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Skinner Illustration
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30 | Freelance Illustrator, BG Painter/Palette Artist | Centaurworld🖌️Hilda | D&D and tabletop enjoyer
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I'm still beyond excited that a piece I did was put into the recent Chronicles of Exandria book!
February 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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A glacial wolf commission for a D&D campaign's DM PC.
I had a lot of fun playing with it, and spent way longer than I meant to polishing details here and there. But I am really happy with how she turned out!
A white wolf with ice shards sprouting from her limbs, back and tail, a spectral frigid mist billowing from the ice, mouth and eyes. Standing against a dark snowy background that gets brighter closer to the viewer. Face pulled back in a snarl while wielding an axe in her jaws. The leather handle of the axe is dotted in bitemarks and the metal head of the axe also turns into a jagged chunk of ice.
November 20, 2024 at 1:00 AM
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Still has to be my fan art for Critical Role from years ago.
October 22, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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Last month, a friend asked me to paint a portrait of his wife for a custom Arkham Horror investigator card for her birthday.
It was a really sweet gift and I was happy to bring it to life!
August 30, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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Recently, I've had the delight of doing some background work for a couple streamers (BunnysRansom and APlotTwist respectively). It was a lot of fun to have a go at the perspective and linework as well as the painting process.
August 30, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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My primary position on the job was doing palette work. Anytime a character or prop was presented in a different lighting, they would need a palette sheet. These are most of the ones done for Hilda for season 3.
April 10, 2024 at 6:36 PM
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For most of 2022, I worked on the final season of Hilda. Most of my job was palette work but on occasion, I did get to do backgrounds which were a lot of fun! I learned a lot on Hilda and I'm glad they brought me onto the project, it was a very fun position to be in.
April 10, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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Back in 2022, I worked very briefly on a handful of episodes of The Ghost and Molly McGee. It was a lot of fun to work on, even if for a short while.
April 10, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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Finally, I always love painting a library, both in this show and in CW. That and the cheeseboard skate park was a fun idea and such a joy to paint. (Thanks for taking a look through my backgrounds!)
A giant library, with a massive chair. The back wall is lined completely with books. The middle of the room has a carpet, and in the middle of that are some corks and spools of thread, to serve as chairs for smaller folk in the giants library. A stone room with a wooden ceiling, the lights are off, the fireplace unlit, but with logs and a brush for the ash beside it. Next to it is a bookshelf, with books, glass balls, one of which has a small castle in it, as well as bottles and a lava lamp. On the other side of the fireplace is a frosted window, looking out over a cold night sky. Next to that is a locked chest and a locked cabinet with scrolls, books, and bottles atop them. And on the far end of the image is a table with a flask atop it and abook underneath it. The only lighting in the room is from these two terrariums hanging from the rafters. Amidst large trees is a tiny skatepark made of cheese, a cheeseboard skatepark if you will. With wooden fencing framing it. There are ramps, rails, wheels, and a halfpipe, all made of different cheeses. A row boat sits atop a river, with green trees going off into the distance. Underneath the water shows a rocky arch with seaweed and coral. Light rays shoot down from the top of the river to dance on the sandy bed beneath.
September 9, 2023 at 3:45 AM
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I remember I painted the giants house here, more than a handful of times.
Some vibrantly coloured storefronts along a stone street. A bakery with a display of loaves and rolls with a standing sign out front, next door to a music store with various instruments and a karaoke machine in the window. Records sit in a display outside of it. A small sign hangs from the foreground over the street. A giants house sits amongst the clouds, with conical towers and a collection of gnomes. As well as flowery fields leading up to it. Warm coloured shrubs surround the home. The interior of the giants home, the viewer is in the kitchen and a living room can be seen in the next room over. The room itself has a couple of cupboards, one for displaying dishes, the other closed. As well as a calendar, and a table with a bowl of fruit on top of it. A flowery field leads to clouds and a giant bean stock. A lone soccerball sits on the field. Warmly coloured shrubs frame the edge of the floating island.
September 9, 2023 at 3:37 AM
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The village here had so many cute little storefronts!
Vibrantly painted buildings line a stone street, with a display of apples in the foreground. A flowery field overlooks a vibrantly painted village, a clocktower can be seen in the distance. Greenery surrounds the village, and mountains line the horizon in the distance. A collection of vibrantly painted storefronts, a flower shop with a lively display, a candy shop with colourful paintings on its windows, and a bakery with loaves and rolls in another display. A little resting spot tucked away from the mainstreets. Vibrantly coloured buildings, with flowers in the foreground. A table and two chairs is sat in the middle of the clearing, with a vase of flowers on the table, and a tree with decoration sitting beside the table.
September 9, 2023 at 3:32 AM
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I always love painting the snowy episodes, it makes me want to make snow angels and snowmen.
