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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The ward-stones have tumbled, and the dark things in the woods have become ... emboldened... Pen and ink drawing 🖋️ Still trying to work out the best way to scan and share these things. Photo of the physical drawing, or scanned and slightly cleaned up version? Let me know which is preferred

Sketchy ink drawing of a treeline dotted with carved stones. A figure approaches on the right hand side, while a lady behind a tree gestures they should come into the woods. Closer inspection shows she has a freaky mouth under her face.

Scanned version of the same sketchy ink drawing of a treeline dotted with carved stones. A figure approaches on the right hand side, while a lady behind a tree gestures they should come into the woods. Closer inspection shows she has a freaky mouth under her face.

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Another structural city-deity, because I take psychogeography too literally and fantastically

An ink illustration of a monstrous being looming over and out of a fantasy cityscape, holding a smaller figure on one hand and a wide bladed dagger in the other

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I'm half way through this notebook now, blitzing the tiny figures out These are merfolk, for a little bit of variety. Drawn as ever with my trusty schon p6 fountain pen, Adenglaw 🖋️

The first eighteen merfolk illustrations, all in slightly different outfits and with different armaments

Full page spread of thirty six ink line drawings of mermaids, just under an inch high each. The spread is titled "d66 Merfolk of the Shell Court" and has the description:

"The Merfolk of the Shell Court dwell in the shallows of the Realm of Thatla, & truck and trade with the surface folk.

They are a bright & curious people who travel for joy and adventure, telling tales to one another of what they have found out yonder"

The second eighteen merfolk, similarly armed and armoured. One of them is an octopus-merfolk.

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Bit different from my usual pages, tried a messy cityscape and enjoyed it a lot.

A4 drawing of a city by a river, with tiny houses and industrial buildings quite crudely scribbled in. Copper fountain pen sits on the page too

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Made a cool thing at Clwb Celf / Art Club last night Pyrography and copper inlay, very fun to do. Pyrography's so mindful, you really have to take your time and go delicately Still got a lot to learn but enjoying the learning!

A palm sized wooden pebble, with a mandala design burned into it via pyrography and 32 dots of copper inlaid as highlights

The mandala has four little figues incorporated into it in the cardinal directions, each in a different pose. North holds a sword, East is in a chalice posture, South has a spear or staff, and West is in a power stance

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I would like all fantasy games to have a page of common sayings that are said by various cultures, and ideally ones that are AT LEAST ONE step more colloquially odd than "Let me preach their values directly".

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

d66 WIELDERS OF THE SHADE-LANCES OF SURRUS Spread #2 in my current doodle dudes notebook. Text transcribed in the image alt for some lore, and they're arranged in six rows of six for you to roll d66 and select your character Drawn in an a6 MD paper notebook with my fountain pen Adenglaw 🖋

A double page spread filled with small ink drawings of fantasy characters, all wielding similar sceptres and wearing capes or light armour. The text at the top reads:

"The Shade-Lances of Surrus are fearsome technomagical weapons, created by a long-lost art & kept by an order of sorcerors who jealously guard these tools & turn them agsinst the foes of the Sussuran throne.

To be bitten by the bolt of a Shade-Lance is a dire thing- their dark magics are potent, but instill in their wielder a dreadful ennui & detachment"

Closer pic of the first page of the spread on the last image, with 18 of the 36 characters, in 3 rows of 6

Closer pic of the second page of the spread on the last image, with 18 of the 36 characters, in 3 rows of 6

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

CHALICER KNIGHTS First in a full notebook of themed double spreads... There are 36 little characters to every theme, so you can roll two six sided dice (one for row, one for character on the row) to auto select a character. Drawn as always with my fave fountain pen, Adenglaw 🖋

An open notebook with 36 small figures drawn over six rows of six. They're all variously dressed and armed in fantasy knights' armour. The text at the top reads:

d66 Members of the Order of Chalicer Knights

"Rag-tag, underfunded, loyal & liegeless: these knights swear to the very ideal of The Chalice, that symbol which echoes through so many worlds. Some seek, some secure, and yet more spread the word of their order"

First set of characters from the previous image

Second set of characters from the previous image

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

My little brother tricked me back into playing MtG. My main guy is Kykar, Winds Fury so I gone and done some birdy spirit tokens for him

Eight playing card sized illustrations of weird birds, messy and scruffily textured, arranged on my lap.

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Back at Realms #3, the Library-Between-All-Things. It's haunted me for 3 years now. Every time I open it I need to start over. Every time I start over I get halfway through. Every time I get halfway through something major happens, causing me to stop. It is my Samsara (I still like the cover tho)

A zine cover. Title at the top says Realms: A multiversal RPG Zine. Image is of stacks and stacks of books and library shelves with a serpentine dragon body (a bookwyrm, naturally) weaving through them. Bottom text says: #3 The Library Between All Things, written and illustrated by Edward Lang-Whiston

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Impish goblin guy Liking using a slightly smaller a6 sketchbook again, and liking TR paper in it Pen is Adenglaw, my Schon P6

An ink drawing of a squat, goblinish figure whose body is black crosshatch and who is wearing a breastplate and horned helmet. The figure has a sword, sheathed, and a red coloured flame dancing at its brow.

Lying across the page is a short pocket fountain pen made of copper and capped

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

When I'm not drawing pictures and daydreaming, I'm a custodian in a medieval castle... and today I got to be The Dragon Knight at the end of an Easter Quest I made, knighting kids and swearing them into service as protectors of magic and enchantment everywhere It's a really cool job, I'm very happy

A guy in vaguely medieval costume standing by a table with a red paper-mache egg and sword on it

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Love crosshatching, it can be kind of timeconsuming but it really does something for me. This is one of the Manticore-Knights from a world I'm only in the early stages of fleshing out.

A centaur shaped creature, heavily crosshatched in texture and with white masks as both face and shoulderguards, and an almost scorpion-esque tail, drawn in fine black lines on an open a6 sketchbook. A copper fountain pen rests on the top right corner of the page

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Just went driving in the heavy rain in the dark. I never thought I'd enjoy driving. I learned begrudgingly. And guys, I love it. It's like a crazy minigame between being in different places. I wish I'd learned like ten or fifteen years ago.

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I only started up posting here again because a friend dropped off instagram and came here But I guess I'd forgotten about all the cool custom feeds. Specifically the fountain pens one. Because I guess all I use social media for anymore is posting art and drooling over pen nibs

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I draw a lot of these little guys but never really been sure how to do more with them. Really I like how they look all in a little a6 notebook 🖋 Fountain pen is Adenglaw, my trusty Schon p6 ❤️

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Backfilling diary pages My sheaffer gets the best sheen to fineness ratio out of my pens, it's beautiful to write with. Or draw swords with 🖋

An a6 page with a grid, covered in a variety of swords drawn in red ink. A sheaffer imperial fountain pen is sat on the page crease

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 13/07/2024

Started a new one last night I'm only stealing like an hour at a time for drawing but it's been pretty consistent. I want this one to be an absolute texture patchwork

An unfinished ink illustration of a woman standing out on a balcony, with a pocket-sized copper fountain closed and on the page

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

Gonna launch a game via crowfunding. The corvids in my immediate vicinity will be paying for publication via a series of shiny pilfered goodies

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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

published game today: perplexingruins.itch.io/gnome

perplexingruins.itch.io

Gnome by Perplexing Ruins

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

Doodle Dudes Mini-Zine! Grouped by type here... knights, wizards, elves, beastfolk, and mountain people Def my favourite drawing practice at the moment 🖋

An a4 zine plan full of tiny fantasy figures, with a faceted copper pocket fountain pen laid on the page

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 11/06/2024

Coming down with one of those mildly halluncinogenic colds where everything takes 3 seconds to register but also things keep moving in my peripheral vision

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 09/06/2024

Yesterday I got to cuddle a couple of seagulls on my lunchbreak!

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 02/06/2024

I have a serious affinity for pigeons. This particular one came by last year and has graced us with his presence once more This is like the 3rd racing pigeon to land in my life, I love it

A very pretty pigeon is standing bashfully near some seeds and water on our patio

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 01/06/2024

🖋 "The spindly steampunk embodiment of Industry can't hurt you, it isn't real" The spindly steampunk embodiment of Industry:

An ink drawing of a structure/creature on eight spindly mechanical legs with a large chimney on its back approachs a smaller house

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

I've been so stoked to play some supers games with Longshot City... and I've still got Troika content I want to try with a group before it goes into Realms... and The White Hack is still on my shelf, singing to me... I've got the systems, the games... but no time to play them in 😭

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

I accidentally spent the whole evening doing a "warm up" drawing. I do not know what the tower on the right is so pissed off about, they wouldn't tell me 🖋

An ink drawing and fountain pen on desk. The drawing is of two unlikely towers, each with an eye, one looking in surprise at the other and the second glarinh away. There are smaller buildings at their feet

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

Back on my bullshit. I've been out of practice because we had a baby (coo) so this is the first not-tiny fountain pen doodle in a while 🖋

A drawing of two narrow bridges and stairs leading to a fortress door in a cave, with a fountain pen sat on the page.

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

I've been using a hobonichi this year to try and get organised Bonus is that any days I miss are luxury doodling paper 😍 and all my fountain pens love that paper yo

A black and white fountain pen sits on top of an open hobonichi journal, with a drawing of a city done in purple ink over both pages

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

I'm 3/4s of the way through this bad boy, so I reckon there are over a thousand doodle dudes in here at this point. I'm gonna see about getting this notebook scanned to reprint. And look- a pen upgrade! I have been busy whilst not posting here 🖋

A passport sized notebook filled with 48 3cm tall doodle figures arranged in lines. They're all different fantasy characters. There's a pen laid on top of the central fold made of copper.

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Testing my partner's patience by doing a Futurama-Richard-Nixon voice to narrate what the baby's doing

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

2018 vs 2023! Show me your art improvement! I made the jump to digital at some point, which I put a lot of my improvements down to. Now that I'm using ink and paper again I'm seeing that practice is practice, and it's easier now to see what I want to create before I start

A slightly washed out watercolour depicting a pair of figures in the foreground usong magic to fend off a surrounding force of monsters

An ink linedrawing of an alien monster holding a staff and extending one hand.

A digital linedrawing of an assassin hanging on the edge of an outcropping in a palatial setting, preparing to lunge up at a regal figure standing above

A page of tiny doodle figures, each different and all armed with various fantastical arms and armour.

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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

I've made some pretty neat bigger, non spot art pieces too!

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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Check out some of the art that I've made this year, all posted to Patrons for their use in commercial projects!

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

One of my publishers has just launched an exciting new sci fi / fantasy digital-only publishing division which has a really fair deal and accepts submissions from both agented and unagented writers. If you’re unagented and we’re mutuals, hmu if you want an intro. And please RT!

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Me, goading my week old baby: Do a poo. Come on, do a poo. Do a poo, you coward

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Gnome Scarf @gnomescarf.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Hi I'm Gnome Scarf. I draw with pens and color digitally. Mostly fantasy stuff.

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.northsky.social · 14/11/2023

I get irrationally upset when I see incredible art posted here that only has a few likes. Artists with small followings, share your art here for everyone to find you! Everyone else, like their art, share it and follow them.

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Mark Stroud @markstroud.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Hello, thank you for this art share. I'm Mark I make stuff.

Portrait of ghostly blue woman staring right

Various artwork displayed flat to show they are traditional and not artificial

large boobed skull faced wrath with sword on shoulder looking right.

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Stole half an hour to doodle with a coffee before work started and god damn did I feel better for it

A notebook, pen case, glass cup of coffee, open notebook and copper fountain pen laid out on a break room table. The open notebook is passport size and has little figures drawn in it

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

I've not posted much of my art recently because I've switched back to pen and paper and getting a shareable image is just enough faff to put me off So here's an older digital piece I did as an encounter for my last Troika group 🖋 You gonna take the dagger or no?

A black and white line art illustration of a four-eyed humanoid being gesturing at a floating dagger. The being is hooded and cloaked, and a dark cloud spreads behind them.

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

It was my birthday and my father-in-law gave me a bag of various spices, loose coffee beans, a really pretty rock and a heron skull I'm marrying into a goblin family and I love it

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edwardlangwhiston @tedlangwhiston.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Just another day (night) at the office ... I love working in the castle. This is the Annwn event that's going on over the weekend

Black Tower / Twr Ddu at Caernarfon Castle, with lasers cast around it and a full moon rising behind it

The upper ward and Porth Y Brenin/ King's Gate of Caernarfon Castle, with a stage set up at the top of the Upper Ward and lasers scattering up into an atmospheric night sky

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