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flat fantasy and rpg illustration by some queer in the hills of western NC
commissions open - [email protected]
portfolio: shaferbrown.com
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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 18d
hello #portfolioday

Im a queer illustrator from the mountains of north carolina drawing flat fantasy. I've done work for mtg, videogames, beer labels, podcast art and socks, but my favorite work tends to be personal commissions.

portfolio: shaferbrown.com
contact: [email protected]
2025 - crop from a limited tone fantasy family portrait Two adventurers walk in the rain on a board walk in the woods, one with a bow at the ready, the other excitedly pulling her close. Their cat looks towards the foreground, where a dragonfly rests on a flower. 2025 limited color group commission Inside a smokey dining room aboard a river boat pirate ship, a group of adventurers blow off steam. From left to right, an anxious squirrel has drunken to excess, a spirited otter teases them and toasts. A paternalistic skunk with a metal arm scolds them, while a delirious herbalist rabbit offers a solution, and the groups tinkerer, a sparrow, sits with an impulse of a food fight within reach. 2025 full color commission portrait of a cat office at evening in a dimly lit wooden study, a black long haired cat sits at a desk beginning needlework. She wears a plaid suit and sits in a sturdy chair, her tail wrapping around the frame of the desk. on her desk is a table cloth, and a top that is a whirring fan, a rotary phone, two books, a sake bottle and cup. A short hair siamese cat brings a steaming cup of tea. He wears a grey sweater with a red collar and cuff, and his tail sticks up energetically behind him. 2025 full color commission in a dense forest, a goblin hides behind a rock and summons with the aid of a spellbook 3 spectral birds. On the horizon, a giant white elk turns its gaze towards their hiding spot.
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evening at the cat office
2025 full color commission portrait of a cat office at evening in a dimly lit wooden study, a black long haired cat sits at a desk beginning needlework. She wears a plaid suit and sits in a sturdy chair, her tail wrapping around the frame of the desk. on her desk is a table cloth, and a top that is a whirring fan, a rotary phone, two books, a sake bottle and cup. A short hair siamese cat brings a steaming cup of tea. He wears a grey sweater with a red collar and cuff, and his tail sticks up energetically behind him.
December 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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ssshopkeep (2026)
2026 limited color character portrait a blue snake person sits behind a desk in a cluttered narrow shop interior. He pushes away a screen/aquarium from his workspace and pauses with his hand over his keyboard to greet you. around the shop, bubbles, fish, waves, scales, and light all trespass their containers.
January 28, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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need to book a few more things to make the bills this month
shaferbrown.com shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 18d
hello #portfolioday

Im a queer illustrator from the mountains of north carolina drawing flat fantasy. I've done work for mtg, videogames, beer labels, podcast art and socks, but my favorite work tends to be personal commissions.

portfolio: shaferbrown.com
contact: [email protected]
2025 - crop from a limited tone fantasy family portrait Two adventurers walk in the rain on a board walk in the woods, one with a bow at the ready, the other excitedly pulling her close. Their cat looks towards the foreground, where a dragonfly rests on a flower. 2025 limited color group commission Inside a smokey dining room aboard a river boat pirate ship, a group of adventurers blow off steam. From left to right, an anxious squirrel has drunken to excess, a spirited otter teases them and toasts. A paternalistic skunk with a metal arm scolds them, while a delirious herbalist rabbit offers a solution, and the groups tinkerer, a sparrow, sits with an impulse of a food fight within reach. 2025 full color commission portrait of a cat office at evening in a dimly lit wooden study, a black long haired cat sits at a desk beginning needlework. She wears a plaid suit and sits in a sturdy chair, her tail wrapping around the frame of the desk. on her desk is a table cloth, and a top that is a whirring fan, a rotary phone, two books, a sake bottle and cup. A short hair siamese cat brings a steaming cup of tea. He wears a grey sweater with a red collar and cuff, and his tail sticks up energetically behind him. 2025 full color commission in a dense forest, a goblin hides behind a rock and summons with the aid of a spellbook 3 spectral birds. On the horizon, a giant white elk turns its gaze towards their hiding spot.
January 26, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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limited color fursona portrait (2026) a figure sits in a bunny suit on top of a pool float looking at the viewer as she adjusts her headphones. the cord wraps around her body to a cd player on the edge of the swimming pool.
January 30, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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potion seller | fantasy pet portrait
2025 limited color pet commission in green and black in a small alchemy shop interior, a cat regards your entrance. he holds his paws daintily above his tucked legs on a pillow on the stores counter. He is surrounded by his wares, potions mushrooms and curios. a large cauldron emits a haze, and a basket of fish remains sits tucked near the stores entrance.
January 26, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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hyrule castle tower | fantasy family portrait (2025)
2025 limited tone fantasy family portrait, for a valentines day gift if i recall correctly in a foreground castle tower, a woman dressed as zelda sends out a spell (resembling her side b from smash bros), which trails along the composition and rests in front of her cat, wearing midnas stone helmet. a scraggly man dressed as link holds a jar aloft, also dazzled by the trail of light.
January 28, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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sometimes i get inquiries from clients that are basically blank checks for some sort of fan art for whatever im into at that moment, so gonna make a running list of stuff im itching to draw
January 31, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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Our charity stream with @giantbomb.bsky.social starts NOW! Help us raise money for VEAP and KICK ICE OUT!!

www.twitch.tv/minnmaxshow
January 30, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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"Scab" by Maynard Dixon, 1934
Three union workers explain to a strikebreaker why you don't cross picket lines.
January 30, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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limited color fursona portrait (2026) a figure sits in a bunny suit on top of a pool float looking at the viewer as she adjusts her headphones. the cord wraps around her body to a cd player on the edge of the swimming pool.
January 30, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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raichu bangin out the tunes (2024)
2024 limited color commission of a raichu playing a modular synth
August 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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meghunt.bsky.social
Pretty incredible that Publishing for Minnesota has raised nearly 70k in less than 10 hours but we can keep it going right? Here’s a link to my auction: www.32auctions.com/organization...
meghunt.bsky.social Meg Hunt @meghunt.bsky.social · 4d
I’m donating this 8×10” painting to the Publishing for Minnesota auction- proceeds will support orgs providing legal aid, emergency assistance, food, and community resources to those in urgent need.
The auction runs Thurs 1/29 until Fri 1/30.
More info here: www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...
painting and collage piece of a woman in blue sweater riding a giant horned beetle
January 29, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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michaelfurler.bsky.social
Wasteful, Helena 157.
1: It’s raining and Helena is sitting next on a bench in the bus shelter. Next to her sits a stranger who says „Every day this bus is late. Like our time ain’t worth s-squat“ 2: Helena is nonplussed but the stranger continues rambling „They make us waste our LIVES waiting for sh-stuff. And there’s nothing we can do about it“. 3: The bus arrived and the stranger is in the bus… 4: …but Helena is still sitting on the bench, kicking her feet, nonplussed. „Nobody’s making me.“
January 29, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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it's 2026 year of apollo justice
January 28, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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ssshopkeep (2026)
2026 limited color character portrait a blue snake person sits behind a desk in a cluttered narrow shop interior. He pushes away a screen/aquarium from his workspace and pauses with his hand over his keyboard to greet you. around the shop, bubbles, fish, waves, scales, and light all trespass their containers.
January 28, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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Not The One / 24 by 12 inches / Acrylic on linen-wrapped panel
July 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Cricket
January 28, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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nest | dnd character portrait (2024)
2024 limited tone dnd commission a kenku sleeps contently, swaddled in a blanket in a yellow tent in a green swamp. their shield has darts sticking from it, their lute leans against the tent, and frog eyes gleam at them from the water.
January 28, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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hyrule castle tower | fantasy family portrait (2025)
2025 limited tone fantasy family portrait, for a valentines day gift if i recall correctly in a foreground castle tower, a woman dressed as zelda sends out a spell (resembling her side b from smash bros), which trails along the composition and rests in front of her cat, wearing midnas stone helmet. a scraggly man dressed as link holds a jar aloft, also dazzled by the trail of light.
January 28, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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www.inprnt.com/gallery/dill...
January 27, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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wendyleftmealone.bsky.social
would like a couple more projects under my belt, as I move through the winter season!
wendyleftmealone.bsky.social ms. wendy @wendyleftmealone.bsky.social · 28d
planning things out for 2026, and looking for more graphic design work! if you have ideas, feel free to reach out!

portfolio:
wendymurphy.online

request form + commercial typefaces:
linktr.ee/wendymurphyonline
screencap of the 'gallery' page in my portfolio website: wendymurphy.online/gallery. black background with various logo projects, poster designs, album artworks, and design mockups. type display featuring my commercial typeface 'mass transit mono' (bold italic variant). yellow and white type showing all of the charactes included in the typeface and over a black background. vinyl mockup for rusty santos' album 'psycho horses' releasing in february 2026. black vinyl sleeve with white typography + black and white photography, over a light grey background. multicolored digital illustration for design room's piece 'sensory overload', using pencil brushes over a black background. assets, characters, and environments from featured games contained in, or in front of white geometry. games featured: • rez infinite (area x) • sound fantasy (feat. otocky) • electroplankton • sayonara wild hearts
January 27, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
Notes on abandoned Orpheus and Eurydice comic.
A series of line drawing thumbnails and sketches titled Orpheus and Eurydice (auloniad). The pages depict Orpheus's descent into the underworld, and small sketches of Eurydice during her wedding, a satyr, Charon the boat men, and Orpheus holding his lyre. The text reads: "she still exists in my mind in that moment, looks of anger, betrayal, sorrow -- perhaps contempt -- crossing her features. expressions alien to me as they had been to her in life. i try to avert her gaze in my memory."
October 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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emfields.bsky.social
Goblin week! #goblinweek #goblinweek2026 #goblinmode #omegadungeon
An omegadungeon goblin. Bat-like countenance, large ears and complicated, delicate nose. It is slavering profusely. It has a leather hood obscuring what are surely vestigial eyes. Armed with a curved dagger and its left arm is a hooked, bladed prosthesis with some sort of pulley mechanism to scissor it. Nasty!
January 27, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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sgtm.bsky.social
Rpgmaker.net coming back online is very significant, as a whole generation of 2000s and 2010s indie games was contextless and nearly lost without it.

It's wonderful to see it back in action. Hopefully to stay!
rpgmaker.net :: Create and play RPGs, adventure games, and more made with RPG Maker, Game Maker, and other engines
Official site for creating and playing RPGs and more! Play hundreds of games and then create your own with RPG Maker, Game Maker, or other engines!
Rpgmaker.net
January 26, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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Chaofeng Ge was at Moshannon Valley Processing Center, which (like every ICE center) is rife with human rights abuses. There's a campaign to Shut Down Moshannon that you can support. Some actions below ⬇️

💰 Donate to the Moshannon Support Network commissary fund: secure.actblue.com/donate/junto...
louisathelast.bsky.social Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 4d
(TW suicide) One person who died in ICE custody this year is someone I haven’t seen mentioned much—Chaofeng Ge. He was found hanging in a shower room at a processing center. It was declared suicide…even though his hands and feet were tied behind his back. ICE is refusing to give the family details
Autopsy raises questions about death at private ICE detention center
The family of a man discovered dead in the shower room of a privately owned immigration detention center says the Trump administration is refusing to provide the full story of what happened.
www.scrippsnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:37 PM