Syd Mills

@vetyyr.bsky.social

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Freelance illustrator. Commissions open; email for info • silverthegold@gmail.com • she/he/they Prints: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/vetyr/

A person is running to the right with an arm outreached. Visible on their back is a crisscrossed array of blue tattoos. They are facing a galloping horse. In the background: two fire-engulfed hands coming down from the top of the page, with strings wound around the fingers. Behind the hands is a large pale rock; behind the pale rock is a dark burgundy landscape. The night sky is a deep blue.
Two women falling and reaching out for each other. One has billowing fiery red-orange hair. A chess board has been tipped over and its pieces are flying into the air. The background is a lush Irish forest; there is a castle in the far distance.
Digital painting of a woman in a metallic green dress being held tightly at the legs by a person in a glossy red gown. Behind the woman is a bright glow. Surrounding the pair are multiple people all looking away from them, and one of them seems to be raising a billowing piece of fabric above the entire scene. In his hand he holds a few tangled strings.
Digital painting of two women walking past each other without looking at one another. Behind them is a statue of a girl with closed eyes covered by sweeping veils of fabric. The scene is lit by the glow of a cold red sky seen through a broken window.
Digital painting of a man and woman standing back to back under a dark stone archway. The man has his chin raised and the woman has her chin lowered. They both wear elaborate white clothing, and their gold jewelry is dotted with red gemstones. Above their heads is a pomegranate sliced in two, and a thin white snake winding its way through and around it.
Digital painting of two characters, both white haired and pale skinned. The man is partially embracing the woman, leaning into her side and curling his arm around her hips. His legs are metal prosthetics, and he is shirtless. The woman gazes over & away from him, and her hair billows like a fire. Fabric drapes like a tent over her raised hand. In the background are collapsing pillars, a multi-limbed bony wing, and ornate clockwork decorations. The piece is cast in a warm golden glow.
Digital painting of a green-skinned humanoid. His flowing hair is a warm blue lit in soft pink, and coiling around his body is a large orange snake. He holds a ball of glowing light in his hands. Adorning his body are pieces of gold jewelry and fine-lined black tattoos.
Digital illustration of a dark elf with short white curly hair and glasses. He has a secondary set of closed eyes below his main eyes. One of his hands is jet black and dotted with a few glittering stars. Between his hands is a black hole that pulls in shimmering smoke from around him. A small black meteorite on a chain floats up from his neck.
Digital illustration of two people draped in fabric. In the front is a dark-skinned woman covered with gold jewelry. Her head is turned away. Behind her is a woman facing away from the viewer; she holds a halberd with a glowing blade. The background is an intense deep blue.
Digital painting. Illustration of a dry grassy windswept field, the right half blackened and burnt with a fire sweeping the edge. Standing in the fire are two women, one a fair-skinned blonde with long hair blowing in the wind. She faces away from the viewer and wears a billowing black dress. Her right arm rests at her side, and her hand rests on the shoulder of a dark-skinned woman wearing a pale gold dress who’s sitting with her eyes closed. In the distance is a small white sun held in a pale, smoke-filled pink sky.
Digital painting of a shirtless tanned man facing the viewer. His arms are crossed in front of him, and each hand gently holds a hand of a fair-skinned person with gold jewelry on their wrists and fingers. The man has a tattoo of a winged insect across his chest, with eight phases of the moon above it, and an elaborate tattoo on each of his shoulders. He has medium length brown wavy hair, and one of his eyes is pure gold. Iridescent turquoise fabric hangs from above the man and drapes across his waist, obscuring his lower body. A large circular gold plate sits behind him.
Digital illustration of a person looking at a painting on a wall as they walk past. The painting has a woman standing in a windswept grassy field under a deep indigo night sky. There are two soft orange moons above the scene.
Digital painting. Looking up at person with pale skin and glowing white hair. They are holding a thin wooden rod (an arrow, maybe) that seems to have pierced through their chest. They have a few gold rings, and a simple gold bracelet that hangs from their wrist. The sclera of their eyes is red, and their irises are gold. The background of the piece is a soft, cloudy turquoise.
Digital painting viewing a person with long glowing white hair from below, a bloodied sword pierces their chest. They’re wearing elaborate armor and a wispy fabric trails around them.
Digital painting. Two men are laying in a field of dry grass; one is holding the other. The man being held has dark skin, enormous dragon wings, and an elaborately decorated red and gold robe. The man holding him has a blue and gold tunic, blonde hair, and large glowing white feathered wings. They are clasping hands, and the first man looks up at the second.
Digital painting. A person draped in fabric leans over and out from their gown & shawl bursts a herd of deer. Birds rush past. The background has the appearance of swirling oxidized metal.
Digital painting. In the foreground is a wolf facing away from the viewer and a couple of branches behind him. In the midground is a field of dry brush, and in the far background is a red mountain with a towering cloud behind it. The sky is lit with colors of turquoise, dull pink, and gold.
