Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️

Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️

@thisnorthernboy.bsky.social

Available for personal and commercial work. Illustrator, artist, and writer from the UK. Yorkshireman. Spaceships, robots, & imaginary places. Creator of the Weird Field World. Find me here - https://linktr.ee/thisnorthernboy

10,299 Followers 2,175 Following 3,751 Posts Joined May 2023
5 hours ago
The cover of An Infinity of Ships. Book is hardbound with red stripes on its spine. A variety of colorful spaceships. All have a retro 1960s vibe, some are organic-looking, some are angular and bulky, some are spherical, etc An interior example from An Infinity of Ships. The lefthand page is a color illustration of a spacecraft called Harvests Moons (a large disc at the front of two belts of, presumably, harvested moons). The righthand page includes a short description as well as a d12 table for Popular Modules for this craft The box front (top) to Instant Star Ships. Red diagrams and figures on a white background show bars of a graph, a grid, sliders, and four closeups of different ships. A small box of text in the center of the images says "unidentified vessel" An example card spread from Instant Starships. Visible: a color illustration of a ship that looks like two canvas orbs with tanks attached, a card with a list of Designations, a card with Instructions, a card with a list of Sad Cowboy Names, and a two-ended card with tech (choose one: Experimental Void Drive or Cannibalizing Flechette Gun)

For world-builders, scifi campaign GMs, and solitary imaginers, try...

🚀 An Infinity of Ships (hardbound, 150 pages, full color)
&
🚀 Instant Star Ships (115 cards, full color, this-or-that/name vibes lists/+more)

from STATIONS - @adamstation.bsky.social - with art by @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social

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5 hours ago
Green Light Express an adventure for Orbital Blues banner. Showing a green and cream train ticket on an blue background with various space-train carriage sketches

A Fistful of Stars is a space-train adventure and setting book from the team behind An Infinity of Ships @adamstation.bsky.social. Explore the hottest new way to travel: an interstellar train line connecting multiple star systems - The Green Light Express.

www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

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Orbital Blues Month fast approaches, so take a sneak peek at the amazing projects coming your way this April!

Each project brings something unique to your table from data-heist adventures to high-octane space racing mechanics to immersive audio. Read more below!

www.backerkit.com/c/collection...

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6 hours ago
A screen grab of my print store, showing some of my prints available.

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/thisnorthernboy/

Free worldwide shipping on all orders over $30.

www.inprnt.com/gallery/this...

#ArtPrints #Illustration #SciFi #Lighthouse

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11 hours ago

On a local creatives forum:

Designer looking for a video editor for a project.

An editor replies a little while later.

Designer - scope has changed, I can manage it myself now thank you.

Designer 2 days later - Looking for help with AI Prompts for video editing.

Fuck off you absolute prick.

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11 hours ago

"That's $100 please"
"For what?"
"The use of intelligence"
"But the intelligence is mine. It's inside my actual head. I acquired it through hard work."
"No. $100. Here's the itemised bill, look."
"This is just a list of intellectual properties you stole from me."
"$140 now. Late fee."
#AI

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23 hours ago
Me, in a hoodie pulled tight around my face, with a whole satsuma in my mouth.

Current mood…

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1 day ago

As if you needed any more reason to oppose AI and its broligarchy who are looking to squeeze every last cent out of humanity for their own greed.

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3 days ago
Possible cover for a Zine of my Spaceship illustrations. Showing a teal, twin hulled spaceship, with orange text overlaid.

Working on a thing…

#Spaceships

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1 day ago
Lovely photo of a roast chicken, with the caption "can you send us the RAW file?" Photo of a raw chicken. I'm sorry.

Thought of a terrible photography 'joke'*

(*not sure it qualifies, did it anyway)

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1 day ago
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a man in a black vest is pointing at something . Alt: Han Solo salutes.
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An oldie

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A Male Bearded Tit perched on a reed. A pair of Bearded Tits perched in a reed bed.

For #BirdOfTheDay / #PerfectlyPerched …

Bearded Tits (which I very much prefer to Bearded Reedlings) at St Aidan's near Castleford.

#Birds #UKWildlife

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1 day ago
A pencil drawing of two beaten up looking robots

Tin Men - concepts for clash of the ascended

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1 day ago

With a tiny cockpit 😍

$159.99
2026

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1 day ago
Digital painting, a meeting between two flying ships

Mileships outtake

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1 day ago

Creators are alway worried about annoying people by promoting thier Kickstarter…but here’s the thing…who cares?!
The people who love you will back it
The people who support you will share
The people who are not interest or annoyed by the constant posts will just ignore
SO POST TO GET YOUR COMIC MADE

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Clarence Coles Phillips

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4 days ago
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probably my favorite illustration I did for Scholar's Codex, for the Elden Ring section @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social

"Marika bathed the village of her home in gold,
knowing full well that there was no one to heal."

5x7" ink on claybord

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1 day ago

Leak sorted. Fish and chips for dinner.

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2 days ago
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What's My JND? Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

Fun little thing…

What's My JND? 0.0044

Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

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2 days ago

Plan for this is a Zine. Loads of spaceship illustrations, some cool scifi graphics, and a bunch of descriptions of ships and a few places/characters.

Only just started putting it together, but keep your eyes peeled.

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2 days ago

Thanks Jim!

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2 days ago

Was going to cook dinner. Instead I’m awaiting an emergency gas engineer to deal with a possible gas leak.

Zero fun.

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2 days ago

That’s SO good, Matt.

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2 days ago
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I still think about this a lot.

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2 days ago

Stunning stuff Col. that third shot is just a cracker. Love all that real world engineering and insulating stuff going on.

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Per Aspera Ad Astra.
was very lucky to work on Han yans epic scifi movie and design the main ship. a few shots here but il put the link for my artstation that has a ton of work there.
artstation.com/coldesign

#conceptart #conceptartist #conceptdesign #productionart #filmmaking

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2 days ago
music center LA on instagram: use code CHALAMET to save 20% on ballet tickets. image of some ballet dancers.

so that’s kind of funny lmao

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2 days ago

Thank you!

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