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Sam Manley (booked up for now)
@sammanleyartist.bsky.social
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Freelance illustrator - private commissions: closed for now
WFRP || 40k: Wrath & Glory || Age of Sigmar: Soulbound || 40k: Imperium Maledictum || Private commissions
Brit in Germany
He/him
Contact - linktr.ee/SamManley
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My carrot soup, a vegan curried lemon beef with pine nuts and cilantro topping, with flatbreads my partner made 😋

So, so much work under NDA right now. My goodness.
My carrot soup, a vegan curried lemon beef with pine nuts and cilantro topping, in a white bowl, with flatbreads my partner made off to the side.
November 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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#Frieren
Real quick n dirty, me looking up at all the cool interpretations of this meme there've been 😀

I purposefully didn't use ref but I did recall the Loomis exercises (go look them up!) for constructing the head. Obvs for any serious attempt, USE REF!
Sketchy linework of me, looking up
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Quote how you draw women!
A 40k techpriestess A Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay dwarf priestess A 40k agent of the Inquisition, lower body missing but replaced with treads. A 40k Sister of Battle portrait
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Art vs Artist 😀

And yeah, I probably was pulling that face while painting. You all know how it works with more extreme expressions 😜
A portrait of Nix, a character from His Glorious Shield, an adventure for the 40k ttrpg Imperium Maledictum One of the more flattering pictures that's been taken of me, in all honesty :D
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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40k battle scenes! All of these are for the 40k ttrpg Wrath & Glory.
A Howling Banshee and a Guardian battle a Word Bearer Space Wolves charge and tear into a horde of Orks in this cover for Sons of Russ for the 40k ttrpg Wrath & Glory Aeldari of different factions band together in a desperate attempt to fend off a horde of Orks in this cover for Inheritance of Embers for the 40k ttrpg Wrath & Glory Absolvers Space Marines advance, attacking an unknown (off-canvas!) foe.
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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It really is holiday season right now!
Enjoy your 30 second celebratory screams, friends - heaven knows this year has earned them 🙃
doctorallisona.bsky.social Dr Allison Andrews @doctorallisona.bsky.social · 11d
Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.
A comic panel from Watchmen, showing a partially muscled skeleton (Dr Manhattan) screaming in pain in front of two horrified security guards. Text reads: “November 14th: a partially muscled skeleton stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing…”
November 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Couple of highlights from this week’s food: a carrot pie from B Dylan Hollis, and a pasta con ricotta (with brocc) from David Rocco. Both delightful, will absolutely make both again!
A slice of carrot pie with whipped cream on top. A bed of broccoli with the pasta con ricotta on top, a sprig of basil decorating.
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Hive Moderation or no, they feel heavily AI.
Tristan's out there doing the lord's work on this story.

We just cannot accept this kind of practice in our field, or the absurd denials from the person in charge of art approval.
tristanelwell.bsky.social Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 14d
I'm so angry about the statement from Raya Golden on GRRM's website denying (or at least disclaiming knowing) that the illustrations for the 20th anniversary edition of A Feast For Crows were made with AI that I ran all of the images available though Hive Moderation's online AI content detector. 1/
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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It's late, have a dragon.
An Ash Drake ambushes a small Chaos warband. They're fucked, honestly.
November 13, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Various paintings from the 40k ttrpg Imperium Maledictum
Outside a hive city, an Eversor Assassin emerges from his drop pod to make his way to the target. Mudwalker, a walker platform for 'fishermen' to go hunting giant tardigrades. A hive worker on a quadbike speeds to, or perhaps from, her job. She seems to have heavy mining/cutting equipment with her. 12 Imperium Maledictum faction icons. And yes, those are more tardigrades, skewered and roasting in one of the merchant icons.
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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A celebration we can all support, I'm sure.
liapas.bsky.social Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · 14d
Happy circulatory system walking through the kitchen day to all who celebrate! #SciArt
A panel from the comic The Watchmen. A glowing blue circulatory system is in a restaurant kitchen while the staff looks on in horror. The caption reads: It’s November 10th Now. There is a circulatory system walking through the kitchen.
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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2003-2025

Fuck 🖕 AI
Believe in yourself!
Jason, from Age of Mythology. A pencil drawing from 2003, the earliest of my drawings that I can currently lay my hands on. The cover illustration for Sons of Russ, for the 40k ttrpg Wrath & Glory. Painted in 2025. The cover illustration for Voll Adventures, for the 40k ttrpg Imperium Maledictum. Painted in 2025.
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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ARCHIVE DIVE back to some pieces from Monuments of the Reikland for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.
5 years ago, though!? Good god, that kind of flew by o.O
Memorial to the Fallen of the Battle of Auerswald - we see a statue of a solid stone plinth with 4 soldiers in various active poses, around a knight who is also ready to charge into battle against the same unseen foe. The Statue of Burgomeister Holger Rauck - this statue has no head, but there is a rather spectacular (actual, not part of the statue) turnip resting atop his shoulders. By the base, a one-legged beggar threatens a couple of rats. Von Plotzkanal’s Horological Tower - a scholar stands before this mechanical marvel of timekeeping. It shows signs of wear though. A little of the city can be seen in the background.
November 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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OK it's Hallowe'en so let's drop some spooky pictures :D

We'll start with the fiery sermon of an Absolvers Chaplain:
An Absolvers Chaplain preaches aggressively from his bone-covered pulpit.
October 31, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Dreadnought!

This chap has the loadout I used for my first Dread, waaay back in the late 90s :D
Absolvers Dreadnought, striding across the battlefield and over the broken body of a Chaos Space Marine.
October 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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QRP your dark art 🖤
It's basically over for this party of 'heroes', on the cover art for the 40k ttrpg Wrath & Glory's Starter Set Skeletons! Armoured! And in a line! It's either a rather disturbing haunted house, or Berlin's Ausländerbehörde. A chilling, hostile place either way! A penitant human burdened with a shrine on his back. Honestly so far from the worst fate in 40k it's not even funny.
October 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Figures in action! Honestly, these kinds of character pieces are often pretty challenging, but when they come together it's really enjoyable 😀
A Serberys Raider charges forwards A Wolk Kin leaps towards his next target A Tzaangor Shaman... well, I don't know what his plan is. You don't know. We'll just have to hope we're not involved in any way. A Sister of Battle purges her foes with bolt pistol rounds
October 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Quote your art with fire on 🔥
A Pteraxii rises high to unleash the power of his phosphor torch on enemies below
October 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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sexy vanilla mayo cake
October 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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HOT FRESH NEW ART!
Cover art for Sons of Russ, for the 40k ttrpg Wrath & Glory! 🐺

I'll post the full trade dress version, and the sketch, later today.
Space Wolves tear into an Orkish horde!
October 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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HOT FRESH NEW ART!
A recent private commission of a Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Bretonnia-based adventuring party:
At night, around a campfire, our 4 adventurers banter. There are two male knights sitting, one on each side, and a female knight standing. Seated on a rock there's a wood elf mage who is reading and who has on her lap a familiar cat. Behind the party, we see the horse of one of the knights.
October 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Have a great weekend! 😀
Chaos symbols of Khorne, Tzeentch, Slaanesh, and Nurgle, printed in the tabletop roleplaying games 40k: Wrath & Glory and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.
October 18, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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#portfolioday is here again!
Hi everyone! I'm Sam, freelancer and illustrator on a variety of Warhammer tabletop roleplaying games. Here's a tiny slice of what I do:
Voll Adventures cover for Imperium Maledictum - a Vigilite interrogates a cultist at the site of a massacre, while our heroes prepare to intervene! An Ash Drake ambushes a rather overmatched Chaos warband. Aeldari factions combine forces against a horde of Orks in this cover illustration for Aeldari - Inheritance of Embers for Wrath & Glory. The Skaven Blistrox, with readied spear and braced shield!
October 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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I… don’t have a substack?
pessoabrain.bsky.social PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · Oct 12
Thanks to @sammanleyartist.bsky.social for sharing it in his excellent substack.
manlius.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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It's my birthday! Huzzah! 🥳🍰🎉
Y'know what I'd like?
Quote repost with HOW YOU DRAW DWARFS!
A unit of a lad. The dwarfest dwarf ever. A big ol' dwarf door in a big ol' dwarf hold. A part of dwarfs adventures across the mountains, heading to another hold. Rather mad looking dwarfs forge a powerful weapon on their anvil.
October 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM