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Watercolor painter, art and FFXIV enjoyer. GenAI users DNI.Reposts trad art. I like making things myself! spiffyworks.carrd.co
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Nu Metal (hunter green + sunflower)

Meloncholy Moonlight Oil on 4.5x10in wooden gothic window

Slowly getting used to capcut... plus social media ?? stuff?? I just wanna make art, man. I guess shortform videos are a kind of art in themselves. ♥ Anyway enjoy this slightly cringe attempt to use basic effects 8D

Painting will be happening, but mostly, we do be chilling and chatting. So come hang out, say hi, laugh at my jokes, etc etc  https://f.mtr.cool/sfwnlmfjlu

almost time for bed

Some sketches I’ve been sitting on that I’m still pretty happy with. Red pencil lead is A++++ 😤👍

At last ! The teasing is finally over, here is the whole illustration ! The original drawing will be available on May 2 for 72 hours, along with two different art prints (see link in Bio). #traditional #drawing #pencil #paper #fantasy

Super secret Bluesky exclusive BOGO sale! Use code: SurpriseBluesky at checkout to buy one and get one free on all TrueRef references. The BOGO sale ends the 30th! Don't tell Twits. Only at trueref.io 🤍

old #sketchbook pile ✏️

Knight On Blue, acrylic on canvas board also what's up i'm painting now, like for real with brush and paint for the first time in 10 years!!!!! yippieeee

Sharing another small seascape painting for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow theme #Dream Tisha Mark ©2025, To Dream by the Sea No. 2502, oil on Ampersand Gessobord, 5"x5" Original is available with maple frame: tishamark.com/shop #art #painting #bsnm #ArtShop #ArtYear

Zorn palette study - in gouache, so everything look's quite soft and muted. #art

scribble scribble idk if this paper is the best thing for ballpoints, a true struggle session

Mini dragon painting 🐉 2.5x3.5 inches (Trading card sized). Coffee stained watercolor paper, India ink, white ink, watercolor and white gel pen This and others available here: www.kamakru.com/original-art (Shop closes April 11th) #dragons #painting #fantasyart #ink

some drink and draw sketches lately!

#aprilcolors2025 day 1 — manifesting gators. :’>

more ballpoint pen drawing practice!

I guess Silksong is coming out this year! This is one of my older and very infrequent fan art pieces 😁 #Silksong #Hollowknight

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Couple of live-demos for my last class yesterday. A fun little exercise where we take a photo ref and tweak the color palette. It was such a fun and talented group of students, I will miss painting with them every Saturday 😭

I really like these covers for the current DuckTales comic by Ivan Bigarella. Such a cool style.

When a friend loses their pet I try to send a little watercolor portrait to help with their grief. There's been a lot of lost pets lately and I'm sadly behind. #watercolor #petportait #art #pup #dogportait #swwtgirl #painting #grief #portrait #lovedogs #dogsky #dogart #artsky

Inking Tips 1/ I've been putting together some inking tips for my students and thought I'd share some of them here. Hopefully some of you will find these useful.

Columbo and Dog. 🕵‍♂️🐾✒️ #ink #art #drawing

Since we are talking ghibli right now, here are some handmade ghibli styled LotR backgrounds I made a few years ago.

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

hear hear

Jaguar riso, printed by my lovely friends at @risographstudio.bsky.social . Will be available at the Reed Zine Symposium this weekend!

I've shared this before and I'll share it again--by the great Russ Heath...with colors and lettering by the equally great Darwyn Cooke....also--SCREW Lichtenstein!!

It’s finished! I’ve finally completed my Divine Series (that I started over a year ago!). I have some closeups on my Patreon if you want to see a little more detail. — #watercolor #illustration #art #watercolour #aquarell #水彩 #イラスト #traditionalart

Work in progress today.

Behold the cover of my new sketchbook!! (I was left unsupervised around new acrylic markers)

Me seeing old ink work I did: how the fuck did I do that? I like it??

Stories for the Trans Rights Readathon bundle will open Monday March 17th on Itch.io. There are two tiers. Tier 1 for $20 will get you 46 works. Tier 2 for an additional $10 will get you the total 73 works! #transrightsreadathon #transdayofvisibility #transauthors itch.io/b/2914/stori...