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nightshadeblues.bsky.social
@nightshadeblues.bsky.social
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Aspiring writer/artist
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Avid science enjoyer and nerd who can talk your ear off about my fantasy world building one minute 🐦‍🔥 and then talk about how cute bacteria are the next 🦠

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nightshadeblues.bsky.social @nightshadeblues.bsky.social · May 16
I know that seeing a bunch of people asking for help can be overwhelming, and not everyone will feel comfortable donating, but this is what sparked my urgent desire to do what I can. Even if all you can do is share the other posts, please do.
www.npr.org/2025/05/13/n...
Gaza is starving as Israel's aid blockade continues, aid official says
NPR's Juana Summers talks to Antoine Renard, of the U.N. World Food Programme, about the increasing risk of famine in Gaza as Israel's aid blockade continues.
www.npr.org
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blueowlsong.bsky.social
My finished dragons! I'm really happy with how the colors and textures turned out!

#art #fantasy #illustration #dragon #dragons #creaturedesign
Crystallized and Molten, Sept 2025 Pen drawing of two dragons, one with most of its head facing left visible in the foreground with somewhat crystalline and somewhat organic shapes for its floral looking eye and leaf like shapes from it to the neck and snout, with three long lobes on the back of its head. The central gem is colored in with orange, a few around it are pink/purple, and the leaf-like shapes are emerald or citrine green. The large sections around it are filled in with black with some white visible to show shine and the rough texture of raw obsidian. Lines of orange surround them. The crest of the head is colored in saturated pink with dark pink bands and a few uncolored areas as highlights. In the background and making up the top half is a dragon with a crystal round eye colored with turquoise blue and several imperfect and sometimes curved edged gems emerging from the side of its face and back, almost like the plates of a stegosaurus but more 3D. There are multiple sections on its body colored like different precious stones such as black opal, green jasper, malachite, tiger's eye, hawk's eye, etc., and smaller gems emerging as if the dragon is made of cracked rocks with gems poking out from it. These gems and cracks along its body are colored in a variety of colors based on different gems including yellow/orange citrine, dark red zircon, brighter red ruby, deep blue sapphire, turquoise or purple alexandrite, purple amethyst, emeralds, and lighter green peridots. The snout of this dragon is colored with bands of purple, turquoise, blue, yellow, and orange, based on a rainbow fluorite.
September 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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blueowlsong.bsky.social
One of these started as a character that I already had in mind from my planned fantasy novel, and the others have been more integrated into my world building. Most of the true dragons have single elemental magic.

The first resembles my MC's love interest but is a Water dragon with a Warm alignment.
Fortune Reader, Full Color, Sept 2025 Based on the Smaugust prompt, Oracle, is a lightly colored black and white drawing, with some areas shaded lightly to heavily in colored pens, of a mostly serpentine dragon coiled slightly on itself and facing right. It has a long head with a black rectangular eye framed by a dramatic eyebrow, and it has two forelimbs with three clawed fingers each, the left holding open a book in front of it, scrawled in illegibly to the audience, while its right is bent closer and holding a card face up with two crescent moons back to back. Its head is topped by sinuous horns that curl back and straight up and are adorned in jewelry and henna-like tattoos. The body and horns have light brown shading in a few places, the left forelimb blending in with the sandy yellow/brown loosely shaded ground. A pair of lightly red shaded bat wings sprout from the shoulders and have rings pierced through them. The dragon is covered in more tattoos, including many eye motifs along the tail and elbows, and a long water dragon amongst a wave on its back, curling in and out of view. That is shaded blue and turquoise while others are black and white. The tail has red-gold jewelry pieces, including bangles on the end, and a fabric-looking purple piece. Bound Wings, Sept 2025 Black and white somewhat sketch-like pen drawing of a feathered serpentine dragon with no other limbs (an amphiptere) facing left and positioned like a backwards S, covered in lines that cross over each other in geometric ways, many wrapping around the snout, torso, and wings. Most of the lines are thin like fishing lines, woven threads, or webs, but a few are vine-like and have small leaves. The dragon has short horns extending from the back of its long almost horse-like head, and several feathers that are for adornment rather than flight are on either side of the base and near the end of the curling tail. A Mess of Ink, Aug 2025 Semi abstract, surreal pen piece depicting a wyrm-like dragon with a head dripping with ink, a semi long body made of a line of sheet music, a back wing or tail folded like origami and decorated in scribbles, a tic-tac-toe board that ended in a draw, and deliberate strokes of pen like a made up language, and branch-like claws splayed out on a map in made up languages depicting two land masses, the one on the right bigger and more broken up than the one on the bottom left, with dark water for a sea between them. The map has musical notes, splatters of ink, and scribbled out sections, presumably done by the little dragon, and there are cubes on the map, as if it was a battle map or a game map. Crystallized and Molten, Sept 2025 Pen drawing of two dragons, one with most of its head facing left visible in the foreground with somewhat crystalline and somewhat organic shapes for its floral looking eye and leaf like shapes from it to the neck and snout, with three long lobes on the back of its head. The central gem is colored in with orange, a few around it are pink/purple, and the leaf-like shapes are emerald or citrine green. The large sections around it are filled in with black with some white visible to show shine and the rough texture of raw obsidian. Lines of orange surround them. The crest of the head is colored in saturated pink with dark pink bands and a few uncolored areas as highlights. In the background and making up the top half is a dragon with a crystal round eye colored with turquoise blue and several imperfect and sometimes curved edged gems emerging from the side of its face and back, almost like the plates of a stegosaurus but more 3D. There are multiple sections on its body colored like different precious stones such as black opal, green jasper, malachite, tiger's eye, hawk's eye, etc., and smaller gems emerging as if the dragon is made of cracked rocks with gems poking out from it. These gems and cracks along its body are colored in a variety of colors based on different gems including yellow/orange citrine, dark red zircon, brighter red ruby, deep blue sapphire, turquoise or purple alexandrite, purple amethyst, emeralds, and lighter green peridots. The snout of this dragon is colored with bands of purple, turquoise, blue, yellow, and orange, based on a rainbow fluorite.
September 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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blueowlsong.bsky.social
Congratulations on 2.2k!!! And thanks for hosting the art share! These are some of my recent works, which have some worldbuilding in the alt text as well as physical descriptions :)
Ripples- Duck Magic The first entry in my series based on my magic Birds in the world building for my fantasy setting. Ducks combine the magic of Water, Flowers, and the Wild Hunt of the fey into Ripple magic, a magic of abundance, of the gradual effects of actions taken by oneself or by others, and of the power to be found in embracing change instead of fighting it. Water magic is teal colored, Floral magic is pink, and Hunt magic is green. Description: Colored gel pen illustration of a duck with dark teal green feathers that are mottled with light and dark green on the head, light green and blue with dark green on the neck and bottom of the body under the wings, which are in shades of pink and a few spots of yellow. The top of the body has pink and yellow among the other colors, and the breast has pink, blue, and dark green. The beak is orange/pink. The duck sits on a pond with pink, blue, teal, and green ripples radiating out from it. Crystallized and Molten, Sept 2025 Pen drawing of two dragons, one with most of its head facing left visible in the foreground with somewhat crystalline and somewhat organic shapes for its floral looking eye and leaf like shapes from it to the neck and snout, with three long lobes on the back of its head. The central gem is colored in with orange, a few around it are pink/purple, and the leaf-like shapes are emerald or citrine green. The large sections around it are filled in with black with some white visible to show shine and the rough texture of raw obsidian. Lines of orange surround them. The crest of the head is colored in saturated pink with dark pink bands and a few uncolored areas as highlights. In the background and making up the top half is a dragon with a crystal round eye colored with turquoise blue and several imperfect and sometimes curved edged gems emerging from the side of its face and back, almost like the plates of a stegosaurus but more 3D. There are multiple sections on its body colored like different precious stones such as black opal, green jasper, malachite, tiger's eye, hawk's eye, etc., and smaller gems emerging as if the dragon is made of cracked rocks with gems poking out from it. These gems and cracks along its body are colored in a variety of colors based on different gems including yellow/orange citrine, dark red zircon, brighter red ruby, deep blue sapphire, turquoise or purple alexandrite, purple amethyst, emeralds, and lighter green peridots. The snout of this dragon is colored with bands of purple, turquoise, blue, yellow, and orange, based on a rainbow fluorite. Constellations- Raven Magic- WIP The third entry in my series based on my magic Birds in the world building for my fantasy setting. Ravens combine the elucidating and pattern recognition aspect of Celestial magic with the vast expansiveness and scope of Sky magic into Constellation magic. This is a magic of cosmic fortunes, history, wisdom, and lofty visions. They tell fortunes of the grander sorts, of figures that have importance in the grand scheme of things, altering the course of history, down to relatively fine details. Ravens are often described as enigmatic, their typical way of speaking obtuse, making the fortunes they offer fairly open for interpretation, especially since they often speak of the past, present, and future as a continuum rather than distinct phases. Purple is associated with Celestial magic, and blue with Sky magic. Description: Colored gel pen illustration of an upright raven with its body facing right at an angle and head turned over its shoulder to the left. It is darkly shaded on the head with purple and some blue, while the upper chest wings are shaded with more blue as well as purple. The rest of the front of the bird is purple-black with gold constellations. The bird's eye is black with white spots like stars. Behind the bird is a partially filled in purple sky with white stars. Nebula- Starling Magic The second entry in my series based on my magic Birds in the world building for my fantasy setting. Starlings combine the balancing magic of Celestial magic with Sky and Illusion magic. Nebula magic is the magic of the freedom of uncertainty, of the true obscuration of the future despite people's deep desire to know it thoroughly, and the joy of mimicry. While many Birds with Celestial magic predict the future with a degree of accuracy, if not precision, Starlings offer visions that may not be true. Sky magic is blue, Illusion magic is turquoise, and Celestial magic is purple. Green is used to indicate the fey nature of this Bird, since Illusion magic is one that belongs to get beings. Description: Colored gel pen illustration of a stylized starling facing left against a dark and saturated background of black, purple, pink, green, and teal in a vague nebula. The bird is mostly shaded in dark purple, blue, turquoise, and light green.
September 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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dokirosi.bsky.social
The Cardcaptor 💕✨ Cardcaptor Sakura #fanart
September 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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gaxix.bsky.social
Hollow Knight - Silksong - A pause from the Hive 🪡
Hornet and a bug friend according themselves a musical rest in front of a pond. The tiny knight hidden in the shadow look upon them
September 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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handmaiduns.bsky.social
Congratulations on your milestone and thanks for the art share ✨

