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@tdaleillustration.bsky.social

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UK based fantasy+sci-fi artist mainly working in oils and ink. Open for commercial and private work. Clients: Saucepot Studios || IBA vol:12 || +Unannounced projects Email- [email protected] Portfolio- https://www.artstation.com/tom_dale

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Tom Dale illustration @tdaleillustration.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hello #portfolioday !

I'm Tom, a freelance artist working mainly in oils or ink, occasionally digital.

I've done work for book publishing, TTRPGs and also private commission.
I'd love to work on more of the above and TCGs too!

Contact:[email protected]
Portfolio: www.artstation.com/tom_dale

Goblin Hunter- Oils on panel, A goblin hunter in scavenged and 'borrowed' equipment patrolling through the snowfields and forests.
It has violet skin and in a snowy environment

Entrancing performance- Digital- A decaying fairy performs a moonlit dance on the petals of flowers for an entranced human. two other fairies lie in ambush for the human.

A warhammer 40k plague marine. It is lumbering forward firing a boltgun in one hand with a clenched powerfist on the other arm. It is bloated and daemonic flesh has ruptured through the armour.

Volcanic slough- An oil painting of an volcanic environment at a dark, moody sunset. Glowing orange and yellow Lava flows over cliffs like a waterfall into a swamp creating steam.
The swamp water is a grey blue reflecting the lava flows and steam in some areas. There is a small rapids as the water flow exits at the right side of the painting.
A volcano in the background spews ash into the air as it is about to erupt.

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Ryan Pancoast - Illustrator/Artist @rpancoast.bsky.social · 11d

Emptiness, 14"x18" oil on linen panel
#MtGLorwyn #MtGart

I love painting faces and was really looking forward to all the cool creatures of Lorwyn since the first one was before my time. But I guess someone has to paint a horrific creature with the absence of a face. 🤷‍♂️

Painting of an elemental incarnation called Emptiness, a giant faceless skeletal creature, trailing smoke and walking through a swamp

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Donato @donatoarts.bsky.social · 12d

Working on a new cover painting for a science fiction novel and playing with the themes of geometric abstraction which helped build this piece for an anthology, Down These Dark Spaceways.
Psychohistorical Crisis II
30" x 18" Oil on Panel 2005
collection of Edie Stern and Joe Siclari

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Nathan Birchall @nathanbirchall.art · Aug 31

Studying film scenes in-between client work to keep myself sharp

Painted in Procreate

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Tom Dale illustration @tdaleillustration.bsky.social · 15d

Oh man that's awesome. Love the blightkings!

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Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 16d

HOT FRESH NEW ART! Another from Champions of Chaos, for Age of Sigmar: Soulbound, this is the Putrid Blightking!

The Putrid Blightking has sores and lesions across his diseased and bloated form, pustules and maggots erupting from his vile flesh. His right arm is a mass of writhing, slimy, barbed and boil-ridden tentacles, and in his left hand he wields a sonorous tocsin.

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Howard Lyon @howardlyonart.bsky.social · 16d

“Psyche Opening the Jar of Aphrodite” 24x36 oil on line panel. Available now through the Haven Gallery
#oilpainting #art #painting #mythology #psyche #greekmyth #howardlyonart

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Gaelya @gaelya.bsky.social · 17d

The Pre-Launch Page for my new survival horror DnD 5e Adventure is up! Like last year, I wrote, illustrated and designed it all by myself! Please check it out!
It is a modular adventure, which means you can run it for parties level 1,3 or 5, or as an oneshot!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gae...

Coming soon: Nightmares in Marilyn || DnD 5e Horror Survival Adventure

Do you want to scare your players this halloween? Then drag them through the horrors of Marylin, a town cursed by an endless nightmare!

www.kickstarter.com

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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social · 21d

Beyond the Quiet - watercolour and acryla gouache on Arches rough paper

✨3 days left to get prints on saIe through the INPRNT summer saIe!✨

A woman lies in a void, holding an orb of darkness. This orb is heavy and pulls all of the surrounding light and colours in, creating something of a prismatic black hole.

