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Gareth Sleightholme / hesir
@hesir.bsky.social
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Freelance #comics #TtRPG #Illustrator #Educator based in #Hull, #UK. Find my #TtRPGArt #FantasyArt, #myth & #monster #comics @ http://hesir.artstation.com & http://ironshodapecomics.com and my TtRPG writing @ https://www.dmsguild.com/m/product/375079
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wulfboyraff.bsky.social
I wrote a bunch of stupid Herculean adventures for Aegean, one of which has a really giant crab in it. God willing I'm writing some more for the new supplement. Pick it up - it's cheap at half the price.
May 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
hesir.bsky.social
For anyone interested in #Comics, #Literacy, #Education, #Innovation, and #Culture
downthetubes.net/lakes-intern...
Lakes International Comic Art Festival launches UK Development Agency for Comics
The new agency will be based in Barrow
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May 1, 2025 at 10:29 AM
hesir.bsky.social
In York today, making a #flatbow from a stick, in amongst some trees, hatchet, draw knife, little fire, all the mod cons.
A stick of oak, as it was at the beginning of the day. Before I hit it some with a little hatchet. Cutting in the main shape using the hatchet. Refining the the shape / "Tilling", using the draw knife. The not quite finished product. Plenty of sanding and oiling to do yet.
February 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
hesir.bsky.social
Well those framed up nicely... youtube.com/shorts/J5QYk... #illustration #ttrpg #fantasyart #prints
December 6, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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stevelieberart.bsky.social
And right after the lush detail of the page quoted below, Breccia follows with some devastating minimalism as he shifts focus from atmospheric settings to Ezra’s personal experience of dread.

(These are from the 2018 @fantagraphics.bsky.social edition, translated by Erica Mena.)
Six panel page of Mort Cinder, translated into English. Overhead shot of ezra backed against a doorway, looking down at an ominous shadow of a man. The vertiginous pov allows Breccia to carve the space into unexpected black and white diagonal shapes. ezra cowering in the doorway as a British cop in a custodian helmet and long coat passes him. Breccia has used the fog to eliminate nearly all of the background in the panel, implying the walls and sidewalks with artfully placed cast shadows. The cop is nearly a silhouette, with only rim lit edges revealing any internal detail. White drybrush fog is visible against the shadows but disappears against the blank white of the implied walls. Ezra is relieved and looks out at the reader from the doorway. As in the preceding panels, the doorway is pure white, defined only by the shadows it casts on ezra and the space behind him. But it’s shot straight on from an ordinary eye-level, giving the moment a (temporary) sense of stability and safety.
December 1, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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hesir.bsky.social
Interview with me over on the Hull Maritime site, for National Illustration Day
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#HullMaritime #NationalIllustrationDay
Interview | National Illustration Day – Interview with local illustrator Gareth Sleightholme
To celebrate National Illustration Day on 29 November 2024, Emma from Hull Maritime had a chat with Gareth Sleightholme - local illustrator and creator of the popular Maritime Tales comics.
maritimehull.co.uk
November 25, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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gorangligovic.bsky.social
If you enjoy drawing medieval stuff you might want to have a bit of fun by designing a soldier for the

𝕾𝖔𝖓𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝕺𝖗𝖐𝖚𝖘
mercenary company

Guidelines:
-15th century equipment
-green metal
-some sort of monstrous or grotesque design on the helmet
November 26, 2024 at 10:42 AM
hesir.bsky.social
Interview with me over on the Hull Maritime site, for National Illustration Day
maritimehull.co.uk/whats-happen...
#HullMaritime #NationalIllustrationDay
Interview | National Illustration Day – Interview with local illustrator Gareth Sleightholme
To celebrate National Illustration Day on 29 November 2024, Emma from Hull Maritime had a chat with Gareth Sleightholme - local illustrator and creator of the popular Maritime Tales comics.
maritimehull.co.uk
November 25, 2024 at 11:20 PM
hesir.bsky.social
Oh, & this, a bit of #Tolkien fan art "So [Gandalf's] doubt slept -- but uneasily. Still [he] watched and [he] waited."
Showed this at Oxonmoot back in Sept', & handed a few postcards of it out too. Detail pics of some fun background elements, inc. amongst other things a familiar looking kerchief.
Gandalf the Grey sits in Bag End as Bilbo makes the tea, sometimes between the end of "The Hobbit", and the begining of "Fellowship...". He watches his friend with no little worry, while the hobbit nervously checks his pocket. ...in the background of the image is a framed painting, based on the postcard Tolkien said had influenced his own image of Gandalf in the beginning of the work on the wider LotR Legendarium. Again the shape of the wizard's staff is styled after the elvish rune for "G". The books on the shelves have some familiar design shapes to their spines, plus a small carving of an ancestor perhaps? The hobbits hand nervously moves towards his pocket to check on "the trinket" there.
November 24, 2024 at 10:01 PM
hesir.bsky.social
Seeing as I can't show you any current work (for all the usual reasons) here's "Space Truckin'!" a toybash / kitbash project for my new(ish) a side project #anotherDMcrafter - you can see the full build on YouTube here > youtu.be/jttn85NTRXg?...
The Space Truckin' project just prior to priming. You can see some of the scratchbuild greeblies including the washing up liquid bottle tops as front thrusters, the marker pen lid as a rear facing engine, and the cable tie as a ladder. The underside, this was a lot of fun to do. Both sets of wings there came off an old Revell Tomcat model. The back of the vehicle showing the big side engines, marker pen kids, with old super glue tube lids fitted inside them. Old electrical wire for engine piping. Side view showing the additional greeblies on the left side. And the windows after having the the printing mask removed.
November 24, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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Suffragette City: When suffragette Charlotte Marsh came to Hull in 1909. Artwork by @hesir.bsky.social

