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Colin Campbell
@ccampbellart.bsky.social
Content Director @ Zenimax Online on a new IP.

Other titles: Jedi Fallen Order, Battlefront 2, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Amalur, among others.

Also illustrator & painter. Travel journel sketcher, gouache & watercolorist.
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Okay, formal introduction here.
I’m Colin. He/him. Video game dev, Content Director at Zenimax Online on a new IP.
Artist and illustrator by training. Very much a dad.
Been a minute since I've been here. Nice to see friends again here!

Trying to kick off a regular posting of work. Starting with some journal sketchbook pages soon. Counting my current one that's WIP for 2025, it'll be ten years worth.
August 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I asked my son what he wanted me to draw. He said a chicken. So here we are.
May 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Burke Mountain playground view over sunset - gouache sketch in the journal.
March 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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I was met with a surprise this week: a beautiful piece by the great @ccampbellart.bsky.social, delivered to my door.
Thanks and ❤️, old friend.
March 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Restorative long weekend with kiddos and @ccampbellart.bsky.social

Favorite quote after kids have a discussion with a hiker comparing walking sticks (they had sticks, she had poles), said by the younger with a wistful sigh: “That human is my friend now.”
March 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you
#artshare
February 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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new page up on
www.littletinythings.com 🌠
February 27, 2025 at 7:41 AM
For the last few years leading up to Valentine’s Day, my two boys and I make a gigantic mess and somehow end up with a big pile of hand-made cards for loved ones and their friends.
The process can get a bit wild and I try to embrace the chaos of it.
February 16, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Any artist pals over on Cara? I need to follow more folks there.
February 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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QRP with someone watery :)
February 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Gouache painting time-lapse of a snowy, sunny day out our window here in British Columbia.
February 10, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Currently helping my 6yo play a bit of Mario+Rabbids: Sparks of Hope and remembering how surprisingly good this game is.

Good depth, and good Mario story with a touch of darkness to it. Some vines of Super Mario RPG.
February 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Oahu Inkwash
February 2, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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In grade school I had been so confused.

How had people let Hitler rise to power?

How had people let the McCarthy era happen?

And then now it’s, “Ah. This is how.”

We’re supposed to learn from history. Not repeat the mistakes of the past.
It’s unfortunate that this is behind a paywall, but fwiw you can start a free trial, read the article, and cancel right after…
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
www.theatlantic.com
February 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I say this to folks a lot, too.
It doesn’t need to be a big, ambitious thing. You don’t need to do it daily or fill pages.
Add sketches! Add stickers! Mess around on pages & write a few lines about what happened one day/week/month.
You’ll never regret spending even a few minutes a week on it.
This is your reminder if you wanted to start journaling in 2016 but didn't (me!) now's a great time to start.
February 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This week I was telling a team member that my job these days is just dancing on the razor’s edge of how vague to be for different situations.

You could say that in the opposite way and it’s about how precise to be. But in this case he was literally asking me to “be more vague”.
January 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This tweet feels like it could have been written specifically for @jharacampbell.bsky.social and her experience making video game spaceships.

(She’s new to Bluesky but she’s the best and you’ll all want to follow her. I am biased but I am also right.)
... anyone who's been following my account for a long time: this is cinema.

So many ship interiors don't match the exterior design. 🤗

Including this lovely piece of junk.
a plane is flying through a blue and red explosion in the sky .
ALT: a plane is flying through a blue and red explosion in the sky .
media.tenor.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:40 AM
A parenting trick is that if you want your kids playing in a specific spot start an intentionally non-kid project in that exact spot.
January 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I love this, whenever I see it. Where the morning sun is just over the cusp of freezing but hasn’t yet touched the stretches of shade. I find it a lot here in BC. You can feel yourself at the threshold.
January 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
British Columbia hiking continues to be pretty great.
January 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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From industry veterans who worked on Disco Elysium and Heroes of Might and Magic, comes a love letter to old-school strategy games.

Save the dying world of Eol, make or break alliances, and write your own story.

Broken Alliance is OUT TODAY in Early Access on Steam!
Broken Alliance - First Trailer
YouTube video by Placeholder Gameworks
www.youtube.com
January 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Trying out Cara as an alternative to Instagram, but whew.
cara.app/ccampbellart
Colin Campbell (@ccampbellart) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform
Content Director @ Zenimax Online Travel sketcher, painter, illustrator.
cara.app
January 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Watching Skeleton Crew with my kids and feeling like the critiques that this is gen-x nostalgia for adventurous kids stories of that day misses that children still exist today and like adventurous stories.
January 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Collaboration sketch with my six year old. I did most of the drawing and he did most of the painting.

When I showed him my last bit of work he said “perfect except for the weird eyes.”
January 14, 2025 at 4:23 AM