John Latta, TTRPG Illustrator ➡️ Breakout Con 🇨🇦

I used to do cartooning, this felt like a natural fit when I shifted over.

black and white pencil sketch of a city map, depicting a harbour city on a bay, enclosed by tall mountains, defensive walls and even a couple of giant chains closing the bay.

Malhavoc city map, pencil sketch. A commission I did for @impishskald.bsky.social

#ttrpg #cartography

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George W Bush and Ellen DeGeneres sitting together and laughing in box seats at a NFL game.

This photo made me understand class in America in a way that I was unable to process before seeing it. The rich enjoy class solidarity on a level that is unimaginable to most people.

A robed skeletal sorcerer with flaming orange eyes, rope necklaces and feather mantle, inset in a golden token circle. JOHN LATTA ART in font covers the bottom half of the image.

An obsidian dragonborn barbarian with one foot raised on a rock outcrop, wielding a fiery artefact great-axe, and wearing a simple skirted belt. The dragonborn's scales are cracked along its chestplate, showing a glowing orange internal flame. Veins of flame streak the rest of their body.

A dwarf with blond hair and beard in a combination of mithril and cold iron armor, wielding a shield and warhammer. A hammer and scales emblem pulses on their shield.

A battle-scarred goliath champion with a huge stone maul, in leather armor, a fire giant's belt, and an arcane propulsion arm.

New Pin Post! I'm John, #illustrator for #TTRPG players and publishers. I do private and published commissions, sell licensed stock art, and fan-art on merch.
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Need seizure pills. Getting pretty bad for me. Emergency care + infusion again would dig a deeper hole. Please help.

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PR's Patreon remains one of the best value investments you can make in your own work as a TTRPG writer or gamedev;

$5/month gets you hundreds of pieces of dark & moody art for your games, and helps give an amazing artist greater peace of mind. Support indie art!

I kind of want to order a couple of my own designs from Teepublic, but there's no discount for being a designer there, so I keep talking myself out of it.

I did some playtesting of this a while back and had a ton of fun

Hell yeah

Cleave by The Dev Team Tactical PBTA adventuring about bonds that drive us together and tear us apart

You should check out Cleave by @thedevteam.itch.io, it's peppered with my stock art, and it's made by someone I know and respect for their design acumen: thedevteam.itch.io/cleave-rpg
#ttrpg 💚

"it's a tool", no, you are.

a lizard is standing on a mossy log with its tongue hanging out Alt: an animated lizard is standing on a mossy log with its tongue hanging out, jerking it's right forelimb.

I hate generative AI on principle, and I think it's worth blocking ppl over it online, and in person with a concise finger/hand motion.

Recalling FB groups full of them, left so many of them because their mods were just all over the place ideologically. The ones pushing AI as "the necessary path to Data, you're a bigot if you don't support it" made me realize how stupid a lot of them were willing to be on behalf of that fandom.

For sure 💚. I just know my own need to follow through is important. The physical recovery I've been doing over this and last year was necessary though, and I appreciate your accommodating that.

I'm working on a Waking Nightmare today, it's client has been incredibly chill and patient with me for taking this long, I really need to get cracking.

"games as attic insulation"

What are you even talking about, Quinn. 😀😅 💚

..I still love the other detailed work I do, don't get me wrong, but I need to switch it up or I go stir crazy.

I guess this is also a coping mechanism, lol.

Looking at this piece and thinking about how I'm sometimes using detailed gradient shading as an ADHD coping sink, and how refreshing it is to just do line art without a million cross hatches/smudges..

Suddenly remembered a TTRPG designer I haven't spoken to/seen anything from in well over a year. He stopped commissioning me at a certain point, and I haven't heard from him since. It was a little sudden, but he needed to put his game on hold. I hope he's doing ok.

"games as sub-basements" 🤔😬

Ok, I have gotten a bunch of followers of the last few weeks, so a quick intro.

Hi! I'm Quinn, and I am a "full stack" game nerd. I love playing, discussing, and designing TTRPGs.

I have won zero awards, but I make dope games.

I am, as @davethegame.bsky.social puts it, an "idea firehose".

"Games as windows to a building", I like that.

Thinking about games that might also fit in as air vents and elevator shafts. 😅

An ironbound Wildsea character - sketch and form blocking, over top of a Wildsea character sheet overlay.

Doing some personal sketching tonight - chose to do a Wildsea character, line art and silhouette- Wildsea concepts are really freeform and caricature-like, felt good sinking into this sort of design space again.
#ttrpgart #characterart #conceptart #illustration #lineart

Wow.

I only played the one time, but it was a lot of fun. Aspects were a really cool mechanic.

A digital painting of a Victorian couple dancing in a dark parlour. The woman is wearing mourning clothes and is smiling with her eyes closed. The man is a ghost, his eyes are open and he is looking fondly at his still-living wife.

A black and white painting of a monstrous woman with an enlarged and tumourous right arm standing on a pile of dead Cadian soldiers in a sea of blood, pus, and all manner of horrible fluids. Larger piles of corpses can be seen in the background.

A blonde white woman under the influence of Spice. Two sisters of the Bene Gesserit look on from the background.

A portrait of a black man from the 1920s. His clothes are dirty and crumpled, he wears an expression of anxiety and sadness.

Hello #PortfolioDay! I'm an illustrator working in tabletop gaming, and always open to new work!

Previous work: Call of Cthulhu, Fallout, Star Trek Adventures, The Spy Game, Cursed Captains of Cthulhu, Dune

🎨: artstation.com/susanahgrace
📧: susanahgrace@gmail.com
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#art #ttrpg #tabletop

Yeah, felt like the right touch.

Thank-you 💚

Maybe this is the warm-up I need to prompt me into trying mecha designs, finally(?). 🤔😅