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John Latta Art - TTRPG Illustrator
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Website: www.johnlattaart.com
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Sure! I have them up on Teepublic for people that want them on t-shirts/merch. It was basically "made one big splash poster, and then kept recycling elements from it". www.teepublic.com/user/johnlat...
shirt with Waldorf and Statler dressed as fantasy RPG spellcasters (warlock and wizard, respectively) summoning a spectral hand doing "thumbs-down" signage, with the text "MAGE HECKLE" - a d20 replaces the central bridge of the 'H' in Heckle. Beaker of the Muppets dressed as a medieval retainer or porter, freaking out because his hair is sprouting flaming pink tentacles - he drops the items he has been burdened with, including a container of tools, a box of empty vials, a d20 with a pulsing "1" on it, and a slavering chest that appears to be a mimic. A blue t shirt with a framed splash poster of The Muppets dressed as TTRPG adventurers. The text reads "Dungeon Muppets". A black t shirt with Fozzy bear' (dressed as a bard) and Rizzo the rat (dressed as a rogue) at a table with two red d20s, both with their 1-side face up. The text on the shirt reads "I Roll With Advantage".
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
Finally started a sketch during my last game session to flesh out a concept I've had since I took the Living Vessel dedication for my Pathfinder character, Anowah--it's activated twice in game now and I've enjoyed how well it meshed with Anowah's themes and plot points.
#characterart #PF2e #ttrpg
A photoshop window screenshot of a canvas with an initial sketch of a winged skeletal sorcerer with a blazing head and flames jumping along their wingspan and rest of body. Living Vessel Legacy Content Source Dark Archive pg. 140 With the dawning of a new era comes the need for a new seat of power, and what better way to show your coming master your devotion than by sacrificing your entire being for their use? You presented yourself before their altar and they answered your call, flooding your body with their power and granting you the gift of their original form. Or maybe you were abducted in the dark, on a night that the moon refused to shine, when you were taken to a profane location where a mysterious cult bound you to their master against your will. Now you have powers you didn't before and you have new features that scare (and maybe, in a small dark part of your heart, thrill) you. You might have even become a living vessel through a strange bargain. For instance, perhaps at the brink of death, you received an offer from an entity to spare your life in exchange for inhabiting you. Or you might have offered yourself to the entity in exchange for saving a loved one, for riches, or to fulfill a lifelong dream. Beings of any alignment can inhabit a living vessel. Evil-aligned beings, especially demons, are most likely to be interested in such an arrangement, especially if it involves forcefully taking over and changing the body and mind of a sapient being. Part of being a living vessel is learning more about your entity and finding what assuages them best and what their ultimate plans might be for your body and the world. Few vessels can fully dictate the terms of the arrangement, but the fact that you give the entity a corporeal form does give you some amount of leverage. Use it wisely. Additional Feats: Your GM might determine that you can take a pact feat from the pactbinder archetype as an additional feat, as long as the pact is made to the entity within you. For instance, if you're hosting a fey, you could make a pact involving fey. These pact feats are at the same level as for a pactbinder. Living Vessel Dedication, Feat 2
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
I'm partial for how PF2e Book of The Dead let's you do skeletal/ghost characters. Its inclusion encouraged me to explore the character I did. Wings being a functional, mechanically balanced choice from the 'monstrous' option was a nice touch I leaned into.

"Anowah", art by me. 💀✍️
A mega-fauna winged sorcererous skeleton in tattered red robes, a fiery glow surrounding them and lights up their eyes. One arm is bent in supplication, the other grasping a fiery staff. Rope necklaces drape the character's head connected through a nasal pin, and feathers and small stones hang off them.
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 AM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
I'd also turn off "Google Colaboratory" from G-Drive, which is another genAI product. It seems like it needs an install first, but I'd rather turn access to it via G-Drive off in advance.
Ad for "Google Workspace Marketplace" - "Colaboratory" This allows Google Colaboratory to open and create files in Google Drive. It is automatically installed on first use; uninstalling this will not prevent access to Colaboratory. By: Colaboratory team Listing updated: August 25, 2025 (Underneath, a splash Overview of what Colaboratory looks like upon install) "Welcome to CoLab - Access Popular LLMs via Google-CoLab-AI without an API key", and "Explore the Gemini API" Second image, remaining scrolldown of the "Google Workspace Marketplace" - Colaboratory ad. "Overview Colaboratory ("Colab" for short) is a data analysis and machine learning tool that allows you to combine executable Python code and rich text along with charts, images, HTML, LaTeX and more into a single document stored in Google Drive. It connects to powerful Google Cloud Platform runtimes and enables you to easily share your work and collaborate with others. Additional information - pricing, developer, support, Privacy policy, ToS, Report."
October 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
Dwarf Cleric of Sigmar commission still going on, base colors pre-highlights. #Warhammer #WFRP #fantasyart #ttrpgcharacterart #digitalillustration #WIPart
A screenshot of a photoshop window with a dwarf in full plate armor, including beard plating, weilding a custom rune-embossed Sigmarite-shield, and an ambient orange chain axe.
October 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
Agree. Also, the PoL "Nentir Vale" was well done; post-colonial backwater that acknowledges empire it had been part of was shit to most of the native populations who are going thru a reemergence, and leaves the question of "what now?" in your hands.

(My sketch of my 'Keep on The Shadowfell' group)
From top right to left going down, human woman in flapping robes, arms outstretched; a raven; huge bugbear in leathers with hammer and shield; human with torch in chainmail, pointing up; githzerai in form fit robes with bastard sword; hunched satyr in baggy cloth wielding a curved dagger and summoning flame.
October 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
New Pin Post! I'm John, a freelance #illustrator for #TTRPG players and publishers. I do private and published comms, sell commercial stock art and create fan-crossover works.
Stock art: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
Teepublic (fan art on merch) www.teepublic.com/user/johnlat...
A brown-orange hooded skeleton bust with glowing orange eyes, with feathered mantle and rope necklaces stares off to the left in a 3/4 turn. A golden circular token border hangs behind them. "John Latta Art" appears in an orange font A green and purple eldritch lich floats menacingly, glowing tentacles sprouting malignantly from its back. A dark robed head shot of a shattered bearded death mask revealing a glowing eye socket in a skull beneath it. A symbol of the goddess Pharasma hangs from their neck. A bust of a slavering ghoul, mouth covered in an acidic ichor.
October 22, 2025 at 2:54 AM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
Condo developer across the street from me own their own crane, and I've gone from not knowing their name to finding them cringe overnight.
Picture of a high-rise crane at night with the word FELCORP glowing on it. Closeup of previous image, focus on the FELCORP glow.
October 20, 2025 at 5:41 AM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
Behold my handiwork, which my BIL can't handle because he's weak in the tongue.
An opened jar of home made lescó.
October 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
I mean, I also like Pathfinder 2nd edition as well which borrows heavily from 4e-design. Either way, running D&D games is something I no longer have time for, and the only other game I play in right now is PF2E Quest for The Frozen Flame as "Anowah" (monstrous skeletal ghost fire-sorcerer).
A winged mummified skeletal sorcerer in tattered robes, ceremonial necklaces and feathers wielding a fiery staff and wreathed in a spectral orange glow.
October 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
Group sketch of the D&D 4e campaign I was running for this group of player characters: Kat Ravengaze (human shaman) and her spirit-raven, Cawlin; Ymiron (bugbear warden); Gaerrig (human warlord); Bronrak (githzerai swordmage); and Pitch (satyr monk-warlock).
I'll find time to finish it, I swear..😂😅
October 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay dwarf for a client: line art edits finished, base colors coming up next and further shadow tweaking too.
#Warhammer #ttrpgcharacter #dwarfcleric #characterart
Photoshop window screenshot, line art and grey form blocking of a dwarf cleric of Sigmar in a combination of dwarf plate and chainmail. Sigmarite iconography embellishes the pauldrons and a rune-embossed shield. A chain-axe also sports runes, the chain wrapped around the dwarf's right forearm ready to sling. A dwarf full beard helm has the headband of the Clerics of Sigmar attached. A bandolier with a repeating pistol is slung across their right side.
October 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
Back to work, "bustin'" out with this form-block and sketch today.
#vampire #bust #ttrpgart #fantasyart #digitalsketch #illustration
A screenshot of a photoshop window with a red blocked form, and the beginnings of a black line sketch detailing a leering, ragged caped vampire lord in plate and chainmail.
October 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
Yup. We've all seen the imbeciles who run and organize capitalism's musical chairs playing and proposing genAI as the future it isn't.
All the statistical data which Zuckerberg touted to convince media executives that everything you publish from now on should be in video format, turned out to be false. Inflated viewership times which accounted for anywhere up to ’60 to 80 percent’ of their data simply wasn’t real. Facebook knew the data was false as early as 2015 and intentionally covered it up. Thousands of people lost their jobs over a lie and the damage was done. Nevertheless, media executives continued to follow Zuckerberg’s data because they wanted a share of his enormous wealth. Then in 2019, Zuckerberg tried to convince us that the ‘Metaverse’ was the hot new item to change the world. We were about to hold all our staff meetings inside a virtual world. We would no longer interact in boring old ‘meatspace’ (i.e. real life) but from now on, we will place a VR headset over our eyes and reserve all of our education, entertainment and business for the Metaverse. After losses in the tens of billions of dollars, claims of widespread sexual harrassment on the platform and many of the promised ‘worlds’ never getting past the planning stage, he announced in 2023 that his company would be moving away from the Metaverse. 10,000 people were laid off. He was wrong again. Well, perhaps ‘wrong’ isn’t the right word. Both projects made him even more of a billionaire so they weren’t the wrong choice as far as his finances were concerned. And that’s why all of these ventures begin. In the eyes of tech CEOs, it’s never about changing the world, improving how we function as a society, or helping us spend more valuable time with our loved ones. From the beginning, it was only ever about one thing: putting more commas in Zuckerberg’s bank account. Either so he could add more thousands of acres to his $300 million Hawaii compound or to ‘donate’ millions of dollars to guarantee government assistance in those pesky anti-trust lawsuits.
October 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
🎨 If you're an #illustrator or generally fall under the umbrella of visual designer with #commissionsopen, this thread is for you.
Post your info/links below, support each other, and I'll repost on check in!

🚫 I won't repost image posts lacking Alt text.

🚫 No genAI, I don't court con-artists.
A winged, mummified skeletal sorcerer in tattered robes, ceremonial necklaces and feathers wielding a fiery staff and wreathed in a spectral orange glow.
October 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
Looking back at some horror art today as October advances.👻

"The Unholy", commissioned from me by @serisbooks.com. I'll be returning to illustrate with them again on their Axiom of Infinity series: www.royalroad.com/fiction/7583...
A hideous centipedal-like monstrosity with three insectoid wings and a pair of large mantis-like forearms rears itself up to an immense height. An elderly, matted grey-haired human head erupts from the top of the creature, and an array of toothed mouths sprout all along its sides, the ones near its underbelly vomiting a black ichor that lubricates the ground under it. A painterly orange-purple cloud hangs behind it. A closeup "bust" crop of the previous image, focusing on the head and parts of the mantis forelegs.
October 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
QRP with your skull art 💀
A brown hooded skeleton bust with glowing orange eyes, with feathered mantle and rope necklaces stares off to the left in a 3/4 turn. A golden circular token border hangs behind them. "John Latta Art" appears in an orange font
October 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
Got feedback, did some tweaking and combining of elements from the images in the quote post, and I think it's time to jump into further detailing.
#dwarf #warhammer #WFRP #priestofsigmar #ttrpgcharacter #ttrpgart #fantasyart #digitalsketch
A photoshop window screen cap of a light blue line sketch for the core character body of a dwarf in a combination of Sigmar inspired plate armor and simple chainmail, with a Sigmar shield, flaming chain axe and repeater pistol outlined in light orange.
October 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
A Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay commission for a client: dwarf cleric of Sigmar, with flaming chain axe, shield and repeater pistol in plate and chain armor. Sent these initial poses for feedback from client.
#warhammer #fantasy #dwarf #ttrpg
initial line sketch of a standing dwarf in plate armor with Sigmar inspired pauldrons and shield. A chain axe is wrapped in their right arm, and they sport a repeater pistol strapped in a bandolier on their chest. A squatter variation of the dwarf, otherwise similar to previous image shared with slight adjustment of the body's standing pose. A more aggressive, hunched facing forward version of the same dwarf as the first two images.
September 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
When a blocklist blocks a blocklist 😀
Anti-anti-ai labeler @antiantiai.verysane.ai "User Blocked by 'TTRPG AI / NFT Blocklist'"
September 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
CW food

Turned a huge box of red shepherd peppers, three hot banana peppers, onion, canned diced tomatoes, sweet paprika, salt and pepper (and sausage for the first two batches) into lecsó; everything smells amazing.
🌶️🫑

There's also a mess in the kitchen I'm going to have to deal with. 😂😅
A box of red shepherd peppers next to a cutting board and knife block Three pots full of simmering lecsó (pepper stew) on a stove, a wooden spoon and teapot appear in the crop at the top right corner.
September 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
Thinking about a TTRPG set in the world of Tyranny...
The official Tyranny videogame poster.
September 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
I have to zoom out eventually, but I really like this character (I have a thing for automaton AND hooded skeletal figures, so this cements both in a way I get lit about).
#ttrpgart #fantasyart #warforged #necromancer #undead #coverart #WIPart
A greyed out screencap of a photoshop window canvas with a low opacity background of a dark tower/fortress, and work in progress of a lich-like automaton sketch channeling through an orb of power while leaning on a large staff, appears on the top most layer.
September 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
Looking back at some random vampire sketch I did a while back. I think my focus was setting up a 3/4-turn back profile, vamping it up was me getting distracted like a goose with a knife. 😅
black and white cropped half-body shot of a bald, winged vampire, ichor dripping from its mouth, 3/4 back-shot.
September 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
johnlattaart.bsky.social
Back to work on this TTRPG book cover!
Last 2 wks threw me for a loop, trying to complete this order ASAP. My BIL's situation being what it is, I'll need to step away from commissions for awhile. That means advertising my stock art over next month(s) is priority to help keep myself in the black.
A photoshop screenshot window of a full page illustration - a malestrom sky rolls over a castle with dark clouds and orange lightning - meanwhile the foreground and midground depicts characters and villains locked in combat, in various states of progress - a robed lich with a glaive ensnares a small gnome druid, a human holy warrior's (cleric/paladin?) eyes blaze as does her weapon as she screams at the winged vampire soaring in to slice open the throat of a shocked drow spellblade/hexblade with rune emblazoned skin clutching a bastard-hilt with a sputtering blade of blue flame.
September 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM