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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 · 11h
Cheers Keith!
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Ste Johnson @steillustrates.bsky.social · 11h
here's another recent illustration for @wolf359project.bsky.social a dreamscape of horror - whats worse than the Borg?
An eerie illustration showing a scene of borg drones hanging as puppets controlled by a imposing figure - tentacles and wrecked starships litter the background
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Element115Art @element115.bsky.social · 13h
The Virgo, my concept for a crewed mission to Venus sometime in the next century. The design is based on the astrology glyph for the planet. It uses rotational artificial gravity.
A ship in front of Venus. The ship is shaped like the symbol for Venus, with a big ring and then inhabited portions on a tether.
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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 15h
Thinking of selling this Blender model for people to use in their own projects/illustrations etc. it’s something built to try and learn a bit of Blender, so it’s definitely not optimised for anything.

#Blender
A Blender render of a modular, NASA style, space station in orbit over a planet.
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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 14h
Dropped you a DM.
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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 15h
Thinking of selling this Blender model for people to use in their own projects/illustrations etc. it’s something built to try and learn a bit of Blender, so it’s definitely not optimised for anything.

#Blender
A Blender render of a modular, NASA style, space station in orbit over a planet.
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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 17h
A lot of """"creatives"""" have seemingly accepted generative AI as part of art and filmmaking and I'm hear to say you're all big stinky phonies and I hate you
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 1d
What Do You Do with the Mad That You Feel? A song recited by Mister Rogers in his 1969 Senate testimony, accompanied by music and short scenes from films like Moonlight, The 400 Blows, and Do the Right Thing. [kottke.org]
What Do You Do with the Mad That You Feel?
In 1969, Fred Rogers appeared before the Senate to argue against cutting federal funding for public broadcasting. During his testimony, Rogers recited a song from his show, What Do You Do with the Mad That You Feel? In
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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 21h
If you're a RPG designer in (or near enough) to London and want to run a promotional intro game in our little shop, get in touch. We've got a weirdly large pool of TTRPG-curious people chatting to us every day. NAB THEM BEFORE 5E GETS THEM!
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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 22h
That's a great name for a 70's folk band.
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David Ziggy Greene (Jam bookshop) @jambookshopuk.bsky.social · 22h
A cool charity in Hoxton that teaches & gives disadvantaged kids skills in filmmaking has asked me a question:

Any female animators want to take part in a mentorship programme they run?

They've been doing good work for 25+ years.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 22h
Some grave guardians are open to being stroked. Some will growl if your hand reaches towards them. It is wise to know which are which before one goes poking at tombs. – #CLNolan
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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 1d
We interrupt your mid morning tea break to invite you for a constitutional down an old street of York.

Today's saunter is down Stonegate, or the via praetoria to our Roman friends.

Come join us!
We are looking at an oil painting showing a street with buildings of different periods from late Tudor to Georgian and newer Victorian buildings. Shop fronts are brightly painted and people are stood in doorways or looking into windows. Some in the distance is climbing into a carriage.
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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 1d
If they can get this to work in people, it’s huge.
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 1d
🧠 Alzheimer’s reversed in mice

A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪
Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy
Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport
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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 1d
a man in a brown sweater says " and that kids is how i met your mother .. "
Alt: a man in a brown sweater says " and that kids is how i met your mother .. "
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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 1d
Obligatory Jenny Nicholson Tweet
Jenny Nicholson Tweet: How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor
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George Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 1d
noticed it was up on the website so here is my full spread for Jacob Geller's new book
www.lostincult.co.uk/overthinking
Acryla gouache on haunted paper
painting of leaves life size
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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 1d
Quick spaceship sketch. 'Spiteful Interceptor', built by Jeffery & Co.

#Spaceship #Illustration #SciFi
A digital illustration of a spaceship. Wedge-shaped, with a small cockpit right at the front. A section of the middle is cut away. Grey and red in colour.
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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 1d
People often ask me when the deadline for Thought Bubble is. And I tell them *aggressive hissing*. But if you would actually like to know it is 11am on November 6th for anything perfect bound (with a spine) and 11am on November 7th for anything stapled.
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A Profound Waste of Time @apwot.bsky.social · 1d
HELLO! We are looking for a San Francisco based photographer to help with an exciting new project photographing some still life images! Any recommendations are welcome.

Please respond to this post or email us on the contact into on our site with your details if you're interested 📷❕
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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · 16d
It may not seem like it, but my girl Dopp motivates me in ways that I can't fully express. Love her and miss her so much. 😔💕
A digital illustration in the style of a block print. A pale humanoid figure, Doppel, wearing a reddish cape or cloak stands next to a long, segmented creature that resembles a carrot. The creature’s body weaves in-and-out of dark bushes.
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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 1d
Mileships outtake
Digital painting, a flock of flying ships at sunset. Or sunrise
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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 1d
Why do so many handwriting fonts look like they'd be written by someone who shouts, "Put the fucking lotion in the basket!"?
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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 1d
Quick spaceship sketch. 'Spiteful Interceptor', built by Jeffery & Co.

#Spaceship #Illustration #SciFi
A digital illustration of a spaceship. Wedge-shaped, with a small cockpit right at the front. A section of the middle is cut away. Grey and red in colour.
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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · 11d
From His Chest · 2021
Digital illustration in the style of a vintage storybook. A man peacefully sits in a sparse forest with his back against a tree stump. Muted red flowers grow out of his chest. Below the illustration reads “several flowers bloomed from his chest.”
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