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John Bilodeau Illustrations

@servsci.bsky.social
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Toronto Traditional Pen and Ink Artist. PhD Religion 2010 pronouns (he,lui) No AI no NFTs If you like traditional old school illustrations and need sketches, portraits, illustrations, reach out! linktr.ee/servsci

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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 3h
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 4h
can't wait to see this
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 5h
tiny dracolich #dnd #dragonart #fantasyart
a small ink and prismacolor drawing of an undead dragon
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
goblin fisherman - lineart #fantasyart #ttrpg #osr #b&wart
a goblin sits on a rock dangling a small hook in the water with a tiny salamander as bait. The salamander's mom approaches from the rear
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Discovered this beautiful Doctor Strange comic while shelving. Fall sunrise by Trade and Heather Moore #tpl #marvelcomics #comicart
Picture of the cover of the comic doctor strange in the foreground and a castle on a hill behindClose up of a panel depicting Doctor strange casting a spell the eye of agamotto openDoctor Strange and Yalda try to escape the body city of Byblos. The panel is spil red and blue and depicted them straining of escapeThe arrival of the lost child Coin to the birthplace of Sophia's lastest child. Coin is a gray hunched and veiled figure with a long black and white checkered scarf.
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
goblin doodles #sketchbook #fantasyart #ttrpg
pencil outline of a grouchy looking chubby goblin in a hood and half cape
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Day 23 #SciArtSeptember prompt is copper so I am sharing my #linocut of the first woman to earn a doctorate in science, physicist and professor Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Veratti (née, & known throughout her life as Bassi, 1711-1778). 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡🎢 #histsci I’ve shown her surrounded by the sort of
My linocut on white Japanese paper shows 18th century woman (Laura Bassi) in dress with fur cape, and hair in ringlets with a hairpiece which echoes a laurel crown. She’s holding an open book with Newtonian optics diagrams and in front of her is an electrical machine (a stand with vertical large glass plate and hand crank and brass tubes to channel the large electrostatic charges it could generate through friction). She is surrounded by typical high tech lab equipment of her day like conductors, an aurora flask, a luminous discharge tube, a Lane electrometer, Leyden jars and Volta's electric pistol. It’s printed in a gradient of a hint of turquoise through violet to red-magenta to bronze from the bottom to the top.
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Heart of the Deernicorn @heartofthedeernicorn.com · 22/09/2026
If you've been wanting to join our Solo RPG Book Club but you don't live near Olympia, WA, you should check out our online Solo RPG Book Club! We will be hosting a livestream every month on Discord to walk you through how to play that month's game.
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Daniel Kwan @danielhkwan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Putting a call out for TTRPG artists! Doing an initial discovery for an artist to work on a new cyberpunk, body horror action game I'm designing. Please link your portfolio! NO AI.
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Claytonian @claytonian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I've made one tarot deck for a client and I occasionally think about making my own old school style deck, then I think about making it an oracle deck for ttrpg solo play and then I get overwhelmed and shelve the idea pictured - process pics for the Veil of the Eternal Night Deck for Mythcraft
pencil drawing of the design for the card back of a tarot deck. a veiled woman stands in front of the world tree, the tree is growing u out of a small planet earth that is surrounded by other planets. The woman is tearing her own veil revealing peacock tail feathers underneath.lineart of the veiled woman design . five pointed stars added to the backgroundfinal inked version of the card back of the veiled woman design
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
there's something so cool about seeing your art on the page. #dnd #ttrpg #mythcraft #indiecreators
an ink illustration of a skull overgrown with weeds embedded in the text of a Mythcraft bookspot art ink illustration of a small bottle of poison with nightshade leaves framing itspot illustration of a backpack with deployable glider wings
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
September issue of Carouse, Carouse just dropped! #ttrpg #imdiecreators #nsr #osr www.carouse.blog/september-20...
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September 2026 - Sneak Peeks
Welcome! The seasons are changing, the harvest is coming, and our lives are suffuse with community and creativity. This issue, our featured reviews both cover different flavors of early access: Kati t...
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
orcish assassin #osr
ink drawing of a pig faced orc with a dagger
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Carlos Castilho - AVAILABLE FOR COMMISSIONS! @crawlstilho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Artwork I created for Gravity Realms Escape From Zombie Island. A zombie-infested survival horror adventure for AD&D 2E/D&D 5E/OSR/Shadowdark www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra... Final days! @kickstarter #adnd #dnd #osr #5e #shadowdark #adventure #ttrpg #fantasy #oldschool #crawlstilho
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
yay! #shadowdark #OSRart #drawtober2026
list of prompts for shadowdark drawtober doodles
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Evlyn Moreau @evlynmoreau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Preserved Human template with some of his starting gear for Orbital Megastructure. I will drawn the second one later or this weekend.
old guy and his mule bot
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
is it medieval marginalia or is it @lunegrimm.bsky.social ? you'll never know...
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Radish Doodles @radishdoodles.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
absolutely honored to be on this list!
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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Under the Sun
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Carlos Castilho - AVAILABLE FOR COMMISSIONS! @crawlstilho.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Artwork created for Killian's Krawls The adventure will be titled "A Foundation of Schemes" Coming soon! #artwork #dcc #madebyhuman #fantasy #ttrpg #dungeoncrawlclassic #oldschool #osr #crawlstilho
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
mouse adventurer print over on inprnt #mausritter #dnd #fantasyart www.inprnt.com/gallery/jbil...
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Mouse Adventurer, an art print by John Bilodeau
Gallery Quality Prints
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
looking forward to seeing what everyone draws this year #inktober2026
prompt list for inktober 2026
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hydra attacks illustration - in my stock art store over on RPG Trader #copicmarkers #ttrpgart #dndart #dcc #fantasy
a copic marker colored drawing of a party of old school adventurers attacking a hydra. Wizard with staff of magic missiles and armored cleric down front, fighter wrapped up in one neck thief clambered up on another.
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
some gnoll spot art for your creations #OSR #DND #indieartist #b&Wart
cover image for a b&w ink drawing of a poncho-wearing gnoll fighter lunging forward with a curved sword in their left hand
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
the Wolf Bird I drew for the Great Canadian Game Jar contestants to use if they wished. You too can purchase a non-exclusive license to use this art in the game jam bundle bundle on drivethru. #elbowsup #inkdrawing #b&wart #ttrpg
a drawing I made for the Great Canadian Game Jam - it's a black and white ink drawing of a creature with a howling wolf head and the body of a loon
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Support Canadian independent TTRPG creators and check out all the games in the Great Canadian Game Jam! (a pack of illustrations I made for the jam is included in the bundle… in case you need a zombie hockey player for one of your creations…) #elbowsup #ttrpg www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
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Your one-stop online shop for new and vintage RPG products from the top publishers, delivered fresh to your desktop in electronic format.
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
picture of the pencils for another griffin drawing - more dynamic style pose in the air
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
experimenting with a crosshatch feather shading style. griffin in flight spot art #osr #spotart #dndart #gryphon #fantasyart #inkdrawing
pen and ink drawing of a griffin (eagle lion chimera) flying.
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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New (to me) free public domain art resource just dropped: fineartfree.com No login!
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Browse and download 500,000+ classic paintings free. Public domain art from top museums. Free for any use.
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
What happens when the guardian griffins of a lich's hoard become corrupted by their proximity to the phylactery? a griffolich #dndart #b&wart #indieartist #ttrpg #osr
a black and white ink drawing of a pair of undead griffins' rotting bodies perched on pedestals to either side of a pile of treasure, including a lich's phylactery
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This blogpost on traversefantasy is a spicy take, but worth looking at if you are going through the phases of being an indie ttrpg creator. I'm constantly struggling with the desire to get renumerated for my drawing work and an overall suspicion about the commodification of what I do. #ttrpg #art
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barenuckelavee.bsky.social @barenuckelavee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I have a blog now and wrote about playing a bastardized version of OD&D in prison and how the DIY spirit of the OSR is most alive when you don't buy anything at all barenuckelavee.bearblog.dev/no-one-can-t...
