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Krista A. Leemhuis 🎨
@moss-demon.bsky.social
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By day, UX/UI Designer at Blizzard. By night, Digital & Traditional Artist, working on my graphic novel, Endai.

Mythology🏛️, Ancient History🗡️🩴 & Regenerative Agriculture🌾🫛 enthusiast 😄

They/Them
🚫 #noAI
(My opinions are my own.)
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Some Endai concept art today. Hard to share things without spoilers, but this one seemed safe.
For updates about my graphic novel, stay tuned here: @endai-epic.bsky.social
#conceptart #graphicnovel #digitalpainting #procreate
A painting in yellows and blues. A cloaked rider, closest to the viewer, rides past toward a massive stone wall. The gate is closed and guarded, and atop it, lit by yellow sunlight, stand 3 archers. Shadows of more archers are cast across the wall.
November 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Just #sketchbook #sketching tonight while I take a break from writing.

Drawn by a human in #ballpointpen (from reference photos) :)

#JacobElordi and #BradPitt
Image shows drawings of 2 heads in light blue pen on white paper. The first is a 3/4 view of Jacob Elordi, the second is Brad Pitt. Both have some light shading to indicate shadows, but are mostly line drawings.
November 27, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Here is Noodles, the cat model/model cat after his nap.
#cats
A white and tan cat, Noodles, sits next to a sketchbook on a couch, looking sleepy.
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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2-Point Perspective

Just a little #tutorial on how to draw cubes in perspective!

By starting with simple forms like cubes to get the perspective correct, more complicated forms (like #cats) become easier to draw!

#drawingtutorial #arttutorial #sketchbook #traditionalart
A sketchbook page illustrating how to draw cubes using 2-point perspective, that includes a couple drawings of cats in boxes. 1. DRAW YOUR HORIZON LINE 2. PICK 2 VANISHING POINTS 3. DRAW A LINE FROM EACH VANISHING POINT SO THEY INTERSECT. THIS IS A CORNER. 4. DRAW A LINE STRAIGHT DOWN FROM THE CORNER. THIS IS YOUR CUBE SIZE. 5. DRAW A LINE TO EACH VANISHING POINT FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE VERTICAL LINE. 6. DRAW ANOTHER VERTICAL LINE TO CONNECT THE TOP AND BOTTOM EDGES. 7. DO THE SAME ON THE OTHER SIDE, THEN CONNECT CORNERS TO VANISHING POINTS.
November 27, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Art #1165

#sketchbook page to document my ongoing quest to figure out a character for @endai-epic.bsky.social , my online graphic novel.

#drawing #pendrawing #ballpointpen #dogs #foxes #characterdesign
A sketchbook page showing several pen drawings of dog, fox, and coyote faces, with some where features and coloring are combined together to create a new sort of creature.
November 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Art #1166 “Growth Potential”

I painted this in 2021, but I’m feeling it again…all this energy to create and not enough hours in the day to do it.

(It’s also a bit of #anxiety too, holding onto those rocks.)

Painted by a human in Photoshop.
#tree #digitalpainting #digitalart #growth #bonsai
Digital painting of a very twisted tree trunk, clinging desperately to a pile of smooth rocks that seem to only be held up by the tree’s roots. Meanwhile the thick, established tree manages only to put up a few tiny, orderly leaves.
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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If you see this, post your bird art! 🐦‍⬛

Made by a human 💚

#crow #digitalpainting #noai
Painting of a crow from the side. Greenish highlights give some form and dimension to its feathers and body, and it has an orange eye. It seems alert. It sits on an abstract dark orange background that seems to shatter around its shape like glass, with a brighter orange outline emphasizing the crow’s shape.
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Art #1168 “Suké”

Sketching today for my graphic novel, trying to find the character 💚
Drawing in white and dark brown lines on a tan background depicting the head and shoulders of a creature that seems part big cat, part fox, with fluffy fur on its neck and chest. The creature looks to the left with dignity.
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Art #1169 “Grumpy Tree, Grumpy Sky”

Another #bicpen #ballpointpen #drawing from my #sketchbook
I love doing these. Very meditative!

