Tristan Elwell

@tristanelwell

Artist/Illustrator/Educator Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize Winner, Hugo Loser I make pictures of spooky girls and cute cats

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Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· 12d

QRP with your most popular piece on bsky ~ Gotta be this one. It was also my most popular on the birdsite. Also my most popular on Tumblr (I don't even have a Tumblr). It's nearly thirty years old. Sometimes I feel like a one-hit wonder.

An oil painting of a witch floating in a sitting position within a magic circle, typing on a computer. A black cat bats at the floating computer mouse.

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· 16d

Artists! Show your long hair art!

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· 22d

Progress. I went with boots rather than bare feet. Feedback welcome.

An unfinished painting of a woman wearing a white Edwardian dress and black boots sitting on a tree branch, looking directly at the viewer through binoculars. It is night, and she is surrounded by owls. Their eyes and the binoculars shine with reflected light.

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· 28d

Quote post your bug art! (I should do more bug art)

An illustration of a bee woman standing in front of a gold gothic triple arch. She is wearing a gold and black Elizabethan dress, and has a bee’s head and four arms. The skirt of her dress is an old-fashioned bee skep, and behind her head is a gold halo with a hexagonal honeycomb pattern. Her top left hand is raised in a blessing gesture. Above her head are gold letters on a blue background reading “blessed bee.”

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· Jul 9

For those who enjoy seeing how the sausage is made, here's my reference board.

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· Jul 9

The full rough layout. I'm vacillating between keeping her feet bare and putting her in boots.

A sketch of a woman wearing and Edwardian dress sitting on a tree branch, looking directly at the viewer through binoculars. There are rough shapes around her that will, eventually, be owls.

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· Jul 9

I finally cleared my commission plate, so I can start on a new personal piece! And maybe even finish it someday!

A line drawing of a woman in an Edwardian dress, with curly teased hair, looking directly at us through binoculars

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· Jul 8

Turning a corner at the Louvre and being unexpectedly confronted with the Nike of Samothrace was like being punched in the solar plexus.

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· Jul 7

That isn't Hopper's "Rooms by the Sea," it's AI slop. THIS is the actual painting.

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· Jul 7

That isn't Hopper's "Rooms by the Sea," it's AI slop. THIS is the actual painting.

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· Jun 29

From Wikipedia:

A screenshot from the Wikipedia page for the 2026 film HERSHEY, listing the Hershey Company as on of the producers

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· Jun 24

Screen grab from the show Pawn Stars with the text "best I can do is go fuck yourself"

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· Jun 23

Artist! Quote with your blood art!

An illustration of Salome with John the Baptist's head on a silver platter. The picture is in black, white, and red. She faces us, only her head, hands, and the outline of her hair visible on the black background. His head is upside down on the platter, mirroring hers. A pool of blood surrounds it, and spills off the platter down the center of the picture.

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· Jun 22

Thought I'd join the fun

A collaged image of Martin Sheen up to his nose in the swamp from Apocalypse Now except it's the green Reflecting Pool.

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· Jun 19

Julia Margaret Cameron "The Echo" Albumen silver print 1868

A photograph of a woman from the waist up. She is wearing a white linen dress with dark trim. Her hair is loose. Her left hand is placed on her chest. She looks towards the camera, but is not making direct eye contact.

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· Jun 12

artists, QRT with your range! 🙃🙂 day job ☀️/ night job 💀

A black lab mother dog sits proudly behind a basket filled with her puppies.There is a large red bow with gold trim on the basket, and she is wearing a red plaid collar with a gold bell on it.

A man in a purple-trimmed smoking jacket and a woman in a white slip dress are posed against a black background in a manner reminiscent of J.C. Leyendecker's paintings of dancing couples. He stands behind her and her head is thrown back on his shoulder. His left hand holds hers as he draws a violin bow across her throat with his right, slicing it and leaving a trickle of blood.

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· Jun 12

🟡🟡🟡Quote with your yellow art 🟡🟡🟡 This was, I believe, my second published completely digital piece, a cover for the Vanderbilt University alumni magazine.

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· Jun 6

@nataliehall.bsky.social, for you.

The above picture with the face replaced by that of the "Ermahgerd Girl" meme, and text in Impact font reading "ERMAHGERD A PERRT!"

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· Jun 5

Ermengard von Rietberg by Hermann Tom Ring, 1564

A half-length portrait of a young 16th century noblewoman wearing a white ruff and a red-and-black dress with slashed puffed sleeves. Her red curly hair is put up in a pearl hair net, and she has many heavy gold chains covering the bodice of her dress. She is holding a large green parrot in front of her chest.

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· Jun 5

Billie Burke (Mrs. Florenz Ziegfeld and Glinda the Good Witch in the 1939 Wizard of Oz) Sarony Studio, NY 1905

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· Jun 3

Show me a picture that captures your essence

A photo of two women, one with black hair dressed in a goth outfit, one with pink hair in a pink babydoll dress, labeled "me/also me"

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· Jun 2

Or, alternately–

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· Jun 2

We only roast the ones we love 😝

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· Jun 2

And also, IYKYK

Pixel art of a shouting emoji on the back of a horse, leaping through fire

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· Jun 1

Quote your art with fire 🔥

Oil painted wraparound cover illustration for the book Firehorse by Diane Lee Wilson, showing a teenage girl with red hair in 19th century dress on the back of a percheron horse, leaping through a blazing fire.

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· May 26

Happy #DraculaDay to all who celebrate! I've never done any full Dracula illustrations, but I have been playing around with a book-accurate design for years, here's a selection pulled from my sketchbooks.

A selection of pencil sketches of Count Dracula, as described in Bram Stoker's original novel.

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· May 26

This company markets science themed shirts, but their products are AI slop, often with concepts ripped off from actual artists, and they use AI videos in their promotion, all while promoting how environmentally responsible they are. So, I let them (and anybody who reads comments) know how I felt.

A screenshot of a Facebook ad for the company Geocuriosity.com, featuring an AI generated video of a woman wearing one of their shirts in a generic natural history museum setting, and the copy "Plant Kelp With Every Order– Scientifically designed. Every Order plants kelp."
My comment reads "pretty ballsy to try to greenwash your AI slop products promoted with AI slop videos by talking about planting trees and kelp. Is it because your target demo is gong to be instantly turned off by your use of a tech that is famous for hurting artists, devastating the environment, and making people stupider?"

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· May 23

I did this just to piss of Harlan's ghost.😝

A Star Trek title card, with the episode title reading "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream"

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell· May 23

Jacques Louis David - Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art share.google/YBqOm8KXwLac...