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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 22h

I painted this as one of three alien environments developed for Pillar of Fire; we focused heavily on using transformed scale to create an alien feel, while also being playful with colour and shape to keep things whimsical and enticing despite the strangeness.

$A fantastical landscape snippet on a grey background, showing a magenta desert ecosystem with oversized fungal growths and impossibly steep hills; the ground splits and fractures like slate or ice sheets. The text label reads " ARID - scaled fungi - bacterial mounds - spiny land jellyfish"$

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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 6d

okay. I've tried this before but maybe it'll stick.

WG is a forum where you can discuss at length tv, movies, books, new releases, metatextual topics, post and discuss art, post tutorials etc, read up in threads, which will not just vanish but stick around for a bit. try it!

wg.jcink.net/index.php

screenshot of Walled Garden, a new forum for general discussion.

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 22h

I painted this as one of three alien environments developed for Pillar of Fire; we focused heavily on using transformed scale to create an alien feel, while also being playful with colour and shape to keep things whimsical and enticing despite the strangeness.

$A fantastical landscape snippet on a grey background, showing a magenta desert ecosystem with oversized fungal growths and impossibly steep hills; the ground splits and fractures like slate or ice sheets. The text label reads " ARID - scaled fungi - bacterial mounds - spiny land jellyfish"$

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 1d

a great place to learn more about the game in art directing this fall, AND to hear two game designers I admire say very kind things about me, heck!

Unwritten Earths Symposium @unwrittenearths.bsky.social · 1d

New ep Wednesday! We talk all about @epidiah.bsky.social's Swords Without Master, our upcoming fixup campaign, and bringing on @portablecity.bsky.social as Art Director!

Listen: unwrittenearths.fireside.fm/24
Subscribe: unwrittenearths.fireside.fm/subscribe
Support: patreon.com/UnwrittenEar...

The Episode Without Master

The Season of Swords is upon us! Nathan and Eppy talk about Eppy's sword & sorcery classic Swords Without Master, how it came to be, how it works, and what's next for the game: a full standalone relea...

unwrittenearths.fireside.fm

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 1d

Another oil pastel study, seeing how far I can take a monochromatic feel with my palette of pastel sticks at the time. Painted on rag paper, my favourite for oil pastels these days by far.

A blue painting of a teen sitting in a chair in an arcade with game machines behind, lit by blue light and the neon decorations and signs of the games, wearing a striped tshirt and jeans, with light skin and straight brown hair past their shoulders.

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 1d

ahh, happy to send you down memory lane! it's a study of some fashion photography by franck bohbot if you wanna hunt it down?

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LEE GATLIN @neilaglet.bsky.social · 1d

#WIPwednesday

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 1d

a great place to learn more about the game in art directing this fall, AND to hear two game designers I admire say very kind things about me, heck!

Unwritten Earths Symposium @unwrittenearths.bsky.social · 1d

New ep Wednesday! We talk all about @epidiah.bsky.social's Swords Without Master, our upcoming fixup campaign, and bringing on @portablecity.bsky.social as Art Director!

Listen: unwrittenearths.fireside.fm/24
Subscribe: unwrittenearths.fireside.fm/subscribe
Support: patreon.com/UnwrittenEar...

The Episode Without Master

The Season of Swords is upon us! Nathan and Eppy talk about Eppy's sword & sorcery classic Swords Without Master, how it came to be, how it works, and what's next for the game: a full standalone relea...

unwrittenearths.fireside.fm

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 1d

if you're unfamiliar, you can read a few chapters for free right here: stories.portablecity.net/stories/comi...

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 1d

got another five pages thumbnailed of my comic Wizard Puberty, and really feeling a lot of affection for this sleepy muppet of a wizard and all their hardships and tribulations 🧙🪄😴

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 1d

Another oil pastel study, seeing how far I can take a monochromatic feel with my palette of pastel sticks at the time. Painted on rag paper, my favourite for oil pastels these days by far.

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🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · 1d

This sounds like some kind of weird humble-brag but it’s really true. You don’t have to eat glass, but you’d be surprised how far you can get by being reliable and easy to work with. Raw drafting talent is worth nothing if you’re a piece of shit who can’t hit deadlines.

Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 1d

Todd McFarlane: The one thing I've learned as I got older is you can't change personality. You either eat glass or not. You can't teach that. Rob LIefeld and I were glass eaters. Not the best artists, but we stood up. You should have seen what happened if we actually had f*ckin'' talent."

#nycc

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 1d

if you're unfamiliar, you can read a few chapters for free right here: stories.portablecity.net/stories/comi...

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 1d

got another five pages thumbnailed of my comic Wizard Puberty, and really feeling a lot of affection for this sleepy muppet of a wizard and all their hardships and tribulations 🧙🪄😴

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Chris Huth @umlauthuth.bsky.social · 2d

goals

Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 2d

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 2d

speaking of, it's finally cold enough for some good music: youtu.be/adOWWbEfyiQ?...

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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 2d

A little more info here: blog.lauramichet.com/ive-been-lai...

I've been laid off from Heart Machine!

After 2.5 years with Heart Machine, I learned yesterday that I am part of a layoff at that studio. I've still got work that will launch in the future - I wro...

blog.lauramichet.com

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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 2d

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

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Natalie Zed 🍁 @nataliezed.bsky.social · 2d

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...

the cover for a book entitled Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots. the cover is a bright magenta with dark blue and teal lettering for the title, and the author's name is in yellow. there is an image of the silhouette of a woman carrying a cane, surrounded by the silhouettes of five superheroes.

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 2d

For the spooky times ahead - a guy you might find in a swamp.

a watercolour painting of a green swamp monster man with deepset black pits with glowing sparks in them for eyes, and tree roots wrapping up his torso, and his hands red and root-filled; painted on a white background.

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 2d

beware: he goes HARD on the fake fog at his live shows

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 2d

heck thanks so much amiel!

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 2d

speaking of, it's finally cold enough for some good music: youtu.be/adOWWbEfyiQ?...

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 2d

For the spooky times ahead - a guy you might find in a swamp.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 2d

This is a fun game in a really cool format, just saying.

Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like old Eppy is going to need a new computer monitor.

In unrelated news, have you heard about Wolfspell? www.worldswithoutmaster.com/bazaar/wolfs... 🐺✨

You know! I bet if I sold five of these puppies, I could easily get that new monitor. 🤔

That's an interesting coincidence.

Wolfspell on a Trifold Album Jacket — Worlds Without Master

A prophecy told in your youth dictates that only fang and claw will rend your destiny, so you must be reborn as beast. The tabletop roleplaying game of adventurers who turn to wolf flesh to fulfill ...

www.worldswithoutmaster.com

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