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Ben McEntee
@benmce.bsky.social
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run around, draw thing ✦ PDX ✦ Senior Concept Artist @ Gardens🌳 ✦ Contact: benmce.art@gmail.com

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Ben McEntee @benmce.bsky.social · Oct 18
Some recent characters from the stars ⭐️
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Can't believe I'm saying this again so soon, but I've been laid off from Heart Machine.

Please check out Possessor(s) on Nov 11th, I'm incredibly excited for you all to experience what I've been working so hard on the past year.

Gonna just keep on moving forward and makin art

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Matt Graczyk - Environment Artist
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September 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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More treeeees
Sketchbook page depicting a tree drawn with blue ballpoint
October 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Ballpoint frogs and foliage 🌿
Sketchbook page of two structures drawn in blue ballpoint pen Sketchbook page full of frogs wearing cloths, and a branch covered in leaves. Both drawn with ballpoint pen
October 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Dream home
Sketchbook drawing in red ink depicting a small house made from a strawberry. The house is surrounded by vines and fallen leaves
October 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Ringed Fortress 🪐
A large fortress sits atop an rock at the center of an asteroid belt. Two characters look up at the fortress from one of the smaller foreground rocks. A comic panel in the center of the image shows a close of the characters.
September 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Fall sprite 🍁
Digital drawing of a small fairy sleeping in the middle of a tree stump, surrounded by leaves.
September 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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possibleworlds.bsky.social
Three TTRPGs: one hundred swords, five missing matriarchs, and a very little lover. Our campaign for Cosmic Century Knights (@oneshotrpg.bsky.social & @worldstoforge.bsky.social), Homecoming (@meghanlynnftw.bsky.social), and Chuck is live NOW through September 26! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
PWG Presents: Cosmic Century Knights, Homecoming, and Chuck
Three TTRPGs: one hundred swords, five missing matriarchs, and a very little lover.
www.kickstarter.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Guided by starlight ⭐️
August 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.
People capable of loving some paintings or etchings or whatever can rarely do this without knowing something about the art-ist. Again, the situation is social rather than scientific. Any work of art is one halt of a conversation between two human beings, and it helps a lot to know who is talking at you. Does he or she have a reputation for seriousness, for sincerity? There are virtually no beloved or respected paintings made by persons of whom we know nothing. We can even surmise a lot about the lives of whoever did the paintings in the caves underneath Lascaux, France. So I dare to suggest that no picture can attract serious attention without a human being attached to it in the viewer's mind. If you are unwilling to attach your name to your pictures, and to say why you hope others might find them rewarding to look at, there goes the ballgame right there. Pictures are famous for their human-ness and not their picture-ness. There is also the matter of craftsmanship. Real picture lovers like to "play along," so to speak, to look closely at the surface to see how the illusion was created by nothing but an unusual human being, with hands and eyes. If you are unwilling to say how you made your pictures, there goes the ballgame a second time. Good luck, and love as always K
August 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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'Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide:' Arkane union workers demand Xbox maker sever ties with Israel
'Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide:' Arkane union workers demand Xbox maker sever ties with Israel
Arkane Studios' STJV section in France has published an open letter in support of the Palestinian-led BDS movement.
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August 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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austinwalker.bsky.social
I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity.

"What service is Microsoft providing?"

Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.
According to three Unit 8200 sources, the cloud-based storage platform has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank. Thanks to the control it exerts over Palestinian telecommunications infrastructure, Israel has long intercepted phone calls in the occupied territories. But the indiscriminate new system allows intelligence officers to play back the content of cellular calls made by Palestinians, capturing the conversations of a much larger pool of ordinary civilians.
August 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Replanting
Digital painting of a landscape with a large airship burning a forest in the distance. Two people plant trees in the foreground.
August 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Very proud to announce that I illustrated Cosmic Century Knights, a TTRPG Book by @possibleworlds.bsky.social ! Amazing cover by @benmce.bsky.social !
Go check the KS Campaign in the post below ! I can’t wait to show you more stuff !
July 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Cover illustration for COSMIC CENTURY KNIGHTS, a ttrpg by James D’Amato and Drew Mierzejewski! Shout out to Tyler from @possibleworlds.bsky.social for being so great to work with on this!
Two adventurers with swords walk through a marsh towards a landscape full of green fields. In the distance there is a massive sword/spaceship embedded into a mountain.
July 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Announcing our next slate of TTRPGs—Cosmic Century Knights by @oneshotrpg.bsky.social & @worldstoforge.bsky.social, Homecoming by @meghanlynnftw.bsky.social, and Chuck by Tyler Crumrine—coming to Kickstarter September 2! Learn more and sign up for notifications at www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
Coming soon: PWG Presents: Cosmic Century Knights, Homecoming, & Chuck
Three new TTRPGs from James D'Amato & Drew Mierzejewski, Meghan Cross, and Tyler Crumrine!
www.kickstarter.com
July 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Lines from drink&draw a couple weeks ago!
A scanned sketchbook page, depicting a dragon on the left side, and a tree surrounded by water on the right.
July 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Travelers and a stop along the way
sketchbook page with pen drawings of two characters walking. There is a sketch of a a structure with a small windmill on the other page.
July 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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actual drawing, again
June 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Curse 🗡️
A digital painting of a horse transforming into a monster. A sword is embedded in its back.
June 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Black and white image of Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, smoking a cigarette. "The world is not divided between east and west. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."
June 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Morning on a moon 🌘
Comic page depicting a person waking up inside a house carved into an asteroid, they get dressed as they are surrounded by stars. They leave their home followed by stars.
June 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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victoriascott.bsky.social
The cruelty of this is, genuinely, staggering. This is a policy that saves virtually no money whatsoever whose success is measured in the number of children it kills.
maggieastor.bsky.social Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · Jun 18
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
June 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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austinwalker.bsky.social
And you know what the talking heads seem to rarely use 'violent' to describe? The systemic destruction of families through ICE detentions and deportations. Breaking a window is framed *primarily* as violence, but taking a grandparent away from their kids or sending someone to a work camp isn't.
June 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Very excited to share more of what this great team has been cookin' up 👀🌳
gardens.dev Gardens 🌳 @gardens.dev · Jun 11
we hosted a secret teahouse LAN party during Summer Game Fest this past weekend where we let a select group of folks play our still-unannounced debut game. it was so heartening to see the enthusiastic response to what we've been building!
an overhead shot of a warmly lit teahouse room full of people -- some sitting on the floor, some standing and chatting. concept art is projected onto gauzey fabric hanging from the ceiling. there are 4 PC demo stations on short tables on the floor and 2 more standing PC demo stations on the side. the footage on the screen is censored. a close-up shot of 4 people seated around a PC demo station. there are people standing and talking in the background next to a tea bar.
June 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
the issue is not just ICE.

we can live free and safe. or we can have police like we have right now.

we cannot do both
tinadesireeberg.com Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · Jun 9
LAPD assisted by the Huntington Beach Police just came in full force firing munitions and with Horse support. Someone was trampled. Another has a serious head injury.
June 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM