shel kahn
@portablecity.bsky.social
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shel kahn
@portablecity.bsky.social
· Oct 2
Reminder that I keep a blog at portablecity.net that you can subscribe to via RSS if you like! And that I also blog and such on tumblr at shelandsorcery.tumblr.com if you'd like to connect over there for any reason.
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Alright, okay, little preview announcement: I am setting up shop in the Danforth Arts Market this winter!
I can't believe how excited I am to have a local storefront location! Still lots more art and books to come, but if you've been looking to grab a playmap, Toronto friends, you are IN LUCK!
I can't believe how excited I am to have a local storefront location! Still lots more art and books to come, but if you've been looking to grab a playmap, Toronto friends, you are IN LUCK!
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Alright, okay, little preview announcement: I am setting up shop in the Danforth Arts Market this winter!
I can't believe how excited I am to have a local storefront location! Still lots more art and books to come, but if you've been looking to grab a playmap, Toronto friends, you are IN LUCK!
I can't believe how excited I am to have a local storefront location! Still lots more art and books to come, but if you've been looking to grab a playmap, Toronto friends, you are IN LUCK!
that's right, let me tell you, in your future, you're a wolf
"You'll be visited by three spirits"
the three spirits:
(see also: www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...)
the three spirits:
(see also: www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...)
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 AM
that's right, let me tell you, in your future, you're a wolf
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YESSSSS the public domain jam is my favorite game jam of the year, and there's some great stuff entering public domain in 2026!
"Gaming Like It's 1930" is coming this January: itch.io/jam/gaming-l...
Come join us for our annual public domain game jam, celebrating new works that are entering the commons
Come join us for our annual public domain game jam, celebrating new works that are entering the commons
Gaming Like It's 1930
A game jam from 2026-01-01 to 2026-02-01 hosted by Randy Lubin & Copia Gaming. A new year means new material entering the public domain! Starting January 1st 2026, works from 1930 are free to use and ...
itch.io
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
YESSSSS the public domain jam is my favorite game jam of the year, and there's some great stuff entering public domain in 2026!
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Huge congrats to the KO_OP team - Young Suns looks so great! I got to stick my oar in for a month towards the start to do a few art concepts, and it's amazing to see what has come to life since! This is going on the wishlist *immediately*
The people of Jupiter are newly free, and there's a lot of work to be done if we want to make a better world. Young Suns is available to play right now as a Game Preview title on Xbox Game Pass, and will be coming to more platforms in the future.
Join the community at www.youngsuns.com!
Join the community at www.youngsuns.com!
Young Suns | Discover, Customize, Explore — Play Now
Young Suns is a 1-4 player narrative life sim set in space! Available now in Game Preview on Xbox Game Pass, featuring character customization, space exploration, and storytelling. Coming soon to othe...
www.youngsuns.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Huge congrats to the KO_OP team - Young Suns looks so great! I got to stick my oar in for a month towards the start to do a few art concepts, and it's amazing to see what has come to life since! This is going on the wishlist *immediately*
Alright, okay, little preview announcement: I am setting up shop in the Danforth Arts Market this winter!
I can't believe how excited I am to have a local storefront location! Still lots more art and books to come, but if you've been looking to grab a playmap, Toronto friends, you are IN LUCK!
I can't believe how excited I am to have a local storefront location! Still lots more art and books to come, but if you've been looking to grab a playmap, Toronto friends, you are IN LUCK!
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Alright, okay, little preview announcement: I am setting up shop in the Danforth Arts Market this winter!
I can't believe how excited I am to have a local storefront location! Still lots more art and books to come, but if you've been looking to grab a playmap, Toronto friends, you are IN LUCK!
I can't believe how excited I am to have a local storefront location! Still lots more art and books to come, but if you've been looking to grab a playmap, Toronto friends, you are IN LUCK!
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We're excited to announce YOUNG SUNS: a new narrative-rich co-op life sim set on Jupiter. Experience life in an optimistic future full of colorful characters. Play solo or with up to 3 friends. Visit planetoids, ruins, and stations. Craft and decorate. Help society heal.
youtu.be/rVEWbp1FiKg?...
youtu.be/rVEWbp1FiKg?...
KO_OP Game Reveal & Presentation
YouTube video by KO_OP
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
We're excited to announce YOUNG SUNS: a new narrative-rich co-op life sim set on Jupiter. Experience life in an optimistic future full of colorful characters. Play solo or with up to 3 friends. Visit planetoids, ruins, and stations. Craft and decorate. Help society heal.
youtu.be/rVEWbp1FiKg?...
youtu.be/rVEWbp1FiKg?...
Huge congrats to the KO_OP team - Young Suns looks so great! I got to stick my oar in for a month towards the start to do a few art concepts, and it's amazing to see what has come to life since! This is going on the wishlist *immediately*
The people of Jupiter are newly free, and there's a lot of work to be done if we want to make a better world. Young Suns is available to play right now as a Game Preview title on Xbox Game Pass, and will be coming to more platforms in the future.
Join the community at www.youngsuns.com!
Join the community at www.youngsuns.com!
Young Suns | Discover, Customize, Explore — Play Now
Young Suns is a 1-4 player narrative life sim set in space! Available now in Game Preview on Xbox Game Pass, featuring character customization, space exploration, and storytelling. Coming soon to othe...
www.youngsuns.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Huge congrats to the KO_OP team - Young Suns looks so great! I got to stick my oar in for a month towards the start to do a few art concepts, and it's amazing to see what has come to life since! This is going on the wishlist *immediately*
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please share and join us tomorrow to see what we've been up to for the last few years. It's the future of KO_OP 🥺
Join us tomorrow at 12 PM EST for an exciting announcement of our upcoming game! youtu.be/rVEWbp1FiKg
KO_OP Game Reveal & Presentation
YouTube video by KO_OP
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
please share and join us tomorrow to see what we've been up to for the last few years. It's the future of KO_OP 🥺
things are happening, Toronto....!
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
things are happening, Toronto....!
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Gonna take this week to share some highlights from the year I spent learning to paint with oil pastels! I had dug out an old set of mine from my teens after watching a gouache artist share some of her oil pastels on youtube, and this study was my first serious foray with the medium since ~ 2002.
November 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Gonna take this week to share some highlights from the year I spent learning to paint with oil pastels! I had dug out an old set of mine from my teens after watching a gouache artist share some of her oil pastels on youtube, and this study was my first serious foray with the medium since ~ 2002.
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One of the first things I try to figure out with any new medium is what it can do better than other mediums, and the blendability of oil pastels does make working with certain light effects extremely fun!
November 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
One of the first things I try to figure out with any new medium is what it can do better than other mediums, and the blendability of oil pastels does make working with certain light effects extremely fun!
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One of the most surprising elements of oil pastels for me was how much the substrate affected the painting. This study was my first done on wood panel, and compared to absorbent paper, using them on wood prevents the oils from being absorbed, and the pastels work so much more like paints!
November 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
One of the most surprising elements of oil pastels for me was how much the substrate affected the painting. This study was my first done on wood panel, and compared to absorbent paper, using them on wood prevents the oils from being absorbed, and the pastels work so much more like paints!
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This is the biggest oil pastel painting I've finished so far, at 22" tall. It is a study from my own photograph, and there is a large watercolour underpainting propping up the oil pastels, which really helped give me some incredible colour vibration that, sadly, the camera really can't capture.
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is the biggest oil pastel painting I've finished so far, at 22" tall. It is a study from my own photograph, and there is a large watercolour underpainting propping up the oil pastels, which really helped give me some incredible colour vibration that, sadly, the camera really can't capture.
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After I had a handle on the medium, I painted some gifts for family, pet portraits, and this is for sure my favourite of the batch. Oil pastels are so wonderful as a way to be soft but painterly, abstract but rendered, colourful but realistic....
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
After I had a handle on the medium, I painted some gifts for family, pet portraits, and this is for sure my favourite of the batch. Oil pastels are so wonderful as a way to be soft but painterly, abstract but rendered, colourful but realistic....
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Still life studies are always a good way to practice a new medium, and oil pastels are no exception. Finding the balance between blending everything into soft oblivion versus letting each mark be a brushstroke that stands on its own is hard! And fun. And worth practicing.
November 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Still life studies are always a good way to practice a new medium, and oil pastels are no exception. Finding the balance between blending everything into soft oblivion versus letting each mark be a brushstroke that stands on its own is hard! And fun. And worth practicing.
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Oil pastels are also a fantastic medium for plein air work - all the powerful opaque colour of gouache, the blendability of oils, and the throw-in-a-box-in-your-bag ease of pencils or markers. I use them in my royal talens art creation sketchbooks and they hold up better than I could hope!
November 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Oil pastels are also a fantastic medium for plein air work - all the powerful opaque colour of gouache, the blendability of oils, and the throw-in-a-box-in-your-bag ease of pencils or markers. I use them in my royal talens art creation sketchbooks and they hold up better than I could hope!
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One more oil pastel painting for good measure: I always have to do a crystal island in a new medium, and this one, painted on a wood panel for maximum softness and painterliness, is one of my favourite islands from this year! Oil pastels have been so rewarding, and I hope you enjoyed this art tour!
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
One more oil pastel painting for good measure: I always have to do a crystal island in a new medium, and this one, painted on a wood panel for maximum softness and painterliness, is one of my favourite islands from this year! Oil pastels have been so rewarding, and I hope you enjoyed this art tour!
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"Simple as jailbreaking an iPhone!"
[HMU for art requests i have some freelance availability soon]
#cyberpunk #yuri
[HMU for art requests i have some freelance availability soon]
#cyberpunk #yuri
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
"Simple as jailbreaking an iPhone!"
[HMU for art requests i have some freelance availability soon]
#cyberpunk #yuri
[HMU for art requests i have some freelance availability soon]
#cyberpunk #yuri
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We are very happy to announce some of the artists that we will be working with to envision, explore and enhance Swords Without Master: @goblinprincete.bsky.social, Goran Gilgović, @portablecity.bsky.social (of course) and Erin Vest! Preview page has more info.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
We are very happy to announce some of the artists that we will be working with to envision, explore and enhance Swords Without Master: @goblinprincete.bsky.social, Goran Gilgović, @portablecity.bsky.social (of course) and Erin Vest! Preview page has more info.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...
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Join us tomorrow at 12 PM EST for an exciting announcement of our upcoming game! youtu.be/rVEWbp1FiKg
KO_OP Game Reveal & Presentation
YouTube video by KO_OP
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Join us tomorrow at 12 PM EST for an exciting announcement of our upcoming game! youtu.be/rVEWbp1FiKg
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I met a dungeons and dragons game designer on a cross country train while it was stranded in the middle of nowhere for a day.
November 23, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I met a dungeons and dragons game designer on a cross country train while it was stranded in the middle of nowhere for a day.
One more oil pastel painting for good measure: I always have to do a crystal island in a new medium, and this one, painted on a wood panel for maximum softness and painterliness, is one of my favourite islands from this year! Oil pastels have been so rewarding, and I hope you enjoyed this art tour!
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
One more oil pastel painting for good measure: I always have to do a crystal island in a new medium, and this one, painted on a wood panel for maximum softness and painterliness, is one of my favourite islands from this year! Oil pastels have been so rewarding, and I hope you enjoyed this art tour!
Oil pastels are also a fantastic medium for plein air work - all the powerful opaque colour of gouache, the blendability of oils, and the throw-in-a-box-in-your-bag ease of pencils or markers. I use them in my royal talens art creation sketchbooks and they hold up better than I could hope!
November 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Oil pastels are also a fantastic medium for plein air work - all the powerful opaque colour of gouache, the blendability of oils, and the throw-in-a-box-in-your-bag ease of pencils or markers. I use them in my royal talens art creation sketchbooks and they hold up better than I could hope!
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Hey anyone got any K-Pop Demon Hunters or Percy Jackson merch in their online stores? Shopping for our niblings right now and buying from artists and not dropshippers is important to us 🎉
Bonus points if you're Canadian!
Drop your shop link below~
Bonus points if you're Canadian!
Drop your shop link below~
November 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Hey anyone got any K-Pop Demon Hunters or Percy Jackson merch in their online stores? Shopping for our niblings right now and buying from artists and not dropshippers is important to us 🎉
Bonus points if you're Canadian!
Drop your shop link below~
Bonus points if you're Canadian!
Drop your shop link below~