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Fernando Salvaterra

@salvaterra.bsky.social

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| 🌈 | (he-him) TTRPG ilustrador and fantasy cartographer. Brazilian. ND. 🗺️ https://www.patreon.com/tomeofsalvaterra #cartography #art #ttrpg 🚫NoAI/N-F-T 💼 https://cara.app/salvaterra ☕ https://ko-fi.com/salvaterra/shop 📧[email protected]

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hi #PortfolioDay! 🎨

I'm a freelance illustrator from Brazil working on hand-drawn fantasy maps for novels and RPGs.

I have a Patreon with maps + stock art for indie RPGs.

💼 cara.app/salvaterra
🗺️ www.patreon.com/tomeofsalvat...
+🔗 fernandosalvaterra.carrd.co

#cartography #ttrpg #art #fantasyart

a fantasy map depicting a hell. from the top to the bottom: there's a submarine city of strange towers and glass domes connected to a giant computer in the midst of reefs. a river and a lake goes south from this city in the midst of some ruins, ending on a big dam from where a timid river flows through a desert canyon. beyond the desert, there's another stretch of sea separating it from another city at the end of the map. there are planets hovering above this landscape: the remains of mars and a primeval earth covered in lava, fumes, guns and forts.

a map depicting a valley surrounded by two rivers, one red, the other of crystal waters, both flowing from a big lake fed by a large river coming from the mountains. the mountains look almost magical as there are four main peaks: a volcano, a snowy range, a forest-covered mountain and a colourful rocky mineral mountain. there is a city near the lake, called Alma, a meadow of giant butterflies, roads following the rivers, woods everywhere, ruins to the southeast.

map of a village on a hill with autumn colours, surrounded by crop fields and an old wooden wall. the houses have thatched roofs. on the top of the hill, there's a colourful market with tents around a central bonfire with a big statue of a jackalope.

illustration depicting six different worlds in cut-out stretches of land: one is a post-apocalyptic scenario, the second is an epic fantasy land, the third is a sci-fi landscape, the fourth is a city-noir landscape, the fifth is a fairy tale world and the final one is an submarine landscape with monsters and cities. All these are being drawn to the center of the artwork where a "world under construction" is cut to show its magic demon melting core full of hellfire, circled by a magic dust ring, orbited by dragons, whitchy houses, flying wooden ships and spacecraft, surrounded by scafolding and attached to strange machinery and gigantic pipes and hoses at its bottom.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 23h

We finally did it! We constructed and swam in the cadaver pool from the novel "Don't Swim in the Cadaver Pool Inside the Villain's Lair!"

Battlemap commission fragment for the Game Master's Book of Legendary Locations.

#ttrpg #dnd #battlemap #darkart #b&wart

black and white TTRPG battlemap fragment depicting a dark subterranean pool full of cadavers. a throne in a stone platform is in the middle of the pool.

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Louie Salvaterra / Moka @louiems.bsky.social · 26m

saber tooth tiger guy from 3 years ago
I MIGHT redraw him who knows

#furryart #anthroart #sabertooth #furry #digitalart

illustration of a saber tooth tiger with some piercings, rings on his big teeth and little braids on his neck fluff

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · Feb 6

The frogs of January

- some will be available only until April

#bestiary #creaturedesign #ttrpg #art

illustration of eight frog men in four different images. some are armed, one is leaping, one is a sorcerer, one has a ukelele.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · Feb 5

They might forget, but they don't forgive.

The goblin patrol is on duty as the 20th Monstrosilist pack:

⚔️ www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

⚔️ salvaterra.itch.io/monstrosilis...

#goblin #ttrpg #dnd #art #bsnm

a stock art pack cover comprised of four black and white drawings of goblins, armed with spear, sword, club and mace.

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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 20h

finished up this bad boy yesterday! commission piece for @thegeoffskinner.bsky.social in their upcoming project about titans

mountain city, in fog, large winged creature in background

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Art SilverGlass ~ Sophie Grunnet @silverglass.bsky.social · 1h

Random encounter; mysterious statue

(Pencil drawing)
#ttrpg #traditionalart #sketch

A stone statue with a bird sitting on its head. In front of the statue is a money collecting box with the text 'Bastian's Basilisk Foundation'

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · Feb 5

Big city map sketch from last year.

#ttrpg #cartography #dnd #art

a pencil sketch of a big city map: many blocks around a central park. the city is leaning on a mountain and has two main levels separated by tall cliffs where a waterfall fills a lake.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · Aug 6

the five city/village maps I did for the Game Master's Book of Instant Towns and Cities, 2024.

#ttrpg #cartography

assemblage of five black and white city maps of fantasy RPG, going from small villages, towns and a city.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · Aug 6

Pentagonal Trapezohedron-shaped islands in my INPRNT shop

#print #artprint #ttrpg #rpgdice #dicedrove

www.inprnt.com/gallery/salv...

print screen of my inprnt shop with some floating island in the shape of RPG d10 dice

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Dan H Artworks @danhawk333.bsky.social · 14h

Enough for tonight
Btw long day at work and I just want to acknowledge the tags into shares today. Didn't have the spoons to jump in bit i do see and appreciate them
11x17 pen and paper
#surreal #macabre #wip #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #GrimDark

A tall feminine humanoid with large semi-circular horns and a jet black body with symbols in white down her chest with stone ruins in the background

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 1d

Art versus Artist, but make it all celestial bodies.

#artvsartist #artvsartist2025

composition of 8 illustrations of planets and moons from fantasy maps around my selfie. I wear glasses and have a beard.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 2h

Ravanseil pencil sketch for @lalionnepublishing.itch.io

👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...

#cartography #ttrpg #CandelaObscura

sketch of a map depicting a large peninsula with lakes, mountain ranges, rivers and forests, connected to the mainland through a thin landmass

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 19h

Post a mage!

(A rough test animation from an upcoming trailer for our #indiegame Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends!)

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 1d

My art packs are 10%OFF for a few days:

👉 www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...

👉 salvaterra.itch.io

#bsnm #stockart #ttrpg

a collage with several black and white item drawings like books, chests, maps, scrolls, treasures, idols etc.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 1d

Post a mage! 🧙🔮

pen drawing of a kobold wizard with a big spellbook attached to its belt, holding a staff with a doll head embedded in the tip.

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Louie Salvaterra / Moka @louiems.bsky.social · 20h

another lineart version

#OC #dragongirl #OCart #lineart #digitalart

lineart of a dragon girl with pointy ears and horns, a scar on the right eye and smiling at the viewer

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · Aug 5

If you see this, quote your green art! 🗺️ 🌄

#fantasyart #cartography #ttrpg

detail illustration of a floating island with a hut, a giant colourful feather on display and a rope bridge, all amidst some trees.

illustration of a flying island with a ship, houses and a ravine.

illustration of a flying island with green mountains with colourful farms.

floating isle with hills, grasslands, fields of catnip and other herbs, streams and lakes and a giant oak tree

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · Aug 5

Arium cover art fragment. final art.

#ttrpg #fantasyart

illustration of a city landscape, crossed by a river. the river crossed by a bridge. it's night, the buildings glow with many windows. a red tugboat sail at river.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · Feb 5

I think they look nice together.

Colours by @louiems.bsky.social

Pack 01:

🐭⚔️ www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

🐭⚔️ salvaterra.itch.io/micexplorers...

a composition with four adventure scene illustrations depicting mice adventurers in different situations: on a cave, on a lake near giant mushrooms, traversing a rope bridge and climbing down a precipice.

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 22h

$5 Worldwide shipping on my inprnt right now! witches, reapers, silly cats and star princesses all available!

www.inprnt.com/gallery/carl...

#art #bsnm

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Dinoberry Press @dinoberrypress.bsky.social · 21h

Dragon Reactor’s approach to the loss of characters is unique, even among “play-to-lose” or “highly-lethal” games, and as a result it fosters an incredible kind of player attachment.

Read more in this month’s blog!

www.dinoberrypress.com/blog/dragon-...

Player attachment to characters in Dragon Reactor — Dinoberry Press

In Dragon Reactor, it’s pretty easy for a player’s character to die. I’ve always been a fan of “play to lose” games (which I can talk about at length), but even in something like Blades in The…

www.dinoberrypress.com

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 22h

character art sketch for @rush-and-punch.bsky.social

#characterart #sketch #ttrpg #indierpg

black and white character sketch depicting a huge old boxer with stone skin, wearing a large cape over his shoulders, standing in a fight pose, fists up.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 22h

thank you!

Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 22h

on no it wrote itself, didn't it? 😆

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · Aug 4

posted in 600 dpi stock art:

www.patreon.com/posts/stock-...

#monstrosilist #ttrpg #stockart

black and white drawing of a ghost melting in a pool, skull facial features, floating blob of hair, looking desparete to other six blob ghosts in their chest.

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