www.thehullstory.com/allarticles/...
‘By what right do you stop me?’: Day of protest when Suffragette Charlotte Marsh gave police the runaround — The Hull Story
Confronted by two policemen blocking her way, Charlotte Marsh gathered up her skirt and leapt from an elevated walkway, landing on a quayside track next to the Humber used by coal trucks. With her t...
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November 24, 2024 at 12:57 PM
hesir.bsky.social
So, looks like more folk moving over this way... In that case, "Hi" to you new followers :)
I've actually been a bit quiet on here, but am close to having some new work/stuff go live, in the meantime, here's something fun/weird/newish...
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Scratch Truckin’ - a Space Truck for 28mm (Stargrave)
YouTube video by anotherDMcrafter
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November 9, 2024 at 5:58 PM
hesir.bsky.social
The Ravenser Odd comic written and drawn by myself for the Hull Maritime project is now free online!
You can find a downloadable PDF at the bottom of the article on the Maritime Hull pages, here:https://maritimehull.co.uk/whats-happening/news/news-new-comic-tells-the-story-of-ravenser-odd
The cover art for the comic, it shows a scene of a man Peter At See, discovering the shipwreck on the sandbank discussed in the story. Plus the two young investigators Lily and Jacob, and the crows that act as a Greek Chorus of sorts. Interior art from the comic, just showing how much art is in there. More interior art, here Lily and Jacob wander around the Hull art gallery and chat about the island.
May 17, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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emilyrobinson.bsky.social
The poster, designed by the amazing Marie-Chantal Hamrock, takes inspiration from the 1407 Inclesmoor map, showing the other end of the Humber. And the lovely iconography of a 1734 map of Spurn and the estuary. More details of the Inclesmoor map here: www.flickr.com/photos/12480...
Poster for ‘Hull/Ravenser Odd: twin cities, sunken pasts’, showing imagined medieval drawings of Hull and the island of Ravenser Odd. The grass on the mainland is similar to that in the Inclesmoor map. And there are mermaids and a sea creature, based on the 1734 map. Richly coloured map on parchment, with flowing rivers, lush vegetation, and detailed drawings of twins and villages, with towers and churches. Black and white map, with lovely mermen and sea creatures.
March 4, 2024 at 10:33 AM
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susanjordan.bsky.social
BBC News - Story of Humber's lost town Ravenser Odd to be told
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
Story of Humber's lost town Ravenser Odd to be told
Exhibition on Humber's lost town will feature original charters granted by King Edward I in 1299.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 24, 2024 at 10:22 AM
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isabellemarie.bsky.social
Ravenser Odd: the medieval city Yorkshire lost to the sea.
theconversation.com/ravenser-odd...
Ravenser Odd: the medieval city Yorkshire lost to the sea
Dubbed Yorkshire’s Atlantis, Ravenser Odd has been largely forgotten, despite its importance in the 13th century. That’s because it was swallowed by the sea.
theconversation.com
March 25, 2024 at 6:39 PM
hesir.bsky.social
Not sure this effects anyone, aside for making a little more room there. But I've not applied for a table @ thoughtbubbleuk this year. A number of factors. Maybe a year out of my fave comic fest might see me get back on track with my own #comics. Less pressure, though I'm kind of sad about it tbf.
February 20, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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mightylancergames.bsky.social
Mr MLG picked up some cool new art work for the shop today from @hesir.bsky.social
They are going to look great hung on the wall

