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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 6h

potter portrait (2025)

2025 limited color portrait commission

in tones of blue brown and tan,
a potter sits at her wheel in an ourdoor studio, her workspace covered by the overhang of a barn. a donkey looks at her work attentively, two others stand at the gate in the field out back, and a dog sleeps in front of her.

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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 21/09/2026

commissions open, hankerin to draw autumn and winter scenes

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Meredith McClaren @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 1h

'The sword is there, if you want it.' A sword for you, on the last day of Swordtember.

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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social · 1h

Disciplined Duelist - for Magic: The Gathering's Streets of New Capenna AD: Sarah Wassell The first painting I completed for Magic and still one of my favourites.

A man strides across a dimly lit hallway, brandishing magical gauntlets. He rolls up a sleeve in anticipation of a fight to come. The shapes of the composition are angular and art-deco-inspired.

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Marie Enger @ LBX26 Table 409 @soengery.bsky.social · 3h

HEY YOU, YEAH YOU

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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 14/08/2026

graveyard guard (2024)

2024 limited tone character commission

An avian is perched on a tree in a grave yard, dangling a lantern with its foot, his eye on the viewer

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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 02/09/2026

Dungeons and Dragons and Dinosaurs | Firefly Cave

2026 full color illustration

on a dark background, two dinosaurs tend to tasks in subterranean ruins illuminated by a torch, magic, and large fireflies.

In the foreground, a microraptor peers at the light shining behind a brick, and readies a spell to extinguish a torch. Behind them, a Zhenyuanlong pours sacred water over a fey planter. their weaponry sits at the foot of the shrine.

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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 23/04/2026

first boss triptych (2023)

2023 Boss battle portrait of the first colossus from Shadow of the Colossus | 1 of 3 postcards commissioned for the People Make Games patreon

2023 Boss battle portrait of Igor from Cave Story - 1 of 3 postcards commissioned for the People Make Games patreon

2023 boss battle portrait of Armos Knight from Zelda a Link to the Past | 1 of 3 postcards commissioned for People Make Games patreon

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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 24/04/2026

Tattooed Lamia (2022)

2022 crewneck design for Electric Lady Tattoo in Kankakee, IL

A large snake woman gleams with joy as three tattoo artists work on different parts of her body.

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Ben Sears @bensears.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Looking at ways to raise the cold hard cash needed to print this comic. I don't have anything against kickstarter, but I'd rather just rely on preorders to help fund the printing. Would you preorder this comic? It'd be about 68 pages, risograph printed, probably around $15.

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Joey ‘Detchibe' W. 🏳️‍⚧️ @thestacks.ca · 29/09/2026

I recently increased the rate for pitches to The Stacks. If you or someone you know would like to write for my site, please get in touch. I focus on obscure games history, sex, gender, and art history but am open to other topics thestacks.ca/submissions

RATES
• $100CAD for shorter essays/articles between ~600-1000 words (Example
• Up to $250CAD for larger scale research essays/articles/projects of ~ 2000 words or more (Example)
• Higher rates for very large research essays/articles/projects of ~5000 words or more (Example)
• Rates may vary depending on research involved, interviews, etc

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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 29/09/2026

the doctor will see you now | dnd commission (2021)

2021 full color dnd commission

in a dark room, a sickly looking balding man strokes the needle of a large syringe. in the room are stacks of books, misplaced vials, empty bottles, chains, and a privacy curtain to be used during operations.

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 28/09/2026

kitchen duty

the monks havin a gab while leisurely preparing dinner

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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

not for nothing, but in 2020 i wrote about the ethical choices we make as commercial artists and tried to update Milton Glaser's classic "12 Steps To Design Hell" list. 6 years later, my list of hypotheticals already seems sorta quaint www.ssense.com/en-mx/editor...

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12 (New) Steps On The Road To Design Hell

Artist Michael DeForge Updates The Classic Milton Glaser Guidelines For Contemporary Hellscapes

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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 26/09/2026

Coming up on the two year anniversary of hurricane helene here in asheville

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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 25/09/2026

waiting out the weather (2023)

2023 limited color commission

in a forest, a tapir wearing a mushroom hat and a trenchcoat crosses his arms and waits out a curtain of rain, ears perking at the paradiddles

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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 25/09/2026

free worldwide shipping on inprnt today in case you'd like a non commissioned work from me www.inprnt.com/gallery/shaf...

screenshot of inprnt storefront with various past pieces

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Arlin @arlinortiz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New creature print! A raccoon for my September Risopost Patreon. www.patreon.com/risopost/pos...

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鋼のStephen Meyerink @sjmtaelus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So happy I got to help the VGHF with this, and looking forward to helping more in the future! They have been an incredible research for our book project and also for my own general education on preservation and history, and also just plain fun (Sega Channel!!), and I'm glad I got to repay the favor.

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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BLOOD WORK @bloodwork.show · 22/09/2026

BLOOD WORK / EPISODE 51 I AM SITTING IN A ROOM: DRONES, PART 2 We return to Grégoire Chamayou’s Theory of the Drone to meditate on sacrifice, preservation, and what happens when warrior virtue must be retooled for riskless killers.

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I Am Sitting in a Room: Drones, Part 2 | Blood Work

We return to Grégoire Chamayou’s Theory of the Drone to meditate on sacrifice, preservation, and what happens when warrior virtue must be re

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Marie Enger @ LBX26 Table 409 @soengery.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's gonna be fine.

An old poster that says do you have nothing nice to say? join us

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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 15/06/2026

Boots the Rogue | DnD Pet Portrait (2022)

2022 limited color fantasy pet portrait illustration.

a rogue sits at the top of an occupied mausoleum, dagger at the ready. on the horizon is the walls of a small city, a steeple of a church, and a large rocs egg

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Deleted Saves @deletedsavesmag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Mazen Haggag closes out Deleted Saves Issue #3 with a deep dive into the superficial representation of Middle Eastern & North African culture in Final Fantasy XVI. Check it out below! www.deletedsaves.com/the-cultural...

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The Cultural Void of Final Fantasy XVI’s Dhalmekia

The problem is that Dhalmekia — the only non-white nation in the base game — is all surface, no substance.

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Germy Snorese @jeremysorese.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Gall, oil on linen-wrapped panel, 12 x 9 inches

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

oh this is up! I wrote an essay about how video games keep track of the hours you spend playing them, and how I find that vulgar

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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 21/09/2026

commissions open, hankerin to draw autumn and winter scenes

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Tiffany Baxter @tiffbaxter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Another work in progress for upcoming cons, a guide to medieval headwear with my cat. It will be a risograph, though I’m unsure what colours yet.

A rough layout for a poster with my cat Pixie wearing various medieval women’s headwear.

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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 07/04/2026

The CRYSTAL SORCERER blocks your path (2022)

RPG Battle Portrait (originally commissioned for a beer label)| A Crystal Sorcerer Wields their staff, eyes squinted in a smile or sneer, crystal floating in their other hand.

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鋼のStephen Meyerink @sjmtaelus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

longshot: trying to track down contact info for Sabine Duvall, who was involved in localization work for many projects over the years, including (for my purposes) the FR/ES/DE versions of King's Quest VI. FB and LinkedIn were a bust, so hoping to locate an email address or something.

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Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

trying to whip up some Halloween feelings

Illustration of a ghoul in a cloak with a hood, holding a goblet of something in one hand, the moon in another

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Marie Enger @ LBX26 Table 409 @soengery.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

THERE IS NOWHERE LEFT TO GO

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Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Making a sticker of a portrait of Wyrm as a wyrm I think

Work in progress screenshot of a design of a long ribbon like dragon with bat wings framed in an unfinished frame

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Masha Zhdanova'S WEBCOMIC IS ONLINE NOW!!! @mashazart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

my article about artist's alley is up at @fansplaining.bsky.social today! thank you to everyone who talked to me about their AA experiences for this piece and let me use their photos fansplaining.com/the-death-of...

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The Death of the Artist Alley?

For smaller artists, increased costs and outsized merchandise expectations are putting convention-selling out of reach.

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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 17/09/2026

The Fool | dnd tarot commission (2022)

2022 limited color commission

posed in the style of THE FOOL from the rider-waithe tarot deck, a kobold stands on a cliff above a lake of fire wielding a white flame in their drawn back hand and a staff twice their height their other one.

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