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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Self promotion is depressing and futile.

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It ought to be the shortest charter ever.

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Sajan @planetsmudge.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Hi #portfolioday, I'm Sajan, looking to do more fantastical/sci-fi/otherworldly stuff. Have a strong design sense, so especially keen on covers/posters etc, but also happy to do interior work! You can contact me for work through here: www.sajanrai.co.uk/portfolio/

Illustration for the slipcase of Lost In Cult's Switch 2 edition of Caves of Qud, a figure split in two -the mechanical side featuring a large arm, and mechanical heart, the magical side featuring a beak, wing and hook for a foot

Illustration for the cover of Lost In Cult's Switch 2 edition of Caves of Qud: a sweeping landscape framed by trees, whose roots are crowded by various denizens and artefacts beneath the earth

album cover for empire by CCTV. an earthy, peeling humanoid with a skull face tears themselves from cube of blood, violently ripping at it's map surface with fists and teeth

poster for Red Umbrella fundraiser party at atemlos, a femme figure stands legs akimbo, holding a dripping red umbrella with a sex toy as a handle

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Oh, it's #portfolioday? I'm Luke, an illustrator from Bristol with a focus on Science Fiction Luke@lukeoram.com

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Being stuck in a call queue, with infuriatingly crap music, 30 second loops of a voice telling you to hold, and nearly as frequent inducements to use a website instead (I would do that if it would help) should be considered hostile architecture. It is very clearly designed to get you to hang up.

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hen's teeth rare dentist appointment missed because the police had closed the road and connecting dual carriageway. Can't wait to spend weeks with holes in to my jaw because there's no availability.

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

You just know the entire thing probably props up some kind of tax dodge a well.

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

TERROR NEXUS One of my fave paintings from my recent work with And Tomorrow Games. Feels apt for many reasons. #art #artsky #scifi #nightmare #pain

Painting of a tormented, gigantic human head, emerging through a desolate landscape.

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I don't update my website very often, because loads of work gets stuck in the unpublished pipeline, and also because I find it depressing to look at it all. However I now removed much old and added some new: #art #artsky #portfolio #hello lukeoram.com

lukeoram.com

Luke Oram – Artist and Illustrator

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The later covers are of course in-line with trends of the days, but to me those trends feel homogenous. It's like they are embarrassed to be scifi. This is one of the worst offenders:

A dull book cover for The Player of Games by Iain M Banks.

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"world extermination by Insect Warfare"

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Something like this has been my main concern with the Greens. Their potential value to me (and others like me) is as a vehicle for an electoral strategy. This just seems like a naive own-goal, which is the opposite of Polanski's pitch to us. 😔

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The scene where Ziller expresses his deeply-felt sense of futility (a composer in a world of god-like AI) only to be gently chided by said AI, and then meet a dying man still filled with wonder...is beautiful. End of Bladerunner type emotional defence of life. I am struck by this book's maturity.

An old copy of Iain M Banks' novel 'Look to windward' being held up by me.

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No doubt both are created by the same capital demiurge. The kind that draws it's foul succour from the frustration and wasted effort of the hopeless and the benighted.

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This has become fairly indistinguishable from 'real work' in the 'real economy'.

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Social media silos have facilitated the development of the c2c economy: chud to chud direct sales.

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Quite a few years ago I decided that, even though it looks lame, I'm playing with my guitar a bit higher because it's better for my hands. If I'm going to keep playing live music into my 50s, kids will just have to cope with gramps rocking the Harrison neck-tie.

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Forgive the random internet advice, I just know first-hand that playing position is one of the main culprits for this. Nylon string held properly will very likely help avoid a repeat.

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's nice stuff, but I worry that all those gifs are made without any kind of permission, directly using the the source artwork.

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh, you "care about our British traditions"? What's your favourite Middle English poem regarding a river?

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Currently re-reading #IainMBanks SF novels. Sticking to the old school illustrated covers that don't look like supermarket thrillers. HMU if you are trying to shift any.

Hand holding a stack of sci-fi novels by Iain M Banks.

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Sajan @planetsmudge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An absolute delight to do the cover + slipcase for this one www.lostincult.co.uk/shop/p/caves...

Switch cover for Caves of Qud - illustration of a sweeping landscape framed by trees, whose roots are crowded by various denizens and artefacts beneath the earth

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's some fuss about the forthcoming Eggers Romeo & Juliet apparently being filmed in "olde English". I'm going to assume everyone means Shakespearian English (i.e. early Modern English) and not the language of the Saxons etc (i.e. Old English).

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I found that the Moodys all suddenly became 'scholars' in the late 18th century, as the local towns began to develop education and as farming practice changed. You could see how the property was gradually divided up, left to overgrow, and became woodland.

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We have a similar thing here and it's great. I found a random ruin in some woods nearby, known as 'Moodys Woods'. Using the historic layers I found that the area had once been home to a longstanding family of Farmers- the Moodys. Cross-reffing with electoral records tracked the history.

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One might suppose they are interested in buoying up a symbolic 'big bad' that can later be used to discredit anyone who is critical of the govt.

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It would be really cool if this nudged over 12k. Be your best friend...

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Can post stuff there, but it's not a great place to host anything, if you get me.

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want to put a comic I made online. Is there a better place than my existing ITCH.IO place, given nobody looks at anything there??

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A shopping centre isn't quite the same as a mall, they tend to be in city centres, but it's a similar thing. I just happened to be in one I used to frequent, and decided to relive something. I won't go there again before it's demolished, so it's strange to intentionally have a last time.

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Seated with cheap fast food, In the court of a faded shopping centre, Full now of empty units, And soon to be demolished, My teenage self seated not far from me, Immersed in comics and ideas and cheap fast food, Cannot see the middle aged man or shutters long battened, But tastes the same burger.

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'd love to hear from anyone actually running it...

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Prick-Index heuristic never leads one astray.

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As a kind of crustpunk-adjacent character, I have often found myself buying surplus clothing for it's comparative durability and economy. So I can say first hand that this is on the money.

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I am in no way against using whatever means are available to make art. Having said that, I cannot help but think the incentivisation behind certain design practices that are predominantly reiterative has lead to an industry of visual reproduction.

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

How would one go about be included for consideration as an artist?

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Do you like TTRPGs? How about 2027 calendars? All this and more in this new project from @neonfieldmouse.bsky.social, @lonearchivist.bsky.social and myself. Link in first comment. #art #artsky #ttrpg #scifi #sf #future

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Neonfieldmouse @neonfieldmouse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My new module Trapped On Schrödinger’s Moon is top spot front page above the fold mega featured over on Backerkit.com right now, oooh fancy. Last time I was front page anything it was all a terrible misunderstanding and besides I did the community service so

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Neonfieldmouse @neonfieldmouse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Trapped on Schrödinger's Moon is live on Backerkit. Cool module extremely cool 2027 wall calendar and most importantly another goofball video that makes little sense www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a... Great work from @lukeoram.bsky.social and @lonearchivist.bsky.social on this so far 👍👍👍

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lukeoram.bsky.social @lukeoram.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It is 1996. I am reading Iain M. Bank's EXCESSION, and seeing for the first time a desirable vision of the future. It is 2026. I am reading Iain M. Bank's EXCESSION, and feeling that vision is more distant than ever.

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