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Kerston ✍️🩵

@kerston.bsky.social

210 followers 110 following 140 posts

She/her || Fantasy artist/writer || The Netherlands 🇳🇱🌷

Hi all! My name is Kerston and I'm lowkey obsessed with the sea ✨️🩵🌊

🚫 A/I and N/F/T is a big fat nope

@kerstonic on Instagram

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Kerston ✍️🩵

@kerston.bsky.social

First #art in months, woohoo! Proud of myself for picking up my (apple) pencil again. A little #portraitstudy to get back into the groove ✨️ #artsky #procreate #digitalart #characterart

October 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM

Kerston ✍️🩵

@kerston.bsky.social

My OC Xanthos with his cat Ermanos (he's that kind of cat that's an absolute dick to everyone but his owner) 💜 definitely missed drawing my characters!

#art #artsky #ocsky #myocs #digitalart #characterdesign #cats #ocart #originalcharacters

Digital portrait of a young man with golden, shoulder-length hair, slightly bent forward to smile at the orange cat standing on his shoulders.

July 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM

Kerston ✍️🩵

@kerston.bsky.social

🌬 North, East, South, West

A little art series I made some eyars ago. It was fun combining elements of traditional clothing from all kinds of cultures ✨️

#art #artsky #digitalart

Digital artwork of a woman representing the North. She wears blue and red clothing and holds a chunk of barley.

Digital artwork of a woman representing the East. She wears yellow and red clothing and holds a burning incense stick in her hand.

Digital artwork of a woman representing the South. She wears a bright blue tunic, a red headscarf and an orange sash. She holds a brown amphora.

Digital artwork of a woman representing the West. She wears a blue dress and an embroidered vest and she holds a yellow fan in her hand.

June 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM

Kerston ✍️🩵

@kerston.bsky.social

QRP with your header art ✨️

June 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM

Kerston ✍️🩵

@kerston.bsky.social

Went on a short trip to Scotland last week, it was so beautiful ✨️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏰 #landscape #travelphotos

A photo of a Loch in the Scottish Highlands.

June 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM

Kerston ✍️🩵

@kerston.bsky.social

If you see this, post a sword 🗡✨️ #art #artsky #swords

An armoured woman holding up the golden silhouette of a sword

May 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM

Kerston ✍️🩵

@kerston.bsky.social

Figured I'd post this little #anatomystudy here too ✨️ #art #artsky #digitalart #artstudy

Digital painting of a woman posing with one hand on her hip and the other near her head. She has her eyes closed. She has short red hair, wears a black bodysuit and sheer tights.

May 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM

Kerston ✍️🩵

@kerston.bsky.social

Experimenting with new brushes and limited blending 🌳

Did you spot the #fairy? ✨️🧚‍♀️

#trees #drawingtrees #art #myart #digitalart #plants

Digital drawing of a gnarled tree with green leaves. One of the trunks bears the silhouette of a white fairy.

April 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM

Kerston ✍️🩵

@kerston.bsky.social

Sapphic Saturday (Sunday)

These are Jaro and Oreya from my /other/ (currently on hold) fantasy novel. I miss them your honor 👉👈

#sapphicsaturday #art #digitalart #sapphicart #ocsky #myocs

Pink-tinted portrait of two women leaning in for a kiss

March 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM

Kerston ✍️🩵

@kerston.bsky.social

#acotar fanart from a few years back! Love the inner circle girlies ✨️

#art #fanart #acotarfanart #feyre #mor #amren #bookishart #bookfanart

Portrait of Feyre, Morrigan and Amren from the A Court of Thorns and Roses series.

March 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM

Kerston ✍️🩵

@kerston.bsky.social

#arttrain time! Thanks for the tag @astarfruity.bsky.social ❤️

I tag: (feel free to skip ofc)
@fizzleston.bsky.social
@art-of-hann.bsky.social
@thlaylisden.bsky.social
@snowmaki.bsky.social

#art #digitalart #procreate

February 27, 2025 at 8:16 AM

Kerston ✍️🩵

@kerston.bsky.social

I call it; knight boudoir ✨️🗡 because why not?

#characterart #art #digitalart #womenwithswords #armoredwomen #knightart

Digital drawing of a female knight holding a sword crossed behind her back. Her skirt reveals a bare thigh with lacy underwear 👀

February 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM

Kerston ✍️🩵

@kerston.bsky.social

More ocean art 🌊✨️ #Bioluminescence has always fascinated me so much!

#art #digitalart #whaleshark #oceanart #marineanimals #animalart #marinelife

Digital drawing of a whaleshark viewed from the top. The white markings are glowing blue and the shark is surrounded by bioluminescent algae.

February 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM

Kerston ✍️🩵

@kerston.bsky.social

Valentines' is always a great excuse to post shippy OC art ✨️ #ocartwork #myocs #originalcharacters #characterdesign #shipart #valentines

Back-lit portrait of two young people in an embrace leaning in for a kiss 👀

February 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM

Kerston ✍️🩵

@kerston.bsky.social

Decided to post a little introduction of my latest #writing project here too! 🌊✨️

🩵YA standalone #fantasy (Dutch)
🩵Explores themes of grief, duty versus freedom, and gender roles
🩵Touches on problems of overpopulation and rising sea levels

#fantasywriting #yafantasy #myfantasynovel #boundbythesea

February 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM

Kerston ✍️🩵

@kerston.bsky.social

An oldie that I still love! Made this #ocartwork back in 2020 ✨️

#art #digitalart #myocs #ocsky #originalcharacters #characterdesign #fantasycharacters

Digital drawing of a rogue warrior walking forward wielding dual swords. She wears a cape and is surrounded by foliage.

February 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM

Kerston ✍️🩵

@kerston.bsky.social

Digital painting study from last year ✨️ #art #artstudy #digitalart #procreate #digitalportraits

Digital portrait of a young woman with a rusty green background.

February 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM

Kerston ✍️🩵

@kerston.bsky.social

Quote your portraits 💜✨️

January 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM

Kerston ✍️🩵

@kerston.bsky.social

Yesterday I had a little #art day with friends and I decided to pick up #watercolors again ✨️🐙

#octopus #animalart #marinelife #watercolorart

January 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM

Kerston ✍️🩵

@kerston.bsky.social

𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒐𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒖𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒇. 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒚, 𝒊𝒏 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔.

Still sobbing at the very thought of them ❤️

#thesongofachilles #achilles #patrochilles #patroclus #greekmythology #art #greekmythologyart

Digital artwork of Achilles holding the dead body of Patroclus. There is a spear with a red banner in the background and a Greek helmet smeared with blood beside them.

January 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM

Kerston ✍️🩵

@kerston.bsky.social

Thanks for hosting and congrats on 300 followers!! ✨️

I'm Kerston and I draw a lot of inspiration from the fantasy genre and 🌊 the sea 🌊 for my digital illustrations