Author: Shel Kahn
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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…
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Paper Test Wizard Adventure #3
Further paper tests allow further wizardry – this time in a more contemplative mode, though. A second test run with the hot press cotton paper let me get more expressive with my brushstrokes and try out more contrasting of the paint approach and the pencil crayon approach This one feels maybe a bit over-rendered for…
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two years of arm stuff? 26 months of arm stuff, more precisely…
So you may have noticed a dearth of arm updates, blogging on the experience, et cetera! I still have a lot to say, but one of the things about recovery is sometimes you hit … a kind of purgatory? limbo? holding state? a miserable stage where you are waiting to find out what’s next. And…
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Paper Test Wizard Adventure #2
Another paper test as an excuse to paint this wizard doing a little treasure hunting in a dark forest. For this one I switched to a hot press, 100% cotton paper and instead of wrestling with lifting, got instead to fight with how aggressively absorbent the paper is! It’s wild how much water it will…