A torso with its two arms tied together with belts and nails. A black iron brass nuckle with spikes on each fist. There's rusty, sharp blades stabbing the shoulders. It has no head, just a small candle.

A square frame made of bones. Four squares of skin inside the frame, sewn to it. They create the vague features of a face.

A venomous snake eating itself, creating some sort of twisted floral pattern in the process,, which doesn't quite make sense.

Very fragile and sharp-looking scales, probably made of bone. On one side rests an eyeball.

The first version of GP had four careers you could choose from: Meat Shield, Sawbones, Scum Smuggler and Void Junkie (pics in order). I did an abstract totem/item for each of them, trying to convey how I pictured them.

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Drawing of four masks. They look irregular, sharp and generally unsafe. They might be made of wood, but we are not sure. There are pieces of metal and blades in them too.

Ethnography of the Wretched.

Once they were the rulers of the planet. Nowadays they scramble to get by at the margins of the gutter. For them I drew masks, which define whole families, clans and personal identities.

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Drawing of a black leather jacket and pants, positioned like a shroud in a niche. There's stitches and patches everywhere, plus some spikes and belts. It feels dusty and delicate.

Ethnography of the Skell.

Born from the remains of others, skells are a people of whim and opportunity, forever looking for a place that feels true. For them I drew a skell outfit, stitched from many different rags. Self-expression is essential.

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Drawing of some sort of tapestry work, divided into three horizontal square sections. The first one depicts a small humanoid figure in parliament with a big, insectoid one. A star accompanies them. In the second square some sort of hybrid of human and insect is making a plant grow from the earth. The star is there too. The last square is still being made, with a threaded needle next to it. What we can see of the drawing is the plant which is now bigger and the star, still in the same place. About a third of the drawing is missing.

Ethnography of the Swarm.

There are many swarms, each group in commune with a different insect god, which ask for favors in exchange of knowledge and guidance. For them I drew a craft in progress which talks about the story of the swarm peoples.

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Drawing of a spreaded scroll, worn out but still legible. It depicts through text and illustrations some sort of scenes involving the sun, a black orb, some crane pulling an armor out of the earth, and the orb entering another armor. It fels reverent and important.

Ethnography of the Silhouette.

Shadows are an arcaic people, focusing their efforts on studying the past and trying to bring back crafts, ideas and methods. For them I drew a illuminated-manuscript-like scroll depicting some kind of creation myth.

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Sketch of a stitched boy playing with painted rocks near some debris, "I Love to Be Alive!", he says. He has both eyes on top of each other.

Sketch of a skeleton with the lower half of his body missing. He has some sort of crown on him. He points to someone out of frame and says "SLUR".

Sketch of a six-armed humanoid, maybe female. She is a stitched with sunglasses, sparse hair, piercings and some tattoo artist equipment. She is smoking three cigarettes.

Sketch of some dude in outrageous garments holding some dumpling looking goober.

Here some quick sketches from the playtest sessions. Many a peoples in this world.
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3D render of "Oblitzerator", a boss enemy from the game Final Fantasy X. It's a bulky machine on three legs.

3D model of a "Crawler", a boss enemy from the game Final Fantasy X. It basically looks like a tank moving on mechanical rolling pins.

An Illustration of a Magic card named "Synod Centurion". It looks like a bulky, silver, plated humanoid.

An Illustration of a Magic card named "Arcbound Fiend". It looks like a mechanical octopus made of rings infused with some kind of electricity.

A bit different of a post, but here's some personal refs when discussing with Shane how I wanted the machines in GP to look. The first two are FFX enemies and the others Mirrodin Block (MtG) artifact creatures.
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Drawing of a tall, slender humanoid or skeletal appearance. Its hands and feet are black like coal, and their flesh is melting off its bones. Its head is round, and it burns.

They walk the Filth Plains aimlessly, longing for the touch of another, unaware that they are burning alive.
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Drawing of a human in a long coat, boots and a wide-brimmed hat. Their hair seems to be long and stringy, covering half their face, which seems to be scarred. Their arms are covered in bandages and hanging from a side belt they got some slender, sharp-looking bone tools. There's an air of dignity.

