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House Full of Up (Merlin Roche)

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I've seen multiple talented artists this week who have almost no followers. So this is me once again tapping the sign, if you see art you like, check out their page, if you like the rest of what you see, hit that follow button.
Your timeline will be better, they'll be happier, everyone wins

14.11.2025 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 736    πŸ” 350    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 5

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are notβ€”whether indie or AAA.

Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

12.11.2025 03:25 β€” πŸ‘ 6003    πŸ” 2121    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 44

team fight tactics

03.11.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
various doodles of heracross, a blue rhino beetle pokemon, flexing his muscles, flying around and having so much playful fun.

various doodles of heracross, a blue rhino beetle pokemon, flexing his muscles, flying around and having so much playful fun.

heracross doodles

25.10.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 8082    πŸ” 2573    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 26
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witch helmet

17.12.2023 06:52 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

11.10.2025 11:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4032    πŸ” 918    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 91

Gonna be honest, I was never more scared then when they presented that bench with almost no fanfare. I thought for sure I would sit on it and an extra phase of the boss fight would start.

06.10.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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More of these two. (Including a halloween profile pic)

04.10.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Characters from a fantasy comic world of mine.

02.10.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Illustration of a megastructure city

Illustration of a megastructure city

Forced myself to draw something last weekend. πŸ‘€
Another color study, trying to work in limited palettes.

12.05.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 179    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A painting of a little green fantasy creature walking through an outdoor landscape with a lantern

A painting of a little green fantasy creature walking through an outdoor landscape with a lantern

The Magic the gathering card mutable explorer

The Magic the gathering card mutable explorer

Hitting the #MTGartmarket auction block:

Mutable Explorer by @waynereynoldsart.bsky.social

Auction info:
mtgart.auction/mutable

29.09.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2
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Working on a new cover painting for a science fiction novel and playing with the themes of geometric abstraction which helped build this piece for an anthology, Down These Dark Spaceways.
Psychohistorical Crisis II
30" x 18" Oil on Panel 2005
collection of Edie Stern and Joe Siclari

28.09.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 604    πŸ” 91    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
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Kenny Who?

Writers John Wagner & Alan Grant and artist Cam Kennedy saw the potential dangers of AI art back in the mid-80s. Dredd stories were always prescient but this one hits hard today. See also America.

2000AD PROG 477. Published 5th July, 1986.

22.09.2025 09:30 β€” πŸ‘ 131    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5

Whenever sites come up with new rules like this I thing about how if you were a creator who was making something every bit on the level with a hugely popular and acclaimed series, would you be allowed to share it? Like, if you were sitting on the next Game of Thrones, you couldn’t share that here.

22.09.2025 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2046    πŸ” 825    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 2

Out TODAY! For less than a pack of Magic cards, and available digitally!

If you want Magic media outside of web fiction, this is your chance to show them.

If you're a lore fan: buy it, don't just read a summary from someone who did.

17.09.2025 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

"When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism."

16.09.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 95    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

It's not a huge reason to get the whole pack, but UFO50 plays around with more retro, awkward control schemes in some of its designs. Barbuta and Mooncat are standout examples.

15.09.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My newest AP painting :)

11.09.2025 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 810    πŸ” 124    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 2
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King of the Coldblood Curse
MTG: Through the Omenpaths
AD: Emily Mazza

Since people have been asking which planes these are on, this dude is on Eldraine :)

11.09.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 601    πŸ” 109    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 7
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Found some more screenshots from my old #indiegame prototype πŸ”§

Would love to make a Dark Fantasy game some day πŸ€“

10.09.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 211    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

Having just climbed up to that damn gate boss at least forty times I feel this in my bones.

10.09.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio had a budget of $35 million and every single character was moved one frame at a time by a human being. What the fuck are we even doing!!!!!!!

09.09.2025 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 6683    πŸ” 1984    πŸ’¬ 87    πŸ“Œ 20

Any early guesses? The many "human villains" could fit a lot of shoes.

08.09.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tragic Trajectory. Digital painting. I laid this out with a symmetrical composition that has an alignment going through the eye, and hid a little moon and sun in the astronaut’s suit for no reason at all.AD: Taylor Ingvarsson. #space #blackhole #magicthegathering #wotcstaff #stars #edgeofeternities

08.07.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 143    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
Sketchbook pages depicting a few fantasy inspired ennemies. from top left to bottom right : a tiny wizard, a great harpy covered in gold jewelry, a fly-guy thief, a bullfroag in armor with an axe, a regular harpy, a barbarian toad, a frog assassin with a scar on his face and a classic goblin bandit.

Sketchbook pages depicting a few fantasy inspired ennemies. from top left to bottom right : a tiny wizard, a great harpy covered in gold jewelry, a fly-guy thief, a bullfroag in armor with an axe, a regular harpy, a barbarian toad, a frog assassin with a scar on his face and a classic goblin bandit.

A bunch of nasty foes you might encounter along your way :

29.08.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4556    πŸ” 892    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 7
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There was a time when there was a β€œruins boom” in Japan. Bookstores were filled with related photo collections, and I remember buying some myself. Ruins somehow evoke scenes from the past, and I find their decaying appearance appealing.

#Illustration
#LineArt
#CommentPls

14.08.2025 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1804    πŸ” 288    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 3
Laurem_Ipsum's character Beef Steak inspecting their scarf in the woods

Laurem_Ipsum's character Beef Steak inspecting their scarf in the woods

Arielhamadlik's characters. Angel lights Ellen's cigarette with his

Arielhamadlik's characters. Angel lights Ellen's cigarette with his

el_pada's version of space Usagi from the 2012 TMNT au

el_pada's version of space Usagi from the 2012 TMNT au

housefullofup's wizard character featuring the letterbox in the background as he ponders his orb

housefullofup's wizard character featuring the letterbox in the background as he ponders his orb

Had a lot of fun this year! I tried my best to do a sort of different style with each attack. #sharemyattack2025

05.08.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A black and white comic. A young witch is hard at work in her garden.
"Boss?" she intones to an older witch behind her.
"Problem?" the older witch responds.
"Yeah," the young witch replies.
The young witch pulls out a mandragora root that appears to be surly. Instead of screaming, it grunts.
"Weird, right?" says the young witch to her mentor.
"Mhmm," the older witch grunts, in agreement.

A black and white comic. A young witch is hard at work in her garden. "Boss?" she intones to an older witch behind her. "Problem?" the older witch responds. "Yeah," the young witch replies. The young witch pulls out a mandragora root that appears to be surly. Instead of screaming, it grunts. "Weird, right?" says the young witch to her mentor. "Mhmm," the older witch grunts, in agreement.

Sometimes a mandragora root just has bad vibes. New public post up on Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/mandra...

05.08.2025 12:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1564    πŸ” 298    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 0

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