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MaryofBears
@maryofbears.bsky.social
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✨ Adult (20)
✨ He/him or she/her (he/him preference)
✨ Artist 🐻 D&D Enthusiast 🧸 Horror Lover
✨ I mostly share art about my characters and stories! :D
✨ No AI/NFT stuff here!!
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Crow.

(may have been listening to "kleptomaniacrow" while drawing this, haha)
#oc #ocsky #ocart #art #crowart #originalcharacter #TheRemainsofDuncan
Illustration of my character Nancy, a 17-year-old girl with a short, messy pixie cut wearing a white tank top, brown bell-bottoms, and black boots. She's standing on a forest trail, framed from above, looking quizzically up at a crow with piercing white eyes that is perched on a branch, staring back down at her. While Nancy and the branch the crow sits on cast shadows, the crow does not.
December 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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May have redone Rinnadan's portrait so it'd fit better with the others, style-wise 👀
Look at him, look at my guy, my elf
#art #ocart #ocsky #sylvanboyz #elfoc #oc #originalcharacter
December 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Aww thank you!
Initially the knife thing was referencing the “cat knife meme” bc of the smug expression, but honestly it would be really funny if it were used as some sort of promo image 🤣
The cat knife meme- a smug looking cat is surrounded on all sides by hands pointing various knives at it
November 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Took a while to get back around to it, but here's another portrait for a #sylvanboyz character! This time it's the Boyz's manager, Lars Goetius: a totally normal half-elf man 😈
#oc #ocart #ocsky #art
Portrait of Lars Goetius, a half-elven-looking man with pale skin, orange-brown eyes, and wavy honey-blond hair. He wears a cream suit over a partially-unbuttoned dress shirt. On his hand are a bunch of golden rings, one of which (on his middle finger) has the symbol of an upside-down star on it.
November 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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">:)" Yazzin doodles, thinking of making his eyebrows like this- he’s not angry or sneering, he’s just born that way
ALSO!! Baby Yazzin!! Probably age 5 or 6. Ain't he just the sweetest? :D
#oc #ocsky #originalcharacter #sylvanboyz #art #ocart
Doodles of Yazzin, a young elven man with a segmented/doll-like appearance, testing out a possible design feature of permanently arched/angry-looking eyebrows One doodle resembles the “cat surrounded by knives” meme, and another depicts Yazzin as a 5 or 6 year old boy, showing his hair is naturally wave/has a bit of curl to it and is black. As an adult he slicks it back and dyes it half white.
November 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Marcos doodles!
#oc #ocsky #originalcharacter #art #ocart
3 doodles of Marcos, a young man with curly dark-gray hair, thick eyebrows, and lots of freckles. While Marcos is drawn in grayscale, the background is a pale/desaturated blue. Doodles include Marcos with his arms crossed and looking confused, Marcos with a hand to his cheek while smiling, and a small/Chibi version of Marcos standing in the snow with a warm scarf and jacket.
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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More Emma art! I love her so much, you guys 🥺
Fun fact: she and James exchange these potted plants as gifts since they both love plants. James puts lil' plastic dinosaurs in the planters for Emma, knowing how much she loves dinos. Emma thinks it's adorable :)
#oc #ocsky #ocart #art #digitalart
Artwork in a black & white cartoony style of Emma, a young woman with medium-gray skin, black hair in half-up-half-down space buns, round glasses, and earrings shaped like a stegosaurus. She wears a white short-sleeve blouse and a long, light gray skirt. She's holding a potted plant full of various plants and plastic dinosaurs (such as a T. rex) in both hands, smiling. Zoom-in of Emma's arm holding the planter to better show the plants and little plastic dinosaurs.
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Hopefully this works!
Made a voice claim animatic(?) for my D&D character Zeno
(stars at the bottom are for accuracy of the voice claim)
#oc #ocsky #d&d #voiceclaim #animatic
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Introducing: Emma, my beloved!
She's from the same world as Marcos, William, and James (who is her boyfriend). She loves dinosaurs, plants, and RPGs.
I’m super happy with how she turned out :D
#oc #ocsky #ocart #art #originalcharacter
Reference sheet for Emma Vemulakonda: a young woman (23) drawn in a grayscale cartoony style. She's depicted with medium-gray skin, long, wavy black hair styled in half-up, half-down space buns, and large round glasses. She wears a white blouse, a flowy light grey skirt, and heeled black boots. She also has stegosaurus-shaped earrings. On the left is a full-body drawing of her, standing with her hands swooshing her skirt around. On the right is a close-up of her face, she's smiling with an ear up to show off her dinosaur earrings
November 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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OMG I just realized I never shared one of my newest D&D characters 👀
This is my darling boy Zeno, a Half Elf Warlock possessed by his undead patron named Misery
I love him so muuuch
#oc #ocsky #ocart #d&d #d&doc #art
Reference sheet for Zeno Phantazmos: a half elf man with light tan skin, dark red hair, and a pair of opaque blue glasses obscuring his eyes. He wears a red collared shirt with puffy sleeves, a blue vest covered in sun & moon designs, white pants, heeled black boots, and a large, dark blue wide-brimmed hat. Also has a walking cane (which conceals his rapier). He has abstract swirly tattoos covering his neck, 3 eyes tattooed on his left hand, and a skeletal hand tattoo covering his right. He’s very whimsigoth inspired
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Behold: another guy! Say hi to James! He's from the same world as Marcos & William, being their other housemate.
