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ESRA - 31 y.o., she/her ^.^ amateur artist, amateur writer, expert procrastinator ~ (avatar/banner by me) ~ #myart

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I've been preoccupied with real life horrors, but I did manage to squeeze in a couple scary reads during October btw! #booksky
Two books on a table: On the left is Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawy, it has a black cover with lime green text and black-and-white illustrations of body parts: an eye, a mouth, and an ear. On the right is My Heart Is A Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones, it has a white cover with black text, a red strip along the side, and through the title the image of a long tear, revealing red underneath the white.
November 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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I finally played NORCO!! And it blew my mind so much that I was forced to write a poem about it. What a spectacular game!! Thank you @geographyofrobots.bsky.social for ruining my dreams last night ^.^
Screenshot of a poem in a text document: "One Million Damages Sought in Norco Settlement Mary sent the ditch man to haunt your flooding home. Mary sent the closet man to anoint the head of John with that oyster-flavored peanut butter. Mary sent the rocket man to spark the stack: just a routine flare. But who sent the bird man? And why are the eagles falling silent from the sky?" Author credit: ESRA
October 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Books I read in September!! Not loads of reading last month, but what I did read were absolute, life-changing bangers ^.^ #booksky
A stack of four books: A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Mihri Hatun by Didem Havlioğlu Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
October 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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can we all agree that I am very brave for playing Silksong despite being objectively the worst at platforming ever
September 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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cheers I'll drink to that
a delicious Blurberry special from the Gnome Stronghold
September 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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relatable, Erwin
From the Wikipedia page for Erwin Blumenfeld, two isolated lines of text reading: "Dadaism and Surrealism; his two main areas of interest were death and women."
August 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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all the books I've read so far this summer!! I finally resuscitated my reading habit after literal years of being burnt out from my studies, and it feels really awesome ^.^

I really enjoyed all of these too!! probably Lavinia, Circe, and Babel are the faves if I had to pick ^.^

#booksky #books
Photo of a stack of books. From top to bottom: - A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin - The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin - The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi - Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami - Babel by R. F. Kuang - Letters from the Hive: An Intimate History of Bees, Honey, and Humankind by Stephen Buchmann with Banning Repplier - Circe by Madeline Miller - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville by Reza Aslan - A History of Korea by Kyung Moon Hwang - The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai by Ha Jin - Baudolino by Umberto Eco
August 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Eric Andre Show meme: top panel, a man labeled "Petulant Gamers" shoots dead a man named "A good and original and creative video game." Bottom panel: the first man asks, "Why would the developers do this?"
July 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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in before midnight my time lol ^.^

#makeaterriblecomicday2025
A four panel terrible comic for make a terrible comic day 2025. In the first panel, a young woman with a sad expression says "I'm too depressed to make a terrible comic today." In the second, she looks at her phone. In the third, she has a surprised face, and a blue and orange exclamation mark appears. In the final panel, the only one in color, she is wearing a party hat with a party noisemaker in her mouth and an orange drink in hand, against a background of Zohran for mayor graphics, next to a poster of Zohran Mamdani, while blue and orange confetti rains down. Artist credit ESRA
June 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Pari portrait refresh!!

patch notes:
- changed background
- fixed absence of cat

#myart #oc #ocsky #art
Digital painting of an original character named Pari - a young Iranian-American woman with long, messy black hair and gray eyes. She is sat on the back of a couch with her right foot up on the armrest, her right elbow resting on her leg and her chin resting on her right hand. She is wearing blue jeans, a white t-shirt, a green flannel with brown and green plaid, and black combat boots, as well as a choker and a nazar necklace. She is wearing black lipstick and eyeshadow, is looking at the viewer, and has a slight smile. To her right on the couch is a gray cat (named Pistachio), sitting back with one paw on Pari's leg, and one up to paw at her hair while meowing for attention. Between her legs is an imaginary album cover with a design of black blocks on white, and her name in bright red in both English and Farsi, as well as a parental advisory sticker. There is a light blue background, with a taped up brown and green poster for "Bent Bough Tea Lounge, at the Esplanade, Sheridan, VA". Artist signature ESRA
June 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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hey y'all! thought I'd put a little sampling of my art here, since this is getting so many eyes on it lol ^.^ long live comics and queerness and art!!
A three by three montage of nine artworks. They are fanart of, from top left to bottom right: Dessa Banks (TBW), Wenduag (WOTR), Valen (FoM), Karlach (BG3), Seelah (WOTR), Karlach again (BG3), Lae'zel (BG3), Melinoe (Hades), and Shadowheart (BG3). Each artwork with full alt text can be found under the #myart tag at @quelanaisgay.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Adila arrives!!

the third and final lead for the comic I'm working towards, tentatively titled: Sheridan Chic! Three friends reunite in their college town after graduating to chase their dream – turning sleepy Sheridan, VA, into a world-class fashion destination!

#myart #oc #ocsky #motorcycle
Digital illustration of an original character named Adila - a young Black American woman with brown eyes and twists. She is seated casually on the side of a parked motorcycle. She is wearing a large mint-colored varsity-style jacket and motorcycle pants in raspberry red and dark blue, as well as sneakers in mint and red and a headwrap in red and blue. She is leaning with her right elbow on a red and blue motorcycle helmet on the back of the bike. The bike is a retro-style standard motorcycle with mint fairings and red accents. On her jacket is her name ADILA in Latin script; next to her on the left on the bike is her name in Arabic script; to her right on the bike in Ge'ez script; all three in red. She has a slight smirk. She is parked on a paved road next to bushes and a tree, with a light peach background; she is casting a long shadow. Artist signature ESRA
June 9, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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unafraid.
A digital illustration depicting a scene from the June 2025 attack on Los Angeles. An unknown, anonymous person carrying a red skateboard raises their middle finger towards many silhoutted, armored cops, hiding behind a fence and raining down munitions. Multicolored chemical gas clouds fill the street. Artist signature ESRA, June 2025
June 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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my layer names look like insults from 2011
a Krita layer name: "sketchface"
June 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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happy Pride month specifically to the artist and writer duo from page 148 of Scott McCloud's Making Comics (2006)
A panel from page 148 of Scott McCloud's Making Comics (2006). It depicts a writer and artist duo regarding each other, the writer in overalls and sneakers, and the artist in boots with low-cut jeans and a cool belt. In between is the avatar of Scott McCloud explaining "In some cases, the collaboration of words and lectures involves the collaboration of a separate writer and artist."
June 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Calleigh! or Callie for short (that's a joke she likes to tell)

protagonist number two, in my story about a trio of friends opening a fashion boutique in their old college town ^.^

#myart #oc #ocsky #art
Digital painting of an original character named Calleigh - a young white American woman with short brown hair and dark blue eyes. She is sitting on the ground, and next to her right leg a brown dog (named Molasses) is lying. On the other side by her left leg there is a light blue bong, with Calleigh's name along the neck, and a red lighter. She is wearing wide leg blue jeans, and a loose red button up with a light blue abstract pattern, tied at the waist. Her feet are bare and her nails are light blue. She is sitting on a brown wood-textured floor in front of a pale yellow wall with light blue diamond pattern. Artist signature ESRA
June 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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the character vs how you drew the character ^.^
In-game portrait of the character Seelah from Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - a Black woman in shining full-plate armor, with pulled-back locs and a determined expression. She is wearing a red cape and carrying a gold and silver sword with both hands. She is standing in a medieval military camp. Artist credit Igor Bulygin. Image has been cropped Full body portrait of the character Seelah from Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - a Black woman in shining armor, with short locs pulled back, wearing a red cape and wielding a sword and shield, which has the name of her deity Iomedae written on the inside. She stands upright and determined, facing to the right, against an abstract background of green, red, and gold, and her head is surrounded by an eight pointed star. Artist signature ESRA. Image has been cropped
June 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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made a silly comic ^.^ my brain gives me such helpful advice!
Three panel comic in very basic lineart style. First panel: close up of a pen nib drawing a wobbly line, narration *draws wobbly line*. Second panel: an artist at her desk looking annoyed at her drawing tablet, from behind a speech bubble consisting of a screenshot from Sekiro saying "Hesitation is defeat." Third panel: zoom out to reveal the character Lord Isshin Ashina, the Sword Saint, from the video game Sekiro, leaning over the artist's shoulder. She says: "Yes, Lord Isshin." In smaller text the conversation continues: Isshin - "you could also try the stabilizer" Artist - "I know, Lord Isshin." Artist signature ESRA
June 3, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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if you see this, post your green art ^.^
Full body portrait in a stylized color block style of the character Dessa Banks from Tactical Breach Wizards - a tall white woman with pulled back white hair, a chaos star tattoo on her neck, and two scars on the right of her jaw, who is standing with her hands in her pockets. She is wearing a three piece grey suit combo with a bone-white vest and black shirt, as well as blue surgical gloves, one of which is visible. She has a blue stethoscope draped around her neck, she is wearing round blue sunglasses, and there is a bit of red blood spatter on her glove and white shoes. There is a dark green background with a stylized key design in a black to light green gradient. Artist signature ESRA
June 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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I drew an original character!!

this is Pari, one of the leads in a comic I'm tentatively writing, about a trio of friends who open a fashion boutique in small-town Virginia ^.^ hope to draw the other two soon as well!!

#myart #oc #ocsky #art
Digital painting of an original character named Pari - a young Iranian-American woman with long, messy black hair and gray eyes. She is sat on the back of a couch with her right foot up on the armrest, her right elbow resting on her leg and her chin resting on her right hand. She is wearing blue jeans, a white t-shirt, a green flannel with brown and green plaid, and black combat boots, as well as a choker and a nazar necklace. She is wearing black lipstick and eyeshadow, is looking at the viewer, and has a slight smile. Between her legs is an imaginary album cover with a design of black blocks on white, and her name in bright red in both English and Farsi, as well as a parental advisory sticker. There is a light gray background, and she is casting a faint shadow that appears to have wings. Artist signature ESRA
June 2, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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faces, faces, how to draw faces
An assortment of faces and heads drawn in digital charcoal pencil, ranging from very rudimentary to kind of pretty good I think? The heads are held at a variety of angles, and most of the expressions are fairly neutral.
May 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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~ better for everyone ~

Arueshalae, from Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

this one felt quite personal, her writing really hit me ^.^

#arueshalae #wotr #pathfinder #krita #myart
Digital painting depicting the character Arueshalae from Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - a succubus (devilish) woman with blue hair - sat on the floor, head in arms, at the back of a prison cell. She has large, raspberry-colored wings which are folded around her, grey horns, and a red tail curled above and behind her. She is wearing blue armor with gold trim. Over her and onto the wall behind are cast the shadows of six prison bars. Artist signature ESRA
May 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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quote with red ^.^
Head-only portrait of the character Karlach from Baldur's Gate 3 - a tiefling (devilish) woman with bright red skin, pointed ears, and black horns, the right one of which is broken off. She is looking tired, bitter, and determined, against a background of gothic-style orange windows. Artist signature ESRA
May 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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tried something a bit different, a little repaint of an old photo I took in Nagano, Japan ^.^

#myart #landscape
A simple digital painting of a mountainous landscape, depicting a town nestled between mountains. The mountains are painted in blue and green, and there are large pink and white clouds across the blue-grey sky. In the foreground there is a small building with a chimney producing smoke or steam - the building and the town are white with blue accents, and there is a grey road in the foreground as well. Artist signature ESRA
May 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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been almost a month since I got my drawing tablet, and I'm really happy with my progress so far ^.^ still lots to learn, but digital art has opened up so much, I'm way more into painting than I was expecting!! so glad I decided to take the plunge ^.^

#myart #art #digitalart #drawing #painting
A three by three montage of nine artworks. They are fanart of, from top left to bottom right: Dessa Banks (TBW), Wenduag (WOTR), Valen (FoM), Karlach (BG3), Seelah (WOTR), Karlach again (BG3), Lae'zel (BG3), Melinoe (Hades), and Shadowheart (BG3). Each artwork with full alt text can be found under the #myart tag at @quelanaisgay.bsky.social
May 10, 2025 at 5:14 AM