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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Poltergeist! First genuine horror movie I watched, probably around 9 or 10 at my cousin's house. I ran out of the room when the guy started peeling his face off and didn't finish it until I was an adult

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wait, so participants get all this great comics guidance AND get paid to be there? Am I reading that right?

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of these bad boys, already a decade old when my grandpa gave me his old one in 2004ish. I created many an elaborate MSPaint scene on it, and eventually accumulated enough yard sale CD-ROMs to upgrade to Windows 98 and play Thief: The Dark Project on it, which was formative to my whole deal.

An NEC Versa laptop from the mid-90s. It has an 800x600 screen and weighs somewhere between 14 and 35 pounds

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thank you! This was a tabletop scenario I created and ran for my siblings. It ended when one of their characters discovered she was the dream-consciousness of an extradimensional entity and the other watched the whole town fall into an open wound. Polishing it up so everyone can have fun with it

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Cheers, thanks! Big inspiration from your work, obviously

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Also I see a lot people saying th CGI is dodgy and while that is true of the visual fidelity in parts, the animation itself is stunningly kinetic. There's a scene near the end that I almost never see western VFX studios have the gumption to tackle and it's handled masterfully here

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hope was genuinely one of the wildest movie experiences I've had in a while. Starts off as Korean Tremors and only gets more insane from there.

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thanks! I've enjoyed doing some digital photo collage in the past and it was a good excuse to hunt through my old pictures for backgrounds

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Trying a slightly different thing for a scenario I'm working on for the Liminal Horror Summer Jam. Classic small town doomsday cult cosmic nightmare stuff. More to come!

Ink drawing over photo collage depicting the front of a dive bar with mountains in the background.

Ink drawing over photo collage depicting an autopsied body, skull open, with a decidedly alien-looking organ in place of the brain.

Ink drawing over photo collage depicting two hapless investigators being jumped by a spindly, eldritch arthropod under a bridge.

Ink drawing over photo collage depicting a haunted-looking middle-aged woman at a bar.

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ha! What can I say, I love your work

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Depends on whether you want to spend 100 hours getting dunked on by sassy elves or, uh, spend 100 hours getting dunked on by sassy elves

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Two extremely different pieces of art you've made. See, it's only MOSTLY fiddly pen and ink stuff around here.

Gouache and ink painting of a fishperson knight and his crustacean companion being ambushed by goblins in the woods, based on D. Jeffrey's Mosschester.

Pen and ink drawing of a car stopped on an empty desert road at night. Its headlights shine on a mysterious, organic winged shape hovering in the road in front of it. The car's door is open, and no driver is visible.

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I love my metal long sleeves but the repeating logo always strikes me as lazy design. You've got a whole vertical canvas you're paying to screenprint, might as well use that space for something that isn't already on the front of the shirt.

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Old Sorcery, Old Tower, Fogweaver and Erreth-Akbe are some of my favorites and definitely 100% human

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Ren M @remmukh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If you want to read some dark fantasy adventure, the new chapter of my comic "May Thy Hand Not Slip" is finished! In it a monk gets stuck in a pit with a bandit, who put him there, creation myth is told, and a seal on a magic sword gets broken. You can check it out on my itch io store (link in bio).

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Just watched Knightriders for the first time, and it made me wonder how many movies there are where pretty much everyone except the protagonist is having a blast, and the protagonist probably could too if they'd just chill the fuck out. Twister is a similar scenario

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I have the opposite problem. I guess I'm splitting the difference with... ranger?

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

RIP Viktor Antonov; I'm amazed at how skillfully he took the same brutalist blue-black metal from Half-Life 2 and made it work in Dishonored's Victorian setting.

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is something that people without illustration experience tend not to see: every single thing in an image was put there with intention, nothing can be incidental. A writer says "the car," but an illustrator says exactly what model, inside and out, from every angle, and it's not optional.

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Thanks man! I love the book, can't wait to read more

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I was just outside totality in 2017 and even that felt a bit like reality was breaking down around me. Three minutes of rippling shadows and the total silence of the birds

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Congratulations to all my European mutuals today who saw the eclipse and got their existential paradigm shift!

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I wonder if he realizes how many of us just immediately lost interest in everything he does knowing that some or all of what we're seeing is AI-generated. It's incredibly damaging to his whole shtick and he'd be dumb as hell to not just renounce it and move on.

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Very jealous of the amount of lavishly illustrated fantasy comics in your part of the world. Whenever they make it across the pond it's in the form of massive beautiful hardcovers I can't afford

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Sorry to hear that man. You did incredible work on that game and gave it such a strong visual identity. It's a rough time in the industry right now but I hope that portfolio gets you more work soon

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Went to see it with my wife and she called it "Millennial Grey: the movie" and I could not agree more

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Very tired of this kind of leftist that believes geopolitical complexity is liberal propaganda and any position that could be construed as anti-american is inherently anti-fascist as well. It's counterproductive to the point of making me suspect astroturfing

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It always cracks me up how the Halloween animal skeletons always leave the ears on just so there's absolutely no confusion about what kind of animal it is

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Definitely helpful to get a sense of the layering going on. Appreciate it!

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Thanks! I've been trying to figure out gouache for a while but I haven't really moved past the watercolor stage. I love the solidity of the colors in this so I'm always curious about technique to achieve this sort of result

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Absolutely incredible. Do you keep your gouache on the thicker side for something like this?

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Dare I say that despite being set in a fantasy world this book contains more Ancient Greek culture than a certain recent film

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Did you know that I wrote and illustrated a full-length Iron Age kaiju fantasy graphic novel? I did! If any of those descriptors sound good to you, take a look at it here. Available in print or as a PDF.

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GARGANTUAN

A great beast has arisen from the sea. It approaches the city of Thrykaea, leaving devastation its wake. Queen Pharseia and her closest allies stand in its way. They must overcome the greatest threat ...

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

That's the thing that gets me about his movies,they all have such a somber tone and bleak, grandiose atmosphere but the writing is never good enough to make me care about any of it.

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

And predictably the whole movie is the visual equivalent of the sans serif font they use for the title card

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Odyssey was fine, the monsters were cool. Seeing some of the reactions to it makes me increasingly convinced that Christopher Nolan's whole deal is making a dumb guy's idea of a smart movie

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Thanks! Tales is a good one. I think Old Sorcery is my favorite for the classic synth sound and DIM for a more medieval flavor. Erreth-Akbe and Guild of Lore are also faves

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Stuff like this is why "I had to use AI because I couldn't afford to hire an artist" is a horseshit excuse. There's so much incredible work you can use for free and lovely people like this that want to help you do that.

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It's done! Much like our diminutive heroine, I've reached the end of this particular quest. Shout out to every dungeon synth artist; I must have listened to most of them while working on this.

Ink illustration of a small ruined castle on a mountain spire. A huge, sinuous, dragonlike creature curls around the tower, peering down at a weary warrior approaching up stairs carved into the rock. The sky is full of dark stormclouds, but a sunbeam illuminates the scene.

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Thanks! Yep, he lives on my shelf now

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I've got a good one about Argos but there are a lot of eyes on it right now

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I think Troy did a pretty good job of this! The outfits aren't period accurate, but they're at least visually interesting and tell you a bit about the characters wearing them. If Nolan had gone that route I don't think anyone would be complaining

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