Dark Relics Games inventory object illustration project, 19/???!

We added a foraging story last week, so I’m planning out assortments of plants for PCs to find.

Mostly ink, colored pencil, and Krita. I just got some Derwent Inktense pencils and paint pans to add to the mix, too- they’re fun.

Here are the first few inventory item illustrations for our future adventurers! Ink on mid and heavyweight sketchbook paper, digitally edited in Krita.

Drawings by R. Rogers-Rodgers (created by a nerdy human, not generative AI) for Dark Relics Games.

Nuts.

(Okay, technically drupes.)

Uh-oh, what’s this? Dusting off neglected and antiquated art skills? Me?

In an era of AI art, ask around your office to see if anyone has, say, a ginormous stash of inks and pastels that can be used instead.

Time to illustrate a fantasy game’s inventory. More about that coming soon! :)

Meet Skippy, my little fluffy rescue cat pal of a few years, now, and star of a new mindfulness-oriented micro-journaling app., Not a Bad Life.
He’s a sweet boy, and is this cute in real life. Here’s proof:
#CatsOfBluesky #MobileApp #BringYourPetToWorkDay?

This is a little quartz crystal cluster I found many years ago, in my grandparents’ yard in the northern Shenandoah Valley. It’s cute. Please enjoy.
#rockhounding #rockphotos

Meet Fluffy! Fluffy is a piece of asbestiform actinolite with magnetite and metabasalt/meta-andesite (greenstone) from the Catoctin Formation in Virginia.

Fluffy lives sealed in a plastic bag, in its own box, when not being photographed.
#RocksOfBluesky #Rockhounding #HazardousMaterials

Last week we learned that 6 of our active NEH awards—totaling $789k in unspent funds—were immediately terminated by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.This is obviously a blow, and a serious one, to our work.But we will carry on. To see our terminated grants rrchnm.org/news/carryin...

I enjoy rockhounding and have been taking photos of some of my finds, so enjoy!

Today’s rock is a metabasalt (or meta-andesite) with epidote amygdules, Catoctin Formation.

Barnes and Noble College is trying to charge students $15 to digitally rent an OER (CC BY 4.0) textbook. 🤦🏻
NOVA SOC 200 students: you do not have to pay for this book unless you want a printed copy. openstax.org/details/book...

I think my tiny ornamental pond needs some proper ~10 ft.+ tall cyperus papyrus this summer.

It is, at least, a fun way to procrastinate on this fine Sunday evening. I’ll figure out how to winter it over indoors later (zone 6b woes).

I also just impulse-ordered a long pepper (piper longum) vine.

Perk to crashing early after the first day at the conference.

Still Life with First Breakfast.

Tuppi hung out with History Club at the Loudoun NOVA Campus. Thanks, Tuppi!

Please enjoy my very favorite Christmas meme, and to those who celebrate, have a lovely holiday.

Does uninstalling Windows 11 count as “defenestration”?

‘Tis the season for overextended, overburdened shippers/carriers. Order and ship gifts early, be kind, be patient, check tracking, and adjust expectations.

The USPS is already running a few days slow (1-2 day delays in some distribution centers), and FedEx has stopped getting out of the truck.

lol

Winter break plan: Bronze Age mischief and nonsense. #Tuppi #BaalHaddu
Pottery by:
@reannagteine.bsky.social :)

Obligatory year-end Duolingo post.

(No, I’m not particularly skilled at any of the 6, but I am better than I was before I started, probably. And the owl seems pleased, which bodes well for the continued wellbeing of my family.)

The Loudoun County, Virginia Historic Records department gives out trading cards featuring local historical sites, notable people, and important documents.

The archivist was surprised when I asked- so just think of the reactions when you all go to get your own cards! 😄
(They are cute.)

A Tuppi has deigned to come to my library from the ISAC!