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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️

@thisnorthernboy.bsky.social

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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

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · Jan 17

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.

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A poster, built in Blender, showing the industrial Funicular from the Manga, Akira.

My illustration, Elk Island Light. An orange lighthouse floats on the ocean, at its base, tentacles extend in to the deep.

My illustration, Deep Space Fleet. A page of brightly coloured spaceship sketches.

My illustration, ISO Grid. 16 isometric illustrations of various little buildings. From a sci-fi noodle bar, to a Venetian palazzo.

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Vanessa Gillings @vanessagillings.bsky.social · 12h

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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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 11h

Kingfisher in the evening light. Lucky to have it sat right in front of the dark woods in the distance.

#Birds #UKWildlife

A Kingfisher sat on a branch over a pond, behind is a bench and almost completely black background of woodland.

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 13h

KINGFISHERS!

Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 16h

I have drawn some good stuff today.

I'm going to celebrate by going for a walk with my camera.

Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 16h

I have drawn some good stuff today.

I'm going to celebrate by going for a walk with my camera.

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 17h

Neighbours can be a bit weird.

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 21h

I’m Gail, a one woman business, based in Manchester.
I create prints, homewares & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture.
Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk

A collage of some of my products: art prints with record players, books and brutalist architecture, a teal T-shirt with cassette tapes, 70s patterned cushion, orange patterned phone case, cassette mug, and a spiral design slipmat.

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Robot Wig @robotwig.com · 21h

It's time for my weekly round up, all my miniature photos I've posted this week in one big bundle, hope you enjoyed the spooky collection this week...

All the behind the scenes setups of each of these shots can be viewed in the original posts.

#photography #productphotography #miniatures

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 22h

Lovely!

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onlunarseas @onlunarseas.bsky.social · 1d

I actually did make one of your ships once—I was commissioned to design a build of the Roland-class Experimental Scout as part of the Kickstarter for An Infinity of Ships! But I'd love to make more of these, just so absorbed in my own setting lately.

Render of a LEGO spaceship based on Rob Turpin's art of the Roland-class experimental scout from An Infinity of Ships.

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 1d

Oh of course!! So good! I have the model on my desk. It’s brilliantly done!

Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 1d

Please do! I’d love to see even one. Or… how about one of these?

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 1d

David Lynch
Gene Hackman
Robert Redford
Diane Keaton
Michael Madsen
Val Kilmer
Graham Greene
Claudia Cardinale
And more….

This is a massive slice of cinema history right here. Can 2025 just fuck off already please?!

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 1d

Diane Keaton by Annie Leibovitz, 1986

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 1d

Ship Shapes…

#Spaceship #SciFi #Illustration

A page of rough, monochrome, spaceship sketches.

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 1d

Odd! Maybe just a glitch, but I’ll let @dnlnwmn.bsky.social know. Cheers for buying the game!

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 1d

My niece brought her new puppy to see me today. A beautiful, ten week old, lurcher/spaniel cross.

Sweet baby Jesus. What an adorable little thing. Two hours of bliss giving her cuddles.

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 1d

A quick post to say, while I'm currently booked up, I am looking to schedule projects for the end of the year and early next year. So if you're looking for spaceships / sci-fi illustrations for a ttrpg, card game, or rule book… give me a shout.

Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · Jan 17

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 1d

Is that a video game? I've not heard of it.

Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 1d

YES Daniel! Monday to Wednesday would be best for me.

Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 1d

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 1d

"Everyone here was so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. And they shouldn’t."

#Art

Triple Trouble: Fairey, Hirst, Invader review – the most revolting visual soup imaginable

Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst and Invader join forces to make an exhibition that’s so bad, it’s like walking in on a crime scene

www.theguardian.com

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 1d

Ship Shapes…

#Spaceship #SciFi #Illustration

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Sonya Henar || Available for Work and Comms Open @sonybaloneyart.bsky.social · 3d

Currently available for freelance! I really need the work!

Sonya Henar || Available for Work and Comms Open @sonybaloneyart.bsky.social · Apr 8

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Sonya &I'm character designer and award winning illustrator.

I'm available for freelance, studio work & seeking representation!

Past clients: Greenbrier Games, Gran Via Productions, Skybound Entertainment, Darrington Press

sonybaloneyart.com
[email protected]

illustration of two skeleton chefs and chinese opera ghost performer

girl in a dirty dress crying on the stairs

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 13d

Some more #Shiptember action. Here's The Foundry, a Fast Picket, built by Chalmer & Hoyer.

#Illustration #Spaceship

A digital illustration of a spaceship. Twin hulls join at a single large engine at the back, in front of which there's an enclosed spherical cockpit.

#Shiptember

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