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shafer brown
@shaferbrown.com
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flat fantasy and rpg illustration by some queer in the hills of western NC
commissions open - shaferbrownillus@gmail.com
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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · Jun 23
looking to draw something from your favorite videogame, your rpg characters, fantasy pet portraits, and anything else you think would look sick as hell
email me at shaferbrownillus@gmail.com for rates and timeline
2025 limited color fantasy pet portrait Two tuxedo cats toil away in a tavern. One cleans dishes behind the bar while another consults his notes and balances beers on a tray. The patrons have left playing cards, empty plates and glasses, and other objects around the rear of the bar, gathering in the front in drunken merriment. 2025 full color commission in a dense forest, a goblin hides behind a rock and summons with the aid of a spellbook 3 spectral birds. On the horizon, a giant white elk turns its gaze towards their hiding spot. 2025 limited color group commission Inside a smokey dining room aboard a river boat pirate ship, a group of adventurers blow off steam. From left to right, an anxious squirrel has drunken to excess, a spirited otter teases them and toasts. A paternalistic skunk with a metal arm scolds them, while a delirious herbalist rabbit offers a solution, and the groups tinkerer, a sparrow, sits with an impulse of a food fight within reach. 025 limited tone fantasy family portrait Two adventurers (and their cats) press forth in a water logged dungeon in orange and green. One holds a bow, with a cat toy tied to an arrow to direct the more playful of their two pets. The other adventurer holds his lazier cat aloft on a shifting scale.
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Carved in Stone: The Debate

I was thrilled to be one of the many illustrators contributing to @stoutstoat.co.uk's 'Carved in Stone'
In this piece are monks from the Ionian & Roman traditions debating the calculation of Easter.

I'll be sharing more over the coming days!
A mixed group of Ionian & Roman monks are sat around a table with manuscripts & loose pages. Two of the monks are clearly arguing while one behind them worriedly looks to heaven. A monk to the left, is trying to grab the book away from the arguing pair while the two in the foreground gossip behind their hands.
November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Strider commission. This was tough, but a blast.
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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shaferbrown.com
looking to draw something from your favorite videogame, your rpg characters, fantasy pet portraits, and anything else you think would look sick as hell
email me at shaferbrownillus@gmail.com for rates and timeline
2025 limited color fantasy pet portrait Two tuxedo cats toil away in a tavern. One cleans dishes behind the bar while another consults his notes and balances beers on a tray. The patrons have left playing cards, empty plates and glasses, and other objects around the rear of the bar, gathering in the front in drunken merriment. 2025 full color commission in a dense forest, a goblin hides behind a rock and summons with the aid of a spellbook 3 spectral birds. On the horizon, a giant white elk turns its gaze towards their hiding spot. 2025 limited color group commission Inside a smokey dining room aboard a river boat pirate ship, a group of adventurers blow off steam. From left to right, an anxious squirrel has drunken to excess, a spirited otter teases them and toasts. A paternalistic skunk with a metal arm scolds them, while a delirious herbalist rabbit offers a solution, and the groups tinkerer, a sparrow, sits with an impulse of a food fight within reach. 025 limited tone fantasy family portrait Two adventurers (and their cats) press forth in a water logged dungeon in orange and green. One holds a bow, with a cat toy tied to an arrow to direct the more playful of their two pets. The other adventurer holds his lazier cat aloft on a shifting scale.
June 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Your new favorite artist shop is now open! Check out @a-rude-awakening.bsky.social !!! We have put together a fabulous 4-color Risograph calendar for 2026! Thanks to @vreni.bsky.social for being a Riso-master and shop captain! Orders are now open, check it out!
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Medieval theme commission for @/calamityuwu.bsky.social

Friar/monk fellow making beer 🍺 😺

Thank you for commissioning me !

#vonzentart
November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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recent commissions and sketches up on my patreon
www.patreon.com/shaferbrown
follow for free or throw me some coffee money for commission breakdowns, sketch dumps, and (soon) archives of past years works
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Morning cats
Gel Pen sketches of anthropomorphic cats wearing robes and armor vaguely inspired by Ottoman Turks.
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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fantasy family portrait commission (2024)
2024 limited color fantasy family portrait In tones of gold and purplish grey, A family fishes in a stream in the woods, one member hooking a big catch, the other distracted and noticing their dog getting a snack from their baskets.
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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🔮 gate of persuasion 🔮
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Another one from today. I am so glad to be back at it.
November 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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love doing cat commissions, current WIP for a friend is a little less fantasy flavored than usual

website: shaferbrown.com
commission inquiries: shaferbrownillus@gmail.com
portrait of a cat office WIP in a dimly lit wooden study, a black long haired cat sits at a desk beginning needlework. She wears a plaid suit and sits in a sturdy chair, her tail wrapping around the frame of the desk. on her desk is a table cloth, and a top that is a whirring fan, a rotary phone, two books, a sake bottle and cup. A short hair siamese cat brings a steaming cup of tea. He wears a grey sweater with a red collar and cuff, and his tail sticks up energetically behind him.
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Restoration.

#art #furry #furryart #avian
Drawing of an anthro magpie wearing a leather apron in a dark workshop. He is working on some kind of old wooden panel, with indian inspired polychromy, featuring an elephant.
November 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Greetings From the ER, partners got a broken ankle from skating roller derby, probably gonna be slow or late on communicating with clients early this week
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Wooden Train
Digital painting of a wooden train set with tracks and scenery props on a patterned rug
November 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Tribute to Metroid Prime games, my fave saga.

