Martine G Ræstad

19 May 2025

Just now saw this because someone sent it to me, so flattered at being mentioned as a highlight for you, Terri! ❤️✨ I had a great time at the panel!

Terri Windling@terriwindling.bsky.social

I've enjoyed the first day of GIFCon talks sponsored by the U of Glasgow & the Centre for Fantasy, especially @mechamarty.bsky.social on Mirrlees' Lud-in-the-Mist. I'm particularly looking forward to @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social's talk this morning. Perhaps I'll see some of you there in the chat?

27 Feb 2025

Holiday burnout hit hard and life carried me away from social media ... But I did eventually finish those cats! Delivered in person as a Christmas gift only a few weeks late in mid-January ❤️🌨️🌟 #artsky #catart

27 Feb 2025

Some progress pics, from initial sketch through miscellaneous steps (pencil, watercolor tint, alcohol marker, colored pencils, posca highlights... I think that was all?)

18 Dec 2024

I was already planning some cat art as one xmas gift and then entirely separately, a friend slipped in art of her cats as a point on the wishlist she sent me 🐈🐾🎨 apparently it's the year of cat art gifts, so you're not free from sketches yet! #catart #artsky (first draft)

18 Dec 2024

feat. two of my all-time favourite furballs

16 Dec 2024

Today's entirely unnecessary but fun project: Made a tutorial poster in case my roommate ever needs to feed the sourdough starter 🥖👨‍🍳 #sourdough #artsky

16 Dec 2024

Progress pics because I always like to include them 🎨 tho this time I do feel like I'm just exposing putting way too much thought into a random idea that struck when putting away groceries- 😂 (roommate got a good laugh tho)

10 Dec 2024

some late-night composition sketching for a possible xmas surprise for gilliancatlady (on Insta), featuring her three lovely cats Tikki, Thistle and Dandy 🐈🐾 she doesn't follow me here so it's not spoilers 😉 #catart #sketch #artsky

10 Dec 2024

sneaky look at the pose references used, all snatched from her Insta, cus she takes great pictures of these furballs

8 Dec 2024

and so 8th of december strikes again... and here's what I ended up doing with it - inspired by JL's "Watching the Wheels", one of my all-time favourites of his ❤️💐

3 Dec 2024

I have accidentally achieved some very satisfying symmetry 😩✨

Anyone else have this weird hangup/hesitation with consuming new content about their special interests or is it just me? big Beatles doc is dropping today and everyone expects me to watch it on launch but honestly I feel like I have to take a deep breath and brace myself, even if it looks great

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Mark Sumner 🌒

@devilstower.bsky.social

@steinmakesgames.bsky.social

Six decades later, Star Trek may still be the only franchise based on the ideas that diversity is strength, justice is the measure of civilization, bounty is to be shared, peace is worth the price, and all these things can be achieved. We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.

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Stein Makes Games

Video games let us live out common power fantasies like carrying 20 swords and 200kg of food in a singular ergonomic backpack.

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lindi

@stillindigo.bsky.social

sometimes your art is literally fine, you’ve just been staring at it for too long

so my roommate's gaming headset was falling apart, but in this household we persevere 🎧🧵🪡 I've got 99 problems I can't fix with needle and thread but this bitch ain't one

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RJ Palmer

@rj-palmer.com

Make art that you think is fuckin sick as hell. Make the shit you never thought you could that you always wanted to see. Beat your insecurity to death and fight to become your own favorite artist.

was originally gonna wait to post until digital was done, but spotted that I drew it exactly one year ago today.... so, anniversary + procrastination limbo, oops ✏️ made in the timeframe of exactly one @piratesoftware.live stream, feat. our goblin king as mysterious D&D NPC u meet in the forest #art

Bonus: Cheat sheet for a game of Count the Ferrets, including some I know were intended to be specific ones (but gosh if I've forgotten how many and which ones they were specifically), and one that's climbing on an invisible mushroom cus the texture didn't load in

Today's entry from the art archives! 🎨 keeping with the gaming theme in honour of my gamer mutuals, here's a study of Overwatch's Widowmaker that I did in 2022 🎮🕷️ she was just so shiny, I couldn't resist (ref./sketch below)

the official character art vs my on-paper sketch - and it's painfully obvious that I put the gun off until the end and then just decided I couldn't be bothered lmao

This is the most wholesomely offended response I've ever gotten and I'm kinda living for it - thank you so much! ✨❤️ sweet ppl on here are really refueling my energy to post/share instead of just putting my art into storage like I have been - gotta remind myself there might be people who'd wanna see

Ange@handle.invalid

Excuse me, how do you have less followers than me? You are so talented and I need more people to recognize you immediately.

23 Nov 2024

@refinedzero.com foolishly made a wish into the aether for chibi art of his profile pic, not knowing there were art gremlins in the void - always on the prowl, and seeing an opportunity to make someone smile today 😈 mwahahaha

23 Nov 2024

+ additional versions for practical purposes 😎

23 Nov 2024

... and this was the day I learned that uploading pngs with blank backgrounds to Bluesky is apparently not so straight forward 🤔 but it's late so I'm filing that as a "tomorrow problem" for now

22 Nov 2024

Flipping through my art backlog... 🎨 Found this piece from early in the year - a portrait of my Baldur's Gate 3 character at the time, Bill the satyr ⚔️🐐 (watercolours on pencils)

22 Nov 2024

Could never actually decide whether I liked it better before or after the colours... The one with just a coloured background definitely stuck around for a while. Ended up playing around with blending them to get the best of both worlds - and now I've just got three I can't pick between!