Colored ink drawing of Orlaith from Dread Delusion. She carries her huge greatsword over her shoulder. An ornate magical key floats above her left hand. The background is split between large glass tanks holding ancient corpses and a scene of huge mushrooms and floating islands beneath the sunlike Neuron Star. Its long flares wind through the magenta background.
I can't stop playing Dread Delusion, so here we are.
Colored ink drawing of Orlaith from Dread Delusion. She carries her huge greatsword over her shoulder. An ornate magical key floats above her left hand. The background is split between large glass tanks holding ancient corpses and a scene of huge mushrooms and floating islands beneath the sunlike Neuron Star. Its long flares wind through the magenta background.
I can't stop playing Dread Delusion, so here we are.
Thank you!
Pen and ink illustration depicting a crater in the middle of a sparse pine forest. A glowing meteor sits in the depression, and facing it, a woman kneels, head upturned towards the starry sky. Three large, eldritch beasts approach through the trees towards the meteor. The first has many tall, jointed legs and a bony head. The second is serpentine, with a loop-shaped head fronted by tendrils. The third is a dark, six-limbed figure with a featureless bullet-shaped head and glowing eyespots on its chest.
Two adventurers, an elf and a dwarf, traverse the ruins of an ancient underground city while a shoggoth lurks on the cavern roof above.
Pen-and-ink illustration depicting four monsters bursting out of a vintage TV set: the werewolf from An American Werewolf in London, the creature from The Thing, half-human and half nightmarish alien, the dripping Tarman zombie from Return of the Living Dead, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon reaching toward the viewer.
Pen and ink illustration depicting a huge, goatlike demonic warrior against a black background. He holds a flaming sword in one hand and a small imp warrior in the other, kneeling in subservience. Other imps with a variety of appearances and armaments fly around him.
It is #PortfolioDay once more. I'm a traditional illustrator specializing in pen and ink. I've contributed to a number of fiction publications and TTRPG projects, and I am currently looking for more work!
Stipple-heavy pen portrait of a gaunt bald man with a piercing gaze.
Trying to remember how to doodle in my sketchbook for fun. Looked at some Moebius stuff and allowed myself a little stippling as a treat
Sam Porter Bridges! He's a porter who builds bridges! And drinks Bridges Porter!
I absolutely love his earlier stuff and draw a lot of inspiration from it, but I'm consistently blown away by how his work from the past decade or two just distills form and light down to its absolute essentials. Not a line wasted.
Ink illustration on two goat scapulae (shoulder blades): on the left, a knight wields a halberd surrounded by ivy vines. The Latin word INCREMENTUM (growth) is in the top corner of the bone. On the right, a dragon breathing fire, surrounded by burning vines. In the top corner, the Latin word INTERITUS (destruction).
Art formats I have never tried before: Scapula diptych
Good call; this cover creeped the hell out of me when I was a kid too
He's one of my favorite YouTubers. More people need to bring this kind of energy to conservation work
Sketchy painting depicting lineages (peoples) of Omios Ures. Top to bottom: Carverine, man, an orcish, 2 meter tall ape-like humanoid with tusks Human, woman, wearing armor, brandishing a half-moon shaped axe, a roundish black conical helmet with a golden pointed tip and a yellow cape Bhek'Gaa, a bipedal lizard, draped in black and white sorceress fabrics. Dweorg, a bronze-hued little woman made of metal, wearing armor that matches her skin. Gnomos, very tiny elderly man with a beard as long as himself, a cane and a multi-spectacled artificer's glass.
lineages of Omios Ures. top to bottom:
Carverine, from the steppes of Valeron
Human, from the city of Yellowdrake
Bhek’Gaa, from the desert of Xumai
Dweorg, from the realm of Drukdarog
Gnomos, from the city of Karamouska
Glad to hear! I kinda feel like if it's really a passion project, something you're always thinking about--you WILL finish it eventually. You'll already have to deal with bill-paying deadlines, so don't set any hard ones for yourself. Just focus on continuous work at a pace that feels comfortable.
I've been in the second camp, and basically you've gotta think of your project timeline in years, not months. I average 20-30 pages a year working around commissions and my day job. I'm sure some people can work faster but slow and steady allows me to keep my sanity and (eventually) complete stuff.
I will not!! 🌞
Photograph of a comic panel depicting an ancient warrior in bronze armor, wielding a battle-axe and menacingly stomping toward ls the viewer
Guess what lads I've got a little comic IN PRINT and IN COLOR and it looks pretty good
My favorite artists gotta stop working on so many cool games; I should be drawing but I have to go put 12 hours into Dread Delusion today
Thanks! I saw the Moebius concept art for Dune when I was young before I even read the book, so that sorta baroque style has always been in my head when I think about the setting. Way more fun to draw that way too.
It's DUNE time once again
I really liked how the movies captured scale but almost all the visual design felt functional at best, uninspired at worst. It was like Halo with keffiyehs.
My favorite depictions of Dune are the ones that lean into the feudal and middle eastern influences over straight sci-fi
Thank you!
Gouache and ink painting depicting a Sardaukar from Dune being ambushed by a Fremen warrior bursting from the sand.
For no reason at all, here's a lil Dune painting I did a few years ago
the magician tarot card
devil child and mum, an eldritch horror in the shadows behind them
my oc wemut fighting undead with a shovel
a black, hairy unicorn with a bloody horn
Hi, I'm Béla, a trans man doing dark fantasy comics and illustration! I'm available for private and professional commissions
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Fantastic news for everyone involved. You really blew the lid off with this one.
Hell yeah you did! Thank you!
The final stretch! We need like ten more people to back and then I get a raise 👀
Thank you so much! I love his stories and I have a couple other ones in mind to try my hand at at some point.
please read books
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He brings the historical drip every time
Pen and ink illustration depicting a halfling necromancer riding on the shoulders of a zombie. She has a gleefully crazed expression as she points her unwitting steed onward with a hand holding an obsidian ritual dagger. A huge crescent moon is visible in the background.
The necromancer I did for UNDER THE SHADOW OF HELFAST SPIRE, a Shadowdark module by Bob Mason. I did all the class illustrations for this one and they're all really fun takes on classic TTRPG archetypes.
The kickstarter is going swimmingly, check it out here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bob...