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The Art of the Thing
@theartofthething.bsky.social
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Artist, animal lover, owner of too many hobbies... and fish
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#Timelapse, #Halloween, #Jack-o-lantern, #Art, #Autumn, #DigitalArt, #No-Ai
October 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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A friendly jack-o-lantern waves at the viewer, the body is made of wood and it's wearing a slouchy brown sweater, a yellow undershirt, and a red scarf. The background is two bare trees and fall colored leaves cover the ground. A friendly jack-o-lantern waves at the viewer, the body is made of wood and it's wearing a slouchy brown sweater, a yellow undershirt, and a red scarf. The background is two bare trees and fall colored leaves cover the ground. A smiling jack-o-lantern with a ghostly look waves at the viewer, the body is made of wood and it's wearing a slouchy brown sweater, a yellow undershirt, and a red scarf. The background is two bare trees and fall colored leaves cover the ground.
October 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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#art #bskycensorship #tos
In regards to the upcoming changes to TOS. You have moderation and tags and the ability to hide NSFW already in place, work to make those things better. More effective. If you further cave to purity rules and create guidelines that can be moved further and further back into the realm where freedom of expression is no longer allowed then that only gives the ones in power further ability to point at you and say, “See? They saw the need to do this, so we are correct in going further and removing that freedom, we will make a law.” Thus will freedoms slowly wither away even more that what is already happening. Don't change things that are not already set in stone. You can be a bulwark against the dying of the freedoms that you created this platform to combat. Are you still committed to being a company that doesn't follow a horrible ideology in the name of “Freedom” and “protection”, or will you slowly become that which you hate?
September 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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I need to stop working on this, I keep looking at it and seeing "just one more thing I need to fix" but I... must... stop...
(I tried to find the owner of the original source image, to credit them, if I do find the source I will post the info in a reply)
#DigitalArt #Cockatiel #birb #artwork #bird
Digital art of a yellow cockatiel with orange red cheeks and a bright background made of a splash of colors-teal, pink, yellow, and orange in front of a flat purple base. No ai was used to make this art. Lineart for the previous image, a bright yellow cockatiel with flat colors in front of the same background of a splash of teal, pink, yellow, orange, and purple. There is also a reference picture for the original cockatiel retrieved from a search engine.
July 7, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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First attempt at hand drawn animation. No plans, no script, we just jump in.
youtu.be/svJgtHTp3-Q
#animation, #dog, #hand-drawn, #art, #no-ai, #clipstudio
February 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Who wants to pet the belly?
(This is Buddy, Buddy is his name because we pulled him out of our car engine and didn't wan't to get attached by giving him a real name. That was almost 15 years ago. He has no teeth because of feline tooth resorption, google at your own risk.)
White, nearly toothless, cat on it's back with mouth open in a huge yawn.
February 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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How about some old sketches, one from around 1998 when the original Trigun anime was first coming out in the US and I was buying them on VHS and DVD from Suncoast at exorbitant prices.
Sketch of Godzilla head giving side eye to viewer, with text Text: "Godzilla is inside each one of us? Really?" Pen drawing of small note copied from an episode of Trigun(98), where Vash drew a note to taunt someone.
January 31, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Black cat cuddling in lap Black cat in lap
January 31, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Cat cuddle time Cat cuddle time Black cat cuddling in lap
January 31, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Sleeping black cat Close up of sleeping black cat Sleeping black cat with face hidden Sleeping black cat with face hidden in blanket
January 31, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Black cat with purple backlighting glaring into camera.
January 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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A black cat intently staring at the string toy in the foreground.
January 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Three Dragons in front of a starry backdrop A mushroom terrarium modeled in Blender The first page of a comic done in charcoal The second page of a comic done in charcoal
November 18, 2024 at 1:25 AM
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Mal. It means bad. In the Latin.
(In b4 someone who knows, the bad fin is because I had a tank spring a leak and had to temporarily house too many fish in one tank which ruined the water quality at the time. Mal lives with 4 albino corys in a 36 gallon so he is doing just fine now.)
#angelfish #fish
Black Angelfish Black Angelfish
October 30, 2024 at 2:52 AM
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(Here's where he lives)
72 gallon Waterbox Aquarium Betta Splendens (Male): 1 Cherry Barbs: 6 Lambchop Rasbora: 1 survivor Celebes Rainbowfish: 9 (or 13? They're fast and don't stay still) Dwarf Neon Rainbowfish (Praecox): 4 Albino Corydoras: 9 Clown Pleco: 2 Assorted Platys: more everytime I look
October 30, 2024 at 2:43 AM
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I just love his colors. Ciro came from Aqua Huna.
Depending on which language you say his name in he is either "Lordly" or "of the Sun".
Betta with blue, black, red, and orange scales Betta with blue, black, red, and orange scales Betta with blue, black, red, and orange scales and some orange platy fry. Betta with blue, black, red, and orange scales
October 30, 2024 at 2:37 AM
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I said Smile for the camera!
#betta #fish #meanmugging
Blue and black betta facing camera. Small blue shrimp looks on at a probably unsafe distance from the predator.
October 30, 2024 at 2:21 AM
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A comic I tried starting, named Faux. With only a loose idea of what story I actually wanted to tell at the point made this caused me to stall out on it.
Ben(older) and Mikah(at least as far as I can remember, I changed his name a lot) are brothers.
#art #comic #traditionalart #charcoal #oldart
A banner at the top of the page, green background with a wolf peering from behind branches arranged into the word "Faux". Beneath the banner the first panel shows from a top down perspective, two fantasy creatures pulling a wagon with a figure leaning against the back of the wagon. Another fatter creature follows behind, tethered by a rope. Third panel shows a side view of the figure, a boy, flopped over the back of the wagon, staring at the road. The creature has a halter/rope around its muzzle and seems to be watching the boy as it follows. Art was made with vine charcoal and (aside from the top banner) is in grayscale. The top left panel shows a young man sitting on the back of the cart, he has long hair and loose fitting clothing, the top of the boy's head can be seen as he scrubs lightly at his hair, groaning as he sits up from a nap. Ben: "Wake up lazybones. We're here." Second panel is pulled back to show more of the scene, the creature from before is free from the halter and is eating grass while watching Ben (the young man) drag his brother Mikah from the cart in a headlock. Mikah has one hand on the side of the cart to hold himself in and the other is gripping Ben's elbow. The final panel shows Ben having gone to unhitch the two creatures from the cart, he is looking down with one hand on the back of the far beast. A pair of sandals are flying through the air from the left of the panel. From off panel Mikah yells. Mikah: "Hey Ben! You forgot your shoes!"
October 28, 2024 at 3:54 AM
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My first Blender attempt using premade assets following a course from Skillshare by Harry Helps.
Title: Scary Stories to tell in the Dark Two tents in a dark wood, five frogs sit on the right side, near the fire(two bigger frogs exit a tent, one small frog stares into the fire and two small frogs face one another a few steps away). In the second tent, two shadowed figures are backlit by a lantern. Trees surround the campsite and a full moon peeks through the clouds.
October 27, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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Made in Blender for a class on Skillshare, the first(red mushrooms) was following along with the instructions, the second(blue mushrooms) was created after. The class is one of several by Harry Helps, and are very much recommended if you are struggling with how to start learning Blender on your own.
Made in Blender: Two red mushrooms with white spots surrounded by grass in a bell jar, a small frog sits in a log facing front. Made in Blender: Several blue capped mushrooms with a slight glow flowing from under their caps sit inside a bell jar surrounded by grass and a single log. A frog peers out of the log slightly.
October 27, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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Blue Dragonscale Betta (Sokka) in a planted fish tank
October 25, 2024 at 12:59 PM
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Hello Fellow Artists! I'm here, but don't have a lot of recent art to share.. So have a random selection (newest art to oldest)!
Title: The Majesty of Dragons A single dragon lounges under a starry sky with the air of a satisfied feline, while behind him another lays like a goofy dog, tongue lolling from the side of its mouth. Its sibling standing above it, unnoticed with a paw raised for bapping. 2024 Traditional art, a sea turtle swimming from lower left to upper right. 2022 Pink Double Rose of Sharon flower 2017 (I think) Vampire Hunter D on his horse Done sometime during the 90's (had to pause a VHS tape to get the reference)
October 20, 2024 at 3:41 AM
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It's been a while.. so how's about a post?
Green leaves with bright red berries. Tree with twisting branches, the light shines through leaves of green with some newly turned to gold just beginning to show. Two trees filled with green leaves frame another holding mostly yellow and gold.
October 18, 2024 at 8:13 PM