Rocketbird

it's true

A masterpiece

Y'all doing so much for the community, it's honestly amazing

Not many people here know that, other than Draw Steel, I have a huge crush on OSR gaming as well ⚔️

Let’s see if you can guess the setting of this WIP I’m cooking up!

Shadow of the Colossus

a painting of Critical Role characters Essek Thelyss and Caleb Widogast, based on the Rider-Waite Tarot's The Devil. it is styled like a square painting on a vertically oriented tan canvas, with narrow unpainted strips above and below it. a looping leaning script reads "XV" above and "The Devil" below. Essek is a dark elf with gray-lavender skin and short white hair, dressed in elegant long dark robes and a silvery metal mantle piece, with the breastplate shaped like a beetle's back and long spikes curving off of his shoulders, radiating from his neck. Caleb is a light-skinned ginger human, with messy chin-length hair and a beard, wearing a gray tunic with a brown leather coat over it, a thick scarf wrapped around his shoulders. his spell book is just slightly visible at his side. the characters are facing each other, with Essek standing on the left and Caleb on the right. their right hands are raised between them, hovering under and over a floating hourglass that Essek is offering to Caleb; the violet sand in it is equally distributed between the top and the bottom halves and is not flowing down. Essek has his chin raised with a cool expression of confidence, while Caleb is looking at the hourglass with a deeply conflicted face, his eyebrows furrowed and eyes shining. Caleb's left arm down at his side is engulfed in orange flames. above them is the dodecahedron shape of a Beacon, pale gray and iridescent; the pentagonal plane facing the viewer is oriented with one of the corners pointing straight down. six silvery threads weave around it, intersecting at nine shining points, one thread each passing behind Essek's and Caleb's heads, and one each wrapping loosely around them. their figures, dark purple and brown, illuminated by the faint glow of the hourglass and the flame, are silhouetted against a much lighter gray and overcast light spilling from tall pointed arches behind them.

finally finished a painting i've been cooking in my mind for a few years! shadowgast as The Devil, one of my favorite tarot cards and one of the three cards i associate with their relationship

#CriticalRole #CriticalRoleFanArt #shadowgast

Congrats! Sooo looking forward to seeing what Crow's all about, the previews alone are very interesting

Today’s a big for MCDM! Thanks to everyone who made the Crack the Sun crowdfunding campaign a success! It’s gonna be magic! As of today, I’m no longer the Lead Designer of Draw Steel products, and I’m stepping into the role of Game Director of our next RPG, Crows. I can’t wait to play it with you.

Well how mean is it? 2025 was the year I really plunged into the OSR scene and learned a lot about it, so I'm really curious now haha

Jeffrey Catherine Jones, “I’m Age,” HEAVY METAL, vol. 6, no. 10 (Jan. 1983).

That's a great idea, many thanks!

Resolutions for 2026!

I wish this holiday season will bring y'all plenty of rest and a chance to heal & recover.
I know now how sorely I needed it!

New energies, new ideas – I have crazy projects for 2026, I hope to be up to the challenge!

Thank you so much!

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

What a fateful day to receive my books!

Congrats Sam, you deserve it!

Can you suggest a good exercise or painting practice/subject to get better with color?

Masterwork in instantly-recognizable worldbuilding style

These are so good, I'm binging your profile right here and now

What a fantastic blend of classic and modern artstyle in here, great piece!

And the Castle might finally lead me to embrace the Worm...

Finally some love for this pearl!

5 hours left! wtf we're super close to $6K 🙃

You missed mine – the one I will open in late 2026! May I speak to the manager?

(Excellent work, the map is amazing. It's so interesting to ponder the relation between magnitude and number of links. And it have taken lots of work 😭)

I have been an Italian person on the wrong end of that stick 😁 English has indeed a crazy amount of different words

Something very cool to see.

And! Coming to the Codex?! Is this Christma- well ehm we are very close to it indeed!

I used to work in an office straight next to it. A beautiful place, immersed in a beautiful park!

Or exchange them on Discord!

Nothing like the Forrest Gump theme to awaken the Wesley Snipes spirit inside

the fact that 70s prog rock is so good is a sign that no music critic opinion should be valued. they were really out there trying to gaslight people into liking the Steve miller band and acting like Selling England by the pound isn't one the greatest things made by humans. smh my head.