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Syd Mills
@vetyyr.bsky.social
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Freelance illustrator. Commissions open; email for info • silverthegold@gmail.com • she/he/they

Prints: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/vetyr/
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Cover illustration I did for Allison Saft’s upcoming book, Immortal Game! Chess sapphics, Irish folklore fantasy setting 🫶🫶
Two women falling and reaching out for each other. One has billowing fiery red-orange hair. A chess board has been tipped over and its pieces are flying into the air. The background is a lush Irish forest; there is a castle in the far distance.
October 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don't find yourself.
August 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Detail shots of this 🫶
March 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Save me from anesthesia, take me to where the rivers flow straight up
Digital painting of a woman in a metallic green dress being held tightly at the legs by a person in a glossy red gown. Behind the woman is a bright glow. Surrounding the pair are multiple people all looking away from them, and one of them seems to be raising a billowing piece of fabric above the entire scene. In his hand he holds a few tangled strings.
March 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Damned to love once
Digital painting of two women walking past each other without looking at one another. Behind them is a statue of a girl with closed eyes covered by sweeping veils of fabric. The scene is lit by the glow of a cold red sky seen through a broken window.
March 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Orpheus and Eurydice 🍷Commissioned cover for a Greek Mythology-themed TTRPG handbook!
Digital painting of a man and woman standing back to back under a dark stone archway. The man has his chin raised and the woman has her chin lowered. They both wear elaborate white clothing, and their gold jewelry is dotted with red gemstones. Above their heads is a pomegranate sliced in two, and a thin white snake winding its way through and around it.
January 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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This life is but a bridge—commission of @ Celestialfang’s characters Lumia & Sol 🕯️
Digital painting of two characters, both white haired and pale skinned. The man is partially embracing the woman, leaning into her side and curling his arm around her hips. His legs are metal prosthetics, and he is shirtless. The woman gazes over & away from him, and her hair billows like a fire. Fabric drapes like a tent over her raised hand. In the background are collapsing pillars, a multi-limbed bony wing, and ornate clockwork decorations. The piece is cast in a warm golden glow.
January 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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The other part of this commission was for this Yuan-Ti named Tlaloch—devoted worshipper of a sun god 🌅
Digital painting of a green-skinned humanoid. His flowing hair is a warm blue lit in soft pink, and coiling around his body is a large orange snake. He holds a ball of glowing light in his hands. Adorning his body are pieces of gold jewelry and fine-lined black tattoos.
January 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Commission of a DnD character named Leland 🌌 He’s a dark elf + cult leader, and he has crippling anxiety :]
Digital illustration of a dark elf with short white curly hair and glasses. He has a secondary set of closed eyes below his main eyes. One of his hands is jet black and dotted with a few glittering stars. Between his hands is a black hole that pulls in shimmering smoke from around him. A small black meteorite on a chain floats up from his neck.
January 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Spilled in ash, in dust, I did not leave you
Digital illustration of two people draped in fabric. In the front is a dark-skinned woman covered with gold jewelry. Her head is turned away. Behind her is a woman facing away from the viewer; she holds a halberd with a glowing blade. The background is an intense deep blue.
December 31, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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So many summer fields
Digital painting. Illustration of a dry grassy windswept field, the right half blackened and burnt with a fire sweeping the edge. Standing in the fire are two women, one a fair-skinned blonde with long hair blowing in the wind. She faces away from the viewer and wears a billowing black dress. Her right arm rests at her side, and her hand rests on the shoulder of a dark-skinned woman wearing a pale gold dress who’s sitting with her eyes closed. In the distance is a small white sun held in a pale, smoke-filled pink sky.
December 17, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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Teeth by stone made sharper
Digital painting of a shirtless tanned man facing the viewer. His arms are crossed in front of him, and each hand gently holds a hand of a fair-skinned person with gold jewelry on their wrists and fingers. The man has a tattoo of a winged insect across his chest, with eight phases of the moon above it, and an elaborate tattoo on each of his shoulders. He has medium length brown wavy hair, and one of his eyes is pure gold. Iridescent turquoise fabric hangs from above the man and drapes across his waist, obscuring his lower body. A large circular gold plate sits behind him.
December 12, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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That was nearly fifty years ago, and I have never seen indigo again
Digital illustration of a person looking at a painting on a wall as they walk past. The painting has a woman standing in a windswept grassy field under a deep indigo night sky. There are two soft orange moons above the scene.
December 6, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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Impermanence is not insignificance
Digital painting. Looking up at person with pale skin and glowing white hair. They are holding a thin wooden rod (an arrow, maybe) that seems to have pierced through their chest. They have a few gold rings, and a simple gold bracelet that hangs from their wrist. The sclera of their eyes is red, and their irises are gold. The background of the piece is a soft, cloudy turquoise.
December 2, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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End of a season, wind from the west
Digital painting viewing a person with long glowing white hair from below, a bloodied sword pierces their chest. They’re wearing elaborate armor and a wispy fabric trails around them.
November 30, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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Wrathion & Anduin—commissioned illustration 🌾
Digital painting. Two men are laying in a field of dry grass; one is holding the other. The man being held has dark skin, enormous dragon wings, and an elaborately decorated red and gold robe. The man holding him has a blue and gold tunic, blonde hair, and large glowing white feathered wings. They are clasping hands, and the first man looks up at the second.
November 27, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead
Digital painting. A person draped in fabric leans over and out from their gown & shawl bursts a herd of deer. Birds rush past. The background has the appearance of swirling oxidized metal.
November 26, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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Commissioned illustration—this one was for a historical fiction graphic novel (set in 1894 New Mexico) about a naturalist/expert wolf hunter tasked with killing a legendary wolf named Lobo.
Digital painting. In the foreground is a wolf facing away from the viewer and a couple of branches behind him. In the midground is a field of dry brush, and in the far background is a red mountain with a towering cloud behind it. The sky is lit with colors of turquoise, dull pink, and gold.
November 24, 2024 at 3:54 PM
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Hades & Persephone (commission!)
Digital painting of a man and woman sitting on marble steps. The woman sits above the man and rests her hand in his hair; her other arm is outstretched and she crushes a pomegranate in her hand. The man wears a complex neckpiece and a red piece of fabric that only partially covers him.
November 21, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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Still love the detail shots on this one
Close-up of a man pressing his face into another man’s shoulder. A look of fear & need in his eyes. His eyeliner is drawn into a pink & purple arrow. His hand is covered in blood. Close up of the side of a man’s tanned torso. A single drop of blood traces down his stomach/hips. He wears a green robe with leafy decorations & flourishes. There are pops of red highlights across this robe. Close-up of a background. A man’s hands are visible; he has gold nail polish. Behind him is a wash of green/blue/dark turquoise ink with fringes of dark pink-ish red. Gold glitter is scattered across this ink. Above is a stone platform, and above that is part of a relief depicting three figures being skewered by a spear. Two of them have both of their arms held up as if begging.
November 18, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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Already you will be covered in skin and sinews and you will live. Nothing is too late.
Digital painting of two men embracing. The one in the back has silver-blond hair and gold nail polish, and his eyes are closed. The one in the front has dark wavy hair, bloodshot red sclera, and gold irises. He’s pressing his face into the shoulder/chest of the first man. Blood pours down his hands and chest and arm. In the background above their heads is a relief depicting a spear stabbing through three figures, as well as two figures curled up in fear.
November 18, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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I woke last night to the sound of thunder
Digital painting of two redhead women. One of them faces us head-on, the other is seen in profile. The former holds a burning Polaroid and a crow with its wings spread is laid against her chest. Smoke flows out from the Polaroid and through their hair. The scene is lit from below.
November 17, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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I remember our kindness that day, when it no longer mattered
Digital painting. Two women staring at each other, golden light pouring over them. One of them has bandaged & bloody arms. Electric blue lapis lazuli background.
November 15, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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Quote repost your art that has stars 🌌🔭
Commissioned digital illustration. A kneeling woman bathed in golden light has her hand pressed to her mouth. Her fingers dissolve into golden mist. She wears a simple fabric gown and a thin necklace that floats in the air. Her hair is smoke-like, and floats around her. In the background are scattered constellations and swirls of gold & grey smoke.
November 14, 2024 at 6:47 PM
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Since you guys liked the sweets so much, here are some more 🫵
Square digitally painted image with grey-turquoise background. On the left is a cherry & vanilla ice cream cone with three scoops of ice cream. In the top middle of the image is a cherry or raspberry & vanilla cream pop with glossy highlights. In the bottom middle is a donut with a large dollop of white cream on top & chocolate crumbs sprinkled on it. In the top right is a golden pear. In the middle right are two raspberries. In the bottom right is some dark chocolate flan or truffle like thing, with gold leaf flakes on top.
November 13, 2024 at 4:28 PM