Tom L

Boxes plotted along curving paths

Day 15, "organic perspective" part 2

Genuinely pretty happy with the last frame, felt like I was starting to get the relationships between the sides.

Now for 250 of these little shits, let's see if I've got the gumption.

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Day 14, "organic perspective".

youtu.be/OCIBJSxS9fY?...

They weren't kidding bout all them boxes, huh?

Ok I think it came out kinda nice though.

Maybe will do a very light shading pass but I’m happy with the lines.

#ttrpg #osr #map #spaceship

Sphere made up of rectangular shapes rotated around a central point.

Day 13 "rotated boxes"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz98...

This is all gas no breaks haha. The thumbnail really sells it. Did my best but whoo boy those far corner boxes get tricky to mentally visualize.

Inked boxes drawn in 1 point perspective, with red ink indicating where the perspective is incorrect.

Day 12, "rough perspective" part 2

Definitely learned a few areas where I struggle (where one edge gets close to the horizon, when the box is far away from the vanishing point).

This next exercise is a doozy...

Freehand boxes drawn without rulers, with correcting red marks showing the perspective inaccuracies.

Day 11, "rough perspective".

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbjF...

I really wish I could nail down why some lines feel so confident and smooth and others just skate out like crazy.

Map of an alien starship buried in foliage.

Map I’m working on for the Between 2 Cons zine!

Really layering a lot of stuff but I think it’s starting to show some signs of life…

#ttrpg #osr #maps #aliens

Boxes drawn in perspective in ink, connected to vanishing points. One face of each box is shaded.

Day 10, "plotted perspective". The boxes begin!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrn8...

I am shockingly bad with a ruler. Damn thing keeps slipping around haha. I ordered a better one, we'll see if it helps.

Day 9, "ellipses in planes" part 2

This one I got sloppy with. A bunch of weird eggs in here. Not sure why the second page was harder than the first.

Also here's the link to the lesson: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EUc...

Ellipses in ink drawn within a variety of planes in different angles.

Day 8, "ellipses in planes"

Felt pretty good about this page!

Pacing while playing RPGs is one of life's little pleasures

A page of ellipses and circles in ink, organized in a table.

Day 7, "tables of ellipses", part 2

I can feel when I've got the rhythm, the right pace for the mark I want to make. I... didn't find that pace a lot in this page, but I'm getting more in tune with when it is there. It's slower and more methodical than my natural instinct.

A table of ellipses of various sizes. and orientations.

Day 6, "tables of ellipses"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WLm...

On to a brave new world of curves!

I bought some new pens but wanted to get a little more juice out of the one I have. Still, I don't think it's doing me any favors.

Yeah, check out The GROTTO thread on the B2C discord, we're putting something together. Might print it on newsprint!

Doing a quick little 5 room dungeon for the Between 2 Cons fan-zine. It's based on this cool-as-hell Catholic... sanctuary? in Portland.

thegrotto.org

Gonna be my first stab at science-fantasy, my room is the Meditation Chapel which looks like a crashed spaceship, so that's my theme!

#osr #ttrpg

Day 5, "ghosted planes", part 2

Something I do feel like I'm learning is which marks are easier and which are harder. Edges of the paper, small, or very large marks = hard.

Bisected planes in ink filling a sketchbook page.

Day 4, "ghosted planes", part 1

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsG7...

Another tough one. Sometimes I feel like my arm "gets it" and other times it's like my brain just disconnects halfway through the mark.

The Belle of the Bog by tomlagier A mirthful adventure site for Dragonbane and other old-school roleplaying systems

DriveThru just put all #Dragonbane titles 50% off (including my book Belle of the Bog). I'll match that on Itch!

tomlagier.itch.io/the-belle-of...

Day 3, "ghost lines"

Not as happy with this one, there's a rhythm that my hand wants to work in that I wasn't quite able to find doing this exercise.

Repeated lines on a sketchbook for homework.

Day 2, "superimposed lines" part 2

A bunch of straight lines on a sketchbook. Homework!

Day 1, "superimposed lines"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzGm...

I think I'll post my sheets as I do them. Get ready for a bunch of not very impressive homework!

Starting #drawabox today. One page a day, let's go.

Art for the Vaquero and Astrologer Heroic Abilities, I'll post the full sheet once the competition is over.

Watercolor of a person riding a horse whirling a lasso in the lower left. Woman with red-brown hair and some sort of crown pointing at the stars in the upper right.

Some new art from my next submission to #Dragonburn. I know I said I wasn't going to do it anymore but I couldn't resist the 1page Heroic Ability showdown. A good chance to showcase a little of the Redwood Hack flavor I'm going for.

#art #ttrpg #osr

Ignore the bonus scribbles from my son haha

After using approximately one billion Markdown editors, I just _know_ that getting preformatted block completion is a monster problem.

The number of issues across platforms is staggering.

Shouts to Discord and Obsidian for seemingly having it cracked.

Slack, what're you guys doing over there?

If that isn't the coolest thing I've ever seen.

I think I've just about got my next 18 months of RPG supplement production sketched out:
- Finish the Redwood Hack (maybe skip a physical product and just ship as a website), probably take me 3-4 months.
- Back to the adventure that demanded the hack (title WIP, 10 mo)
- Restat Belle for TRH (3 mo)

obsidian.md is very good. That is all.

Up to my eyeballs in Dragonbane, Into the Odd, but mostly Black Sword Hack.

Working title: The Redwood Hack. Setting is mid-18th to early 19th century America, with a focus on the West Coast.

#ttrpg #osr #heartbreaker