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michael.fran
@michaelfrancis.art
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kiowa illustrator and vis dev
🌎 austin, texas
🪶 sharing my culture with human made art
🚫 NO AI/NFT
💼 clients: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Sony/Columbia Pictures
#visualdevelopment #illustration

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michael.fran @michaelfrancis.art · Apr 3
✨💛 If You see this, QR with Your Yellow Art 💛✨️

I don't have a ton of yellow art but I do have this portrait I did in 2023 for #huevember
digital portrait of a Native American woman looking to the left. Yellow was the only hue used in the artwork
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amalasrosa.bsky.social
Round and round
February 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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aledthompson.bsky.social
The Cave
The opening of a cave with some leafy foliage, slate covered floor and waterfall in the background
August 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
michaelfrancis.art
👋 i've had a crazy summer (i think we all have). i spent a lot of time offline. while i was away i created this spider-verse piece. i took an old sketch of spiderman 2099 i had and gave him the background he deserves. 🕷️
digital illustration of Spider-man 2099 (Miguel O'Hara) standing on a gargoyle overlooking Nueva York, its mid day and the city is busy. Behind Miguel is the space elevator and a lot of traffic.
August 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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July 19, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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jabberwick.com
Slither 🐉
a simple illustration of a long wyrm. it is green with a red tongue, and is surrounded by little golden stars on a sketchy backdrop
July 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
Reposting this again bc like — I want to be able to respond in some productive way to every awful thing I see, but we are literally not built for that. So I picked an org in my lane and I’m offering up my skills. Spent an hour today working through the first piece of a new plan. And it felt good.
borderless.bsky.social borderless @borderless.bsky.social · Feb 4
Y'all pick a lane. Then make a little progress in your lane each day.

Every serious, experienced organizer I know is Doing Their Thing. Instead of freaking out about each bit of bad news, we're in our lanes rapidly building dual power infrastructure and networks that don't rely on the goverment.
February 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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jametc.bsky.social
maybe creatives actually ARE actually better people, what about THAT
a poster for medieval dynasty shows a woman standing in front of a table and benches
ALT: a poster for medieval dynasty shows a woman standing in front of a table and benches
media.tenor.com
July 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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davis.social
artists are neat.
June 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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aaronparnas.bsky.social
Donald Trump said no new wars.

Remember that tonight.
June 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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kellylynnedang.bsky.social
It’s National Indigenous Peoples Day.

Very few are talking about it. If you can, please take a few moments to read this. Please call your reps to stop the sale of public land today. Please.
kellylynnedang.bsky.social Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · Jun 18
Wrote this piece for Harpers Bazaar about the life, legacy, and hate-induced murder of Jonathan Joss through the eyes of being a Two-Spirit Native person this Pride.

I hope you take a read. For Him. For all of us. 🪶
We All Need to Be Talking About the Murder of Jonathan Joss This Pride and Beyond
The actor, who was Comanche and White Mountain Apache, was shot in a targeted hate crime while protecting his husband.
www.harpersbazaar.com
June 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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telekitnetic.bsky.social
Let's get an Indigenous art share going too!! If you're an Indigenous/First Nations artist, vendor, beader, etc, share your work and links below!!

#IndigenousPeoplesDay ❤️💛🤍🖤
A picture of various formline stickers piled on top of each other. In bold red gradient text reads "Indigenous People's Day Art Share".
June 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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nessathewriter.bsky.social
happy fuckin summer solstice
A skeleton on fire
June 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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requinoesis.bsky.social
This is a tribute to Peter Benchley, author of 'Jaws', who dedicated his life to reversing the unexpected negative impact his book had on the image of sharks.

We kill millions of sharks annually and demonize them in our media, who is the real monster? 💀

#Jaws #sharks #shark
An allegory of the "Jaws" movie poster that caused damage and negative stereotypes to the image of sharks that persist to this day (I'm glad it's slowly changing, but it's still too slow to be considered forgivable). Now with a reversal of roles, with the human victim replaced by a simple wild shark and the terrible stereotyped shark replaced by a monstrous human skull seeming to want to devour the shark (this is the reality, we kill thousands of sharks every year, many of them killed for irrational reasons, who is the real cruel killer?)
March 11, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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ricardojuchem.com
Hey, I am Ricardo, from Brazil.

I do pixel art for games and illustrations.

www.ricardojuchem.com
June 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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thisnorthernboy.bsky.social
Hi, I’m Rob from the UK. Drawing mainly spaceships and robots and weird places.

Find me at all these places… linktr.ee/thisnorthern...
Deep Space Fleet 2 poster. Colourful illustrations of dozens of spaceships. Elk Island Light. An illustration of an orange lighthouse floating in the ocean with tentacles beneath. Illustration of the heavy industrial funicular from Akira. An illustration of 16 little isometric buildings, ranging from a Venetian palazzo to a sci-fi noodle bar.
June 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Hey! I’m Drew I do a lot of colorful genrefic cartooning
June 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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ginaperry.bsky.social
Hello! I'm a children's book author and illustrator from New England. And I'm the creator of the monthly #KidLitArtPostcard event (next one is July 3rd!)
Cover of a picture book titled 'The King of Books', written and illustrated by Gina Perry. Features a young tiger wearing a crown standing atop a stack of books. An elephant, boar, and monkey watch from the jungle background. Excerpt from the children's picture book, TOO MUCH! NOT ENOUGH! written and illustrated by Gina Perry. We see two monsters, one blue and large, one small and orange in a very messy kitchen. The large one, Moe, is actually cleaning. The small one, Peanut, is making a bubble beard and just playing. Illustration of a gnome-bulance going through the woods carrying an injured chipmunk. A fox lurks in the background. An orange truck carries beets and is being driven by an older gnome. A tricycle follows with a wagon full of fresh flowers. A bee and dragonfly look on. Art by Gina Perry. A flatly illustrated scene of different dinosaurs as astronauts, tea-drinkers, video game bros, and a guitar hero. Text in the center reads GinaPerry.com
June 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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hampus.bsky.social
Hi Davis, Hampus reporting in with the usual pulpy fare

#art, #pulp, #horror, #pinup, #skeletons
A digital painting of a stately skeleton posing in his dark office. He is wearing a red cloak, grasping it in his shrivelled hand, while his other hand rests on the dark granite slab that forms part of his bony desk. A chandellier made of bones hangs in the background, emitting an eerie green glow. A little clear gem orbit's the skeleton's head. There are notches running down the femur and humerus bones, and silver etchings have been carved into the skull. A digital painting of Angela Gossow from the band Arch Enemy. She is depicted in warm, golden and rusty green hues against a dark yet warm background. Most of her features are roughly defined, except her left eye, which is eerily in focus A digital painting of a naked woman kneeling before a gigantic honey-colored flower with a skull in the center. The woman is rendered in shades of purple and red, her head cast back, eyes closed and lips smiling. Her long black hair is flowing down, covering her butt. Her arms are stretched behind her, bent slightly at the elbow A gothic romance-inspired digital painting of a woman clasping her face in fear, superimposed over a dark house, flanked by wind-twisted trees.
June 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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chirunax.bsky.social
Hi, thank you for the artshare! ❤️
June 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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saturninecreations.bsky.social
Hey! I’m a dark concept artist with a love for subtle melancholy and gothic themes
June 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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kiwifruitbird.bsky.social
Hello once more! I'm Kim, an illustrator that draws lots of wavy lines :)
Illustration of a woman sitting in a dark field with glowing green in her hand Illustration of a boy fishing on a hill with a collapsed church next to him and birds in the sky Illustration of a bright garden with a circle gate, and a man seated behind it Illustration of a woman laying on forest floor with purple magic exploding out of her hand
June 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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kanaratron.bsky.social
Hey Davis!

I'm Alex and I make indie video games. Here's some character scribbles from our last game, Mythwrecked.
Some character designs surrounding a photo of me
June 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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lightvick.bsky.social
Tysm for hosting!!!😊
June 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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aplante.com
Ahoy hoy!! Thanks Davis!!

I'm Alex, a Canadian artist on the Prairies. I do MOSTLY landscapes and comics, but also birds and food art and murals and pottery and idk stickers or whatever (i cannot be contained)

shop/blog: aplante.com
portfolio: aplante.com/portfolio
patreon: patreon.com/alexplante
power lines going down a back lane, silhouetted against a pink and purple twilight sky. the trees and houses along the lane are all cast in blue shadow. the colours are laid out in a way that suggests the bi flag. very bisexual lighting. a street lamp glows, and some birds flying in the distance. a bunch of various repeating drawings of kermit the frog making scrunchy faces a cartoon drawing of a cute pink earthworm wrapped around a to-go cup of coffee. he looks very tired, his tongue is sticking out, and he is wearing a tiny little crown. a warm illustration of bald hill at riding mountain national park in manitoba, canada. a cliff juts out into a sea of orange, yellow, red, and green trees. in the foreground is a single rocky platform with a mama bear and her cub.
June 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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davis.social
ARTISTS! Let’s do an art share!

There are now more than 36.7 MILLION Bluesky accounts!

Let’s find each other!

Spread the post to reach the most! 💙
a digital illustration with a traditional appearance on yellowed paper, of a reimagined banjo-kazooie. kazooie has a speech bubble saying "art share!"
June 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM