Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
@thisnorthernboy.bsky.social
Available for personal and commercial work.
Illustrator, artist, and writer from the UK. Yorkshireman. Spaceships, robots, & imaginary places. Creator of the Weird Field World. Find me here - https://linktr.ee/thisnorthernboy
Illustrator, artist, and writer from the UK. Yorkshireman. Spaceships, robots, & imaginary places. Creator of the Weird Field World. Find me here - https://linktr.ee/thisnorthernboy
Pinned
I'm Rob, an illustrator, designer, and writer from the UK. With a background in graphic design, I now spend my time drawing spaceships, robots, and other strange stuff - either for myself or for indie games and publishers.
1/n
1/n
Reposted by Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
Heehee, got frames on some purchases. I need to swap around my art in the house soon. #personal
From @amalasrosa.bsky.social and @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social
From @amalasrosa.bsky.social and @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Heehee, got frames on some purchases. I need to swap around my art in the house soon. #personal
From @amalasrosa.bsky.social and @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social
From @amalasrosa.bsky.social and @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social
Reposted by Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
Manchester/north west game devs, AAA or indie, I will be doing a talk about concept art, design and something very cool relating to the Street sweepers. I will be showing...something 😉
February next year at the CULTPLEX cinema Platform event. Dates to follow!
cultplex.co.uk/Cultplex.dll...
February next year at the CULTPLEX cinema Platform event. Dates to follow!
cultplex.co.uk/Cultplex.dll...
PLATFORM
PLATFORM
cultplex.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Manchester/north west game devs, AAA or indie, I will be doing a talk about concept art, design and something very cool relating to the Street sweepers. I will be showing...something 😉
February next year at the CULTPLEX cinema Platform event. Dates to follow!
cultplex.co.uk/Cultplex.dll...
February next year at the CULTPLEX cinema Platform event. Dates to follow!
cultplex.co.uk/Cultplex.dll...
Just realised it's nearly time to watch Klaus again.
December 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Just realised it's nearly time to watch Klaus again.
Reposted by Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
Reposted by Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
So it doesn’t matter if it’s tories or labour the home office remains virulently anti human.
December 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
So it doesn’t matter if it’s tories or labour the home office remains virulently anti human.
Reposted by Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
Over on the blog, brief reviews of two recent novels that foreground climate change, James Bradley's Landfall and E.J. Swift's Once There Are Wolves Again.
unlikelyworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/nort...
unlikelyworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/nort...
December 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Over on the blog, brief reviews of two recent novels that foreground climate change, James Bradley's Landfall and E.J. Swift's Once There Are Wolves Again.
unlikelyworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/nort...
unlikelyworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/nort...
Reposted by Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
The retired warship Trouble Dog discovers Christmas. From LIGHT OF IMPOSSIBLE STARS by Gareth L. Powell, published by @titanbooks.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The retired warship Trouble Dog discovers Christmas. From LIGHT OF IMPOSSIBLE STARS by Gareth L. Powell, published by @titanbooks.bsky.social
Reposted by Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
You know what I used to love?
Sticking the labels on a cassette mix tape and writing on a title.
Sticking the labels on a cassette mix tape and writing on a title.
December 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
You know what I used to love?
Sticking the labels on a cassette mix tape and writing on a title.
Sticking the labels on a cassette mix tape and writing on a title.
Reposted by Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!
Reposted by Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
There hasn’t been a wild wolf in Hookland since 1483, but the land is long memory told in ghosts. The King’s Chase Forest has phantom pack. Wolves grown in size with each generation’s telling. Red-eyed, shadow-furred. They howl so we don’t forget our extinguishing sin. - #CLNolan
December 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
There hasn’t been a wild wolf in Hookland since 1483, but the land is long memory told in ghosts. The King’s Chase Forest has phantom pack. Wolves grown in size with each generation’s telling. Red-eyed, shadow-furred. They howl so we don’t forget our extinguishing sin. - #CLNolan
Reposted by Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
Six Ships. I'm very much in the Chris Foss school of thought when it comes to colour, rather than SW or ST.
#Spaceships #SciFi #Illustration
#Spaceships #SciFi #Illustration
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Six Ships. I'm very much in the Chris Foss school of thought when it comes to colour, rather than SW or ST.
#Spaceships #SciFi #Illustration
#Spaceships #SciFi #Illustration
Reposted by Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
Inspired by @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social fantastic art I drew a spaceship on the flight over to Tokyo.
December 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Inspired by @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social fantastic art I drew a spaceship on the flight over to Tokyo.
Reposted by Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
Back in Tokyo for a week of meetings at PlayStation.
December 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Back in Tokyo for a week of meetings at PlayStation.
Reposted by Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
Issue 21 is out now! Including our new regular feature: Across the Board, where we meet people from the tabletop community around the world and ask about their gaming life. This issue: Ricardo Ferreira, of VianaCon in Portugal. #boardgamesarebeautiful
December 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Issue 21 is out now! Including our new regular feature: Across the Board, where we meet people from the tabletop community around the world and ask about their gaming life. This issue: Ricardo Ferreira, of VianaCon in Portugal. #boardgamesarebeautiful
Reposted by Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
Not sure these cricketers should be let back into the UK. They should be forced instead to roam the world as Ronin, offering their bat or bowling action to any franchise war lord desperate enough to listen. Disgraced, they mumble their names in shame, while children taunt them and steal their pads.
December 6, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Not sure these cricketers should be let back into the UK. They should be forced instead to roam the world as Ronin, offering their bat or bowling action to any franchise war lord desperate enough to listen. Disgraced, they mumble their names in shame, while children taunt them and steal their pads.
Reposted by Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
Carry on Screaming is on TV at the moment. Back in 2017 I was asked to design a small logo for Fenella Fielding’s autobiography. She invited us to her 90th birthday party but we were away on holiday at the time. Sadly she never made it to 91. What a joy it would have been to meet her.
December 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Carry on Screaming is on TV at the moment. Back in 2017 I was asked to design a small logo for Fenella Fielding’s autobiography. She invited us to her 90th birthday party but we were away on holiday at the time. Sadly she never made it to 91. What a joy it would have been to meet her.
Reposted by Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
Reposted by Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
I was very fortunate to be asked to paint this portrait of 'Aunt Polly ' for the final series of Peaky Blinders. I love being asked to do things like this it was so exciting to see it on TV.
#peakyblinders #portraitpainting #art #oilpainting
#peakyblinders #portraitpainting #art #oilpainting
December 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I was very fortunate to be asked to paint this portrait of 'Aunt Polly ' for the final series of Peaky Blinders. I love being asked to do things like this it was so exciting to see it on TV.
#peakyblinders #portraitpainting #art #oilpainting
#peakyblinders #portraitpainting #art #oilpainting
For fans of Matt Berry and/or guitar pedals…
Matt Berry Interview & New Pedalboard [Yes, Him From The Telly & Voice Acting!]
YouTube video by That Pedal Show
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
For fans of Matt Berry and/or guitar pedals…
Does anyone find putting up and decorating a Christmas tree, anything other than a stressful faff?
I could not feel less festive right now.
I could not feel less festive right now.
December 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Does anyone find putting up and decorating a Christmas tree, anything other than a stressful faff?
I could not feel less festive right now.
I could not feel less festive right now.
Incredible to say it, but it seems Farage might be even more racist than I thought.
December 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Incredible to say it, but it seems Farage might be even more racist than I thought.
Reposted by Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
Alright, it's 3 am; so time to call it a day. Here are a few more shots of the remora class carrier. Still work in progress but getting there!
Hope you all have a good night or day! Be kind to each other
Hope you all have a good night or day! Be kind to each other
December 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Alright, it's 3 am; so time to call it a day. Here are a few more shots of the remora class carrier. Still work in progress but getting there!
Hope you all have a good night or day! Be kind to each other
Hope you all have a good night or day! Be kind to each other
Reposted by Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
The world-weariest of all footballers was Thierry Ennui.
December 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The world-weariest of all footballers was Thierry Ennui.
Reposted by Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
A few more views of Nightfall.
And a friendly reminder, that my Markers setup for Blender is free on my Gumroad, link in the reply below.
And a friendly reminder, that my Markers setup for Blender is free on my Gumroad, link in the reply below.
September 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
A few more views of Nightfall.
And a friendly reminder, that my Markers setup for Blender is free on my Gumroad, link in the reply below.
And a friendly reminder, that my Markers setup for Blender is free on my Gumroad, link in the reply below.