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Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore

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Award-winning illustrator: MTG, D&D, Witcher, Numenera, Slay the Spire Www.brucebrenneise.com He/Him 100% Human Art

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Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · Oct 16

Behold Greyhawk, one of my illustrations for the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide! Perhaps the piece I'm proudest of from the past year. I was able to take this one about 70% of the way to finish in acrylics, a major milestone for me.

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Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks for going into it! My own experience with pens so far have oddly leaned harder on cheap ballpoints, but those also sometimes leave splotches of ink where I don't want.

Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 13h

Why do other ones make you angry? Always curious to find new good pens for a variety of things.

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Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks!

Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much!

Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Wendy!

Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 1d

I was recently honored to have my work featured on the cover of SFF magazine, @bcsmagazine.bsky.social. To the left, the cover, to the right, the full piece!

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Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks!

Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 4d

Still really proud of pulling off this artist proof painting! Those cards are a SMALL surface to be painting on.

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Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 8d

Thankfully, I've got two and a half weeks at home. Then the long march begins with Houston and Baltimore. See some of you there!

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Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah, I asked the client what their favorite relic for defect was!

Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks!

Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 9d

The defect is an excellent robot to kiss, hahaha!

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Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 9d

They headed off to their new home! "The Defect", 20x24" acrylics. I had a really great time with this one.

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Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 9d

You are correct!

Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah, great nickname, I think!

Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 10d

"Sundial: Dawn Tyrant", illustrated for MTG Aetherdrift. I recently heard at a con that folks are calling my cryptid baby, 'Sunny D'. Love it!

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11d

I want to talk about generative AI because of the defeatist impulses chronicled in this article. While simply expresssing a defiant attitude cannot always change lived-in reality, in certain cases it definitely can. This is in part because, early on, a conflict can exist at a perceptions level. 1/?

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11d

All the reasons not to give in to generative AI.

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The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

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Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 15d

Day 2 of FanX! Come say hi if you're in Salt Lake City this weekend: booth AA 244

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Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks, Erika!

Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 17d

I'll be at FanX in Salt Lake City this weekend! Come say hi if you're there; I'll be at booth AA 244. I'll have a bunch of this unimpressed astral Albatross at the Docks of Bral keeping me company.

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Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks! It was so much fun to paint.

Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks!

Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 20d

Yeah, one of my earliest clients!

Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 20d

That's the freelance artist life! Doing cool stuff for lots of different games, books, etc, for about ten years now. :-) Glad you enjoy them!

Bruce Brenneise 🔜SCG Houston & Baltimore @brucedraws.bsky.social · 20d

Yeah, I felt awkward that I didn't have time to actually hang out that time, that week was a crunch! Hope we get to properly catch up next time. Full body tackle hugs definitely appreciated!