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RICW Art
@ricwart.bsky.social
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Canadian Artist and Writer.

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RICW Art @ricwart.bsky.social · Dec 1
Goblin Scavenger
A recent piece I did as part of an 8 week Illustration process mentorship. I accomplished a lot of firsts with this one and I am very happy with it.

Many references from www.deviantart.com/theposearchi... on DeviantArt

Mentorship information: www.rucach.com
A goblin crouches on a sandy path in the center of the image, reaching over a pile of scrap in the bottom right corner to pick out a sword which is partially buried in the scrap. The background is filled with dunes that are littered with scrap to the right, scrap piles off to the left, and towering metal spikes in the background.
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katkruger.bsky.social
If you're looking to support your friendly neighborhood game designer this Cyber Monday, may I suggest becoming a member of my Cozy Crew on Patreon? For $3/month you get a little 2-page digital zine with bits of content to add to your TTRPG table. www.patreon.com/cw/KatKruger
Kat Kruger | Patreon
Narrative Game Designer & Author
www.patreon.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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deerlordhunter.bsky.social
Times are tough and it's a common story for artists to be struggling. My friend is one such artist and has a gofundme to make ends meet. Please consider throwing a couple bucks or just reposting for more eyeballs.

Thanks in advance, let's all support each other as best we can.

gofund.me/31b8a868c
Donate to help Devin survive the next few months, organized by Devin Rosychuk
Hey Everyone, My name is Devin and over the past two years I've be… Devin Rosychuk needs your support for Donate to help Devin survive the next few months
gofund.me
October 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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katkruger.bsky.social
Most of my books were pirated in this but now that I’m in Canada I don’t think I’m eligible to join. Share if you care.
sfwa.org Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.org · Aug 23
Also--

Writers, unite! You do not need to be SFWA to be eligible for a lawsuit under the LibGen & PiLiMi Pirated Books Class - but you do need to act soon!

Deadline: September 1, 2025.

Read more about it here, and spread the word widely: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
Calling all writers, SFWA or not! You might be eligible to join a class action lawsuit. Deadline: September 1, 2025.
August 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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ignunion.bsky.social
Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition.

Please take a moment to read and share our full statement:
Today, IGN Entertainment announced that it would be laying off eight members of the IGN Creators Guild. This is 12% of our bargaining unit, and comes just days after our sister union, the Ziff Davis Creators Guild, underwent similar layoffs impacting 15% of their members. It also comes just months after our multibillion-dollar parent company, Ziff Davis, instituted a company-wide buyout that shrunk our unit numbers, with the express intent of avoiding future layoffs. And it comes just a little over one year after three of our members were laid off almost immediately after our union went public. The company has told us that the reason for this layoff stems from a Ziff Davis-mandate to cut costs despite several quarters in a row of year-over-year revenue increases, to which IGN Entertainment responded by coming for our members' jobs. This is perplexing to us, as we are told again and again that IGN Entertainment has had a tremendously successful year thus far thanks to their hard work. In just the last few months, our members have been absolutely essential to major events and livestreams, including San Diego ComicCon, Summer of Gaming, and IGN Live. Every single person impacted today was involved in and critical to the success of those events. Meanwhile, IGN Entertainment continues to spend money on costly acquisitions, only to turn around and gut those companies in the same way it is cutting away at IGN itself. For instance, last year, it acquired Gamer Network, and almost immediately laid off a number of staff critical to making those sites successful. The company has not responded to the union's questions about whether its budget for future acquisitions is being reconsidered as a cost-saving measure alongside these other apparently necessary personnel cuts. At a time when it is more necessary than ever to support its creators, IGN Entertainment is choosing to eliminate the individuals who ensure IGN remains competitive as generative AI threatens our reach. We have been told that expert opinion pieces, original interviews, and work that leverages our staff's deep knowledge of gaming, tech, and entertainment are all essential to combating AI summarization and regurgitation of our work. Management has responded by cutting several individuals who do that exact work, as well as others whose job it is to ensure that these written and video pieces are published in a speedy manner — another component of combating AI we're told is critical. This continued cycle of repeated, aggressive cuts to our staff and being asked to do more with less, only for management to continue to spend on new business it isn't interested in sustaining cannot continue. We will enforce our interim agreement that guarantees better severance and other protections to laid off members, as well as demand additional support for those impacted. We will continue to bargain over our first contract with the aim of enshrining even better protections against further layoffs, working conditions continuously degraded by understaffing, and the encroachment of generative AI. And we won't stop fighting to ensure IGN remains the best destination for trustworthy, original, exciting, and creative work covering video games, entertainment, and tech. While IGN Entertainment management may not value us, we value one another and the incredible work we can do together. Behind the articles, videos, social posts, playlists, and maps of IGN are human beings, not just numbers on a spreadsheet to be pushed around when some number at the top isn't big enough. Without us, there is no IGN.
August 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
ricwart.bsky.social
Got my @heavymetalofficial.bsky.social kickstarter today and funny to see a little @paizo.com pathfinder goblin on the inside front cover of issue #274
July 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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katkruger.bsky.social
If anyone has leads on remote TTRPG jobs (especially in Canada), as a Canadian game designer who is returning home soon I'd love to find more permanent employment. Preferably part-time but I could make full-time work. It does have to be remote though unless it's in lower mainland BC.
June 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
ricwart.bsky.social
Just a list of a couple hundred games industry jobs I came across on LinkedIn hope some of them are good for you!

www.linkedin.com/posts/mayank...
#games #jobs #careers #gamedev #layoffsupport #gaming | Mayank Grover | 25 comments
Top game studios hiring today👇🏻 PS: I am not the hiring manager for any of these roles.  At Outscal, we created an open jobs platform that I wish existed 15… | 25 comments on LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
March 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
ricwart.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/nea...
March 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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gamedeveloper.bsky.social
NEARstudios' pivot to Kickstarter is a story of devs seeking hope in a trying time
NEARstudios' pivot to Kickstarter is a story of devs seeking hope in a trying time
A cozy RPG about woodland creatures surviving in the wilds is, in so many ways, a metaphor for this moment in game development.
www.gamedeveloper.com
March 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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joshcaratelli.bsky.social
We're #hiring interns at @gravitywell.games! The industry can be a little bleak right now, but it's important we provide these avenues still.

Our last two interns had a blast:
💸Paid Internship
❤️Empathetic AAA Team
✈️We'll pay for flights + housing

Apply here!
gravitywell.games
#gamedev #gamedevjobs
Gravity Well Logo Dark moody concept art Bright concept art
February 26, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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draugathrielart.bsky.social
Had to color it since I thought it was just so cute.

#CreativeDespite #art #draw #paint #watercolor
Caramel flan that is blowong bubbles in the excess caramel.
February 24, 2025 at 3:03 AM
ricwart.bsky.social
I can't do much for art at the moment due to still working on getting my arm fixed (RSI and compression caused by too much of the same movements)

However I accidentally made a sort of Barad-dur shape when playing around with #Carcassonne tiles so I decided to refine it. #Tileart is pretty fun!
Carcassonne board game tiles arranged to somewhat resemble the tower of Barad-dur
February 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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rahll.bsky.social
🔴CALLING ALL ARTISTS🔴

Christie's NYC is planning an AI art auction expected to bring in over $600,000 to creators who've used models trained on copyrighted material from non-consenting artists.

If you object to this, please sign and share this open letter.

openletter.earth/cancel-the-c...
8 February 2025 Cancel the Christie's AI Art Auction Nicole Sales Giles & Sebastian Sanchez Christie’s, New York Dear Nicole and Sebastian, We are writing to express serious concern over your upcoming auction of AI art at Christie’s. Many of the artworks you plan to auction were created using AI models that are known to be trained on copyrighted work without a license. These models, and the companies behind them, exploit human artists, using their work without permission or payment to build commercial AI products that compete with them. Your support of these models, and the people who use them, rewards and further incentivizes AI companies’ mass theft of human artists’ work. We ask that, if you have any respect for human artists, you cancel the auction. Yours sincerely, The undersigned artists
February 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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erenangiolini.com
There's currently a 20% discount in my print shop!
Get yourself a cool print and help pay my bills! Thank you!🙏

www.inprnt.com/gallery/eren/
Preview of Eren's print shop page, showcasing their prints at a 20% discount.
February 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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jameelawahlgren.bsky.social
Artists! I made this starter pack of art directors on bluesky, I haven't posted it in a while and with a ton of new folks coming in from other platforms please share this around!

Also lmk if I missed anyone who hires artists that I should add!

go.bsky.app/RSV4VwA
January 27, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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wawtman.bsky.social
Hello, #PortfolioDay!
I'm wawtman, a digital artist who loves to draw fantasy artworks. I'm especially obsessed with wide paintings where I can immerse myself in a fantasy world to the fullest. ✨
January 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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erenangiolini.com
✨10k PORTRAIT RAFFLE✨
I can't believe we're already at 10k! ;__;
To thank you, here's a raffle to win a custom portrait of your fantasy OC or TTRPG character.

To enter:
🔹Follow & Repost
🔹(Optional) Comment with your character and/or tag a friend

Ends on Jan 1st. Good luck!🙌
#artraffle #dnd #ttrpg
Art raffle post to win a custom portrait of a fantasy or TTPRG character.
December 5, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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laurenwalshart.bsky.social
Flip your canvas early and flip often
December 4, 2024 at 7:45 PM
ricwart.bsky.social
First attempt at Pixel art
The number 13 in orange on a black background in a pixel style. The numbers are dripping red and there is a shadow of them on the bottom right almost like a reflection.
December 1, 2024 at 4:44 PM
ricwart.bsky.social
#Cultofthelamb inspired piece I did for drawtober last year.
A cartoon cob of corn wearing religious attire holds his hands in the air, his mouth wide open as if screaming and his eyes completely white. The background is white on the right and red on the left with the corn and his attire having a gradient from white to red.
December 1, 2024 at 4:42 PM
ricwart.bsky.social
Goblin Scavenger
A recent piece I did as part of an 8 week Illustration process mentorship. I accomplished a lot of firsts with this one and I am very happy with it.

Many references from www.deviantart.com/theposearchi... on DeviantArt

Mentorship information: www.rucach.com
A goblin crouches on a sandy path in the center of the image, reaching over a pile of scrap in the bottom right corner to pick out a sword which is partially buried in the scrap. The background is filled with dunes that are littered with scrap to the right, scrap piles off to the left, and towering metal spikes in the background.
December 1, 2024 at 4:38 PM