of sea creature should I "humanize" next?
#ArtSky #ArtistOnBluesky
A watercolor illustration of a merman with the lower body of a spotted yellow catfish and the upper body of a man with a thin, long mustache. He has a stern expression, holding a spear with a crushed soda can on the end and a mesh bag filled with ocean trash.
February 6, 2026 at 11:23 AM
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Visiting my family in Mexico and I did this little piece with poscas and black paper.
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#drawing #art #mexicanart
February 8, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Coming at you with the slowest set of updates on an art piece ever! 😂 I finished the sketch. I already started upscaling the drawing and doing some of the figures in detail on separate pages to transfer to the wall this week!
A colored sketch of Mexico city with a skyline with the most known landmarks, a huichol style eagle and deer, a cactus and a skeleton wearing a zarape adorn the scene. The Popocatepetl volcano in the background with a snow covered top. A higher detail version of the skeleton wearing mexican clothes. He's wearing a Yucatan style hat with a cempasuchil flower on it and a mexican stitched zarape with pumpkin vines and flowers along with more cempasuchil Two sketchbooks of different sizes and the sketch for the mural being copied from the smaller one to the larger one using a grid
January 23, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Well as I run away from other platforms I might also share my WIP. This is a colored sketch for a mural that I'm planning on painting in my room! It's inspired by my birthplace Mexico City
January 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM