Zia Ellithiel

I need to get better about posting here. But I come with an up to date pinned! I cannot believe my most recent art, and I'm in LOVE with all of it. Gonna be the new pinned! #art #portfolio #oilpainting

Another trading card sized painting! This one featuring one of my favourite games, Hollow Knight. #aceo #hollowknight #oilpainting #fanart

youtu.be/X0-gArx328E?... New YouTube video. Last of the old series of timelapses. New videos to come in a new format!

I wanted to have some fun today. So I made an oil painting on a trading card sized piece of canvas. Well, primed paper. Have a little itty-bitty bob-omb battlefield painting. #supermario #aceo #mariofanart #fanart #oilpainting #tinypainting

A little sneak peak at a new project. Going to start making dedicated sticker paintings on the side of larger pieces. This is an experiment; The stickers I make from this piece won't be for sale BUT I might do some fun giveaways with them.

Just a little doodle.

For my fellow #oilpainter s and #ProjectHailMary Fans, here's the full YouTube video of me painting my little PHM panels! I'm learning how to voiceover still, I know... youtu.be/Rv9pNDP2f60

So after a long time of green, I finally decided to paint my art studio purple, and boy lemme tell you I love it SO MUCH MORE

A finished piece for a private commission. This was one of my best pieces I've ever painted, and I'm so excited for it to make it to the client's home. There will be prints and playmats available soon.

Finished my third study and the last one on this panel for my Project Hail Mary Screenshot exercise. The petrova line! These were super fun to paint, and I think I wanna do more of this kind of exercise. The question is Lord of the Rings next, or Star Wars. #projecthailmary #fanart #oilpainting

Did this as a collaboration with @kmccaigue.bsky.social. Decided to really start pushing my art to be more whole scenes and involved pieces, and this features yours truly modelling (because I had no one else available). Watch the collab here: youtu.be/MAdaSUcqCRY

I finished this piece over six months ago, but this was client work and they requested I wait until they saw it in person to reveal it HOWEVER that is now done so everyone, please enjoy my little #oilpainting of an #uncrustable.

The second study from #projecthailmary. I honestly love how real this looks as a thumbnail. The entire goal of these studies is 'looks like a screenshot from afar, blobs up close. This... does that. #fanart #art #oilpainting

I wanted to do some exercises to start painting again, so I dipped my toes in with a 3 hour study from #projecthailmary. #fanart #art #oilpainting

First finished painting of 2026. Technically the bulk of this piece was painting in 2025 and all I did to wrap it up was a glazing coat to adjust some colors BUT, behold. #oilpainting #fanart #art #gyarados #pokemon #pokemonfanart

Art v Artist 2025. This year, featuring all oil paintings. #artvsartist #artist2025

So this painting has been sitting on my wall for ages, as I've tried to decide if I wanted to pick it up or just toss it. And tonight I figured... what the hell, let me do the grisaille. I'm glad I did. I can't wait to put color to it! I think it was just waiting for me.

So... 14 months ago I started oil painting. Tonight, I attended the reception for a gallery show featuring one of my paintings. I... what? How? I'm genuinely proud of myself but also I'm still riding a wave of disbelief and surrealism (the emotion, not the art style, or maybe?) #oilpainting #gallery

It is so wild to me that after years of trying, I have successfully managed to find a stream and momentum as an artist. Especially wild that it's in oil painting, a medium I always revered and never expected to be GOOD at. I'm an artist y'all! A bonefide ARTIST!

youtu.be/SZLIIz06PjU?... Another timelapse. Trying to challenge myself to learn how to paint on gessoboard. It... is an experience. #oilpainting #painting #books

Idk how I did it. This is only the #grisaille layer, color still to come but i think art gods visited me. #pokemon #wip #painting #fanart

WIP tonight. No idea what gods I have on my side.

Moving forward means leaving some things behind. Today I cleared out some old pieces from my portfolio, and updated it with new ones! Growth!

And behold! Flying Books. For those who've followed me long enough, you may recognize this as art that I originally did as a digital piece years ago. And here it is, traditionally rendered, and I think better for it!

One of the weird things about showing up every day to do art is that I'm getting better at doing art without the spark. Which, like, I realise is the aim but it's kind of wild that it's happening.

youtu.be/isbBebNvRDs Did a painting timelapse of my Mango. I've got others recorded as well. I'm probably entering my era of a regular release schedule!

I painted a mango!

Not art related, but look at how absolute fangirl I looked today!

Alright everyone. Today is the day I finally commit to becoming a full time game artist. Ultimate goal is Magic the Gathering and I want to steep myself in board and card game culture all around. So as it is, I am fully opening myself for professional work!

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Another finished painting. I am actually kinda proud of this one, esp. for my first finished painting to feature a figure.

This shit is bullshit. I am allowed to look at whatever I like wherever. And this server is just an art server with profane language.

What inspired you to paint this piece? A deadline.

Got a couple pieces transferred over to canvas for painting, including a portrait on my first ever self-stretched canvas. I'm currently playing between moving permanently to Linen Canvas or gessoboard... it's a tossup.

General technique test for my big painting. I ... well the technique works but I also semi-rushed through this painting. I plan to take a lot more time with the proper painting when I do it. Then again, practice is practice.

Sharing a piece of work in progress/ prelim art. This is a sketch of a new painting I'll be working on, and I was just so proud of how it came out looking. The idea is a bit of fantasy mixed into a bit of darkness. idk what it'll be called in the end but for now I call it 'Beacon'.

The better part of valor is knowing when to stop. I miessed up mixing hair colors, so Im going to let this piece sit, come back in a couple weeks, and work on it again when I know Im ready.

Six months ago (Left) I started my first oil portrait, and I was extremely dissatisfied with the results at the time. I knew my forms were good, but I hadn't quite had a handle on skintones. Six months later, I think I have ENOUGH a handle to try and work on it again. And... it's coming out well!

Never give up. I’ll stop drawing when I’m DEAD.

Did some grisaille layers today. I'm still experimenting with my oil painting process, and I decided to try grisaille base layers for these paintings to see how they'd work. The left is a new still life experiment, and the right is a repaint of an older work of my digital era. #oil #oilpainting

The wall has been updated! Pieces on the top left are all complete, and the wall is looking nice! #art #wip

Booth selling day three! This time featuring horns!

Vending day 2!

At Flower City Comic Con this weekend. If your orbit overlaps mine, come say hi! #art #artshow

cleaned up some old sketches of leela in some janeway outfits

My intended thank you cards didn't arrive in time so I whipped these up and printed out a bunch. Should do the trick!

Today is Con Prep for FC3. Tomorrow is session 1 of the Mango. And then next week? I begin actual work on a true portrait painting of a real person.

On Sharing Sunday (That's what I'm calling it hush), I want to show you all my first EVER painting, compared to what I'm painting now. Keep practicing. Your art will improve, and you don't need AI to do it. #art #noai (And I keep that first painting in my office. I still like it).

Finally started the gallery wall in my study of artists that inspire me. Here featuring the art of @zaraalfonso.bsky.social and @serenamalyon.bsky.social.

My next painting has been transferred over. And this one will be my first painting on Linen! We shall see how this goes because if this works well I may be linen here on out.