James is pretty chill, though is unfortunately cursed to never have matching socks 😔
#ocsky #ocart #art #oc #originalcharacter
Reference sheet for James Robinson: a young man (23) drawn in a grayscale cartoony style. He's depicted with medium gray skin, some trimmed stubble/facial hair, and black curly hair in a short afro. He wears an off-white hoodie with a cartoon bear on the front, black shorts, sneakers, and mismatched socks. His ears are pierced. On the left is a full-body drawing of him, standing with one hand holding up a peace sign. On the right is a close-up of his face, he's smiling to show his dimples. He's got dimples :)
November 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Happy Halloween!!
In celebration, I drew my vampires Raphael and Diego dressed up as the characters Stack and Remmick from Sinners (2025)!
I love my vampire guys so much 🥺

(labeled graphic for cartoon blood)
#ocart #ocsky #art #ocs #oc #vampire #halloween #digitalart #halloweenart #artsky
Art of Raphael and Diego, my vampire OCs, dressed up as the characters Stack and Remmick from the movie Sinners (2025), styled to resemble one of the film's posters with a yellow/orange sun behind them. Dark clouds surround the sun, and embers rise around the characters. At the very bottom of the image is written "Happy Halloween." Raphael is dressed as Stack, wearing a pinstripe suit, tie, and fedora. Diego is dressed as Remmick, wearing a button-up shirt, suspenders, and dark trousers. The pair have their arms around each other's shoulders and smile to show off their fangs. Diego's mouth, chest, and clawed hands are covered in blood. Raphael's shoulder, where Diego's hand rests, is also dripping blood.
November 1, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Next up for the old story I'm reworking is Marcos, our beloved protagonist! He's going through a rough patch (which is about to get So Much Worse), but I love him dearly
I also love drawing his freckles
#oc #ocsky #ocart #art #originalcharacter #artsky
Reference sheet for Marcos Cabrera: a stocky young man (21) drawn in a grayscale cartoony style. He has light gray skin covered in freckles with prominent bags under his eyes. He wears a light grey jacket over a white collared shirt, a dark tie, black pants, and dark grey slip-on shoes. His hair is short, curly, and a dark gray color that tapers to black near his ears. He also has very thick black eyebrows. On the left is a full-body drawing of him, standing with one hand in his pocket. On the right is a close-up of his face with a nervous expression.
October 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Spooky guy time!!
I made William Scratch 7 whole years ago (wow time is weird), but I’d never actually drawn him until last year. Here’s his latest design!
I’ll probably draw more characters from his story and yap about them soon >:)
#oc #ocsky #originalcharacter #ocintro
Reference sheet for William Scratch: a tall, lanky man with pale skin and angular features. He wears a dark grey turtleneck, black pants, and clunky black boots. His hair is short, medium-grey in color with a white section in the front. He’s drawn in a grayscale cartoony style. On the left is a full-body drawing of him with his hand on his hip. On the right is a close-up of his face with a broad smile, revealing his teeth come from a photo of actual human teeth.
October 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Last but not least, here's Yazzin, my favorite little brat😎
These have been so fun to do!!
#oc #ocsky #ocart #sylvanboyz #elf #elfoc #portrait
Portrait of Yazzin, a young elven man (he/they) with dark greyish skin that's segmented like a doll, slicked-black hair that's split-dyed down the middle (white on the left, black on the right) whose eyes have black scleras and white irises and are highlighted by pink winged eyeliner. He's wearing a bunch of gold piercings (one of which also includes a moonstone), a pink bandana, a sleeveless black turtleneck, and a black leather jacket falling off his shoulders to reveal his golden tattoos.
October 19, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Okay, back to Sylvan Boyz with Sei!
One more to go, will probably post him later today >:D
#oc #ocsky #ocart #sylvanboyz #elf #elfoc #portrait
Portrait of Sei, a young elven demiguy (he/they) with pink skin segmented like a doll, wavy blond hair with a white streak, 2 pairs of ears and 4 white and yellow eyes. He's wearing a pink and white sweater with patches of a strawberry, a bee, a flower, and sparkles on it. He holds a hand up to his mouth and smiles, as if he’s a bit embarrassed
October 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Had to draw something spooky for October, and what better story to draw for than my spooky ghost murder mystery?
Ft. Nancy finding a diary that may or may not be haunted :)
#ocsky #oc #originalcharacter #october #spooky #ocart #art #digitalart
Illustration colored in de-saturated dark browns, tans, oranges and yellows. Nancy, a teenage girl with short black hair wearing a white tank top and brown pants, looks shocked and concerned. She's holding an old notebook (her brother's secret diary). The pages of the notebook flip on their own. An ominous shadow with cracks across its body stands behind her. In each corner of the page is a heart or a puffy white dandelion surrounded by thorny vines.
October 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Kass portrait!!
3 out of 5 Sylvan Boyz down, 2 more to go >:D
#oc #ocsky #ocart #sylvanboyz #elf #elfoc #portrait
Portrait of Kass, a young elven man with brown, wood-like, segmented skin, glittery curly red hair, and red eyes. He's wearing a white t-shirt under an open pink button-up shirt with a yellow floral pattern.
October 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Wist moment!
Gonna be posting portraits of all the Sylvan Boyz, so be prepared :D
#oc #ocsky #ocart #sylvanboyz #elf #elfoc #portrait
Portrait of Wist, a young elven man with shark-like features (grey skin, sharp teeth, golden eyes) and short, fluffy black hair. He's wearing a pair of red sunglasses, a tank top, a shark-tooth necklace, and a friendship bracelet. His hands form a hard symbol.
October 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Rinnadan! I'm hopefully done tweaking his design, I really like how he turned out :D
#oc #ocsky #ocart #portrait #sylvanboyz #elf #elfoc
Portrait of Rinnadan, a tan elven man with long, pointed ears, short blond hair, and long blond eyelashes. He has a beauty mark under his right (viewer's left) eye. He's wearing a pink button-up shirt, a yellow ribbon choker, and a moonstone necklace.
October 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Haven’t been doing much digital art lately, but here’s something: Potential Diego redesign! A friend of mine gave suggestions and really pulled me out of art block.
I think he looks cool :)
#oc #ocsky #doodles #ocredesign #vampireoc #originalcharacter
October 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Speaking of Yazzin, I got bored on the ferry & doodled him :) he’s always fun to draw
#ocart #traditionalart #sketch #ocsky #sylvanboyz #oc #originalcharacter
Black & white sketch of Yazzin, a young elven man with slicked-back hair and arm-sleeve tattoos, on sketchbook paper. He’s smiling with one hand on his hip & the other on his chest.
September 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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More Nancy and Duncan art, this time a mini-comic of their first in-dream meeting!
#oc #ocsky #comic #digitalart #art #occomic #originalcharacters #ocs
A two-panel comic of the Gagliardi siblings, Nancy and Duncan. Nancy has a messy black pixie cut and a tank top, while Duncan has neatly-combed short black hair and a white tuxedo. Panel 1: Nancy holds a cup of tea, sitting at a glass table in a field of golden flowers surrounded by dark trees. It's nighttime and there's an orange moon behind her. Nancy says: "So... Do you think this is real?" Duncan cuts in: "I sure hope so!" Panel 2: Duncan sits at the same glass table with a glass teapot and a cup of tea in front of him, with his hand on his chin. Duncan says: "That would be amazing, wouldn't it? If it is, that'd mean we've managed to talk to each other across, what, fifteen years? It's like time travel! All them physicists and psychologists and whoever would have a field day if we proved this, I tell you what!"
September 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Two OCs I’ve been working on for the last 3 years!
Meet my babies, Nancy & Duncan! Nancy barely knew her brother (he died when she was little), but she's reunited with him upon meeting his ghost in her dreams & deciding to solve his m*rder.
#ocsky #originalcharacters #oc #doodle #digitalart
Messy colored doodles of Nancy Gagliardi (pronounced Gal-yar-dee), a 17-year-old girl with short black hair in a pixie cut. She's wearing a white tank top, brown pants, and a brown bomber jacket in one sketch. She wears a watch on her left wrist. Her expressions in the two doodles are angry/deadpan-looking, while in the third to the right, she appears to be embarrassed or flustered. Label in the bottom right corner reads "NANCY GAGLIARDI, she/her - 17 (1969)" Messy colored doodles of Duncan Gagliardi (pronounced Gal-yar-dee), a tall 16-year-old boy with short black hair that's slicked and swept to his right (viewer's left). In the middle and right doodles, he's wearing a white tuxedo with black pants and a black bow tie, while in the drawing on the left, he's wearing a white t-shirt and blue jeans. His expression in the left & middle doodles is smiling, while on the right, he looks exhausted with his hands over his face. Label in the bottom right corner reads "DUNCAN GAGLIARDI, he/him - 16 (1954)" Black & white doodle of Nancy frowning with her arms crossed (left) and Duncan smiling with his hands on his hips (right)
September 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Work-in-progress art featuring my darling sea elf, Wist!
A Wist WIP, if you will
#oc #ocsky #elf #sylvanboyz #urbanfantasy #wip
August 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM