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Jai (they/them)
@illustratedjai.bsky.social
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Hi, I'm Jai! I'm an artist and illustrator focusing on SF&F, LARP and very silly cartoon sloths.

I can also be found on deviantart, tumblr, mastodon, facebook and instagram!

Commissions: illustratedjai@gmail.com
Shop: https://illustratedjaishop.etsy.com
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Finally spent they day getting some art done - it's been... months. But the family holiday card is finally done! Here have an out-of-context preview:
A slightly grainy photo of a zoomed in view of a digital illustration in progress. It's zoomed in enough that the lines are fairly pixelated. The illustration shows a cartoony hand holding a small blue toy boat with a yellow sail, in a brown liquid with ripples around it.
November 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Headed off to do my Life in the UK test and doing some last minute review on the train.

Wish me luck!
A photograph of a book, a half drunk iced drink and a paper bag containing something on a table. The book is titled "Life in the United Kingdom" with the subtitle "A guide for new residents, 3rd edition". It has a pattern of human silhouettes in red and blue in the shape of the union flag on the bottom half of the otherwise white cover. The drink and paper bag are from Costa.
October 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm a character artist working primarily in SF&F, largely focused on LARP & TTRPG characters - and I draw a lot of silly sloths doing silly things. I also love doing art nouveau pastiches.

Get a hold of me at illustratedjai@gmail.com or check my bio for links to everywhere else!
A digital illustration of a light skinned human character in a style reminiscent of western comic books. They have fire instead of hair, and a geometric red pattern over half of their face. They are posed with a fireball between their hands, as though they're about to throw it at something off screen. They are wearing a red, brown and yellow outfit reminiscent of a D&D monk - a red shortsleeved thigh-length robe, over a red shirt, and brown trousers. The edges of the robe are blackened and frayed, as though they've been burned. They're also wearing a thick leather belt, and lightweight shoes with laces that go up their calves. In the bottom right corner is a handwritten note: "Fire Aspect Warrior for Weight of the World LARP" A digital illustration in a pastiche of the art nouveau style, featuring a male viera from Final Fantasy 14. The character is posed in a reclining seated position, looking wistfully towards a yellow stone he's holding in one hand. He has flopped over bunny ears, and long hair, both coloured in dark brown with green ends. He's wearing a yellow shirt with wide flowing sleeves, a complex looking leather pauldron, tight black trousers, and knee-high leather boots. The character is holding flowers in each of his hands. The background elements are an offset circle with a view of a city, almost like a window; a tall column on the right hand side, which the character is leaning against, which has purple flowers and vines wound around it and around the character's arm; and a curved box on the bottom, which the character is sitting on, which features a view of snowdrops at night. A photograph of a watercolour painting, featuring a light-skinned human character in a cartoony style. The character has a big round head which is out of proportion with their body. The character has a brown goatee, and their eyes are just two little dots, with a small line for a mouth. They are wearing a brown bandanna, and there are feathers peeking out under it where there would normally be hair. The rest of the character's outfit is in shades of green: a dark green scarf over an olive green shirt and a light green skirt with an ombre effect. The character is holding a staff in one hand and a small lantern in the other. The background is mostly a wash of oranges and yellows with vague brown shapes, implying a forest of trees at autumn. A digital illustration of a cartoon sloth dressed in ice hockey gear, holding an ice hockey stick. The ice skates are just blades strapped to the sloths's claws. The rest of the ice hockey uniform is in shades of maroon, turquoise and yellow. The sloth's eyes are closed.
October 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Just did a sloth sticker restock at @portalbookshop.bsky.social including refilling the flag sloths and adding the dnd sloths! Also available at my etsy in now much more limited numbers: illustratedjaishop.etsy.com
A photograph of six stacks of stickers laid out in two rows. Each sticker is a cartoon sloth standing bipedally with their hands on their hips and a pride flag waving behind them. The flags on the top row are bisexual, non-binary and lesbian; the flags on the bottom row are transgender, asexual and the progress pride flag. The background is a green and yellow craft cutting board. A photograph of ten stickers laid out in two rows. Each of the stickers is a cartoon sloth standing bipedally, dressed as a dungeons and dragons class. On the top row there are: wizard, artificer, bard, paladin and cleric. On the bottom row are: druid, ranger, barbarian, monk and rogue. The background is brown craft paper.
October 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Time to share snakes!

This one was a sketch from when I was taking animal prompts from friends to stretch my anthro muscles. (I couldn't find a way to do a snake anthro that made sense so I did a Naga type situation instead!)
A pencil sketch of a very large "Naga" character, with a smaller human character for scale. The Naga is made up of a coiled up snake body, with the torso, head and arms of a woman. She's bare-chested and bald, with scales on her shoulders and arms. Her face is mostly humanoid but with very little nose and a wide mouth. The human standing next to her only comes up to half-way up her coiled body, and is looking up at her face in awe. She's looking down at the figure with an expression that might be curiosity or might be hunger.
September 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Hey artists! Quote with your fan art!

A couple of my SLFPs this time (silly little fat people) - I used to sell these at conventions, but I haven't been back to one since COVID...

(I don't do fanart for commissions, because I don't feel comfortable making money off of other people's IP.)
A watercolour painting of a cartoony version of the Plain Doll from Bloodborne. She has a big round head that's out of proportion with her squishy little body, and her face is made up of two dots and a line. The Plain Doll is a pale skinned character with white hair. Most of her outfit is in shades of brown: a hat, knee-length dress, knee high boots and a cosy looking cape with a delicate pattern around the edge. Her shirt is white, and she is wearing a red cravat/scarf and gloves, and there is a red ribbon in her hat. She has a small smile on her face. She is standing with her hands folded delicately in front of her waist. The background is made up of a grey wash, with pale faces and grasping hands on the horizon line. A watercolour painting of a cartoony version of the Miles Morales Spiderman from Marvel Comics. He has a big round head that's out of proportion with his squishy little body, and his face is made up of two dots and a line. Miles Morales is a young black man with curly dark brown hair. He is upside down in the image, posed as though he is standing on the ceiling. He is wearing a skintight black and red outfit. The outfit is mostly black with a red spiderweb pattern around his neck, shoulders and chest, and a white spiderweb pattern on his feet. He is posed as though he has just tensed up ready for combat. His expression is faintly worried. The background is a purple wash with pinkish red wiggly lines starbursting around Miles' head (the traditional symbol for "Spidey Sense" from the comics).
September 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Quote with your skull art! 💀

It's one of the #cosplay sloths for this one! And yeah ok I'm stretching the prompt a bit sure, but skull paint should totally count...
A digital illustration of a cartoon sloth standing bipedally, dressed as Gideon from the cover of Gideon the Ninth. The sloth is holding a sword out to one side. The sloth is wearing a close fitting black shirt and trousers with a looser black cowl of some kind over their shoulders. Their face is painted white to look like a skull, and they're wearing big dark aviator sunglasses. They have a shock of bright orange hair at the top of their head.
September 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Artists! Quote with your blue art! 💙🌊

This was a commission of a player character from Weight of the World, a larp I was on the ref team for. The creature is a penguin dragon, and they were absolute nuisances - but some people love a nuisance!
A digital illustration of a cartoon human character with an oversized round head and squishy body shape, and a large round creature with a beak. Typewriter style text in the top right reads "Salutations from Stormwatch Station". The human character is on the right of the image, standing in a "penguin" stance, with their arms by their sides and hands pointed outwards, and one leg raised. They have small gold horns poking out of their long brown hair. They have gold-ish skin, and are wearing a blue robe over a black shirt and grey skirt. They are also wearing a scaled pauldron on one shoulder and a belt with many items hanging from it. The large round creature is stood beside them with it's beak open as though it is making noise. It has sharp teeth inside the beak. It had four flippers and four feet. It is mostly made up of a circle with those features sticking out of it. It has mottled blue and grey patterning with a lighter coloured tummy. In the background, there is a blocky set of buildings, reminiscent of polar research stations, and cracking ice.
September 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Quote how you paint dark skin!!

(This has really driven home that I need to actually do some proper renders of these characters, rather than just these flat colours...)

(Characters are all from @saranadosfiction.com 's Argentum in Aqua series, which is available to read for free on their site!)
A digital illustration of a pair of men (Sabbat and Archer). Sabbat is standing, leaning against a green wingback chair, which Archer is sitting in. Sabbat is a dark skinned man with long straight black hair. He has scars on his face and forearms. He's wearing a white shirt, black waistcoat and trousers and black hobnail boots. He's holding a small glass and silver teacup in one hand. Archer is a light skinned man with long straight black hair pulled back in a low ponytail. He is wearing a black scarf across his face as an eye patch. He's wearing a white shirt, black and silver waistcoat, trousers and soft boots, and a red cravat. He is balancing an open book on his knee and holding a small glass and silver teacup in one hand. Text in the upper right corner reads "Argentum in Aqua by F. McLellan". A digital illustration of a non-binary person sitting cross legged in a green wingback chair (Anneke). Anneke is very dark skinned, with very short tightly curled black hair. They are wearing robes in black and grey with soft red boots. They are awkwardly holding and writing in a large book, with several other books scattered around the feet of the chair. There is a small glass and silver teacup balanced precariously on the arm of the chair. Text in the upper right of the image reads "Argentum in Aqua by F. McLellan". A digital illustration of a young woman sat in a large green wingback chair (Amelia). Amelia is a dark skinned woman with fluffy dark brown hair held back with a red headband. She is wearing richly embroidered clothes in red and yellow: a knee length yellow dress with red embroidery, a red wrap-style jacket in red with yellow embroidery, and knee high soft red boots with yellow embroidery. The embroidery has themes of butterflies and flowers, and she is wearing a butterfly decoration in her hair. She is smiling at the viewer and delicately holding a small glass and silver teacup in her lap. Text in the upper right reads "Argentum in Aqua by F. McLellan".
September 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Post a mage! ✨✨✨

(You knew it had to be a sloth, with me didn't you? From my #dnd sloths series.)
A digital drawing of a cartoon sloth standing bipedally. The sloth is dressed in layered robes in shades of blue, with a yellow sash. The inside of their robe and their hat have a pattern of yellow stars and moons on them. The sloth has their arms raised and blue sparkles around their head and hands.
September 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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So. I might have had a vision.
A photograph of a messy pen sketch on lined paper. Five rough human figures are laid out inside a rectangular border element. At the top are two figures very close together directly above a single figure at the bottom of the image. The other two figures are slightly above and on either side of the bottom figure, facing outwards. Around the figures are various wiggly and lumpy shapes. On the right hand side of the sketch are two arrows with handwritten notes. The first arrow points at the top two figures and says "intertwined flowers". The second arrow is pointing away from the lower left hand figure and says "which arm? Flowers around stump."
July 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Ok, so I did say that was the last Pride flag I'd completed, but there's more than one kinda pride, and July is Disability Pride Month after all...

So here's the Disability Pride sloths!
Four cartoon sloths standing bipedally in a line, each with a Disability Pride flag in some way or another. The first one wears the flag as a cape; the second one is holding the flag on a stick; the third one is waving it in the air; the fourth one is holding the flag up in front of itself. The sloths are all slightly different shades of brown. The Disability Pride flag is made up of five diagonal stripes on a grey field. The stripes run from the top left corner to the bottom right corner. The stripes are in blue, green, white, yellow and red. All of the colours of the flag are slightly faded looking.
July 2, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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I almost forgot to add the last flag that I've (so-far) completed! I've got a few more in the pipeline, but for now, this is now all the Pride Flag Sloths!

I give you... the Sapphic Sloths!
Four cartoon sloths standing bipedally in a line, each with a Sapphic Pride flag in some way or another. The first one wears the flag as a cape; the second one is holding the flag on a stick; the third one is waving it in the air; the fourth one is holding the flag up in front of itself. The sloths are all slightly different shades of brown. The Sapphic Pride flag consists of three stripes: pink, then white, then pink, with a small purple flower centred in the middle of the white stripe.
June 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Today I share with you the bi4bi flag, a flag i did not even know existed until it was suggested to me (by one of my tumblr followers? i think?)

another banger of a design i gotta say - the early dusk colour scheme with the paired moons is pretty cool
Four cartoon sloths standing bipedally in a line, each with a Bi-4-Bi Pride flag in some way or another. The first one wears the flag as a cape; the second one is holding the flag on a stick; the third one is waving it in the air; the fourth one is holding the flag up in front of itself. The sloths are all slightly different shades of brown. The Bi-4-Bi Pride flag is made up of seven stripes with a pair of white crescent moons back-to-back in the centre. The stripes are: three even stripes in lavender, periwinkle and light blue, a thin stripe of pale pink, and then three even stripes of pink, purple, and dark purple.
June 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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I know ther was a chunk of time where the terfs were making an attempt to steal the labrys, but let's be real they don't deserve to get the most badass queer flag. (I mean seriously, it's got an AXE on it. almost makes me wish i was a lesbian just so's I could use it.)
Four cartoon sloths standing bipedally in a line, each with a Labrys Lesbian Pride flag in some way or another. The first one wears the flag as a cape; the second one is holding the flag on a stick; the third one is waving it in the air; the fourth one is holding the flag up in front of itself. The sloths are all slightly different shades of brown. The Labrys Lesbian Pride flag is a purple field, with a black downward pointed triangle in the centre. In the centre of the triangle is a white double headed axe (labrys).
June 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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And finally (for now) we have a hyperactive lizard. He has ADHD and has hit the "must clean the entire house" mode and he is riding it as far as it will take him.
A rough pencil sketch of an anthro bearded dragon guy. He is standing in a wide stance and vigorously pushing a mop around. He is wearing a t-shirt and sweatpants. His eyes are wide and staring and he gives the impression of being desperate to do this thing.
June 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Following on, we've got enthusiastic owl. She's a cheerleader!
A rough pencil sketch of an anthro owl girl. She's got her wings spread and raised above her head, and she's doing the splits in the air. She's wearing a stereotypical high school movie cheerleader's uniform of a leotard and short pleated skirt. The leotard says "cheer" in badly centred block capitals. Her skirt is almost floating over her legs, like it's caught the air from her jump.
June 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Then we get the chill capybara (which honestly is a bit of a tautology). She's having a boba and a picnic. She takes herself out on nice little occasions.
A rough pencil sketch of an anthro capybara girl. She's reclining on a picnic blanket, sipping on a bubble tea. She's wearing a sundress and a large floppy sunhat. There's a picnic basket behind her and a book laid open on the blanket next to her. She looks contented.
June 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Next is heretical mole. Heretical moles worship the sun.
A rough pencil sketch of an anthro mole. His oversized hands are raised upwards towards an emblem of a sun. He has a tonsure (the bald spot haircut medieval monks often wore). He is wearing floor length robes and a small icon of the sun.
June 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Next up is a thoughtful snake. She's less cute anthro critter and more ancient snake goddess. And she's trying to decide whether to eat the human or not...
A rough pencil sketch of a "Naga" type creature - she is human shaped from approximately the waist up, but her lower half is made up of a snake's tail. Most of her body is coiled up, and she is leaning on her topmost coil, looking down at a smaller figure. The smaller figure is about as tall as her snake body is wide. She has no hair, and a flat nose, with a thin snake-like tongue flicking out of her mouth. She has a prodigious bosom, though it is partially hidden behind her arm.
June 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Next critter is a sleepy armadillo. He works in an office and it is too warm to work in an office.
A rough pencil sketch of an anthro armadillo guy. He is sitting on a wheely office chair, hunched over, leaning on one hand, which is propped up on a desk. He has the traditional hunched body of an armadillo, but almost all his armour is hidden under a button up shirt and slacks. The only armour you can see is on his head. His eyes are closed and he looks very tired.
June 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Challenged my friends to give me adjectives and animals. The first one is an industrious axolotl.
A rough pencil sketch of an anthro axolotl girl. She has a big round nearly featureless head, with axolotl fronds coming out the sides and is smiling gently. She's stood on two legs, holding an oversized wrench. She's wearing a tank top and a boilersuit with the top half tied around her waist. Across her face, torso, hands and arms are occasional smears of grease.
June 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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I'm doodling today because it's too warm to work on my real commission work. Have a doodle of my character for an upcoming sci-fi larp:
A photograph of a pencil sketch of a character waving with some notes along the side. The character has a round face and a chubby body. Instead of hair they have long tentacles. There are small tentacles coming out of the back of their shirtsleeves, and wound around their arms. They are wearing a modern-ish looking button up shirt and tie, but with an extra flap of fabric in a different colour. The text on the right side of the image says "Xeninguist jellyfish". The text on the left side of the image says: "50 credits AES Link - 5 Pacification field - 5 Taser - 8 Amp increase - 5 Background dosier - 10 Kinesics scanner - 12 45 Planet survey Earth Omdua Diplo"
June 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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The heat in the UK today nearly made me forget to post more sloths. How 'bout some demisexual sloths?
Four cartoon sloths standing bipedally in a line, each with a Demisexual Pride flag in some way or another. The first one wears the flag as a cape; the second one is holding the flag on a stick; the third one is waving it in the air; the fourth one is holding the flag up in front of itself. The sloths are all slightly different shades of brown. The Demisexual pride flag has three uneven stripes and a black chevron. The chevron points inwards from the leftmost edge of the flag. The stripes are a thick white stripe at the top, then a thin purple stripe, and then a thick grey stripe.
June 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Today you get some genderqueer sloths!
Four cartoon sloths standing bipedally in a line, each with a Genderqueer Pride flag in some way or another. The first one wears the flag as a cape; the second one is holding the flag on a stick; the third one is waving it in the air; the fourth one is holding the flag up in front of itself. The sloths are all slightly different shades of brown. The Genderqueer Pride flag has three stripse: lavender, white and green.
June 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM