artists, how do you draw hair? show your arts!

Hi yall I’m a Black, queer, Muslim, disabled artist in the Bible Belt. I work in charcoal, paint, digital illustration & make stickers (prints soon!). Art has always been how I survive + connect—how I turn pain into beauty & build community through creativity.

Artists, how do you draw hair? Show your arts!! #art Aww yeah! Hair!!!

To all freelance peers who are struggling to make ends meet this year: it's not you. It's been getting tougher and tougher to get any gigs and many private clients struggle to pay their own bills. Whatever it takes for us to get through this, please don't doubt your skills and value as a creative ❤️

qrp with something watery~! 🌊 A mini watercolor study of an underwater trench!

A rarely seen OC: Melchor! He’s a sporty Filipino who’s constantly undergoing a bisexual crisis. #Melchor #SaplingArt #DigitalArt

Artists! Post your hot men art! 🔥 #QueerArt

I really need to do some painting later. I need it to give my soul a little healing rn 🥹

I'm Sapling 🌱a #watercolor painter turning my queer and disabled #OCs into fine art~! #QueerArt 💌Shop: Prints & Originals 🌈Queer Love Letters (Emails) 🖌️Comms: sacredsaplingart[@]gmail[.]com Currently available prints & originals are listed in the replies!⬇️

A reminder too that bsky’s new guidelines literally forbid “illustrated CSAM.” That doesn’t exist. There is no victim in a drawing (unless it is a drawing a real actual person). “Drawn CSAM” is an insult to every survivor everywhere. It literally dehumanizes us as being the same as an anime OC.

Let's just keep it a buck. Pretty much all of the folks online that scream and shout about "inappropriate art" are in no way actually engaging with any real issues at hand. They only care abot that flash-in-the-pan moment of engagement they get when their little bait posts start doing numbers.

"Well well well, suddenly we understand gender dysmorphia, don't we boys?" part 1

Artists! Post your hot men art! 🔥 #QueerArt

lingering #art

Oh how I love these two

A little watercolor study of a river~ 🌊 #Watercolor #TraditionalArt #Painting #ArtStudy #SaplingArt

To all trans people (especially in the US/UK): Remember that we'll always bloom again. Our community has been through loss and oppression and repression time and time again. But, like a field of roses, we can never be totally destroyed. Also, I think its time to use our thorns ngl 🌹

Thank you all for your love and kind words about this thread. I can’t believe how many people it reached! I’m muting it now, but I appreciate you all centering survivor voices here too.

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Daydream #art #illustration

Isobel pinup. ;}

BOOK COVER ARTISTS QRP with your book covers! 📚💙 #Art #BookCover #Books

BOOK COVER ARTISTS QRP with your book covers 📚 #BookCovers ( I hope covers for TTRPGs count into this XD I haven't really done any "normal" book covers)

A rare digital art piece of @tapiocawizard.bsky.social’s monk in the Frostmaiden campaign I’m DMing! #DnDArt #DigitalArt #DnD #SaplingArt

Artists, quote with your queer characters! 🌈 That's. Uh. All of mine. They're all queer. Every one of them. But here are the main characters, for your perusal. (last sketch is lewd)

YOU🫵! If u see this post huge breasts (male version)

Thank you so much everyone for over 150 applications already! 🥰 After a quick skim, we want to note that we'd love to see more ideas for (any) Indigenous, and especially African themes! Feel free to tag artists you think might fit 💗 #Zine #ZineApps #ArtistsWanted #LGBTQ

The TOADLEMONS! 🍋🍋🍋🐸 Alcohol markers and colored pencil for the lines ^^ They are available as stickers only on Patreon and kofi via subscription ^^ patreon.com/soturisi ko-fi.com/soturisi [ #traditionalart #alcoholmarkers #arksky #bskyart #art #artist #sketchbook ✏️]

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Also my understanding of their facial features has improved so much in the years since I made this first doodle 😬

Still planning this though! :D Likely later today or tomorrow

A quick doodle in response to a very sweet Tumblr Ask 🩷 #MiscArt | #KPopDemonHunters | #SajaBoys | #Abby | #fanart

I might take a little break from bsky for a few days. This censorship issue is just a little too much as a frequently silenced, re-exploited survivor. I’ll probably still share some art, but I’m going to stick to my “image only” feeds and avoid further educational threads.

Reposting this point in particular. Stop stealing survivor terms to fuel anti/puritan culture.

Hey, so, survivor of CSAM (child sexual abuse material) here—and a global survivor advocate, including policy work! Fictional material is not illegal. That’s actually why deepfakes are such a big issue for survivors too. That said, actual art should *not* be made illegal. Why? (Con’t)

Fuck censorship, have the knot 🔥 #nsfwart #nsfw #oc #fmp

What color defines your portfolio? Probably purple and pink! 💜🩷 It used to be blue and gold, and before that was purple and orange…so every few years it shifts~ I wonder what will come next!

Wild rose

You look like this.

I much prefer this idea to an artists boycott. Please #artistsofbluesky don't boycott, do #kinktober and spread the love.

Tbh I’ve never seen a social media platform organize so quickly and effectively as the art community here on bsky Imagine what we could do. Like create global freelance artist unions. Take down AI’s power. Raise awareness for places in need. We’ve already done so much and it gives me a lot of hope

🔞I don't normally post these on main, but fuck it! Im highly considering it anyway so here's some old nudity (and suggestive shit) drawings before i head out. PEACE

QRP with your couple art! 💕 I’ll take any excuse to share my angel polycule hehe #queerart #watercolor #OC

So! According to some interviews on Al Jazeera yesterday, social media platforms cannot be held legally responsible for what their users post. In other words, these censorship initiatives are motivated by platform morality, not legal necessity Keep complaining

Anyway, these policies and guidelines are following pay processors demands 'cause we know BlueSky will need to implement sources of income sooner than later, and they're bending the knee to Visa and Mastercard to comply. So keep pressuring paypros! stop-paypros.neocities.org

it should go without saying but if you want users to voluntarily tag their art then you need to not threaten to ban them if they do. like, you can either have a well-regulated, easily-filtered art ecosystem or you can ban art you don’t like and see it come oozing back out of every crack and crevice

More relevant than ever. This is why fascists try to censor artists first. This is why we can never stop, give in, or quiet ourselves. Stay scary, fellow artists~ 😘 (image from @/bcvitalwrites on Instagram)

Have YOU sent in a support ticket about the new moderation policies yet today? 🗣️ Several points to make: 1. Art shouldn't be censored 2. It's difficult to *show* consent in a drawing 3. Banning means it will still be posted, but unlabeled 4. Bsky automod is VERY unreliable + will ban incorrectly

Everyone should just do #kinktober as a way to fight this censorship ban. The perfect month is coming up. We can flood bsky with this!

I’m doing my part, you should too #bskycensorship send feedback to the mod team