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@ballenart.bsky.social

Artist/Illustrator He/Him - 22 - Demi Big fan of plants, sea-life, Horde shooters & Rougelikes Hey! I'm working on ‘PLANTOON‘ a card-game that takes inspiration from 4Souls & Pikmin, I also draw occasionally so stick around if you like that kinda stuff!

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I’m super busy with way too much to really do any large amount of work on Plantoon right mow, but I’ll probably start posting some other art I’ve done on here instead

02.09.2025 23:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
They are cats. Also vegetables. 
Are they sentient? Wait and see. 
Nestled in the nooks and stems, of beans and tomatoes and artichoke too.

They are cats. Also vegetables. Are they sentient? Wait and see. Nestled in the nooks and stems, of beans and tomatoes and artichoke too.

Eat your vegetables🌱

#art

03.07.2025 19:39 — 👍 1205    🔁 271    💬 10    📌 4

Dude all of these are incredible!

03.07.2025 17:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just realised how much work I’ve done on the card game and simply haven’t posted yet

01.07.2025 16:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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More Knoights and my breakfast

01.07.2025 07:19 — 👍 1405    🔁 257    💬 6    📌 0

Work might be a bit slow on the card game but I’ll try to get something out around it

29.06.2025 14:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Im super busy with work rn but I’m having so much fun as a concept artist!

29.06.2025 14:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Astral Forge - Tranzfuser Fate’s Loop is a medieval fantasy adventure where you play as Thalor, a retired hero who must save their village from a time loop curse.

The news is out! Astral Forge is taking part in this years @tranzfuser.bsky.social programme!

The team consists of Abbygale, Jack @theomaht.bsky.social, Mary-Jane, Joseph, Tommy, and Bryn @ballenart.bsky.social

tranzfuser.com/tranzfuser-t...

16.06.2025 11:37 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Wow!

08.06.2025 12:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bryn @ballenart.bsky.social is our concept artist in Astral Forge focusing on all of the artistic direction and designs.

For his graduate show he displayed his playable card game, PLANTOON, as well as a concept book for some of his other works.

07.06.2025 14:31 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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🦕🌺🌺🌺

29.05.2025 22:35 — 👍 12113    🔁 3828    💬 78    📌 17

Video essayists my beloved

29.05.2025 23:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This lil goober captures the wet towelness of the series art style perfectly

29.05.2025 23:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Too busy animating to die to a Rube Goldberg machine

29.05.2025 22:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Digital painting of a mermaid among seaweed. She's inspired by the glass fish, so her body is transparent, and you can see her skeleton and organs as well as the seaweed behind her.

Digital painting of a mermaid among seaweed. She's inspired by the glass fish, so her body is transparent, and you can see her skeleton and organs as well as the seaweed behind her.

Glass fish mermaid 🐟

#myarte #mermay #mermaid #bodyhorror 🐊

28.05.2025 21:27 — 👍 205    🔁 47    💬 4    📌 0

This also happens to save a considerably large amount of time! A banger lifehack from the Emu

29.05.2025 21:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Peak Bros mentioned

29.05.2025 20:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
An Expedition card that makes you draw from the Monster deck, the artwork depicts a creature hiding in a bush

An Expedition card that makes you draw from the Monster deck, the artwork depicts a creature hiding in a bush

An Expedition card that makes you draw from the Monster deck with the added effect of making the fight harder, in this case the monster drawn will have an attack increase, the artwork depicts a creature hiding in a bush but far more larger

An Expedition card that makes you draw from the Monster deck with the added effect of making the fight harder, in this case the monster drawn will have an attack increase, the artwork depicts a creature hiding in a bush but far more larger

An Expedition card that makes you search for a Crown-marked card, those enemies are far more dangerous than most other monsters but as a bonus you get an additional treasure card as compensation, the artwork depicts a creature hiding in a bush so large it takes up all of the card art space

An Expedition card that makes you search for a Crown-marked card, those enemies are far more dangerous than most other monsters but as a bonus you get an additional treasure card as compensation, the artwork depicts a creature hiding in a bush so large it takes up all of the card art space

Here's a look at a set of 'Expedition Cards' for drawing monsters I've fully mocked up!

29.05.2025 20:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The nefarious hidden cost:

29.05.2025 20:46 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm super busy right now but I'm so close to getting a huge wait off my shoulders! I cant wait until I have time to post regularly

29.05.2025 20:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Kindling 'Unit' card

The Kindling 'Unit' card

Think I finally made a layout I'm happy with!
#art

26.02.2025 18:02 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Have a lil Dooley doodle
#TheBazaar

24.02.2025 20:05 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ive picked up The Bazaar recently and god is that game good

24.02.2025 19:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Drawings of bears combined with sticky burrs with multiple variants

Drawings of bears combined with sticky burrs with multiple variants

Ok I’ve had my fill of falling off the face of the earth, back to monster designs
#art

06.02.2025 18:18 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hope the start of everyones year is going great

06.01.2025 13:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ive seen this animation a bunch of times but I’ve been enamoured by it so much each time that I only today learnt that the song is by Vulfpeck

06.01.2025 13:32 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I love all the brush strokes in this!

06.01.2025 13:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Desperately want to know what their forge looks like

18.12.2024 11:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The chances of artists being suffocated to death by babies and children is low but never zero

15.12.2024 17:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I know this is bait but good lord I had to re-read this thrice before registering it as British microwaved tea, I could not wrap my head round the concept

15.12.2024 17:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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