October 2023

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a pen & ink illustration of a demonic figure with horns and large jewelry, wearing a robe from which black hollyhock flowers appear. a sigil floats over the figure's head.ALT

ALSEYA, pen & ink

definitely won’t be managing to post every day, but i love the spirit of #repostober & that’s the only October art challenge that sounds like it’s my speed at the moment. this piece is surprisingly old (2016!) for how much i still like it.

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a pen and grey marker illustration of a mermaid whose design is based on a hagfish, secreting slime from her mouth and wrapped in a kelp frond, against a black background.ALT

HAGFISH, pen & Copic markers

was going to say “i’ll try to keep it spooky” for #repostober but who am i kidding, i don’t draw anything else. this was 2019’s #mermay!

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a black pen and grey marker illustration of a small sparrow-like bird with the head of a person, wearing a headscarf & a ribbon on its ankle. it has a black speech balloon with a white eye symbol inside.ALT
a black pen & grey marker illustration of three antique keys connected by a white ribbon on a black backgroundALT
a black pen and grey marker illustration of a drooling cartoon ghost coming out of a skull.ALT
a black pen and grey marker illustration of a decapitated unicorn - its skeletal head floats in a mane-like spray of blood above its neck, and there are stars in the background.ALT

artist trading cards, pen & Copic marker

a handful of spooky ATCs from 2017 - i should really return to this more simple black/white/grey stuff, it’s very satisfying. a friend got the unicorn card but i’ve no idea who scored the other ones - i think i sold them at MICE that year.

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thesiltverses:

The Silt Verses RPG approaches fast…

Some very big and exciting news today, folks.

The people at The Gauntlet have just released a deluxe preview version of the Silt Verses RPG (patrons can access it on their Patreon or on ours) and it looks absolutely incredible.

The preview version contains an 80+page rulebook, player handouts, character and reference sheets, and enough campaign materials for players to try their hand at a few sessions of the game ahead of the full release at the end of this month. (There’s also advice and support available on The Gauntlet Discord.)

We’re so grateful and so proud of Jason, Gabriel and the team for all their hard work - we can already tell it’s going to be an astonishing achievement.

I’m only just settling in to read the materials myself, but my first impression is that the artwork by @sheydgarden is absolutely freaking extraordinary (I’m also excited to see that one contributing writer is a mysterious disciple by the name of B. Narr - what horrors has @sassylich concocted for us?!)

A few teaser images for you below…

[Description: a spread from the TSV RPG rulebook, titled ‘The Setting.’ A farmhouse with a yellow setting sun is visible on the right-hand page.]

[Description: A spread from the TSV RPG rulebook, titled 'The Custodians.’ An image of an archway, altar and a mosaic of a strange figure whose chest and head are splitting open is visible on the left-hand page.]

[Description: A spread from the TSV RPG rulebook. On the right-hand side, an image of the Cairn Maiden can be seen, standing amongst long corn.]

still over the moon about having gotten to be a part of this!