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Si F Sweetman
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Professional Artist. Looking for work. Inquiries to: [email protected]

https://sifsweetman.carrd.co/
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Si F Sweetman @sifsweetman.bsky.social · Apr 8
Hey, #PortfolioDay, I'm Si Sweetman. I'm an illustrator and character designer, I vacillate aesthetically between sci-fi, dark fantasy and funky little guys. I'm looking for work, as usual.

Relevant Links: sifsweetman.carrd.co
Inquiries go to: [email protected]
An illustration of the dawn over a wintery halfling town, its twee architecture dwarfed by a massive temple of Samothes. In the midground a crowd gathers around a windswept execution platform. In the foreground Fero Feritas walks away, with regret, from the encaged Gnoll, Mother Glory, awaiting her execution. Did you try to save her? A kneeling armoured figure cups their hands together to catch blood poured from the wrist of a witch standing above them. Blood is spattered over their face and armour. The witch wears a massive headgear from which an umbilical of bloody tubes attach her to an abstract blob of blood, fraying into hexagonal strands and baby faces. Three little reptilian guys careen through the air with urban detritus. A car, a bin, a power line to which one clings desperately. Behind them in the clouds a colossal serpent whips through the sky, it's fleshy triangular mouth opens, eyelessly, towards them. A Sleeper from Citizen Sleeper hunched in a fetal position in zero g, clutches an open terrarium growing plants and mushrooms. Their tools float around them in in the air, along with droplets of water spilling from their irrigation tank. The sleeper is clad in overalls and a mylar cloak to keep their electronic components dry.
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cosmic-nemesis.bsky.social
qwq ✨️🌙🫰
September 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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georgeouthwaite.bsky.social
Hello, you can now buy this pdf of all my old landscapes and a few new ones ones too that you’ve never seen before
ko-fi.com/s/889e6eec9f
Book cover called In a Dust Cloud with a painting of an overgrown barn
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
Autumn Leaf 3
Watercolour, approximately 80 × 132 mm.

I lost my way with this one. The extent of the rust spots were paving my way to overworking even without my own blundering, and I of course walked merrily -- and then tearfully -- right into it.

1/3
Watercolour painting of an autumn leaf, predominantly red towards its upper part, with a small area of yellow-gold at the lower end towards the stem. The leaf is covered all over with reddish-brown rust spots, with a large area of black on its upper right.
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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santaragione.com
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
HORSES cover with a banned from Steam logo
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
you just can't have a meaningful conversation about the potential benefits of "AI" while this stuff is happening. it's like trying to talk about how useful an airplane might be during a hijacking
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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dungeonsandpossums.com
Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately.

Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
An art piece by Goran Gligovic of a sword resting against a battered tree in front of a rocky dungeon entrance amidst a snowy field. The text says UNBAN GORAN GLIGOVIC.
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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aluino.blacksky.app
Bluesky has suspended my bro @Gorangligovic.bsky.social, who’s an amazing artist that would always share Palestinian and other mutual aids while speaking against Bluesky’s mods which would delete these accounts.

Fuck Bluesky.
Screenshot of Goran’s account that says Error, Not Found, Account has been suspended.
November 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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badbucket.bsky.social
my second in-universe novel cover for @friends-table.bsky.social’s patreon postcards that they shipped during their mecha season ‘Palisade’

‘The Shadows on the Grass by Alise Breka’
an illustration in the style of a pulp novel. the illustration evokes soviet era industrial propaganda. a massive machine stands in a green and golden field that extends to the horizon. red buildings and combines dot the farmland. a figure sits atop the mech and looks to the distance where a shadow looms
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 AM
sifsweetman.bsky.social
A collected thread of all my postcards for Palisade. Working with @friends-table.bsky.social is always a real pleasure. Big thanks to @notquitereal.bsky.social, especially, for their work directing the set. I'm so happy to have gotten to play in so many styles for this.
bsky.app/profile/sifs...
sifsweetman.bsky.social Si F Sweetman @sifsweetman.bsky.social · 25d
I have been given the go-ahead to begin sharing #friendsatthetable #Palisade post-card work. While I work on my website updating it with that project, I'll be trickling those out. Aiming for 1/week.

