white knight in the woods with a dragon hunting him

a collection of my landscape paintings

character concepts from the last of us part 2

character concepts from a catan expansion

Hey all I'm looking for work!
I'm experienced in character design and costume for games and film as well as illustration for books and TTRPGS. I'm based out of BC Canada looking for freelance or full time. My portfolio is linked in the first comment, thank you for shares!

Just spent a whole evening futzing around with trying to make pysical promos for Lost Talent (Probably bookmarks) and I am no closer to having a design I am happy with...

Bargain time :)

Shares very welcome and appreciated!

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宇多田ヒカル『One Last Kiss』 YouTube video by Hikaru Utada

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Describe your plot in five words or less - if you dare.

Going to magic school sucks.

This morning in Tehran. It's presently raining oil, per CNN

The character of Droxine from Star Trek the Origonal Series episode The cloud minders. She is wearing a long shiney skirt, a bikini that wraps around her neck and covers her brests and very little else.

Some people are now saying Gene Roddenberry and William Ware Theiss actually invented 'fanservice.'

This is an excellent rule for storytelling but also implies that Philip Pullman witnessed the death of God as a boy.

#WIPSnips WOTD is “beam”

In my second chance romance WIP, Todd is unpacking and finds a photo of himself and Kirsten that has special meaning to him.

#writingcommunity #writesky #authorsky #beam #romancelandia

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When Sol goes missing, Mina lets herself get persuaded into playing on some-ones feelings to get infomation.

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I'm more and more convinced that AI is an intentional way of salting the earth of the Internet.

March 7th – massive

Welcome to the underground city of Ynthessen!

They take dragons very seriously here.

#DawnsBlood

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Owwkayy dayyuuuudddd

From my philosophical godpunk WIP, "Laughter of the Hunted Gods". Our dubious heroes have just robbed a train station ticket window.

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Coming back to this WIP is like a breath of fresh air. Well, maybe more like a breath of Rob.
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Lost Talent - Chapter 3: Mina Seshadri and the Forbidden Biro The summer holiday had passed by in a blur. Mina's mum spent most of the time fussing over her, as the idea of sending her eleven-year-old daughter to a strange boarding school sunk in. Every time tha...

You can read the rest of this chapter here!

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Going to Magic School for the first time is a stressful experience.

But it's Ok, Mina is going to fit in at Magic School. Isn't she?

Full chapter link in the next post!

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A picture with an orange background and the cover for Awakenings, on which three friends look out at a red-sand desert road, towards a domed city. Your story is my story… In which … an optimist with countless failed apprenticeships, an anxious lizard artificer, and an amnesiac elf traverse a haunted world in a magical, sentient Wagon to unravel the mystery behind the elf’s missing memories (and play lots of board games). An earnest love letter to JRPGs steeped in an aro/ace -normative world

Just three newly-met friends going on an adventure that will change their lives.

THE CHRONICLES OF NEREZIA is a classic quest story full of all the things I love: queer found families, board/card games, side quests, and funky worldbuilding!

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#QueerAdultSFF ♠️🌈📚 💙📚

A Trope Map for Lost Talent, Shows the book cover with the two main characters on a purple background with golden stars around the edges. The tropes are: Messy Magic School Graduates Secrets, Corruption And Rebelion Asexual Protagonist What would you give up for Magic? Rebuilding a Found Family Neurodivergent Protaganist LGBTQIA+ friendly Finding your True Strength At the bottom is says Available April 3rd

This is my attempt, for Lost Talent, Coming April 3rd. I'v been using free canva. No AI used, of course, who needs it? And why rob yourself of the fun of doing it yourself?

I've tried to apply the good points of the above, but there is always room for improvements! Tell me what you think!

6/6

This one is one of the best I've seen, How to Survive this Fairytale by @smhallow.bsky.social

This feels pretty perfect, Eye catching, but simple. Communicates without being cliche.

I didn't expect my TBR to grow by 4 doing this but that's the cost of business...

5/6

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I just had to include Milk Teeth by @caitlinstarling.com.

Both lines of Text at the top are fantastic and audacious! I defy any-one to scroll past 'Naughty Girls go in the office trash can' without stopping to look twice. 4/6

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This one from @aebrossbooks.bsky.social is super cool and stylish. You know at once that this is a cyberpunk story, even before you get to the text, just from the colours, font and arrows.

3/6

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This one for 'The Wine Dark Sea' by @krismadigan.bsky.social is really great, design wise. Simple and clear, I feel like you can take it all in with a look. I also love the way they've changed the text colours to make them contrast with the different parts of the background! 2/6

So, #booksky, #writesky, Trope maps seem to be pretty popular don't they? I knew I should probably make one, but it's super difficult to boil down a book to a single image and a handful of tropes.

So I had a look at a bunch of them to try to work out what I like!

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Firefly’s popularity was always tied to being gone too soon in a period where so many genre shows went on too long and declined in quality.

It’s like the James Dean of sci-fi shows.

Plus, you know, the Whedon of it all.

Lost Talent At Oakward Academy, Mina was told she was 'a mage of no…

I hope Lost Talent lives up to my inspirations!

It's about that messy phase where you start to realise the gap between what you want to be, what you need to be and what your school made you.

It's also about how institutions fail us, and how people around us can save us, if we let them. 4/4

A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1) Lesson One of the Scholomance: Learning has never been …

Second was @naominovik.bsky.social's "A Deadly Education"

I could talk for hours about the Scholomance series, but the thing that stuck with me was 'What if you went to Magic School, and it sucked?'

So many of us had bad experiences at school, and Dark Accademia is perfect for exploring that. 3/4

So many contemporary fantasies are about either kids on adventures or adults with lives to disrupt. What struck me about The Book of Night was about some-one in that messy period of life between being a teenager and being an adult. That was something that I really wanted to write about. 2/4

Book of Night (Book of Night, #1) Holly Black makes her adult debut with Book of Night, a…

Good suggestion of @shonak.bsky.social that writers shouldn't forget to talk about other peoples books as well as our own on #worldbookday I thought I could do both and talk about what inspired Lost Talent...

#booksky #writesky

The first was the Book of Night by @hollyblack.bsky.social 1/4