I’m Kate, I create artwork that is inspired by the beauty and wonder of the cosmos using acrylics.

I also enjoy the art of music and drum with @distresstolerance.bsky.social ✨
A painting inspired by the beauty and mystery of the cosmos, geometry, and movement. Greens, blues and purples swirl and mix with a splattering of stars. Painting in a gold frame on a plain wall An acrylic painting in a golden frame. In blues and black, inspired by the beauty of the cosmos. Mini Danny devito looks on, amused as ever A pink, purple, red and blue painting inspired by the beauty and mystery of the cosmos in a gold frame on a plain wall A black and white photograph of some drumming action at our very first gig a couple of weeks ago
September 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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skidarstudios.bsky.social
Wishing for more mornings like this, Fall is creeping in slowly
a misty morning with a creek and fogged in trees in the Frank Church Wilderness A photo of the wood burning stove at my relatives cabin
September 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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augustsolaris.com
simple bg i did the other day
trying to get better at it
#backgroundart #artsky #ocsky
a girl with brown hair a white shirt and green shorts is standing in her living room in the morning watering her plants as her cat sleeps at the foot of her couch
September 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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maxinevee.bsky.social
Autumn Wind 🍂🧣 #art
A digital illustration of a cityscape set in a cozy fall evening. We see girl in a bicycle with her corgi puppy. The city is surrounded by fall trees and is lit by the building windows. We see a distant mountain and gothic architecture in the background
September 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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lorraineturnerart.bsky.social
LEARN #fabriccollage
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#bethechange
#SciArt #fabricart #ArtShow #ArtYear #smArtist #animalart #embroidery #quiltsky #fiberart #stitched #textileart #art #horse #sewing #artshare #quilt
Textile art of animal portraits zebra, wolves, penguins,parakeets, horse and black panther- created with scraps of every color of the rainbow
September 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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raggamog.bsky.social
Crows are associated with knowledge. These birds are recognized for their high intelligence, problem-solving skills, and complex social behaviours, which can include funeral-like gatherings.
Art my own.

#SensoryArt #Knowledge #Folklore #Crows #MHHSBD
An original artwork of a crow with a full moon. Created using acrylic paint on A3 board.
September 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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handmaiduns.bsky.social
Thank you to my friends for the encouraging words this past week 💙

My latest painting was inspired by the coast, water, movement, anemone, seaweed, connections and the cosmos

Acrylic on board ✨
July 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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iska48s.bsky.social
Ugh, I finally drew something. Lately, finding free time for creating has been nearly impossible :')

[ OC - Pearl ]
[ #oc #ocart #originalcharacter #skyoc ]
September 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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robingalanteart.bsky.social
A heron in Golden Gate Park. Watercolor, ink and pencil on paper.
September 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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hobbitbelliqueux.bsky.social
Congratulations for 5.4k, and thank you for the share !! 🥳

I am Alice, an amateur artist who enjoys to draw pretty women and little details, in a black and white style with a touch of color ! 💫
An original illustration made for Pascale Picard’s Le Magicien book cover. It features the side face of a young girl, eyes closed and her hair flowing in the wind. It merges with a flock of birds, from which stands out a colibri and an owl, both in gold and blue. In the bust there’s the silhouette of a Britanny’s village, with smoke coming from the chimneys and disappearing in the flock. Portrait inspired by Marlene Dietrich in Dishonored (1931). She lays down towards a candle to lighten her cigarette. The piece is in black and white. The background is pitch black, with a yellow circle behind the candle. Black and white portrait inspired by theater actress Maud Fealy (1902 rare photograph) and by Bram Stoker’s The Lady of the Shroud. A fair lady, dressed as a bride, looks towards the top-left corner of the picture with a soft expression. She has long, curly hair and a veil. Hiding her bust, there are huge white lilies. The background is entierly black. “The Fairy Queen” is a black and white illustration, inspired by theater actress and dancer Phyllis Monkman in The Butterflies (1908). On the top-left corner, a woman is standing, showing her back to the spectator. She has a whimsical look on her face. Her hair are decorated with a butterfly jewel and put in two braids. She has a complex top, heavily decorated with pearls and which reveals a lot of skin. She has shiny butterfly wings and two large bracelets on her arm. Her head is surrounded by two sunflowers. On the bottom-right corner, the same lady is facing the spectator, her chin slightly raised. She opens her arms to reveal her shiny wings. Along her arms are little white flowers on thin branches. The background is entirely black.
September 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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missbluefrost.bsky.social
Going on a bit of a reposting spree with some watercolor cat commissions I’ve done over the years! This one was a very sweet old man named Angel ✨
Watercolor illustration of a pale ginger older cat sitting. There’s a blue-green gradient background, and the cat has a kind expression
September 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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tarachinsang.bsky.social
Lake Thistlemere Shrine (Sketch)

Travelling duskward deep into the Roseglow Woods, eventually you will reach the shore of Lake Thistlemere. The leylines converge beneath the lake's waters, creating a potent source of crystal magic✨

#fantasy #art #illustration
September 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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paulinedrawsbears.bsky.social
It's my birthday today 🌼
If you read this, please do something nice for yourself and tell your pet I said hi 💛

#cuteart #artyear #animalart
A digital drawing of a fluffy calico cat with a striped party hat happily sitting in front of a cake with a single candle on it. A little bird with a crown is sitting on its left ear looking down on the cake.
September 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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chiquicreates.bsky.social
Thank you for the art share! I’m Chiqui, a queer filipino & i draw fantasy, gothic & dark academia 💕 i mostly work for authors & bookish small business but open to any other work outside of that!
September 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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ddbtorres.bsky.social
3 days left!!
gently reminding you folks the INPRNT summer sale is about to end, so grab those delicious nutritious prints with 15% off before it's too late

inprnt.com/gallery/ddb.torres/
close-up of oak warden, a squirrel knight holding a lance and clad in full body armor
September 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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blueowlsong.bsky.social
New pinned post! I recently updated my shop and have more of my original works available as prints, stickers, pins, throw pillows, and phone cases!

Redbubble:
www.redbubble.com/people/BlueO...

Cara: cara.app/blueowlsong

Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/blueowlsong

#supportartists #artshop #artistshop
Luminous Depths, Aug 2025 Mixed pen illustration of a serpentine, bioluminescent deep sea dragon for Smaugust, curled in an S shape, with the tail at the top and head at the bottom. The body of the dragon is mostly black with shades of dark blue, purple, and dark teal, and there are brightly colored spots, with the biggest being green spots resembling the patterns of orcas and behind large barely visible black eyes. More elongated yellow, light green, and light blue spots are scattered along the trunk while smaller spots of varying colors including pink and orange line the spine. Large colorful glowing fins emerge from the middle back and under the chin, and the tail to the neck is lined on the dorsal side and underside with a continuous multicolor fin. The background is almost completely filled in with black pen, with some shapes cut out from the darkness, including squid and shark shapes near the top with light coloring in teal/purple and yellow/orange respectively, bubbles throughout, and a few strange deep sea inspired creatures, as well as distant glowing green, yellow, and purple lights. By the dragon's head is a colorful creature with a dolphin shaped body and a head with a mouth that is like the trunk of an elephant with teeth lining it. There is a large glowing coelacanth in the middle left by an orange snake, and an eel-like creature at the top with an orb by its mouth like an anglerfish near the squid. Framing everything is the very long and thinner tail and body of another creature, another sea serpent that is much bigger and has a small sail on its back like a sailfish. Sea Turtle Reef, Mar 2020 Acrylic painting of a green sea turtle swimming down through turquoise waters lit by sun beams and facing a lovely and warm toned coral reef with various kinds of corals and anemones, sea grass, and stone. Several tropical fish including clownfish, angelfish, tangs, and others swim among the reef. In the background a few schools of fish are visible, and there are a few large jellyfish, one very close to the sea turtle. Pangender Snowbank, Aug 2025 Digitally painted landscape with a pink and peachy orange sunrise sky, the sun slightly blurry and yellow, rising over a mostly pink river with chunks of floating ice that reflect the peachy pink river, and a distant snowbank lined with trees marks the horizon on the right, and curves into the river slightly. The bottom left snowbank in the foreground has more distinct shapes cutting into the water to form a shore/bank as well as snow dusted reeds and a few small trees. Snow is falling on the scene. Leaping for Life, Aug 2025 Abstract deer leaping upwards with a curved back, curly multipronged antlers, and loosely defined legs, with looping lines crossing through and overlapping the deer and forming the background, which is fully filled in with color. Some areas are scribbled a lot and have small white spaces as a result, most of which are filled with spots of color. Others are open and have patterns, cross hatching, color fills, several spots with blended colors, and a section to the left with colorful repeated lines interrupting each other. The deer is breathing out bands of color and is colored in multiple patterns. The colors of the piece are a full spectrum from pinks and purples to yellow, orange, red, greens, and blues.
August 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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shauntrice.bsky.social
Blending with these colored pencils is nice
September 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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incourage.bsky.social
Blazing colour on this #ForestFriday in #AlgonquinPark #photography #scape #landscape #wildernesstripping #canoeing #ontario #ontlakes #myplayground #getoutside
September 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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matpringle.bsky.social
This morning; Joanna Newsom.

#5debutalbums0004
Joanna Newsom’s album ‘The Milk Eyed Mender’ released on Drag City in 2004.
September 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM