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Not much is known about the Grinning spectres. These dragons only appear at night; Red crimson eyes stare at their next meal in the middle of a foggy coast. Grinning spectres hunt by sight, their nostrils are too small to actually pick up any scent left by their prey (often sea birds, humans and other mammals, smaller dragons... anything that their big jaws can get a grip of.) Experienced fishermen warn young sailors and explorers to not steer too close into shining blue lights in the middle of the sea, those are indeed Grinning spectres trying to lure in their prey with constant flashes of blue. They are loud, producing high pitched screeches and screams when alerted. And if they werent horryfiyng enough, they have a second set of jaws near their throat! they appear to use these for chewing and swallowing rather than cutting and thrashing unlike their first set. They are very freaky beasts indeed... albeit they're quite cowardly on their own. Grinning spectres are closely related to the Slopsider, and are categorized as ''fish-like'' wyverns.

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I had another weird idea for a composition

(jan 19 edit: added a black background version)

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Experimenting with negative spaces a bit.

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Did you know I'm also open for commissions!

So, if you need something more specific than what's available on my Patreon, want a character portrait or custom art for your game - feel free to DM me or send a mail to bertdrawsstuff@gmail.com

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Retiring an old notebook with my notes from our ongoing D&D campaign. Here are some of the doodles and fountain pen tests I like.

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Hello all! Ever needed art to spice up your zine or ttrpg publication?

For those of you who don't know, I have a Patreon. And for a small fee you get full and unlimited access to my Drive filled with CC-BY fantasy art of various shapes and sizes for ttrpg use.

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Experimenting with styles and uses. For the full resolution versions to use in your games, join patreon.com/bertdrawsstuff !

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New artpack on Itch!

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It is dubbed "Saladhog" !

I can do cute things.

Anyways, this and much more art for you to use in your projects can be found on my Patreon (patreon.com/bertdrawsstuff) for a mere 3 gold coins per month!

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Repost for the day crowd

This was initially commissioned as interior art. It ended up becoming the cover for Obsidian Dragin Slayer.

I really like how it turned out! And it was a lot of fun to do. I got a bit carried away on the dragon, which I tried to keep simple...

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This was initially commissioned as interior art. It ended up becoming the cover for Obsidian Dragin Slayer.

I really like how it turned out! And it was a lot of fun to do. I got a bit carried away on the dragon, which I tried to keep simple...

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Wizard fight

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Some forestpunk-themed stuff for Patreon and Itch

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I read the playtest document for the new Cairn edition and got inspired! So I did a little fanart.

It was a good way of getting back into things after out holidays. I got so many more ideas that need to find their way to the digital canvas.

And with Twitters' demise, look like I'll be using Tumblr more often. Less NFT weirdos here than on Instagram it seems.

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Time to make a comic!

Allright, time to write about a personal project for this year. And that is to make a shirt comic again! I’ve already written an outline and now I need it to fit 8 pages. And why 8 pages? Well, I want to make the comic as an A5 sized zine, so the number of pages is determined by increments of 4 (as a standard A4 sheet holds 4 A5 pages). And I will do it in a classic 6 panel grid. And in black and white.

Why not publish it digitally, as a webcomic then? I first thought about that, but then I started listening to IKO’s The Lost Bay podcasts about TTRPG zine creators; and Chris Schweizer started posting about his swashbuckling comic project. I decided I wanted to try and print my comic, first in DIY fashion at my decent home printer.

So, what will it be about? A group of ratcatchers dying horribly in a dungeon, basically. It isn’t complex. I’ve been doing a lot of OSR/NSR inspired art lately and formed a short story idea in my head. 

What inspired me to do this? Honestly, it was KINGLY and SCRIBES, the comics by Nick Edwards. To make a comic in such an abstracted style suddenly seemed very doable to me, as I saw some of my own current artstyle reflected in his. Other stylistic abstraction influences for this will probably be Benjamin Schipper, Artyom Trakhanov, Brüno and my past Secret of Kells obsession. 

Currently, I’m plotting out the comic over its 8 pages. Figuring out where on the page and in which of its 6 panels certain story beats happen. It’s a puzzle. I’m already scrapping parts of my outline for brevity sake and to make room for more depth in other story areas. Furthermore, I’m sketching characters and going through previous art of mine to see who I can recycle for this story. It’s only 6 characters (4 adventurers, a shepherd and a tax collector).

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What a curious sight... !

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Everytime, everywhere. blood, key, feather, ember, ancient, sailor and decrepit. khnigtober2020 from @gobertillu.