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A Colour-Along Visit to the Tower of the Forest Wizard
This fall I took on a project I’ve been meaning to do for a while – I have made a colouring book based on my playmap The Tower of the Forest Wizard! I loved colouring books as a kid and teen, and the more stuff in them the better – one of my most treasured keep reading
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the shel news
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one year of arm stuff – part 12 –ambidexterity – writing
For six months I had no nerve connection whatsoever to my lower right radial nerve. This meant that all of… read more
longer reads
bigger ideas and more to look at
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Early Environment Concepts for Young Suns
I had the pleasure of contributing a couple environments to the early development of Young Suns, from KO_OP Games. Working with art director GP Lackey was great; we went from a broad brief to two specific pieces through a really rewarding process of tossing ideas back and forth. Some process shots for your enjoyment, starting
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Photography Blogging
digital camera snaps and thoughts
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Achievement! 1000+ Observations on iNaturalist!
In honour of taking enough photos and spending the time to categorize them and crop them and geotag them and sort them into distinct observations to have crossed the 1000 observations milestone on iNaturalist, I…
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heard you was…
…talkin shit (done in tribute to an infinitely delightful series of photos by msd on the curious quail blog)
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Camera people – what bags do you love?
I now have a beautiful new digital mirrorless camera + gorgeous telephoto lens to take on adventures! But I cannot willingly do so without a protective case. What I’d like is a very lightweight sling…
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Cellphone Photography: All About White Balance
Okay, this first in-depth cellphone photography post is going to be about white balance. One of the things that I often struggle with is getting the colors to look right on my phone. If you’ve…
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Art Blogging
paintings and drawings and more
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A Colour-Along Visit to the Tower of the Forest Wizard
This fall I took on a project I’ve been meaning to do for a while – I have made a colouring book based on my playmap The Tower of the Forest Wizard! I loved colouring…
Concept Art Blogging
professional vis dev work
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Early Environment Concepts for Young Suns
I had the pleasure of contributing a couple environments to the early development of Young Suns, from KO_OP Games. Working with art director GP Lackey was great; we went from a broad brief to two…
in concept art
Comics Blogging
comics of many kinds
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A Brief Guide to (early onset) Wizard Puberty
A Brief Guide to (early onset) Wizard Puberty is a silly but sincere explanation for bystanders of what is happening when their friends become disabled, as narrated by a very tired wizard. This comic has…
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Pocket Dungeon Blogging
system agnostic ttrpg modules that come in a cute pouch
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The Ghost Houses of Phylinecra – Pocket Dungeon Zine & Pocket Pack
The Ghost Houses of Phylinecra is a system-agnostic, story-heavy dungeon crawl about a community recovering after disaster, and how a goddess might try to understand mortal grief. The village of Phylinecra was a tight-knit community of artists and creatives, until it suffered a devastating flood. In the aftermath, as the survivors try to salvage their […]
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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…
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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…
Teaching Blogging
professional vis dev work
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Teaching Comics, Zine-making and Visual Literacy at OSF
In autumn 2017, I taught a four week comics course at the Oasis Skateboard Factory, an alternative highschool within the Toronto District Schoolboard. OSF has a project-focused curriculum, so our comic project was multifaceted, to…
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the feed
pinned thoughts and quick snapshots
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Style Test – fantastic skyscraper reinterpretation
Another style experiment, this time done 95% in Procreate. This one has me using a photo I took in highschool of a courtyard downtown that…
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Digital Style Exploration – Building Fantasy from a Photo
This was a 100% Clip Studio digital painting, based on a photo of mine from a visit to Hay River in the Northwest Territories; the…
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Style Explorations – Landscape with Figures Study
Another photo study, but I took this one into Clip Studio after doing the first pass in procreate, which let me use the smarter selection…
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Style Exploration – Digital Paint with Dark Inked Lines
This was reffing a photo on pinterest; I wanted to refocus on how I want to handle stylizing figures. I am slowly starting to nail…
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Style Test – Lineless Film Study
Another film still study, this one from Snow White and the Huntsman. This piece was done in Clip Studio, with a selection tool approach and…
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Style exploration – reffing a film still
Playing around with painting with the selection tool as well as relying more on chunky colourful linework. Screenshot from Space Sweepers.
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Golden Digger Wasp in Soft Pastel
A small study of my own photo of a golden digger wasp on some goldenrod flowers last summer! I primed the paper with some opaque…
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chalk pastel dragon island WIP – now with more details!
it’s coming along! while I suspect there’s a limit to how much I can do this, I’ve learned that you can use a paper stump…
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chalk pastel dragon island WIP
I’ve painted the paper with opaque watercolour ground to add more tooth and honestly it’s working really well!
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Artist! Chris Hüth
chrishuth.com
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Artist! Mary Verhoeven
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High Level Pencil Skills Videos
Sometimes you spend eight years of your life in post-secondary art training of various types, and then a further 14…
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Jey Pawlik Explains RSS!
One of my fav tech savvy cartoonists wrote up a huge post on what RSS is, how you can use…
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Laura’s angle on iNaturalist
I’m enjoying not only posting on and browsing photos via iNaturalist, I’m also having a blast seeing how other people…
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Shing Yin Khor’s “Make Little Guys”
https://www.patreon.com/posts/make-little-guys-112268885
This art is beautiful! I was already excited for Young Suns because of the cool narrative folks on it but…