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Hey! Twitter sucks, but visual art remains pretty good. Here are my picks from my personal twitter likes for the last 10 days or so.

Burl House on the Frontier by Max Frorer
Not often that you get to see the fantastical treehouse in a macro-scale tree designed with such industrial shapes. I like the combo of like swooping avante-garde architecture and boxy industrial chunks.

Choose This Life You're On Your Own by Antares Valdemar
Antares does fantastic mecha. I am such a big fan of this style of leg for mechs at this scale, both in that I love digitigrade mechs and this style of almost ungulate-like hoof-feet for mechs. I like the exaggerated wide stanced proportions as well. Really cool use of those pitch-black shadows.

fake Pokémon design by Weber
This is one of the more creative and well-executed fake Pokémon designs I've seen. Great concept and execution with really cute proportions and an excellent evocation of the house style.

Weave by Robbie Trevino.
Robbie Trevino's work on his personal project Numinous has always been interesting to me in its aesthetic sensibilities, combining, flesh and flora, abstract shapes and separation of forms, to create this incredible floating amalgams of character and floating diorama. This one in particular reminds me of like something you'd see as an angel in Heart: The City Beneath.

彼らが竜になる瞬間はさぞかし美しいだろうな by Ichinogi
I've always really liked those Japanese-style kites that these dragons are so clearly evoking and there's a subtle implication that the fish are shedding their scales as they hit the halfway point to become dragons. I want to know more about this character who bears a dragon-like tail, bird legs and talon-shoes.

untitled by iyzlime
This piece is so good, I don't have that much to say beyond: damn... you ever think about the golden light of the sun pouring through an elaborate archway onto an ornately decorated floor?

Palace Life Series: The Garden of the Unknown Knight by Kilian Eng
Kilian Eng posted new work so I'm compelled through my love of his maximalism to put it in front of your eyes. I love the way the archway behind the knight statue turns into the radiant lines from the closer, foreground archway the viewer is standing behind or beneath. I'm also a big fan of the way the trees in the garden are almost lava-lamp-like in treatment.

Parapet in Golden Light by Paul Lehr
I love running across book cover illustrators from silver age illustration. Lehr's work is all over sci-fi from the 60s and 70s and is the exact kind of cover that sparked my imagination looking through the library at book covers. Lehr also has a giant catalogue of personal work of the kind that suggested that pay for illustrators back then allowed for a degree of leisure where one could make myriad oil paintings in your spare time. There's incredible colour use and texture in here, that fades into abstraction, but picks out enough architectural details that it transforms once again into landscape. Elden Ring is On Notice, for Moghwyn Palace.