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Fernando Salvaterra

@salvaterra.bsky.social

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| 🌈 | (he-him) TTRPG ilustrador and fantasy cartographer. Brazilian. ND. 🗺️ https://www.patreon.com/tomeofsalvaterra #cartography #art #ttrpg 🚫NoAI/N-F-T 💼 https://cara.app/salvaterra ☕ https://ko-fi.com/salvaterra/shop 📧[email protected]

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hi #PortfolioDay! 🎨

I'm a freelance illustrator from Brazil working on hand-drawn fantasy maps for novels and RPGs.

I have a Patreon with maps + stock art for indie RPGs.

💼 cara.app/salvaterra
🗺️ www.patreon.com/tomeofsalvat...
+🔗 fernandosalvaterra.carrd.co

#cartography #ttrpg #art #fantasyart

a fantasy map depicting a hell. from the top to the bottom: there's a submarine city of strange towers and glass domes connected to a giant computer in the midst of reefs. a river and a lake goes south from this city in the midst of some ruins, ending on a big dam from where a timid river flows through a desert canyon. beyond the desert, there's another stretch of sea separating it from another city at the end of the map. there are planets hovering above this landscape: the remains of mars and a primeval earth covered in lava, fumes, guns and forts.

a map depicting a valley surrounded by two rivers, one red, the other of crystal waters, both flowing from a big lake fed by a large river coming from the mountains. the mountains look almost magical as there are four main peaks: a volcano, a snowy range, a forest-covered mountain and a colourful rocky mineral mountain. there is a city near the lake, called Alma, a meadow of giant butterflies, roads following the rivers, woods everywhere, ruins to the southeast.

map of a village on a hill with autumn colours, surrounded by crop fields and an old wooden wall. the houses have thatched roofs. on the top of the hill, there's a colourful market with tents around a central bonfire with a big statue of a jackalope.

illustration depicting six different worlds in cut-out stretches of land: one is a post-apocalyptic scenario, the second is an epic fantasy land, the third is a sci-fi landscape, the fourth is a city-noir landscape, the fifth is a fairy tale world and the final one is an submarine landscape with monsters and cities. All these are being drawn to the center of the artwork where a "world under construction" is cut to show its magic demon melting core full of hellfire, circled by a magic dust ring, orbited by dragons, whitchy houses, flying wooden ships and spacecraft, surrounded by scafolding and attached to strange machinery and gigantic pipes and hoses at its bottom.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 1h

Day 12 of #Birdtober is the gyrfalcon! I love birds of prey, but I do not know why I insisted on doing all these feathers and such a difficult angle tonight. 😅 I’m happy with it though!

#BirdArt #SciArt #birds #illustration #DigitalPainting #Procreate #DailyChallenge #ArtChallenge #BirdOfPrey

A digital painting of a creamy gyrfalcon from slightly below and to its side. It looks over at the viewer. Its wings are spread and their pattern can be seen underneath. One eye glints in the sun which shines from our left. The feathers are mottled in white and darker brown spots in sweeping lines across body and wings.

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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 8h

All mind flayers really want is to show off their thespian skills by performing Shakespeare. #ttrpg #art

A painting of a mauve humanoid with a tentacled face holding a skull.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 2h

silly dragon pencil sketch

#sketch #monstrosilist #ttrpg

sketchbook page photo with a pencil sketch of a serpentine dragon with a long face, coiling around a dead tree with a sword embedded in it, a treasure chest on the ground next to it. the dragons has a series of tiny useless wings and many little legs.

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Underground Oracle Publishing @undergroundoracle.com · 5h

This only ends with The Beast’s death or yours.

You do not know which you fear more.

No Mercy For Monsters is a towerless Wretched & Alone hack perfect for fans of gothic romances, monstrous tragedies, and fantasy horror. #ttrpg

Site: undergroundoracle.co...
Dthru: www.drivethrurpg.com...

No Mercy For Monsters title card from Unplaytested Presents.

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 9h

A little nurse shark to celebrate Ava's first #SundayFishSketch.

A sketch of a young nurse shark in shades of green.

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Louie Salvaterra / Moka @louiems.bsky.social · 5h

the third micexplorer's piece!

it's available as stock art at: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

#fantasyart #micexplorers #ttrpg #osr #stockart

Illustration of two mouse adventurers climbing down a precipice tied to a thread of line near some clover. One clover is loose and falls down the precipice.

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 8h

gifted weaver

fanart of Arachne from Hades 2 but in human form, wearing modern clothes - dark grey jeans, high heels, some orange long sleeves top with plant patterns, necklace, earrings, rings-, her usual short hair, flower and spider web tattoos on shoulders and chest
Knees bent, sitting on her heels, hands on the ground

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 15h

it's children's day in Brazil.

35 years ago:

an old photo of me. I was 5 years old. I'm sitting on a chair at a party, holding a bottle of tubaína, legs crossed. I'm wearing jeans, checked shirt and a yellow jacked. black shoes.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 12h

My prints are 20%OFF and have a $5 discount on shipping.

only 11 hours to go: www.inprnt.com/gallery/salv...

