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raquel
@raquelillustrated.bsky.social
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20 | illustrator and character artist
use #art to find all my art posts!
https://raquelillustrated.carrd.co/
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raquel @raquelillustrated.bsky.social · Dec 31
🩵 Hello, I'm Raquel!

I'm an illustrator with a focus on characters and stories! I'm currently pursuing an animation degree. I have a love of animation, video games, beautiful women and the color blue 🌌
An 11x17 digital painting of a snowy clearing with a car parked on the edge of it. A woman leans against the car and looks out to the horizon. The viewer can only see her back in a winter coat and her black hair cut into a bob. A digital illustration of a ghostly feminine figure hanging off of an impossible isometric structure in a black void. She wears a trench coat and boots and has long, thick hair. The isometric structure is bright red and orange. A digital illustration depicting a mockup of a show poster. Two girls in alternative clothing, one pale and the other olive toned, stand at the front of a lake trawler with a white butch woman staring out from the inside of the boat. The pale girl has light blue hair. One of the girls is a ghost. The trawler is riding into a deep and foggy lake with vague ghostly visuals lining it. A logo reading "GHOST LAKE" sits at the top left corner. A digital illustration of a girl sitting at her desk, looking up at the viewer. The girl is black with medium toned skin and locs pulled into a ponytail. She holds a CD in one hand and a mouse in the other. Her desk has books, CDs, a CD player, a laptop, a Sony Handycam and two other cameras. Her wall has strings of polaroid photos on display. Her desk is pushed up against a window and it appears to be dark putside. The girl is illuminated by her computer and desk lamp. She has a lipstick kiss mark on her forehead.
raquelillustrated.bsky.social
goodbye to the sombra overwatch who i love (2018 pre- infinite invis/tp), i'll miss you and your mindgames.

hello to playing sombra and lifeweaver interchangeably in the same match, every match, until the end of time.
September 13, 2026 at 4:08 AM
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kaahmbem.bsky.social
i'm a bit late but shh... everyone please say happy birthday to her she is so inexplicably important to me #art #oc
eunhae, sitting with her three children. her eldest is holding a gift for her. the text says "happy birthday eunhae" with the date september 4th, 2026.
September 5, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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theoplum.bsky.social
ursa & genevieve from ladies of the living princess. one woman leaning over another, vaguely late 15th-early 16th c stylings
September 4, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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catsuka.bsky.social
"The Lovers" is now online on Youtube.
An indie/crowdfunded Filipino short film by students brand-new to the animation industry.
Directed by Alice Mao & Sophia Paez (Studio Heartbreak).
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUa2...
August 30, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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georgeouthwaite.bsky.social
Superbloom
Digital painting
of California poppies growing by an old disused factory of some sort
August 30, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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arsoreon.bsky.social
Crazy how this is one of the best most consistent mental health aides we've ever seen
June 21, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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grendelmenz.bsky.social
Ianthe #thelockedtomb
August 29, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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kianamai.bsky.social
Next Friday 🌟 September 4th
August 29, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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stevelieberart.bsky.social
NEW ADVICE-FROM-LIEBER LIST! I've posted these tips as a thread before, but I figured it's about time I made it available as a single, shareable image.
MISTAKES I'VE MADE THAT YOU CAN AVOID Don't be like me. 1. Don't trash your own work when complemented. In that context your self-deprecation is insulting someone else's taste! Just say thanks and change the subject. Maybe credit an influence? 2. As far as your readers are concerned, comics are drawn with a printing press or a monitor. Don't fetishize the original art or the tools you make it. Anything that gets the story told the way it needs to be told is the right tool for the job. 3. Don't use one job to audition for another. It's unfair to your collaborators and a betrayal of the reader to get flashy or sexy or explosive if the moment in the story doesn't call for it. 4. The important storytelling choices on a page can be worked out in thumbnails. Gesture, camera angle, framing, broad arrangement of tones-get this stuff right before you worry about anatomy, lighting, drapery, or facial expressions. 5. Some artists can put down a final inkline with no underdrawing, but that's because they're skilled and experienced enough to do all that underdrawing in their head. You probably aren't. Get your underdrawing right and save the masterstrokes for the masters. 6. What you're feeling while you work doesn't matter. What the audience feels when they read it does. You can be happy and still do a great drawing of someone in agony. You should understand what you're depicting. It's not necessary to experience it in real time at the board. 7. Get a fresh eye on your work. You never know when some accidental juxtaposition is going to completely change your intended meaning. 8. Don't let getting things 100% right keep you from getting things done. It's easy to get bogged down in research or prep sketches. Make a schedule at the start of a project so you know how much time you have. Do the best you can with the time allotted and move on. But...
August 28, 2026 at 10:41 PM
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spiderfriend.bsky.social
Advertisement for Coney Island Side Show (c. 1942, Artist Unknown)
#deadlock #celeste #fanart
celeste from deadlock in a vintage-style carnival poster. the text reads "The Dazzling Celeste" at the top and "only on Coney Island" at the bottom. celeste is in a dynamic, dancer-like pose with a ribbon swirled around her.
August 28, 2026 at 5:10 PM
raquelillustrated.bsky.social
i will make a little story about moving company lesbians someday. it will happen. it will happen
August 28, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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thelowestpickle.com
wip
August 27, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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ethanmaldridge.bsky.social
Some favorite recent panels from my hand-drawn webcomic.

You can read SABLE: A GHOST STORY free now, and Patrons are reading three chapters ahead! Sablecomic.com
August 25, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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bigbigtruck.com
May we all use our short time on earth to make things brighter to the best of our ability.
August 25, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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caitlinyarsky.bsky.social
Art people! Found a new reference source called angleref.com, you can rotate a skull and see tons of faces at that angle. I’m sure there’s more to the site but how cool is that?

Happy drawing :)
Screenshot of Angleref.com showing many faces at a specific angle for reference
August 24, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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elainemwill.bsky.social
It's very hard to be creative right now
The "sorry to people who followed me for art but then don't see any for weeks at a time" cake meme
August 21, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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keezyyoung.bsky.social
if she only had a brain~ #horriblegirls
a scarecrow and her crow girlfriend. text says forbidden love, i never dreamed...it would be you! emotional dramas you will never forget
November 1, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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saildraws.bsky.social
August 20, 2026 at 3:21 AM
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douglysium.bsky.social
August 11, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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keezyyoung.bsky.social
my body's a zombie for you #horriblegirls
a zombie girl with a pink flower in her hair
December 27, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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kaahmbem.bsky.social
it's been one year since these guys infiltrated my brain and fundamentally changed me... i've been too busy to draw them much but their anniversary wip... #art #oc
ingrid (she/it/any) and eunhae (she/her?) sitting in a diner
August 20, 2026 at 4:56 AM
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vashperado.bsky.social
image of d.mon from overwatch with the text "everyone is mean to me"
August 13, 2026 at 7:10 PM
raquelillustrated.bsky.social
something hazardous this way comes (3 colorways for my casual hazard skin concept)

#art #fanart #conceptart
3 skin concepts for overwatch's hazard in a casual outfit. the first is orange/brown, the second is red, and the last is purple. the majority of the outfit is grey-toned.
August 20, 2026 at 7:19 PM
raquelillustrated.bsky.social
casual hazard skin concept doodle for my uncle's birthday... wish this guy just wore some docs or something
hazard from overwatch wearing a casual punk outfit. his spikes are replaced with knives and he wears ripped jeans, doc martens, and a cropped tshirt. his shirt reads "turn tail and run," referencing the song turn tail by the young knives.
August 20, 2026 at 6:16 PM
raquelillustrated.bsky.social
lifeweaver rule no. 1: never let your tank overstay their welcome! #art #fanart #sketch
overwatch characters lifeweaver and dmon. lifeweaver just caught dmon after life gripping her and is holding her up proudly. dmon is shooting wildly while bleeding from her head.
August 20, 2026 at 12:04 AM