A Lorwyn card that I painted last year, released into the wild this morning.

PORTFOLIO TIPS FOR ILLUSTRATORS I am an art director who has probably seen close to 1000 portfolios, many great, but many...not 😔 This is a doc I wrote featuring tips and tricks for how to make a better art portfolio site. Feel free to share with anyone who may find this useful <3 #art

last day for this sale! ends midnight tonight!

Heyo folks, still LFW~ I do fantasy illustration and concept work ✨ More things for your eyeballs in my portfolio: teastainstudio.com

There is nothing new under the sun, just the old things in stupider versions.

*Wakes up, staggers out to living room, does morning things, picks up ipad* We fuckin’ did what!?

Why did I put so many critters in the background? And how did some of them get into the foreground? #artistlife

Me and my friend looking ahead into 2026...

And 2025 was gone, gone like the water from the sausage! May we have better sausages in the year ahead!

The Designated Driver. #NewYearsEve

I woke up to find that Grandfather Dagon and Grandmother Hydra have found a new home on #EveryDayOriginal, so that's a nice way to end the year!

Art vs Artist 2025. (Or 9 portraits of old things). #SciArt

Meanwhile, today on #EveryDayOriginal... everydayoriginal.com/product/gran...

Skull friends…

it's my birthday today! may i present thee with some of my fave arts to share 💖🎉🎁

I have officially launched TrueRef's new timed gesture tool (Flow) & free pose library (Pose)! Both are linked on trueref.io. While limited right now, both will contain our full free library by the 1st. 🤍 Flow: community.trueref.io/trueref_gest... Pose: community.trueref.io/free_referen...

Heading into 2026, I'm still looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! You can find my portfolio here: www.hazelmonforton.com

When you stare into the void, the void stares back at you…

For all the new artists joining Bluesky: 🎨 You don't have to censor words such as commission, Patreon or Ko-Fi. 🎨 You can share links and your post will not be de-boosted. 🎨 You can take time away from Bluesky and come back whenever you feel like, there's no algorithm to punish you!

Some thoughts on how this distinguished couple came to be, before my little Deep One portraits drop on EDO this Monday (12.29.25.) www.artofheatherhudson.com/blog/2025/12...

It's my birthday today! ✨🕯️ I would be very grateful for shares of my art as a little gift while I'm waiting for the cake to be done 🔥🎂

Why, what is this i see before me on my feed? Is it… Drama? Drama for the sake of Drama? The kind of Drama that used to get likes&clicks on Xitter? *block*

Alas no rest for artists trying to make their mortgage payment. 😞 New artwork is now available! DM to claim (Venmo/PayPal preferred)

Hello new people! Glad to see more folks joining Bluesky :) If you'd like to follow more horror artists, I put together this little starter pack! Hope it's useful for newcomers! go.bsky.app/73vzeaV

Setting up my tiny art post on the communal art site, I see that Wordpress rearranged their UI to fit various AI lures&links, so that the usual buttons I need to find are hidden elsewhere around the screen. Surprise!!! At 5 a.m. before coffee, this is confusing af and not appreciated.

"Sudden Moonglow" A new watercolor available today on the Every Day Original website. www.everydayoriginal.com/product/sudden-moonglow 🌙✨

… and it came to pass that there was another great eXodus into BlueSky, lost souls following mysterious stars, and many new faces popped up to say “What is this place?” And “what is Proof of Cat?” Hello, new folks! Merry whatever! Happy Hogswatch!

Good lord, I am writing a post about the Deep One portraits I've painted for #EverydayOriginal next week, and I've gone from "Shadow Over Innsmouth" to "personally I’d think it appropriate to question the actual women before blowing up a community and dragging everyone off to gulags/etc." So... huh.

I have gotten the cold that you were suffering thru. Pity me. It was only a matter of time and i have deadlines.

The Old Man of Winter

Just wanted to say WOOOO!! It's the shortest day! Which means we can look forward to spring from now on. Thank goodness for that. Happy Solstice and see you in 2026!! #wintersolstice #solstice #shortestday

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I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes: In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art. I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:

The “Dark Winter Night” show opened at Gargoyles Statuary (Seattle WA) last night, featuring art by PNW artists that celebrates the end of one year and the start of the next. My “Midwinter Star” is the one with the bear in the nightcap. Info at www.gargoylestatuary.com

I'm working on a presentation on building websites for students and I gotta say, you all need to make websites! I'm trying to highlight artists I love and please just have a landing page with your email and work experience. I know so many ADs, buyers, etc who WILL NOT work with you don't have them

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

Watercolor.

#ProjectAnimalia continues with 762: Black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) The #Heron with the widest range. I'd shot a photo of this guy years ago, and I finally drew it! #sciart #dailyart #animalart #scientificillustration #medart #illustration #birdart #birds #ArtAdventCalendar

Okay I know this is a very late entry but: I *loved* the mechanical elephant at Nantes. I shrieked out loud. It was such a moment of like... awe, wonder, delight, and I felt... a very different effect than seeing it on a screen? If that makes any sense?

Borrowed with love from Mastodon:

Oh yay! The second box of “Chains of Mephistopheles” playmats arrived for signing! The first box arrived a couple of days ago and I’d wondered if this one was lost forever. Playmats are heavy. Respects to the delivery person who carried 50 of them up the winding steps in the dark to my porch.

*stares sadly at unattributed intricate b&w prints* If you’re going to add art prints as KS rewards or stretchgoals, please please put your name/website/copyright info on them somewhere.

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

In which I, a simple old-school fantasy artist, tell you about my year after not blogging for four (4) months... www.artofheatherhudson.com/blog/2025/12...

Well hello there! One of my cards for the new MtG set has been spoiled, or at least revealed, this morning! Go out there and be useful, card!

'Two Sirens' Ink on Moleskine sketchbook paper, 128 × 206 mm, from 2020. #ArtAdventCalendar

WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership. details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...

Restoring democracy is a lot like making art; an uplifting sense of inspiration is nice if you can get it, but a grim, unrelenting dedication to grinding away until the mf-er’s done will get you farther in the long run.

✨LAST DAY!✨ We're closing up shop tonight for our year-end break, and will re-open in January. If you wanted any Studio Rayyan goodies for gift giving, you better get gallopin'. Shop links in profile. 🐢 #art #prints #turtle