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Mags Malarkey
@magsmalarkey.bsky.social
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Artist and all-around nerd.
(they/them)
Commissions OPEN.
Info&Prices: http://tinyurl.com/52jdjkbn
Portfolio: https://www.artstation.com/mcmarcellin
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Messing around with a looser style on this picture of a gothic heroine!
A woman walking through a dark abstract background, brown hair and white nightgown blowing dramatically in the wind. She is lit by the candle she holds aloft. The linework and rendering are fairly loose, with the shadowed area simply left unfilled.
October 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Middle of the night is the best time to post art of some sort of vampire victim gothic heroine!
Digital painting of a young blonde woman in a white nightgown. She has a vampire bite on her neck dripping blood and two of her fingers are red as if she has just touched the wound and is regarding her blood thoughtfully. She is smiling a little.
October 17, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Hello #portfolioday! I'm M.C. Marcellin or Mags! I do book covers, ttrpg art, and weird creatures! I am open for commissions or other work!

www.artstation.com/mcmarcellin
linktr.ee/mcmarcellin
Cover for ttrpg Eat God by David Prokopetz, featuring an adventuring party of muppet-esque creatures against a strange desert background and a greenish sky with 2 moons. Poster design for my ttrpg warlock character, Folie, designed in the spirit of vintage magician posters. [Folie. Magic! Secrets! And the unknown! at the carnival of endless stars!] Cover for one of the books in the Curse Words series by Derin Edala. This is for The Heiress of Duniyasar and features a girl in red robes with a colorful headscarf climbing up a spiral staircase. She is holding a knife and looking back apprehensively. Digital watercolors over hand-inked lines depict a strange hooded figured with a corpse-like face, four red-stained hands, and plethora of jagged tentacle-like shapes for a lower body. (this was a design for a warlock patron in game I didn't get to play. Gonna recycle it for something some day! )
October 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Drawing my girl The Hunt for #artjamolantern
A leather-clad female figure with out a head sits holding a knife dramatically in one hand while regarding the smiling jack o'lantern held in her other hand. Or perhaps the head she's holding is regarding her body.
October 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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This year's Halloween stickers are headstones in a soft mossy grey, or a poppy pink! You can get them at my redbubble! The pink ones might look extra cool with holographic option!
www.redbubble.com/people/parad...
A set of seven headstone-shaped stickers in grey and mossy colors. A set of seven headstone-shaped stickers in bubblegum pink with colorful shading.
October 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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I don't mind! I'd be curious too! ymmv on whether or not this "works" ofc!
Cover for the book "The Cursed Heart" by Derin Edala, from the Curse Words series. POV shot of someone seated across the table from a grinning person(?) in a grey robe. The person's features are all off in some way.
September 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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He has my vote!
Someone has spent way too much time in Photoshop turning the original photo into a campaign poster style image in red white and blue. The test read: Boydog 2028 - A BARK barkbarkbarkbark for Hope!
July 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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If you see this, share a skeleton! 💀!
A teenage girl with her hands on her hips seems to be laughing at an annoyed but resigned skeleton who has an owl perched on his head. the owl has a kind of "let's go noble steed!" vibe going on but also a "zero thoughts are happening here" expression.
June 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Post an old illustration you still like. [Probably 2011?]
The Cowardly Lion, Tin Man, Dorothy (+ teeny tiny Toto) and the Scarecrow outside the gates of the Emerald City. Designed as a book cover for a class and then later used as an actual book cover for a small print run of an Irish (Gaeilge) translation of The Wizard of Oz.
May 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

Apparently when I take this quiz on too little sleep I become a somewhat unstable genius. I swear I have gotten more hinged results in the past!!
Will Graham from Hannibal tv series Sherlock Holmes from Elementary tv series Viktor from Arcane tv series Doc Brown from Back to the Future film series
May 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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My #fallenlondon alt, Ember Niemand (they/them). Also an AU of an OC. Originally a sorta cyberpunk character it's been fun figuring out how to translate that to the Neath's more steampunk/"weird tales" vibe!
Ember Niemand, a person in a somber dark suit looks skeptically at the viewer through tinted shades.
May 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Decided I was in the mood to do a portrait of the #fallenlondon version of my oc, Finn. They are so sane and hinged and only involved in normal respectable activities, thank you for asking. #ocart
It's Finn Foley! A young man with heterochromia grinning at the user over a Red Science themed background.
April 30, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Mind Horse seemed like a fun warm up! There's definitely some issues here but I haven't finished my coffee yet so I'm not gonna go look at photos now and spoil my vague sense of accomplishment.
sketch of a horse (drawn without reference)
April 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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oc lore train 🚂

