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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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Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 19h

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.

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Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 19h

Dan, sir, thank you so much, and I truly love seeing your work on my feed here!

Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 22h

The fremdest! 😀

Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 22h

Cheers, Dan! 😀

Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 23h

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Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 23h

🙏😀🐀

Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 1d

Rat rat

This Skaven takes a fighting crouch, his shield braced, his spear ready to strike, and his breath ready to drop a hippo at 50 paces.

More pustule cluster (clustule?) that rat-man, really. 'to Skrolk' should be a verb.
He raises his Rod of Corruption and holds open the Liber Bubonicus. You feel like you need a shower.

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Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 2d

ARCHIVE DIVE! Going back all the way to 2019 for these framing device spot illustrations for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

A corner piece, swords and skulls and cogs and and and

A central piece, crossed hammers behind a helm and golden outstretched wings, with a scroll underneath.

Another corner piece, a skull and shield in the centre, a golden griffon to the side, a moon, a sun, a meteor heading downward...

A centre piece with a skull with an hourglass, a griffon, an armoured skeleton, an eyepatch sunskull, a burning moon...

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Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 4d

Variety and flexibility are really good, though!

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Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 5d

I wonder about this sometimes. Feels like a little local stability and we think 'it couldn't happen here' and/or 'we're different'. And it's never true. It's never the end of history, you didn't build something invincible.
We're so f'ing Ozymandias-brained 🙃

Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 5d

In the last couple of days I’ve learned who this person is, and that their brain is just two cats chasing a toy car.
Jesus Mary and Joseph.

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Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 6d

Hah! Cheers, Anna 😊

Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 7d

Art vs Artist

Deep in a 40k hive city, an Imperial Vigilite interrogates a cultist member who appears to be the only survivor of a massacre. Behind this, a Psyker and Tech-Priest ready themselves to join the 'discussion.' Cover illsutration for Voll Adventures for the 40k ttrpg Imperium Maledictum.

It's me, at 10 months old. I'm wrapped up warm in a coat with a zipper up past my chin, and I have a little knitted white hat on that only reveals my face.

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Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 8d

Shit, I thought mine were bad but they're rookie numbers next to this.

Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 9d

Well thank you! 😀

Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 9d

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Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 9d

I love stollen season 😀

Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 9d

That is the word on the street!

Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 9d

I hope I did the concept of it justice with this illustration 😀

Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 9d

Ah cool, and thank you! 😀

Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you so much Lys, it means a lot! 😀

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Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 9d

🥰
Thank you so much Dan!

Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 9d

Leftovers are always fun. I had made too much black cardamom tomato rice and so I tried turning tonight’s dinner into okonomiyaki-inspired pancakes with steamed garlic brocc, cheese in between the pancakes, kimchi, pickled ginger, and sesame seeds. Mayo and sriracha drizzled.
Tasted very nice.

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Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks! And yeah, they really are 😀

Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 10d

Perform the rituals and appease the machine-spirit.

The funniest thing is every machine I've had has had *quirks*.
There's always something.
I don't trust them.

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