The Art Demon

@theartdemon.bsky.social

Artista Costarricense 🇨🇷 Buscando chamba siempre

Got really carried away making my Pentiment layoff protest sign for the Irvine CWA rally outside Obsidian offices today 🥹 it was so nice to meet folks from more Microsoft units. You all put so much heart and passion and craft into making video games. You all deserve so much better.

Traditionally illustrated poster drawn in the woodcut-style of the Obsidian developed video game Pentiment. It features the main character, a scribe named Andreas with a rust-red cap and shoulder length wavy blond hair, sitting at his lectern with a pen in his hand. He is looking worriedly up at an executioner’s blade which dangles above his head (an homage to the Sword of Damocles). Behind him is a mass of shadowy figures with dozens of swords over their heads or stabbing into their collapsed bodies. 

It is captioned “Death by 1600 cuts”, a reference to the 1600 Xbox workers laid off by Microsoft on July 6 2026 (this also includes many Obsidian devs). The ‘T’ in “Death” is the executioner’s blade. There is gold embellishing on the font.
United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 4w ago

The bosses are stealing our game industry, and we aim to take it back! We’re calling game workers, allies, and fans alike to join emergency rallies on WEDNESDAY, JULY 15th! Check this thread for times and locations as they’re established: 🧵

An illustration, done in a flat graphic style depicting a menacing executive with a sickly smile, towering over scores of downtrodden workers carrying boxes of their belongings out of frame. Below, a call to action:

SAVE OUR DEVS
JULY 15 - Rallies across US & Canada
END MASS LAYOFFS NOW

Dallas, Texas (Richardson) - Id Software
Austin, Texas - Id Software
Montréal, Quebec - Bethesda Games Studio Montréal
Rockville, Maryland - Bethesda Softworks
Irvine, California - Obsidian Entertainment

go tell your favorite artists you like their work. you may think they hear it enough or your praise would be identical to someone else's so you say nothing, but i promise you they would love to hear it. and sometimes they need to hear it.

please understand. artists don't get nearly as much feedback (praise, comments or otherwise) as you think they do. much less than years and years ago. we don't know how much you like it. we don't know how it affected you. unless you say something, or recommend it, comment, reblog. anything.

mimi ⚔️@knightlyaffair.bsky.social · 3mo ago

go tell your favorite artists you like their work. you may think they hear it enough or your praise would be identical to someone else's so you say nothing, but i promise you they would love to hear it. and sometimes they need to hear it.

I also have been doing environment design in animation for nearly a decade! You can see my work in shows like The Owl House, Amphibia, Knights of Guinevere and heaps more

black and white layout- establishing shot, Frankie and Andi's house, Knights of Guinevereblack and white layout- establishing shot, labs, Knights of Guinevereblack and white layout- establishing shot, junkyard, Amphibiablack and white layout- establishing shot, Luz's town, The Owl House

Happy #portfolioday ! I'm an animation artist and illustrator who specializes in detailed lineart. I'm currently looking to take on more trad pub illustration work, especially fairytales and classics (my dream is to illustrate the Divine Comedy or Sleeping Beauty)!

black and white illustration- a woman walks through grass in profile carrying a lantern full of starsblack and white illustration- 12 princesses walk in profile through a grove of fruit treesblack and white illustration- a woman in profile tearfully kisses a face embedded in a treeblack and white illustration- a woman sleeps in a grand canopy bed while another woman in knight apparel looks on