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Pixelbirb

@pixelsparrow.bsky.social

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Creator of Tales from Galatea #talesfromgalatea Character & Creature designer, DnD player, amateur writer, and tea enthusiast. Other places you can find me: pixelsparrow.carrd.co

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Pixelbirb @pixelsparrow.bsky.social · Feb 20

Hi I’m Pixel,

I’m a fantasy illustrator, creature and character designer! Currently working starting to write a book series while looking for work in the industry.
Thank you for checking out my corner of the internet.

Support me: ko-fi.com/pixelsparrow

Other socials: pixelsparrow.carrd.co

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Pixelbirb @pixelsparrow.bsky.social · 2h

Close up cause Bluesky crunches the details

Pixelbirb @pixelsparrow.bsky.social · 2h

Grey Fire

Feathered dragon is ready to throw down!

Damn it’s been a while since I posted some finished art. Also consider this a belated Halloween illustration 😅

#talesfromgalatea #art #digitalart #fantasy #dragon #creaturedesign #oc #illustration #drawing #photoshop #procreate

Grey feathered fire dragon, is angry and ready to set some things on fire! Sketched in procreate, inked, coloured, and rendered in photoshop

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Pixelbirb @pixelsparrow.bsky.social · 13d

Rough sketch concept.

Been thinking of repurposing/remaking a very old OC into a Galatea creature. If you remember Salem the dragon you’re and OG.

We’ll see if this goes anywhere.

#talesfromgalatea #art #sketches #sketchbook #pencilsketch #traditionalart #creaturedesign

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Aubo 🏳️‍⚧️ Shop update 11/22! ⭐️ @aubryjoi.bsky.social · 5d

Cozy mode: activate 🧡✨

[ #cuteart #illustration ]

A digital illustration of a dark blue cat super bundled and swaddled up in a big, cozy plush quilt. The quilt is made up of several warm earth colors with plaid patterns and light stitching. Only the cats little face, wide eyes, and bushy tail are visible. Over the cat it reads “cozy mode.”

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Pixelbirb @pixelsparrow.bsky.social · 5d

Halloween may be over but scary, angry dragons are here for all seasons!

Been going back to some WIP illustrations and trying to finish them.

#art #wip #preview

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Astra Fauna (Sarah Dahlinger) 🔜 Rhode Island Comic Con @astrafauna.bsky.social · 7d

Some dragon sketches.

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Anne Heyroth @heyrothart.bsky.social · 7d

I draw on the train a lot and ngl I sometimes cringe in wonder: Do other passengers assume what I'm doing here in Procreate is random AI stuff? Because I bet most can't even tell the processes apart.

Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 8d

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social):

As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead."

But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that"

Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying

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Pixelbirb @pixelsparrow.bsky.social · 7d

I’m not afraid of Ai since it looks like cheap slop anyway. I’m more annoyed that it’s everywhere and it looks terrible. Hire real people to make your ads they’ll look 1000% better.

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drachenmagier @drachenmagier.bsky.social · Dec 12

Scanned Fire Drake. :D
Acrylics and markers on Bristol paper.

fire drake silhouette with glowing birds

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Jane! 🧠🍴 @janegumball.bsky.social · 12d

Fall fit I’ve been rocking recently 🍂

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Pixelbirb @pixelsparrow.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks so much! Hopefully I’ll actually use him this time 😂😅

Pixelbirb @pixelsparrow.bsky.social · 13d

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 16d

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

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Kosperry 🧀 @kosperry.bsky.social · 17d

Sketchbook page for October! ✏️🦇 Spooky characters, Silly characters, and even a Symbiote!

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✨Anna the Human✨ @blazetfd.bsky.social · 21d

For your consideration

✨her✨

my silly irresponsible wine aunt (one of my current dnd characters)

#dndart #dndoc #art

Illustration of an older woman (she looks late 40s to early 50s) with brown skin and heavily greying hair. She's wearing round spectacles, an off-white linen blouse with ruffles and billowy sleeves, a reddish-pink neckerchief, a dark blue waistcoat made out of sewn together mismatching materials (one half pinstriped, the other half swirled botanical shapes), dark pinstriped trousers (one leg with lighter stripes, the other leg with darker stripes), and dark grey riding boots. She's posed with one hand on her hip and the other slicking back her messy fringe. She has a cheeky knowing expression on her face.

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Jane! 🧠🍴 @janegumball.bsky.social · 17d

Not a morning person

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ARCANE☆SOULS ☆ Abril De Lucia | COMMS: EXPERIMENTAL @abrildelucia.bsky.social · 18d

HOW. WHY? THIS KEEPS HAPPENING!

#art #comic

Panel 1: me sitting and quietly arting. a dark silhouette approaches.
Panel 2: a speech bubble coming from out of frame reads 'looks good'. I'm being shadowed by a looming figure.
Panel 3. The figure is revealed as a chad with long hair and sparkles. Below it says 'Artist I've Idolized All My Life.' The chad is giving me a thumbs up.
Panel 4: Bubble from chad says 'Keep at it!' While i drop my pencil and jaw.

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Pixelbirb @pixelsparrow.bsky.social · 20d

QRP with your fanart

(Moomin Grown Up AU)

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Astra Fauna (Sarah Dahlinger) 🔜 Rhode Island Comic Con @astrafauna.bsky.social · 21d

Rally and the Grub will be recruitable.
...because we're here for that.

See the full book cover in the posts from earlier.

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☁️ Sayu ❄️ @sayuupi.bsky.social · 22d

Picking pumpkin to carve together 🐻🎃🐿️

An autumn illustration of peanut the squirrel and butter the bear picking out some perfect pumpkins in the pumpkin field for them to carve for halloween

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🌱Sita Art🌱 Comms open @sitaart.bsky.social · Jun 28

The Phoenix Sorceress

Illustration: A magpie sorceress with a bright red, hooded cloak, smiles mischievously while proudly holding a stick with a shiny coin on it.

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Iwasonthelastbus (COMMS OPEN- 0/4) @iwasonthelastbus.bsky.social · 24d

Pumpkin head commission for @kingfishercreek.bsky.social!
#art #halloween #commission

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Kosperry 🧀 @kosperry.bsky.social · 24d

Compiled a buncha Smiling Friends doodles that I originally shared over the last few months in my sketchbook series, plus some new sketches from this month too! 😃

Check THIS out though!!!!! *does a mediocre cartwheel*

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 25d

Recent Lorcana pieces have been feelin good to me- it's always such a boost to get to work on characters you're excited about

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