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shafer brown
@shaferbrown.com
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flat fantasy and rpg illustration by some queer in the hills of western NC
commissions open - [email protected]
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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · Jun 23
looking to draw something from your favorite videogame, your rpg characters, fantasy pet portraits, and anything else you think would look sick as hell
email me at [email protected] for rates and timeline
2025 limited color fantasy pet portrait Two tuxedo cats toil away in a tavern. One cleans dishes behind the bar while another consults his notes and balances beers on a tray. The patrons have left playing cards, empty plates and glasses, and other objects around the rear of the bar, gathering in the front in drunken merriment. 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. 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. 025 limited tone fantasy family portrait Two adventurers (and their cats) press forth in a water logged dungeon in orange and green. One holds a bow, with a cat toy tied to an arrow to direct the more playful of their two pets. The other adventurer holds his lazier cat aloft on a shifting scale.
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Restoration.

#art #furry #furryart #avian
Drawing of an anthro magpie wearing a leather apron in a dark workshop. He is working on some kind of old wooden panel, with indian inspired polychromy, featuring an elephant.
November 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Greetings From the ER, partners got a broken ankle from skating roller derby, probably gonna be slow or late on communicating with clients early this week
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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2025 limited tone zelda fan art commission in grayscale on a simple stage, a two piece band plays loud dumb music. A gorons hands and sticks flutter across his drumset while a zora frontman screams into a mic, clutching a horseshoe crab fashioned into a guitar.
August 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Wooden Train
Digital painting of a wooden train set with tracks and scenery props on a patterned rug
November 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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love doing cat commissions, current WIP for a friend is a little less fantasy flavored than usual

website: shaferbrown.com
commission inquiries: [email protected]
portrait of a cat office WIP 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.
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Tribute to Metroid Prime games, my fave saga.

See you dec. 4!!
November 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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planetsmudge.bsky.social
commission for Jackie & Dan, masterminds behind Trombone Champ
Illustration of two figures wrapped around a giant trombone, their names spelt out with loose computer keyboard keys. Bluejays sparkle from the trombone, a minature Goku and Vegeta appear in small doorways guarded by some black cats.
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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astrawitch.com
Three Lwyd Moon 🌕

Available this weekend only as a part of @theyetee.com annual Sweaterfest 🌿
Three different mari Lwyd horse skulls with Holly and ribbon adornments arranged like the three wolf moon meme shirts
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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THE TOWER OF CIRITH UNGOL
Illustrated poster of the tower of Cirith Ungol in the land of Mordor. In the foreground are a bunch of orcs and goblins with acid green rim-light holding swords and axes and pole-arms. In the middle ground is a narrow bridge leading between two grotesque statues into the multi tiered tower that is lit with sickly green lights. Below it leading into the plateau of Gorgoroth are the hills of the Ethel Duath. In the distance is Orodruin and Ered Lithui. The text at the top is white flame like black metal lettering with the words CIRITH UNGOL. Nine green stars float above them. Plumes of smoke and ash fill the sky. A tiny shadow is grossing the bridge. Lord of the Rings. Tolkien. Prints coming soon.
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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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.
May 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Think this one is my favourite of our new Xmas card designs
Photo of a risograph printed Christmas card in sky blue and red. It features an illustration of a bauble being put on a Christmas tree. In its reflection is the face of a cat weating a rollneck sweatshirt.
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Horriblin family.

#Zelda #LegendOfZelda #TearsOfTheKingdom #ToTK
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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today is my 28th birthday! as we all know, sharing artists’ work makes them very happy.

thank you for all your continuing support and newfound friendships this year, it means the world to me.
one very green painting of my OC, mysterious skeleton girl, posing down on her knee. she has unnaturally long limbs. she’s holding a fossilised ichthyosaur skull sword on her shoulder and is wearing weird clothes that make her skeleton visible like on an x-ray. there’s a spirit of a hare in the background, running around with its eye gleaming red. a digital painting with three characters from kingdom come deliverance games standing one before the other: lady jitka, hans and henry. first comes lady jitka of kunstadt standing with her back to us. she is dressed in a dark reddish dress with white rim that slightly opens her shoulders, and a white waistband. she has black hair and warm skin and looks very delicate. next, standing face to face with her but looking sideways, is hand capon, her almost husband. he’s highest of the three of them, dressed is almost all white, with yellow hues. there’s somewhat lost look on his face. he holds jitka’s right hand in his left one up, but it doesn’t look like he’s doing it willingly. behind him, almost lost to the background and to the figures before him, stands henry. he’s holding his sword in his left hand, wearing a red glove. the blade of the sword stays between hans’ and jitka’s shoulders, not letting them come closer to each other. henry’s face is barely visible behind hans’ shoulder but he’s looking at jitka. not with hate, not with jealousy, more with acceptance and awareness. henry’s holding a wreath full of flowers and a red ribbon in his right hand. hans’ right one, instead of holding jitka’s, has found the wreath without having to look, and his and henry’s finger are touching. jitka knows. she’s looking down, trying to reach them with her fingers, but alas. that heart is already full. there are herbs’ silhouettes in the background. according to the list of plants with symbolism on wiki, here’s their meaning. astragalus for hans (your presence softens my pain), heliotrope for henry (emblem of faithfully devoted love), and rue for jitka (regret, sorrow, repentance, grace, clear vision , disdain). three sketches of my beagle, Bucky. he’s posing, asking for snacks, eyes wide and begging; he is lying curled into a ball, eyes sad like no one loves him (LIES); and he is lying on his side, stretched out, his ear thrown back. digital drawing made in heavypaint. it’s a simple bright and sunny mountain landscape, with white clouds and greenery and flowers. a girl is standing in the grass, turned to us. she has long golden blonde hair, is dressed in a white shirt and red shorts and is holding a hat with a white ribbon on it in her left hand and a yellow flower in her right. she’s smiling, happy and calm, her eyes closed. two birds are flying in the distance. this is a portrait of my friend. i haven’t visited her in a couple years.
November 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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elf barbarian (2022)
2022 limited tone dnd pc commission A barbarian elf stands in a blue green forest, her battle axe resting against her shoulder.
November 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Kobold-Quest | point n click portrait (2022)
2022 limited color character commission In a cave, a kobold stands in front of a king wyrm, pondering their item inventory which floats in the scene just beyond the wyrm as a window, displaying a wand, a water melon, a pile of meat, jars, a rubber duck, a pick axe, and a half empty potion. Around the room are several breakable jars, gems embeded into rock, mushrooms growing in the damp, and a giant stone pillar that seems structurally necessary. In the distance beyond the wyrm and the item window, is the caves exit.
November 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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felipepepe.bsky.social
UPDATE: Got many great pitches already, most from Latin America & Eastern Europe (which makes sense given my history & previous work lol)

I really want more stories from north of Africa, Middle-East & SEA. I'm reaching out to researchers & journos there, any suggestions & connections are welcome 🙏
felipepepe.bsky.social Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 10d
So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t...

It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.

Please share :)
The Video Game History Expansion Pack – Pitch your story
Today I’m putting my money where my mouth is and launching a new project — a book focused on game history outside of the usual North American perspectives.
crpgbook.wordpress.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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scrumpingskarp.bsky.social
me and my partner @meezymeez.bsky.social made a cover for a cool Zine! go check it out and the rest from zine city at zinecity.itch.io
November 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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pamwishbow.bsky.social
An old poster from 5 or so years ago, I gotta play with no black line again.
Illustrated poster for Neko Case's Hell-On tour with ay LaMontagne. An image takes up most of the poster of a seated, crowned figure grabbing a broken mirror and a fireplace poker. She's surrounded by two dogs and a skull
November 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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katewagner.wehwalt.net
wrote about why the kids are into McMansions now untappedjournal.com/stories/why-...
Untapped : Why the Subjects of McMansion Hell Have Ascended to McMansion Heaven : By Kate Wagner
How can these houses, long emblematic of pre-recession greed and excess, now be recast as aspirational, not in their size, but in their whimsy?
untappedjournal.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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artbrister.bsky.social
Working on a new series of block prints based on grotesqueries. I’ll have some at SLICE in St. Louis this weekend!
October 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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ROOT RPG Party Commission
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.
March 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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studio-mates
concept artist - one of three images commissioned for seattle indies Art Mini Quest 1 https://itch.io/jam/amq-1 A Siamese cat sits in their studio observing a mouse and painting in their sketchbook. previous stadies hang on their studio wall. 3d modeler - one of three images commissioned for seattle indies Art Mini Quest 1 https://itch.io/jam/amq-1 In a dark studio a white long haired cat gazes at a clay model of a mouse through a lens at their desk, carving it with another tool in their hand. In their room, previous fabrications lay haphazardly. animator - one of three images commissioned for seattle indies Art Mini Quest 1 https://itch.io/jam/amq-1 A calico stands on a step ladder, making small adjustments to a model of a mouse wearing boxing gloves and roller skates with a greenscreen photo roll behind. A camera, a quarter pipe, a small hand rail, and a jar of iced coffee sit on the floor.
March 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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pamwishbow.bsky.social
If you’re a working artist talking to other creatives I’m begging you to not hide this. I have a parter who makes more and I don’t hide that and try to be as open as I can especially one on one. It’s cruel to not be honest with your fellow artist and give them any kind of false hope or fear
fjbarb.bsky.social Frank J. Barbiere @fjbarb.bsky.social · 8d
Many full time creatives have “invisible safety nets” like bread-winning partners, trust funds, external support, etc. No shame on anyone, but it creates a false vision of success. The cost of going to cons alone on top of hoping to eat as a freelancer are untenable, IMO.
samanthamash.bsky.social Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 9d
When people hear that I'm returning to part time work they often ask "are things not going well with your art?"

The problem really is things are going well, but the world is so unstable that I long for some consistency and income that I don't have to pay quarterly taxes on
November 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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"It's the Pictures" | podcast art for @maxcovill.com
2025 limited color podcast art commission for "It's the Pictures" in a muted primary palette, a film nerd projects a title sequence on a sheet in their back yard. They are accompanied by a large drink, a bucket of popcorn, a stack of dvds, and a black cat in a bed.
October 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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jukeboxcomix.bsky.social
T-shirt design for The Ghost is Clear, a record label in KC
October 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM