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Up On Goblin Hill
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He/Him - 34 - Illustrator - Museum Worker-

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✨🌝 𝔗𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔨 𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔉𝔬𝔯 3000 𝔉𝔬𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔰

From 𝔘𝔭 𝔒𝔫 𝔊𝔬𝔟𝔩𝔦𝔫 ℌ𝔦𝔩𝔩
Text: Thank You for 3000 Image: an illustrated post card depicting my fursona Yugend, a large gargoyle with a broken horn wearing a vest and pince-nez, seated against a backdrop depicting the rambling prairie-style pile that is Goblin Hill, framed by curling ivy and a pale evening sky in an ornamental border. A full moon shines down from the upper left hand corner and in the bottom right corner there is a postage stamp depicting the logo for Goblin Hill.
November 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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𝕹𝖆𝖎𝖆𝖉𝖘

North Branch Crawfish River, WI.

“Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood, the Elfin from the green grass, and from me The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?”
-E A Poe.
Text: Naiads Image: a largely dark image of twisted branches overlooking a riverside. Down at the bottom of the illustration are three figures peering from the water. They have spotted scale-like skin and long white hair that trails in the water, as well as long antennae-like growths that emerge from their foreheadsz
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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𝔗𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔨 𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔨𝔶 𝔗𝔬𝔟𝔦𝔫

Dedicated to "Lucky" Tobin, who in his seventeen years savaged 4 werewolves, rescued 8 children from 6 separate Faerie abductions, drove off uncounted ghouls from innumerable cemeteries and banished all manner of ghosts, revenants, and wraiths who threatened mankind.
Text: Thank You Lucky Tobin Image: An All Souls Day shrine set before a framed painted portrait of a smiling happy-looking Golden Retriever. The shrine is covered in candles, photographs, thank you cards, flowers, and tennis balls. The painting glows with a warm comforting light like a beacon in the shadows
November 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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If you see this, post your sona NOT smiling

"I wish I could say it would all be alright..."🍂
Illustration of my fursona Yugend, a gargoyle with one broken horn, seated on a ledge of an old crumbling manse looking pensive. He is surrounded by ivy and decay. Moonlight streams down in glittering dust carrying the words "I wish I could say it would all be alright."
November 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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My interior decorating tastes can accurately be described as "The curiosity shop from The Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask."
November 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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My sketchbook/commonplace books are always black moleskin cahier sketchbooks and my favorite part of buying a new stack of them is putting my stamps on them:
November 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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I'm building my own world🍂

A midwest vast, and vaster.

QRP with your world
Cover image: an elaborate landscape illustration of the Midwestern prairie. Papercut scrollwork frames the title of the book. An image of a water naiad leaning onto a reedy river bank, resting her cheek on one webbed hand. Long dark hair trails into the river behind her as she pouts at a spread of cards in the grassy riverbank. Scattered around the riverbank are fine crystal glasses holding forks and spoons, a portable radio, and soda and wine bottles. Image: an abstract truncated view of the American Midwest as seen from above; centering around the Great Lakes in shades of evening blue and gold. In glowing white text is the names of the many native tribes alongside bright flowing dotted lines indicating perhaps ley lines or other flowing unearthly forces. The sky curves in perspective with the earth and dark clouds part to reveal constellations unknown. An image of four small figures with large ears, horns, and reflective-eyes lounging on an abandoned car in an overgrown field. The cars bumper is bent and the windshield is broken. Some of the figures wear clothes of woven grass, and they all have long prehensile tails. Ivy grows over part of the car.
October 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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🍂 Autumn Rest 🍂
Image: colored pencil rendering of my oc cambion King curled in a decorative frame of Autumn ivy. He is dressed in a mossy green hoodie with decorative fringes from 5th-7th century Egypt, his horns peaking up from under the hood. His skin is dusky pink and his eyes are green and his frame is thick and husky. In lieu of pants he wears a lace-up jockstrap of supple brown. His short pink tail curls playfully out of the decorative frame.
October 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Me when I get right up in the face of that ancient fuck-
October 29, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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New Patreon post for those at Paint Box and above about the development work that went into the title page of Beyond the Fields We Know! 🍂

www.patreon.com/posts/almana...
October 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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While I'm always hesitant to share oc art, this sketch page is a style departure as it's for a separate project I call Skybox.

This is Gryffon, he is one of the few remaining individuals alive on a floating derelict solarpunk utopia that is slowly collapsing following a mass exodus.
Image: sketch page of a young man around 16 or 17 years old with mixed heritage and long shaggy shoulder-length blue-black hair. He is dressed in an oversized bomber jacket and carries a chunky over-engineered grappling hook. There are smaller sketches of a shining gold and white city suspended in the clouds behind him.
October 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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✨🍂It's #portfolioday up on Goblin Hill! 🍂✨

Artwork from the distant driftless include book covers & illustration for the discerning client looking for textured, rich, and liminal works for their #fantasybooks, #tabletopgames, #cards, and #characterart!
Title: The Lighting Dogs of Tornado Alley An illustration of a power line pole, three coyote faced figures are lounging on the cables and power boxes, looking down at the viewer. A bolt of lightning streaks behind them in the background. the figures' eyes are glowing. Cover image: an elaborate landscape illustration of the Midwestern prairie. Papercut scrollwork frames the title of the book. Text: Goblin Hill Image: a perspective drawing of a long low rambling residence built in the prairie style. It is perched on a hilltop in rural Wisconsin and built of stone, stucco, and cedar. The house is wrapped around a hilltop on three sides, terminating in a short tower. The broad roof shelters many windows, porches, and enclosed balconies. Text: N P C Image: a skeleton in decaying motley is seated against a dank stone wall in a deep dungeon. The floor is cobbled stone and beside him is a rickety cloth and pole sign advertising various wares for sale. The skeleton raises a single shining coin. The text bubble below him reads: RATTLING AGGIE "Ah! Brave traveller! We've descended quite far have we not? Do not fear my visage, I still have wares to sell thee if you've coin or rot to spare!"
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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𝔓𝔞𝔫𝔱𝔯𝔶 𝔉𝔦𝔫𝔨𝔰

From "Hearth Spirits and Kitchen Bogles" in An Almanac of Midwestern Prairie Spirits.
Text: Pantry Finks Image: an illustration of three squat winged gremlin-like creatures perched on a single old kitchen chair. One is crouched atop the chair, one on its arm, and another beneath the chair, crawling through its spindled legs. The bottom-most imp reaches for a loose spool of thread.
October 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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𝕹 𝕻 𝕮
Text: N P C Image: a skeleton in decaying motley is seated against a dank stone wall in a deep dungeon. The floor is cobbled stone and beside him is a rickety cloth and pole sign advertising various wares for sale. The skeleton raises a single shining coin. The text bubble below him reads: RATTLING AGGIE "Ah! Brave traveller! We've descended quite far have we not? Do not fear my visage, I still have wares to sell thee if you've coin or rot to spare!"
October 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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𝔄 𝔟 𝔟 𝔞 𝔡 𝔬 𝔫

Love this little freak.

#hauntedhotel #fanart #abbadon
Text: Abbadon Image: digital graphite fanart of Abbadon from Haunted Hotel on Netflix. A colonial era boy with shaggy hair wearing a coat that was recently underground. He's holding a skull. Behind him is an elaborate antique wall mirror whose reflection shows the silhouette of a many-horned demon.
October 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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𝔅𝔢𝔶𝔬𝔫𝔡 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔦𝔢𝔩𝔡𝔰 𝔚𝔢 𝔎𝔫𝔬𝔴🍂
An Almanac of Midwestern Prairie Spirits.

A compendium of the supernatural creatures, forces, and genius loci of the American Midwest, from Up On Goblin Hill.

Exclusive first-looks now appearing on my patreon!
patreon.com/upongoblinhill
Photo: a brown leather scrapbook, square and worn at the edges. Embossed on its cover is the crest of Goblin Hill; a small pointed shield supported by tangles of ivy. A piece of paper bearing the legend "Beyond The Fields We Know, An Almanac of Midwestern Prairie Spirits." is attached to the cover by wax seal. Cover image: an elaborate landscape illustration of the Midwestern prairie. Papercut scrollwork frames the title of the book. Interior image of the Alamanac showing its scrapbooked elements of paper and illustration, stained by age and water damage. Interior image illustration of the Lightning Dogs of Tornado Alley.
September 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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🌖 𝔓𝔞𝔲𝔩𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔫

Almanac Ephemera
Image: photo of a piece of scrapbook work. A cheeky smiling full moon peers through a birch tree over a hillside.
September 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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✨🌙 ⭐🔷 Post A Mage! 🔷 ⭐ 🌙 ✨

Grafas Percevalis VerBanner of Dvaras Saturnine
Image: Digital graphtie drawing of a young man in a classical interior. He is dressed in long dark robes and possesses a pale, hatchet-like face, with shorn hair except for a long black streak that falls down his head. His form merges with a shadow on the wall. In his pale hands is a large tome decorated with an image of an archway, within which is a verticle infinity symbol in whose loops are twinned images of the planet Earth.
September 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Literally me.
Magic The Gathering Card titled Millennial Gargoyle that looks almost exactly my fursona lmao.
September 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔦𝔡𝔴𝔢𝔰𝔱

vast & vaster
Text: The Midwest vast and vaster. Image: an abstract truncated view of the American Midwest as seen from above; centering around the Great Lakes in shades of evening blue and gold. In glowing white text is the names of the many native tribes alongside bright flowing dotted lines indicating perhaps ley lines or other flowing unearthly forces. The sky curves in perspective with the earth and dark clouds part to reveal constellations unknown.
September 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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These are huge beautiful works, but this small painting of Christ in a garden illustrates to me the man Christ really was. Not a cold demiurge on a throne of gold, but a man, like us, standing on Earth, in a garden. Remaining in the light yet determined to face the darkness.
September 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Arkhip Kuindzhi's paintings astound the eye. As a young man he was apprenticed to Ivan Aivazovsky, the renowned russian painter whose works have ended up in concept art and film lookbooks in recent decades. Arkhip's own are more bold and graphic than his masters, yet nonetheless magnificent.
September 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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This image is extremely evil!

I'm not of the faith now, but was raised Catholic (which explains a lot about me.) Aside from being AI, images depicting Christ like this are always wrong, and so to give an example of what I believe is a truer depiction of him, I'm gonna talk about Arkhip Kuindzhi.
Christ in the Garden at Gethsemane, 1901, Oil on Canvas, Arkhip Kuindzhi. Christ stands alone in a moonlit garden, flanked on either side by dark masses of shadowy olive trees through which figures lurk. A single shaft of moonlight illuminates christ, a single light in the darkness.
September 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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When people ask me for selfies;
September 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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"𝔒𝔥, 𝔏𝔦𝔱𝔱𝔩𝔢 𝔖𝔥𝔞𝔡𝔬𝔴..."

#hollowknight #illustration #fanart
Text: "Oh, Little Shadow..." Image: Digital graphite illustration of the Hollow Knight from Hollow Knight standing in the center of a human hand. The perspective emphasizes the minuscule proportions one might imagine the world of Hollow Knight could exist in compared to the vastness of its Lore.
September 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM