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Sam Connor

@artbysconnor.bsky.social

Character And Costume Designer NYC > LA Commissions OPEN

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Claire Hummel @shoomlah.bsky.social · 2d ago

Plus a couple pieces of DRAMATIC MYST ART which, let's be honest, was the whole reason I joined @cyan.com in the first place. Gotta draw me some spooky Linking Books:

Concept art of Guildmaster Damreus for Project Anglerfish, in the shadows but for his arm outstretched over an open Linking Book on the table in front of you.

Painting of a hand wielding a pen like a dagger, ink dripping off the end like blood.

🌿barayajis (*•̀ᴗ•́*)و🌿@ziggyzagz.bsky.social · yesterday

Comms!! 🐺: @/clockworkcanine 🖤❤️: @/whirligigsaw 🚬🔥: @/ENVYJAW #art #zigzart

Suzanne ✨🌑@tendermiasma.com · 4d ago

The TOS being so strict that they control you offsite is the problem; sites like Patreon and Kofi have offsite clauses too. The social criminalization of the suggestion that somewhere you might be doing nsfw is a problem. It's branding a person as obscene and we need consumers to stand up for us

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

Eldstunga @eldstunga.bsky.social · 2d ago

Beach episode Temerity. Thought it worked better w some background.

Laureliere 🌿 Commissions on VGen @laureliere.bsky.social · 2d ago

Wildfire Tiefling Mini's, available on Ko-Fi for 30 USD each! [ 1🔥2🔥3🔥4 ] #artistshop #art

A set of Tiefling adoptables with white and red color scheme.

Sam Connor @artbysconnor.bsky.social · 4d ago

Akai, the Divination Wizard . During a break, my DnD group played a module called Ember - my character was a divination wizard with a focus on telling the future using the moons and stars. She’s a huge nerd and very curious, but often naive. . #characterdesign #sketchbook #dnd #wizard

A series of loose, colored-in sketches on a grey background. From left to right and top to bottom:

Left: A full-body sketch of a grey-skinned girl with large pointed ears, dressed in deep blues and greys. Her skin has swirling light blue and light purple markings that sweep up the left side of her face and down her arms. She has a pair of gold glasses and dark blue hair that sweeps across her face in a large curled bang, and the rest of her hair is pulled into a bun under a semi-sheer dark blue veil. She wears a blue overdress on top of a pair of puffy grey pants and a sheer dark blue top with big sleeves. On top, she has a thick belt and a gold chain that attaches her armillary sphere spell focus to her waist, as well as an asymmetrical vest covering her left shoulder and a pair of brown and dark blue travelling boots. She carries a spellbook in her left hand.

Center: A half body shot of the girl in the same outfit. The girl is holding up her spell book excitedly, with her ears pointing straight up and her dark-sclera light blue eyes shaped like stars. Her gold headpiece and earrings are more prominent in this drawing.

Top Right: A detail shot of a gold armillary sphere with a dark blue round gemstone in the center, encassed in layers of golden bands. It has a chain attached to the top.

Bottom Right: The girl looking focused, with her spell book open in front of her and a pencil hanging out of her mouth. She is holding her armillary sphere in her right hand, and there are pale blue lines and magical markings swirling around it as she makes her notes.

Sam Connor @artbysconnor.bsky.social · 7d ago

Fursona Design and Ref Sheet Commission . The brief for this was so unique and fun! The client wanted a bug-inspired fursona based on the Japanese Emperor Caterpillar and Zebra Isopods, and inspired by the aesthetics of frutiger aero. . #characterdesign #fursona #commission #refsheet

Two full body views of a bug-inspired fursona standing on a Frutiger Aero style green and blue background. The color swatches around him are shaped like bubbly stars with different colors and patterns inside them.

The figure on the left is a lime green fursona with pale yellow belly trimmed in yellow, a thick tail, and four arms. His joints are segmented like an exoskeleton, and his legs are digitigrade and split into two segmented toes. His tail is the lower body of a cetrpillar with a pale yellow underbelly featuring vestigial legs and spikes down the back and a forked end that are tipped in dark green. He has a pair of tall antler-like horns, big faceted dark eyes, pale yellow mandibles, and green 'whiskers' on the sides of his face. His markings consist of swirling vine-like green designs that go underneath his chest, down his body, and accent along his arms, as well as pale yellow stars with yellow trim scattered around his body, including on his left eye. He has a tuft of line green hair that has green and yellow streaks in it.

The figure on the right is the same design but wearing a frutiger aero-inspired outfit. He has a pair of shiny orange and yellow wired headphones, a short sleeved t-shirt with a split cloud pattern and solid green design over a cream long sleeve undershirt, an isopod-patterned black and white backpack, and a pair of blue jeans with a star pattern at the crotch. His other accessories include a number of kandi bracelets and necklaces, and an oversized kandi belt that says 'AERO', as well as transparent blue leg warmers with fish swimming inside.

Shiro Sirius @shirosiri.us · last wk.

I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them

"A physical book is a delivery mechanism for information," it continues.
"Once that information has been extracted and encoded into an Al model, the delivery mechanism has served its purpose. What remains is paper, ink, and binding material. The book is not destroyed. Its value has migrated.
The paper returns to the material cycle; the knowledge enters the intellectual one."

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

anniris ❀@anniris.bsky.social · 7d ago

Hiii it’s my birthday today 🥹❤️

James Kusardi @jsolkusardi.bsky.social · last wk.

artfight for @nisnow.art !! another environment piece, really fun lighting practice :)

paul reinwand @paulreinwand.bsky.social · last wk.

Animation folks that are looking for work currently, or in the next few weeks, I have a lead on an Adult Animation/Action/Superhero show staffing up soon: BG Layout - mid level Blender knowledge needed Prop 2d FX Char Design Feel free to drop portfolio links below, and I will send them along to AD

Alex Plante 🐀👑@aplante.com · last wk.

okay gotta call it a day. come back with fresh eyes tomorrow!!

more detail on the feathers. it’s looking good so far!

Julia Sena 🌻@oxiente.com · last wk.

#artfight | Fifth attack: Lachan for @natchyart.bsky.social

zero @zerofinite.bsky.social · last wk.

For my favorite orange subuwu lover @moonmon #artfight #artfight2026 #teammystery #sharemyattack2026

🌺 Giulia Valentini | Artbook PDF on KoFi!!@kurocyou.bsky.social · last wk.

Long time no Fley 🌸 [ #sketch #OCSky #dndart #art #dndoc #KuroArt ]

🍊 tsu @tsurudraws.art · last wk.

🍊HOW TO TIP ARTISTS ON #VGEN (share for visibility!) 🌱Vgen has a built in tipping, or "boosting" system. The name isn't the most intuitive, but that's a different issue. ✨When clients boost, they can add a cute sparkle around their comm in the artist's portfolio! (+)

LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · last wk.

It's impossible to scream at artists on the internet loud enough to make them answer accurately if a huge project involved AI or not You're not Batman. Most of them are just individuals doing their jobs. Fuck AI, but don't let it rob you of your humanity towards human artists.

Stephan Krosecz@stephank.bsky.social · last wk.

Gonna be real: it's deeply shitty to aggressively demand that artists who worked on a large project guarantee to you that nobody who touched the project used AI. They can't know that and they're not responsible for that. They can only know things within the scope of their own job.

Sam Connor @artbysconnor.bsky.social · last wk.

Fringe Buggy - The Next Generation . Part 3/3 of turning Fringe Buggy buggies into people, wrapping up the five most recent buggies to join the Fringe fleet! These young newcomers are eager to prove themselves and show what they’re made of . #characterdesign #sketchbook #digitalart #cmubuggy #frbrf

Five figures on a grey background, each with a colorful design and personality. From left to right and top to bottom:

Bermuda: A young Latina woman with sun-tanned skin with gold freckles, heavy shimmering blue makeup and lashes on her dark blue eyes, and a pouty open-mouthed expression. She's posing with her hand under her chin to show off her long sparkly blue nails, and her curly navy hair has teal and ice blue streaks and is clipped in the back by a blue hibiscus flower. Her skating jacket is dark blue with forked teal and icy blue lines down the arms.

Blackbird: A young Asian man with fair skin, red eyes with eyeliner, a gold hoop earring, and thick black brows. He's biting his lip and mewing at the camera. His hair is worn in a half-braided bun with an undercut, and is black with a silver streak down the center and red and gold streaks in his braid, as well as three red strand bangs that resemble a wing. His skating jacket is black with red, gold, and silver details.

Burnout: A young White woman looks determined at the camera, fist ready. He has purple eyes, a wide smile, and pale blonde hair with hot pink and cyan chunks pulled into a ponytail with her bangs swept to the right. Her skating jacket is sleeveless and purple with pink and blue flames, and she has fingerless arm guards on.

Beetle: A young Arab woman with dark tan skin, green eyes hidden behind tinted green and gold glasses, and long straight green hair with gold and white streaks, two of which stick up like antennas. Her skating jacket is green, with a white neck and shoulders trimmed in gold and matching triangle on her chest.

Brimstone: A young Black woman with dark skin, orange eyes, numerous yellow piercings, and her tongue sticking out in a mischievous expression. Her black hair is worn in two loc ponytails that fade into an orange to yellow gradient and have yellow spiked bands. Her skating jacket is short sleeved and has a yellow to orange gradient with a black crackled pattern.

Same description as prior image, but there is no text above each figure identifying them by name.

Sam Connor @artbysconnor.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fringe Buggy - The New Kids . Part 2/3 of turning @fringebuggy buggies into people, this time with the fleet I used to drive in the late 2010s into 2020. Shout out to my personal buggy Blind Faith in the upper right! . #characterdesign #sketchbook #digitalart #cmubuggy #frbrf

Five figures on a grey background, each with a colorful design and personality. From left to right and top to bottom:

Boson: A young Indian man with brown skin, round light blue eyes, a straight nose, and wide smile, posing excitedly holding a peace sign behind the center figures head. His dark red hair is short and swept to the back, with streaks of light blue in the center and coming from either temple. His skating jacket is dark red with light blue streaks running down the arms.

Blind Faith: A young Indian woman with dark skin, half-lidded silver eyes, and a pointed nose. Her dark purple hair is cropped short, with the bangs sweeping to hide her right eye, and it has light purple, white, and silver streaks throughout. Her skating jacket is dark purple, with the left shoulder and sleeve being light purple and framed by a white streak.

Blueshift: A young Asian woman winks at the camera, holding her hand in a finger heart. She has light skin, deep blue eyes with matching graphic eyeliner, and blue lipstick. Her hair is white and pulled into a short ponytail, with a blue streak running from her bangs through the ponytail. Her skating jacket is cropped with long sleeves, and is white with thin blue decorative lines. Her nails are white with blue linear designs, and she has silver wavelength earrings.

Baltic: A young White woman with medium-fair skin, downturned blue eyes, and a long face. Her wavy hair is light blue fading to darker blue at the tips, with seafoam streaks throughout, and has pieces in small braids and a wavy curl in front of her face. Her skating jacket is sleeveless and is seafoam, with a blue neckline and wave patterns.

Bumper: A young White person with fair skin, green eyes, and sharp androgynous features looking energetic. They have orange-red shoulder length hair with green streaks in the bangs, and wear green tinted goggles. Their racing jacket is black with green shoulders, and is covered in logos and designs.

Sam Connor @artbysconnor.bsky.social · 2w ago

Loot drop after defeating me: - Assorted safety pins (randomized #) - Assorted medication bottles (unique effects) - 1.25 Reading glasses (+focus) - +1 Greatsword - Ginger chew candy (-nausea ) - Peppermint teabag (-headache) - Endless post-it pad - Gunpla Model Kit (unopened) - Metal Band T-Shirt

OCTIS 🥺@octisquad.bsky.social · 2w ago

Loot drop after defeating me: - schnauzer minion - bichon minion - black & white cat minion (Adopt my furbabies) - a pot of succulent (Adopt my plant) - sunfish accessory - lemon ginger cough drops x 50 - eye drop - hand lotion - scrunchies (hair accessory)

✨diyah✨ team mystery @diyahart.bsky.social · 3w ago

artfight attack for at @hylascinth.bsky.social!! ✨☁️ #ocs #ocsky #ocart #art

Brad @bradwhipple.bsky.social · 2w ago

mass layoffs at Pixar despite Toy Story 5 about to cross $1 billion at the box office. there is simply no amount of money that will make corporations happy enough to not upend people’s lives.

Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers

Pixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster "Toy Story 5," was hit particularly hard in a wave of corporatewide layoffs at Disney.

variety.com

Ted (& technically Ro)@brandtandstein.com · 2w ago

What really makes me mad is there is so much creativity in having limitations and finding ways to work within and around them. Not having the money or time to do the thing you envisioned, and finding the novel shortcuts, the weird jams that make up *your fucking style*

Dr Artyom Trakhanov@vor-bokor.bsky.social · 2w ago

On every possible level of creative work these fucking piss-brained charlatans will find some kind of "friction" standing in the way of their genius ideas. Can't draw for shit? Friction Needing to do research? Friction Can't think of a thing to actually write? Believe it or not - also friction

Sam Connor @artbysconnor.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Old Guard . Part 1/3 of turning CMU's Fringe Buggy buggies into people, starting with the crew of classics from the early 2010s. . You can see these five in the back of this post! www.instagram.com/p/BhwgNm3FZTW/ . #characterdesign #digitalart #sketchbook #cmu #frbrf

Five figures on a grey background, each with a colorful design and personality. From left to right and top to bottom:

Balius: A young Black man with dark skin, a long nose, and round green eyes. He's waving at the camera and has an excited, friendly expression. His hair is cut into an afro fade with three white racing stripes running down the middle of his hair, and has has a narrow white goatee. He is wearing a dark green high-neck skating jacket with white racing stripes running down each shoulder.

X1: A young Asian man with fair skin, pierced ears, and eyes hidden by a fringe of charcoal grey hair with dusty red and blue streaks. He has a round face and looks neutral, and is wearing a dark black beanie with three bright green pins on the side. His skating jacket is charcoal black with geometric dusty red and blue racing stripes running down the arms.

Beacon: A young Black woman with warm skin and freckles, orange eyes, and orange-toned lipstick. Her white hair is pulled into two low afro puffs with orange tips and side streaks, and she looks friendly and kind. Her skating jacket is white with orange color blocked sleeves and sweeping lines going from the neck down the sides of the chest.

Bissa: A young darker-skinned Persian woman with half-lidded silver eyes, hooked nose, and a tired expression. Her hair is grey with dusty forest green and blue streaks, and it's worn in a half-up half-down braid with loose bangs falling over the face. Her skating jacket is grey with forest green and navy swooping details going arcoss the shoulder and neck down the front of her chest.

Bolt: A young White man with fair olive skin and gold eyes. He has a sharp jawline, and a smug, showy expression, leaning his chin on his hands and winking at the camera. His hair is gold-to-orange with two black streaks, worn tied into a ponytail with black strands in front of his face. His skating jacket is yellow with three black swooshes from the left shoulder down the chest and sleeves.

Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · 2w ago

Using Ai as a “reference” sucks because it’s a dead end to learning and curiosity. There are more artists and writers whose work I can be inspired by and I can always dig deeper into them to learn more, but Ai flattens it to the result with no way to find out what parts were stolen from who.

💀 Zambiie @zambiie.bsky.social · 2w ago

Comm for @/sapphythegreat !! #SapphyART

bay 🌙@baydews.com · 2w ago

Isilaith Sunflare / outfit & hair refs. [ #worldofwarcraft #commission #art ]

artwork of an obsidian dragon in the visage of an elf. he has long black hair, depicted loose or gathered together and secured with a golden clip, and he wears black, brown and golden armour, and wields cosmic void.

artwork of an obsidian dragon in the visage of an elf. he has long black hair showing signs of void corruption, depicted loose or gathered together and secured with a golden clip, and he wears black, brown and golden armour, and wields cosmic void.

Narney @narney.bsky.social · 3w ago

Attack on @whiteraven90.bsky.social ! Welcome into artfight! ♥

Digital art of an illustration of a woman with colorful hair and a gentle smile. She is wearing a dark red dress with cyan accents and feahters are coming out of her back.

🍊 tsu @tsurudraws.art · 4w ago

🌱 #VgenComm skeb outfit for @boxfullofbees1.bsky.social 🍊 thank you again for your tsupport!

mart • commissions open @martapreliy.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hey, it's #portfolioday again 🎉 I'm Mart, a freelance illustrator. I love creating vibrant and detailed illustrations! If you need a book or comic cover, a poster, or anything else, feel free to reach out! 🖼️: www.mart-lett.com 💌: hello@mart-lett.com 🔗: linktr.ee/martapreliy