Karin van Zon ☀️

Karin van Zon ☀️

@karinvanzon.bsky.social

🇳🇱 Digital artist trying to get into ink and watercolour. 🌳 Mossy forest enthousiast, love all things Tolkien, the magical and the weird, cats, and hoping to make some art friends here!

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I should make a pinned post or something. Hi everyone! I'm Karin, and I love to draw trees, moss, and fantasy art. My goals for this year are to do more traditional art (mostly ink and watercolor) and more Tolkien art! #art

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🌍 We're all familiar with climate tipping points — like ice loss and rainforest dieback — but what if we can harness similar self-reinforcing feedbacks in climate action. Which techs to choose and how to change international cooperation? 🧵 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @thebulletin.org

tandfonline.comHow to leverage positive tipping points for climate actionNegative tipping points for the Earth’s climate system are approaching fast, adding further urgency to climate action. But well-designed climate action may be able to trigger its counterpart: benef...

So a while back me and my partner @bjornvandesand decided to try and learn gamedev together, and what better way to do that than to try and make a very small game? It's very short, and very imperfect, but we had a lot of fun and learned a lot! #gamedev #indiegamedev #godotengine

Bjorn van de Sand@tarmon-gaidon.com

@karinvanzon.bsky.social and I just released our first game dev project: Cat the Great. A short adventure style game about a cat plotting a coup. It's unpolished, but we're happy to share: tarmon-gaidon.com/hosting/CatT... (Windows x64) Outro is nsfw (violence) #GodotEngine #GameDev #IndieGameDev

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The main thing that stood out to me in making this is how many UX things I take for granted in games. How to make it clear which items can be interacted with and not? Doors openings should be visible on both sides? Lots to learn!

So a while back me and my partner @bjornvandesand decided to try and learn gamedev together, and what better way to do that than to try and make a very small game? It's very short, and very imperfect, but we had a lot of fun and learned a lot! #gamedev #indiegamedev #godotengine

Bjorn van de Sand@tarmon-gaidon.com

@karinvanzon.bsky.social and I just released our first game dev project: Cat the Great. A short adventure style game about a cat plotting a coup. It's unpolished, but we're happy to share: tarmon-gaidon.com/hosting/CatT... (Windows x64) Outro is nsfw (violence) #GodotEngine #GameDev #IndieGameDev

The concept of this game came from our love of the series the Great, combined with these fancy portraits I made of our kitties at some point. Add in lots of cat puns, and Cat the Great was born! I did all art, animation, and gamedesign, while Bjorn did all the programming and dialogue.

We originally decided to see how far we could get in a weekend (of course, it ended up taking far, far longer in the end) so I settled on a quite simple artstyle with an easy workflow and very minimal animation. Animation was done with a combination of rigging in Godot and spritesheets.

The Artist - Cor Blok's illustrations were on the front of the first Dutch LotR paperbacks from 1965. They were the first LotR edition I read, as my mom owned them, and seeing this art always fills me with nostalgia. #tolkien #tolkientrewsday

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Thank you for the share! I'm a Canadian artist with a focus on critters, currently gearing up for my first convention of the year. :) #PolymerClay #furnalEquinox #AnimalArt

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#ArtShare Time Thanku cryptids being so nice this morning, & a big Thanku for ✨7k✨ Hugely grateful 4 this place🦋 🍂Share Ur Art 🍂Repost the Share 🍂SFW (artistic nudes ok) 🍂Repost other artists (don’t drop & run) 🍂Use Alt Text 👹 AI posters can fuck off I’ll repost those that do the above for 24 hrs

I'm rewatching Kaos and it's really such a damn shame it was cancelled. It's such a great take on the Greek gods with all their messy, petty, human emotions. Also the Fates were really great, as was Dionysus. Would've loved to have seen the end of this tale but alas :(

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*Traditional Art Share* Hey friends, it's Saturday and I'm looking for new artists to follow! I see a lot of great digital illustration here, but where are my paper/pencil/traditional painting artists at? 🎨 🌿 Share your traditional art! 🌿Reshare for visibility 🌿Tag friends 🌿No AI/NFT's

A while back I was really stuck with my art, so I did a bunch of DnD character requests over on Reddit. I barely do character art any more nowadays, so they were a nice refresher! Although the backgrounds did start to creep back in, trying to take over :) #art #DnD #characterart

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Here's to 13k, and thanks for the artshare 🫶 Some personal pieces of mine, and i do daily art over at my feed - so quality is a bit up and down, but I hope always entertaining ^^

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⭒⋆✵ 12,7K ARTSHARE ✵⋆⭒ Let's share some love and kindness! 🔮 Post your art 🔮 Repost this for visibility 🔮 Invite friends and support other artists 💀 Human artist only, no Ai, no NFTs, keep it SFW pls I'll RT my favorites through the days 💜 #selfpromo #artshare

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#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday #Tolkien Two Years - Apt For Today's Days Just a small reminder that Tolkien always ultimately wrote about hope. About how good can always overcome bad or evil with light. That even those who regard themselves as small, or seen as such, sometimes surprise all!

Happy two years #TolkienTrewsday! Trees - Treebeard is one of my favourite characters. I really appreciate how Tolkien gave voices and personality to the trees, giving them agency. There are many times I've wished our RL trees could speak up and defend themselves. #art #watercolor #ink #Tolkien

Uitgeverij Lemniscaat is on Bluesky! 📖📚

Uitgeverij Lemniscaat@lemniscaat.nl

𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐋 🛏️ Vol avontuur, dat is het thema van de Kinderboekenweek dit jaar. Linde Faas heeft met het woordloze 𝙄𝙠 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙢 𝙟𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙚 een Thematitel te pakken. En een heel treffende! Trouwens, je hoeft niet te wachten tot de Kinderboekenweek. 𝙄𝙠 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙢 𝙟𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙚 is nu ook al ontzettend tof! #booksky #KBW

This is so gross. I can't believe the artists working with this agency are happy with this either?

Cheryl B. Klein@cherylklein.bsky.social

Horrified by this e-mail I got from a real illustration agency this morning, advertising the chance to *USE AI* to generate images in the style of one of their illustrators. You join their plan for $$$, pick an artist, give the AI a prompt, then reach out if you want specialization.

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✨ +1200 #Artshare ✨ Happy Thursday! Thank you all so much for your support ^^) Let's celebrate an artshare 💛 💫 Repost for visibility 💫 Feel free to shares your links 💫 Support other artists! 💫 Share and support, invite a friend too! ⚠ Label NSFW art ⚠ Don’t drop and go ⚠ No A!I! or N!F!Ts

Introduce yourself with four video games! Impossible choice really... I'm only 100% sure on Hollow Knight needing to be up there. Honorable mentions go to Monkey Island 3, Rayman 1, Diablo 2, Terraria, Kingdom, Hades!

Shelby Pearson@blistermonster.bsky.social

Introduce yourself with four video games! GameCube era little guy renaissance + "hidden in plain sight Fran and Balthier queer awakening" I guess

Still trying to catch up on posting old art here. This is another Fangorn I drew a couple of years ago. I wasn't too happy with it back then, but it's grown on me a bit since. This was when I was in my homemade custom brushes for everything phase. #art #tolkien #luinellë

I used to be quite bad about alskdjflk.png and doesn't name layers, but working in a bigger team in a studio made me obsessively start to name everything. It's such a pain in the ass to work on someone else's stuff and having to search through all files/layers.

I should make a pinned post or something. Hi everyone! I'm Karin, and I love to draw trees, moss, and fantasy art. My goals for this year are to do more traditional art (mostly ink and watercolor) and more Tolkien art! #art

I'm in general quite nerdy. Tolkien has been by far my biggest fantasy interest, but I also enjoy lots of other fantasy from books, games, and movies/series. I find social media really intimidating, and sometimes I find it quite difficult to be active due to my social anxiety disorder. But I try!

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1k art share!! Thanks so much!! Art share time. Show me your stuff! Oh and show me one thing that’s on your desk that’s not art related. Tag people Tell about yourself Repost for visibility Be kind and encourage each other! #artshare