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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️
@thisnorthernboy.bsky.social
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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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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Available from 10am tomorrow.

The Ships of Innsmouth - In All Their Splendour.

#Illustration #Innsmouth #ArtPrints
February 19, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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I'm down to my last £100, Ive signed on for work in warehouses/factories or whatever to keep the lights on but it takes a while to organise, if you'd like to support my artwork here is my Patreon, cheers! patreon.com/c/AlexDuneBr...
February 19, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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Pencil work.
February 19, 2026 at 1:56 PM
I was going to release a couple of new prints today…

Maybe tomorrow.
February 19, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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Check out our process as we make our first level.
We will be uploading slightly longer videos of our dev process to our Youtube channel. Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g5E...
Trash City Turbo - Developer log 01
YouTube video by machinefun
www.youtube.com
February 19, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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'Being detained at your brother's pleasure' will never not be funny
February 19, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Sorry folks, the kettle wasn’t plugged in.
Putting the kettle on, tea and a chocolate Hob Nob anyone?
February 18, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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Are there any folks out there that give free/cheap advice on gamedev contracts and such?
Need some eyes on such
February 18, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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Doodles for the doodle god.
February 18, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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Peacocks
Digital painting
February 13, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
I’m constantly astounded at the sheer level of artistic production coming out of Iceland. Novels, movies, music. Amazing.
February 18, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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check out this beautiful Mathieu Lauffray cover
February 18, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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details
February 18, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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Another favourite of mine for The Woman in Black that didn’t make the final book.

Chapter Six: The Sound of a Pony and Trap.
Arthur being haunted by the Woman during a restless night.

Image size: 21.2 x 30 cm

£375 plus P&P

Email me at: nicktankardart@gmail.com
February 18, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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I was asked to draw the cover for my hometown's magazine commemorating the Segavecchia festival, a celebration of Spring of likely pagan origins held yearly halfway through Lent, and codified in the 1450s.
February 17, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Putting the kettle on, tea and a chocolate Hob Nob anyone?
February 18, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”

High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
February 18, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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Hey, biggest news of my life in too many ways to list... Hopefully you'll all let your stores know you want this thing as much as I've been wanting to draw it as far back as I can remember. Head over to @bloody-disgusting.com for more deets!
February 17, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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Dawn over Marl Pits (1)
digital painting
February 17, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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Ships of Innsmouth print (99% there I think).

Feedback welcome.

#ArtPrints #Innsmouth #Illustration
February 17, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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the early evolution of an RPG prototype,

- watercolors done for the heck of it, one of many
- watercolors scanned and used as a kit for a store interior
- rinse repeat step 2 to learn it's limits
- borrow textures from props to prototype floors and walls and quickly assemble a more complete scene!
October 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Ships of Innsmouth print (99% there I think).

Feedback welcome.

#ArtPrints #Innsmouth #Illustration
February 17, 2026 at 3:15 PM
If you like the look of my Innsmouth Ships print, here's the story that inspired them…

It's ongoing, so don't expect an ending if reading it for the first time.
February 17, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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We've been on the Northern Line. The idea that it's 2000 years old seems completely reasonable.
February 17, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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I'm putting together a talk about a practical guide to making smaller games, quickly.

If you have any cool practical tips or better yet, real life examples beyond "descope" please share below (full credit if used!)
February 17, 2026 at 9:52 AM