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Bee in Retail Hell
@just-a-bee.bsky.social
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✨Was GirlUncubed on twt | Reima Awen FF14
✨she/her, tired 30-something
✨character art and illustration
✨books, TTRPGs, romantasy, and robots
✨I draw my OCs a lot
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Getting to this way late, but we did some damage at #PAXUnplugged last weekend that definitely warranted walking around with a bag that said "I love indie TTRPGS". 😅

Shout outs to:
@plusoneexp.bsky.social
@gilarpgs.bsky.social
@goodluckpress.co
@soulmuppet.co.uk
@gameswell.shop
Photo of the tabletop roleplaying games Slayers, This Old House, Dying of the Light, and Primadonna, as well as the Pox supplement for the game Hunt and the Wicker Park supplement for Slayers. Finally, finally have the copies of Slayers and This Old House that I regretting not grabbing last year! Photo of the tabletop RPGs We Shall Be Monsters and Insatiable Cravings, as well as the duet copies of Before the Bog God that allow you to experience the same story from two different perspectives. Also seen is the QuickStart for Hinterlight! Photo of the TTRPGs Contact, Lady Dee's Grand Ball, The Festival of the Hidden Moon, and Underneath. Also pictured is Prickly Pear, a card game by Gameswell. Photo of the physical copy of Orbital Blues I let myself pick up as a treat while waiting for F-Inifini (alongside the promo for F-Infiniti)
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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PAXU Day 1 on my overdue vacation. Felt cute. Time for crab. 🦀
Bee waiting for crab. She’s having a questionable hair day. Bee waiting for crab. She’s having a questionable hair day.
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Better with your eyes gazing upon me. 🫀🍁🪲

Insomnia-fueled #Frankenstein WIP.
Work-in-progress sketch of the Creation and Elizabeth from Guillermo del Toro's 2025 adaptation of Frankenstein. A woman with long hair and a gown with sleeves made of uncoiling ribbons has her arms wrapped around the neck of a tall, stooped man with long hair and lines of facial scars. She gazes up at him with a smile. The man holds her carefully, bulk covered in furs, and gazes down at her with a smile of his own.
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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A quick study because once again GDT has released a film that's touched the deepest parts of my soul and I haven't been able to stop thinking about his #Frankenstein adaptation for weeks.
Digital sketch of the creature/creation/Adam from Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein
November 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Happy Halloween from their reality to yours ✨
Sketch of OP's Lancer RPG pilot, Feren, dressed as Marvel Comic's The Scarlet Witch, with a smaller version of her mech, Halcyon, behind her dressed as Marvel Comic's Vision, both posing in an homage to a comic cover by artist Russell Dauterman. Feren is dressed in a red leotard that bares her legs and shoulders. The insignia of Smith-Shimano Corpro is emblazoned on the chest. Her long, black hair is tinged pink at the ends and glitters. She holds a whirl of equally pink, glittery magic between her raised hands as she stands facing slightly to the side. Halcyon is a four-armed robot of masculine build, currently painted green, with arms painted yellow to the biceps as if wearing gloves. The tall collar of a yellow cloak is tied around his neck, propped up by part of the chassis. A red, featureless faceplate like that of a helmet is where his face would be, with a red "eye" of light projected onto it.
October 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Finished this last night and I’m still thinking about it. If you’re in the mood to pick up some 17th Century erotic folk-horror, Becky Cloonan and Tula Lotay really hit with something both powerful and dreamlike.
Photo of the cover of Somna, a graphic novel by Becky Cloonan and Tula Lotay. The book features an illustration of a woman in profile as she’s mostly submerged in water. Her eys are closed and her long hair and nightdress billow out around her. She wears a peaceful, satisfied expression, but bright red droplets rise up out of her mouth, looking like both air bubbles and droplets of blood.
October 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Precious cozy hours right now ft. Jack
Photo of a black and white tuxedo cat who is sitting on a grey sofa in a position that’s kind of like a man. He’s looking off to the side, likely thinking about shrimp. He has a white chest and lower-face with a little black nose, white glove-like markings on his front feet, and white sock-like markings on his back legs.
October 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Uncleaned and unfinished, but it's been a wacky few weeks and I missed Feren very much. Her song keeps me going. 🦋✨

#lancerttrpg #lancerrpg #originalcharacter #rkgk
Sketch of Feren Shion-Wainridge, OP's Lancer RPG character, in her public persona as the musician sOna. She is a fair-skinned woman with long, pink hair singing into a microphone while wearing a glittery, light blue ballroom-style gown and gloves.
October 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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New shirt is Extremely Good
Photo of a tank top from nightchannels.com featuring a top-down image of a drum machine. Text accompanying it reads: This Machine Kills Fascists
August 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Truly the experience
August 27, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Horrible old-god priest with a featureless face: gives their long, intimidating title

Our Soldier: "Cool. Can I shoot him?" rolls a natural 20
August 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Out of context Starfinder tonight
Screencap from the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy FFXIV showing the title card for the trial fight "The Crown of the Immaculate"
August 27, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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If you see this, qrp with your oc smiling!!

Dusting this doodle off because I still love it, and because they are both smiling, you see.

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Digital greyscale sketch of the artist's Lancer pilot and her chassis (as controlled by an NHP), showing a dark-haired femme figure in a dress and red shoes, smiling and dancing with a large, four-armed mechanical figure.
August 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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If anyone needs me I'll be thinking about the Stephanie Hans variant cover that I want on my office wall next to Remy and Anna Marie
The cover of 2025's Vision and the Scarlet Witch by Marvel Comics with cover art by Stephanie Hans. A woman in red with dark hair fading into purple with a smattering of stars clutches tightly onto a fully white/silver man, holding onto the collar of his cape.
August 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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warmup 🌇

Senior Marketing and Talent Analyst
SSC Public Relations Division
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#lancerrpg #lancerttrpg #beedoesart 🐝🖊️
Sketch of a man in a suit with dark, slicked-back hair and a beard. He stands against the backdrop of a cityscape at night and is checking his watch.
July 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Hey Bluesky! I know I tend to just share character sketches, but I have a special passion for book covers and I'm working on more of them lately. If you're in the #ttrpg space especially, I'd love to work with you on bringing a visual for your game or module to life, so feel free to DM me anytime!
Redesigned cover variant for William Gibson's Neuromancer, featuring a deep blue and purple cover with pops of bright yellow and hot pink. A man with the shape of a glitched visor over his eyes stares toward the reader. A sci-fi cityscape is seen in double-exposure over his body. Mockup for a mystery novel from a brief, featuring a misty green and black palette. A young woman gazes over her shoulder toward the reader , her features blurred and obscured. Mockup of a variant book cover for a personal project. A deep purple and gold illustration featuring a hand-drawn human skull and a candle. Spreads of a pair of book covers to show the spine and back covers.
July 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Workstation-posting this morning because the “final” form of my setup has really been a boon to my productivity and I love it. CSP’s companion mode on my phone has been a lifesaver as an iPad user???

(ft. placeholder illustration to hide my WIPs)
Photo of the user’s desk in her home office that features an iPad set into a wooden Sketch Slate tablet easel, an iPhone running Clip Studio’s companion mode, and an extremely necessary yellow mug of coffee. Assorted other white and gold accessories are on the desk including a computer keyboard, synth piano tucked under the monitor riser, a microphone, orb-shaped speakers, and a standing phone charger.
July 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Hey artists, QRP with your sketch vs final!

I'll go with my more recent major piece! This started as a gesture study, and you can see where I decided to shift the arm and hair once I knew how I wanted the mic cord to "move".
July 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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sunday warmup 🌅

#lancerrpg #lancerttrpg #rkgk
Sketch of OP's Lancer RPG character, Feren, as her alter-ego "sOna", perched on the shoulder of a humanoid mech that is holding her in place with one of a few arms. A sound wave pattern is across the mech's faceplate as if they're speaking.
July 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Messy-posting, but I was cleaning up files and realized that I have a collection of unused or unfinished Halcyon doodles sitting on my iPad, so I am setting some of them free. Here's a few from when I was working out the mirror man's "face" from different angles for a larger project in the works.
Extremely rough sketches of a robotic head belonging to the artist's Dusk Wing in the Lancer tabletop RPG. It appears as a featureless helmet on a neck with defined neck "muscles". The sternocleidomastoid muscles are bundles of thick cables, and the infrahyoid muscles are sheathed by a series of small plates.
July 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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✨thinking 'bout making a comeback✨

A couple months late, but I wanted to do a little something for Feren going into Season 3 of our Lancer campaign

#lancerttrpg #lancerrpg #originalcharacter
Illustration of Feren Shion-Wainridge, OP's Lancer RPG character. She is a fair-skinned woman with long, black hair standing with a microphone raised into the air. She wears a pink jacket with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows over what looks like a shimmering white strapless one-piece bathing suit. A holographic overlay spreads from her hands and feet toward the rest of her body. Text over a yellow background behind her reads "the show goes on"
July 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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WIP🩸💪 #hsr
In-progress sketch of Mydei from the videogame Honkai Star Rail from the chest up. A man with messy hair in a blond-to-red gradient peers at the viewer with golden eyes. He’s not wearing a shirt because the artist hasn’t drawn any of his clothing or accessories yet, but Mydeimos doesn’t wear a shirt anyway so it’s fine.
May 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Do you think the universe is yours?

#art #lancerrpg #originalcharacter
Screenshot of a sketch in Procreate for iPad that features Doctor Maxim Wainridge-Shion, an NPC featured in the poster's Lancer campaign and her character's atrocious "father". He is a severe looking man with angular features and swept-back, greying hair that's pale-brown closer to the scalp. His left eye is covered by a sculpted gold plate that mimics the appearance of a real eye and socket. He looks arrogant, and peers at the viewer as if they are beneath him.
April 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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If people just listened then we wouldn’t be dealing with the ice war
A screenshot from the film “2010” that shows a computer console displaying the words “All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landing there.”
April 21, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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(Do Not Go) Gentle.

#art #lancerrpg #originalcharacter
Screenshot of a sketch in Procreate for iPad that features Feren Wainridge, the poster's Lancer character, who appears as a fair-skinned woman with green eyes and a large amount of messy black hair bound up in a ponytail that trails behind her as if windblown. She wears a determined, almost angry expression with tears in her eyes.
April 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM