I wanted to make a post for Trans Day of Remembrance about violence against trans people, specifically being subjected to human trafficking and torture. But honestly, I’m too tired. I’ve advocated for years on this, and been met with silence. Support trans survivors & honor the victims 🏳️‍⚧️

ye olde trans rights. now and forever. 🏳️‍⚧️✨ #TDOR #TransDayofRemembrance

Cover illustration for ‘La noche de los mundos’, by @inesgaliano.bsky.social and Loredana Volpe, published by Ediciones Mutis. Art direction by Loredana Volpe. Yep, all those lil drawings in the frame have a meaning in the story! Had lots of fun with them.

Ida ( @tujiux.bsky.social ) is bringing sapphic love into this zine with two vibrant Peking Opera singers absolutely enamored with each other! Peking is the prior name for modern-day Beijing. Expect some gorgeous fashion with this illustration! #ArtZine #QueerArt #Beijing #SapphicArt

Anyways. On a positive note, I’m thinking about putting together an artists of color starter pack and art share. Hopefully I can get it up on Friday! If not, then hopefully soon! Be on the look out for it 💜 If you are an artist of color, and you want a tag, let me know!

So I don’t know who needs to hear this tonight. But white people speaking over the voices of people of color is not support. Supporting people of color is NOT participating to be able to say “I help indigenous people because it looks good on a resume.”

A couple of wizards in a cozy witch cafe for a Halloween/Fall themed event.🍂 Billie (left) is mine, Magnus (right) belongs to a friend. #bemdraws #oc #ocart #art #fantasyart

Let's start some artist intros! 🥳 For We’ve Always Been Here, Hortensjjja ( @hortensjjja.bsky.social ) will be illustrating two queer men in Polish folk costumes, with both trans and disability representation, as they celebrate the first day of Spring to capture the symbolism of transition.

Finally posted this comic on Instagram! I’d appreciate some love over there since the algorithm is probably going to nuke me for saying “ASPD” and “mental health stigma” in the caption lol www.instagram.com/p/DRP8Oc8CO_...

[shares appreciated] commission slots for january are open for both illustrations and comic pages! vgen.co/vampbyte #VGen #VGencomm #commissions #artcommissions

I love thinking about the future of the zine company Felix and I are starting (@taplingzines.bsky.social). Art activism has always been important to me, and I love intersectional projects especially. So like books on queerness and disability, survivorship, etc would all be so exciting in the future~

12. I do take commissions, and have periodically in the past too! Most of my commissioned work is larger portraits of people or pets (400-1200€), since they’re traditional watercolor. I want to do more narrative and queer portrait/pinup work! ✨ Comms: tally.so/r/3NNaJ0 (Reach out for custom work)

#Sketch - Kyriakos Inconsolable. #MicahsOCs #ArtSky #OCSky #DigitalArt

✨🚂 Art Train 💨✨ It seems that I like to draw bearded men smiling gently :]c 📌 Tags: @itsdalr.bsky.social @fannd.bsky.social @tacorat.com @sacredsapling.bsky.social @littleevil0ne.bsky.social + anyone who wants to join in ✨

Absolutely agree with this. I joined twitter fairly late, so no matter what I did, I was basically invisible there. But here, real community is so easy to build. People are able to communicate here, not just appease an impossible algorithm.

In celebration of the newest trailer of #WitchHatAtelier, I am posting my take on the lovely family here! Sigh.. time to wait patiently (or impatiently) until its release in April...ugh! #wha #fanart

Call Your Baby. 📞🎨 [ #Dnd #art #ocsky #oc ]

🏳️‍⚧️happy transgender awareness week!🏳️‍⚧️ hire trans people! buy from trans artists! support the trans community! 🙏

And this is why sharing our plights, our cultures, our stories over the Internet is so important. While our borders may be hard to cross, please hear our voices. #FreeCongo #FreeSudan #FreePalestine

please share and donate if you're able to!!!

Severance is such a good show. Like the way it does amnesia but then twists it to be a deliberate tool of capitalism is incredible? I love sci-fi disability narratives with a lot to say.

If you want some pretty queer art for holiday gifts (while supporting a severely disabled artist), check out my shop~!

