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oceandrea.bsky.social
Andrea
@oceandrea.bsky.social
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Artist who also happens to be an (paleo)ocean/climate scientist.
She/her
#NoAI
Art tags for filtering: #Art #DnDArt #OC #WIP
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oceandrea.bsky.social
Some choice close-ups of my favorites because this is my page and I do what I want.

[ #OC #Art #WIP #CharacterDesign ]
Blackthorn looking completely over it and smoking a cigarette. Blackthorn snarling at something (probably a Harper). Blackthorn looking at you, the viewer, while wiping blood from his mouth with a bloody hand. Not very efficient. Blackthorn judging you personally. Contemptuously. Sorry. He just does that sometimes.
October 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
oceandrea.bsky.social
Bigger mood(s). (Expression line art done. Ready to move on to armor, etc...he's not usually shirtless, thankfully.)

[ #OC #Art #WIP ]
Eight sketches of my OC, Blackthorn, from various angles showing various expressions. Clockwise from top left: frustration/exhaustion, smoking; smirking; completely neutral, probably planning something nefarious; false sympathy, with hand to heart; snarling, with wild hair and nails extended; interested with dilated pupils wiping blood from his mouth; laughing with a mouthful of blood. Center: looking at the viewer with contempt, arms crossed.
October 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Big mood(s). (Vent sketching a ref sheet for my "comfort character", Blackthorn.)

[ #OC #Art #WIP ]
A sketch of Blackthorn (a heavily scarred male elf/vampire) looking up at the viewer with contempt. A sketch of Blackthorn (a heavily scarred male elf/vampire) looking down at the viewer with disdain. A sketch of Blackthorn (a heavily scarred male elf/vampire) laughing manically. A sketch of Blackthorn (a heavily scarred male elf/vampire) looking directly at the viewer with a smug little smirk.
October 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Hey, congrats! I really love the energy of that artshare thumbnail. My #WIP folder is full of brooding fantasy dudes, apparently.
An over-the-shoulder glance from a male elf with pale, heavily scarred skin and patchy black hair. He's wearing a black coat with a high collar. A portrait in progress of a human man with pale skin, green eyes, and platinum blonde hair. He is firing a shot from a bow made of bones. His armor is mostly dark green blobs. A human male knight in shiny gothic plate armor broods broodily at the viewer. He is holding a longsword with a bright green blade. He is framed by a tangle of thorny, black vines, with some forming a halo.
October 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
oceandrea.bsky.social
Having one of those weeks where I feel like I forgot how to draw.
October 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Currently redesigning Blackthorn for his BBEG era. My first drawing of him (ca. 2023) versus my most recent drawing of him (ca. two days ago). #CharacterDesign #Art #OC #DnD
My earliest design for Blackthorn, a somewhat haggard looking eleven man with pale skin, yellow eyes, black hair, and barely visible scars. The rendering is a little clunky and his facial folds are a mess, but he's smiling through it. Blackthorn as he was always meant to be: scarred to holy hell and sneering down at the viewer. His scars now dominate his right side of his face, into his scalp (where no hair grows), and extend to his diminished ear. He's still got his creepy yellow eyes and disheveled black hair. The rendering quality has improved pretty significantly? I dunno, you be the judge of that.
October 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Owyn #OC
A rough pencil sketch portrait of a young Black man, a Knowledge Cleric of Deneir, named Owyn. He wears his hair in shoulder-length, semi-freeform, chunky dreadlocks, and is developing a beard. The holy symbol of Deneir—an eye topped with a candle—is worn as a dainty earring. He has large, kind eyes behind round spectacles.
September 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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My current PC is her protégé, Owyn—a kindly, bookish Knowledge Cleric of Deneir and Harper. His familiar is a sentient clockwork tressym named Codex. They are currently in the Outlands (Plaguemort) attempting to prevent the summoning of the Red Shroud by Graz'zt cultists. He thought Thay was bad...
A sketch of Owyn and Codex, a young black man and mechanical tressym familiar, respectively. They are both pondering words on a page out-of-frame. An older painting of Owyn. A young Black man with amber eyes hidden behind large, round spectacles. He wears his hair in shoulder-length, chunky, semi-freeform dreadlocks.
September 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Congrats, and thanks for hosting! Thea is my College of Whispers Bard/Assassin Rogue, whom I started playing in my very first campaign two years ago. She is the Royal High Spymistress of Cormyr, a Harper, and a then vampire spawn who annihilated Mephistopheles with Blackrazor (a soul-eating rapier).
Various sketches of my character Thea, a half-elven bard/rogue vampire spawn with pale skin, dark hair, red eyes, and fangs. In most of the sketches, she is wearing various types of stylized armor and wielding a rapier. A crop of a portrait in progress. A half-elven woman with pale skin, green eyes, and dark hair.
September 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Experimenting with brushes/rendering practice. Pay no attention to the ears, lol