A large boulder frames the image on the right. Beyond it, a cracked wall resting against a Greco-Roman styled building with plenty of pillars. Having cracked from the impact of the boulder. A wall leans against a building. Both have Greco-Roman pillars. The background has lush green shrubs and trees and lead to tall green hills. A warmly lit kitchen, with lots of kitchen commodities, a well loved fridge to the left, an island with chairs in the middles, under a hanging collection of pots and pans. As well as a corkboard, a sink, and a toaster as well as cupboards around the island. A glass door leads into a backyard with greenery. A snowy path leading to snowy mountains. Snow covered trees frame the path as it goes into the distance.
September 9, 2023 at 3:28 AM
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I remember the doctor's office took so long to render, that sequence really put me to work haha
A warm field with shrubs and trees in the background and to the sides. A pink picnic blanket sits in the foreground with a picnic basket to the side. A castle interior, a throne at the top of a small flight of stairs, with craft materials before it. A red carpet underneath all and leading into the rest of the room. Colourful draperies and a tapestry with a paint brush flank the throne A doctors office, warmly lit from outside, with birch trees painted on the walls. A shelf of magazines for patients, as well as a collection of books around a couch. There is also a set of toy rings on the table to the right for children to play with. A basement with warm light shining in from outside. Lots of various things line shelves in the basement, such as a hose, paint buckets and boxes. Theres also a couch, two chairs, and a small table with a lamp on it.
September 9, 2023 at 3:22 AM
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More reposts, but this time on a different show! For 2021, and a lil bit of 2022 (until I was whisked to a different project), I worked on Interrupting Chicken's backgrounds! These are some I was especially happy with, over a couple posts.
As a small note, I'd love a mushroom lamp like in image 2
A warm beach scene backed by a jungle. With picnic blankets, coconut lamps, and coconut cups, as well as some thatch umbrellas to stay cool A lil home setup under a bridge, with green fields in the background. A large armchair with fungus growing out of it sits beside a tall mushroom that doubles as a lamp. More mushrooms surround both. And some various home commodities sit beside it, like a brush, a mirror, and an old pizza box and some newspapers. A river connects a dried patch of land to the lush greenery on the other side, with boulders being used to make a makeshift bridge to get across. A lush field of flowers and grass, with shrubs and trees. Leading back to a mountain with a sun glowing brightly with rays of sunlight spreading from it.
September 9, 2023 at 3:17 AM
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Lastly I had the honor of painting the background for an emotional scene, as well as some battlegrounds.
A tree stands on barren grounds, arrows lodged in it, and an abandoned sword is stabbed into the earth. Red skys over ominous black cliffs on a barren battlefield Orange clouds behind an empty battleground. Cliffs and mountains to the right, with a split mountain as the draw of the image. Between the split sides of the mountain, a beam of light shoots up, glowing teal against the rest of the palette. A silent scene in the battlegrounds, muted colours, and patches of sunlight shining through the clouds to illuminate a spot of rocks
September 9, 2023 at 3:00 AM
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Another favourite was the library inside the Dulpeton moving estate.
A field of broken and dead trees, leaning, as though blown back by some force. In the middle of a clearing are some bones and a horse skull. A comfy armchairs sits, bathed in firelight with shelves of books behind it. Two armchairs sit in front of a fireplace, a chandelier above them. Behind them are three paintings, two of landscapes, and one of a family, though the sun is intentionally cut off from the bottom of the photo. A bust of the father sits to the side of the chairs, with lots of books lining the walls save for a space with curtains framing an open window. A closeup of a mechanical house with four legs, greenery and sand on the ground, with a tent in the background.
September 9, 2023 at 2:56 AM
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I really loved painting the coldtaurs home location, snow is always fun to paint.
A landscape of snow and icy mountains, with a small blue blanket on the nearest snow drift. Amidst a snowy and icy landscape, a large stage with two large projector screens stands before an arrangement of two oil drums and rows of folding chairs. A green undergrown tunnel with glowing fungi leads towards a cartoonish cutout of a horse shaped hole. A moody forest, sky gray, trees darkened with a palette that hints it's about to rain.
September 9, 2023 at 2:43 AM
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Thought I'd start with some reposts for work stuff!
Back in 2020, I worked as a background painter on Centaurworld, these are a collection of some that I did on season 2!
A rainbow road leads into a large pit out in a desert A baroque style room, incredibly shiny with pillars, reliefs and a chaise lounge in front of a table of fancy desserts. A fancy painting of a centaur sits behind the table. Holes dot the walls of rainbow coloured cliffs, with potted plants outside each and a collection of stuffed animals and stacks of paper stand in a clearing in front of the walls. A path leads into the distance, rainbow coloured mountains poking from a sea of clouds on the left and growing from the ground on the right. Shrubs grow on both.
September 9, 2023 at 2:40 AM