As always, made by human.
A sketchbook page showing a drawing in black ballpoint pen using only vertical lines depicting a grumpy cloudy sky. Seeming to reach out toward the clouds as they pass by is a pine tree in the foreground, so dark it is almost a silhouette.
November 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Art #1170 "Snoqualmie Falls"

Little #ballpointpen drawing I made last year of #snoqualmiefalls in #washingtonstate.

#drawing #pendrawing #waterfall #traditionalart #noai
A drawing in black ballpoint pen on white paper, oriented vertically, of Snoqualmie Falls in Washington state. White water pours from the top of the frame in cascading sheets, and seems to curl and swirl as it falls toward the river below. Image is rendered entirely using freehand vertical lines and subtle gradients.
November 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Art #1171 “Rainstorm over Nasu”

Little colored #ballpointpen drawing in my #sketchbook of a rainstorm I saw while I was on the train in Japan last year.
A drawing in colored ballpoint pens using only vertical lines and soft gradients depicting a landscape over which dark clouds swirl. In their center, the sky seems to open up, pouring light or rain down on the valley below.
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Art #1172 “Suzaka”

Little pen drawing I made based on a photo I took in Japan last year 💚

#japantravel #drawing #sketchbook #noai #ballpointpen
Sketchbook page with a vertical landscape drawing. In the foreground, bright green lush foliage lines an implied road the viewer stands on. In the midground, hills covered in pines, and further in the distance, blue-green hills and faint blue mountaintops. The sky implies clouds. The piece is rendered in vertical colored pen lines only.
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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It is crow season. Happy fall, y’all 🧡

(Made by a human, in Photoshop.)
Painting of a crow from the side. Greenish highlights give some form and dimension to its feathers and body, and it has an orange eye. It seems alert. It sits on an abstract dark orange background that seems to shatter around its shape like glass, with a brighter orange outline emphasizing the crow’s shape.
October 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Art #1383 “Spring Tree”

Little drawing I made last night in #ballpointpen on colored paper. I love the optimism and boldness of fresh spring leaves. 💚

#traditionalart #drawing #tree #spring
Image is a photo of a drawing made on light blue paper of a large tree atop a field of grass, with bright green clumps of spring leaves illuminated by sunlight.
April 8, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Art #1401 “🎵LAAA🎶”

A little sketch of The Sir, Sif. 💚

Drawn in ballpoint pen by a human.

#sketchbook #traditionalart #pendrawing #catdrawing #yawn
A line drawing depicting a cat from the neck up mid-yawn. We don’t see his eyes, just his wide open mouth, and the speech bubble coming from him says “🎵LAAA🎶” as though he is singing instead of yawning.
March 21, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Art #1402 "Knowledge & Nature"

Just a little peaceful sketch. I've always liked the idea of reading in the woods. :)

#peacefulart #digitalart #digitalpainting #forestart
A painting of a green forest with distant beams of golden light. In the foreground, a person sits on the root of a tree reading a book.
March 20, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Art #1403 "Among the Giants"

A little #legendofzelda fan art I did a few years ago. 💚
Painted by a human.

#digitalart #digitalpainting #videogamefanart #fantasyart
A vertical painting depicting a path into giant trees lit from the left by bright morning light. Link, with master sword drawn, wanders down the path, looking around the corner toward whatever may lie in the darkness beyond the bend. Around him are an assortment of small plants and trees amid the more ancient trees of the forest.
March 19, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Art #1404 "Reclamation"

Inspired by a wall I saw while visiting Nagano, Japan. 💚
Painted by a human.

#digitalart #digitalpainting #postapocalyptic #peacefulart
A vertical painting of large wall of precisely cut stones. The wall has a hole in the lower left with a roman archway and a downspout where water apparently has flowed, judging by the streaks of moss. Sunlight dances in myriad colors at an angle across the wall, and lights on various vines and mosses and morning glory flowers that have crawled along the wall's cracks and clustered on ledges, or hang down from some unseen height of the wall above. It is colorful, cheerful, and peaceful.
March 18, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Art #1405 "A Time to Rest"

A little fan art for #wanderstop. It's been a while since I've fallen in love with a game. It's lovely, and it's needed. Thank you, @ivyroadgames.bsky.social 💚
Alta, the main character from Wanderstop, sits on a bench in a clearing, her elbows on her knees, a cup of hot tea in her hands. The tea curls into a swirl...or a question...as she gazes at her shadow. But her shadow is that of a warrior, raising a sword above her head. Around her is a peaceful clearing in blues, greens, and purples, and a pink willow drapes down in the background. In the foreground are plants...and a wee pluffin.
March 17, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Art #1406 “Once You Were Beside Me”

Ballpoint pen in my sketchbook.
Drawn by a human.

#ballpointpen #pendrawing #landscape #traditionalart #drawing
A drawing in black ballpoint pen on white paper. The scene is a landscape in which tall misty mountains and hills fill the background. In the lower third, a distant hill angles into a lake, and reflects in the still water. There’s an island in the lake in the foreground, with two pine trees—one alive, one dead. The live tree has a reflection; the dead one does not.
March 16, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Art #1407 “Autumn Mountains”

Continuing my colored ballpoint pen journey, this is one of the drawings I made last year as I noodled with color mixing. 💚
Drawn by a human. 💚

#pendrawing #ballpointpen #sketchbook #traditionalart #mountains #pnw
A photo of a sketchbook, showing a drawing in colored ballpoint pen using only vertical hatching of a mountain scene. In the foreground is a lone thin pine tree in dark greens and blacks. In the background, layers of hills recede into the distance; the first is a ridge of pines in greens with some red hues, obscured at its base by fog; the next has some bright yellows and oranges as well as greens. The next hill is nearly a mountain, obscured by clouds, and barely visible against a pale gray sky is a row of snow-capped mountains.
March 15, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Art #1408 “Glass Beads”

Last year I bought some colored ballpoint pens and started playing with them to see how I could mix colors and things. This was a fun little experiment! (Zoom in!)
Drawn by a human.
#sketchbook #glass #drawing #pendrawing #traditionalart #coloredpen
Image is a photo of a sketchbook on which 4 small glass beads of green, blue, clear, and red appear to sit. On a separate piece of paper positioned above the sketchbook, the same four glass beads sit. When you zoom in, you can see the beads on the sketchbook have been drawn realistically in pen, and the actual beads are the ones above on the paper.
March 14, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Art #1409 "Wise Turtle"

Speedpaint done a while back.
(Turtle power!)

#turtle #speedpaint #digitalpainting #digitalart
A painting of a clearing at a liminal time in which a large turtle wades in a pond. On its back grow trees and moss, and it looks up toward an unseen light source.
March 13, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Art #1410: "Massive Cave"

This is a 1 hour speedpainting I did back in 2010 that I'm still quite happy with. 💚 I love playing with scale like this. :)

Painted by a human.

#cave #landscapepainting #digitalpainting #digitalart #speedpaint
A vertical image showing distant rough rocks--maybe the side of a mountain--and a vast opening in the rocks that vanishes into darkness. We can't see the top, and the darkness leads us to assume there is one...somewhere offscreen. Two white birds fly in the vast darkness of the cave. Sunlight catches on jutting exterior rocks, and in the foreground, amid fields of grass or crops, are two tiny figures wearing hats. Their scale in the foreground makes the background cave seem all the larger by comparison.
March 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Art #1411 "Green Man of Azeroth"

I love the old Warcraft 3 box art, and had the n'elf as my desktop in college. For this I thought, what would the Green Man look like in Azeroth? A druid who'd transformed into a treant too many times? :D

#warcraft #druid #nightelf #fanart #warcraftfanart #greenman
A horizontal image, but a portrait of an elder night elf looking directly at the viewer, but offset to the left side of the image. His skin is bark-like and purple, and his eyes glow turquoise. His beard looks like wild moss, and his hair a fro of leaves. Branches sprout from his forehead.
March 11, 2025 at 5:21 AM