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@swordhymn.bsky.social
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MTL based illustrator, bookworm, & fantasy enjoyer • he/him • fr/eng

🚫 No A.I. / N.F.T.

Portfolio: https://swordhymn.carrd.co/
Email: sanadworks@gmail.com
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Did another book cover design/book jacket design practice using the painting I had originally done for my pfp

[ #bookcover #artsky #design ]
June 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Turned an old #coverart practice into a fully designed book spread, would love to make a few of these for indie authors 👀

[ #art #bookdesign #selfpublishing ]
May 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Some closeups I like 👀

#lineart #art #traditionalart #fantasy
May 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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‘Ignareid summoned’

Pen & Ink on illustration board, 11.5” x 16”
Pen and ink drawing in a woodcut style of an elven warrior girl summoning a spectral axe while riding into battle on a horse.
May 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Had to bust out the tracing paper twice bc I wasn’t sure how I wanted to render her shadow axe & the trees lol
#wip #penandink
A pen and ink drawing of an elven warrior woman holding some kind of spectral weapon while ridding a horse.
May 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Experimenting with this woodcut style of inking for the first time.. wish me luck! :’D

#art #penandink #woodcut
May 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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If you see this, post your green art 🌿

#artsky
May 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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quote with red
May 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Congrats on 7k!! And thanks for hosting :)
May 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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If you see this, share your program and art!

#ArtistChallenge #Procreate
May 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Some rejected thumbnails that I still really like :’)

[ #artprocess #posterdesign #coverart ]
Digital painting of a girl rusting with the silhouette of birds flying past her. Digital painting of a flower rusting with the silhouette of birds flying past it.
May 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Portrait study of my friend :)

[ #portrait #painting #art ]
Realistic painted portrait of a black girl with twists wearing a black bandana and an off-the-shoulder sweater. There’s a pink graphic element framing her head and distinguishing the figure from the background.
May 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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As an additional example, a character sketch with colour and shading in this style would be $50-80 CAD depending on complexity and props. Perfect for a D&D character or an OC of any kind.

#dnd #oc #characterart #commissions #dndcommission
May 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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The room we were drawing in was crazy tho
Picture of a drawing clipped to a board. The background depicts a chapel with intricately detailed pillars and crowning supporting a domed ceiling decorated with paintings of saints.
April 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Experimented with only depicting the light at a life drawing session last night.

It was also my first time using oil pastels on black paper, which was a bit challenging, but I like how it turned out :)

~30 minute pose

#lifedrawing #traditionalart #oilpastel
Life drawing of a man lounging on a chair in green oil pastels on black paper. Only the light is depicted, leaving the shadows to blend or get lost in the paper’s colour.
April 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Human #artist, let’s QRT with our work! 🎨

Before vs After
Work in progress of a portrait of a man with long red hair looking over his shoulder. Portrait of a man with long red hair and a gold sun shaped earring looking over his shoulder.
February 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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#bookdesign practice using names from my old dnd campaign ✩

[ #coverart #darkart ]
February 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Hi #PortfolioDay ! I'm Sanad, a Palestinian artist & illustrator based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Here’s some of my work 🖋️

🕸️ Art director @polymorphicmag.bsky.social
🖤 Prints inprnt.com/gallery/swordhymn/
🔗 Site swordhymn.carrd.co
Painting of a woman standing in a swamp-like or bog-like environment, she’s wearing a sheer white dress that turns into water the moment it hits the surface she’s standing on. Growing out of the trees in aforementioned swamp is another painting of her. Only now she’s hugging herself as her face is placed in between the jaws of a skeletal plant infested monster. Painting of a man with red hair floating at the bottom of a well and casting a spell in the water. As the spell is cast, the water cupped in his hands glows yellow. Painting of a woman in a semi-abstract reflective environment. There’s pink light coming from the right and a blue background, creating a good amount of purple. Painting of a pro-Palestine protest, there are two main figures who are holding coloured smoke flares. One of them is also holding a Palestinian flag and a third figure is holding the flag of Yemen.
January 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you 🌿🌙
Painting of a woman standing in a swamp-like or bog-like environment, she’s wearing a sheer white dress that turns into water the moment it hits the surface she’s standing on. Growing out of the trees in aforementioned swamp is another painting of her. Only now she’s hugging herself as her face is placed in between the jaws of a skeletal plant infested monster.
January 14, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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First sketch of 2025—desperately trying to get out of “art block” rn

( #sketch #art #sketchbook )
January 14, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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If you see this, quote post your blue 🌌

[ #art #fantasy #illustration ]
Painting of a man with red hair floating at the bottom of a well and casting a spell in the water. As the spell is cast, the water cupped in his hands glows yellow. Portrait of a feminine man with red hair and golden earrings on a blue background. Girl wearing a bright red swimsuit in blue water with sunlight shining through.
January 4, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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If you see this, post your purple art! 🎆
Painting of a woman in a semi-abstract reflective environment. There’s pink light coming from the right and a blue background, create a good amount of purple. Painting of a brown eye with blue and purple makeup and no eyebrow. Portrait of a semi-feminine blonde individual with a streak of white hair and pupil-less opal eyes. Painted over a dark purple background with purple tinted shadows.
January 4, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Another plate for the new year

(Excuse the messy background, I was going insane lowkey)

𓆩 #art #ceramic #traditionalpainting 𓆪
January 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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A whole year of art… there were some months were I painted so much that it was hard to choose what to include lol

Here’s to a 2025 filled with more and even better art!!

⦅ #art #yearinreview #2k25 ⦆
December 31, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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“The monstrous feminine draws attention to the ‘frailty of the symbolic order’ through her evocation of the natural, animal order and its terrifying associations with the passage all human beings must inevitably take from birth through life to death.” Barbara Creed in The Monstrous Feminine
December 30, 2024 at 5:26 AM