The Neck is the "de facto" ruler of Bonebelly. While of wretched origin, no one seems to know who they were before. Their mask was lost long ago and nowadays theirs is the face of the city.
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Sketch of a metallic, bulky being, akin to an old bronze statue. It's humanoid, except for a moose or a horse head with strange growths on its right eye. A moose-like antler comes from the left side of its head. It's crouching on all fours.

Right now I'm working on a GP illustration with the Sin Eater and another character. The Sin Eater belongs to a silhouette faction that believes shadows should never use vessels or walk the world. They are the faction's messenger above ground.

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Drawing of a strange machine, walking on four metallic, spindly legs. The main body of it has a bulbous, bloated shape, that might remind of a brain, or an insect ootheca. It has two eyes at the front, which are actually floodlights. On top of it all there's a cannon, pointing forward. There's a slash on the side of it, revealing the machinery underneath and corroding and crumpling the exterior.

Still standing, a lethal war machine from a long-gone age. It wanders the planet, searching for something that is not there anymore. Though slow, its artillery remains in perfect condition.
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Drawing of a water bear the size of a small elephant. It's a bulbous beast with four pair of fat legs and no eyes, just a round mouth. There's a couple saddles mounted on it, and a hanging lamp at the end of a metal rod, over its head. There's luggage in the back.

If you must leave Bonebelly and venture the Filth Plains, then you need a water bear. These beasts of burden are extremely resilient to the deadly weather beyond the city, while remaining fairly docile.
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Black and white drawing of a wet, slimy mass of flesh, tentacles, and eyestalks, with a crown of hands on top of it. It has a spiral of teeth in the center of its head.

The Heat Eater, og monster from the Quickstart Guide. The drawings on the walls of its lair suggested it may have come from another planet. It infected the mind of one of our players.
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Incomplete drawing of a naked man on a scrapyard bike, fashioned to accommodate him on top, as he lacks a lower body. He sports a painfully serrated looking spear, a spiky mask and dreads. His flesh seems to be scarred. He is very muscular too.

A scrapped design for a scrapped “job” class (whose little bits and pieces went to other places). They thrived on risky, reckless decisions and were designed to play at the edge of death #GutterPlanet

Sketch of a humanoid skull with three eye sockets and a couple horns. A worm crawls over it, and a shitty sign stabbing its mouth says "Danger! Bad Rolls Zone"

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Four sketches, the upper ones depict some kind of scorpion-like insect draped in the leather of a human being, as if it were some sort of jacket. Its stinger comes out of a female body, full of venom. The lower sketches depict a human being with ticks the size of basketballs attached to their neck and right eye. Next to it a more detailed version of those ticks.

These were quick sketches pitching some critters players might encounter, one being insects that made decoys out of corpses and another one giant ticks that would attach themselves to you while you slept in infested places. It is a world of parasites.

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Two sketches of a shirtless guy in a mask that covers their nose and upper face. They wear baggy jeans an hold a curved dagger. There's stitches across his body, and some metal spikes jut out of hi shoulders. Text says "The Maggot King" and "horny".

A sketch of a big, shirtless man, wearing a cape, trousers with boots, several bandages and a mask which only shows his right eye. There's DIY mastectomy scars in his chest. Text says his name, "Obrero".

When the gay is showing I do my Gutter Planet guys weirdly hot. Here the Maggot King, from one of the earlier areas, in Bonebelly, and Obrero, character from one of the jobs you can take later.

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Sketch of three kids, the one on the right, carrying a large snail, is a girl. The one in the middle, tall and lanky, with long arms, could be a boy. His flesh has been stitched together from different parts. On the floor sits an ambiguous child, hugging their legs. Some of the parts of their body seem to be mechanical in nature.

Three kids, from three very different peoples: a little swarm girl, a stitch-folk boy and some factory worker kid. In big cities like Bonebelly even the more reclusive cultures are pushed into cooperation.