Not their asses having been together for years at that point and suddenly worrying whether or not they’d bore one another for the next half a century #ocs

Because Niko once healed a back wound on Cyrus with a massive amount of magic, when they touch, the scar glows. 🌟 #Art #OCArt #FantasyArt #QueerArt #Procreate #onocs

Oh, my OCs are so realistically filled with red flags 😅 Most notably: Gabriel: Will lie, manipulate, and steal to get its way. Also has assault & battery charges. Super histronic. Nico: Clingy, needy, and unpredictable/inconsistent. Mila: Such high maintenance. Neglects her mental health.

Instead of giving your hard earned money to a big corporation and making rich people richer, you can give the money to me (or any other artist) and have nice art in exchange 💕

They're de-banking people for kink content online now They'll come for you and your interests next - there's already been movement against vtubers in general, and games like Corpse Party are having their western releases canned over concerns about this stuff Get loud before it's too late

I absolutely think Nzuzi is the most popular. This tall lanky Congolese twink who loves makeup and dresses would capture anyone’s heart 🩷

Circulation ✨ - OC: Corvus #oc #ocsky #art

Our world. Our rules. Watercolour on Fabriano cold-pressed paper. From "Yumi and the Nightmare Painter", by Brandon Sanderson. Because art is, and always has been, about what it does to us. To the one shaping it and the one experiencing it. #art #noai

when drawing nsfw u gotta pick two

9. My least favorite piece I've made (in recent years) is this one. I adore the characters (their love and brotherhood that came out of their shared survival story), but I just don't think I actually painted it well at all. It's kind of boring and flat and Ephiel's face is weird 😅

8. My favorite piece I’ve ever made is this one. I’m still so impressed I pulled this off with only traditional media (95% watercolor, with lines done in acrylagouache). I want to paint like this again~! And I bet I can even do better now too~

I absolutely think Nzuzi is the most popular. This tall lanky Congolese twink who loves makeup and dresses would capture anyone’s heart 🩷

Hi #PortfolioDay! I’m Sapling, a genderfluid watercolor painter and narrative illustrator~ 🌱 I love body diversity, especially queer, intersex, and disabled characters! Comms: tally.so/r/3NNaJ0 Also, I’m moderating a queer zine with an open call for artists (paid) at @taplingzines.bsky.social 🩷

🦋Bluesky tips 🦋 - there's no commercial algorithm here, so social is back in social media: Share, interact, and talk to others. - Use the feeds. They're your custom algorithm - Starterpacks are recommendations made by others for followers - Use tags, they WORK! + Sort posts into the right feeds

Yay I finally have a referral to a cardiologist! Maybe they’ll want me to get the surgery that could cure my heart condition! Inshallah

It's almost like these people have never met a Muslim in their life

commission for @noclouds.bsky.social of his adorable satyr ranger archie! #dnd

Hiii Bsky, sorry I've been super absent lately, will you take a Nzuzi as apology? 🫣 #OCArt #OCs #OriginalCharacter

4. I think my artistic style is defined by vibrant colors (which is influenced by having low contrast in my vision) and a lot of details (flowers, tiles, fabric patterns, architecture). Then, I tend to make two types of pieces: narrative kinds that set a scene, and decorative tile/floral portraits.

Just saw this come up in a big anti-AI activism space, so a little reminder that deepfakes of children are *not* CSAM (child sexual abuse material). CSAM is images or videos of a real child experiencing trauma and, as gross as deepfakes are, they are *not* CSAM (as no child was actually abused).

3. The oldest piece of art I have on hand is this travesty xD (Jk it had heart and some early starter techniques I am proud of having all the way back then!) I made this about 15 years ago

⭐🌟 searching by starlight 🌟⭐

🌹Fairytale Wedding🌹 I had the pleasure of drawing these illustrations for @araneaserket.bsky.social & @rfawks.bsky.social's wedding invites.

Essek and Caleb at Jester and Fjord's wedding party, k-i-s-s-i-n-g #CriticalRole #CriticalRoleFanArt #CriticalRoleSpoilers #shadowgast

#ColoredSketch - Ilya Didn't feel like drawing prosthetics, so Ilya now (canonically) has at least one pair of pants that isn't 3/4th length. #ArtSky #OCSky #DigitalArt #MicahsOCs

Just finished this #watercolor~! Happy pride!! 🌈 This rainbow bouquet honors our community resilience. We'll always bloom again, no matter how society treats us. We can and will get through all of this. 🌻 💌Get a print here #LGBTQ #QueerArt #FlowerArt

Angels need snuggles too 🪽 #OC #OCart #painting #watercolor #art