Nick Thornborrow
@nickthornborrow.bsky.social
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http://www.nickthornborrow.com Artist • storyboards • illustration Prev: BioWare, Humanoid Origin He/Him 🇨🇦 Prints: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/nthornborrow/
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Fresh intro for the newcomers! I’m Nick, concept and storyboard artist, 17 years in game dev, BioWare veteran, illustrator and most recently cinematic director at Humanoid Origin before its unfortunate closure. Here’s some of my personal art. Barbarians are my comfort food. Unroll for more.🧵
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And they’re gorgeous. Haha. Just to dispel the notion I’m trying to distance myself from them too. They were being done in my final months at BioWare, and every time a new set came in for review was a treat.
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I’ve been getting attributed to the Veilguard 2D cutscene illustrations. Proper credit where it’s due is one of my ticks, and although I storyboarded a bunch of those sequences, the final illustrations were NOT done by me. I hate that I can’t recall who the artists were.
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I've been really happy with my drawings lately which is kind of unheard of, but I still need you to keep me in my thoughts because pretty soon I have to draw a horse again.
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Happy Birthday Kerrith! You’re old, but you’ll never be as old as me.
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Happy Birthday to me! 🎂

As is social media convention, I humbly ask for reposts to spread my work to be shared with others!😀

🇨🇦 Hi I'm, Kerrith of Killustration Studios!

❤️ #Comics, #OCs!

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Inprnt: www.inprnt.com/profile/kis/

🔗🌲: linktr.ee/KerrithJohnson
Acceleratrix Portrait
A Woman stands in front of a starfield and slightly smiles.

5hr 34min

Program: Clip Studio Paint

Brush: Houston Sharp Oil Thick Paint Brush
🐰 🪐 DnD TTRPG - Portraits - Knights

A Tiefling Knight readies her blade!

3h 46min

Program: Clip Studio Paint

BG Brushes: 
Houston Sharp
CLOUDS - cloud softest

Clouds
Thick Wispy Clouds
Textured Fluffy Clouds

Devin Elle Kurtz
Distant Grass Block in
Grass Block in Softer

Hair 34
Hair 40

effects - air particles
texture - dots - ash

Brush: Houston Sharp Oil Thick Paint Brush
🐰 Galactic Heroes Comic Character Bio Info
Written by: Nire aka Acceleratrix
Code Name: Solguard
Real Name: JJ Gladwyn
Age: 16
Powers: Solar Manipulation
Home Planet: Earth
Species: Human

Bio: A cadet in the Earth Alliance Academy, JJ followed in his brother Grant’s (H2O) footsteps to join the group of explorers! Now with the coming threat to Earth, he’s become the Solar Sentinel of the Starways: Solguard of the Galactic Heroes!

Comic: Galactic Heroes by Kerrith Johnson of Killustration Studios
🐰 🪐 DnD TTRPG - Portraits - Knights
A Kenku Knight is excited to doubly strike!

4h

Program: Clip Studio Paint

Brushes
Houston Sharp oil thick brush

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This kinda checks out. George Miller is responsible for one of my all time favourite movies, and also responsible for the only movie that I I walked out of the theater mid movie.
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The spectrum of emotions I went through from reading this, to googling George Miller, to hitting the news tab.
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When James Baxter showed up in Adventure Time my kids had to endure a whole hyper-enthusiastic animation history lesson from me and the dynamic I have with my kids is forever changed.
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Oh sheesh, I love your work! So glad to have stumbled on your account!
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Nah, but media reporting on science? Maybe.
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Thanks! That’s really kind to say :)
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If you see this, post something monochromatic.
Illustration of a puritan girl having a bite mark on her forearm examined by a somewhat sinister looking puritan man with a tall hat.
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Thanks! I was pretty pleased with how that one came together. Totally surreal seeing it on a real book too.
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Thanks for the prompt! I’m Nick and I illustrate books, and tory board and direct cinematics on video games.
Cartoon illustration. Two kids exploring an island at dusk. Lighthouse in background. Girl is holding a flashlight and wearing a pink hoodie stepping off a rock. Boy wide stance wearing a backpack. Cover illustration for “Story of the Saints” featuring a bearded take on st Francis and a wolf Cover for “did you hear what happened in Salem?” Featuring two paranoid looking puritan girls whispering against a spooky background. A barbarian and a nymph wadi g through a stream.
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Kids live in a society and their voices ought to be heard, but also Evan Li isn’t a kid. He’s mere months away from being able to vote. The youngest guy in my college class was the same age as Evan is now. There’s more at stake for Evan and his peers with the strike than for Bruce who got his.
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Actual government censorship in Alberta.
Bruce McAllister should resign in any public capacity, but he should absolutely maintain his fear of young people.
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At tonight’s “consultation”…

When a high school kid tried to raise concerns about the teachers strike, Bruce McAllister cut the kids mic and then suggested his parents should have beaten him more.

Listen to the clip yourself…

It’s…

Telling.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Tonight’s plein air sketch. It was a fun way to spend an evening with neighbours. Grateful to everyone who showed up and made some art!
Painting of a detail from a brick 1900s public building. The detail is of a dormer jutting out of a shingled roof. The dormer has three windows. A central arched window and two smaller windows flanking it. It’s crowned with a concrete trim, and a concrete keystone on the arched window.
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What are we all doing this Sunday?
I know what I’m doing and I’m kinda nervouscited about it. I’m running a plein air workshop for my local neighborhood community group. These two paintings were in preparation for this event. Wish me luck!
Gouache sketch of an old brick elementary school. Gouache painting of an old brick elementary school.
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In about twenty minutes, I’ll be presenting How to Lead a Writing Team at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social. It’s online, and registration is free! Hope to see you there. flights-of-foundry.org
Flights of Foundry – For Speculative Creators and their Fans
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Mind blowing craftsmanship
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The toolmaking for this process alone required the skills of a carpenter with the steady hand and eye of a jeweler. David Evans was the largest British block printer on a commercial level and their block archive was incredible. But sadly, the process came to an end in the 1980s.
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Manifesting an illustrated annotated book of Dieworkwears Bluesky threads.
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And what am I but a janky NPC?