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servsci.bsky.social
John Bilodeau Illustrations
@servsci.bsky.social
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Toronto Traditional Pen and Ink Artist.
pronouns (he,lui)
No AI no NFTs

If you like traditional old school illustrations and need sketches, portraits, illustrations, reach out!

https://linktr.ee/servsci
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servsci.bsky.social
Beautiful process vid. Old School Jelly's the master of this look
December 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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nataliehall.bsky.social
Brain dead. Draw werewolf.
December 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
servsci.bsky.social
werewolf transition lineart
work in progress photo of some filler art of a werewolf going from man to wolf form
December 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
servsci.bsky.social
trying to make my first tourtiere in a long time. small fire quickly handled back on track
December 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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towershade.bsky.social
#fantasyart #darkfantasy #inkdrawing #ttrpg #osr #illustration #sketch #darkart
December 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
servsci.bsky.social
@darkerthanvanta.bsky.social just found this at TPL. I'm excited to dive in. Post apocalyptic Canada!
Picture of cover of the novel Cascade
December 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
servsci.bsky.social
Crazy session last night at the FLGS - my Brawler, Bruce Killis, survived the crawl formerly known as "Terror on the Tundra" and only barfed once.

#dccrpg #xcrawl #osr
Screen grab of the module cover depicting the classroom scene in which I got to remember what the square root of 121 is
December 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
servsci.bsky.social
cool shaman gear, if true:

Feather remains found in the funerary goods of the 9,000-year-old shaman from Bad Dürrenberg, confirming that she wore a headdress made with them share.google/mxt0ZgyzmYLM...
Feather remains found in the funerary goods of the 9,000-year-old shaman from Bad Dürrenberg, confirming that she wore a headdress made with them
Archaeological science has managed to capture, in microscopic fragments smaller than one millimeter, what time and soil worked for nine millennia to decompose. A specialized study has just confirmed t...
share.google
December 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
servsci.bsky.social
Artistic player recap has got to be worth bonus xp
madmoses.bsky.social MadMoses @madmoses.bsky.social · 4d
We have a new player who draws the adventures of our AD&D 1e campaign Exkursionen in die Nebelsümpfe! Here's what happened in session 17, by Joe www.instagram.com/ein_augo
December 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
servsci.bsky.social
an early attempt at some art for an evil cleric bad guy ... I wanted to capture the spiritual power coming from the holy symbol and his gesture... But the pose and the rays of light just turned this into a disco scene lol.

evil clerics in the club
an ink illustration of an evil cleric striking a pose among their minions.
December 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
servsci.bsky.social
this is the best.
lettuces.bsky.social Lett @lettuces.bsky.social · 5d
another goblin for someone who donated:) 🖤 this person wanted one they could use as a paper miniature 🖤

www.gofundme.com/f/wcgpa
December 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
servsci.bsky.social
alternate griffin ideas - instead of eagle lion, how about parrot/jaguar?

coloured pencil practice..

#fantasyart #griffin #prismacolor
colour pencil drawing of a tropical griffin in a tree
December 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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weirdblueyonder.bsky.social
#TTRPG folks, you know the #SelfPromoSaturday drill by now…

🎲 Share the thread.

🎲 Hawk your wares!

🎲 Like, repost and comment!

As for me, I have two games in a huge indie mecha RPG bundle! Check out all the other awesome creators here:

itch.io/b/3426/sprin...
Mecha TTRPG Experience: 35 games for $20
December 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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im-big-games.itch.io
Perfect stock art for #Mausritter.
salvaterra.bsky.social Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · Apr 10
One more!🐭⚔️
@louiems.bsky.social has painted Micexplorers 13, which is now added to the original files! Link below.

#bsnm #stockart #indierpg #micexplorers #osr #ttrpg
December 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
servsci.bsky.social
that one time in the 90s AD&D comic where they tried to honeypot a bad guy with the fighter character... poor Vajra, so uncomfortable #OSR #ADnD
I want to say "Look at that hair!" but it won't be clear which character I mean.... ah the 90s
December 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
servsci.bsky.social
a pile of bones

#OSR #DNDart #inkillustration #indieartist
the skeleton of a young black dragon rests on a pile of roots and garbage in the basement of a sunken temple in a swamp
December 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
servsci.bsky.social
This is a cool idea. Force the mage characters to read through magic in theory and practice and have the campaign involve crossing the abyss, lol
December 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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salvaterra.bsky.social
🐭 These 3 adorable mouse-sized NPCs are drawn and painted by @louiems.bsky.social as stock art for indie RPGs.

They are uploaded in PNG with transparent background in 600DPI. The post can be acquired without subscription: www.patreon.com/posts/stock-...

#ttrpg #mausritter #stockart
illustration of three anthropomorphic mouse characters for mouse-sized RPGs: a baker, a blacksmith and a farmer. they have different body shapes and sizes and outfits identifying them in their occupations.
December 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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joncarling.bsky.social
Imaginary friend
December 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
servsci.bsky.social
More demon work for Dark Devilry #shadowdark
Lineart for a tiger demon
December 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
servsci.bsky.social
Happy to hear another episode of the Friends of Merril pod. This one all about cosy fantasy:

friendsofmerril.org?page_id=743
Podcast – The Friends of the Merril Collection
Friends of Merril podcast, you say? Yes! This long-gestating project is finally complete, an eight episode first season of interviews with special guests about notable history and new frontiers in the...
friendsofmerril.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
servsci.bsky.social
A consideration for those designing magic systems:

#ttrpg #gamedesign #magic

youtu.be/po_Y27FHiGo?...
Trauma as a Magic System
YouTube video by Tale Foundry
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December 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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homebrewandhacking.bsky.social
You're an indie TTRPG creator with a bent to fantasy and OSR and you're not on Salvaterra's patron? You fool, you poltroon, redeem yourself at once.

But seriously, the man is cranking out art like there's no tomorrow and I can't keep up with the writing! I've just dl'd a map I didn't know I had!
salvaterra.bsky.social Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · Oct 14
Hi #PortfolioDay! 🎨

I'm a fantasy cartographer from Brazil working on hand-drawn maps for novels and RPGs.

I have a Patreon with maps + stock art for indie RPGs.

💼 cara.app/salvaterra
🗺️ www.patreon.com/tomeofsalvat...
+🔗 fernandosalvaterra.carrd.co

#cartography #ttrpg
fantasy map illustration depicting a landscape full of ragged mountains up and down, crossed by crooked roads, some on giant stone structures. There is a valley with hills and woods to the south, a desert with wretched lands just east of it, wetlands to the west and east with flooded cities and temples, snowy plains to the northeast with a giant skeleton and tree and an impossibly tall mountain in the northwest whose peak is obscured by dark clouds. a fantasy map illustration depicting a continent with a bigger mainland and a large island to the west of it. the biomes go from snowy mountains, a vast wetland, grasslands with many hills. the prevalent features here is that it is crossed by many rivers in all directions and it is surrounded by a the shades of a vast submarine landscape that where part of this land before a big flood catastrophe. colourful drawing of an island crossed by a mountain range, rivers and forests scattered around. a planar map in the shape of a compass rose. The direction arrows are the four classical elemental planes with the material plane in the centre and several layers of other planes of existence around it.
December 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
Day 15 #artAdventCalendar is my #linocut 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬⚒️ #histsci of Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925-2015) a Polish #paleobiologist, famous for a series of Polish-Mongolian expeditions she lead from 1963-1971 to the Gobi desert, where she discovered dinosaurs including the Deinocheirus, where she & team found 🧵
My linocut portrait of Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska shows her as in slacks and sleeveless button down with collar turned in a 3/4 view with her right arm extended and left arm bent and resting on the small of her back. She has short hair and appears brightly lit from the left side. In front of her are the Fighting Dinosaurs fossils: a protoceratops and velociraptor entwined. Above her hand is a Cretaceous rodent Catopsbaatar and behind her is a Deinocheirus dinosaur. She is in the field in Mongolia with mountains in the distance. The print is made in a gradient of sandy golden green through dark green-brown through a dark rust from the bottom to the top.
December 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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riseupcomus.bsky.social
If you are familiar with the word “geas” from D&D, it might interest you to know that it's a Gaelic word for “taboo.”

In Irish mythology, a geas (pronounced "gaysh") would both grant someone who kept it vigor/magical power, but breaking the geas would spell doom.

Small🧵
December 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM