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zack 🖤 comm waitlist open!
@vampbyte.bsky.social
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he/him | 27 | illustrator and comic artist | horror and fantasy freak | weary vampire | 🏳️‍⚧️ | @gladcowe.bsky.social 🖤

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post your best elf art!

#art
November 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
vampbyte.bsky.social
harbinger of the end ☀
An illustration with a cryptic decorated border. Off to the left side, three circular panels depict a mollusk-like brain, a pattern of spotted lumps, and two swans with interlocked necks. In the center, a muscular-chested man with furry ears is holding a massive sword off to his side. He has shaggy red hair and a black doglike nose.
November 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
vampbyte.bsky.social
share your OC and a plant you associate with them

kristophe's flower is the amaranth, aka love-lies-bleeding. it represents immortality and death
October 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
vampbyte.bsky.social
WIP, testing a new brush :3
October 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
vampbyte.bsky.social
quote with a vampire 🩸
October 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
vampbyte.bsky.social
hi #PortfolioDay !

i'm zack, an illustrator and comic artist who likes to draw horror, fantasy, and romance 🦇

i'm available for illustration and comic gigs!

#oc #illustration #comics

[VGen](vgen.co/vampbyte) | [Portfolio](vampbyte.crd.co) | [Links](vampbyte.carrd.co) | vampbyte.art@gmail.com
An illustration of a long haired man with elf ears looking somberly at the viewer. He has tear tracks down his cheeks. he is standing in front of a series of eroded statues, each of which also has tears in its eyes and is overgrown with foliage. The sky is red and ominous behind them. An illustration with a decorative white border. In the center, a large, dark gray skinned man with glowing eyes is lying on his back, and a much shorter man with pale skin and long hair is resting on his shoulder, nude and draped in a dark blue cloth. In the background, various versions of the shorter man are lying dead, with a ripple effect distorting them and the background. A group portrait of five men (two at the top, one in the center, two at the bottom), with each of the outer four looking yearningly at the man in the center. The top-left man has dark skin, red eyes looking away from the viewer, and black coily hair which is tied back with a red ribbon. The top-right man has pale white skin and long, silver hair and yellow eyes, and is wearing a black bodysuit mask over his mouth and nose. The man in the center has medium tan skin and long, dark blue hair with silver streaks. His eyes are golden. The bottom-left man has light skin, short black hair with a silver gradient at its roots, a mustache, and is wearing a decorative red rose eyepatch over his visible eye. The bottom-right man has light skin, blonde hair cut into a choppy jellyfish cut with curls at the bottom, and pale blue eyes. An illustration of a man with shoulder length wavy hair turned away from the viewer, looking over his shoulder with a smile. He is standing in a field of tall grass, touching a stalk of amaranth with one hand. The image is framed with a decorative gothic border.
October 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
vampbyte.bsky.social
thank you!! it was rendered with the Yum brush from this set of mine, but tbh a lot of the textures overlayed here were just mish-mashed together textures from the csp assets store and/or from royalty free stock images that i edited for use in csp. i also heavily abused the tone layer effect!
October 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
vampbyte.bsky.social
commission for leoeoeo on VGen!

#VGen #VGencomm
A gothic bordered illustration of a wavy-haired character staring directly at the viewer. They're wearing an off-shoulder shirt tied at the front and shorts. In front of them, they're holding a white cane with both hands. There are red lycoris flowers in the background.
October 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
vampbyte.bsky.social
hundreds, thousands, millions of times — and in each one I seek you, the man with no name
An illustration with a decorative white border. In the center, a large, dark gray skinned man with glowing eyes is lying on his back, and a much shorter man with pale skin and long hair is resting on his shoulder, nude and draped in a dark blue cloth. In the background, various versions of the shorter man are lying dead, with a ripple effect distorting them and the background.
October 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
vampbyte.bsky.social
i think it's kinda fun to look at the more recent lineup of illustrations in my portfolio and then look at the lineup of pieces from a few years ago and see how much i started leaning into everything having a Dark Crustiness to it
October 9, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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another WIP
October 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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WIP
October 3, 2025 at 2:52 AM
vampbyte.bsky.social
commission for Hellboundheart on VGen! 🖤

#VGen #VGencomm
A black and white portrait with a decorative gothic border. The portrait features a stitch-mouthed woman wearing a black wedding dress and veil holding a bouquet of calla lilies in a graveyard.
September 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
vampbyte.bsky.social
picked two with a similar composition.. :O
September 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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surprise commission for milky.mosaic on VGen! i love fnv so this was a ton of fun to work on 🤠
An illustration of a man with blonde braided hair in a cowboy hat perching his leg up on a rock to gaze at the horizon. He has a rifle on his back and a Pip-Boy on his wrist. The scenery is a reddish desert at sunset.
September 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
vampbyte.bsky.social
commission slots for october thru december are open for both illustrations and comic pages! i have a limited number of openings for each this time so it's first come first serve 🦇

vgen.co/vampbyte
September 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
vampbyte.bsky.social
👁‍🗨
An illustration of a long-haired character in profile staring eerily at the viewer. His face is obscured in shadow. Behind him is a series of eyes radiating around him in a circle.
September 8, 2025 at 2:46 AM
vampbyte.bsky.social
finished up the references for this criminal duo 🤠
A reference sheet for a character called Grimhildt. He is a tall slender man wearing a dark mustard yellow cloak over his chest and a crude chainmail. He has wild, light brown hair and a bandana on his forehead. His green pants are flared at the bottom and sewn up with various stitches. An alternative version of his outfit to the right includes a mask over his face made of an animal jaw, and a beat up cowboy hat. On the far right there is a large staff, the same height as the man made of a red spiky material. It's covered in eyes and labeled as "Old Aggie" The text profile reads: Grimhildt "Crazy Eyes" Age: 29 height: 6'7" race: human profession: leader of the Brittleburn Bandits Combined references from the other two images, see alt text on those A reference sheet for a character called Hremi Terrowin. He is a short, stout elf wearing a blue tunic and tights. He has light blonde hair tied in an ornate ponytail with a ribbon, and his skin is a golden yellow. An alternative version of him to the right is wearing a totally different outfit, comprised of shredded fabric and animal bones decorated with spikes. The chestpiece is made of a cow skull and he is wearing a bone mask over his face with one eye socket shattered. The text profile reads: Hremi Terrowin "The Terrowin Terror" Age: 21 height: 5'1" race: elf profession: eldest son of House Terrowin ; member of the Brittleburn Bandits
September 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
vampbyte.bsky.social
the program i'm using / the art i'm making 🦇
September 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
vampbyte.bsky.social
calling all artists! how do you draw elves? quote this post

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apparently i draw them as huge freaks 😛
September 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
vampbyte.bsky.social
prince alifyr, the one who weeps
An illustration of a long haired man with elf ears looking somberly at the viewer. He has tear tracks down his cheeks. he is standing in front of a series of eroded statues, each of which also has tears in its eyes and is overgrown with foliage. The sky is red and ominous behind them.
September 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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#the_color_wheel
August 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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WIP
August 28, 2025 at 3:37 AM
vampbyte.bsky.social
blaise, the most hospitable vampire in vingard 🗡️
An ornately-bordered illustration of a vampire with his back turned to the viewer, looking over his shoulder with a smile. He has shaggy black hair and dark makeup around his eye. The border features eyeballs, bones, teeth, and other archaic markings, and it looks to be carved out of stone. The text reads: BLAISE A purveyor of rare charms, he wanders the wasting wilds of Vingard in search of treasures left behind by the blighted. His vampirism allows him to tread where others cannot, but also isolates him from society.
August 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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WIP
August 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM