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lil-tachyon · 7 days

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Hey everybody, go check out @simon-roy 's new book Refugium on Kickstarter! If Simon's reputation on its own somehow isn't enough to convince you to back it, there's a whole mini specbio guidebook with entries from me and like a ton of your other favorite artists probably.

Here are my little aliens without the text and weathered effects

#speculative biology #xenobiology #specbio #simon roy #speculative evolution #griz grobus

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lil-tachyon · 11 days

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Tiny Teatime

#illustration #storybook art #fantasy art #ligne claire #mouse

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lil-tachyon · 24 days

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Outlaw ANN1E was an android from the Inner Systems who became notorious for overriding her emergency shutdown protocols and absconding with her body (still listed as stolen property by Albion Networked Neurosynthesis) to the Oort autonomies. For generations she worked as a hired gun for various smuggling operations, pirate FTL transmitters, and iceball communes before eventually fading from the historical record.

#science fiction #android #robot #mecha #ttrpg art

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lil-tachyon · 25 days

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[WARNING: This installation of EagleSoft OS ’96 is unactivated and unverified. It may be a counterfeit instantiation compromised by foreign actors. Please shut down this machine immediately and contact EagleSoft for verification.]

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#email newsletter #old internet #alternate history #crt monitor #90s internet

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lil-tachyon · 1 month

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Itinerant Necromancer

DnD Commission

#necromancer #ttrpg art #fantasy art #dnd #warlock

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lil-tachyon · 1 month

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"Alright, thanks for your patience. I just got off the line with Sasha and the rest of the assembly- they confirmed your credentials so you should be cleared to proceed with docking maneuvers. Welcome to the Station, comrade."

#sci fi art #space habitat #space station #worldbuilding #megastructure #photobash

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lil-tachyon · 1 month

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Cetacean Psiberwarfare

#cetacean #dolphin #cyberpunk #psionics #uplift #john c lilly #Ψ

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lil-tachyon · 1 month

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DEEP TIME CHRONOHAZARD

#photobash #cyber fantasy #scifi art #fantasy art #glitch

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lil-tachyon · 2 months

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Ray-Finned Fishes

#ray-finned fishes #Actinopterygii #fish art #ligne claire #animal art

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lil-tachyon · 2 months

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Painted Desert Brushdragon

#speculative biology #dragon #wyvern #speculative evolution #fantasy art

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lil-tachyon · 3 months

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#keep your eyes out for something...

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lil-tachyon · 3 months

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Hey gang it's been a while but I've retooled the whole newsletter thing since Tinyletter went under and the first new email goes out in a bit. Also I'm not doing art full-time anymore so that might be the best place to get updates from me for the foreseeable future. Sign up here if you're not already.

#old internet #email newsletter #octopus #cartoonist #cephalopod

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lil-tachyon · 4 months

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Ever read Jack Vance?

Still haven't lol. It's on the list but low priority right now. Too much John Crowley, Ursula Leguin, stupid commie texts, and sci-fi comics I want to read first.

I'll try to read Dragon Masters before 2025.

#send me an ask!#jack vance #ask me about what books i read this year #or what books i want to read

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lil-tachyon · 4 months

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"I have seen the eyes of many of these creatures that are supposed to have come from beyond the margin of the world ... but their eyes are the eyes of beasts only. The red orbs of the alzabo were something more, holding neither the intelligence of humankind nor the innocence of the brutes" - Gene Wolfe, The Sword of the Lictor

Oldie from nearly two years ago done for The Book of Fuligin.

#gene wolfe #alzabo #book of the new sun #xenobiology #sci fi art

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lil-tachyon · 4 months

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In late 2021 I started working on Cyberblood (still some of my favorite characters I've ever designed):

I did an alt cover for Groves & Graves that I'm really proud of:

At some point I did the cover for Secret of the Black Crag

And I think that's pretty much it for TTRPG stuff, at least that I can show off. There's more recent work for some of these games that I can't post yet.

I've been doing concepts and designs on-and-off for about a year now for a video game:

Currently unannounced but I've seen gameplay and this is definitely one of the coolest projects I've worked on.

But yeah I think that's about it for RPGs. If I think of more I'll come back and add them.

What all roleplaying games have you worked on?

I'll try to name them all here but there are a lot and some of them are pretty small so I may miss a few by accident.

Epochrypha (2018) by Skerples was both the first piece of paid work I did and also the first game supplement I worked on. This is so old I was still inking digitally.

I also provided illustrations for Magical Industrial Revolution and The Monster Overhaul by the same author.

Monster Overhaul was neat because I did interior illustrations in early 2020 but didn't do the cover until 2022 so you can see quite a stylistic evolution.

From 2018 to 2020 things were pretty quiet for me until I worked on The Shifting City by Dank Dungeons. People really liked the cover for some reason and that basically created a career for me. I still get people asking me to basically recreate this cover a few times a year:

I did a handful of illustrations from 2020 to 2022ish for Ukuwa Station that ended up in The Field Guide to Mfecane, a third party afrofuturist Lancer expansion.

Our Vale of Discontent was a small game I worked on in 2020:

Mycosis is a Mork Borg dungeon I worked on around this time, which notably marked my first attempt at doing some goofy black metal title font.

I did most of my illustration work for Desert Moon of Karth by Joel Hines in late 2020 and early 2021:

The sequel, Tide World of Mani is still being worked on. I just finished my last interior illustrations for it a month or two ago.

AZAG by Dank Dungeons was a game I worked on throughout 2021 that was a blast and I think more people should know about.

At some point in 2021 I did a bunch of pieces for Lore & Legacy although I don't remember exactly when. These never got posted but the book's been out for a while now so maybe I'll show them off later.

Late in 2021 was when I started doing illustrations for The Electrum Archive by Emiel Boven (I think issue 2 is out soon).

Early 2022 I did a bunch of character illustrations for some Victorian horror fantasy game that I don't think ever actually came out (commissioner never responded to me when I asked about it at least) which is a shame because I'm proud of these. At least I got paid!

This was another one for a game that I don't think ever came out:

I did character designs for Nebula Chaos by Polyhedra Games in 2022:

Then Neon Saber by Olivia Miller

Then some pieces for If Worlds Collide:

Then Critters & Companions by Pearse Anderson:

Ran out of space for images, I'll finish this in part 2...

#ttrpg art #old school renaissance #scifi art #fantasy art #concept art

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