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My view from the Westgate Las Vegas Hotel

My booth setup for SCG: Vegas

My rainbow signature on a confetti foil furby command tower

A fun optical illusion from inside the westgate hotel/resort.

And with that, my 2025 convention season is over.

Thanks to everyone who came by at SCG: Vegas (and all the other conventions this year)!!

😂🤣

Brian David Gilbert Is Pondering His Commander Orbs!

Today, @briamgilbert.bsky.social is joined by @ghaspey.bsky.social and @carmparens.bsky.social for a game of Commander with the most EPIC of themes...

Watch here: youtu.be/2ytmjKIB3Fg

#MagicTheGathering

We had some downtime today, so I made a full set of Pretty Patty alters. #mtg #spongebob

Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:

- Right-click
- Unpin

Gone!

It's Trans Day of Remberance, I wanna remind every cis person trans people have ALWAYS been here and WILL always be here. Make sure your trans friends and community members are safe and stick around!

Especially now: Inaction is compliance. Support your friends. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS 🏳️‍⚧️

This Trans Day of Rememberance, I am feeling grateful to have so many Trans friends still in my life, thriving and being their best selves. I offer a prayer for peace upon those of our siblings whose travels ended before they reached the sunlight. Thank you for giving us even these brief moments.

“Unleashed” makes its debut at my last convention of the year, SCG Con: Vegas!

Tracking for the other 2 boxes hasn’t updated since they left Salt Lake City, so I have no idea when they’ll actually show up.

Nothing I set out to do today has been successful.

1. I hired a handyman to replace a light fixture. He did, but the old ass wiring in my house sparked so we capped it off.

2. 1/3 boxes of playmats were delivered, but only the design I didn’t need to foil before Wednesday.

Today was real bad. I don’t have any silver-lining observation right now, nor do I want to get into it just yet.

But, in case you try to get a hold of me in the next few weeks, and I don’t respond right away, be patient💜🙏.

This makes me feel less bad about my 3 artifact decks…

- Kilo modular aggro
- Glissa artifact recursion
- Mendicant Core go brrrr

I’m also considering making Toph, modular metal bender, and Aloy

A screenshot showing OBS with my ipad screen on the right and two different camera angles of me at my desk. The top left is a face cam while the bottom left shows more of my working space, including my ipad set up

Kinda thinking about getting back into streaming...

Mana Tithe of course!

Exactly! This also doesn’t set false expectations for what the art will look like.

Or even unfinished concept art. With gen ai as the placeholder, you’re telling your backers to expect something like that, leaving no room for an artist to develop any kind of unique look.

Cover art for the game “Leviathan” based on Moby Dick. It’s a bird’s eye view showing a massive whale under the water while several ships float by

Countdown action edition. Two 80’s style action heroes doing action hero things while some ominous eyes loom in the background.

Mammoth. A game about terraforming. In the foreground there is a mammoth and beneath its feet, there is a glowing path forming showing where it came from and the hills and mountains it has traveled through

Yeah, a solid title image may cost you $1,000 min, but that is worth it. It shows that the art is important, it will bring the artist & their following into the campaign, and it shows what the art will actually look like when finished.

👇Some of the games I did artwork for that were funded via KS

I’ve worked in this industry since 2015 and I’ve worked on indie games. I’ve done a few pieces of art ahead of a kickstarter.

Part of their kickstarter was there to fund the remaining artwork.

And second off, don’t message artists to ask what they think about your campaign if you are using ai as placeholder imagery. It feels like such a slap in the face to claim you support and respect artists, but then use gen ai.

Also, I don’t care how small your budget is.

In reality, you’re missing the opportunity to tease what the art would ACTUALLY look like, AND bring the artist’s following in to help build hype.

Look at @wraithmarked.bsky.social and what they’re doing with their KS. It’s a great example of actually respecting and appreciating artists.

If you have a kickstarter for a ttrpg or tcg, and you’re “only using ai to create placeholder images, but you’ll be hiring an artist because you respect and appreciate artists.”

First off, no you don’t. You’re just saying it because you know ppl don’t like ai, but you still want to save $$🙄

Naturally, I had to do this.

A photo of me in my studio. I have blue hair, and I'm wearing a flannel. Behind me there are some framed prints, and a crocheted dragon head.

A photo of me in my studio. I have blue hair, and I'm wearing a flannel. Behind me there are some framed prints, and a crocheted dragon head. Also, there are CGI balloons in front of my face and all around me because I just learned that throwing up a peace sign in photobooth will trigger balloons LOL

Decided to take a selfie in photobooth with the studio updates. I also learned that giving the peace sign will make balloons go... LMAO

LMAO SO TRUE

Shout out to my assistant, Gayle, for saving me countless hours of opening 2-3 drawers in my flat file before finding the thing I’m looking for

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I just want to hit that 30 toughness wall in ATLA with this

May God see his work done through these hands elected tonight. May he bring hope to our hearts, and lift the veil of sorrow that has covered this country in fear and hatred. May this be the first wave of a tide that lifts us out of the morass and into the light of freedom. Let's Goooooo!

If I was a Republican member of Congress watching the results tonight, I’d ask myself if I really wanted my legacy to be: Guy who helped an aging pedophile suspend the constitution so he could enrich himself and his friends.

You're telling me that cool cartoonist Rama Duwaji's husband got that job he wanted? That's pretty great.