explain your OC’s lore in the shittiest way possible. #ocsky

goddess's mission to become mortal gets derailed by falling in love with a mortal who won't keep throwing herself into danger
bust of dark-haired woman with lowered eyes looking off to the side. (it's bianca in her most human look!)
April 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Feel like I've had less casual doodle time somehow since switching my job to writing and trying to get back in the groove of silly little doodles when I am watching shows that are less visuals-intense.
sketchbook page with various doodles of heads, just trying to play a little with shapes and features rather than render anything specific
April 4, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Also I've been dithering, trying to remember to do self-promo at a "good time" but eh, this is a good enough time. I made some more stickers combining 2 things I like (ghosts & the post) & tried out the holographic option RedBubble has on an old fave sticker set! Get 'em here! tinyurl.com/b4rrtwx5
Two sticker pages. The top one is full of ghosts going about postal delivery tasks along with small ghost-themed "stamps". The second very shiny page has various brightly colored and poisonous potions. There is also a url across the bottom of the page: https://www.redbubble.com/people/paradoxhorizon
April 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Spent ~25 minutes in a cafe trying to remember how to draw, while waiting for a friend today. Pls enjoy this scribbly warmup of my half-eaten cornetto and my equally scribbly attempts to sketch neat poses I found on Pinterest.
Loose pencil sketches in sketchbook. Gestural studies of cornetto and various human forms in action-oriented poses.
April 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Couple of old oc valentines for y'all today since I didn't have energy to do something new. Please enjoy these totally sane and normal romance options.
Isador Digby "Val" Valentine, a green-skinned blond man, smiles and points to himself on a pink-ish background with hearts. The text reads " I'll be your valentine." Professor Jones, undead magic scientist, holds a jar with an anatomical heart in it. The text reads "My heart* is yours, valentine" with the asterisk leading to a small section of text reading "Well, someone's heart anyway..."
February 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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If you see this, post a knight!
Sketch of a blond man in armor coughing up flowers, hanahaki style. He has greenish moss along the sides of his face, pink flowers in his hair and pink eyes.
February 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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draw what you're wearing 5 min max.
(this is a 100% accurate drawing of myself, lmao)
sketchy drawing of someone wearing a long hooded cardigan over a black t-shirt and pants, clutching a coffee mug. their face is not visible in shadow cast by the hood. But also, neither are their hands or feet. the handwriting orbiting this figure say "spooky t-shirt" "there's headphones under here" "coffee" "long cardigan that is just a bit too big" "'lounge' pants" "no socks"
January 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Yeah, not so sure one can be a social butterfly with 167 posts, but I will pretend that this is a good grade in engaging with other people, lmao.
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My bluesky wrapped summary. My most active month was February. My total posts number is 167. My longest streak is 3 days. And the title I earned is Social Butterfly.
December 27, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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Couldn't find a 2024 template I liked so I have artfully edited last year's for my #2024artsummary, lmao. My faves this year are all over the place, but, looking back I think it was a surprisingly good year for the development of my skills and I really hope I can carry on with that in 2025!
12 small images of art on a space background. Bright orange text names list as "MagpieM's" 2024 art summary, with a bright orange 4 over the original white 3 in 2023. Images range from personal work of ocs, to weird little gouache creatures, 1 watercolor painting and a couple of book covers (1 for fun, 1 for publication).
December 24, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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My fun downtime project for the last couple of months has been an illustration of The Hunt, an antagonist in novel(?) that I am very slowly working on when I have spare writing energy. #art #illustration
A smiling pumpkin-headed lady in dark brown leathers sits on a stone throne covered in furs on a dais that looks vaguely skeletal.
December 6, 2024 at 4:05 AM
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If you see this, post a rabbit!

Happy for an excuse to share my fave rabbit painting I've done, the Bun of Spoons, who will always have an extra spoon for you if you need to get through a hard day! (loosely modeled on the nine of wands tarot card, lmao)
Pastel watercolor image of a white rabbit. Several spoons or various kinds hang behind them and they have their paw on one of the ground, for a total of nine spoons.
November 26, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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Speedpainting exercise where I basically cut myself off from my normal painting routines, lmao. Came out pretty nice! #art
- New brush
- Minimize guidelines or underdrawing
- Avoid outlines; prioritize shapes and painting
- No smudge-tool blending
- Keep it loose, unfinished is fine
Limited palette picture of a somber man in a suit. Half of his face seems skull-like, accentuated by rough, yellow-green highlighting.
November 3, 2024 at 11:52 PM