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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️
@thisnorthernboy.bsky.social
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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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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · Jan 17
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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A poster, built in Blender, showing the industrial Funicular from the Manga, Akira. My illustration, Elk Island Light. An orange lighthouse floats on the ocean, at its base, tentacles extend in to the deep. My illustration, Deep Space Fleet. A page of brightly coloured spaceship sketches. My illustration, ISO Grid. 16 isometric illustrations of various little buildings. From a sci-fi noodle bar, to a Venetian palazzo.
thisnorthernboy.bsky.social
Sorry folks, the kettle wasn’t plugged in.
thisnorthernboy.bsky.social Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 17h
Putting the kettle on, tea and a chocolate Hob Nob anyone?
February 18, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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uk-resistant.bsky.social
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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spudonkey.bsky.social
Doodles for the doodle god.
Sci-fi doodles and such.
February 18, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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georgeouthwaite.bsky.social
Peacocks
Digital painting
full body portrait of someone sting on a bed infront of the William Morris pattern Peacock and Dragon
February 13, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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hildur.bsky.social
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.
kylecassidy.bsky.social Kyle Cassidy @kylecassidy.bsky.social · 17h
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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marclaming.bsky.social
check out this beautiful Mathieu Lauffray cover
February 18, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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georgeouthwaite.bsky.social
details
of quoted painting
February 18, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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nicktankard.bsky.social
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
A black pen in a crosshatch technique and black block printing ink applied with a roller on white paper illustration. The dark silhouetted shape of a woman in a black funeral dress stands at the foot of a bed in an Edwardian style room, she stares at a tired looking man under a heavy quilt. Moonlight shines into the room from behind the woman. Creepy and atmospheric.
February 18, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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sacredfield.bsky.social
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.
A parade of funny little animals wearing big paper-mache masks, there's a swallow flying over them. A white and blue kitten dressed as a dragon smiles at the reader. The title says "Segavecchia, Cotignola, 2026, 575esima Ed." in white letters.
February 17, 2026 at 4:21 PM
thisnorthernboy.bsky.social
Putting the kettle on, tea and a chocolate Hob Nob anyone?
February 18, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
“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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tristansbones.bsky.social
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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georgeouthwaite.bsky.social
Dawn over Marl Pits (1)
digital painting
of snowy woods in shadow with a clear morning sky
February 17, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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thisnorthernboy.bsky.social
Ships of Innsmouth print (99% there I think).

Feedback welcome.

#ArtPrints #Innsmouth #Illustration
The Ships of Innsmouth print. Ten strange ship illustrations, drawn traditionally with ink) laid out on a page. A black and white border, similar to one you'd get in an atlas or on a map, surrounds the page.
February 17, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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scholes.bsky.social
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
thisnorthernboy.bsky.social
Ships of Innsmouth print (99% there I think).

Feedback welcome.

#ArtPrints #Innsmouth #Illustration
The Ships of Innsmouth print. Ten strange ship illustrations, drawn traditionally with ink) laid out on a page. A black and white border, similar to one you'd get in an atlas or on a map, surrounds the page.
February 17, 2026 at 3:15 PM
thisnorthernboy.bsky.social
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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romanpalace.bsky.social
We've been on the Northern Line. The idea that it's 2000 years old seems completely reasonable.
A screen snip. At the top is a sentence pointing out that the Northern Line tube line closely follows the route of the Roman Road, Stane Street. Beneath are two maps, on the left Stane street is shown with settlements including Morden, Tooting, Clapham and Kennington marked. On the right is another map with the modern northern line shown. All of the settlements on the stane street map are duplicated on the tube map.
February 17, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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uk-resistant.bsky.social
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
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asls.org.uk
Iain M. Banks (1954–2013) was born #OTD, 16 Feb: a 🎂 🧵
1/13

“Iain Banks… is a novelist who has his own ‘double’, an author for whom the idea of a split writing persona is emphatically not out of place”

—A 2010 article on Banks’s genre-busting career
💙📚
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/read...
Reading Double, Writing Double: The Fiction of Iain (M.) Banks - The Bottle Imp
Iain Banks’ writing can be located within a context of contemporary British fiction, namely the period after 1970. The rationale for the provision of a context wider than Scottish fiction is determine...
www.thebottleimp.org.uk
February 16, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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thisnorthernboy.bsky.social
Working on a new print.

#Innsmouth #Illustration
A photo of my iPad, with a (work in progress) print showing some of my ship illustrations.
February 16, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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georgeouthwaite.bsky.social
I'm sharing this again on a weeknight because I like it and I want everybody to see and adore it
February 16, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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bowiesongs.bsky.social
RIP Robert Duvall: as central to American film as anyone in his generation
Duvall as Boo Radley Duvall as Tom Hagen in The Godfather Duvall as Kilgore in Apocalypse Now Duvall as Mac Sledge in Tender Mercies
February 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
thisnorthernboy.bsky.social
Working on a new print.

#Innsmouth #Illustration
A photo of my iPad, with a (work in progress) print showing some of my ship illustrations.
February 16, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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schweizercomics.bsky.social
Hey, friends! Here are some thoughts on using planes in your compositions.
Text: "Planes" are a depiction of anything that exists in a drawing at a FiXED spatial distance from the viewer, with each grouping of subjects at a shared distance overlapping the next in order to suggest the spatial relationship of each element in the drawing to the others. This image has three planes: (Image of a drawing with a scorpion on a rock, a cowboy sitting on a rock, and a mountain in the background). Each plane in an image signifies a different degree of distance, with the foreground SHARiNG the viewer’s spatial plane, and the background being the farthest from it. There’s clear distance between each plane; no plane “touches” another. Text: why is overlapping the planes necessary? (image: a cowboy apparently close to the viewer, one a ways back, and then a saloon behind him). Unless one plane directly overlaps another, there’s no sure clarity that they are, in fact, suggestive of different distances. (image: the cowboy appearing to be closest is shown to be a giant, swinging the apparently midground cowboy by the head into the two-story saloon that's only about as tall as a person). it’s also important to suggest scale in each plane using subjects whose size the audience is likely to know. when that isn’t possible, try repeating the element-of-unspecified-scale (a) from one plane in another and have it (B) interact there with a subject whose scale is clear. (image: a small round cactus in the foreground, and farther off a cowboy sitting on a similar cactus) Text: A perspective grid composition (A) suggests depth by progressive recession in space, while planar composition (B) suggests it with staggered recession in space. (image: a receding grid and a series of staggered planar elements) The principles of overlapping planar composition can be used with a perspective grid, especially if there are elements with right angles (like buildings). Rough your panel with plane elements in place first... ...then make/place a grid that fits your layout... ...then utilize the grid to make the receding angles match. (image: a wanted man hiding against a wall while a cowgirl crossed the street, looking around). One of the most useful* aspects of a foreground element is to create a sense of immersion for your audience. by putting it on essentially the same plane as the audience itself, the audience becomes a part of the story, seemingly able to touch the foreground, to lean around it for a better view. (image: the wanted man is now decidedly a foreground element). *it also means less time spent drawing all of the detail in the midground or background planes without ever aesthetically shortchanging your audience.
February 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM