#portfolioday I'm Ripley, an illustrator & comic artist in NYC who often loves dark themes mixed with delicate & dreamlike imagery. I've done illustration work, including covers, for TTRPGs, horror movies, independent magazines & more 💕 💌[email protected] www.skullingway.com

Hark! #PortfolioDay Hello! I’m Mahri, an artist looking for work, commissions included! I love all things gothic and arcane, with a long-standing a passion for fantastical fashion and character design! Email - [email protected] Com form - forms.gle/SvU1hwEVmd6D...

The Early Worm

Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think

Oh to perish together in battle 💛⚔️🖤 Less than 26 hours to go on KS! www.kickstarter.com/projects/nov...

recently i read “The Lathe of Heaven” which illustrates how empty the person who has the noblest of intentions can really be on the inside. and then immediately read “The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect” which in incidentally illustrates how empty the most depraved people can be on the inside.

WIP of a 5 part personal project I’m working on based on my grapplings with severe OCD. They’re all 8” x 8” and will include a lot of crimson and black. I have a little more info about it on my Patreon here: www.patreon.com/CanisOvis/po...

something very sweet from the gay regency romance i’m writing (currently a WIP posted on Ao3 but it’s like 75% done and i might… try to publish it for real??) #ocart #gayregencyromamce this isn’t my usual genre but why limit yourself!

also hello everyone my wife makes beautiful art too 😍

this isn’t a finished piece but it’s the Emperor of the Radch so i hope M. Leckie likes her #unsolicitedfanart :) now i should probably go read my copy of Radiant Star huh!!

YOUR FOES WOULD SEE YOU SLEEPLESS: RESIST AND REST.

Happy Juneteenth! It costs 0$ to repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, back braces, knee braces, wrist braces, compression socks, cute bags & more! Store: Bibipins.com

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

"death of the audience" is genuinely unironically good advice for anyone who wants to make anything

I wish I just had all the time in the world to paint this piece, but it’s slowly but surely coming along. Also this is your reminder to read #theeverlasting by @alixeharrow.bsky.social because it’s fantastic! #fantasyart #bookfanart

amateur tip for those who are still learning: applying clearcoat over chrome-finish spray paint turns it from C3P0 shiny to uhhh semi-flat bronzey-brown 🙃 the texture on my armor is intentional, but that clear coat result is not RIP. time to sand it off and try again

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

@emcandon.bsky.social wrote a book called The Archive Undying and it’s got such excellent imagery… it’s been fermenting in my head since I read it. this is just a #traditionalsketch (gone a bit wild) that was inspired by it, but there are much larger pieces lurking, i can feel it.

finished this #traditionalart for a friend who is making the leathers for my Mando kit in exchange! their OC, known only as The Traveler. #mandalorianoc #ocart

Magnificent and monstrous 👁️ Mother Vermis for @mintybleh.bsky.social 👁️ #faeandelvensecretsatan2025 #darkart #fantasy #artsky

i also designed beskar kits for all the clone commando OCs just for fun. #cloneoc #ocart #mandooc they all get adopted into Sol’s clan anyways so they’re officially mandos eventually.

guess who is working on a cosplay 😈 #mandooc #mandalorianoc #ocart

╢Personal work and characters╟ Ashen lungs grew my hollow garden #art #ocartist #monster #monsteroc

finished Carcharoth, the Wolf of Angband. for my Silmarillion homies out there now i just need to scan it properly. #illustration #tolkien

And I long to follow… #frankenstein

I was so happy to get the chance to see Frankenstein a bit early in theaters, it was such a beautiful film and I have been meaning to do some fan art of it. #frankenstein #frankenstein2025 #frankensteinfanart #guillermodeltoro #clipstudiopaint

#frankenstein would you love a creature

🦋 #frankenstein

friends and the importance of head pats #frankenstein

Take me with you 🫀 man the chokehold this movie has on me #frankenstein

frankenstein vibes

Póster vintage de Frankenstein de @realgdt.bsky.social Arte de Shawn Mansfield

"Moonlight guide you" #fanart #hades2 #melinoe #nemesis

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part.

WOW

hades 2 this week!!! wahoo!!! #art

someone tell me how come i’m so bad at social media

AMAZING archive of 1960s and 1970s graphic design💘 www.peculiarmanicule.com

update: giant mushrooms outside my clinic

1. change tense for all 10 chapters of your first draft of your novel 2. realize you hate writing in first person present tense because it unexpectedly doesn’t suit your main character 3. realize you have to change all 10 chapters again 4. cry inside 5. go back to writing novel-length fanfiction

#ocart of king iisaaq again, i really wanted to paint properly and channel some chiaroscuro and i like it! #digitalart #procreate #fantasyart

Siren

the ginkgo cardigan 💙💫 will be back on preorder in september!

some tags for #scifi #ancillaryjustice #fanart #scifiart #procreate

messy comp of some fanart of Anaander Mianaai from the Imperial Radch trilogy by @annleckie.com that is far from a finished piece but idk i like it

someone looked at the second piece with the red tattoos today and said it’s giving “luxurious Kratos” and i’m living

Time moves in layers- 2023

ARTISTS: A lot of folks use wetransfer to send final files to their AD. Just a heads up that they changed their terms of service to say that they own the right to any work you upload and can use it to "train" their machine learning and also to reproduce it indefinitely

#OC iisaaq, king of the faeries. being one opulent bitch as is his wont. this one got a little out of control lol. faeries don’t really wear clothes in this story. but sometimes they kind of do. mostly jewelry tho. feat Clovis the court pangolin and his clover crown whom we love and will protect

#starwarsOC Sol, sketchy but with color. working on a redesign of her post-Clone-Wars outfit and decided to do a fun dual-wielding pose since she JUST figured out the saber staff can separate 😂 not a Jedi but a mid-level Force sensitive child of ex-Mandalorians. it’s a long story.