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Gustav Örn Samuelson

@mechabarbarian.bsky.social

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Pixel artist! Skald, Cantata, Neurodiver, Demonschool…and more! Dad to Cyborg-Dracula. https://linktr.ee/mechabarbarian

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Gustav Örn Samuelson @mechabarbarian.bsky.social · Nov 19

Gorge Spectre #pixelart

An armored skeletal figured wielding a bloodied mace and shield appears through a misty gorge. Next to it is tame boar. Inside the ribcage of the skeleton two red eyes gleam.

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conmobr @conmobr.bsky.social · 3d

a sphinx, mixed media on canvas, 24"x24"

a rough painting of a sphinx, mixed media

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 3d

Something from the ol' comfort zone for the beginning of autumn

A horned jousting helmet with some autumn leaves in the background and sun icons on three sides.

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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 16d

WIP with orc!

Unfinished poster illustration of the tower of Cirith Ungol. It is greenish black, lit up with sickly green light. Orodruin is in the distance. In the foreground an orc with a wicked curved blade clambers up the cliff face. Smoke in the sky. Acid green, orange and brown. Lord of the Rings

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Joanna @purenonsens.bsky.social · 29d

guarding a dead city #illustration #Arcane #JayceTalis

Jayce's evolved form, waist-up as seen in Ailya Chen's concept art, with starry sky in the background

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Gustav Örn Samuelson @mechabarbarian.bsky.social · 28d

Cirith Ungol '81!

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Sick!

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Seared in my mind

Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · Sep 8

STORMBRINGER (1977)
Acrylic on Masonite - 30" x 20"

I remember trying to get in the mood of painting for the last time the albino sorcerer king, Elric. I took a clothes rail out of a closet for my sword and ran around outside slashing at weeds and lunging at the breeze. 1/5

Standing atop ruins at the end of the world, an anguished Elric thrusts the runeblade Stormbringer to the heavens. The sky behind him roils with clouds rendered in acidic green. The chainmail on his right arm is torn. He wears a yellow tunic and belts strapped across his waist and chest crusted with jewels. His purple and black cloak billows in the wind. From a leather cord, he holds an ivory horn with ornate swirls of gold. The ruins he stands upon are crumbling, including the face of a skull that is missing a chunk of forehead and part of the orbital. The mouth isn't human given the fangs in its mouth and the horns protruding off the side of the head that is intact. Off to the side, a pterosaur-like creature perches with wings spread.

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Ben Sears @bensears.bsky.social · Aug 31

Had people ask about prints of this, so I ran a stack. Available here:

bensears.bigcartel.com/product/midd...

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Dr Artyom Trakhanov - SHARP EYE IS LIVE ON KICKSTARTER NOW @vor-bokor.bsky.social · Sep 8

More colors by the incredible @wordie.bsky.social and inks by yours truly!
Sharp Eye is still available on Kickstarter!

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Dr Artyom Trakhanov - SHARP EYE IS LIVE ON KICKSTARTER NOW @vor-bokor.bsky.social · Sep 8

Great sketches from today’s Herceg Novi festival 🙏🏻

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Gustav Örn Samuelson @mechabarbarian.bsky.social · Sep 5

You might? know him from this! Or ABBA I guess

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Gustav Örn Samuelson @mechabarbarian.bsky.social · Sep 5

Got one of these suckers in my living room! Arnold the goat

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · Sep 5

An utterly splendid Swedish movie poster for 1958’s Horror Of Dracula.

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · Sep 5

This will be a hit; consumers who mostly can’t afford enough living space for themselves are positively anxious to procure person-sized hunks of wobbly hardware that don’t do anything in particular

Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · Sep 4

Did u guys see the Tesla robot video? I think it's dying

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · Sep 5

the book has been out for like 1 day & ppl are finding the actual good pages

TheFrenchPhenom @thefrenchphenom.bsky.social · Sep 5

Cat Café, la superbe nouvelle BD de @decassette.bsky.social vient de sortir. On y suit le quotidien de chats qui gèrent un salon de thé, les moments paisibles sont sublimés par le trait unique de Sterte qui confirme à nouveau qu'elle est une des autrices actuelles les plus passionnantes.

Cases d'une BD où un chat s'étire et sourit avant de dormir dans son lit.

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Christie 🖤 @ndchristie.bsky.social · Sep 2

#Swordtember day 1
Shell Rapier

Pixel art of a shell shaped like a small sword with a large mollusk living inside

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cayce @cayce.zone · Sep 1

really dig this cover piece by Naoyuki Kato. killer work.

Cover illustration for Japanese sci-fi magazine SF Magazine from 1981 showing a big... Cybernetic multilimbed thing with some red spheres on it, it's got a humanoid cyborg on top of it, all is in front of a sci-fi skyscraper cityscape

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Francine @witnesstheabsurd.bsky.social · Aug 29

"PILOT": FIREWALL ORGANISM
"AVATAR": DEINOCHEIR-GRADE MUTILATOR

The inscrutable automated "immune system" of cyberspace, "Firewall Organisms" spawn en masse wherever their heavily decayed protocols detect a violation. "Firewall Rituals" to deliberately spawn them are shared as "infoweapons".

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Logan / Tachyon @tachyonart.bsky.social · Aug 30

Daybreak at the Ancestor Bough

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garin 🌿 comms open @garin.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Matías Bergara @matiasbergara.bsky.social · Aug 29

My variant cover for TVSK #3:

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · Aug 29

genuinely saw a liberal talking about newsom as doing some things wrong (anti-homeless policies) but some things right (trolling trump on the internet) and i really wonder about the worth of that second thing, there. is that doing anything at all

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Kly (𝔐egalith) @klyart.bsky.social · May 22

GOLGO 13: Il Grottesco Santificato

"A branded woman's grudge takes Duke Togo from the back-alleys of Kyoto to the heart of Rome! Dragged into a web of dark secrets that the clergy would kill to keep, can the world's greatest triggerman draw faster than the hand of God?"

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S A M @comicnerdsam.bsky.social · Aug 29

I put some color under this! Haven't colored anyone else's work before, but this was fun! Kly is also a SUPERB artist, so it was cool to spend some time looking real close at their art

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Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · Aug 29

In a perfect world, Ken Ishikawa would be as famous as Moebius.

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