Also folks look at that logo! I'm so excited for folks who've never heard of Swords to pick this up and parse all the little psychedelic, fantastic, stylish layers to this final design
I'll miss him, because he painted the landacape i grew up in that has since inspired me as an artist too...Man he really did capture how fucking lethal that road is.
its deeply condescending and also they're gonna be figuring out what "accessible writing" is secondhand through the same grapevine that makes amateur writers think the hero's journey is the book formula instead of asking people for whom that kind of writing is their whole thing (reporters)
This is tomorrow! Still time to register here: luma.com/8nvmyatm
folks this cover has been so hard to keep secret till now, look at this beautiful beast! click the link and really examine it! the epic quests this cover hints towards! the glorious discoveries! the tragic reveals! the magnificent journeys! i am so glad we got to work with @elemei.bsky.social here!
folks this cover has been so hard to keep secret till now, look at this beautiful beast! click the link and really examine it! the epic quests this cover hints towards! the glorious discoveries! the tragic reveals! the magnificent journeys! i am so glad we got to work with @elemei.bsky.social here!
Monday is FOC at comic shops for this swoony romantasy graphic novel! Tell your local comic shop you want a copy!
This is what the transferred drawing looks like! I use inktense pencils to trace it via a lightbox and then work them into the surface with water so they don't move around.
once again... I am back on my bullshit. This is gonna take a while to colour but it'll be worth it!
shel kahn
Abz-J-Harding ☾
nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir)
I know the Kickstarter has been done for months and I really shouldn't be watching that number, but late pledges are about to nudge this puppy north 500% fulfilled and drifting past this arbitrary goal post pleases me.
Matt Hammill
shel kahn
shel kahn
shel kahn
really fucking hate how "accessibility" has been hijacked to mean "let's treat everyone as if they're children at all times"
What a pleasure to finally share our cover artwork for Swords Without Master, by the incomparable @elemei.bsky.social!
Swords! Sorcery! Foes defeated! Danger looms! Wonders undreamt of wait to be discovered!
Truly, everything you can expect from the game.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...
What a pleasure to finally share our cover artwork for Swords Without Master, by the incomparable @elemei.bsky.social!
Swords! Sorcery! Foes defeated! Danger looms! Wonders undreamt of wait to be discovered!
Truly, everything you can expect from the game.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...
Barbara Perez Marquez @ TCAF 99B
Yorkshire, indeed the world, has lost some of its colour today.
Garrowby Hill, a Yorkshire landscape by David Hockney, 1998.
So long, David.
Ripley 🏳️⚧️
I’m biased of course but, I’m pretty stoked on how my title logo came out, as informed by/incorporating @elemei.bsky.social’s work, and with key feedback from @portablecity.bsky.social and @epidiah.bsky.social ⚔️
Crowsa Luxemburg
Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium
Unwritten Earths Symposium
Unwritten Earths Symposium
If you're curious about what it's like to switch to open source tools Godot/Blender/Krita after years of Unity/Adobe/Maya, I'm giving a talk on it at Toronto Games Week! Been a year since I finished moving my whole workflow over and spoiler it's been pretty great
torontogamesweek.com/schedule.htm...
ndp ⚔️ ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium
A week-long celebration of playful arts and games culture in Toronto, Canada. June 11–17, 2026.
What a pleasure to finally share our cover artwork for Swords Without Master, by the incomparable @elemei.bsky.social!
Swords! Sorcery! Foes defeated! Danger looms! Wonders undreamt of wait to be discovered!
Truly, everything you can expect from the game.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...
Matt Hammill
What a delight! The first STARRED REVIEW for To Dance the Moon and Stars, thank you @publisherswkly.bsky.social! ⭐️
Don’t miss this book!🌕💫
www.getunderlined.com/books/743151...
And as a final digital step, i used the drawing to map out my colour and value scheme in much, much more detail. This piece is now ready to get transferred to my watercolour paper and stretched on a board!
Bryan
James Joyce is gonna read this and come back from the dead so he can publish Finnegan's Wake 2 out of sheer spite.
What a pleasure to finally share our cover artwork for Swords Without Master, by the incomparable @elemei.bsky.social!
Swords! Sorcery! Foes defeated! Danger looms! Wonders undreamt of wait to be discovered!
Truly, everything you can expect from the game.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...
Unwritten Earths Symposium
Barbara Perez Marquez @ TCAF 99B
shel kahn
ex-Lethality Jane
Unwritten Earths Symposium
With things reoriented, i did a full drawing, focusing on mailing down a composition that reads well, and a story worth reading from said composition! I've been trying to create new characters for every card for Swords -- these three are all princesses who've gone rogue, in my mind.
shel kahn
ok so the first thing i wanted to do once i got this onto my computer was flip the orientation of the creature so the head and the pearl were a surprise in the distance, and the second thing was add some people to be surprised, so here's my glamorous digital sketch of all that:
shel kahn
Alright, for my last piece for Swords, let's do a process thread! Here's the thumbnail that @epidiah.bsky.social and @ndpdesign.com and i picked! This is probably about a 1 x 2" sketch.
I've been calling this one the Pearl Axolotl to keep track of it, hopefully that clarifies some things.
