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thistletender.bsky.social
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@thistletender.bsky.social
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dark fantasy #artist / millennial / 🏳️‍🌈 they+any / BLM / Free🍉 / 🚫AI / #disabled #queer #neurodivergent #art #ocs #comics
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Image of a “0 days since last accident” but the word accident has been inelegantly covered. The sign now reads “0 days since last muscle spasm”
November 7, 2025 at 4:32 AM
thistletender.bsky.social
After your friends come over and help you clean
Dark Souls screenshot that reads “Humanity Restored” in large all caps letters
November 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
thistletender.bsky.social
Wishing you a delightful spooky season 💘

#happyhalloween #spookyseason #spooky #darkart
A masc person with salt and pepper long hair, wearing a suit and thick glasses. They are holding a vessel filled with neon pink liquid that is emitting billowing pink smoke and a pink glow against deep darkness.
October 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
thistletender.bsky.social
Happy #portfolioday !
I make #darkart and #fantasyart (usually of my OCs #ocsky).

Would love to collaborate on #comics and connect with like-minded moots!

Please send me your anthologies 💜 Or let me draw your OCs 👀
A night scene illustration of two men in a steamy indoor hotspring. A large pale man whose skin is covered in scars has his back to the camera. Facing him and the viewer is a small, dark man with long black hair and large black eyes. Illustration of a young man with dark skin, lying on the sand, waves breaking over him, lit by moonlight. His body is dissolving into the sea foam of the withdrawing tide. Illustration of a large albino man, lying on his back, underwater. He is against a wooden surface. Ripples and bubbles cast distorted light over him.
October 15, 2025 at 5:14 AM
thistletender.bsky.social
#ootd #illustration #digitalart
Illustration of a person with light skin and purple hair. They are wearing a Hawaiian shirt, chunky black boots, silver jewelry, and drinking watermelon juice from a straw.
September 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
thistletender.bsky.social
QRP with something watery 🌊

#art #ocsky
A night scene illustration of two men in a steamy indoor hotspring. A large pale man whose skin is covered in scars has his back to the camera. Facing him and the viewer is a small, dark man with long black hair and large black eyes.
September 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
thistletender.bsky.social
A test to make sure the character design makes sense before rendering with albinism.
#characterdesign #ocart #ocsky
Bust illustration of a large, muscular Asian male character with noticeable body fat and scarring over his skin. The exact same character design but portrayed with albinism, which is his actual appearance.
September 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
thistletender.bsky.social
New pfp 💜
#comics #darkfantasy #artist
Illustration of a person with light skin and purple hair, with temple shaved, lit by red on one side and blue on the other, on a black background. They are wearing large gold glasses, a septum ring, and three dangle earrings in their left ear.
September 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
thistletender.bsky.social
A WIP, I have a lot of things cooking but I’m not great at finishing art unless I’m on vacation #ocsky #ocart #ocs
A dark skinned young man with his hair parted in braids, protectively positioned over a girl with a dense hair texture, who grips him tightly. The image is a close crop of a larger work, with mystery hands from another figure.
September 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
thistletender.bsky.social
A serene evening together at the hotspring bath.
#oc #ocart #ocsky #prideart
Illustration of two men in a dim, steamy pool of water. The young man facing the camera has dark South Indian features, deep eye bags, and long black hair. The man with his back to the camera is albino, is significantly larger, and his body is covered in wound and rash scars. The building surrounding them is made of dark wood, which opens on the far wall to show the rocky natural hotspring that flows into the bath.
August 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Just a rough sketch for now, happy pride 🌈✨
#pride #pridemonth #prideart #ocs #ocart #sketch
Sketch of a night-time scene with two men up to their shoulders in what looks like a large swimming pool. Lamps are reflected in the dark water. Their bodies are close. The smaller man with darker skin has an expression that is wistful but not sad. The larger, albino man has a relaxed posture, and his head is low to meet the smaller man’s gaze.
June 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
thistletender.bsky.social
You know that image of the love triangle from Twelfth Night with Anne Hathaway that everyone redraws with their characters ??

May I present a new option for your consideration (found via Spotify, @youngfathers.bsky.social)

#dtiys #artref #art
A photograph of three male-presenting persons, harshly lit with deep shadows. One is protectively holding the other two, while one embraces another who grips him vulnerably
June 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
thistletender.bsky.social
Me to myself #deltarune
The “When will you wear wigs?” meme but with the last two words scratched out and written over badly, so that it says “When will you play Deltarune ?”
June 18, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Personally I adhere to the belief that it’s always correct to listen to the snail 😂
Meme drawn over a medical illustration of a person looking dizzy due to inner ear issue that anatomically is shaped like a snail. It reads on the person “(listening to the snail)” and over the ear “snail im my ear telling me (the next part is written over the original) to draw the same two characters over and over again”
June 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
thistletender.bsky.social
Happy pride !! ✨
Here’s my babies 💜
Low evening light, single warm backlit glow like a candle. A large albino man reclines against pillows, holding a small dark young man, who is looking at the viewer, close against him. A dark young man with clubbed fingers kisses a large albino man. The art is in a similar color theme and pose to famous work The Kiss by Klimt.
June 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
thistletender.bsky.social
Concept sketch, will use some references to refine

#darkart #retrofuture #vibes #spooky #digitalart
A sketch of a person reclining in a chair, one foot up on a desk with retro monitor, keys and buttons. They are in a dark server room with eerie red lights on the towers and the monitor.
March 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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WIP on the left, but I don't love it... still proud of my work, but my vision for it is escaping me.

#OCsky #OCartist #digitalart #digitalartist #WIP #darkart
Two illustrations - the one on the left shows a large albino man under the water in a wooden bath. The image on the right shows a small, dark young man with clubbed fingers dissolving into the ocean. The file names of the images are "dream of drowning" and "fade like foam"
February 25, 2025 at 7:03 AM
thistletender.bsky.social
fade like foam
Illustration of a young man with dark skin, lying on the sand, waves breaking over him, lit by moonlight. His body is dissolving into the sea foam of the withdrawing tide.
February 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
thistletender.bsky.social
I started a horror board on Pinterest, and the engagement is niche 👌

#horror #funny #gender
A pinterest image of a jellyfish (?) composed of many tubular strands, in a T shape. The only comment says, "Who up crucifying they tubes" A pinterest image of an eerie mask-like face with no hair. The first comment says, "what is movie name?" And the second comment, by user rat, says "gender"
January 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
thistletender.bsky.social
"who are you?" the dreamer asks the visitor.

#ocart #art #digitalart #sketch
Sketch of a young man with long hair standing on a beach. He is so heavily backlit that the details of his face and form are not visible. The sun behind him forms a kind of halo or crown on his head. Trees frame the scene, distorting in a surrealist curve into the vortex sky.
January 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
thistletender.bsky.social
Lmao so my google photos made an album for me... and....... it's literally........ just my OCs hugging help

#digitalart #art #ocs
Illustration of a brown man kissing an albino man in homage to klimt's the kiss. Has the google photos generated album name text over it which reads "Heartfelt hugs" Another illustration of the same characters, the brown man being embraced by the albino man, screenshot from the google photos app.
December 19, 2024 at 7:15 AM
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doodle colored #art #digitalart
Illustration of a person wearing large round glasses, looking over their shoulder
October 28, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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doodle #art #digitalart
Sketch of a person wearing large round glasses, looking over their shoulder
October 28, 2024 at 4:57 AM
thistletender.bsky.social
Odile & Bonniface #isat #instarsandtime #art
Sketch portrait of Madame Odile from the video game In Stars and Time Sketch portrait of Bonniface from the video game In Stars and Time
October 24, 2024 at 4:41 AM
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These were some of the first sketches I did of the In Stars and Time characters ✨
#isat #instarsandtime
Sketch portrait of Siffrin from the video game In Stars and Time Sketch portrait of Isabeau from the video game In Stars and Time Sketch portrait of Mirabelle from the video game In Stars and Time
October 24, 2024 at 4:37 AM