Jana Heidersdorf
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Illustrator of dark fantasy. Also nature photography.
https://janaheidersdorf.com/
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Hi--I'm Jana, fantasy artist and illustrator of everything hauntingly beautiful 🖤 You can find my (freshly updated) portfolio here:
janaheidersdorf.com
Contact:
[email protected]
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D.D.B.Torres
5 months ago
oh hey! last year
@samguayart.bsky.social
did a DTIYS of their amazing Devil's Invitation (which is also one of my favorites by them). this was my contribution. I'm kinda proud of it and ppl around here haven't seen it yet so there you go
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Der Volksverpetzer
11 days ago
Wow, schon über 80 % auf unserem Minimalziel! Ihr seid einfach toll <3 Vielleicht erreichen wir auch gleich das nächste Goal? Dann wäre unsere kommende Redaktionsstelle für ganz 2026 sicher <3
crowdfund.volksverpetzer.de
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Unterstützte Volksverpetzer 2026!
Finanziere unseren Kampf gegen Fake News 2026!
https://crowdfund.volksverpetzer.de/
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Emily Hare
18 days ago
'A Rare Sighting' - another favourite painting from this year, this one was a challenge! Light beams are SOOOO hard with watercolour! Layaway payments over 3 months available for this one as with all more expensive pieces:
buff.ly/yB6gLWM
#unicorn
#unicornmagic
#unicornart
#fantasyart
#fairytale
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I'm not great with faces and just mistook a door-to-door apple salesman for my neighbour. Presumably this was a very confusing interaction for the both of us but at least I got two slices of apple out of it.
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Yaza Games 📖🪶 Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts!
19 days ago
We can’t afford a $1M trailer slot 😔 But reposts on Bluesky cost $0 - and they really help tiny teams like ours ❤️ If cozy medieval creativity is your thing, here’s our Scriptorium trailer!
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My friends at
@drinkanddrawberlin.bsky.social
are hosting an art retreat close to Berlin next Summer! It will have lots of workshops, time in nature, hanging with fellow artists and delicious veggie meals ✨🌱🖌️
www.drinkanddrawberlin.com/retreat
18 days ago
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Natee (they/them)
21 days ago
'Two Sirens' Ink on Moleskine sketchbook paper, 128 × 206 mm, from 2020.
#ArtAdventCalendar
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Kathleen Jennings
25 days ago
A little more on the process of illustrating (the interior of) Honeyeater — including a complete sketch-through of thematic motifs, as a treat for those who have read it!
tanaudel.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/h...
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Honeyeater’s interior illustrations: experiments and sketch notes
As I posted previously, my first tests for how to decorate the interior of Honeyeater were too vertical: Beginning to illustrate the inside of Honeyeater: Chateau Orquevaux I knew I wanted somethin…
https://tanaudel.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/honeyeaters-interior-illustrations-experiments-and-sketch-notes/
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📐 Maria Picassó i Piquer
25 days ago
#BandcampFriday
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alice
27 days ago
Continuing my series of bird neighbour portraits - is there a more overlooked bird than the dunnock?
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🌿viktor aleksander🌿
about 1 month ago
happy black friday! please accept 25% off everything in my shoppe to celebrate! 🏳️⚧️🌿💖
nooskaart.etsy.com
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Sam Guay
about 1 month ago
I'm having a little sale before I close my shop for winter break! 20% off everything but original art, automatically applied at checkout. Check out the Green & Gather zine as a gift for tarot loving creative friends!
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Green & Gather: A Tarot Journaling Zine for the Seasons of Creativity — Sam Guay
Green & Gather is a zine that combines journaling and tarot to explore beginnings, inspiration, and connection with your inner voice. These tarot spreads were born from struggling to understand the b...
https://samguay.com/prints-gift-shop/p/green-and-gather
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Air and Nothingness Press
about 1 month ago
On Small Business Saturday, think of the small indie presses doing their best to publish interesting anthologies and support worthy authors -
aanpress.com
. We ship quickly.
#scifi
#fantasy
#smallbusinesssaturday
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Little chill video 🍂 proooobably the last for a while as I'm buried in work 🥲
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Forest walks & trying out new watercolors (Mijello paint)
YouTube video by Bramblings
https://youtu.be/MlUmZRyOBiw
about 1 month ago
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Zara Alfonso Illustration
about 1 month ago
I’m really excited to share that I won the Frank R. Paul Award for Best Magazine Cover Art! My painting Stasis, a self-portrait about invisible illness, was featured on the cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 58 🖤
#art
#painting
#portrait
#illustration
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Little chill video 🍂 proooobably the last for a while as I'm buried in work 🥲
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Forest walks & trying out new watercolors (Mijello paint)
YouTube video by Bramblings
https://youtu.be/MlUmZRyOBiw
about 1 month ago
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Eleonor Piteira
about 1 month ago
Here's the cover illustration I had the pleasure of painting for 'The Shape of Monsters' by
@tessagratton.bsky.social
, for Orbit Books! It's Book 2 of The Moon Heresies trilogy and sequel to The Mercy Makers 🌔 Out June 2026!
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kitsuneart 🦊
7 months ago
❤️ Support Human Artists ❤️ Share their work, drop them a kind word, tip their ko-fis, join their patreons...it matters more than you think. We have to show up for each other while we still can. We have to uplift each other.
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Normal people meeting my cat: Utterly enchanted My grandpa: Why is your cat fat? She isn't exactly a great beauty, couldn't you get a better one?
about 1 month ago
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Katie Croonenberghs Art
about 1 month ago
This idea that there is only one acceptable way that art is good needs to be squashed. It's utterly wrong and kills personal progress. It prevents people from exploring, from making "bad" art. Hot tip: EVERY artist makes "bad" art. It's ok! It's expected! It's still art though, it's still you.
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Dory Whynot
about 1 month ago
"Wintergreen" Watercolor on hot press. 14.5x20" On view now as part of my solo exhibition, "Fruiting Bodies" at
@poetictigergallery.bsky.social
View the show:
poetictiger.com/collections/...
#watercolor
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Cover reveal! ✨ My cover artwork for 'Under A Carnivore Sky' by Brianna Jett and published by Page Street Title design: Caitlyn Boyd
about 1 month ago
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Makkon
about 1 month ago
Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk. please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
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Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
https://fund.blender.org/
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🌿viktor aleksander🌿
about 1 month ago
on this week of trans awareness week pls consider supporting a trans artist, thank you! 🏳️⚧️
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D.D.B.Torres
about 1 month ago
if your walls have empty spaces and you want to fill them with pretty art: I have a print shop! on INPRNT 🔸
www.inprnt.com/gallery/ddb....
🔸 they're always running sales and the print quality is *chef's kiss* OR if you're more of a ✨fancy collector✨ I also sell originals from time to time!
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Natasa Ilincic
about 1 month ago
The Yule ornament collection is live ✨ Do you have a favourite? :) Painting these was the highlight of my November, art-wise. I hope they'll bring some magic to people's homes this Yule 🎄
etsy.com/shop/natasailincic
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What do you do when your cat comes to sleep on you but you actually wanted to get up? It seems cruel to disturb her but also I'm losing hours to being a comfy cat bed, please send advice 🥲
about 1 month ago
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Kelly McKernan 🔜 Dreamwalker’s Oracle Deck 🔮
about 1 month ago
Sharing my art, my shop, my ko-fi… anything helps. I’m really struggling with the mire right now. I’ll gladly accept a Kroger gift card, even. Thank you! ✨ Ko-fi:
ko-fi.com/kellymckernan
Shop:
www.kellymckernan.com/shop
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As some of you might be starting to look into presents to buy, here's a little reminder of my Mermaid Book 🖤 You could support an artist, an indie publisher AND make a mermaid or fantasy creature lover very happy!
www.eyeofnewtpress.com/collections/...
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Dr. C. Lillefisk's Sirenology
Dive into Dr. C. Lillefisk’s Sirenology. Sketches, notes, and details reveal the secret world of mermaids lurking just beneath the waves of planet Earth's lakes, oceans, and seas. Lillefisk studies ea...
https://www.eyeofnewtpress.com/collections/wool-of-bat-series/products/dr-cecilia-lillefisks-explorations-in-sirenology
about 2 months ago
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Elisabeth Alba
about 2 months ago
I've been a member of the Changeling Artist Collective for years + we are relaunching monthly auctions starting this week with our Deck the Halls event!
www.facebook.com/media/set/?v...
If you don't use FB that's totally okay! I can take anonymous bids. These are 4 of my 8 offerings.
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If you see this, post your bird art!
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about 2 months ago
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is dreaming about starting a bookish business with your friends the millennial midlife crisis? 📚👻
about 2 months ago
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D.D.B.Torres
4 months ago
oak warden -{
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annadrawsstuff ✨ @ Pintopia 🦝
about 2 months ago
My holiday sale is live 🦝✨ Grab a big ol' discount on your gift shopping until November 16th 💖
annadrawsstuff.com
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Had a little cycling accident on Monday (those autumn leaves are as treacherous as they are beautiful). All is well, but my wrist & elbow are a bit dodgy. Yesterday it was just fine to draw, but today the joints complain. Hence today is rest day 🥲
about 2 months ago
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Fierce Reads
2 months ago
@paperfury.bsky.social
really is THAT author 😱 click the link to preorder your copy of HAZELTHORN today!
bit.ly/4mianwm
#Hazelthorn
#HazelthornBook
#CGDrews
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Cover reveal! Happy to say CG Drews keeps writing lush queer horror YAs and I keep getting to illustrate them ✨
about 2 months ago
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Loish
about 2 months ago
Hot take: Pigeons are majestic. Who agrees with me??
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
about 2 months ago
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You'd think it was strategic planning to mail potential clients on Halloween with creepy art, but now--I meant to reach out in September and procrastinated 👻
about 2 months ago
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Shop update! Added the Hazelthorn cover plus this alternative version that got killed along the way but I still like a lot 🖤
www.inprnt.com/gallery/chec...
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Natee (they/them)
2 months ago
If anyone has good photographs of European goldfinches that they're happy for me to use as painting references, I'd be so grateful. Thank you. 💛 Please share among birders, if you would! 🙏🪶
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We're back with the endless rambling and the clunkiest of word choices 👻
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Does your art follow the money or your passion? (rambling about career strategy for illustrators)
YouTube video by Bramblings
https://youtu.be/YUcl-bVGAJY
2 months ago
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Do any of you have a favourite layouting software (for books, zines, etc) that isn't InDesign? Trying to slowly get off Adobe 😅
2 months ago
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I hereby remind you of my print shop full of spooky art for the spookiest month 👻
www.inprnt.com/gallery/chec...
3 months ago
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We're back with the endless rambling and the clunkiest of word choices 👻
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Does your art follow the money or your passion? (rambling about career strategy for illustrators)
YouTube video by Bramblings
https://youtu.be/YUcl-bVGAJY
2 months ago
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🌿viktor aleksander🌿
2 months ago
2 slots left! thank you so much! 💖
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some German politics. Wir sind stark im Prüfen 💪
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Diese Strategie ist der Gamechanger: PRÜF!
YouTube video by Nico Semsrott
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSgFEpI9ZDQ
2 months ago
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Natasa Ilincic
2 months ago
I've been enjoying painting small relaxed watercolours of the surrounding countryside lately. This piece was inspired by a walk in Falkland, when the rosehip leaves had just started turning. 🖼All originals at
natasailincic.com
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Djamila Knopf
2 months ago
I challenged myself to paint this at A3 size, which is huge for me! medium: Schmincke Horadam gouache
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