John Bilodeau Illustrations

ink and copics - profile shot of a porcupine holy knight

Porcupine paladin

A black and white ink drawing with a skull, pierced by a knife.

From earlier today, "Skull". Already feel like I should do more with the shading on this one, but oh well.

#art #inktober #shadowdark #drawtober2025

The Wheel of Fortune #wip #marseillestarot

MÖRKTOBER day 9: Thorn THE HARVESTER The stars fall, and Melvung swallows them, and as the dawn breaks he bleeds onto the ground. A year ago Franglein planted roses at the base of Melvung’s monolith. They soak up the blood and the star stuff, and they sprout thorns as thick and black as a broken thumb. Once a week Franglein comes to harvest them. She wears gloves lined with lead and wool. Even still, the thorns whisper to her in languages that predate the world. She sells them to anyone willing to pay; merceneries seeking weapons that wound the soul, occultists who grind them into powder, the dying who hope to draw one more breath before the void takes them. She knows where three other wizards are bound, and will tell you their locations for 500 silver each. Starblood thorn d4 damage. On a hit, Test Presence DR14 or hear the voices from beyond the stars and become distracted (−2 to all rolls) for d6 rounds. When ground and consumed, restores d6 HP but permanently reduces Strength by 1. The user’s blood glows faintly in darkness. Franglein the Harvester HP 7 Leather −2 Morale 8 Pruning blade d6 art: Illustration of a crooked and toothless hag creature wearing only a cloak and gloves. She smiles eerily and holds a small scythe in one hand an a wicker basket with roses in the other. Carries 2d6 thorns at any given time.

#MÖRKTOBER day 9: THORN

"A year ago Franglein planted roses at the base of Melvung’s monolith. They soak up the blood and the star stuff, and they sprout thorns as thick and black as a broken thumb. Once a week Franglein comes to harvest them."

Writing by @loottheroom.bsky.social
Art by me

One of my favorites

Why carouse when you can just have a good soak when you get back to town?

Pencils for this elf maiden's lineart . She's in the lotus position and hovering a few feet off the ground

elf maiden's lineart . She's in the lotus position and hovering a few feet off the ground

Added some black to the drawing

Left to my own devices, I tend to draw elves more fey with huge ears and bare feet and less star trek Vulcan with slightly pointed ears and stuffy demeanor

#osr #ttrpg #inkdrawing #elfart

Day 9: Paladin

Not all paladins look like crusaders, some look like robot gunslingers with a machine gun arm.

#shadowdark #drawtober2025
#doodling #pencilandpaper #osr

Day 10 - Skull

#shadowdark #drawtober2025

Black and white ink drawing of Ricki sleeping in a dark cave, with a campfire that has gone out. Glowing eyes watch from the darkness surrounding her.

"Sleep".

Technically the prompt for yesterday, but I decided to go with it today...

#art #Inktober #shadowdark #drawtober2025 #eyeofdakess

Dnd inktober day 5

#dnd #brianhuntress #inktober #dungeonsanddragons #dungeonsanddragons #dnd5e #dnd2024 #ttrpg #pathfinder #landofeem #shadowdark #drawsteel #daggerheart #glyos

Screen grab of the cover of the first thieves world book

That's cool - sounds like a shout out to Lythande from Thieves World. They were an adept of the blue star...

ink drawing of my interpretation of the Marseille deck Diable card - a female demon stands on a globe with 2 small demons leashed to the globe

My version of the devil card w/ Lilith - designed for my buds @mythcraftpodcast.bsky.social

#ttrpg #tarotdesign

Day 9 - Paladin

#shadowdark #drawtober2025

Is the blue star a thieves world reference? Was that from a chart or did the player pick that?

Day 8: Sleep

Decided this one should have a little overlap with one of my favourite games of all time.

#shadowdark #drawtober2025 #eldenring #fromsoft #doodling #pencilandpaper

black and white ink drawing of a party emerging from a cave with bags of loot and new gear high dpi version available on my drivethru stock art store

small bit of filler art - encumbrance

#OSR #Shadowdark #ttrpgart #dndart

Day 8 - Sleep

#shadowdark #drawtober2025

Ink image of mostly black and white, showing a rune on a wall in the shape of an eye. A hand moves over it, activating it with purple magic.

I managed to do #Inktober yesterday, but didn't have the energy to properly scan it to get the colours right haha.

But here it is! "Rune" - done with liners and markers:

#art #shadowdark #drawtober2025 #eyeofdakess

Great perspective on this one

Black and white ink drawing of a dark tunnel, where a girl turns around to see a large clump of slime crawling towards her.

Aaaand day 6 of the #shadowdark #Inktober - "Ooze!"

Something very big and nasty dropped from the ceiling to interrupt Ricki's dungeon delving adventures.

#art #drawtober2025 #eyeofdakess

black and white drawing of a small humanoid 'surfing' on a shield atop a large wave of ooze being expelled from a door. Other shields hang on the wall.

Black and white illustration of a floating armored humanoid, seeming to hover several feet above the ground, backlit by a sun or moon, bats flying around. In the bottom of a composition there's a black ziggurat.

I need to practice my hatching way more, I had forgotten how fun it was to stick to strictly black and white. Day 6 and 7 of #shadowdark #drawtober : Ooze and Obe-Ixx.

Day 5 & 6 - Rune & Ooze

#shadowdark #drawtober2025 #pencilandpaper #doodling

Cinderedge - Solo Survival Role-playing Game In this narrative-driven, psychological horror TTRPG, you die alone in a wilderness that's on fire.

If you like solo gaming - I contributed some art to this project and also played it thru! It's fun!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/qua...

A small doodle of a dracolich - ink and pencil crayon

color pencil practice - the cutest little dracolich

#ttrpgart #dndart #dragonart

Day 8 #mörktober just gets higher.

Day 08 of #mörktober, fancy a SHARD of crystal ash mate? #pirateBorg #morkborg #osr.

Calthrops #shadowdark #drawtober2025

Wind in the Willows original illustrations will be made available tomorrow in my online store––you can preview the artwork now: mouseguard.bigcartel.com/category/win...

#Inktober Day 6. Pierce

#Inktober2025 | #InktoberPierce | #Pierce

not sure exactly why today but with that dink, why not? i trust him to have deserved it. eff off, pinker...