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NO ONE CAN TAKE YOUR GAME FROM YOU
There is a sickness in the modern tabletop hobby, a kind of creeping, insidious consumerism that tries to convince you that you need things to play. We get c...
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
@jeffeasley.bsky.social please post some of your cool new drawings on here... don't make me use facebook!!!
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
New issue of our collaborative indie newsletter dropped! #ttrpg #NSR #indiecreator #rpg www.carouse.blog/august-2026-...
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August 2026 - A Jam-Packed Month
Welcome! We're coming off a whirlwind month after July's game jams, and everyone's refilling the creative well in different ways. Luckily, there's no shortage of inspiration with all this new blood in...
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I've bounced off FF2 a few times, but this time aorund for ome reason I'm really enjoying it. There are a few elements that remind me a little of FF11, strangely. I'm kinda enjoying grinding skill level in different weapons this time around. I guess you just need to be in the right mood.
a screen shot of a fight in final fantasy 2. Six small bees on the left and the player characters in the column on the right.
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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Boosting to the #b&wart feed 🖤
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Quebec's Goblins per Louis Frechette. Such a weird description. Leave it to Quebec to be different. Anyway. Weirdo goblin added to my drivethru store #osr #ttrpg #inkdrawing #spotart
cover image for my spot art of a goblin as described in a quebec folktale. He described them as an anklebiter with arms and legs like a toad, a stomach like a tomato. One eye in the center of their face and a pointy hat like a spring mushroom. I gave this little guy a horse brush strapped to their back as the whole tale is about how they love horses and care for them.
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I'm guilty of this. Lazy alt text... Sorry I'll up my game
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The RPG Gazette @therpggazette.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
When did a D&D character stop being a character and become a build? From AD&D kits to 3e optimization, 4e’s Character Builder, subclasses, and 2024’s Origin feats, this article traces how fifty years of design gradually moved character identity from the fiction to the character sheet. #DnD #OSR
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The Great D&D Flattening: Why Everything Became a Character Build
Ask a table today what their character is, and you will often get an answer that sounds less like a person and more like a shopping list: Hexblade Two, Paladin Eight, Polearm Master, Sentinel, Metamagic Adept. Ask that same question of a table playing in 1985, and you’ll hear a name, a class, and all manner of information provided by the player about who this fictional person is supposed to be.
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
undead kobold #fantasyart #dnd #osr #indieartist
ink drawing of a skeletal kobold
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Amanda Griffiths 🎨 Comic Colourist @darjeeliarts.northsky.social · 19/08/2026
Check out this cool starter pack full of amazing artists and then for some reason also me?? (Kidding!) Shout out to @tjosvold.com for putting it together 👏 go.bsky.app/Lv65AdW
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David Petersen @mouseguard.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
New free art process post about my pinup for @schweizercomics.bsky.social’s OUTLAW’S APPRENTICE: www.patreon.com/posts/165497...
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
beggar's bite #osr #dndart #b&wart #indieartist #ink
ink drawing of an armed beggar
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
one of the crazy demons I was commissioned to draw for Dark Devilry for #shadowdark and #ose. That project has some wild writing in it. #osr #dndart #b&wart
a two headed demon screams over a swirling abyss
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TTRPG Blogs (dndblogs.com) @dndblogs.com · 16/08/2026
Card Making & More not-Daggerheart Talk: Indie RPG Newsletter ttrpg.in/2026/08/16/card-making-mor… #dnd #ttrpg
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I'm not involved in this. I just like the idea.. #osr #adnd www.kickstarter.com/projects/adn...
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AD&D Toolkit: Character Profile Images
Human produced, hand-drawn and digital images of Character Classes to be used on Digital Character Sheets.
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
skeleton lines #ttrpg #osr
screaming skeleton
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
OSR-up your open source art. Make weird B&W images with Chaoclypse's app
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I received my contributor's copy of Amarath by @robinsuu.bsky.social . A sandbox setting for Dragonbane. This is so cool #osr #indiecreator
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