Blair Smith Design
@blairsmithdesign.bsky.social
Formerly LithiumBlossom
35
Illustrator and graphic designer from Scotland
Available for work
35
Illustrator and graphic designer from Scotland
Available for work
The trailer for Mercy looks like the parody of a Hollywood sci-fi movie.
January 21, 2026 at 9:34 PM
The trailer for Mercy looks like the parody of a Hollywood sci-fi movie.
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This year marks the 20th Edition of Thought Bubble: The Yorkshire Comic Art Festival!
With a week long festival from 9-15 November 2026, taking place across Yorkshire. And our GIANT Comic Convention will be on 14 & 15 November 2025 at Harrogate Convention Centre.
With a week long festival from 9-15 November 2026, taking place across Yorkshire. And our GIANT Comic Convention will be on 14 & 15 November 2025 at Harrogate Convention Centre.
January 21, 2026 at 12:02 PM
This year marks the 20th Edition of Thought Bubble: The Yorkshire Comic Art Festival!
With a week long festival from 9-15 November 2026, taking place across Yorkshire. And our GIANT Comic Convention will be on 14 & 15 November 2025 at Harrogate Convention Centre.
With a week long festival from 9-15 November 2026, taking place across Yorkshire. And our GIANT Comic Convention will be on 14 & 15 November 2025 at Harrogate Convention Centre.
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It's human, it's beautiful.
January 20, 2026 at 7:42 PM
It's human, it's beautiful.
The real Bone Temple was the friends we made along the way.
January 19, 2026 at 8:46 PM
The real Bone Temple was the friends we made along the way.
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Tribute to Anne Nocenti by Art Adams.
January 17, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Tribute to Anne Nocenti by Art Adams.
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alex garland pissing everyone off for like half a decade only to immediately win everyone back by writing about that most universal of themes: england is a place of pure evil
January 16, 2026 at 12:01 AM
alex garland pissing everyone off for like half a decade only to immediately win everyone back by writing about that most universal of themes: england is a place of pure evil
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Warhammer Owner Games Workshop Bans Its Creative Staff From Using GenAI.
Warhammer Owner Games Workshop Bans Its Creative Staff From Using GenAI
A "few senior managers" are testing the tech but remain unexcited, says CEO
www.timeextension.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Warhammer Owner Games Workshop Bans Its Creative Staff From Using GenAI.
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While I love my niche stupid hobby of historical board gaming, sometimes it does just make me want to scream. Take the latest example, a board game about the Irish Potato Famine where you get to compete with friends to see who survives best (?)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
The Great Hunger
Easy-to-learn, card-driven game, rich with historical detail; explores 19th-century Irish expansion, blight, famine, & emigration. 2-5P
www.kickstarter.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:15 AM
While I love my niche stupid hobby of historical board gaming, sometimes it does just make me want to scream. Take the latest example, a board game about the Irish Potato Famine where you get to compete with friends to see who survives best (?)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
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Kelpie, watercolour on hot pressed paper.
Now on Every Day Original: everydayoriginal.com/artist/Natas...
The lochs are dark and gloomy this time of year, silent mirrors of steel.
Now on Every Day Original: everydayoriginal.com/artist/Natas...
The lochs are dark and gloomy this time of year, silent mirrors of steel.
January 9, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Kelpie, watercolour on hot pressed paper.
Now on Every Day Original: everydayoriginal.com/artist/Natas...
The lochs are dark and gloomy this time of year, silent mirrors of steel.
Now on Every Day Original: everydayoriginal.com/artist/Natas...
The lochs are dark and gloomy this time of year, silent mirrors of steel.
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Today's strip recounts scenes from Alex Raymond's very first FLASH GORDON strip from January 7th, 1934. There's some slight tweaks to make the time period a little more ambiguous, but whatever I could keep from the original story, I kept.
January 6, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Today's strip recounts scenes from Alex Raymond's very first FLASH GORDON strip from January 7th, 1934. There's some slight tweaks to make the time period a little more ambiguous, but whatever I could keep from the original story, I kept.
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For folks wanting to do their own Arthurian drawings or costuming, an A+ resource: heraldry expert Wilfrid Scott-Giles put together a monograph in the mid 60s (of which I made liberal use) on the coats of arms and bearings described in the original sources:
www.theheraldrysociety.com/articles/som...
www.theheraldrysociety.com/articles/som...
January 6, 2026 at 5:22 PM
For folks wanting to do their own Arthurian drawings or costuming, an A+ resource: heraldry expert Wilfrid Scott-Giles put together a monograph in the mid 60s (of which I made liberal use) on the coats of arms and bearings described in the original sources:
www.theheraldrysociety.com/articles/som...
www.theheraldrysociety.com/articles/som...
I think one of the big assets for The Lord of the Rrings trilogy is Peter Jackson brings a horror director's sensibility to fantasy.
It really gives a gritty, tactile feel to the world that draws you in and makes it feel lived in while also heightening the fantastical elements to really hit you.
It really gives a gritty, tactile feel to the world that draws you in and makes it feel lived in while also heightening the fantastical elements to really hit you.
January 1, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I think one of the big assets for The Lord of the Rrings trilogy is Peter Jackson brings a horror director's sensibility to fantasy.
It really gives a gritty, tactile feel to the world that draws you in and makes it feel lived in while also heightening the fantastical elements to really hit you.
It really gives a gritty, tactile feel to the world that draws you in and makes it feel lived in while also heightening the fantastical elements to really hit you.
2025 was an interesting year for me. Fairly good, seeing some good achievements, memorable moments, reconnecting with friends, and settling into aspects of my life. Lost some momentum later in the year due to repeated sickness.
