blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing

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one day i will wake up as the big kafka bug ✨️open for work✨️ Raleigh NC https://linktr.ee/blue.jpeg

colored pencil drawing of a cartoonishly thin and knobby horse with a fucked up face
shitty 4 panel comic read from left>right, top>bottom. panel 1, self portrait sits on couch with pillow. "oh shit right terrible comic day." panel 2, hand holding phone closeup. it is 11 pm. "what is boiled one" on web search. boiled one drawn from memory on bottom of screen. panel 3, self portrait holds up cat-sized boiled one quizzically, it squeaks loudly when squeezed. panel 4, self and spouse in bed, looking at boiled one asleep happily at the foot.
photo of a tattoo on a pale thigh. a deinonychus in iridescent pinks, purples, blues and greens leaps, wing arms up and head leaning down, over a falling, supine rendering of a deinonychus skeleton in the same color palette.
Glamour shot of a sculpture in polymer clay and resin on a black wooden base. The sculpture is of Trungo, a humanoid character with 4 arms, clear wings, and a radially symmetrical head of fly faces. Trungo is teetering backward on one leg, holding 3 different alcoholic beverages and a cigarette. His trunk-like mouths and bulbous red eyes convey a series of expressions, all indicating drunkenness. He wears a touseled white button up, red tie, blue knit short sleeved jumper, brown slacks and leather shoes.
black and gray digital illustration of a shrew. the rendering is very particulate and fuzzy, and the shrew's proportions are exaggerated
digital line sketches of comedian Chris Fleming in a series of expressive and comical poses. the only text is above a very loosely sketched, tiny rendering of them crouched animalistically over a microphone: "SETH MEYERS"
close up image of sculpted ornament amongst pine boughs and rainbow christmas lights. it is the head of Death from Discworld, a skeleton with glowing blue eyes in a rugged Santa hood and obviously fake beard, with hooks attaching it to his cheekbones. He faces out to the right at a 3/4 angle.
a young, thin, green fairy woman lounges on a rocky outcropping in a fantasy world with floating mountains in the background. she has 4 iridescent, pink-veined wings on her back and 10 small wings growing from her head. she has an enormously long tongue, which winds around her arm to collect blood dripping from a dismembered male head suspended by tongue tendrils over her hand. the man is in his fifties, has white skin, fine blond hair, and blood trickling from his eyes and mouth
illustrative tattoo designs in color. a sad cat head, fox head with tongue out, girl head with ethereal lighting, an echidna, a newt, a fluffy rainbow dog, a hamster eating celery.
photo of a white person modeling an airbrushed black tshirt. the shirt has an existing logo on the top right breast, and the painting is a unicorn facing towards it. the unicorn is seen neck-up, in profile, with a glittering, spacey background. The animal is glossy black, and the whole image is rendered using teal, cerulean, hot pink, and white pigments. it is realistic in style, similar to 80s fantasy art
a warcraft forest troll seen in 3/4 view, shoulders-up. He is green-skinned, muscular, with simple geometric torso tattoos, long ears and nose, and tusks curling up from his bottom jaw. his nose is tattooed black, as are strips of skin from hairline over eyes to cheeks. He has a tall red mohawk with long braids trailing off the sides. His eyes glow orange, and he smiles maniacally at the viewer.
A large acrylic painting showing a busy city street populated by anthropomorphic insects. The scene takes place in the lower city, while the richer and more pristine upper city extends up the mountain in the background. It is late afternoon/early evening, and the colors are dramatic, with warm light and sharp cool shadows. At the center of the image, a yellow weevil in wizard robes and hat rides a massive, rearing millipede. He shrugs dramatically at an angry wasp on the ground in front of his steed, whose hands are raised antagonistically. A few feet away, on the ground, is a spilled crate of red fruits. Many insect onlookers watch on from street level, balconies, and flying above.
Original low quality photo of Neil the hairless rat on a gray carpet. His far hand is lifted as if to plunk the keys on his small toy piano. Text at the bottom of the photograph reads "Neil banging out the tunes, April 13th 2006"
a painting of Neil, the hairless rat, as a rockstar tumbling through a purple space. He plays a small purple toy keyboard, which glows pink and leaves a commet trail behind it. Neil wears rockstar accessories; funky yellow cheese-shaped shades, two earrings, and rings around his tail.
imaginative realism acrylic painting. a jungle at sunset. a chubby warrior woman with dark skin wearing only skimpy metal armor lounges in a mossy tree. on the ground rests a massive Jellycat Snow Dragon with earrings of similar metal.
comical purple line drawing of Emperor bg3 eating a brain like a sandwich. they sit, legs straight out and eyes huge and shiny and sad. text reads "left out of every bg3 "main cast" art (minsc and ketheric are there)
An acrylic painting on paper. In the foreground two children of fantasy races - a blonde, pale skinned halfling boy with large ears and rabbit-like digitigrade legs, and a dark skinned girl with pointed ears, wings, and a dark afro - run over a grassy, misty hill, holding hands looking into the distance. In the middle ground, climbing another misty hill, this one steeper and rockier and more in shadow, are three additional figures. Two, a large adult tiefling and a small human child, have reached the summit and are waving into the distance. The third, an elf child, holds on to a dead tree to hoist herself over some rocks that block her path. Over several misty mountain tops, half illuminated by the morning sun and half in cool atmospheric shadow, once a path that caps at the ruined wall of a large abandoned city at the top of the highest peak. An enormous Magic the Dragon Ty Beanie Baby sits in the gate, perched on/in the city like a nest. She has 3 baby Magics, 2 on her body and 1 further away, perched on a building around the side of the mountain. She us so far away and so large, her color is hazily blue from distance and mist, except a few sharp points of light where the low sun catches her. She bends her head down to look at the waving figures
tattoo of a caterpillar clown. it is on a pale lower leg, layered under 2 black tattoos. it is teal, red, and purple, and curls up crying cutely
close up photo of a tattoo of a yellow, gecko-like dragon on a pale calf. it is in the peeling phase of tattoo healing.
A watercolor and colored pencil illustration of Captain Janeway from Star Trek Voyager. She has three Chihuahua sized brown amphibians, one on each shoulder and one in her arms. She looks to the left into the middle distance with a dissociated and traumatized expression.
A watercolor and colored pencil rendering of a human-sized yellow weevil. He is standing half in shadow half in a shaft of light in front of some crates garbage bags and dilapidated buildings. He kicks up one of his feet in a dance, one of his other limbs holding onto a cane and another one lifting a brown bowler hat off of his head. He has a forlorn and weary air about him.
sketchy digital painting, inspired by the creature in the quoted post. its body is long and serpentine, covered in rainbow quilted squares. it has four black catlike legs, a long black tail with a spine fringe of rainbow hair, feathery black wings, and a mammalian black head with bulbed antennae at the front of its snout. its one visible eye stares at the viewer.
a watercolor painting on a white background. a female lonestar tick holds a cellphone, so much larger than her that only the bottom half can be seen. she is typing on Twitter, about to post "wow dude, go touch grass..."
an acrylic painting on paper of a scene in a forest, viewed from slightly above through branches. a feminine elf with pink hair and European features kneels on the forest floor, hands raising towards a glowing figure descending in a gentle float from above. the figure is Whisper the Ty Beanie Baby fawn. She glows with a warm light that diffuses over the elf and foliage below.
A grid of nine images showing eight illustrations and a selfie of the artist in the center. The illustrations are colorful Dark Fantasy acrylic paintings and the illustrator is a femme person with blue hair shaved sides and a head tattoo of wings.
An image of a color tattoo on pale skin with golden undertones. A new school drawing depicts a green mantis with stars in her eyes eating a string of colorful red gore out of the head of her decapitated mate. He has pink and red heart spirals in his eyes as he looks up at her, and the image is capped off at the bottom by a series of drippy gore hearts that form a chain connected to his mouth. The lighting is bright and natural but subdued.
A tattoo of a very fat frog on an arm. The skin of the arm is tan with orange undertones. the frog sits over the elbow, facing towards the body. it is a white's tree frog, rendered in full color, greens and purples and creams, with huge, shiny amber eyes. it has a thin black outline.
4 black and grey pencil drawings on a white background. Clockwise from the top right, there is: 1) Mari Lwyd, a horse skull in profile ornamented with ribbons, shrouds, and a flower crown. She has a metallic eye in the socket. 2) The Rat King from the Nutcracker ballet. They have 3 heads, the middle crowned and baring its front teeth. They lunge forward, throwing back their fur-lined cape, holding a saber sideways across their body. they have 2 tails curled around each other. 3) The Sugarplum Fairy from the Nutcracker. She is viewed in profile from the thigh up. She wears a layered and ruffled tutu and sleeveless bodice. Her arms are raised, one above her head and one straight out at shoulder height, mid-dance. Her hair is long, dark, and curly, worn loose down her back. She has 2 pairs of wings, which fan out on either side of her like a billowing scarf. She is slightly plump, with a soft smile. 4) Krampus’ head in profile. A tongue the length of his skull winds in serpentine loops out of his open grin. His teeth are all sharp, his lips dark. He has long, black hair, and a pointed dark beard. His nose is goatlike and wrinkled in a delighted snarl. He has ibex-like horns, goat eyes, sharply pointed brows, and pointed ears.
A painting done in thin washes. In an underwater scene, the foreground is dominated by a shelf on a reef on which a pinkish snail is partially illuminated by a dappled shaft of light. The other elements around it, corals and a hiding fish, are in shadow. In the middle ground, on a lower plane, a pile of old gold coins rises into a loose pyramid. Near the base of the pyramid are two snowflake morray eels, curled around facing each other and the snail, their eyes glowing magenta. Between and above them sits a large red octopus, tentacles wrapped around a staff made of twisting driftwood and a huge pearl. The pearl and the octopus' eye both glow the same magenta. At the top of the hoard, backlit by sun coming through the waves, is a red crab. It sits on a toothless human skull overgrown with seaweed and coral. In its left claw it holds a scepter made of driftwood and a gold tooth. It has a cracked top of a beer bottle on its head, the jagged spikes looking like tines on a crown. Carapace protrusions above its eyes look like angry eyebrows. The Reef stretches out into the background, increasingly blue shifted as it fades.
a watercolor painting of a wrapping book cover for Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. the title and author are aligned to the right of the image, with the left of the image serving as the back cover. From right to left, a woman's head in profile sits decapitated in the palm of a hand. The woman is East Asian, young and thin, with a bend in her nose and short black hair. Vines creep over her face, sinking under her skin as glowing veins. Her eye glows the same neon green. Shelves of mushrooms grow from the back of her head. Behind her is dense green swamp. Toward the left/back cover, the arm holding her becomes encased in moss, and the swamp gives way to estuary. In the background trees is a vine-covered lighthouse, glowing the same green
An acrylic painting on paper, rendered in thin watercolor-like washes. A wizard stands at the center of the painting, visible waist-up, looking directly at the viewer. Behind him, tall spiky mountains are illuminated by sunset lighting. He is a white man with a long white beard held in a gold ring, long white hair, and red robes and a hat. His hands are raised and he is dramatically lit by a bright gold glow. At the center of the glow, steam streaming around it, is Ty's Inch the Worm Beanie Buddy.
An acrylic painting on paper, depicting a gothic scene in a castle tower. The camera tilts upward, skewing the perspective. A vampire lounges sideways on an ornate, claw-footed armchair. They are lit from below by firelight, and from behind by moonlight spilling in through 2 huge windows on either corner of the room. They swirl a wineglass of blood, and reach a hand up toward a Batty the Bat Beanie Baby who is hovering above them, silhouetted against an enormous moon. Through the rightmost window, many dark spires of the castle can be seen. An enormous Scorch the Dragon Beanie Baby, made tiny by distance, is about to land on one.
An acrylic painting of a dark fantasy scene. A forboding stone castle stretches into a stormy sky, its highest spires struck by lightning. On one of its collapsed roofs sits an enormous Scorch the Beanie Baby, lit from behind by the lightning and below by a firey glow from within the castle. In the background, another Scorch can be seen perched on its own spiky and mountainous castle, blowing fire at a far tower. In the foreground, a tiny adventuring party stands on a cliff outcropping, starting up at the main Scorch in awe. They are separated from the castle by a canyon, through which runs a river of lava.
A marker drawing on paper of a mermaid-type creature, made from yellow and spotted moray eel. its humanoid half crouches over its coiled and wrinkled eel body. its arms are held out aggressively, fingers webbed and clawed. Over its back, thin pink gills emerge from between its ribs. its head is bent forward into a snarl, and it has a second set of jaws inside it.
A painting of a vampire on a desk, pencils and paintbrushes viewable around the edges. The vampire is a snarling head in a black void, backlit and rendered in shades of red. it is cartoonishly proportion, jaw stretching down impossibly far, fangs swinging forward, long, pointed tongue zig-zagging out past the collar of its cape.
A watercolor painting of a shrimp fleeing an approaching moray eel. It holds a gold tooth in its front claws. The eel's viewer-facing eye glows, and it rears up from wrapping around the shoulders of a skeleton, whose eye socket also glows. It reaches up angrily, while below its other arm and ankles are chained to a cinder block. There is a noticeable gap in its gold smile.