See you dec. 4!!
November 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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commission for Jackie & Dan, masterminds behind Trombone Champ
Illustration of two figures wrapped around a giant trombone, their names spelt out with loose computer keyboard keys. Bluejays sparkle from the trombone, a minature Goku and Vegeta appear in small doorways guarded by some black cats.
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Three Lwyd Moon 🌕

Available this weekend only as a part of @theyetee.com annual Sweaterfest 🌿
Three different mari Lwyd horse skulls with Holly and ribbon adornments arranged like the three wolf moon meme shirts
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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THE TOWER OF CIRITH UNGOL
Illustrated poster of the tower of Cirith Ungol in the land of Mordor. In the foreground are a bunch of orcs and goblins with acid green rim-light holding swords and axes and pole-arms. In the middle ground is a narrow bridge leading between two grotesque statues into the multi tiered tower that is lit with sickly green lights. Below it leading into the plateau of Gorgoroth are the hills of the Ethel Duath. In the distance is Orodruin and Ered Lithui. The text at the top is white flame like black metal lettering with the words CIRITH UNGOL. Nine green stars float above them. Plumes of smoke and ash fill the sky. A tiny shadow is grossing the bridge. Lord of the Rings. Tolkien. Prints coming soon.
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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2025 full color commission in a dense forest, a goblin hides behind a rock and summons with the aid of a spellbook 3 spectral birds. On the horizon, a giant white elk turns its gaze towards their hiding spot.
May 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Think this one is my favourite of our new Xmas card designs
Photo of a risograph printed Christmas card in sky blue and red. It features an illustration of a bauble being put on a Christmas tree. In its reflection is the face of a cat weating a rollneck sweatshirt.
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Horriblin family.

#Zelda #LegendOfZelda #TearsOfTheKingdom #ToTK
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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today is my 28th birthday! as we all know, sharing artists’ work makes them very happy.

thank you for all your continuing support and newfound friendships this year, it means the world to me.
one very green painting of my OC, mysterious skeleton girl, posing down on her knee. she has unnaturally long limbs. she’s holding a fossilised ichthyosaur skull sword on her shoulder and is wearing weird clothes that make her skeleton visible like on an x-ray. there’s a spirit of a hare in the background, running around with its eye gleaming red. a digital painting with three characters from kingdom come deliverance games standing one before the other: lady jitka, hans and henry. first comes lady jitka of kunstadt standing with her back to us. she is dressed in a dark reddish dress with white rim that slightly opens her shoulders, and a white waistband. she has black hair and warm skin and looks very delicate. next, standing face to face with her but looking sideways, is hand capon, her almost husband. he’s highest of the three of them, dressed is almost all white, with yellow hues. there’s somewhat lost look on his face. he holds jitka’s right hand in his left one up, but it doesn’t look like he’s doing it willingly. behind him, almost lost to the background and to the figures before him, stands henry. he’s holding his sword in his left hand, wearing a red glove. the blade of the sword stays between hans’ and jitka’s shoulders, not letting them come closer to each other. henry’s face is barely visible behind hans’ shoulder but he’s looking at jitka. not with hate, not with jealousy, more with acceptance and awareness. henry’s holding a wreath full of flowers and a red ribbon in his right hand. hans’ right one, instead of holding jitka’s, has found the wreath without having to look, and his and henry’s finger are touching. jitka knows. she’s looking down, trying to reach them with her fingers, but alas. that heart is already full. there are herbs’ silhouettes in the background. according to the list of plants with symbolism on wiki, here’s their meaning. astragalus for hans (your presence softens my pain), heliotrope for henry (emblem of faithfully devoted love), and rue for jitka (regret, sorrow, repentance, grace, clear vision , disdain). three sketches of my beagle, Bucky. he’s posing, asking for snacks, eyes wide and begging; he is lying curled into a ball, eyes sad like no one loves him (LIES); and he is lying on his side, stretched out, his ear thrown back. digital drawing made in heavypaint. it’s a simple bright and sunny mountain landscape, with white clouds and greenery and flowers. a girl is standing in the grass, turned to us. she has long golden blonde hair, is dressed in a white shirt and red shorts and is holding a hat with a white ribbon on it in her left hand and a yellow flower in her right. she’s smiling, happy and calm, her eyes closed. two birds are flying in the distance. this is a portrait of my friend. i haven’t visited her in a couple years.
November 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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elf barbarian (2022)
2022 limited tone dnd pc commission A barbarian elf stands in a blue green forest, her battle axe resting against her shoulder.
November 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Kobold-Quest | point n click portrait (2022)
2022 limited color character commission In a cave, a kobold stands in front of a king wyrm, pondering their item inventory which floats in the scene just beyond the wyrm as a window, displaying a wand, a water melon, a pile of meat, jars, a rubber duck, a pick axe, and a half empty potion. Around the room are several breakable jars, gems embeded into rock, mushrooms growing in the damp, and a giant stone pillar that seems structurally necessary. In the distance beyond the wyrm and the item window, is the caves exit.
November 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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UPDATE: Got many great pitches already, most from Latin America & Eastern Europe (which makes sense given my history & previous work lol)

I really want more stories from north of Africa, Middle-East & SEA. I'm reaching out to researchers & journos there, any suggestions & connections are welcome 🙏
felipepepe.bsky.social Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 19d
So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t...

It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.

Please share :)
The Video Game History Expansion Pack – Pitch your story
Today I’m putting my money where my mouth is and launching a new project — a book focused on game history outside of the usual North American perspectives.
crpgbook.wordpress.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM