Solstrix

@s0lstrix.bsky.social

28 Followers 51 Following

Call me Soli! 🗝️🪻🌙 (Any pronouns are fine) Archiving music by daylight, making art by moonlight I'm a gothic artist creating comics and stationary French Canadian living in Germany with my lovely wife <3

A digital illustration of two women almost kissing. The one on the left is sitting on a chair, and is wearing a red cloak. The one on the left is perched on the arm chair, holding up the other woman's chin in her hand.
A digital illustration of a distant figure walking a snowy trail surrounded by snow-covered trees. She is wearing a dark blue snow jacket, darker blue snow pants, as well as a fluorescent orange backpack and tuque.
A painterly digital illustration of Alice from American McGee's Alice, lying down between brambles of bright red roses. She is holding the Vorpal Blade against her chest. Her expression is serene, except for the fact that her right eye is half-open, revealing a red glint of rage.
A digital painting of a forest scene. It is broken up in the middle by a pond of dark water, surrounding an island on which is one of the gnarled tree. Amongst its roots is a large mossy stone, upon which rests a sword, and a curled up sleeping black cat.
Title: Join us for Micro Comic Summer! Body Text: Create a four-page comic (or shorter!). Post it with #microcomicsummer on September 22nd. Check out the hashtag and share other peoples’ comics! Have fun!!!
A digital illustration of two women, one sitting in a chair (code name Red), the other perched on the arm rest (Snow). The seated person (Red) is wearing tan thigh-high boots over dark pants, a lace-up corset layered over a white shirt with large puffed sleeves tucked into lace-up leather gloves. Topping it off is a bright red hooded cape with a metal moon shaped charm. Red’s face is turned towards Snow, who is holding her chin. Red is frowning and looks grumpy, but the bright blush on her pale skin gives away how flustered she really is. Her hair is dark and choppy. Snow meanwhile wears a long flowing white dress paired with a few pieces of black metal armour (specifically: a pair of greaves, shoulder plates, upper arm plate, a stylized chest plate, and a gorget styled almost more like a choker. Small chains drape across her chest from the shoulder pieces.) She is dark-skinned, with her white hair styled in long thin braids with silver charms at the ends, with a few braids styled in loops at the crown of her head, and artfully curled baby hairs framing her face. Her expression is affectionate, but slightly teasing. Her smile shows her long fangs which, in combination with her long ears, makes it evident she is a vampire. The figures are placed against a dark background, with a peachy-pink square framing their upper bodies.
A digital front-facing portrait of a dark-skinned woman. Her skin-tone is deep and warm, with purplish highlights. Her facial features are somewhat sharp, with strong cheekbones. She has white hair in long thin braids, partially pulled up into a large bun, with styled baby hairs framing her forehead. Her eyelashes and eyebrows are of a matching snowy colour. She has dark gray sclera, emphasizing the bright blood red of her eyes. Her ears are long and elf-like with silver piercings, and from her lips peek a set of fangs; she is a vampire.
A large cake covered in yellow frosting, with swirls of pink frosting along the edge and around the bottom. The cake has six lit striped candles, three on each side. The cake’s edge is decorated with cut strawberries, cockroaches, and centipedes draping along the sides. In the middle top fo the cake, sitting on a bed of more pink frosting, is the head of a baby porcelain doll; one eye is drooped closed, the other stares blue and blankly ahead. It has very few hairs, revealing all of the plug holes along its scalp. It wears an expression between fear and anxiety.
A slice of cake, viewed from a 3/4 angle. The cake itself is pink, and rendered with painterly strokes making it look soft and cloudy. The cake has two layers, divided by a dripping line of red syrup. It is topped with a layer of yellowish fondant with a spiderweb of chocolate sauce on the top. There are three dollops of whipped cream along the back. Here’s the twists: Within the cake, various parts of cockroaches stick out. Sitting on top is a large brown house spider. And the cake‘s tip is draped by spiderwebs.
A digital illustration of a slice of cherry pie. The crust has a golden glazed, and has been criss-crossed on top. A pristine red cherry sits primly at the top of the slice. Within the pie slice, we can see an assortment of sliced and whole cherries amongst stylistically-rendered red jam drippings. Upon closer inspection however, amongst the cherries in the pie, there is one singular eyeball.
A big round ceramic teapot, with yellow vertical stripes. The handle is a bent doll arm. The lid is topped with a blue eyeball sitting in a small puddle of tears. The lid is lined with pink gums and square white teeth, reflecting those at the teapot’s foot. At the pot’s centre is a partially open pair of lips, exposing yet another row of square white teeth. The teapot’s spout is peachy-flesh-coloured, and pouring out a red liquid along with two shining leeches.
A digital painting of a pink macaron, overfilled with dripping red jam. On top, a large molar tooth rests on yet another small splash of red jam.
A rectangular sugar cookie covered in pastel pink and yellow diagonal striped frosting. Messily written on top in semi-transparent red icing the sentence “EAT ME”. The cookie rests on an ominous red splatter.
A coloured and rendered digital illustration of a vanilla cupcake... with something horribly wrong. The wrapping paper is a pastel yellow. The frosting on top is a pastel pink, broken up by multiple long and pointed screws. The “cherry” on top is a glassy blue eye.
A page out of a square sketchbook, displaying swatches of acrylic markers, in four rows of 14.
A screenshot of the lower right corner of a Procreate canvas. In the foreground is a twist of swirling briar crowned with painted mint-green leaves and bright red roses. Behind them, we glimpse the right side of a figure hit with dappled sunlight. In the corner is Solstrix's signature, written in the same bright red as the roses.
A young red-headed woman stands in the center of the frame, one hand on her hip, the other holding aloft a long cigarette holder. She is wearing a long victorian dress, made of highly reflective acid green silk, with a dark velvet bustle, leg-of-lamb-sleeves, and bodice. She wears a large hat topped with feathers, a pair of wings, and a few dark flowers. She has her hair is an updo, is smirking at the viewer, and has an eyebrow raised at the viewer. There is a mole under her right eye.
A screenshot of a Procreate canvas. We are zoomed into the upper left corner, focusing on some lovingly-rendered bright red roses. The right side of the canvas is taking up by half of a face, eye closed, her hair sprawled around her as she lies beneath the roses.
A sketchbook page. The text “Ex Libris Solstrix” (Latin for “from the books of Solstrix”) in black ink surrounds a pencil sketch of an ornate key. This is itself framed by an ornate gothic window, also lined with black ink.
A painterly representation of a cluster of mushrooms, with warm brown caps hit by golden sunlight from the upper right. The sunlight illuminates particulate spores in the air, turning them into golden shimmer. The mushrooms grow from a bed of moss pierced through the occasional blade of grass, both in a muted green cast in a golden glow.
A digital rendering of a small persian kitten wearing victorian boy clothes (including a button up shirt with an oversized triangular collar and necktie, layered under a waistcoat, along with a pair of breeches). The kitten has an underbite, with his lower fangs poking out of his mouth. Some of his whiskers are crinkled, and his fur, while soft and luscious, is a little messy, hinting at his troublemaking personality. In his right paw, he is proudly holding up a tiny fish. The whole drawing is rendered in hatched lines and prominent textures.
A digital illustration of a woman in a Victorian nightgown stands in front of a glowing moon, her long dark hair whipping around her. Her fingers are claw-like, and her face is a grinning skull.
An image representing the back of a vertical business card. At its center is an antique-styled key, with the handle decorated in elaborate spirals and scrollwork, gemstones at each quadrant, and two crescent moons on the side. It is engraved with the letter S, in a gothic/blackletter font. It floats in the middle of the composition, ghostly and white. It is framed by bunches of lilacs, in a simple lineart style and a subtle green/purple colour scheme
Digital drawing of Monster High character Frankie Stein in their G3 doll outfit Amped Up Frankie. They are wearing spiked headphones, a dark shirt with silver puffed sleeves, a silver harness, and leather shorts with lightning bolts. In one hand they are holding their keytar, while the other is raised in a devil's horns gesture. Their smile is wide and slightly manic. They are backlit by cyan and magenta spotlights.
A woman with a skull-like face stands before the moon clad in a victorian-style lacey nightgown. Her arms are spread on either side of her, and her long dark hair whips in the wind.