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Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 24d

HOT FRESH NEW ART! Spoiled in a review of the upcoming Champions of Chaos for the Age of Sigmar ttrpg Soulbound, this is the Ogroid Thaumaturge!

Striding through Tzeentchian mist brimming with writhing tentacles, and with the helmet of a fallen Stormcast at his feet, an Ogroid Thaumaturge is ready to menace a new foe.

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Hannah Elizabeth @hannahelizabeth.bsky.social · Sep 3

I took up plein air painting this summer and its been an education. Here's some good ones from the last few months. They're all oil on paper.

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sophie_exhausted_finalFINAL_03.psd @netizenses.bsky.social · 24d

An anatomy/figure study ✨ Really happy with how this came out
Painted in #krita <3

Painted anatomy study of a seated female fitness model

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Britt Martin Illustration @brittmartin-illo.bsky.social · Sep 3

Gravedigger
6x8” oil on panel

A quick bit of fun after finishing an illustration.

A funny, but creepy, skull with a tophat and long stringy dark hair- amusingly looking at you.

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Tom Dale illustration @tdaleillustration.bsky.social · 26d

your brushwork and edges are so good!

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Robin Thorne @whatrobindoes.bsky.social · 26d

Though the world is full of things to fight, there are little specks of light along the journey. September presents a collection of NPCs to make your world feel a little more lived in, starting with the Tea Wagon!

Join DM Confidential on Patreon for 5e content!
www.patreon.com/dmconfidential

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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · 28d

Night Migration
Oil, 30x20in, 2024
at @ixarts.bsky.social Art Show next month!

In our night sky there is a dark band that runs through the Milky Way, known as the Great Rift. This darkness is where the stars of our galaxy are obscured by vast clouds of interstellar dust and geese … er, gas.

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Ryan Pancoast - Illustrator/Artist @rpancoast.bsky.social · 29d

My newest AP painting :)

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Julian Kok @juliankok.bsky.social · Sep 8

Sinister Hideout
AD: Emily Mazza

©2025 Wizards of the Coast

Oil on Linen on hardboard

Artwork for Universe Within MTG: Through the Omenpath

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sophie_exhausted_finalFINAL_03.psd @netizenses.bsky.social · Sep 9

Lestat, but my brain sung his name to the tune of David Bowie's 'Let's Dance' and now I can't get that out of my head and nor shall you

Study of the Vampire Lestat from Interview with the Vampire (1994)

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Andrew Mar @andrewkmar.bsky.social · Sep 8

Mothwing Shroud
MTG: Through the Omenpaths
AD: Emily Mazza

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Matheus Graef 🔜 BIRCON @omiosures.bsky.social · Sep 8

MY FIRST MAGIC THE GATHERING CARD WAS REVEALED!

"Obscura Alleylurkers"

AD: Sam Padilla

A night-time, rainy alleyway: stealthy obscura spies clad in overcoats and leather, using blue magic to stick to walls, stalk a rival mobster below.

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Randy Vargas @vargasni.bsky.social · Sep 2

Day 1 and 2
Let's see how far I get this year.
More in Instagram 🫶
#stradaeasel #stradaeaselchallenge

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Robin Thorne @whatrobindoes.bsky.social · Aug 29

I am so so excited to announce @dmconfidential.bsky.social's first adventure, available to ALL paid Patreon subscribers. Just this once. 💕11 pages of adventure that fits into any setting, perfect for fans of haunted forests!

www.patreon.com/DMConfidential

Header art by @perstephane.bsky.social

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Robin Thorne @whatrobindoes.bsky.social · Sep 1

Available to ALL paid Patreon subscribers, Into the Woods is an 11-page DnD 5e adventure that fits into any setting. If you love haunted forests, gothic fairy tales and being in over your head, this is for you and your group!

www.patreon.com/DMConfidential

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Tom Dale illustration @tdaleillustration.bsky.social · Sep 2

two men are arm wrestling in a gym .

ALT: two men are arm wrestling in a gym .

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Nikola Matkovic @nikomatkovic.bsky.social · Aug 21

Beast Hunter Mortenghaul
little Chaos Warrior looking felka for fun. haven't done these sepia guys in a few months so just getting back into the groove.

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