Noll

@nollthere.bsky.social

Artist of wildlife, fantasy, and fears | 🏳️‍🌈 | Writer | Making stuff for games https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/nollgriffin

how many times will 1 man draw the same OC??? I'm trying to experiment with other colour schemes but alas, I'm still blue and orange maxxing in my heart </3

The “best” thing about genAI (the quotes are doing heavy work here) is that it’s really lowered the bar on getting into hand-made art. Literally anything you make is better than ai. There’s never been a better time to throw away your fear and start learning that craft you’ve always wanted to learn.

#AuGhost Day 4: Forest I got too ambitious and will not finish my illustration for today in time, so have an old illustration I made of a ghost in the forest Gouache 😈🎨🦇 #AuGhost26

Gouache illustration of a misty forest scene with a full moon above and a little ghost floating between the trees
⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie)@stinasdemons.com · 2d ago

#AuGhost Day 3: Wispy Gouache 😈🎨🦇 #AuGhost26 2.5" x 3.5" ACEO: $13/ea + $6 S/H If you would like to claim/reserve this ghost in advance of me loading them onto my site at the beginning of Sept, you can do that by replying here. First come, first serve. (Shipping is + $1/ea for any addt'l ghosts)

Here's the prompt list for my unofficial #AuGhost #AuGhost26 🎨👻 Tagging all those who expressed interest, but anyone can feel free to join (and share): @nollthere.bsky.social @renandpen.bsky.social @elementalamber.bsky.social @onesingleheck.bsky.social @verati404.bsky.social @ericklw.bsky.social

Unofficial prompt list for AuGhost 2026
⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie)@stinasdemons.com · 4d ago

🎨👻 I will be pulling from the 5 yrs of past #AuGhost lists I found online (some official, some just ones people made) & making a prompt list from them If anyone wants a tag once I post it, reply here Since I haven't made it yet, and today is the first day Day #1 prompt will be: ANY & ALL GHOSTS

The 12yo is interested in #Smaugust, a month of drawing dragons, named in honour of Smaug, from The Hobbit. He couldn’t find a prompt list which really inspired him so he made his own. I am sharing it here in (complete with his illustration!) case you want to play along.

My son’s pencil drawing shows a large winged dragon climbing a rock wall next a tiny dragon. There is a typed list of 31 prompts and title “Smaugust 2026”. 

The prompts are:
1. Archaic 
2. Earth 
3. Quagmire 
4. Lift
5. Tendril
6. Ethereal
7. Ring
8. Fragile
9. Water
10. Shrine
11. Amalgam
12. Desert
13. Trance
14. Crypt
15. Fell
16. Air
17. Abiotic
18. Marrow
19. Herald
20. Mycelium 
21. Catalyst
22. Origin 
23. Fire
24. Alien 
25. Elixir 
26. Charm
27. Asymmetric
28. Torrential 
29. Infestation 
30. Quintessence
31. Eldritch

Artists! I'm the DPI fairy here to tell you that DPI only matters if you are A: defining your canvas in physical dimensions, or B: printing. For A, your pixel resolution is the DPI number multiplied by the dimensions. A square 12 inch image at 300 DPI will have a resolution of 3600px by 3600px.

I feel so excited and valued any time I see someone in a mask while watching streams and videos of public spaces or big events. YOU could be the cause of such feelings of joy, safety, and inclusion. YOU could be the reason I feel like I matter in society. Please, wear a mask if at all able to.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 164001: If you want to beat AI, write using your human voice, from your human perspective. Write about feelings; sensations; dreams. Be you, in all your uniqueness. AI is generic; bland; acceptable. Dare to be different; subversive; real. That's how we stay human.

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I've had a long-time friend visiting my city and I'm really happy that I've gotten to hang out with not just one but two of my most beloved friends I've made online this year. Here's some new #art though.

Digital art of a disembodied pink hand. One finger has a tiny bird skull on the tip, one a green felt finger puppet of a bird, and one has a green bird perching on it. Between the thumb and the palm, a cracked egg and some leaves and grass sit.

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I've had a long-time friend visiting my city and I'm really happy that I've gotten to hang out with not just one but two of my most beloved friends I've made online this year. Here's some new #art though.

Digital art of a disembodied pink hand. One finger has a tiny bird skull on the tip, one a green felt finger puppet of a bird, and one has a green bird perching on it. Between the thumb and the palm, a cracked egg and some leaves and grass sit.

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Looked through some of my old lino prints with a friend today and I'm honestly shocked how many I had put aside as "misprints" that were actually very nice? They just looked like a human had made them. And that's the most beautiful thing art can be now. I feel excited to start printing again.