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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️

@thisnorthernboy.bsky.social

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Available for personal and commercial work. Illustrator, artist, and writer from the UK. Yorkshireman. Spaceships, robots, & imaginary places. Creator of the Weird Field World. Find me here - https://linktr.ee/thisnorthernboy

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · Jan 17

I'm Rob, an illustrator, designer, and writer from the UK. With a background in graphic design, I now spend my time drawing spaceships, robots, and other strange stuff - either for myself or for indie games and publishers.

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A poster, built in Blender, showing the industrial Funicular from the Manga, Akira.

My illustration, Elk Island Light. An orange lighthouse floats on the ocean, at its base, tentacles extend in to the deep.

My illustration, Deep Space Fleet. A page of brightly coloured spaceship sketches.

My illustration, ISO Grid. 16 isometric illustrations of various little buildings. From a sci-fi noodle bar, to a Venetian palazzo.

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 1h

Yep. First in York for a bar/music venue. Then in London, first for O’Neills, then All Bar One.

Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 2h

It’s reasonably quiet. There are a few different spaces to choose from. Some desks with a second screen. I’m in the most informal bit - so it’s my own fault.

Regardless… we must catch up!

Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 2h

Have you been down here? It’s very snazzy. We should meet up when they have their monthly creative drinks evening.

Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 2h

Nice that they have privacy booths for calls/Zooms/Teams etc.

Be fucking great if people used them.

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 2h

Scrubbed up well in here.

Photo of my desk at a co-working space in York. It’s in an old Bonded Warehouse. Brick vaulted ceilings, cast iron pillars. All very snazzily converted.

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 2h

Ha! Exactly. Don’t fuck with a NAN.

Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 2h

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 3h

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 3h

When meeting new people, it’s important to let them know immediately where you stand.

An enamel badge that says “Northerners against nazis”

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 3h

Remembered the waders, forgot my headphones.

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 5h

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 4h

Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union with her daughter Christabel on this day 1903.

Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · Mar 21

Made in Manchester: Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928), born in Moss Side, founded the suffragettes, yet ended as a Conservative. Historians argue about whether her militancy helped or hurt the women's suffrage movement. She certainly raised its profile. 1/8

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 4h

Heading to a co-working space today (got a free trial day), not sure if it’ll suit me but we’ll see. Oddly it’s in the building that, almost thirty years ago, I managed as a pub and music venue.

Going to be some odd memories today.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 15h

Guillermo Del Toro is 61.
Here he is on the Weinsteins:

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DIO @danielirizarri.bsky.social · 20h

I think what's impressive about TRON is that, visually, it's still so much more interesting than any of it's sequels. It's crazy that they tried update this digital world by making it as 'realistically rendered' as possible. It's a complete misunderstanding of the original's charm.

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 15h

My thoughts exactly!

Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 16h

In today’s edition of.. How fucking old am I?!

I seem to have pulled a muscle in my collar bone.

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 16h

Cor blimey.

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Rocketengine @rocketengine.bsky.social · 16h

Bucket Wheel Excavator
Nazarovsky Mine
gelio.livejournal.com/310879.html#...

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 16h

Do any portrait photographers / headshot type folks follow me on here? Wanna look at your stuff.

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 16h

Absolutely bloody stunning.

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 16h

I FUCKEN FINISHED!!! As always, it took me 2 months, but I got there in the end.

The final illustration of a pink silkmoth with beige and brown upper wings and vibrant pink lower wings. Oh, and an incredibly fluffy body.

A close up showing the detail of the furry wings.

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 21h

I painted this as one of three alien environments developed for Pillar of Fire; we focused heavily on using transformed scale to create an alien feel, while also being playful with colour and shape to keep things whimsical and enticing despite the strangeness.

$A fantastical landscape snippet on a grey background, showing a magenta desert ecosystem with oversized fungal growths and impossibly steep hills; the ground splits and fractures like slate or ice sheets. The text label reads " ARID - scaled fungi - bacterial mounds - spiny land jellyfish"$

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Deb JJ Lee 🔜 Lightbox 112 @jdebbiel.bsky.social · 21h

[inktober day 9] the unexpected knight

ink drawing on grid paper of a lady in a puffy sleeved dress holding a sword

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 22h

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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