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@zoepolando

Animator, illustrator, doodler extraordinaire Wizard of the Coast; Art Director on Universes Beyond | Prev. Art Director at DFTBA Records All posts are my own opinions & may contain strong language or suggestive content https://linktr.ee/zoepolandoryder

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A photo of a pale orange fish in an industrial fish tank. Written on the side of the tank is “don’t stick fingers in! Will jump!” In smaller hand writing under that line is the phrase “they will also bite!” The fish is flaring right under these warnings staring out as if daring customers to dangle their fingers in the water.

A photo of a pale orange fish in an industrial fish tank. Written on the side of the tank is “don’t stick fingers in! Will jump!” In smaller hand writing under that line is the phrase “they will also bite!” The fish is flaring right under these warnings staring out as if daring customers to dangle their fingers in the water.

Give him your fingers.

08.03.2026 00:06 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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My comic Lilith is out now!

“Lilith thinks everything in her life's ok, until a snake comes along and encourages her to reexamine it.”

You can get it on:

Patreon
www.patreon.com/posts/lilith...

Itch
avoidbee.itch.io/lilith

Physical books
www.etsy.com/listing/4466...

#art #comic #horror

04.03.2026 17:14 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 3

He’s on the laminated paper that door to door pest control people show you to scare you into making your lawn a toxic hellscape. Fire ants, wolf spiders, hulk hogan, mice.

06.03.2026 18:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I assume this just happens to you if you live in Florida. like hurricanes.

06.03.2026 15:41 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And I am unable to send an email to commission you if I am a pool of goo. Which is highly tragic.

04.03.2026 02:52 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Over the past week I’ve gone through over 1,500 portfolios. And this is my bi-yearly reminder, begging, pleading, make it one gallery page with your best art. If I have to navigate more than two clicks and I’ve got 800 more portfolios to review that day I’m going to dissolve into a pool of goo.

04.03.2026 02:50 👍 46 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

✌️✌️✌️

28.02.2026 03:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Five word horror story: Their portfolio is on Facebook

26.02.2026 17:37 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This country is governed by people who manufacture crises, lie to justify violence, and then tell us it’s for our own good. They wreck lives abroad while people here can’t afford to live. This isn’t strength or strategy and it doesn't make us safer. The opposite. It’s incompetence, cruelty, and rot.

03.01.2026 17:17 👍 347 🔁 85 💬 4 📌 0
A sketchbook open to the first page with a pencil sketch of a cafe interior. It shows mostly the counter and drink prep area and the clutter surrounding it.

A sketchbook open to the first page with a pencil sketch of a cafe interior. It shows mostly the counter and drink prep area and the clutter surrounding it.

Drawing detail in a cafe till my eyes bleed, nature is healing.

23.12.2025 22:32 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

oh my GOD, incredible

15.12.2025 13:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You’re telling me I get to watch a impossible crime referencing most of the great murder mystery authors of the last century AND I get to watch a three way argument on christian theology strewn heavily with Catholic imagery?

15.12.2025 05:00 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think Dead Man: Wake Up was designed in a lab to contend for the spot of my favorite film.

15.12.2025 04:56 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Oh yeah? Well could AI do THIS??

11.12.2025 00:52 👍 956 🔁 282 💬 21 📌 2

That sounds. Excruciating

10.12.2025 18:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Noooo!!! That is evil

10.12.2025 18:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh noooo

10.12.2025 17:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Turns out working at DFTBA for a long time means that if you brag about me to how much a company gives to charity I will break out a calculator to figure out what percentage of your profit that is and I WILL judge you if it‘s comparatively pocket change.

10.12.2025 17:55 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A xy axis graph with the title “soup to sauce.” The x axis is labeled by viscosity, thin to thick. The y axis is labeled in volume from low to SPC to high to SPC. In the lower left corner is an asterisk followed by SPC = standard Protocol Chunk. 

No plots are yet plotted on the graph.

A xy axis graph with the title “soup to sauce.” The x axis is labeled by viscosity, thin to thick. The y axis is labeled in volume from low to SPC to high to SPC. In the lower left corner is an asterisk followed by SPC = standard Protocol Chunk. No plots are yet plotted on the graph.

Important research is happening tonight.

10.12.2025 04:12 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
man knocking over dominoes meme

small domino reads "its neat that TTRPG rules are a semi-diagetic holy writ" and the big domino it leads to reads "A house is a type of combatant the rogue can evade"

man knocking over dominoes meme small domino reads "its neat that TTRPG rules are a semi-diagetic holy writ" and the big domino it leads to reads "A house is a type of combatant the rogue can evade"

oh god ok ttrpg told poorly

- the gang fights a big scary demigod angel
- multiple onscreen kisses in a boss fight? one did poison damage??
- 1 off a tpk
- invented and then felt pathos for a furniture making hermit
- Juggernaut puppet dies a tragic second death, coughs up protien milkshake
- this:

08.12.2025 00:55 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Moving Stories: Short-Form Graphic Novels for King County Metro Transit RapidRide King County Metro and 4Culture seek six artists to create short-form graphic novels that illuminate community stories along new and existing RapidRide lines.

WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership.

details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...

08.12.2025 01:47 👍 907 🔁 877 💬 15 📌 13
Four sketches of marine animals in blue pencil. The top left is of a octopus scrunched into a corner, the top right is of a harbor seal with a simplified cartoon face, the bottom left is of a crab with algae on its back, and the bottom right is of a sea otter on its back clutching a rock.

Four sketches of marine animals in blue pencil. The top left is of a octopus scrunched into a corner, the top right is of a harbor seal with a simplified cartoon face, the bottom left is of a crab with algae on its back, and the bottom right is of a sea otter on its back clutching a rock.

Sketching at the Seattle Aquarium today ✨

25.11.2025 05:05 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Our activities are Noted

23.11.2025 06:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Presumably, I’ve never asked! They only do lights in the front yard, so I guess the figures are just for them. (And anyone who walks through our kitchen in the dead of night)

23.11.2025 06:24 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There used to be a grinch figure, I kind of miss him.

23.11.2025 06:14 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo taken through a sliding glass door at night of a scene of several inflatable Christmas decorations. The Santa figure stares straight at the camera.

A photo taken through a sliding glass door at night of a scene of several inflatable Christmas decorations. The Santa figure stares straight at the camera.

Every year our neighbors decorate their backyard with inflatable Christmas figures, so behold what stares into our house ever night from Halloween through new years.

23.11.2025 06:10 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

Your dentist office is really slacking if they didn’t send you a text at 5am to wish you happy birthday

14.11.2025 20:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Water color painting of a river valley. The river is a deep green ribbon winding between buff colored cliffs adorned with undercover and pines.

Water color painting of a river valley. The river is a deep green ribbon winding between buff colored cliffs adorned with undercover and pines.

Plein air today

09.11.2025 05:23 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

I am a tired crab with a soft shell. I resent having to be a cockroach.

10.10.2025 16:58 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

What level of tired is it when the only words you can think of to describe noted artist Joseph Mallord William Turner‘s style is “brush slut?”

06.10.2025 22:46 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0