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Skella
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31, any pronouns are fine.
My art is handmade, the way it should be.
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I uh-
I sunk a bull's eye throwing axes while I was covering my eyes. The first time I attempted to. Only one person saw it, but here's my reaction
October 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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I hope Temerity is ok with supportive hugs as sneak attacks!

Genuinely want to thank you for inspiring me to draw *something*. I've got a severely strained relationship with art at the moment. But at least I drew something!
My character Rat hugging Eldstunga's character Temerity as a show of sympathy and encouragement. Temerity wears a surprised expression, and Rat's face is furrowed, determined to weather any repercussions for the sudden contact.
October 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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You guys are lucky I love yous i.imgur.com/YWLSkhx.png
October 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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I admit to not knowing too much about Temerity as a character. You should tell me about them though!

Rat's a keen-minded, magical rogue-type. She was an indentured criminal. Working off a debt she herself didn't create. She's selfless to the point it's a flaw as a result of trying to make amends.
September 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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A deer followed me on my walk home. Very close, definitely wanted food but I wasn't carrying anything appropriate to give it.
April 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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It wasn't really much, but I gotta start it somewhere. And who's to say it won't happen again.
2025 "I WANNA DRAW..." Bingo template by Alma K. Rowan I've decided to use it for any kind of art progress/achievement. I managed to sketch in a coffee shop briefly just by accident. And decided it counts.
February 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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I don't play Slay the Spire The Watcher stands inside an image of John Hammond considering his amber-headed cane. In tandem with the original post this reads as "In Amber-Clad". It's a Halo post. I've hijacked your Spire post to be about Halo now. Cortana x John Halo 4everrrr thesuitdoesn'tjackhimoff
January 30, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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True to my word, here's the first few pages of my work sketchbook. I only get to draw in it on lunch breaks.

#skellasketches #traditionalart #sketchbook #artistsonbluesky
I'm working on learning a lot of things but proper legs are a blindspot for sure. I have trouble getting the collective landmark origins to read correctly. More of the same, and then working on faces and trying to draw a high kick. It didn't take long for Rat to show up. The pose in the first page should remind me that the ASIS is pretty squarely a corner, and doesn't wrap around so much. Couple a more poses, really just trying to get sketches under my belt more than anything. A half hour out of work isn't really enough time to do a study for me. So it's pretty unguided. This is the first page after I committed to trying to really read FORCE and understand it this time. I've bounced off a couple of times before. But I'm a little tired of how stiff my poses end up being and figured it would help. I also saw a short about drawing the same thing from a different view without *looking* at the thing from a dofferent view. So I tried that on the right page.
January 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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quick draw what you're wearing, 5 minutes max
January 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Continuing on with the rest of the cast!

Overall, I think I did a good job with these. I didn't get too complex with the designs. And while I probably stepped too far out of the design style of the show in some places. I think generally I kept to it fairly well.
Connie as a Ranger With how Connie and Lion sort of teamed up all the time this made a lot of sense to me. I'm really happy with the general look of this one. I tried to include some aspects of Connie's cosplay of the main character from her favourite book series, but her leather jacket later on was too cool to leave out. Peridot as a Wizard Another one I'm really happy with! I think the action of Peridot diving out of the sky with a host of weapons in tow is cohesive and energetic Our little gremlin rules the skies, using her magnetic powers to rain weapons from above. She's got a robe worn partially. The sleeves and torso portion flapping in the wind held at the waist with a thick belt. Of course I couldn't leave out her Kamina glasses, the bowtie from the Funland Alien plush and the alien print boxers she likes so much. And to keep it going I added a glowing Alien head-shaped necklace I decided is her arcane focus. Lapis as a Sorcerer This is the one I'm the most proud of. I come back to this one and think "This fucks" so often. Lapis is posed in a floaty way, suspended above the water wearing some flowy clothes. Gold-coloured ribbons trail from her neck to bangles on her wrists. Additional gold beads, laces on her sandals and other accents evoke the pyrite flecks in real lapis lazuli. She's animating the water beneath her to create an eel. The eel is swirling around the back of her and looking at the viewer with its teeth bared. Bismuth as an Artificer It was lucky that the Artificer was added to 5E the same year as I did these. I don't think Barbarian would have fit Bismuth as well. I imagine her crafting a suit of armor that augments the various implements she turns her hands into. Her rainbow of hair was sadly under-worked by me, and they look pretty flat. But! I think the light in the armour looks suitably powerful. And I think the heat on the dagger-hand reads. And her giving a battlecry in a molten field, the rock beneath her cracking and splashing lava, with lightning striking in the background rules. I can't remember if I made up the glyphs, or if they're from the Gem language.
December 3, 2024 at 12:04 AM
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I made some art of the cast of Steven Universe as fantasy classes once back in 2015 (I'll link to those later)

Anyway these are the LEVEL-UPS from 2019!

#TheSkellaSketches #StevenUniverse #Art #Fanart #ArtistsOnBluesky #DnD #FantasyArt #Fantasy #SU
Garnet as a Monk! I tried to emulate the background from The Answer. But I'm not good at backgrounds. Anyway, Garnet's got some ki-fueled star glasses. And summons four gauntlets for flurry of blows. I love the concept of a monk having extraordinary ways of doing the punching real good. Amethyst as a Druid. Amethyst being so into shapeshifting and kind of a wild child made it clear that she's gotta be a druid. Her hair is out-of-control long and she's got some kind of scary critters living in it. Her whip is firing up wrapped around her arm as it grows hair and claws. Her bared teeth are sharp and animalistic and her eyes have a shine to them like the tapedum lucidum in animals. Pearl as a Paladin Obviously someone so devoted to fighting for a person could only be a Paladin. Since Pearl can summon hard-light constructs, I figured it would be fun to make that an ability of sorts. She's smiling as her holo-Pearls pose behind her in the Sky Arena. She's holding a rose favour, in a rose-tattooed hand. Steven as a Bard I tried to gather and combine as many elements of Steven's many outfits into something worn on stage, and I think I did a pretty good job. "Pink Diamond Steven" playing together in a duo was a really fun idea too. The two of them playing in concert because they're both equally Steven was a good idea.
December 3, 2024 at 12:04 AM
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Like this
November 29, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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Alright, I jumped around a bit in my file's timeline because the next chunk includes something that should all be kept together. There's various Rats. And one for Mermay a few years ago.
A high angle drawing of Rat explaining something. I believe I'd envisioned it being her laying out a plan of attack. I played Rat as having high dex, but also high intelligence. Because she is small (she's 4'9", the absolute smallest the book said Tieflings can be) and not strong, she often has to out-think or outmanoeuvre problems. And I think that Benjamin Franklin's quote "Failing to plan is planning to fail" applies very well to her. She's in her new costume, one hand holds a particularly long mollusc shell she used as a shiv out in front of her, and the other is held aloft pointing to something (that I didn't draw) One thing I loved about Rat is her scrappiness. I would often draw her in a beaten-down state, because flawless success is boring. Rat is in a half-stance, a sword held low in her back hand. Her front hand wipes blood from her chin that has flowed from her nose. She also has a black eye, and generally looks tired as she's hunched over. She is without her vest, mostly I think cause I wanted to know how she'd look without it. A colour drawing of Rat as a mermaid done for MerMay. Her tail is based on the Blue Chromis. The Blue Chromis has long spines on their fins, that continue past where the main body of the fin extends. I liked this "sharp" look to their fins and incorporated it here. And again on the tail fin, those spines terminating in Rat's half-spade tail shape. Rat's arms are stretched far behind her, webbing between each of her fingers. She has gill sections on both her rib cage, and her cheeks just beneath the cheek bone. Her eyes are black in the sclera, but white again in the pupil to seem more deep-sea fish-like. She retains her horns and long, pointed ears. A simple piece of kelp serves to cover her breasts. A colour drawing of Rat standing with her pelvis thrust forward and arms behind her back. She's smiling, a rarity in the images I've shared so far of her. Another new thing, she has a seigaiha pattern on her baggy pants. It felt in keeping with her backstory at the time. She was a pirate. Well, a recovering pirate. She was forced into the life against her will.
November 27, 2024 at 11:26 PM
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Without worrying about reactions to previous posts sans cats, here are more old art pieces! I did a take on Shemeshka the Marauder, there's some more Rats after her redesign. And a Spider-sona from when those were big!
#TheSkellaSketches #Art #ArtistsOnBluesky #Anthro #Spider-Man #SpiderSona
A full-body sketch of Shemeshka the Marauder, an Arcanaloth from (I believe) the Forgotten Realms setting. They are a tall anthropomorphic fox. They are wearing a "crown" of vines on their head, and glasses on their long snout. A loosely tied robe exposes much of their chest. They are smoking a long straight pipe and have a very long, exaggerated tail. Don't worry about the signature. It's a handle I use with less appropriate art. A full body of Rat's redesign! Gone are the rags and blankets, the babe finally cobbled together some proper clothing! Chiefly, her costume balances warmer browns against her dark blue skin tone. She wears a studded leather, bolero-style open vest that leaves her upper arms exposed. Studded leather bracers precede finger-less gloves. She wears a dark leather cuirass under her vest. A thick quilted "belt" rests on a simple leather and hide tasset. Baggy, slit-thigh pants tuck into some panelled leather greaves. I really think this design hold up. It's simple enough to be easily replicated, and complements Rat's cool, natural pallet with the nice browns. A Spider-sona from when Spider-Verse came out and everyone was really inspired by it. I decided to go with Orbweavers as my base inspiration. I always thought it kind of unfortunate that Spider-Man can dodge bullets with ease, but is most concerned with saving people who cannot. So my Spidersona has something similar to the waldo arms from the Iron-Spider, but they're highly-durable panels. I imagine them being made from an offshoot of their web-formula. They can also conduct Orbweaver's wall-clinging ability, for some Metroid Morph Ball action. Orbweaver is a Spider-Man in a purple, green and black colour pallet. They're crouched down with two panels held in defense of a child, and a third covering the same child from above. a flat colour drawing of Rat with a pet Pseudodragon. The Pseudodragon is the size of a cat, with lithe muscles and a scorpion stinger-like tail.. The Pseudodragon is named Plum due to their purple and orange colouration. Rat's seated, contentedly feeding an excited Plum some jerky as Plum perches on their arm.
November 26, 2024 at 3:24 AM
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We got Shiver, a character for a one shot testing out a homebrew race. And a bunch more Rats. I worked a crappy stock job once. I would draw in a sketchbook on my breaks. I'll tell you later how many discrete Rat drawings there were in total. 😅

#TheSkellaSketches #Art #ArtistsonBluesky #Owl #Anthro
A one shot character named Shiver. He is a Snowy Owl Ranger. Wearing simple, minimal clothes and a large, fur-trimmed capelet. He holds a bow and arrows. I had him play as a recluse. Graceless in social situations. I saw a bow design once that had a similar curve-vs-curve shape. I think the thought was that it would increase poundage? Anyway, I thought it was distinct. A full-body drawing of Rat's initial design. She had short, stubby horns on the top of her head. She had a buzz-cut apart from one long set of tresses grown in between her horns and swept to one side. I found later I really hated the snaggle tooth I gave her and so that went away in future designs. She's wearing her two nicest things, a mithril chain shirt, and Slippers of Spider Climb. They somewhat clash with the rags she wears for clothing. An image of Rat using her Tiefling-granted Hellish Rebuke. Her flames were magenta and blue for some reason. The overall pose is the "Objection!" pose from Pheonix Wright. A series of games I have never played. A scene of Rat using her Slippers of Spiderclimb to cling to a wall. She is observing something while brandishing a dagger. Lit from below, the colours are too dark, and I wish I'd done a better job. The thing I do like about this though was the idea to have the decorative spiders on the slippers animate and move their legs when the slippers were in use.
November 21, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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Alright, apologies if DnD isn't your thing, or if you find you dislike Rat. Cause that's gonna be a BIG chunk of this.

#TheSkellaSketches #Art #ArtistsonBluesky #DnD #BallGown
A sketchy take on the Raven Queen. She is serene and statuesque, and a raven whose eye placement still bothers me is perched on her hand. Rat Sneak Attacks a would be-assassin. She has pounced on him, shanked his neck. And is withdrawing her shiv. The attacker is shocked. A moment in Rat's first campaign. She managed to disrupt an assassination attempt on one of her companions because she refused to sleep in the room they'd rented. She witnessed the attacker sneak into the room and got there in time to stop him. A "line-less" drawing colour drawing of Rat as a child. She has longer hair and real clothing, as opposed to the short tangle and rags that were her costume at that time in her development. And on the opposite end of poverty- Rat in a ball gown for the eventuality that all DnD players plan for: a High-Class Party Infiltration episode! Her hair is pinned back with sticks that most certainly can function as weapons. She similarly has a pin in the chest of her gown that is a slender dagger. Under her dress she wears a mithril chain vest that she recovered in her adventures.
November 21, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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I'm a Fire-Type boy mostly. They're less available than Grass or Water types at the start of the game. And I tend to like them the most. I deviated with Oshawott because I liked the silly arm swords on Samurott. And I chose Rowlet cause it was my favorite design that gen. I didn't play XY.
November 21, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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I drew my godson (@thebase16.bsky.social 's cat Spoot) as a wizard. I forget the reason, if any. I think I was going to draw him as a bunch of fantasy classes. Speaking of, there's a lot of art with DnD at its core! Including 3 characters I've played.

#TheSkellaSketches #DnD #ArtistsOnBluesky #art
An anthropomorphized version of a dear friends cat, and my godson: Spoot. He is dressed as a wizard, with various colour palette variations. A Dragonborn Monk named Rholasar that I played in a haunted house one-shot. After an amicable solution to; and adoption of, a child-possessed doll, I decided that Rholasar hoards orphans. A full-blood Orc Alchemist named U'urta (Ooh-er-ta) I played in a poorly-managed and doomed campaign. Being in a Pathfinder game meant powering through the negatives to Intelligence that Orcs get, but she soldiered on. Through the use of her Mutagens she was able to prove that brains can MAKE brawn. The babe! In her first appearance! Rat the Tiefling Rogue. She started out as an orphan bought by a shady individual and forced to adapt as she grew up. She learned not to trust anyone, how to make a shiv out of just about anything, and that the world owes her a proper life, stolen or not.
November 21, 2024 at 12:54 AM
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We start with something off-brand! As well as Steven Universe fanart. And even fanart of Effie from Fire Emblem. It's odd, I never think of myself as someone who does fanart, but I guess that's wrong!

#TheSkellaSketches #StevenUniverse #FireEmblem #Amethyst #Pearl #Effie #Fanart #ArtistsOnBluesky
Minor fib from a previous post. I had done exactly one other Sprite before those Pokemon Infinite Fusion ones. Me as a Hiker Pokemon sprite from when that was going around. Pearl from Steven Universe, dressed in Fencing gear and wielding a foil. She is viewed from the back, in a ready stance. She's sweaty, and frustrated by something. Amethyst from Steven Universe in lingerie. She is eating pizza. Effie from Fire Emblem. Out of armour, in the body I felt she deserved- more muscular. She is holding up a damaged shield with concern.
November 20, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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And I also did a joke-y reference sprite, comment if you get it to receive brownie points.
A Fusion of the Pokemon Golurk and Regigigas: Golugigas The sprite is a reference to The Big Guy from Big Guy and Rusty The Boy Robot, but if you got the answer here, you cheated and receive no brownie points.
October 24, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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I don't think I ever posted this anywhere, but I made a few sprites for Pokemon Infinite Fusion earlier this year.

I don't have a lot of experience, but it was too much fun thinking of fusion designs to not make any of them.

#pokemon #infinitefusion #pokemonfusion #sprites #pixelart #art
A Fusion of the Pokemon Oddish and Nidoking: Oddking A Fusion of the Pokemon Dragonair and Primeape: Dragoape A Fusion of the Pokemon Kabutops and Heracross: Kabucross A Fusion of the Pokemon Froslass and Donphan: Frosphan
October 24, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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I finished an art thing and I want to share it! (sorry for cheesecake)

I been playing the Digimon TCG (which is more fun than I thought it'd be) and did art for a game mat to be made in the future! Hope you like it!

How's this for a first bsky post?
January 9, 2024 at 5:01 PM