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Kassia Borycki
@kassiadesign.bsky.social
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PNW designer and artist, telling stories, creating things, and trying to explore the beauty in the wold. Lawful good cryptid.

Pronouns: She/her/they

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This week has been wild, but getting to see Neko Case live was a fucking highlight of years. I picked up a signed cd at her table and only found out (because what reading?) When I got home that the signature read - love niko.

#music #nekocase
Autographed copy of Neko Case & Hwr Boyfriend's, reading, "Love Niko" held in one hand.
November 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Flipping through some old work tonight. A little mothman in his autumn sweater.

#art #sketch #mothman
Two pages of chibi mothman drawings in a book with a yellow ribbon.
October 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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There are good books and them there are books the genuinely shift the mind. This was one of the latter.

#tanehisicoates #booksky
A library copy of Ta Nehisi Coates', "Between the World and Me" held in a pale woman's left hand. The cover has a distressed look to the text like sun worn paint on a brick building.
October 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Up in DC comics land these days, doodling a concept for Raven. I will get hoods down one of these days.

#dc #comics #raven #titans
A loosely done and hatched pencil drawing of the DC comics character Raven with her hood up and long hair.
October 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Autumn doodles. I am not strictly doing any of the ink, art, draw - tobers this year and am going to just sketch and try to finish one pieces.
A pencil drawing of a girl with long hair enjoying a bowl of soup while autumn leaves fall. The style is soft and cartoonist.
October 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Rey my tiny paladin. Starting a new series.
A loosely drawn chibi of a tiny dog dressed in armor with a sword. She glitters with sacred power.
June 28, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Love the caption. Can't wait for that axe. @gregrucka.com
Netflix promo image for old guard 2. Captioned: the axe swings on July 2nd
June 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Something about Sunday sketching. Avoiding the heat and hanging out with my dog on the couch.
Pencil studies with an animated edge of a slim, crooked mustache man with a cigarette, an oriental woman with dark lips and pointed features, a rubanedque aphrodite with full cheeks and a kind gaze, and a robust black angel. A slightly blurring because she decided to move brown and white toy aussiedoodle. A tattooed girl in a grey baseball cap and her happy dog, tongue out, in a tie dye bandana.
June 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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"My grandmother always said she came from the sea. Somehow, though... she always sounded sad when she said it."

Dreaming up #memory of mermaids. I really loved doing this little story piece and working in digital + ink is so so fun. I am definitely going to do more of these.

#art #mermaid
A cleanly colored digital painting of a photo of a woman, dressed in Victorian clothes with a shell hanging on her choker, with a photo and a news article taped to the glass. She is dressed well, perhaps married to wealth, with a Dowager's countenance and smile lines and heavy cheeks after a life well lived. Her hair is tied back in a complex braided up-do and she stands in a blooming garden on a sunny day. The photo, taped to the glass, is of the sea. The newspaper article depicts a shadowy figure with a tail, swimming among fish. The image is painted in a golden yellow, descending into burnt, and a gold pale blue for highlights and the taped images.
May 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Sneak peeks with Rey the pup. (Honestly this was just a fun drawing of my would be Disney princess dog.)
May 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Watercolor Tsunami.

Ink with digital color for #mermay
A tsunami breaks the corners of the panel, bearing down on a lone man on the beach. Within the shadowed waves one can just make out the face of a woman. Mother nature incumbent.
May 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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A little spooky bioluminescence.

#darkart #mermay
In vibrant tones of purple an aqua, a mermaid holds a skull from which a school of bioluminescent fish swim from its eyeball. Her gaze holds desire as if she sees a face or meal that isn't there.
May 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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We are going to take some things very seriously and some things not at all.
Photo of Leslie Knope. Photo of Halley Berry as Storm. Laura Roslin from Battlestar Galactica. Gandalf.
May 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Time for a new profile pic. Meet my #oc Ines. She's a bit of a feral wolf 🐺 child.
A loosely rendered pen and ink drawing of a young woman with delicate features in profile, a serious slant to her brow and hair that looks like someone let a toddler loose with scissors.
May 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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#mermay A beach goth for yall and yesterday's peaches.
A gothic mermaid rising out of the water, a crown of spikes and hair the color of ink under the moon. Pen drawing. A kawaii peach mermaid with a pattern of peaches and leaves behind her. An ink drawing.
May 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Mermaid dump from the last few days. My hands have been knackered and I haven't been able to draw much.

#mermay #art #redraw #cabaret #brave
Pen and ink drawing. A mermaid holds up a skull with fish swimming in and out of it. A banner us draped conservatively around her figure reading, "Dream a little dream of me." A mermaid with one hand and a hook, shimmies enticingly inside a giant clamp shell. A ribbon wound around her hook which she twirls around her body. Pen and ink drawing. Pen drawing. A mermaid swimsuit into a strange coral looking structure.
May 14, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Adorable toy aussidoodle with sweet face.
May 14, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Because I totally for got to post her. My mermaid Guard.

#mermay
A pen drawing of a mermaid garden at rest, her sword reflecting the school of passing fishes. She wears medieval styled armor with coral growing from her epaulets.
May 14, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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A shipwreck for today's lost and found prompt.

#mermay
Loose lines form the ink drawing of a ship wreck beneath the seas, a small school of fish or mermaids swimming past.
May 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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A jellyfish inspired mermaid for a friend. Went super deep down the nineties fashion wells for her look which is a Lil McQueen and a Lil Rocha.
Jellyfish and fashion inspired mermaid shepardess leads her flock of round jellyfish sheep through the ocean. Her body pillows outward like the folds of a gown, parts of her transparent with fish swimming inside. The drawing is done in pen and ink.
May 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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#cubism is not my strong suit, so I went with more of a mix of linear drawing and a dash of surrealism. (Where's my art history friends at? 👋)

Went in not a fan. Then really felt it. Art is funny like that.

#mermaid #mermay #mermay2025 #art #pen
Cubist linear impression of a mermaid with long hair, shown turned toward the viewer and in profile. To her left floats three eyes, two looking at the viewer and one closed.
May 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Little Atlantis doodle for #mermay
May 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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#mermay dump of the first few prompts.
Mermaid looking into a broken pocket mirror. Voluptuous fat mermaid rides sea creature, which eels out of frame. A loltl Axolotls Impressively decorated merman beard.
May 8, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Fortunato for @wickedbaggins.bsky.social
Thank you! He was a real pleasure to draw.
The digital painting of an elegant dark haired man with deep set eyes, wild mid-cropped hair, dressed in a suit jacket and cravat. A delicate chain hangs from his fingers where he holds a red jeweled pendant.
March 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Hey all,

Due to some financial fuckery on my accounts, I'm a little short for rent this month so I am doing emergency commissions. Get a $50 color bust! And help a girl out.
A man with red sunglasses, tipping them down his nose as he looks over them at you.
February 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM