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Greg Jones Jr.

@gregjonesart.bsky.social

Let’s get the year started with some creature doodles!

#sketchbook #sketchdump #artistsofblacksky #blerd #blerdsky #blacksky #blackskyart

January 2, 2026 at 9:16 PM

Greg Jones Jr.

@gregjonesart.bsky.social

Last portrait of 2025! Happy New Year!!

#artistsofblacksky #blerd #blerdsky #blacksky #blackskyart

January 1, 2026 at 1:07 AM

Greg Jones Jr.

@gregjonesart.bsky.social

Chopper Jackson Sticker!

I’ll have these and more for sale at Geeky Teas tomorrow for their Last Minute Gift Holiday Craft Faire! If you’re in the Burbank area fee free to drop by!

#artistsofblacksky #blerdsky #tonytonychopper #blackskyart #anime #onepiece #blackanimesky #otakunoir #blacksky

December 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM

Greg Jones Jr.

@gregjonesart.bsky.social

Murasamemon!

One of my favorite characters from #DigimonBeatBreak

#digimon #fanart #anime #blerdsky #blackanimesky #otakunoir #blacksky #blerd #blackskyart #artistsofblacksky #blerd

December 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM

Black Skhaiku ✨🖤

@blackskhaiku.blacksky.app

Black Skhaiku

it is not we who
react to them but they who
must react to us

#blackskyart #creatorsofblacksky
#indigisky #runyourrace

December 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM

I J F Y B I S G F F

@anarchious.bsky.social

Art vs Artist 2025
#art #blackartists
#blackskyart #drawingshileblack #oc

December 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM

Banga

@bangaanan.bsky.social

A kinky, queer friend was turned into a kinky queer fairy for a short story.
#Art #DigitalArt #VectorArt #Queer #Fairy #Kinky #BlackArt #BlackArtist #BlackSkyArt #UBivTnomal

December 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM

Tia

@aggroazteca.itch.io

#blackskyart #daily #pixel #monster
Eyes on you

December 6, 2025 at 2:04 AM

Banga

@bangaanan.bsky.social

Traditional drawing (4H - H) that was digitally color rendered using vectors
#Comics #ComicArt #Drawing #Sketches #DigitalArt #VectorArt #FantasyArt #BlackArt #BlackArtist #BlackSkyArt #AffinityDesigner #SurfaceBook3 #PhillyArt #UBivtnomal

Sketchbook drawing created using 4H - H pencils that was later color rendered using Affinity Designer on a SurfaceBook 3.

December 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM

Banga

@bangaanan.bsky.social

The Puppet - Traditionally drawn (Sketchbook 4H-2B), digitally color rendered
#Drawing #Sketches #Art #DigitalArt #ArtFlow #WacomBamboo #Nexus7 #Comics #ComicArt #FantasyArt #BlackArt #BlackArtist #BlackSkyArt #PhillyArt #UBivTnomal

Fallen hero in chains after praying to the wrong god after being granted the power he sought. Drawing from an old sketchbook that was digitally color rendered using Artflow on a Google Nexus 7 (2013 version) with a Wacom Bamboo stylus.

December 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM

Sylvia Wynter’s boo

@dre-withwithout.blacksky.app

Read my poetry, thanks 🤲🏽 📿

Here’s the link 🔗:
www.patreon.com/posts/144783...

“Leagues can’t leverage, no buoyancy, sinking, the yearning submerging any feelings anew.

I’m your only stroke, unfiltered, the taste so strong an indefinite chew...”

#blackskypoetry
#blackskyart

December 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM

Sylvia Wynter’s boo

@dre-withwithout.blacksky.app

Read my poetry, thanks 🤲🏽:

Click this link 🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/144778...

”I see a picture, I see that picture and those pictures. So, much I didn’t do, could have filled the frame for both of you...”

#blackskyart
#blackskypoetry

December 1, 2025 at 5:37 AM

Banga

@bangaanan.bsky.social

Another in a series of sample designs for a unfinished project.
#Tarot #Art #DigitalArt #Illustration #BlackWomen #BlackArt #BlackArtist #BlackSky #BlackSkyArt #UBivTnomal

December 1, 2025 at 5:19 AM

Fine [ass] Artist

@tanaebriana.bsky.social

progress so far on my portrait of my beautiful friend 🥰🩷 #blackskyart

7 hrs worth of digital oil painting progress in Procreate of a portrait of singer, Ballad. Portrait shows his face as he stares into the camera while wearing a pink Kirby beanie, and is surrounded by unfinished pink cherry blossom flowers.

2 hrs worth of digital oil painting progress in Procreate of a portrait of singer, Ballad. Portrait shows his face as he stares into the camera while wearing a pink Kirby beanie, and is surrounded by unfinished pink cherry blossom flowers.

1 hr worth of digital oil painting progress in Procreate of a portrait of singer, Ballad. Portrait shows his face as he stares into the camera while wearing a pink Kirby beanie, and is surrounded by unfinished pink cherry blossom flowers.

December 1, 2025 at 3:16 AM

Xayd💛

@xaydlove.bsky.social

Jellies is a small watercolor & colored pencil study on lion's mane jellyfish. They're such a pretty, luminous red-orange color, I HAD to paint them. Might do it again in acrylic some day.

#meetmybabies #blackskyart #artsky #artforsale

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jellies - Xayd Love's Ko-fi Shop

watercolor, colored pencil, ink 3 1/2 in circular painting on 4 1/8 in square paper yellow, orange, red, blue, purple based off the lion's mane jellyf...

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November 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM

Xayd💛

@xaydlove.bsky.social

lollipop looks like its namesake. I wanna bite it. I imagine it'd taste like tutti-frutti lemonade. 🤤
A lotta work went into this baby. They're a lil iridescent too.

#meetmybabies #blackskyart #artsky #artforsale

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