These are in-universe propaganda books-on-tape. This ones designed around Gentian's Swordbearers.
A cover of a book on tape for a piece of in-universe Stel Nideo propaganda called "Brave Hearts of the Valley: Part One of the Blades of the Bontive Saga". It features two massive five-armed mechs of red glass and fabric extending their hands towards the middle as they meld into the giant pastoral stained glass that sits there. In front of them, two figures kneel on candlelit steps with their stained glass halves of a giant sword.
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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brandon.insertcredit.com
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
Credits for Brent Porter (3D art lead) and Catherine Menabde (2D art lead) are shown here. There's a lengthy description of what they did, with a pastiche of various Demonschool characters underneath, messing around with a computer.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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sifsweetman.bsky.social
Miracle. The scar of the Bontive Valley. The final #Palisade post card is a collaboration between myself and @badbucket.bsky.social. We traded sketches back and forth to land on the comp. I painted the environment, Conner did the ships, the finishing touches, the typography etc. #friendsatthetable
Two synthetic beings look up from the scar of the Bontive Vallet, filled with shards of Crusade's glass weapons. They gaze out over the valley between great stone formations at the encroaching Twilight Mirage swirling in secondary colours. From the clouds 3 ships burst forth, creating a circular void in the clouds in their wake. The image is treated with clean typography that frames it. VT Lin amd Ter Tirhan are the listed authors. The title spans the horizon line. Miracle, it reads. The same painting as previous, but with the typography removed.
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
sifsweetman.bsky.social
Not sure if I've said it previously, but there's no hard in repeating, the SU-Cream Pencil for CSP has really become my workhorse brush. It's all over any of my painterly work and my sketches. It's almost all I used in my Realis work. Love this thing and it's free.
Screenshot of the SU-Cream Pencil from the Clip Studio asset store.
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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badbucket.bsky.social
Collaborating on this with Si was a true highlight of this project’s run. We will undoubtedly paint together again
sifsweetman.bsky.social Si F Sweetman @sifsweetman.bsky.social · 2d
Miracle. The scar of the Bontive Valley. The final #Palisade post card is a collaboration between myself and @badbucket.bsky.social. We traded sketches back and forth to land on the comp. I painted the environment, Conner did the ships, the finishing touches, the typography etc. #friendsatthetable
Two synthetic beings look up from the scar of the Bontive Vallet, filled with shards of Crusade's glass weapons. They gaze out over the valley between great stone formations at the encroaching Twilight Mirage swirling in secondary colours. From the clouds 3 ships burst forth, creating a circular void in the clouds in their wake. The image is treated with clean typography that frames it. VT Lin amd Ter Tirhan are the listed authors. The title spans the horizon line. Miracle, it reads. The same painting as previous, but with the typography removed.
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
sifsweetman.bsky.social
Miracle. The scar of the Bontive Valley. The final #Palisade post card is a collaboration between myself and @badbucket.bsky.social. We traded sketches back and forth to land on the comp. I painted the environment, Conner did the ships, the finishing touches, the typography etc. #friendsatthetable
Two synthetic beings look up from the scar of the Bontive Vallet, filled with shards of Crusade's glass weapons. They gaze out over the valley between great stone formations at the encroaching Twilight Mirage swirling in secondary colours. From the clouds 3 ships burst forth, creating a circular void in the clouds in their wake. The image is treated with clean typography that frames it. VT Lin amd Ter Tirhan are the listed authors. The title spans the horizon line. Miracle, it reads. The same painting as previous, but with the typography removed.
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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evelmiina.bsky.social
Personal project thoughts
December 11, 2024 at 11:21 PM
sifsweetman.bsky.social
What is everyone's favorite mushroom, visually speaking? I wanna know more cool mushrooms.
November 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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headfallsoff.com
rt if you would tuck him in
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
sifsweetman.bsky.social
Setting up that hot new Valve technology in my office (my 9 year-old steam link that I found in a box).
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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sifsweetman.bsky.social
👀 Twaincut out in the world! What a fun compositional challenge this was.
austinwalker.bsky.social austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 4d
So that you can enjoy it in its full beauty, here's the PAXU Realis postcard image in high quality, along with the in-game text & Sentences of Halfmoon Twaintcut's that Si was working from!
An image of a green/brown moon, cut down its equator, floating in a sea of clouds. In the foreground at the bottom of the image, a group of shepherds or nomads, along with their alien animals, look off to the horizon. Upsidedown at the top of the image, but still In the foreground at, a group of adventurers climb over rocky hills and look into the horizon. Impulse: Cut something of yourself free. It could not have been a blade—no hand nor hardpoint is strong enough to wield a sword so large. It could not have been a searing beam, as the edges bear neither char nor residue. It could not have been a dip into the Great Void nor the edge of Realis-Itself, both of which are known to take pieces of those worlds that come too near—for the halfmoon Twaincut bears no radiant aura, no abyssal mark. It is simply a half-sphere, smaller than most moons yet still its own by all rights, perfectly flat on one side, and curved as orbs ought on the other, rotating in the blue light of Realis like a gamepiece floating in black water. It would be a puzzle, except for the greater one: Whether human or beast, to be born on Twaincut is to be born twice—first on the prairie-like Flatside, and then, after one’s first death, on the village-dotted Hillside. Or else reversed in order. And so to live on Twaincut is to live twice, soul and sense contiguous, yet with only fleeting memories of the life before. A nomad lord turned village priestess. An ox of the field turned ass of the mountain. A chicken-keeper turned sage of the open sky. A child lost and then a child again. Simplicity and complexity, ease and ambition, clarity and ambiguity. This is the amateur perspective. No, it is not so obvious as that. The plain is flat, but it is not simple. The hill requires effort but not all who climb have aims. It is a dream place, a haunting. Life and death, youth and age redoubled in on themselves. Spend a while there and you may wonder what I did: Perhaps Twaincut simply split itself. People Sentences Twaincut flatsiders always see without horizons. Twaincut hillsiders always seek what’s beyond the peak. Twaincut mystics always remember both lives. Place Sentences The Twaincut Flat always provides for those who journey far enough. The Twaincut Hill always turns a traveler down a new path. Twaincut depths always split outsiders in two.
November 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
sifsweetman.bsky.social
👀 Twaincut out in the world! What a fun compositional challenge this was.
austinwalker.bsky.social austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 4d
So that you can enjoy it in its full beauty, here's the PAXU Realis postcard image in high quality, along with the in-game text & Sentences of Halfmoon Twaintcut's that Si was working from!
An image of a green/brown moon, cut down its equator, floating in a sea of clouds. In the foreground at the bottom of the image, a group of shepherds or nomads, along with their alien animals, look off to the horizon. Upsidedown at the top of the image, but still In the foreground at, a group of adventurers climb over rocky hills and look into the horizon. Impulse: Cut something of yourself free. It could not have been a blade—no hand nor hardpoint is strong enough to wield a sword so large. It could not have been a searing beam, as the edges bear neither char nor residue. It could not have been a dip into the Great Void nor the edge of Realis-Itself, both of which are known to take pieces of those worlds that come too near—for the halfmoon Twaincut bears no radiant aura, no abyssal mark. It is simply a half-sphere, smaller than most moons yet still its own by all rights, perfectly flat on one side, and curved as orbs ought on the other, rotating in the blue light of Realis like a gamepiece floating in black water. It would be a puzzle, except for the greater one: Whether human or beast, to be born on Twaincut is to be born twice—first on the prairie-like Flatside, and then, after one’s first death, on the village-dotted Hillside. Or else reversed in order. And so to live on Twaincut is to live twice, soul and sense contiguous, yet with only fleeting memories of the life before. A nomad lord turned village priestess. An ox of the field turned ass of the mountain. A chicken-keeper turned sage of the open sky. A child lost and then a child again. Simplicity and complexity, ease and ambition, clarity and ambiguity. This is the amateur perspective. No, it is not so obvious as that. The plain is flat, but it is not simple. The hill requires effort but not all who climb have aims. It is a dream place, a haunting. Life and death, youth and age redoubled in on themselves. Spend a while there and you may wonder what I did: Perhaps Twaincut simply split itself. People Sentences Twaincut flatsiders always see without horizons. Twaincut hillsiders always seek what’s beyond the peak. Twaincut mystics always remember both lives. Place Sentences The Twaincut Flat always provides for those who journey far enough. The Twaincut Hill always turns a traveler down a new path. Twaincut depths always split outsiders in two.
November 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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austinwalker.bsky.social
Look how good this @sifsweetman.bsky.social piece is. One of the many extremely normal moons of Realis, Halfmoon Twaincut.

If you’re at PAX Unplugged, be sure to grab a postcard from the Possible Worlds booth!
wildcarde.farragoworks.com Wildcarde @wildcarde.farragoworks.com · 5d
@austinwalker.bsky.social found some fancy swag at unplugged!
November 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM