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Strixling
@strixling.bsky.social
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Hey there! I'm Sian, a dyspraxic artist from the UK who specialises in drawing toony little guys. D&D and FFXIV ocs abound! (She/Her, 26, White)
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Strixling @strixling.bsky.social · Aug 2
Hi Bluesky! I'm Sian, a 2:1 graduate from GCU's 3D Animation & Visualisation course. Highly enthusiastic about drawing toony little guys. If you enjoy OCs, FFXIV and D&D content you're in the right place!

🌱Website: https://strixling.carrd.co
🌱Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/strixling
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My princess? Slayed.

Yesterday I joined Bex for their Slay The Princess stream and, of course, went ahead and created a new PNGTUBER exclusively for my favourite game of all time. Go forth my creepy little puppet! 🗡️🎨
A talking sprite of my sona which mimics the monochromatic and sketch-like artstyle of the Slay The Princess visual novel. She's a round hand puppet wearing a princess dress instead of her usual dungarees; the sprout that grows out of her head on her normal design is noticeably absent. On her lips is a sinister laugh although the stitches at both corners of her mouth limits her range of expression. An idle sprite of my sona which mimics the monochromatic and sketch-like art style of the Slay The Princess visual novel. The design is the same as the first image, however in this sprite she is gently leaning to one side in her sleep. Her mouth and and eyes are closed. The corners of her lips are pulled downwards.
November 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
strixling.bsky.social
My princess? Slayed.

Yesterday I joined Bex for their Slay The Princess stream and, of course, went ahead and created a new PNGTUBER exclusively for my favourite game of all time. Go forth my creepy little puppet! 🗡️🎨
A talking sprite of my sona which mimics the monochromatic and sketch-like artstyle of the Slay The Princess visual novel. She's a round hand puppet wearing a princess dress instead of her usual dungarees; the sprout that grows out of her head on her normal design is noticeably absent. On her lips is a sinister laugh although the stitches at both corners of her mouth limits her range of expression. An idle sprite of my sona which mimics the monochromatic and sketch-like art style of the Slay The Princess visual novel. The design is the same as the first image, however in this sprite she is gently leaning to one side in her sleep. Her mouth and and eyes are closed. The corners of her lips are pulled downwards.
November 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Tonight I'll be joined by my good pal @strixling.bsky.social while we play some Slay the Princess as a spooky (slightly belated) Halloween treat! Join us at 7.30pm GMT!

www.twitch.tv/rbillustration
a red heart shaped mirror with a drawing of a girl on it
Alt: GIF of a heart opening to show the face of the princess in Slay the Princess.
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November 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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True form Gothendl my beloved.

#art #oc #shadow #ink
October 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Wayward Vessel
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#Art #OCsky #Tiefling
Style study with Merry Mayhem as a Hades game inspired piece. They're wearing their usual style of clothes with flowing sunset coloured ribbons. The piece has deep solid shadows on parts of the ribbons and their hair. And opalescent highlights
October 16, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Hello #PortfolioDay! 👋

I'm Bex and I'm a freelance artist with experience in illustrating for book covers, TTRPGs, convention posters, and many personal-use commissions!

🔸 Website: rb-illustration.co.uk
🔸 Commissions: vgen.co/rbillustration
🔸 Email: rblackwellread@gmail.com
Artwork of my D&D character, Ez, a half-orc sorcerer, submerged in the ocean with the water up to his chin. He has pale green skin, long dark green hair and long tusks, with a chrysanthemum tattoo on his neck and shoulder. He is viewed in profile with an expression somewhere between regret and apathy. Below him, his long pink scarf floats in the water, with an image of his ship, the Blue Morpho, sailing through churning waves with lightning flashing around it. Above his head, a blue morpho butterfly floats in a blue sky. A study of the environment of Limgrave in Elden Ring, showing the golden Erdtree in the background with Stormveil Castle to the left. In the foreground, my Tarnished, Luke, a man in astrologer robes, rides on Torrent. A female miqo'te (cat person) from FFXIV stands holding a glowing blue book, from which a small terrier has been summoned and is floating next to her, where she reaches out to it with a gentle expression. The miqo'te has pale skin, black hair, cat ears and a tail, and a long grey-and-black coat with gold detailing. Artwork for the Drakonym TTRPG, showing a Runebark character in profile. They are humanoid but appear to be made of wood and glowing amber, wearing a wooden mask shaped like a rabbit head.
October 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Hatsune Miku! (but I drew her using three layers and no pen pressure) 💙🎵🎨
Fanart of the Hatsune Miku, a virtual singer. She is drawn in a toony style and is sporting her signature cyan/teal twintails. Her nails are painted a matching shade.
October 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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I played the first #gravehearts chapter last night and needed to draw a lil bit of fanart.
I'm not going to be replaying through to see if I can get different outcomes 👀
A pink back light drawing of a clown cat doll cleaning a kitchen knife
October 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Play Gravehearts 🔪

Download it here: kroovv.itch.io/gravehearts 🎨
Fanart of Cecil from a visual novel game called Gravehearts. Cecil is a small cat doll with a clown-like appearance. Cecil is brandishing a knife. The text on the image reads "wait its fucking moday. god."
October 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
strixling.bsky.social
Play Gravehearts 🔪

Download it here: kroovv.itch.io/gravehearts 🎨
Fanart of Cecil from a visual novel game called Gravehearts. Cecil is a small cat doll with a clown-like appearance. Cecil is brandishing a knife. The text on the image reads "wait its fucking moday. god."
October 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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losthavenguild.bsky.social
Original Classics - and OCs and classical art zine is so close to being funded and only a couple of days left to make goal!

45 pages of gorgeous art and 4 merch pieces available to be pledged to

www.kickstarter.com/projects/inf...
A compilation of some of the pieces A graphic showing of the various merch pieces
September 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
strixling.bsky.social
If nobody else is going to ask about Kumada/Nishiguchi then I will!

Yaitabashi is here too because every great wlw pairing needs an aroace friend. Trust me, I'd know. 🎨
Redraw of a meme photograph where a guy third wheels his friends. Yaitabashi Sou takes a sip from Kumada Erina's drink. Erina shares a kiss with Nishiguchi Mutsuko. All three characters are from Tetro Danganronpa Blue.
September 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Whatever. Go my Sou Yaitabashi from hit audio podcast Tetro Danganronpa Blue. 🌱

(I am not immune to drawing fanart of a lil' green guy!) 🎨
Fanart of Sou Yaitabashi. He is standing inside a terrarium looking upwards. His white hair is adorned with a flower crown, and he is wearing a layered green and white dress.
September 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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punto.bsky.social
Sneak peak of the illustration I did for the Original Classics zine run by @losthavenguild.bsky.social! Featuring my beloved boys Lucien and Etienne. I am not immune to some good old tragic yaoi.

Project is currently live on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/inf...

#oc #ocsky #dnd
Crop of a digital illustration showing two men - a half-elven dhampir man with pale skin and dark hair, and a tiefling man with blue skin, grey horns and dark dreadlocs. The dhampir has blood on his mouth and a tearful, pained expression, the tiefling has blood pouring from a wound on his neck.
August 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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A little preview of my piece for @losthavenguild.bsky.social’s Original Classics Zine, based on Reubens’ St Sebastian!

Full piece and merch available on Kickstarter:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/inf...
Crop of a painting depicting a man tied to a tree, riddled with arrows.
August 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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georginoschka.bsky.social
Sneak peak of my Fido piece for the Original Classics - an OC Zine organized by @losthavenguild.bsky.social zine !👀
Can you guess which classical piece I chose to redraw?😄

We are sooo soooo close to the goal with 4 more days to go👀🙌

www.kickstarter.com/projects/inf...
close crop of an art piece pink haired person lying in red liquid , almost submerged but the head and parts of upper body are afloat, the eyes are open with tears in them, four fingers of right hand are looking out of the liquid, the hair is floating under the liquid around them
September 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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We're in the last four days of the Original Classics kickstarter!

I thought it'd be fun to show one of my unused concepts. "Lady with an Ermine" by Leonardo da Vinci re-imagined with my oc Yuyuka (ft. Joe the Hedgehog)

Only £98 away from a fully funded zine ✨ www.kickstarter.com/projects/inf...
A black and white concept sketch of a young woman with horns holding a hedgehog. The artwork is inspired by "Lady with an Ermine" by Leonardo da Vinci.
September 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Quil as the Fallen Angel by Alexandre Cabanel, created for the Original Classics project. I'm overjoyed to have been able to reimagine this painting with my spite-fuelled aasimar and so happy with how it turned out 😇

Support the KS here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/inf...

🎨 #bexarttag #OCsky #D&D
My original character Quil drawn in a recreation of the painting The Fallen Angel by Alexandre Cabanel. Quil is a non-binary character with pale skin, shoulder-length red hair, horns and freckles. They are sitting naked on a snow-covered mountain, with large white wings curled around them. In their hands is a blue-and-gold staff capped with a crystal. The lower half of their face is hidden behind their arm, and their eyes are red with tears.
September 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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My contribution to original classics zine hosted by @losthavenguild.bsky.social ! I chosed to study Henry Fuseli 'Armor and Psyche' and to include in it one of my dnd oc, Sylvio, a tourmented war veteran

#art #ttrpg #dnd #fantasyart
An illustration showing a draw crying over the dead body of his husband, all in purple and red shades
September 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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There are 12 days left on the Original Classics KS with £333 left to go! If an artbook full of classical paintings redrawn as OCs sounds like your jam, please go check it out!

You can get this piece as a print by pledging to the merch tier ✨

www.kickstarter.com/projects/inf...
A redraw of the painting Spirit of the Night by John Atkinson Grimshaw, with my original character Sydni, a femme blue fairy with blue morpho wings. They're wrapped in a gossamer fabric patterned with stars, and reaching out as if to touch a seaside village below with a tender expression on their face.
September 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Waiter, waiter! There's a fairy in my drink! 🥂

I finished the first illustration for my OC pinup zine, featuring Sydni enjoying a party ✨ This will be a long-term project I'll be working on in between other things, so please stay tuned for updates later on!

🎨 #bexarttag #OCsky #D&D
A femme blue fairy character sits in a glass of champagne, smiling. She has fluffy blue hair styled in a long mullet, moth antennae, wings like a blue morpho, and a small glowing unicorn horn. They're wearing a black tailcoat with dark glittery tights, and are balancing a top hat on one foot with a smile. Streamers and confetti fall down around them.
September 1, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Gently /hands/ you sneak peek of my piece for
@losthavenguild.bsky.social's Original Classics zine which is now LIVE on Kickstarter - please consider checking it out using the link below! 👀

🌟 www.kickstarter.com/projects/inf... ☀️
Cropped image of two robe wearing individuals. Although most details are obscured you can see a large set of constellation-covered hands holding a smaller person who is wearing orange.
August 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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We're past the halfway mark!
losthavenguild.bsky.social Lost Haven 🌟 @losthavenguild.bsky.social · Aug 15
Original Classics is now live on Kickstarter!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/inf...
A crop of a piece referencing a Leyendecker piece. The piece features a couple riding a horse, text across the middle of the image reads "Original Classics"
August 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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SILKSONG SOON?? 🎉🎊
August 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Project announcement! ✨

I'm currently working on the first draft of my illustrated fantasy novel, under the working title Sunder the Sky! There's still a LOT to do, but while I work on it, art and snippets will be posted under the tag #SunderTheSky. Please stay tuned! 💜👀

🎨 #bexarttag
Semi-abstract illustration of a dark castle with tall spires floating in a darkened sky with clouds lit by the sunset below. A crescent moon hangs partially shattered into pieces above the castle, with stars visible in the crescent, indicating that this is not an ordinary moon. Roiling clouds below give way for a glowing winged figure plunging out of the sky. The title text reads 'Sunder the Sky' with my name, Bex Read, underneath.
August 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM