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mimi 🗡️

@heirakka.bsky.social

Old tweet from user roob_drummer that reads:

snowing hard this morning. Bus driver slid through a red light. Only thing be said was "we slidin" i cant stop thinking about this.

December 20, 2025 at 4:10 AM

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Mark Lambert (Now on VGen)

@remanance.bsky.social

To celebrate reaching 10K id like to do an art giveaway sometime this month, will pull the winner in a week or so and they will get a 3D sculpt of a new OC or a redesign of an existing character in my style.

To enter just share this post if you're followin me (AI/Crypto accounts will be ignored✨)

October 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM

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deeg 🤍

@deegoo.bsky.social

Pyaari is so decent 🥺

Two drawings and two small photos of the cat, Pyaari. The drawing on the left is wearing a blue dupatta. The drawing on the right is in a gold sari with a dupatta on the head.

October 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM

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meyo 🌸

@meyoco.bsky.social

🐰 fawn buns 🐰

October 18, 2024 at 2:12 PM

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡

@moxiest.art

A two panel cartoon depicting the Egyptian god Anubis at a desk with a scale.

Panel 1: Anubis saying "YO WHADDUP, IT'S YA BOI ANUBIS, BACK AT IT AGAIN WITH ANOTHER SOUL UNBOXING VIDEO"

Panel 2: Anubis placing a tiny charlie Kirk on the scale with a feather, saying "NOW AS YOU CAN SEE, THIS ONE IS A LITTLE HEAVIER THAN A FEATHER, WHICH LONGTIME VIEWERS WILL KNOW IS REALLY BAD HAHA"

September 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM

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rob cham!

@robcham.bsky.social

DIY > AI

July 1, 2025 at 2:44 AM

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Carmico ✿

@carmico.bsky.social

Its my birthday!! So y'all get a lil gift too ✨️

GIVEAWAY: $500 CAD for a shopping spree (or your cart completely refunded + credit for more if you've already pre-ordered!)

rules:
⁠ 🌿like & rt this post⁠
💚must be following us!⁠
🍵tag friends for extra entries⁠
🌎open worldwide
✨️ closes june 15th

June 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM

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Celesse ✿

@celesse.bsky.social

Catnip kitty 🐱🌿 #art #pokemon #cats

A sketchy drawing of Sprigatito the grass-type cat Pokemon sitting in a clay pot full of flowering catnip with a decorative Pokeball on the front.

April 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM

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Rii Abrego

@riibrego.bsky.social

slumber #art (wallpapers below!)

An illustration of two tiny rabbits sleeping in a patch of sprouting plants

March 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM

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Tom McH

@tommchenry.bsky.social

Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find.

They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.

INTRODUCTION

Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling.

You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse.

You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life.

TIPS

1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way

possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything.

2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought.

3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook.

6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes.

7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case.

8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes.

9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out.

10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.

March 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM

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Anna Phylaxis

@quatoria.bsky.social

It's worth reiterating - Microsoft's own research indicates that use of generative AI degrades critical thinking skills and erodes confidence in unassisted decision making.

five pennies in a trenchcoat @snickettes.bsky.social · Feb 5

I really really need you guys to make a conscious rejection of generative AI tools part of your ongoing political resistance.

Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.

five pennies in a trenchcoat @snickettes.bsky.social · Feb 5

Oh please please i am begging, don't use generative AI for any reason if you can avoid it.

It's being marketed as a quick time-saver, but it's messy, inaccurate, it is putting entire industries of people out of work, and the environmental impacts (energy and water usage) are huge and debilitating.

February 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM

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Faunwood ✦⁺◦

@faunwood.bsky.social

alcohol marker experiments. I feel like something is starting to click!

(elaborate excuse to make lil creatures (and quilavas)) ( ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ഒ

a collection of pen and alcohol marker illustrations, scanned and composited into a spread. Colors include green, tan, yellow, and orange with a sepia colored pen. Creatures include quilava, a feathered snake, and a fictional plant/fungus.

in-situ photo of two alcohol marker and ink pens creatures, framed by the pens used to draw them. The one on the right is holding a shell!

In-situ photo of alcohol marker and ink pen drawings, including the feathered snake and fictional plant/fungus.

March 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM

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✶ inoa

@inoaart.bsky.social

Hi guys! I've never hosted a #DTIYS before so here i'd decided to finally do it! I hope everyone can have fun! 🖤 Feel free if you decide to participate to tag is as #inoaDTIYS so i can see them all! <3
Thank you all for your support over the years, ily! <3
#DTIYS #artraffle