skrif

@skullbird.bsky.social

they/them • seattle • full time illustrator & graphic designer • no commissions 🎨 @chatsvoid.bsky.social -> my webcomic 👁️‍🗨️💀💜 skullbird.com -> art and shop

We saw a mysterious mustelid near Nada Lake on our Enchantments hike. The encounter stuck with me, so i wanted to try and sketch the sighting from memory.

Color sketch if a forest with heavy tree blow down. A large mustelid stands in the center. The suspect was most likely a large male fisher with his tail shortened from an injury.

Back from spending 4 amazing days backpacking the Enchantments! The most hiking I've done in a weekend. With the two ascents to the core: ~50 miles with 8000 feet of elevation. Glad we could camp, had plenty of time to explore and enjoy it compared to the thru hikers that usually seemed rushed.

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Got lucky and won a permit to go backpacking in the Enchantments 🏔️ One of the hardest hikes I’ve ever done, but more than worth it to spend three nights in one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been.

Skrif in the enchantments. Lake Leprechaun with Prusik peak in the background.

Hiked 2miles up 1800ft of elevation with 25lbs of weight in a pack yesterday… and i dont even feel sore today! That would have destroyed my body two years ago. Incredibly cool that the work i’ve been putting in is actually doing something 😎

Names and character sheets for this duo. Aldwin is an engineer selected to be the city’s annual ambassador to their strange and distant artistic god, Meraki, who draws and paints their world into existence. I’ll be tagging everything related to these characters with #DivineInspo

Aldwin, a tan dog-ish looking chap, wearing blues and greys.
Meraki, a light bluegrey bird-ish person, wearing golds and whites.

Home from CFT. Feeling full of love. The acceptance, creativity, and sense of community that event radiates is so inspiring. I really enjoy helping with theme camps, tending the fire, and trying to make the space and experience better for others 💜 I hope to be back and help even more next year!

Favorite thing lately has been Roost Social. Its an app where you message people with digital carrier pigeons that travel of the speed of actual birds. I got penpals in Brisbane AUS and Stolkholm SWE. Excited to get their replies in…a literal week… 😅 It’s so stupid and unnecessary. I love it.

Character design sketches, expanding on the ones I liked best from that last page of scribbles. The idea for the story is exploring the friendship between a trapped immortal art god and a mortal who lives freely in their artwork. #ocs #divineinspo

Character sketches. Top half of the image: A mammal/canine esc guy with floppy ears and glasses tinkering away at things. He appears to be at different life stages in each sketch. Bottom half of the image: a vaguely avian creature-person with three eyes. In one image they are painting and smiling fondly, in the other they stare blank faced, looking religious or godlike.

Character design sketches for a story idea… Normally designs come first to me and the story follows, but this time the story came first. So this is me fumbling around, figuring out what these characters look like. #DivineInspo

A sketch page of various anthropomorphic character faces.