Digital painting of a man and woman sitting on marble steps. The woman sits above the man and rests her hand in his hair; her other arm is outstretched and she crushes a pomegranate in her hand. The man wears a complex neckpiece and a red piece of fabric that only partially covers him.
Close-up of a man pressing his face into another man’s shoulder. A look of fear & need in his eyes. His eyeliner is drawn into a pink & purple arrow. His hand is covered in blood.
Digital painting of two men embracing. The one in the back has silver-blond hair and gold nail polish, and his eyes are closed. The one in the front has dark wavy hair, bloodshot red sclera, and gold irises. He’s pressing his face into the shoulder/chest of the first man. Blood pours down his hands and chest and arm. In the background above their heads is a relief depicting a spear stabbing through three figures, as well as two figures curled up in fear.
Digital painting of two redhead women. One of them faces us head-on, the other is seen in profile. The former holds a burning Polaroid and a crow with its wings spread is laid against her chest. Smoke flows out from the Polaroid and through their hair. The scene is lit from below.
Digital painting. Two women staring at each other, golden light pouring over them. One of them has bandaged & bloody arms. Electric blue lapis lazuli background.
Commissioned digital illustration. A kneeling woman bathed in golden light has her hand pressed to her mouth. Her fingers dissolve into golden mist. She wears a simple fabric gown and a thin necklace that floats in the air. Her hair is smoke-like, and floats around her. In the background are scattered constellations and swirls of gold & grey smoke.
Square digitally painted image with grey-turquoise background. On the left is a cherry & vanilla ice cream cone with three scoops of ice cream. In the top middle of the image is a cherry or raspberry & vanilla cream pop with glossy highlights. In the bottom middle is a donut with a large dollop of white cream on top & chocolate crumbs sprinkled on it. In the top right is a golden pear. In the middle right are two raspberries. In the bottom right is some dark chocolate flan or truffle like thing, with gold leaf flakes on top.
Digital painting in landscape format. The viewer is looking up towards a person with glowing white hair who holds up the skinned hide of an antelope; the red underside of the skin rests behind them like a backdrop. There is a scattering of pierced holes in the hide, and light pours through these holes (and the antelope’s empty eye socket) like cathedral windows in the sun. The person’s neck is partially severed, and blood pours from the wound upwards towards their eyes. Their chest is bare, and their lung veins glow beneath their skin. They’re wearing fabric around their waist, along with some hanging jewels and a metallic/golden plate that depicts a lion surrounded by stars & a sideways crescent moon. The antelope’s rear left leg is partially cut off, and there is a network of ropes & fabric tied around the stump. These strands of fabric, along with a bunch that are tied to the person’s right wrist, blow wildly in the wind. Behind the entire scene is a grey, storm-like background. There are glowing cave paintings of horses, cows, and antelope along the bottom of the image.
A shirtless man with faint metallic top surgery scars embraces another man with one arm and kisses him on the side of the head. His other arm is outstretched and he tightly grasps the blade of a sword (pointed straight down), which is on fire. The fire spreads from the tip of the sword up his arm and engulfs the upper bodies of the two men. Blood runs down the sword blade. The man being held is dressed in white fabric and ornate gold jewelry. In his right hand he grips a curved dagger, which he drags along the stomach of the first man, cutting him open. Blood spills out and soaks the clothing of the first man. Behind the two is a cold rocky landscape with a large mountain. Centered behind the grip of the vertical sword is a sun.
Pink background. Four dessert items—top left is some kind of cinnamon muffin with nuts and a shaved piece of chocolate on top & chocolate sauce running down the sides; top right is a very decadent slice of chocolate cake with a shaved piece of chocolate on top; bottom right is a stack of pancakes with warm cinnamon apple slices on top; bottom right is a square of spiced cake with white/beige frosting and large cherry halves on top. There is a very faint red triangle behind these four desserts, which is there for compositional framing.
Two figures, but they are the same person. One is lying face-up on the ground, the other is kneeling over them with their right hand over part of their face; their left hand is holding the left hand of the other figure up & pressing it against their cheek. The figure that is lying down has their right arm slightly raised, and just above their right hand is a burning piece of paper. Their chest is alight, and glowing veins travel up their two arms (most visibly their left one). Their head is partially severed from their body. In the background is a patchwork of images of a blue landscape with mountains. The moon is a dark red circle.
Woman in a chariot being pulled by two white horses. She’s releasing the reins as they thrash away from her. There is a large billowing piece of fabric framing them, and behind the fabric is a dark red planet-like shape.
Room with an androgynous white-haired person wearing a shirt with billowing white sleeves, a slim red vest with gold detailing, laced black leathery or latex-y pants, and red heels. They’re sitting on a Victorian-looking velvet and wood stool surrounded by two large white borzois and stacks of messy papers. Their arm is held up to an easel where they’re hand-smudging charcoal into the messy design of an ouroboros. Framing their head like a nimbus is a circular window with a spiderweb design in it, almost crack-like in appearance. The room is cast in a soft pink glow. On both sides of the scene are tall, heavy crimson curtains tied back by gold tasseled ropes.