#art #artist #rpgArt #fantasyArt #flgs #lgs #bridlington
December 17, 2023 at 5:22 PM
hesir.bsky.social
Just around the corner... best I start framing stuff up.
A poster for a pop-up exhibition in Hull, show casing some of my fantasy art/TtRPG art. The image shows the flying ship image from one of my paintings along with the title "Unfinished Worlds" and the somewhat vague/flexible dates "December through January". Hopefully the image can do a lot of heavy lifting for this show (pun very much intended).
November 30, 2023 at 12:54 PM
hesir.bsky.social
...Aaaaand we are here! #TBF23 Hope everyone has a great weekend @ThoughtBubbleUK ! See you in #DSTLRY hall, Table B34 - #comics, #fantasyart #prints & my very last copy of my #100Drawings #sketchbook
Sarah and I behind our table at Thoughtbubble this morning. The table full of comics and prints, and two new banners behind us. One filled with black and white comic art, the other with colour TtRPG paintings Open black and white comics, laid out on our table. Five colour TtRPG prints... Depicting fantasy scenes of flyings ships, adventurers, dragons, monsters etc. The front cover of my b/w sketchbook "100 Drawings".
November 11, 2023 at 10:17 AM
hesir.bsky.social
Ordered some new (and one repeat) print sets to take along to #ThoughtBubble (and in prep for a solo exhibition I have coming up).
One of my choices might have been crazier than the others... I'm really just printing stuff I like I guess.
We'll see I suppose?
- fantasyart ttrpgart ttrpgartist
Five A3 prints arranged on a table, clockwise from top left: an image of several adventurers standing at a dockside dominated by a flying ship, a female knight seems to negotiate with a shopkeeper over a deck of cards, a cityscape made of tombs and mausoleums, a strange gigantic creature stalks a human warrior I'm hiding and finally a horse riding warrior rides to the aid of two warriors attacked by a dragon. Low angle of one of the previous prints: showing a warrior hiding behind a rock as a strange looking giant stumbles through a lightning riven landscape toward them. Detail of the upper section of one of the prints from the first image. We can see a great mausoleum on top of which is a huge sculpture of a knight on horseback. Detail of one of the prints in the first image. A rider in armour rides toward a dragon as it clambers over a rock, the horses hooves kicking up dust.
November 10, 2023 at 12:08 AM
hesir.bsky.social
New Banners ready for #ThoughtBubble #TBF23, this coming weekend.
"Arrr... look for me at th' sign o' the flyin' galleon!"

Plus, a new blog post over on IronShodApeComics(.)com

"...starting something new before finishing the last thing(s)". ironshodapecomics.com/blog/

#Comics #Ttrpg
Me stood in front of my new event banners. It's been nearly a decade since I had the last one done, so it's about time, and at least this time they show off the art a little better and it even looks like I admit to doing colour work too! The map to find us at Thought Bubble TBF23. Table B34, DSTLRY Hall. Sarah and I at last year's event... In front of the old banner. That flying ship image, I've had more A3 prints done of it, so, if you know some one who likes D&D style stuff, let 'em know. The image itself shows a party of adventurers finding out they may have inherited a ship, that has more unique features than they expected.
November 8, 2023 at 2:33 PM
hesir.bsky.social
So, see you all at Thoughtbubble / TBF23... and hello to our future table neighbours! We'll be in the DSTLRYhall, Table B34 ...see you there! - Comics!
Promo artwork showing the location of our table at the upcoming Thought bubble Comic Con in November this year... Promo artwork showing the location of our table at the upcoming Thought bubble Comic Con in November this year... Promo artwork showing the location of our table at the upcoming Thought bubble Comic Con in November this year... Sarah & I at last year's TBF22 comic con.
September 22, 2023 at 1:27 AM
hesir.bsky.social
So I guess in the meantime I might also post on here some of the other "creative" stuff I get up to. Stuff I do to give me a little step back from the day-to-day painting & drawing (which I love of course), that allows for a little recharging whilst still being creative, just in a different way...
As an extension of being a D&D player, DM, I'm also a ln avid scratch model-builder. I love trawling fleamarkets and junk stores to find interesting nonsense to build into my cardboard flying ships and other TtRPG scale nonsense... above is one of a number of works in progress, the hull of a flying galleon, made out of delivery boxes and found objects... It definitely stems from my background as a designer in the theme park and visitor attraction industry where model building was a big part of my day-to-day process... above, me holding a working card model for an animated casino window with an animated fan of playing cards, and behind me the actual device based on my scale version... ...and then there's music. I've always dabbled. And I've collected a bunch of noise making devices over the years as part of that. But never really taken it anywhere beyond the odd open mic (a few years back now). But recently, again via the DMing of tabletop games (particularly online) I've started to pull together bits of music for fun and to create soundtracks to go with some of the art I also create for those games... I've even begun to collaborate with a friend on some of that, which is a lot of fun. ...mostly it's things with strings. And I'm happy to have a crack at playing anything, but strings are a fave. The photo above was taken round at my friend El's house, trying to get something tuneful out of his Welsh Harp... a fabulous looking and sounding bit of kit...
September 21, 2023 at 9:55 AM
hesir.bsky.social
There's definitely less impetus on here to post & update, & that gentler less pressure-full atmosphere is great. But being in that showcase lull, that working on stuff you can't show or talk about brings, can feel isolating, like you're sitting on the edge of a discussion you want to be part of. 1/2
Me, sketching, outside somewhere... possibly Hull. Me again, sketching on Humber Street, Hull, sometime before it all began its journey towards gentrification... Me, yet again, drawing at an exhibition of playing card designs I was a part of, Inna shopping mall in Hull. A somewhat romantic, fantasy image of the artist at work (done for a personal project based on the painter of a magical card deck). This is me, working away at the canvas, in a cluttered dark room, with the sun of world outside hazily filtering through the window... or some such idea, laughs.
September 21, 2023 at 9:09 AM