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Creature / Character designer and fantasy illustrator. Portfólio + social media: https://linktr.ee/leylacristofaro

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What is concept art? One of the most misunderstood crafts in game design explained Three artists explain the varied work involved in designing dreams.

The feature I wrote about concept art in video games for ImagineFX a little while back is now available to read online at Creative Bloq, with insight from the concept artists behind Eternal Strands, A Highland Song and Tales of Kenzera: Zau www.creativebloq.com/art/digital-...

02.09.2025 11:54 👍 59 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 2
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This piece is still in its early stages, but here’s a sneak peek at a tiny corner of a very large painting I’ll be bringing to DragonCon later this month. 🦄

#oilpainting #paintingdetails #unicornpainting #dragonconartshow #dragoncon2025

12.08.2025 18:39 👍 428 🔁 55 💬 10 📌 1
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My flesh is your flesh.
Make amends with destiny.
My heart can then be swallowed,
Making my forgiveness come true.

#art #Brart #oilpastel #darkart #painting #drawing #fineart

23.08.2025 19:50 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Sketches/brain goop

18.08.2025 16:00 👍 234 🔁 43 💬 0 📌 0
Flowers are growing from the mouths of two creatures that have been torn apart and glued onto another piece of paper. The blossoming begins.

Flowers are growing from the mouths of two creatures that have been torn apart and glued onto another piece of paper. The blossoming begins.

Flowers of evil. The blossoming of the soul.

#art #blueskyart #coloredpencil #collage #traditionalart #drawing #poetry

14.08.2025 15:00 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Unraveling is a haunting abstract expressionist piece that captures the fragile boundary between being and disappearance. A solitary, shadow-like figure emerges from a textured haze of whites, grays, and blacks, its form dissolving into vertical drips that drag it toward obscurity. The absence of defined features invites reflection on identity, memory, and the quiet erosion of self. Through minimal color and expressive brushwork, the painting conveys a lingering, almost ghostly melancholy.

Art copyright ©Yves Broeckx
This is digitally created art, concept and execution by Yves

The Unraveling is a haunting abstract expressionist piece that captures the fragile boundary between being and disappearance. A solitary, shadow-like figure emerges from a textured haze of whites, grays, and blacks, its form dissolving into vertical drips that drag it toward obscurity. The absence of defined features invites reflection on identity, memory, and the quiet erosion of self. Through minimal color and expressive brushwork, the painting conveys a lingering, almost ghostly melancholy. Art copyright ©Yves Broeckx This is digitally created art, concept and execution by Yves

I T H E U N R A V E L I N G I

Between presence and absence, the self dissolves into shadow. The Unraveling — a portrait of existence fading at the edges.

- The Asylum Art -
Art and words by Yves
#AbstractExpressionism #Art #blueskyart #complexptsd #art #abstract #expressionism #unraveling

14.08.2025 11:39 👍 439 🔁 48 💬 13 📌 1
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#illustration
#oc
#一次創作

24.07.2025 10:14 👍 397 🔁 95 💬 3 📌 0
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From: A Deer of Nine Colors (1981), dir. Qian Jiajun and Dai Tielang, Shanghai Animation Film Studio

24.05.2025 20:23 👍 1595 🔁 394 💬 19 📌 12
Ink drawing of a mermaid sitting atop a perpendicular, tree trunk-like rock in the water. Her long hair trails right down to her seat and obscures her face entirely. Her head is bowed, and there is a strong suggestion that she may be weeping.

Ink drawing of a mermaid sitting atop a perpendicular, tree trunk-like rock in the water. Her long hair trails right down to her seat and obscures her face entirely. Her head is bowed, and there is a strong suggestion that she may be weeping.

An older piece but a perennial favourite.

'La même histoire'
Ink on Moleskine sketchbook paper, approximately 127 × 208 mm, 2018.

#MerMay

06.05.2025 18:09 👍 2922 🔁 537 💬 36 📌 9
'At first he thought there were five, but there were only four-one was in two pieces. None of them looked as if he-she-it-had died easily or with any serenity. Their faces were ugly and long-snouted. Their eyes were filmed over to the whiteness of cataracts. Their lips were drawn back in uniform snarls. Their skins were scaly but transparent-he could see frozen muscles laid in crisscross patterns around jaws, temples, and necks.

They had no teeth.'

-Book 3, chapter 7, pg 615.

'At first he thought there were five, but there were only four-one was in two pieces. None of them looked as if he-she-it-had died easily or with any serenity. Their faces were ugly and long-snouted. Their eyes were filmed over to the whiteness of cataracts. Their lips were drawn back in uniform snarls. Their skins were scaly but transparent-he could see frozen muscles laid in crisscross patterns around jaws, temples, and necks. They had no teeth.' -Book 3, chapter 7, pg 615.

Interstellar car crash

18.05.2025 23:59 👍 419 🔁 67 💬 4 📌 1
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Lord of Sulfur

18.05.2025 00:47 👍 602 🔁 122 💬 6 📌 1

PRECISO DESSA BLUSA AGORA (onde você comprou por favor)

17.05.2025 15:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Original creature design - Sunibuni
This species' main font of energy comes from the sunlight—Sunibunis' defense blasts little rays of energy, recharged by the sunlight in their naps.

#creaturedesign #creature #oc #conceptart #characterdesign #pinturadigital #fakemon #arte

09.09.2024 17:56 👍 33 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

genial

16.05.2025 20:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A friend from the sea.

16.05.2025 00:06 👍 3774 🔁 971 💬 14 📌 7
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14.05.2025 19:47 👍 213 🔁 53 💬 0 📌 1
Two coral-like ceramic sculptures, long and thin, arranged as an eleven. The colours are vivid, the left hand piece predominantly orange and red, with some turquoise, lime and very deep purple. It has a large, peach-coloured wavy frill along the left side, with a large area of lime green and red brain coral on the right hand side of the main body. There are orange finger-like appendages sticking out between the other textures.
The one on the right has smaller fingers, in white, with textured shell-like fans in turquoise with red and yellow petals surrounding the orange pitted centres.

Two coral-like ceramic sculptures, long and thin, arranged as an eleven. The colours are vivid, the left hand piece predominantly orange and red, with some turquoise, lime and very deep purple. It has a large, peach-coloured wavy frill along the left side, with a large area of lime green and red brain coral on the right hand side of the main body. There are orange finger-like appendages sticking out between the other textures. The one on the right has smaller fingers, in white, with textured shell-like fans in turquoise with red and yellow petals surrounding the orange pitted centres.

Two more ‘nudibranch’ sculptures.

#MarineLife
#ceramic #porcelain #coral #reef #sculpture

14.05.2025 10:16 👍 169 🔁 21 💬 6 📌 1
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12.05.2025 13:13 👍 472 🔁 173 💬 16 📌 21

It's all fun and games until it has to be fun and a game

27.05.2024 21:31 👍 2375 🔁 456 💬 18 📌 18
An original digital illustration by Loadofolbobbins of a Ruby Tiger Moth flying above what looks like a white piece of paper. It has a rich brown very fluffy upper body and head with a vibrant red segmented lower abdomen with a black diamond pattern running down the centre, and a series of black dots along the side. It's wings have rich reddish brown tones with black spot markings. It's antennae are a light almost silver grey colour. The view of the moth is side on and looks like it is just taking off in flight.

An original digital illustration by Loadofolbobbins of a Ruby Tiger Moth flying above what looks like a white piece of paper. It has a rich brown very fluffy upper body and head with a vibrant red segmented lower abdomen with a black diamond pattern running down the centre, and a series of black dots along the side. It's wings have rich reddish brown tones with black spot markings. It's antennae are a light almost silver grey colour. The view of the moth is side on and looks like it is just taking off in flight.

Another glorious #MothMonday beckons and with it the rich tones of the spectacular Ruby Tiger Moth for #MothMay. That wonderful fluffy body looks very cosy!

#BugSky #SciArt #Illustration #Procreate #TeamMoth

12.05.2025 12:38 👍 86 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0

That's so cute! One of the best digimon designs recently imo

10.05.2025 15:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#oc
#art
#illustration

09.05.2025 12:29 👍 635 🔁 132 💬 2 📌 1
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菌の王

#oc
#イラスト
#illustration

05.02.2025 12:03 👍 604 🔁 134 💬 6 📌 1
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sleep witch

05.05.2025 12:22 👍 600 🔁 138 💬 7 📌 2
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One of my reinterpretation of andalites, from Animorphs!

04.05.2025 20:50 👍 1419 🔁 257 💬 37 📌 4
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Old ko-fi doodle request for a lovecraftian-esque werewolf

23.10.2024 17:27 👍 496 🔁 108 💬 5 📌 0
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Old doodle request for a 'demonic gorgonopsid'

23.10.2024 17:26 👍 298 🔁 63 💬 4 📌 3

I really wish we could get a female Gallantmon / Dukemon. I've seen fanmade Digimon artists do it, I've even done it, and it always looks SO GOOD! When I see imagery like this, the yearning for female knights always returns.

01.05.2025 01:49 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
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Forest meadow (Model: Cella Thoma)

#Art #painting #illustration

02.05.2025 10:42 👍 267 🔁 31 💬 2 📌 1