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Award winning TTRPG designer and illustrator | Rori (she/her) | Asher's Ridge is LIVE on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/montfordtales/ashers-ridge?ref=z8tal0
Charcoal gesture drawings of a life model in 6(?) different poses.
A pile of life drawing gesture poses.
(I'll share a bunch of Asher's Ridge art soon, but for now: this.)
A daffodil taped on top of an easel.
An in progress painting of a daffodil taped to the top of an easel.
A painting of a small white jug and cut yellow pepper, which was painted over today.
WIP photos: the daffodil, the daffodil painting in progress, and the painting I painted over.
An oil painting of a daffodil taped to the top of an easel.
Friday art class time! I'm calling this week "daffodil inception" and painted a daffodil taped to the top of my easel (and painted over an older painting from this class)
Oils on canvas board. WIP photos below 👇
I still have plenty of slots if you're looking! 💖
Thank you!
A mockup of Asher's Ridge. The cover is a colour sketch of a mountain cliff face illuminated in orange and yellow, with a dark road leading through trees toward it.
The old "colour sketch" cover, for the curious. I flipped it, added a bit more sky, defined the trees a bit better, made the white stag a bit more obvious, but ultimately kept the heart of it intact.
A mockup of Asher's Ridge showing the final cover design. A road winds through a dark forest toward a distant cliff face. The cliffs are illuminated in orange and gold. A stag emerges from the roadside trees.
Wake up, Coop. The final* cover for Asher's Ridge just dropped.
* 99.5% final, because I know me and I know I'll not be able to resist fiddling a bit more.
Same recognisable cover, but not a sketch. :)
Book cover that looks like an old atari game box. Title is Shadow in the Stars. Features a space pilot.
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I am too cold 🥶, despite the sunshine, so it is definitely time to call this a learning experience and prepare better tomorrow!
I have started. I have corrected. I have smooshed approx colours into place. I'll bring this back outside in a few days once the oils have dried a smidge and paint more!
An easel set up for painting outside.
Alright. I have 2.5 hours. Let's see what I can do.
(You can just about see what I'm painting in the background here.)
I have editing and sensitivity reading slots available again now! If you're looking for a qualified, experienced editor or SR for your next project feel free to drop me a DM. I have money saving deals for small/ indie creators and can always work within a client's budget 🥰
Thank you, that's great to hear (as it's what the teacher was asking us to aim for)!
An oil study of a mandarin orange, partially peeled, on a background of pale blue paper.
Friday's still life study 🍊
(I ate it afterwards. Yum.)
Oil on paper, ~90 min.
The real project danger 😅
I try my best :)
Paper prices only ever go up, though, so I added a chunk of buffer to cover that and me getting the page estimate wrong. 😅
(But now I have a page count, I'm talking to the printer again so I can get things moving.)
It's a bit of both. More words because I added more than I planned (but the good kind of scope creep), and layout because I want to leave space for people to make their own notes on what happens at locations (either sticky notes or pen/pencil). Plus to give the text a bit of breathing space.
And the page count is in for the first full draft layout of Asher's Ridge: 224 pages.
Unless I add an index 🤔
(It's more than the 160 pages I thought it would be during the Kickstarter 🫣)
If you hate that thing where creators say "Follow this Kickstarter and let's get to [a round number] of followers"...
...this is a really good time to follow the Play Unsafe Kickstarter, because it's nowhere near a round number of followers. #kickstarter #ttrpg
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"The Princess & The Dragon" is the latest TTRPG adventure for the gritty and pretty Perils & Princesses. Written by @dhowl37.bsky.social, writer of the Ennie-nominated "Sweet Revenge," This freaky friday forest crawl is packed with high fantasy adventure and fairy tale antics. Live on Kickstarter.
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A charcoal drawing of a female model. Her hair is in a messy bun and she looks slightly to one side.
A friend introduced me to a new local(ish) life drawing class, where I could play with my most hated medium (charcoal)
I've cropped my last drawing of the session, because 🤷♀️ what bsky would do with a life drawing so you just get the head.
(But I'm pretty happy with this head.)
This little ritual and a pomodoro timer cube help me *so much*.
A burned out match that has split into two twisted pieces.
I have this little ritual where every time I sit down to work I first light a candle, watch the match burn, and then put the match in a glass pot (they accumulate, I see progress, yay!)
Today's the first day the match has split in this cool way. It made me smile. :)
I’m having WAY too much fun with these maps and sticker sheets for Princess & The Dragon. (Kickstarter Launches on Tuesday!)
That's looking so, so good! I love that you can see everyone's covers when they're displayed like that.
I have finished up the full text, pontificated upon it, and declared it ready for editing.
I'm going to take a little tea break, then get on with some art.
They weren't what I'd call complex prompts -- they have to work with whatever the heck is going on at the time they're called on and the scope of that is too vast to guess.
So in that sense... easier? (But also kinda hard, because I also don't want to repeat the same sentiment 🤔)
You can do it!
Eight supporting role bios to go :)
Then I a weekend to sit on it and see what I can cut. 🤔
Scratch that, I've written so many I've forgotten how to math. It was only 18 more to go. (Less now, huzzah.)
