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New video for the ink and watercolour process behind my illustration of Oën, one of @anamardraak.bsky.social 's original characters #oc #characterdesign #comics #illustration youtu.be/v1cZllXHpTs?...

art for community + illustrating clothing Q&A

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Now onto the colouring 💜✨ #inklineart #illustration #comics #fantasyart

Digital ink line art for a fantasy illustration, featuring an elf lady sat by a fireplace with a cute baby dragon curled up in her lap. The cozy room is decorated with winter and yule decorations like pine, cinnamon, and dried oranges.

Working on something a little more complex than usual! 👀 #oc #illustration #fantasy #characterdesign

A crop of a much larger fantasy illustration that will feature the elf lady, a baby dragon, and a warm winter fireplace. The picture here features the character, wearing a dress decorated with teardrop pearls to match her accessories.

Get out your art notebook, it's colour theory time! #artist #painting youtu.be/1UoQ0lAE0fs?...

Mixing blue WITHOUT blue? Intermediate colour theory!

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️@littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Coming tomorrow 👀 #colortheory #watercolor #painting

A thumbnail for a video about intermediate colour theory, covering how to mix blue without primary blues. The video will cover colour identity, simultaneous contrast, and colour gamut masking. The thumbnail picture features the colour mixing chart and some of the blues mixed in the video.

A Drop In The Ocean

two figures embrace as the soul of a bird, flying over a field of blue flowers above a pond. blue pencil sketch

Clothing practice in the sketchbook. After doing the Oën illustration recently I wanted to draw more baggy clothes. So many folds 👖 #sketchbook #artist #illustration #pencildrawing

A page in my sketchbook with a pencil drawing of baggy trousers, drawn in 2B pencil using the 0.7 mm mechanical pencil resting on the sketchbook to the right.

A close up of another clothing sketch drawn in pencil, focusing on the folds and shapes.

Vanessa Gillings @vanessagillings.bsky.social · 9mo ago

When I was ill I caught up on my (massive) backlog of TV shows, which included Tale of the Nine Tailed. Lee Yeon ended up infiltrating my sketchbook as a result 🦊 #taleoftheninetailed #kdrama #sketchbook #artist #pencilsketch

A pencil drawing in my sketchbook that I sketched of the fictional character Lee Yeon after watching the K-drama "Tale of the Nine Tailed".

❄️🦋 #kidlitart #illustration #watercolor #gouache

calm gouache painting of a girl in a white dress standing in a fantastical frozen pond holding a butterfly net while her other hand reaches out for a butterfly

So much has happened in 2025 looking back. I started an art blog, pushed myself to join communities and network, and ended up taking part in a bunch of art collabs and projects as a result! Thank you to everyone I've met and connected with along the way 💜✨ #artvsartist #artvsartist2025

A grid of 9 images for the annual "art vs artist" challenge. I've compiled together some of my sketches and illustrations I created in 2025 of characters, fantasy creatures, and animals.

Illustrated a friend's oc since she's going through a rough time. This is Oën, he's a conjurer on a quest looking for his sister. I traditionally inked and painted him with watercolours. #oc #art #illustration #fantasy #watercolor

A traditional ink and watercolour fantasy illustration of Anaïs' original character Oën. He's an elf conjurer, who wears bright jewel-tone loose clothing and uses a moss covered staff.

Emily Hare @emilyhare.com · 9mo ago

End of the year palette tour? 👀

A photo of my main watercolour palette sat on top of a colour mixing chart showing the pigment mixes.

'The Brood' - another dragon piece from this year. Also available in my shop with a layaway payment (if desired) over 3 months. Any big pieces like this I would wait to send in January anyway so as not to get lost in the melee of Xmas shipping! www.emilyhare.co.uk #dragon #art #originalart

a blue dragon prepares to land on its nest which has two eager dragonlings waiting for it. In the background are pink misty mountains.

Currently working on a secret illustration that I can't share yet... but I'm filming it for when I can!

Back to the dark months #sketching #cuppa

My desk with my open sketchbook and a cup of tea. On the sketchbook is a blue ballpoint pen, which I used to draw the sketches of a hand and portrait on the open page.

A recent commission from a lovely friend ✨🐦‍⬛✨ #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #dnd #dungeonsanddragons

An original digital illustration that I painted by hand because humans have those to do things with. The fantasy illustration features a cute magical bird wearing a witch hat adorned with a star and moon, and is perched on roleplaying dice.

Laura Bifano @bifanoland.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Do you like sketching at museums/art galleries? Here's an art journal entry of my sketching trip at the Ruskin Collection a few weeks ago. www.daenafae.com/blog/sketchi... #artjournal #artist #sketching

Connecting with artists through time by sketching at museums — Daenafae

Sketching supplies in hand, I revisited an art exhibit I visited earlier in the year. The Ruskin Collection rotates out occasionally, and this time the exhibit was themed around colour. Watercolour pi...

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A little peel for your evening ❤️

Breaking out my painting sketchbook for this one! youtu.be/Z81hFtpnidk?... #watercolor #landscape #painting

Tackling the limited palette & ugly stage blues #onlyTHREEpigments

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New blog post about a visit to Sheffield Botanical Gardens to help prep for a dryad illustration series 🌱 www.daenafae.com/blog/absorbi... #artist #creative #dryad

Absorbing Autumnal Inspiration — Daenafae

Being an artist involves so much more than time spent glued to the drawing board. Recently I went on a walk through Sheffield Botanical Gardens to help inspire my upcoming dryad illustration series.

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Bob Eggleton @bobeggleton.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Mixing paint and deciding if I can live in a world without granulation. Could you? youtu.be/ooMDY9ssgdc?... #watercolor #pigments #paint #limitedpalette

Only 3 watercolour pigments forever?! A desert-island art challenge #onlyTHREEpigments

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“All in a Night’s Work”. Oils on canvas. 15 x 30. A sketch I did years ago finally sees completed work.

The art community tag video will be live tonight! I have a little challenge for us all, and you get to see me struggle with it myself first 🥲

Museum sketching with the crystal exhibit. Of course I picked a hard one for myself and ended up frying my brain halfway through! #sketchbook #amethyst

My sketchbook while I was at the museum gallery. You can see some of the crystals and stones displayed behind the glass in the background. On the page in my sketchbook is a pencil drawing of an amethyst crystal slice.

Wandered around a botanical garden to fuel up on inspiration for a dryad illustration series. Came across this wonder of a tree. #botanicalgarden #creativeinspiration #artist

A photograph of a beautiful tree in the Sheffield Botanical gardens.

Natee (they/them)@himmapaan.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Filming for the next video. I think this is gonna be a favourite layout for colour mixing for me now. #watercolor #painting

A close up of my watercolour sketchbook, showing two circles of paint mixes. Each circle contains two pigments in each to produce a secondary colour. The top circle features green mixes, and the bottom circle purple mixes.

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Rough thumbnail sketch next to a work in progress: a light pencil sketch of a hen facing a small bird on a low, leafless shrub. Both pieces are very small; the linework of the work in progress is very fine and delicate.

Vanessa Gillings @vanessagillings.bsky.social · 11mo ago

My twelfth piece for my solo show at @gallerynucleus.bsky.social! #kidlitart #illustration #watercolor #watercolour #gouache #originalpainting #fantasyart #fantasyillustration

watercolor and gouache painting of a girl in a feather cloak floating midair above a standing stone as a crow and a storm come to greet her

Melissa Sue Stanley : Dragon Con Art Show 🌿✨🍄@melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 11mo ago

"Rest a Spell" 🌙 🌿 ✨ Taking the night off to wind down ~ sitting with my knitting and chamomile tea and dorky monster movies on the tv. There's so much to do, but don't forget to take wee breaks when you can. 💖 (also one of the mini prints available only through my kickstarter - link in bio!)

graphite drawing with a white border and small grey text underneath. The drawing is of a sleepy looking small chicken-legged Baba Yaga hut with an eyeball near the peak of its roof. It's standing in some grasses and looks a little bedraggled. The text underneath says "Melissa Sue Stanley" (me) and "Rest a Spell"