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Murtagh Esq.
@murtaghesq.bsky.social
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I like to draw sometimes. Colourist for Red as Blood, hoarder of neglected ocs, lover of aus 20+ 🔞
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Murtagh Esq. @murtaghesq.bsky.social · Jul 7
Hold on, lemme make my little artfight thread dead quick
Filled out form for artfight's team crystal for murtaghesq
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kholbatar.bsky.social
🔥🔥🔥

#Flambae #Dispatch
This is a stylized digital illustration of a strong male character on a black background. Face: confident, stern expression; yellow, glowing eyes; light stubble on the chin; dark hair combed back. Lighting and color: warm tones dominate—orange-red and yellow—creating a flame effect; sharp contrast with the completely black background. Composition: the torso and shoulders are visible, surrounded by tongues of flame. Style: graphic, “comic book” style with flat shadows and bright contour accents.
December 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
murtaghesq.bsky.social
"baking tray included" and it's cardboard
December 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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djamilaknopf.bsky.social
I painted an empty chair in a forest. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper
a traditional painting of an empty chair next to a big, mossy tree
November 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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dianaj.bsky.social
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An illustration based on the "this is fine meme" . But instead of the dog drinking it's coffee while being surrounded by fire, it is the Gävle goat. Three birds are perched on it's head, eating and ripping out straw.
November 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social
Oh, but I love you
I love you
I love you
Illustration of two Tiger Lily flowers intertwining. One being red and the other being pink. A thin blue ribbon wraps itself out the stems of the two flowers.
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 AM
murtaghesq.bsky.social
Built different (wrong)
A young man on his hands and knees, one hand clutching his chest. blue light spills out from him
November 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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sarahmargs.bsky.social
This is the thread for my minicomic, Into the Bladelands! I will be posting updates of anywhere from 2-4 pages here, hopefully to be finished before the end of the year.

Sky disappears. Ari gets left behind. Five years later, the door to the Bladelands opens again.
Into the Bladelans cover Ari (vo): When I was sixteen, my best friend disappeared. We grew up together in the woods between our houses. Sky could have fun no matter what. Sky: Pick up your sword and fith me like a man! Ari: Wait for me! Ari (vo): My favorite thing to do was just live in his world. Bully: Whatcha drawin, faggots? The map to your honeymoon? Sky punches him. Later, Ari tends to his wounds. Sky: You probably think I'm really stupid. Ari: I just think you're really brave. They kiss. Sky: We can't tell anyone about this, okay? Ari: Yeah, of course. A couple years pass. Sky and Ari are looking at the stars. Sky: Y'know, I think about it all the time. Ari: What we've been doing? Sky: No, man, the Bladelands! We'd run shit over there. Be warriors or kings or whatever. Ari: Heh, too bad it's not real. Sky: well, it could be. Ari: Dude. Sky: I'm just saying! Maybe we were picking up a signal or something. Like a radio station from another state, but with dragons. It feels like that sometimes. Y'know, I turn 17 tomorrow. And I'm starting to freak out a little because, like, this is it? I thought I could be more than this. Ari: Hey, you can be! When we're 18, we can get out of here. We'll move to the city. Together. Sky: I guess... it still just all feels so small. At least in the Bladelands, there's magic. And prophecy, and swords, and danger. You can be an adventurer. You can at least be, like, an important person. Ari: You're important, Sky. You're important to me. Sky: Heh. Gayyy. Ari: Shut up. Ari (VO): That was the last night I ever saw him. Ari walks away. Sky spots a mysterious portal behind a tree and reaches out to it. Ari (Vo): The next day, he was gone. We see a montage of Ari's lonely life. Sky's parents mourn and move away. Ari graduates. Gets a job working at a bookstore. The impromptu memorial for Sky rots. Ari (VO): And the next. And the next. And the next. And the next. And the next. And then five years were gone.
November 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
murtaghesq.bsky.social
It's been over a year since I last had any crumpets and you know I do love my country sometimes, we really were onto something with these
November 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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littlestpersimmon.bsky.social
Forcing cishet men to engage with yaoi, forcefujoing
November 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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torrent-empress.bsky.social
I found that academic study about rural white men that have sex with other men but do not identify as queer and it's still the funniest thing I've ever read in my life
November 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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babbyrat.art
✨Dead Wife Montage 🌊

having fun killing backstory NPCs in my player's lives 🫶

#art #wip #oc #ocsky #dnd #dndnpc #ttrpg
Three drawings of a man with long, wavy brown hair. Top left is him looking over his shoulder, smiling back at the viewer. Top right is him sitting on the mast of a ship. Bottom is a him and a red haired man facing away, looking out at the water.
November 30, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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kkcoocool.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
This is a great photo of a cat sitting in a bowl. "No way she could top that", you're thinking. WELL GUESS WHAT...
Photo of a shorthaired black cat sitting in a metal bowl on top of a wooden table indoors.
November 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
... here is the same cat sitting in a bowl with a party hat on. Negatives from my collection, ca. 1950s.
Photo of a shorthaired black cat sitting in a metal bowl on top of a radio cabinet, with a tiny party hat on its head.
November 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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oregonthedm.bsky.social
Part 100! of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg

This 14th century door at Exeter Cathedral, UK, is thought to be the oldest existing cat flap.
Cat leaking out of an old wooden door
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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oregonthedm.bsky.social
Part 83 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd

Queen Boudica revenge was so great against Rome she burned Londinium leaving a scorch layer still runs under modern London, named by archaeologists the 'Boudican Destruction Horizon'
Smart folks looking at rocks
November 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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kholbatar.bsky.social
Artists show your most popular work
. This is a stylized portrait of a person with bright neon colors. The hair is divided into two parts: the left half is deep blue, and the right half is pink and purple. The eyes are completely covered by a large mirrored visor with yellow, orange, and pink hues—it looks like a glowing strip. The skin is dark, and the lips are a metallic silver-blue shade. The neck and shoulders are covered with clothing featuring geometric lines and accents in yellow and black.
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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jaws-stone.bsky.social
Edith Hunt
2025

Removed the ears and tail cos they didn't work on a tiny screen, just looked weird. It's been fun going back to buff ladies again <3
An illustration of a giant buff lady squatting, wearing cool pants and nice shoes. She's full of scars
November 28, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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thesunxix.bsky.social
September’s postcard design ✨ sometimes you just really need to draw a jester birb.
Illustration of a fall landscape taken over by the image of a bird perched on a tree branch in the foreground. The bird is wearing a jester headpiece, and holding a swirling flag in his beak. On the horizon is a lush forest and a castle on the left. The scene is framed by golden leaves, plants, daggers, and a crown on a dark background.
September 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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mrlovenstein.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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coreybrickley.bsky.social
Anna-Jane and the Endless Summer
Painting of a young girl wading through the water of a pond, we mostly focus on her reflection which shows her looking over her shoulder determinedly. She has an archery bow slung over her back and is holding an arrow. In the reflection we can see that cabins in a forest are a-blaze
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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secondlina.com
Medieval vibes ✨️
Two drawings, one of a medieval crow, the other of a cartoony crow, are face to face with the caption "time has changed me. But I'm still here." Crow and tit bird are standing on the pole holding up a flag featuring a stylized crow on a field of purple. The crows exclaims "dude, these guys flippin' love me!" The crow now wonders (refering to the flag and people liking him) "is it weird that this makes me want to turn my life around?"
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
murtaghesq.bsky.social
Best profile I've ever drawn, god don't let me fuck the rest of this up I beg
Line art of the side view of a shocked face
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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scaredprince.bsky.social
Idk how many of you followed me back in the Riptide days, but officially Lu and I have combined the setting into our Homebrew world of Solar Fire :3

They need a redesign to suit the world a bit better. Daniel is going to be half teifling and Rupert, still a queer allegory chimera 🧍💖
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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sarkastiklover.bsky.social
Still just messing around... I need to figure out which effects compliment the textures of these pens the best, when doing the colors.

#art #illustration #digitalart
An illustration of a woman looking back, as she smokes a cigarette
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM