Photo of the artist and author sitting on a bench outdoors, holding her graphic novel "Bloody Mary: A Graphic Biography of Mary Tudor". Her speech bubble says "Thank you, Graphic Novel & Comic Round Table and American Library Association!"

I'm super thrilled that my book "Bloody Mary: A Graphic Biography of Mary Tudor" has been given an honor in the new comic/graphic novel award category from the ALA. 💚

www.ala.org/gncrt/awards...

In the category Outstanding Comic Awards for Young Adults, Nonfiction.

With all the A.I. generated imagery out there, I would like to share some of the thoughts that go into a painting created by a human being...

Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.

-W. H. Auden

An illustration depicting a tiefling standing in amongst a crowd, wearing regal clothing. He is glancing back over his shoulder with a smirk as he throws petals back towards his followers who gaze up towards him with adoration.

The War General of Valkina

Second of my artworks painted for Cynthia Sheppard's mentorship

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.

Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

“If a woman dares to show herself in public in any way, then she can and will be sexually harassed with the aid of genAI-driven tools that can easily turn her face into highly realistic pornography” is an absolute red-alarm human rights disaster

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

Broad backed gal wearing brass/gold colored armor

Broad backed gal wearing brass/gold colored armor

Character/armor design commish

A woman stands in a cemetery at night, holding a lantern with a candle that burns with a teal flame. She is dressed in rich Eastern garments adorned with gold jewelry — intricate rosettes on her arms, hair ornaments, dangling earrings, a belt, and a neckpiece studded with large red gemstones. Before her lies a broken, weathered iron fence

Finished ych for NemeanGold with Zyvah 💚

I love giving artists creative freedom, I do the same when I ask someone to draw my OCs. I really enjoy seeing them through other people's eyes. Do you give strict guidelines or leave room for interpretation?

#oc #commission

Hello and thanks for the artshare ✨

Here is my art 💀

@ewylana.bsky.social @avalach.bsky.social @yueartiste.bsky.social @tzurgeart.bsky.social

January commissions are open. I want to draw more characters next year and I’m looking forward to your ideas. Limited availability – all details are in the link in my profile. Reposts are very appreciated🖤

#artcommissions #commissionopen #conceptart #darkart #illustration #artistforhire

Hello, it's my birthday so I feel bold enough to suggest;

if you'd like to make a small, for-profit game or two together in 2026 please get in touch!

A digital drawing done in a painterly style of two characters in a forest. Both appear to be young demons with horns. One is stepping out of the light towards the second one, who is standing in the dark.

A digital painting of two characters in front of a fire place. The view is top down and shows some birds looking down on them and sitting next to them eating. One character with dark hair and horns is taking a bowl of soup from another character that has braided red hair and a blue dress. The scene seems rather rustic.

A digital painting of a character with feathers attached to their arms to look like bird wings. They're wearing a skintight black body suit with bones attached to them, a bird skull on their head and have a long black braid. The character is standing on a tree branch and reaching up to the sky, nothing but the clouds and ravens around them and the sun right behind their head.

A digital painting of the Genshin Impact character Tighnari. He is sitting in a forest against a tree taking notes. The scene shows a lot of the wildlife like a bird, some boar like animals and a cat like animal on top of the leaning trunk of the tree. There are mushrooms growing everywhere.

I feel just a little shameless doing this but I saw other people doing it and I gotta learn to promote myself.

Hi, I'm Mika and it's my birthday today! If I could have one wish it'd be for you to share my art. No pressure though I already had a banger day. Appreciate you all ❤️

Two horsemen running for their lives. In the background there are two giants, one of which is stabbing the other. The blood flowing down in glowing like molten lava.

A portrait of a woman with dark skin and blue eyes, she is wearing a bright red suit, a big red hat and black gloves with ornate jewels.

A giant man with white pearlescent scales on his shoulders and tail covers a small woman in a red dress with his hand The man has a huge bleeding bite on his shoulder.

Taking commissions for January, please RT 🧡

If you are interested please contact me via e-mail: chirunax@gmail.com

Text reads: USE AI? No thanks. I'd rather get my misinformation from the local swamp hag.

anti ai, pro hag

🍂La Belle Dame sans Merci🍂
Another new piece I've done within Cynthia Sheppard's smARTschool class 😊 Inspired by John Keats' ballad.
#art #juliametzgerart

I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*

High Priestess Tarot Card An image of a woman in a blue dress seated upon a throne with moon symbols on it looking down imperiously. She is surrounded by stones, gnarled trees and a stone circle behind her head. Her hair moves as though it's being blown by a strong wind or moved by ocean currents. Her dress flows into a waterfall that turns into a pool that flows into the foreground.

This is from last year not this one but I feel like I've been on an upward swing lately so I'm including some stuff from 2024 too. Sometimes I think what I do is frivolous in the face of... everything.

But then I look at pieces like this and I remember that's not true.

I can finally show one of my favourite paintings from last year! This was a commission for @illumicrate.bsky.social which was printed on a blanket included in a recent Afterlight box.

Auroras are my favourite natural phenomena and i'd love to see them some day, so i'm very glad I got to paint one!

Estrin is stretching his hand towards a white rose, a full moon hanging in the night sky and stars shining around him. The frame is decorated with daggers, arrows and roses on both sides.

Estrin 🌕 Art Nouveau inspired commission for @ghosttcryptids.bsky.social

#art

The average equippable item you find in #Blasphemous...

The commission for a client, an art of a woman, who is doing her make up with a brush and a mirror in her hands. She is wearing decorations made of fur, flowers and branches on the head, and a fur coat on her shoulders

Portrait for @iast.bsky.social 🖤 Be honest, who else uses their finger instead of a brush all the time? 🙂‍↕️

#commission #oc

A giant woman dressed in white floating in the air. She has four white wings and two long black braids. On her head there is a kokoshnik-like crown.

A portrait of a woman with dark skin and blue eyes, she is wearing a bright red suit, a big red hat and black gloves with ornate jewels.

A giant man with white pearlescent scales on his shoulders and tail covers a small woman in a red dress with his hand The man has a huge bleeding bite on his shoulder.

Taking commissions for December, please RT 🧡

If you are interested please contact me via e-mail: chirunax@gmail.com

Also added a new option for sketch-portraits for $50

More info and examples: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw.

( Also a good excuse for an #art study )

screenshot of a tweet that reads as follows: MARY OLIVER: You do not have to walk on your knees for one hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. ME: What if it loves this [shows phone screen] MARY OLIVER: That's fine but do not show it to me again

another all-time tweet I am constantly thinking about

My art is good — the algorithm just doesn’t see it yet!

All #smallartist and #artist pals, drop your recent work below — I’d love to repost it and share the love! 💖

It's my birthday today. And the best gift from you would be to share my art 🥰

Thank you all for sticking with me! 💚

getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.