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Sketch of the side view of a big, tall tower, really disheveled and fragmented. It appears everybody tried to build as much as possible everywhere. There’s even dangling houses. Sketchy building practices.

Here a discarded sketch for one of the new locations for the game. A city in a tower. We gave it a spin later.
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The illustration page is divided in 3 sections, first shows a timeline, second a couple examples, and the third one an extreme case. First Section is titled "How a Swarms come to Be", it shows a chubby human baby in a bed with a couple small spiders and fungi. The text pointing at the baby says "not much of a difference to wretched babies". Next there's a scroll reading "A Deal and a Close Friend". The last image is a young adult, clean, well-dressed, with big, long spider legs coming out of their back, and a small spider nested in their eye socket. They dont seem to be in pain or distress. The text pointing at this drawing says "hosts the god's brood" and "insect limbs are a boon". Second section is titled "How the swarm presents in society" and shows two swarm. The first one is a male-looking, well-built, holding a hoe-like tool. He's got the facial features of an insect, plus antennas. The text pointing at him says "farmers" and "well-fed, well-trained". The second swarm is a female-looking one, dressed in nice clothes, looking healthy. She is holding a big beetle in her arms like a baby. The top part of her skull is missing, and another beetle is nested inside of it. This doesn't seem to cause her pain or distress. The text pointing at her says "the passenger attaches itself to the body comfortably" and "some swarm also take caregiving duties". Another block of text of both figures says "swarm communes provide stability and order". Third section is titled "Extreme Case of Godly Favors" and shows a giant swarm in the shape of a moth, with fleshy limbs halfway between arms and insect legs. Its face has the vestigial remains of a pair of eyes, and maybe the slight bump of a nose. In their large abdomen sits a young, yet to be gifted swarm, a young girl of cheery expression. Some big moths hang around next to them. The text around, pointing at the big swarm say "favored swarm still cake care of the young", "not entirely insect-like" and "may even become fertile".

Here a quick overview of the swarm, one of the eight peoples to choose from in our game.

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Digital, black and white drawing of a mature woman and her son behind her. She's carrying a basket of strange vegetables, slimy and fleshy. Both her and her son carry strange, big worms with them, the kid in his arms, but his mom seems to have the worm growing from her back. The scene is calm, the energy easy.

Another from the QG, a swarm mother and her kid, coming from collecting some strange but surely nutritious fruit. The insect gods' knowledge of the earth and how to farm it has made these people thrive in such a barren world.
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An elderly woman sitting on a blocky, wooden chair, knitting some sort of scarf with a square pattern. In each of the squares there seems to be symbols, scenes and places, Her clothes seem comfortable, but stitched from several pieces of cloth. She has insect-like pincers and a bug eye is peeking from her right temple.

One of the og illustrations for the Quickstart Guide, of a swarm, elder woman knitting some sort of chronicle of the events near her settlement.
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Sketch of a big, thick man in leather clothes stained by blood. He wears a stitched, leather mask in the shape of a pig head. He holds a massive cleaver and a bloody, bulging, burlap sack.

A doodle of the Scum King. Subject to design change, but that’s pretty much the idea for him.
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Sketches of three vaguely humanoid creatures labeled “fuckers”, “homunc” and “wardens”. They all got bulbous heads with big round eyes, and somewhat bony bodies. They might be related.

Exploration sketches for a couple creatures for the book.
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Sketch of a male figure with a tattooed, bald head, scars and pier. There seem to be bony protrusions under their skin.

A dead child. Their death will be at the bottom of a pit full of thorns, but that’s not today.
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One gutter peek...

Here a skell sawbones contemplating a vial of kindness.

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Have a WIP for one of the characters I've been working on for GP. She's an old lady swarm, with the brute strength of a horned bettle.

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caved to playtester bullying and made all the stats start with a "skuh" sound

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Post a creature from your game, and its inspiration (art by @cspstuff.bsky.social)

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