[ #WIP #Art ]
A digital painting in progress. Portrait of a man with pale skin, light blond hair, and bright green eyes staring wildly past the viewer. His mouth is slack, showing his teeth in shadow, and his brows are furrowed. He wears a black collar and is enrobed in a forest green cloak, as-yet unrendered.
September 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Their bot doesn't even know what artistic nudity is, apparently. I've had this moderation setting toggled to "show" for as long as I can remember, and totally innocuous art and photos (e.g., figure studies, gym selfies, etc.) get miscategorized as sexually explicit content. Meanwhile, untagged gore?
A vertical (phone) screenshot of my moderation settings showing the "Non-sexual Nudity (e.g. artistic nudes)" moderation setting toggled to "show". Spoiler alert: it doesn't seem to work whatsoever.
September 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Happy #WIP Wednesday. I'm trying to get better at doing fleshed out color sketches before diving into rendering. Long-time followers will recognize this as a reattempt at a portrait of Thea that's been kicking around a while. 😅

[ #Art #DigitalArt #DnD #DnDArt #OC #OCSky ]
Digital portrait of Thea Marlene Ziel, a half-elf woman with dark (purplish) hair (with some grey strands) swept to one side, braided on the other, and pulled back in a low chignon. She stands confidently against a dark green gradient background, wearing elaborate medieval-fantasy attire: a rich crimson long coat with ornate gold trim over burgundy pants, ornamental gold pauldrons, and silver plate armor on her legs and boots. Her outfit features intricate detailing including a silver breastplate design at the chest. She holds a glowing green longsword (Deathwish) pointed downward in her right hand. She has pointed ears, green crystal drop earrings, and wears dark red lipstick, giving her an authoritative presence befitting her role as Spymistress of Cormyr.
September 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Post a random Star Trek image
A photo of a TV screen, playing an episode of Star Trek Voyager, taken from a high angle (big head mode) featuring character actor Brad Douriff playing a disgusted looking Betazoid.
September 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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My first ever digital artwork, from 2023, of my friend's #DnD character Nathbaste Baenre. It'll make for a fun baseline comparison whenever I finish one of my million WIPs. 😅
A digital drawing of a drow woman with dark grey skin decorated with lighter grey tattoos, long white hair pulled into a severe pony tail, and golden eyes. She is wielding a translucent turquoise sword above her head. The character is dressed in flowing grey robes with a lilac sash, sports a golden circlet at her hairline, golden bracers on her wrists, and a strappy (almost gladiatorial) black sandal on her visible foot. Splotches along the bottom of the drawing show the colors used.
September 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Cropped #WIP of my favorite POS, Blackthorn (CW: some blood)

[ #OC | #Art | #DnDArt | #vampire ]
Cropped WIP portrait of a sinister vampire named Blackthorn, set against a dark green background. His face is pale, gaunt, and deeply scarred, with sharp yellow eyes. He holds a smouldering cigarette near his lips with long, stained, claw-like nails. Blood runs from the corner of his mouth in thin rivulets from a fresh feeding, staining his teeth, cigarette filter, and thumb. Strands of dark hair fall loosely around his face, and smoke rises from the tip of the cigarette. The high collar of his black coat frames his figure, its golden-yellow lining breaking the darkness with a flash of color.
September 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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#WIP of my favorite POS, Blackthorn (CW: some blood)

[ #OC | #DnDArt | #vampire ]
WIP portrait of a sinister vampire named Blackthorn, set against a dark green background. His face is pale, gaunt, and deeply scarred, with sharp yellow eyes. He holds a smouldering cigarette near his lips with long, stained, claw-like nails. Blood runs from the corner of his mouth in thin rivulets from a fresh feeding, staining his teeth, cigarette filter, and thumb. Strands of dark hair fall loosely around his face, and smoke rises from the tip of the cigarette. The high collar of his black coat frames his figure, its golden-yellow lining breaking the darkness with a flash of color.
September 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Thanks for hosting, and congrats on your 3k! I feel like the queen of WIPs at the moment, since that's all I really have to share.
An illustration of a bubblegum pink-skinned tiefling woman in-progress. She has platinum blonde hair waving in the wind, and is standing with a confident expression. Her rifle is slung over her shoulder. A heavily scarred elven man with yellow eyes and patchy black hair stands in profile with his back to the viewer. He is wearing a black leather jacket. He is being embraced by two roughly sketched arms with long talon-tipped fingers. This is my character Blackthorn in a direct homage to the cover of Queens of the Stone Age's "In Times New Roman." A digital illustration in progress of a white male knight. He is dressed in silver plate armor and holds a green longsword in front of himself, pointing downward. He gazes at the viewer with a stern, solemn, and troubled expression. He is framed by thorny black vines, forming a halo behind his head. A tall, pale half-elven woman with bright green eyes and wavy, shoulder-length black hair stands in contrapposto, as if circling an opponent before combat. She wears a red robe with elaborate plate armor on her shoulders, chest, knees, and feet. She wields a bright green longsword with a green jewel set in the pommel.
August 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Proof of life #WIP post. My process is so messy and convoluted...😅
#Art #DigitalArt #DnD #DnDArt #OC
A heavily scarred elven man with yellow eyes and patchy black hair stands in profile with his back to the viewer. He is wearing a black leather jacket. He is being embraced by two roughly sketched arms with long talon-tipped fingers. This is my character Blackthorn in a direct homage to the cover of Queens of the Stone Age's "In Times New Roman." A tall, pale half-elven woman with bright green eyes and wavy, shoulder-length black hair stands in contrapposto, as if circling an opponent before combat. She wears a red robe with elaborate plate armor on her shoulders, chest, knees, and feet. She wields a bright green longsword with a green jewel set in the pommel.
July 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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I'm developing a fun habit of repeatedly jumpscaring myself by leaving WIPs with super judgy stares to greet me whenever I wake my computer up.
A WIP digital portrait of my character, Thea, judging all of my life decisions. She is a white half-elf with vibrant blue-green eyes and tightly-bound black hair gazing directly at the viewer. She is wearing red lipstick. This is a zoomed in portion of the painting focusing exclusively on her face. #WIP #OC #DND #Art A close-up of a WIP portrait of my character, Eldric, gazing angrily/disappointedly/resentfully/etc. into my very being. Arguably much more jumpscare potential than the previous painting. Eldric is a white (but tanned) human with short tawny hair and beard, and blueish-hazelish eyes. His ear is currently being pierced by a black, thorned vine, with blood dripping. Yeowch! No wonder he's mad at me. #WIP #OC #DND #Art
June 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Not a WIP, just a warmup sketch I like.
A digital gestural sketch of a man in profile, from the waist up. He is leaning on his right elbow, with his right forearm foreshortened. The line art is colored in with flat lavender. #Art #DigitalArt #Sketch #OC #OCSky
May 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Light or dark?
#WIP #Art #DigitalArt #DND #DnDArt #Knight #DarkFantasy #OC #OCSky
A digital illustration in progress of a white male knight. He is dressed in silver plate armor and holds a green longsword in front of himself, pointing downward. He gazes at the viewer with a stern, solemn, and troubled expression. He is framed by thorny black vines, forming a halo behind his head. The piece is lit from the perspective of the viewer. A digital illustration in progress of a white male knight. He is dressed in silver plate armor and holds a green longsword in front of himself, pointing downward. He gazes at the viewer with a stern, solemn, and troubled expression. He is framed by thorny black vines, forming a halo behind his head. The piece is backlit.
May 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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The fun/ugly pre-render stage.
[ #WIP #Art #DND #Knight #DarkFantasy ]
A digital illustration in progress of a white male knight. He is dressed in silver plate armor and holds a green longsword in front of himself, pointing downward. He gazes at the viewer with a stern, solemn, and troubled expression. He is framed by thorny black vines, forming a halo behind his head.
May 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Puppet Knight
#WIP #DND #OC #DigitalArt
A digital line drawing of a knight in plate armor. He is regarding the viewer with a solemn expression, head slightly bowed. The knight holds an ornate longsword vertically in front of him. His shoulders and elbows are restrained by black, thorny vines which are drawn taut, like marionette strings. Behind his head, the thorned vines form a halo.
May 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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A sketch of my partner's #DND character (Margin Walker) for my #WIP group illustration.

#OC #DNDArt #DigitalArt #Ranger #Sketch
An illustration of a Horizon Walker Conclave ranger character with white/silver windswept hair in an action pose. He has a stern expression. He has just fired an arrow from a wooden longbow. He wears fingerless black gloves and a pauldron on his left shoulder. The archer wears a multi-layered outfit consisting of a black top with white/silver accents, light-colored pants with protective armor plating, and dark boots with gray detailing. A flowing green cloak billows dramatically behind him. His outfit combines elements of fantasy ranger attire with decorated armor pieces.
May 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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#Art #WIP #DND #OC #Warlock
Digital illustration of Blackthorn, a scarred elven warlock with long black hair, pale gray skin, and glowing yellow eyes. He stands in a powerful spellcasting pose with his right arm raised above his head, while crimson magical energy swirls around him in violent, flame-like tendrils that encircle his body and pool beneath his feet. He wears an elegant black outfit with gold trim that resembles a bruise in its coloration. Above him hovers Tretch Ally-Shanker, his small imp familiar with dark skin, bat-like wings, and a segmented tail tipped with red. The imp has small horns and appears to be emerging from or flying through a magical portal. Blackthorn's expression is fierce and determined, revealing fanged teeth, as he channels powerful infernal magic.
April 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM