Author: Shel Kahn
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Dragon Crystal Island on Wood Panel
I’ve been thinking a lot about stylization as I do more gouache painting, and particularly trying to find a way to integrate a lot of the “happy accidents” you get from brushes, water, paint and substrate all messing with each other into my larger visual goals. Doing this on paper can be really fun —…
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A remembered field in gouache
I’ve been doing some gouache studies from remembered places this week to keep my hand in while I’m at the digital stage on a few pieces of art. Getting away from reference photos helps me focus on the possibilities of the medium, and this piece was a test of using 100% cotton paper, which will…
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I Guested on the Unwritten Earths Symposium Podcast!
I had a great time talking with Nathan and Epidiah at the Unwritten Earths Symposium about art, games, and all the amazing things we have in store for Swords Without Master – check the episode out here: Eppy and Nathan kindly let me go on several rants about what art does in TTRPGs, how graphic…
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Painting the Great Bear for Swords Without Master
For this painting I spent more time than I honestly expected wrestling with my style goals. In the context of my arm recovery, I’ve been trying to figure out a stylistic angle for myself going forward as an illustrator. Over the past few months I’ve been doing style tests, digitally and then on paper, trying…
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Swords Without Master has arrived!
I come to you with unmatched good news! The glorious tabletop RPG Swords Without Master is being released as a standalone book! The game is live on kickstarter, awaiting your support to manifest itself in the most glorious and fitting form: a book, custom dice, and a true dragon’s hoard of art in the form…
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The Bear – for Swords Without Master
We are inching ever closer every day to the launch of the Swords Without Master kickstarter, which I am involved with as the art director and as an illustrator in my own right, and I wanted to share my first folio card with you! I’ll be back later this week with a thorough breakdown of…
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New Macro Conversion Lens!
My partner gave me this Raynox DCR-250 Super Macro Conversion Lens for christmas! It clips onto the end of all my other lenses, and lets me take photos like these: It’s going to be an incredible tool when the bugs are back in the spring, but in the meantime I want to learn more about…
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snow macro experiment #2
lots of macro techniques to be learned now, so I can get deep into macro bugs next spring!
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Paper Test Wizard Adventure #4
Testing more paper by sending the wizard to a very, very colourful realm: This paper test was scaled up to 9 x 12″, and it was on Strathmore’s 400 series mixed-media paper, which friends of mine who do water media colour on their comics recommend highly! And it really is lovely for mixed media, but…