repeated pattern tile of prayer plant leaves and flowers in green

repeated pattern tile of prayer plant leaves and flowers in green

prayer plant meditation 🌿

Hayao Miyazaki films start in his sketches—his "image boards." It’s a habit he’s kept up for 60 years.

He works fast and loose, mainly in pencil and watercolor. Perfection isn't the goal. But you can trace his growth through the pictures. We explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-image-...

🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS RIGHTS 🏳️‍⚧️

An illustration of my OC, Egg the Trans Raccoon (a blue, pink & white raccoon with a trans-flag-striped tail) laying down and looking at a small flower. They’re also wearing a flower crown in the colors of a trans flag. The illustration is soft and it says “grow into your best self” over Egg.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️🌸

[ #tdov #cuteart #trans ]

drawing of a girl wearing a fck ice tshirt

whaddup bsky o/ hope everyone is as well as can be expected. sorry for the long absence, i’ve been hibernating for the winter but i can feel spring sending me new energy!

Pixelart winter mountain landscape. The snow is covering the fields, you are on the top of a small hill, there's a path ahead of you. A crow is watching you from the top of a wooden fence. The path goes behind the pine trees. The small mountains goes to the horizon in the background, thick layer of clouds cover the whole sky.

Winter landscape. 270x150px
#pixelart

Three small drawings: One of a shrine under a pine tree with a stone inside, one of a salamander on the forest floor, one of a coastal path with stone steps, two tall trees, stone columns and two hikers in the distance. The overall feel is very late summer to early autumn.

ok I will stop fiddling with this now

Kiyoshi Saito (1907-1997)

emma frost of marvel comics xmen in diamond form in my usual midcentury modern retro pinup fashion style against a grey background

her diamond form is something I’m eternally trying to capture

STOP FORCING AI INTO EVERY FUCKING THING

💥 AI MAKES SLOP (New for 2026)💥

ICE GO HOME (Get Out of Our City)

IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE (New for 2026)

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pixel art illustration by Zoë Treez - 2026 title font that reads “Fuck Ice” a cool toned, cloaked knight is surrounded by bold red flames. their hand that holds their sword has their middle finger extended out, again to express the sentiment of Fuck Ice! The corners at the top are framed with small spiked flails

Protect Thy Neighbor ❤️‍🔥

#pixelart #illustration #art

a transparent young woman hovers above ground as a young opaque man keeps her from floating away as snow falls around them

opacity low
lost in the alpha channel
the blend mode she was
#pixelart

love

A pixel art cityscape of a small town at sunset.

Day 510: memories
#pixelart #ドット絵 #art #dailies

Picture of two silly looking, raccoon and fox keychains handmade with felt. They are photographed on a black and wooden background with a few decorative plants around.

🦊 💛 🦝

Keychains available 🌱 evanskyarts.com/en/collectio...

#art #handmade #fox #raccoon #cute #giftIdeas #ShopSmall #SmallBusiness #Artist

Just before Christmas, I got a puppy. Her name is Minerva, and we call her *Minnie. I'm still learning how to understand her. Me: Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go outside, little baby? Do you need to do a poo? Do you need to do a widdle piddle? Minnie: Arf! *I just call her "little baby" most of the time. I'm also realizing I can't turn off the baby talk now. Nobody tells you about that.

I got so lucky with my first puppy. Her wonderful foster parents had her completely house-trained by the time we adopted her, so taking her outside for potty time has been pretty easy. I've got the puppy poopy routine pretty much down, now. Me, putting on my coat: Let's see... I got the little poopy bags, puppy treats for bribes, jacket, scarf, phone… I think that's everything… Oh yes! And my passport.

I had been carrying around my passport for a while, but I knew it didn't matter. This is wrong. Nobody is required to carry around their papers. I became a US citizen when I was seven. Since I was born in a refugee camp, I was stateless. The US is the only nation where I've ever held citizenship. It's the only passport I've ever had, and it still felt important. Protective. I would hold it in my pocket like a talisman, like it might ward off ghosts or something. But I realized I was holding onto it basically out of superstition. ICE will pick up anybody. I know that. So I tucked my passport away. And I largely avoid leaving my house.

I live a few blocks just South of George Floyd Square. I was in the neighborhood for that, too. And all the neighbors came together to protect each other. We're already organized. We'll do our best to get through this. Me, to my dog: I hope I can take you for a walk someday soon. Won't that be nice, little baby?

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis.

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

ICE OUT Cartoonists against ICE Calling on cartoonists and artists to tell your stories about the ICE occupation of your towns and cities! *4-panel comics* *3:4 Instagram format* Use this Blue: *There is a color drop block of blue to copy * Use these hashtags: #iceout[your city] #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics

Cartoonists, I’d love to hear your stories! For local resources, please check out @defend612.bsky.social
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Support Calvary Food Shelf: Emergency Response Fundraiser on GiveMN Help us respond to urgent community needs

Hey folks Calvary Food Shelf has been helping out people in Minneapolis for 30 years, and now they’re ramping up to meet the crisis, including doing home deliveries so people don’t have to risk going out.

They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?

Snow flurries #art #oilpainting

Moonshell Island's protagonist Sam (a young purple haired girl) talking to Douglas (a large beaver guy) in a verdant lakeside area near his carpentry shack. Douglas: Sounds like you've got something radical in mind... Lay it on me, bud! Sam: I'm rebuilding this game from scratch! [unselected dialogue option]: Where's the self-destruct button on this thing?

Since June 2025, I've been learning to code in #gamemaker as I rebuild #Moonshell_Island from scratch after losing another programmer. Follow my #gamedev journey one day at a time in this thread!

More recent #devlog sprints available to paid patrons, starting here: www.patreon.com/posts/21-day...

Horizon Beyond ☀️ #pixelart

Human artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you.

happy new year!
may you be as content as the sleepytime tea bear this year 🫖

星空オーナメント

An oval, frilly-edged pale greenish lichen is mixing with a bright yellow crustose lichen.

Protoparmeliopsis muralis and friends. Northwest Territories, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends

INTRODUCTION Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling. You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse. You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life. TIPS 1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way

possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything. 2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought. 3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt. 4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you. 5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook. 6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes.

7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case. 8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes. 9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out. 10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.

Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find.

They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.