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shafer brown
@shaferbrown.com
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flat fantasy and rpg illustration by some queer in the hills of western NC
commissions open - [email protected]
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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · Jun 23
looking to draw something from your favorite videogame, your rpg characters, fantasy pet portraits, and anything else you think would look sick as hell
email me at [email protected] for rates and timeline
2025 limited color fantasy pet portrait Two tuxedo cats toil away in a tavern. One cleans dishes behind the bar while another consults his notes and balances beers on a tray. The patrons have left playing cards, empty plates and glasses, and other objects around the rear of the bar, gathering in the front in drunken merriment. 2025 full color commission in a dense forest, a goblin hides behind a rock and summons with the aid of a spellbook 3 spectral birds. On the horizon, a giant white elk turns its gaze towards their hiding spot. 2025 limited color group commission Inside a smokey dining room aboard a river boat pirate ship, a group of adventurers blow off steam. From left to right, an anxious squirrel has drunken to excess, a spirited otter teases them and toasts. A paternalistic skunk with a metal arm scolds them, while a delirious herbalist rabbit offers a solution, and the groups tinkerer, a sparrow, sits with an impulse of a food fight within reach. 025 limited tone fantasy family portrait Two adventurers (and their cats) press forth in a water logged dungeon in orange and green. One holds a bow, with a cat toy tied to an arrow to direct the more playful of their two pets. The other adventurer holds his lazier cat aloft on a shifting scale.
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My 2026 calendar is now available! Featuring Risograph print designs from previous posters, as well as a few new and unreleased illustrations. I've wanted to make a calendar for yeeaarrrsss so happy to have finally done it! I hope you like it! www.cathygjohn.net/store/2026-c...
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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battle screen commission (2023)
2023 commission in the style of a rpg/tactics battle screen. two cats, a hero and rogue, face down a snarling two headed dog in a desert in a framed encounter, featuring healthbars and a selection screen. the edges of the frame are decorated with tactic game board squares.
July 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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fantasy family portrait with inventories
2025 limited color fantasy family portrait at the base of a small hill overlooking an underground acqueduct, a couple sits curled up with their pets enjoying a campfire meal. one sits atop a giant snake eating an apple with one hand and chatting with her familiar across her neck. The other looks up with affection while peeling skewered food from his rapier. One cat rests in between them while another paws at the giant snakes tail. Their inventories are placed beside the scene like panels of an altarpiece.
August 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Was Lucky enough to contribute some work to this book by
@eyepatchwolf.bsky.social , big rec to pick it up for anyone in your life who grew up reading articles about games for consoles they didnt and would never own. a real treat to pour through.
The Bizarre world of fake videogames by super eyepatch wolf, in front of an autumnal yard.
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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St. Gallen.
Poster of the Swiss city of St. Gallen. A set of stairs with wooden steps in the foreground, with fir trees and red roofs in the middle and two towers of the monastery of St. Gallen in the background. A man is currently tumbling down every set of stairs.
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Was Lucky enough to contribute some work to this book by
@eyepatchwolf.bsky.social , big rec to pick it up for anyone in your life who grew up reading articles about games for consoles they didnt and would never own. a real treat to pour through.
The Bizarre world of fake videogames by super eyepatch wolf, in front of an autumnal yard.
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Kudzu Kountry

5 new pages of Plus Man & The Roadkill are up: Patreon.com/bensears
Two panels of a comic page, depicting a van driving down a country road. The trees are overgrown with kudzu.
November 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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paper cut kappa
Paper cut collage illustration of a kappa holding a stick sitting on a rock in the water
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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A small calico cat lays in a shoebox in the sun The same calico cat scratching her ear while remaining in the shoebox
July 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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I love Chinese & Taiwanese Wuxia RPGs, not only for the cool martial arts setting but also for playing differently from Western & Japanese RPGs.

I often get asked for recommendations. I had a big thread on Twitter, so here's a new one!

Here's my favorites available in English (officially or not) 🧵
Ho Tu Lo Shu
November 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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time for tea (2021)
2021 limited tone pet portrait in grey black and blue, a grey and white cat sits at a stump in a forest, pouring you a cup of tea from a big tea pot, their own steaming beside them.
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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designroom.bsky.social
Next up in our music game series: a big profile of Sound Fantasy and Electroplankton creator Toshio Iwai, based on a three-hour call with @radishgames.com.
Toshio Iwai's journey from Sound Fantasy to Electroplankton
We profile the artist behind two of Nintendo's attempts at making experimental music games in the '90s and early 2000s -- one a canceled Super Famicom game based on musical insects, and the other a Ni...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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The autumn.
February 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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a short rest in the dungeon (2025)
2025 limited tone portrait with animal companions In a water temple, an adventurer sleeps clutching his sword, drool hanging from his mouth. He sleeps nestled between a broken column, a burlap sack, and his dog. atop the column, his cat gazes at a puzzles solution on the horizon. His dog raises an ear and opens an eye cautiously.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Carved in Stone: The Debate

I was thrilled to be one of the many illustrators contributing to @stoutstoat.co.uk's 'Carved in Stone'
In this piece are monks from the Ionian & Roman traditions debating the calculation of Easter.

I'll be sharing more over the coming days!
A mixed group of Ionian & Roman monks are sat around a table with manuscripts & loose pages. Two of the monks are clearly arguing while one behind them worriedly looks to heaven. A monk to the left, is trying to grab the book away from the arguing pair while the two in the foreground gossip behind their hands.
November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Strider commission. This was tough, but a blast.
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Your new favorite artist shop is now open! Check out @a-rude-awakening.bsky.social !!! We have put together a fabulous 4-color Risograph calendar for 2026! Thanks to @vreni.bsky.social for being a Riso-master and shop captain! Orders are now open, check it out!
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Medieval theme commission for @/calamityuwu.bsky.social

Friar/monk fellow making beer 🍺 😺

Thank you for commissioning me !

#vonzentart
November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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recent commissions and sketches up on my patreon
www.patreon.com/shaferbrown
follow for free or throw me some coffee money for commission breakdowns, sketch dumps, and (soon) archives of past years works
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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really sick, love the borders
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Morning cats
Gel Pen sketches of anthropomorphic cats wearing robes and armor vaguely inspired by Ottoman Turks.
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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fantasy family portrait commission (2024)
2024 limited color fantasy family portrait In tones of gold and purplish grey, A family fishes in a stream in the woods, one member hooking a big catch, the other distracted and noticing their dog getting a snack from their baskets.
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Out of the hospital and back home, will be tending to work correspondence tomorrow morning.
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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🔮 gate of persuasion 🔮
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Another one from today. I am so glad to be back at it.
November 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM