Hope y'all are having a great holiday break!

Happy Solstice ❄️

Just saying that if any authors or creators are looking for art for their books, we are booking for all of 2026 at the moment (we also have an end of the year promotion going on!) 💙📚🌶️📚🪐 Our artists deliver professional quality work, don't use genAI & are excited to work with you! 🌐 42fold.studio

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.” 🖤 It’s been a while since I’ve seen a gorgeous piece of cinema like Guillermo’s Frankenstein 🖤 #frankenstein #frankenstein2025 #guillermodeltoro

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hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html 🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky

👩‍🌾 Grab your tools

For all of you struggling with drawing Frieren at a different angle, check this out. referenceangle.com

We are happy to announce that @heddart.bsky.social is part of our roster of artists 💟 If you are a writer, or creator & need art, contact us! 💙📚🪐 Our artists deliver professional-quality work, don't use genAI & care about your projects as if they are their own✨ 🌐 42fold.studio

Another book I illustrated is out now! 🥳🍁🦔✨ A fairy tale about animals escaping a forest on fire, and how they ignored the ravens’ warning. #bookillustrator #illustratedbooks #bookart #noai

Marsh Labrador Tea 🌿 #art #illustration

I challenged myself to paint this at A3 size, which is huge for me! medium: Schmincke Horadam gouache

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Bakery Dragon book 2 is out today!!! 🌟

Gotta participate in this year's -tober challenge

Time to get spooky 👻🦇🎃

Honestly, the best way to make an artist’s day is by being very specific about what you like about a piece. Geek out a lil. Gush over how they use line, color, texture. Every mark is layed down by the artist, so if you can connect with those little moments, it helps the artist feel seen.

Fungus Researchers

The book is heeeere!!!

Totoro has become so patient with me when I sit down to draw on our walks 🥺❤️ #pleinair #shiba #nature #drawing

Next week, a new book I illustrated comes out in Norway! 🥳✨ Spøkelsestoget, The Ghost Station, is a spooky and emotional story for kids 10 years old and up, filled with illustrations! The author is Anne Elvedal. #kidlit #ghoststory #kidlitillustrator #spookystories #childrensbooks

ARTISTS WANTED! Dames Prod and Nova&Mali are working together to create an artbook - Villainess! We’re making a book filled to the brim with hot evil ladies with up to 40 artists, each creating a digital illustration and/or merch [this is a PAID job!] @damesprod.bsky.social

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Overgrown 🌱

I’ve been rethinking how to tackle my TBR so I don’t burn out: Epic trilogy ⚔️ → semi-spicy romance 🥵 → book that emotionally destroys me 🥲 → cozy palate cleanser to recover 🍄 → highbrow lit 🧐 → Then repeat 🔁 What order do you read in to avoid a slump? #BookSky #writingcommunity

Been drawing in nature with my sketchbook this summer and I’m really enjoying it 🥰🌿

Road to Nowhere. It's not autumn yet, but soon. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper

Illustration done several years ago, for an artbook.

This is SO COOL

Totoro had his first train ride today and it went super smooth! Look at this chill dude 😌✨ The view probably helps a bit too #dog #pet #shiba #shibainu #train #norway #oslo

“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.” Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

If you see this, post your purple art! 💜💟

New profile pic today! Coloured my hair last night heheh

You can't solve your drawing challenges without drawing. Overthinking won't help you. It's another form or procrastination that makes the problems seem bigger. Practice, problem solving, and persistence will get you there.

"There is Death in the Pot" — front cover for an early 19th-century book on culinary poisoning.

Our feature artist/ref today is on FORESHORTENING ARMS by @ruchikapose! The MID-POINT of the arm ( here marked with WHITE bands) SHIFTS BACK VISUALLY when foreshortening - combined with the OVERLAP caused by the WIDTH of the upper forearm, we see VERY LITTLE of the UPPER ARM!

Drawing outside again, added little witches this time hehe. Went hiking with my girlfriend and her family, and was brutally reminded how slow I am now 😂 It was a really nice hike once the steepest hills were done though 😌✨

Some summer ink drawings I don’t think I’ve posted here ☀️🌊🌳 #inkdrawing #lifedrawing #hiking #seaside #fjord #oslofjorden

Decorative border explorations with my fountain pen ✍️🌿 #fountainpen #drawing #penandink #illustration #ukartist #freelanceillustrator

I’m opening my commissions! Info below 🪐

Haunted houses! I started this one last year and picked it up recently to finish it up. Some little ghosties have already moved in #art #procreate #halloween #spookyseason

If you see this, quote with your green art 💚

Stop using generative AI. There is no legitimate use of generative AI. There is no “I hate AI but this is ok”. Not everyone is using it. We do not have to “get used to it or be left behind.” Just don’t. Just stop. Delete the app. Close your account. Save some money. Take the first step. #noai

Some traditional sketchbook pages

If you see this post a flower 🌸

Now maybe more relevant than before! I’m adding new species from my files as quickly as I have time; even more taxa than what I have personally seen will eventually be included, as folk from around the world have kindly offered to donate their photography.

Little crow dude in fancy cloud weather #art #procreateart #noai #crow #corvid #clouds #digitalart #bird