Hopefully, 2026 will also be a good year but also a chance to grow.
Hopefully, 2026 will also be a good year but also a chance to grow.
January 1, 2026 at 12:16 AM
2025 was an interesting year for me. Fairly good, seeing some good achievements, memorable moments, reconnecting with friends, and settling into aspects of my life. Lost some momentum later in the year due to repeated sickness.
Hopefully, 2026 will also be a good year but also a chance to grow.
Hopefully, 2026 will also be a good year but also a chance to grow.
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I’ll see yall next year ✨
December 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I’ll see yall next year ✨
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I’ve spent like 15 minutes thinking about the fact that at my first job out of uni, a bunch of systems used the Julian calendar, and we had a manual thing to convert them
And only now a decade later I’ve thought to ask “why was this software using a calendar replaced in the 1500s?”
And only now a decade later I’ve thought to ask “why was this software using a calendar replaced in the 1500s?”
December 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I’ve spent like 15 minutes thinking about the fact that at my first job out of uni, a bunch of systems used the Julian calendar, and we had a manual thing to convert them
And only now a decade later I’ve thought to ask “why was this software using a calendar replaced in the 1500s?”
And only now a decade later I’ve thought to ask “why was this software using a calendar replaced in the 1500s?”
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finally finished my first march to camelot fill, a day late haha but here is quest!
#art #arthurianlegend #sirgawainandthegreenknight #illustration
#art #arthurianlegend #sirgawainandthegreenknight #illustration
March 6, 2024 at 5:36 PM
finally finished my first march to camelot fill, a day late haha but here is quest!
#art #arthurianlegend #sirgawainandthegreenknight #illustration
#art #arthurianlegend #sirgawainandthegreenknight #illustration
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Merry Christmas everyone!
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🐡
December 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Merry Christmas everyone!
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Here’s a tip for graphic designers: if you include the “weakest” option in your pitch the client will choose it 9 times out of 10. If you include something you hate they will choose that option. They can’t help themselves. They don’t do it consciously but they’ll do it
December 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Here’s a tip for graphic designers: if you include the “weakest” option in your pitch the client will choose it 9 times out of 10. If you include something you hate they will choose that option. They can’t help themselves. They don’t do it consciously but they’ll do it
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In Edinburgh this weekend? Pop down to La Belle Adventure at 225 Leith Walk to check out the work of all of our fantastic winners and nominees for 2025! 🦭
December 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
In Edinburgh this weekend? Pop down to La Belle Adventure at 225 Leith Walk to check out the work of all of our fantastic winners and nominees for 2025! 🦭
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as an artist: a pinterest board, a stick figure, and a 20 paragraph summary of the happenings in your ttrpg is more useful to me than anything AI
*vibrates violently holding a degree in interdisciplinary communication and collaboration*
You do not need genAI to communicate your ideas as a non-artist to an artist! A generated image doesn't actually share the key info that needs to passed on AND it discourages fruitful discussion
You do not need genAI to communicate your ideas as a non-artist to an artist! A generated image doesn't actually share the key info that needs to passed on AND it discourages fruitful discussion
December 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
as an artist: a pinterest board, a stick figure, and a 20 paragraph summary of the happenings in your ttrpg is more useful to me than anything AI
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WINTER RETURNING (1994)
Acrylic - 8 ½” x 9”
This started as a whim on a scrap of illustration board—a “leftover” before I found that designation for such small sketchy work. I was riffing with colors and not expecting anything to come from the shapes I was playing with. 1/2
Acrylic - 8 ½” x 9”
This started as a whim on a scrap of illustration board—a “leftover” before I found that designation for such small sketchy work. I was riffing with colors and not expecting anything to come from the shapes I was playing with. 1/2
December 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
WINTER RETURNING (1994)
Acrylic - 8 ½” x 9”
This started as a whim on a scrap of illustration board—a “leftover” before I found that designation for such small sketchy work. I was riffing with colors and not expecting anything to come from the shapes I was playing with. 1/2
Acrylic - 8 ½” x 9”
This started as a whim on a scrap of illustration board—a “leftover” before I found that designation for such small sketchy work. I was riffing with colors and not expecting anything to come from the shapes I was playing with. 1/2
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anyway, I love art. and there's fantasy artists making art tenfold as strange, dark, whimsical, heartfelt, & erotic than any large studio could dream of, who refuse to give up on their craft. they're laying out trenchers of food and fable for you on your grim pilgrimage. please find it, support it.
December 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
anyway, I love art. and there's fantasy artists making art tenfold as strange, dark, whimsical, heartfelt, & erotic than any large studio could dream of, who refuse to give up on their craft. they're laying out trenchers of food and fable for you on your grim pilgrimage. please find it, support it.
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Following a stealth release at Dragonmeet the digital edition of SSBN Ashcan 1: Sea Trials is now available and will be pwyw until Ashcan 2 is ready! Take command of a nuclear missile submarine during the Cold War and question your role in the conflict #selfpromosaturday
lunarshadow.itch.io/ssbn
lunarshadow.itch.io/ssbn
SSBN by LunarShadow Designs
A solo submarine RPG [Ashcan]
lunarshadow.itch.io
December 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Following a stealth release at Dragonmeet the digital edition of SSBN Ashcan 1: Sea Trials is now available and will be pwyw until Ashcan 2 is ready! Take command of a nuclear missile submarine during the Cold War and question your role in the conflict #selfpromosaturday
lunarshadow.itch.io/ssbn
lunarshadow.itch.io/ssbn
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...and the rich scent of summer.
December 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
...and the rich scent of summer.