#INPRNT #bsnm #MinCup25 #minerals

final Mineral Cup 2025 bracket with kyanite as champion. all the minerals are illustrated and the brackets are lined with decorative border in gold.

a poster with illustrations of 16 minerals eliminated in the first round of the 2025 mineral cup: chrysotile, okenite, jeremejevite, calcite, silver, leucite, sanidine, pollucite, azurite, wavellite, thortveitite, zunyite, topaz, ikaite, nontronite, and paddlewheelite. They have a large range of colours and shapes going from blue and green to yellow and red.

illustration of four minerals competing in the semifinals and final match of the Mineral Cup 25: kyanite, champion, tugtupite, second place, dioptase and hematite, eliminated in the semifinals.

a poster with illustrations of 8 minerals eliminated in the second round of the 2025 mineral cup: pectolite, stibnite, baryte, carpathite, titanite, molybdenite, taenite, mannardite They have a colour variation from greys, beiges, whites and black. One, titanite, is dark green.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 9h

pack your gear: border, compass rose and title banner and let's go!

#wip #cartography #CandelaObscura

same map as before, but now it has border, compass rose and a title "ravanseil".

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MizChateau @mizchateau.bsky.social · 10h

Fall flowers, an energy boost for autumn bees who've survived into October. #gardening #🌱

Garden showing lavender and yellow chrysanthemums; pink impatiens; hosta and misc greens.

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Vanessa Gillings @vanessagillings.bsky.social · 10h

Because I haven't shared these here yet, I thought I'd share them all together!

Here are all of my pencil and ink sketches for my solo show @gallerynucleus.bsky.social!

pencil and ink sketch of a girl standing in a doorway made by trees

pencil and ink sketch of a fox standing on a rock

pencil and ink sketch of a wizard boy standing in front of a tree

pencil and ink sketch of magical kids standing in a forest with moths and lanterns

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Louie Salvaterra / Moka @louiems.bsky.social · 10h

another saber tooth guy

#furryart #furryoc #anthroart #digitalart

drawing of a white, yellow, brown and red saber tooth on a yellow background.

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Lëspreüh @lespreuh.bsky.social · 11h

QRT with your skull art 💀

Dessin d'un crâne aux dents acérés dessous duquel sortent des tentacules. Dans le prolongement du visage, un masque de médecin de la peste dont le bec est entouré d'un fil

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 10h

QRP with your skull art 💀

#darkart #b&wart #skull

black and white drawing of 6 skull-related objects like a cup, a chest, a deformed and jewelled skull of a saint, a skull holding magic ink for death contracts, a skull with a sky map and a skull with candle between scrolls

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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 17h

Nor’easter bunny. #art

A rabbit person walks against the wind as leaves blow past. His long scarf trails behind. Graphite and white pencil on toned paper.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 11h

Doomspiral map fragment. The Floodplain. Final art.

Just 3 days to go! 👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou...

#ttrpg #darkart #cartography #fantasyart

fantasy map illustration fragment depicting a plain being flooded by the sea, still some cliffs at the west side, many craters in the south, a flooded city in the center with a tall dark storm tower piercing through storm clouds. mountains to the south, east and north. a lighthouse at the cliffs in the west.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 1d

the compass rose 🧭

#ttrpg #cartography

illustration of a compass rose made of blades against the frame of the new moon with spikes and an eclipse at the center.

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Maudeux.creations 🎨🐦 @maudeuxcreations.bsky.social · 12h

The Gyrfalcon frustrates me so much 🦅! I’ve spent months in the Arctic ❄️, and I still DREAM of seeing one 👀.
Drawing it without having seen it feels almost like tempting fate 😬
#Birdtober – #Gyrfalcon #FalcoRusticolus 🦅🖤

🐡 #bird #Birdtober2025 #BirdArt #ScientificIllustration #WildlifeArt

Black ink drawing of a cute gyrfalcon portrait.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 1d

#birdtober day 10 is the Arctic Tern. These guys have such amazing lines they deserved an action pose!

#birds #SciArt #BirdArt #illustration #ArtChallenge #DailyArt

A digital painting of an arctic tern against a blue sky in gray and white with sweeping wing lines and a tail that sweeps outward in long arcs flies towards the viewer, red orange beak open. Further away and behind it another flies to the right and down towards the water, its feet tucked up under it and tail sweeping behind.

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 12h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 14h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Daniel MacPhee 🇨🇦 @d-macphee.bsky.social · 14h

Animal origami: The physics of nature’s folds
🧪 #Scicomm #Nature
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Animal origami: The physics of nature’s folds

Insects that tuck away wings; a protist with an accordion-like neck — studying these clever creases may inspire foldable structures for drones

knowablemagazine.org

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · Aug 8

Share 4 years of your #art!

🧭 2022 - 2023 - 2024 - 2025 🗺️

#ttrpg #cartography #fantasyart

A map illustration depicting a large valley with forests, mountains, cliffs, a swamp, a river, a lake and a shoreline with some islands.

a colourful fantasy continent map illustration named "Continent of Elos", divided into many countries. It has snowy mountains up north, a huge pine forest in the middle, many mountain ranges, forests and plains south and a big volcano-devasted land in the southeast.

isometric a map depicting an underground village made of tunnels and cave rooms, filled with wooden huts, stone statues, pillars and lanterns, all below the roots of a giant tree that protects the entrance in its trunk.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · Apr 17

You can now buy this art bundle of 12 nice hand-drawn high-resolution dungeon maps, all connected as a megadungeon, for just 1 buck per map. Personal use:

⚔️ www.patreon.com/posts/99598281

#ttrpg #dungeon #ttrpgmaps #art

12 black-and-white dungeon maps, one for each month, with 12 different decorative borders.

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 13h

Bone wreath bone wreath bone wreath

#Repostober #BandW #Bone #DarkArt

A black and white ink drawing of a bunch of bones organized into a wreath-like shape.

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