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  • Strawberry oil pastel study on canvas board

    Strawberry oil pastel study on canvas board

    I’ve been thinking about how the sennelier oil pastels are so soft that you can get full on painting style soft and hard edges etc, and I picked up a few small canvas boards to see if they were a useful substrate for faking oil painting effects! Unfortunately the sennelier pastels are so slippery that […]

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  • The Corruption of Pelursk – Pocket Dungeon Pack

    The Corruption of Pelursk – Pocket Dungeon Pack

    The Corruption of Pelursk is a system-agnostic tabletop RPG hexcrawl/dungeon, written by Shel Kahn. The Isle of Pelursk holds a glowing, steaming, mist-shrouded secret at its heart, and once you’ve entered its clutches it does not want to let you leave. Designed to fit easily as a sidequest into an ongoing campaign or stand confidently…

  • Keep on the Shining Isle – Pocket Pack

    Keep on the Shining Isle – Pocket Pack

    Keep on the Shining Isle is a system-agnostic dungeon featuring a haunted ruin, a mystery cult and some very tempting apples. Pick this up to send your home campaign on a memorable sidequest, or try out your favourite new system with this 1-2 session scenario. Written and published by Shel Kahn as the first of many…

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  • Astronomics is now on Early Access!
    Astronomics is now on Early Access!

    Astronomics! It’s out! You can play it! I’ve spoken a bit about this previously but this is my first published Art Direction credit and you can bet it means a lot to me! You should go look at the steam page and see how hecking charming this game turned out: Also, you can take a…

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  • learned something important about my website

    i have footnote capabilities already! Ahh, the newly distracting ways I can write, unfolding before my like cells in the library of babel… Unfortunately I am already not to be trusted with most punctuation; I will resist all efforts to simplify my sentences, and I WILL nest (or embed) too many clauses! Anyways, this has…

  • Neocolor carnation
    Neocolor carnation

    Drawn without water, on a 6 x 9″ grey blue cardstock, I think Strathmore brand. Drawn from life, from a lovely birthday bouquet.

  • why are they called pencil crayons in canada?
    why are they called pencil crayons in canada?

    Canadian here, and I can confirm that, while admittedly I have never seen a product list itself as a pencil crayon in Canada, we all agree that’s what coloured pencils are referred to as in conversation. Now, certainly more research could be worth doing but, I have a theory… see, our packaging is mandated bilingual,…

  • Skeletons (2010)
    Skeletons (2010)

    Shoutout to Jurie and Andy for sharing this gem with me; deeply british, dry, spooky, sweet, and shows you the tip of the iceberg of a larger occult understanding that is revealed further through rewatchings and the subsequent mulling over you might do at the pub after with a friend.

  • Dragon Getting a Pet
    Dragon Getting a Pet

    Get scrungled, as they say. Watercolour and carbon ink. I decided go back in and see if I can’t push the clarity on this further with gouache and I think it really helped! My photodocumentation is such shit in the winter with no natural light available, sorry. Maybe I’ll scan some sketchbook pages this year!…

  • Concert Photo Gouache Study ft Leprous
    Concert Photo Gouache Study ft Leprous

    7 x 10″ gouache on hot press, referencing my own photos from seeing Leprous in Toronto back in September 2024. The photo itself is much more blue than teal, but bright, saturated light blues are such a challenge to mix with gouache! So i turned the background teal and was able to get the relative…

  • Shing Yin Khor’s “Make Little Guys”
    Shing Yin Khor’s “Make Little Guys”

    https://www.patreon.com/posts/make-little-guys-112268885

  • Aquarium Gouache Study
    Aquarium Gouache Study

    4 x 6″ gouache prawn. I decided to try using some drying time extenders – glycerine, watercolour blending medium – to try for more of a wet in wet blend approach, but honestly it was hard to keep the paint thick enough that it wasn’t just running all over the page. Something to retry in…

  • Purple Bellflower Study in Oil Pastel
    Purple Bellflower Study in Oil Pastel

    Drawn on very, very smooth paper, a mistake I will not make again. Photo ref taken from my database of plants that I have grown (intentionally or not!) in my garden over the years.

  • Fountain Pen Sketching
    Fountain Pen Sketching

    Drawn from pinterest ref with my FPR ultraflex nib over an undersketch done with a long blade nib and washed into the page with a waterbrush.

  • Sketchbook barbarian
    Sketchbook barbarian

    Haven’t drawn a Conan in a while, so, tried my hand at it. Fountain pen is such a delight to sketch with! This was drawn with an FPR Ultraflex nib, tho I dunno if I was really pushing it to its limits with this one.

  • Neocolor II Boat Sketch
    Neocolor II Boat Sketch

    Painted in my sketchbook with neocolor iis over a fountain pen sketch. Reffed from pinterest. After having my ass kicked learning to draw boats for a game in 2021, I can’t stop thinking about them! Little boats especially I find so incredibly cute.

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