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Ben McEntee

@benmce.bsky.social

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run around, draw thing ✦ PDX ✦ Senior Concept Artist @ Gardens🌳 ✦ Contact: [email protected] https://linktr.ee/benmce.art

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Ben McEntee @benmce.bsky.social · Oct 18

Some recent characters from the stars ⭐️

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Ben McEntee @benmce.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks Jack!

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Ben McEntee @benmce.bsky.social · 22d

Ringed Fortress 🪐

A large fortress sits atop an rock at the center of an asteroid belt. Two characters look up at the fortress from one of the smaller foreground rocks. A comic panel in the center of the image shows a close of the characters.

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Ben McEntee @benmce.bsky.social · 25d

Fall sprite 🍁

Digital drawing of a small fairy sleeping in the middle of a tree stump, surrounded by leaves.

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Possible Worlds Games @possibleworlds.bsky.social · Sep 2

Three TTRPGs: one hundred swords, five missing matriarchs, and a very little lover. Our campaign for Cosmic Century Knights (@oneshotrpg.bsky.social & @worldstoforge.bsky.social), Homecoming (@meghanlynnftw.bsky.social), and Chuck is live NOW through September 26! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

PWG Presents: Cosmic Century Knights, Homecoming, and Chuck

Three TTRPGs: one hundred swords, five missing matriarchs, and a very little lover.

www.kickstarter.com

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Ben McEntee @benmce.bsky.social · Aug 22

Guided by starlight ⭐️

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · Aug 15

Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.

People capable of loving some paintings or etchings or whatever can rarely do this without knowing something about the art-ist. Again, the situation is social rather than scientific. Any work of art is one halt of a conversation between two human beings, and it helps a lot to know who is talking at you. Does he or she have a reputation for seriousness, for sincerity? There are virtually no beloved or respected paintings made by persons of whom we know nothing. We can even surmise a lot about the lives of whoever did the paintings in the caves underneath Lascaux, France.
So I dare to suggest that no picture can attract serious attention without a human being attached to it in the viewer's mind. If you are unwilling to attach your name to your pictures, and to say why you hope others might find them rewarding to look at, there goes the ballgame right there. Pictures are famous for their human-ness and not their picture-ness.
There is also the matter of craftsmanship. Real picture lovers like to "play along," so to speak, to look closely at the surface to see how the illusion was created by nothing but an unusual human being, with hands and eyes. If you are unwilling to say how you made your pictures, there goes the ballgame a second time.
Good luck, and love as always
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · Aug 12

'Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide:' Arkane union workers demand Xbox maker sever ties with Israel

Arkane Studios' STJV section in France has published an open letter in support of the Palestinian-led BDS movement.

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · Aug 6

I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity.

"What service is Microsoft providing?"

Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.

According to three Unit 8200 sources, the cloud-based storage platform has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank.

Thanks to the control it exerts over Palestinian telecommunications infrastructure, Israel has long intercepted phone calls in the occupied territories. But the indiscriminate new system allows intelligence officers to play back the content of cellular calls made by Palestinians, capturing the conversations of a much larger pool of ordinary civilians.

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Ben McEntee @benmce.bsky.social · Aug 6

🙏🙏🙏

Ben McEntee @benmce.bsky.social · Aug 6

This is so cool!! Love the illustration style too

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Ben McEntee @benmce.bsky.social · Aug 6

Haha they become more indistinguishable everyday

Ben McEntee @benmce.bsky.social · Aug 6

Replanting

Digital painting of a landscape with a large airship burning a forest in the distance. Two people plant trees in the foreground.

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Charlie Chan @charliechan.bsky.social · Jul 24

Very proud to announce that I illustrated Cosmic Century Knights, a TTRPG Book by @possibleworlds.bsky.social ! Amazing cover by @benmce.bsky.social !
Go check the KS Campaign in the post below ! I can’t wait to show you more stuff !

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Ben McEntee @benmce.bsky.social · Jul 23

thanks for the opportunity! Very excited to see it all come together

Ben McEntee @benmce.bsky.social · Jul 23

Probably not as it's a commission, but there's more personal work coming!

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Ben McEntee @benmce.bsky.social · Jul 23

thank you! 🙏

Ben McEntee @benmce.bsky.social · Jul 23

thanks Jack!

Ben McEntee @benmce.bsky.social · Jul 22

Cover illustration for COSMIC CENTURY KNIGHTS, a ttrpg by James D’Amato and Drew Mierzejewski! Shout out to Tyler from @possibleworlds.bsky.social for being so great to work with on this!

Two adventurers with swords walk through a marsh towards a landscape full of green fields. In the distance there is a massive sword/spaceship embedded into a mountain.

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Possible Worlds Games @possibleworlds.bsky.social · Jul 22

Announcing our next slate of TTRPGs—Cosmic Century Knights by @oneshotrpg.bsky.social & @worldstoforge.bsky.social, Homecoming by @meghanlynnftw.bsky.social, and Chuck by Tyler Crumrine—coming to Kickstarter September 2! Learn more and sign up for notifications at www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...