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🐐Max Allen Paz, he/him
@maxallenpaz.bsky.social
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Artist 🎨 Illustrator 📒 Zinester🖊
IG: @loamification
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🐐Max Allen Paz, he/him @maxallenpaz.bsky.social · Dec 2
A little picnic with the squad
#blackandwhite #b&w #kidlitart
a black and white digital illustration of four teenagers having a picnic out of the trunk of a mini-van. In the foreground, a girl with a cat-ears headband is practicing a skateboard manual.
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prettylines.bsky.social
…and then this happened!
Don’t you love all the adorable and playful otters all over social media? They seriously would be the greatest thing since slice bread if they were large like a dragon….🤔😍 of course I adored The Neverending Story! #scbwi #scbwiillustrators #kidlitart
June 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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teted.bsky.social
MerMay Day 20 - Clown
How can I not draw clown fish on a clown prompt?
#mermay #mermay2025 #kidlitart #kidlit #illustration
May 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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crossroadart.bsky.social
QRP with your most popular piece on bsky! ❤️‍🔥🦋❤️‍🔥

#art #unicorns #creaturedesign #fantasy
A black and white sketch of two hostile unicorns fencing. Of the two, the one to the right is very slightly bigger and scored with thick scars across it’s face and chest. It’s rears up on it’s hind legs and shifts it’s weight with a stoic expression, moments before the second unicorn connects it’s head ram. The second unicorn has an impulsive rage about it. It’s mouth, with it’s long incisors, is open, the mane that wraps around it’s throat is flung back, it’s white eyes are wide as it’s steps forward on it’s hind legs in a overt thrusting offence. This attacking unicorn is a unscarred beast, for now.
May 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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jenniferlmeyer.bsky.social
More Art Posts

#tranquilfeed #sciart🐡
Done in pen and ink by hand then gray scale was added digitally
May 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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jennosaur.bsky.social
Heart of the Forest 🍂 #art #myart #commissions
An illustration of a forest spirit in the middle of a body of water, the forest on fire around it. Deer-like, with leafy entwining antlers, its eyes glow against the black flowing void of its face and tail that trails in the wind, transforming into flame. Smoke billows in front and in the distance, the creature’s reflection a shadowy distortion. Surrounded and engulfed in flames, the forest spirit stands with a silent calm amidst the burning destruction of its home.
May 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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rebeccaglevington.bsky.social
It's a cover reveal for SOME DAYS I’M THE WIND, illus by the incomparable Dinara Mirtalipova @mirdinara.bsky.social, pub by @barefootbooks.bsky.social! Like the wind, which on some days is wild & on others is mild, our own feelings & moods shift & drift - but we are, on all days, uniquely ourselves.
April 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
maxallenpaz.bsky.social
Im working my first fulltime job, and man yall werent kidding this really takes the wind out of your sails
April 30, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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victoriamaderna.com
Happy world frog day!! 💚🐸 I love all batrachians and it always makes me happy to draw them.

#worldfrogday #frogs #amphibians #art #illustration
Little frog sitting on the base of a tree. A frog licks the fallen ice cream of their horrified frog friend. A fancy frog with big hair and a glass of absinthe. Frog in medieval garb and a hat with a feather.
March 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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mollymendoza.bsky.social
SCULPTURE GARDEN - sumi ink, gel pen, and gouache on 7” x 10” arches hot press for my upcoming solo show at Nucleus House on January 10th

Happy New Year! 2024 was painful so my resolution for this year is to be better to myself. In the spirit of that: I can’t believe the show is next weekend…!
Green garden archway with two stone figures laying in the distance while a small soldier and his alpaca approach
January 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
maxallenpaz.bsky.social
as annoying as it is for teenagers and new artists to constantly ask "what is this style called? how would you label my art? what's the name for this extremely specific thing? how can i summarize my individuality?" it is absolutely a necessity on socmed. not knowing what to call yourself is death
January 3, 2025 at 12:10 AM
maxallenpaz.bsky.social
nothing was coming out of my hands today so I decided to play a little.
January 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
maxallenpaz.bsky.social
Storygraph is chugging along, but it's probably overloaded by everyone setting their annual goals. I had a series of life altering events this year, so I only made a little over 50% of my reading goal. How did yall do?
January 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
2024 was an illustrious year for debuts by Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-Conforming Authors — here are 76 of them, compiled by @jenstjude.bsky.social!
76 Notable Debuts by Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-Conforming Authors in 2024 - Chicago Review of Books
This is the fifth time I’ve compiled this list. I don’t remember my motivations back in 2020. Perhaps I wanted to be a good, cis ally and honor authors I admire. Maybe I wanted to fill an…
buff.ly
December 23, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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nilahmagruder.com
Your greatest asset as a professional artist is the ability and readiness to say no and walk away from a deal that doesn't meet your standards.
December 29, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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stuntmaenbob.bsky.social
When the night shows it’s peaceful beauty

#pixelart
Pixel art space - front: shadow of a peaceful landscape (some trees, mountains & grass). Background: dark sky in violet tones full of stars (and a planet at the right).
December 29, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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edenflux.com
They say "Don't stare!", but I think this is the most intense some (thing?) has ever looked at me ... I kinda like it 👉👈

| #Art #EldritchHorror #DarkArt #Illustration |
An illustration depicting a woman with her car in a wintery scene. There's a sign saying, "Don't stare," referring to the eyes of an eldritch entity looking down at her from the sky. There are transmission towers supplying electricity to a lighthouse in the distance, but it doesn't seem to work, possibly having to do with the cosmic horror in the sky
December 29, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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amalasrosa.bsky.social
My favorite pieces from 2024
Digital art of original characters Aran and Tao as young adults in their early 20s at a hot summer night out in their NYC neighborhood kissing. Tao sits on a bicycle and Aran leans down to kiss him Digital art of original characters Aran and Tao as teenagers sitting in front of a basketball court on a warm early summer day. Behind them an overhead subway track and the city skyline Digital art of original characters Aran and Tao in a bodega solving crossword puzzles together. It’s a top view like from a security camera, looking down on them. It’s late at night and the bodega is empty besides them and the bodega cat. Two is sitting on the counter while Aran sits on a chair behind the counter. 🏀🦀
December 28, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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ionomycin.bsky.social
My favorite pieces from 2024
a piece posted quite recently, two characters standing in ruins by the water, looking at a gigantic creature in the distance a piece from this summer, a character draped in dark, leaking black, standing at a door ready to go in a piece from last january, based on the nordic saint lucia tradition. a girl with candles on her head riding a white mooselike creature
December 28, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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pablonotpicasso.bsky.social
Older sketch- love any excuse for painting yellow-green skies, such a cool phenomenon when it happens! #visdevart #horrorart
Painting of a ruined house partly buried in snow- ravens flap around it and some are perched on fence posts near the front of the image.
December 28, 2024 at 1:28 AM
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franzanth.bsky.social
Have yourself a merry little Carboniferous.
#Art #SciArt #PaleoArt #Inverts
a pine tree with bugs hanging all around it. at the very top is a dragonfly-like meganeura with open wings, circling the base is the giant millipede arthropleura. on the branches sit various insects and circular pine cones.
December 20, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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biscoitoart.bsky.social
Primeira vez postando um
𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼 𝗔𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗼! 😊✨

#BRart #art
September 17, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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pascalblanche.bsky.social
"The Engineers" #scifiart
December 18, 2024 at 4:01 AM
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igorgrouper.bsky.social
Dragon wants ice cream.

#art #sketch #dragon
A sketch of a dragon chasing an ice cream truck on a cliff side road.
December 17, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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xenianth.com
a weird art year for me. half hasn't been posted publicly yet due to being part of my in-progress comic, & the other half was super simplified compared to my usual work.

my only goal for next year is to finish the comic pages i currently have in progress

#ArtVSArtist2024 #ArtVSArtist #art #horror
a 3 by 3 grid of drawings. in the center is a bright blue person with long hair, gnarled flesh for a face, looking down at their upturned palms. the images around them are varying styles of horror art featuring horses, a furby creature, horse skull creatures, and the Putrescent Knight from Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree.
December 17, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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jenniferlmeyer.bsky.social
A new friend!

#JLMart #bunny #kidlitart
a stuffed bunny spots a real bunny through a window. And yes I LOVE painting candles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 17, 2024 at 6:20 PM