So. This is what separates a good translator from a mediocre one. A mediocre translator looks at the word. Then translates the word. They have no knowledge of context beyond the word. A good translator knows that words carry information. The word itself is not important. What is important is (1)

Feels such a luxury to get to paint so many character portraits for a project. This was a vampire metroidvania indie game that I helped build a demo level for, Thirst 🦇

I didn't have time to make a Project for Awesome video this year. But it is a great project to raise money for charities. Give it a view, see if there are any charities you want to support! projectforawesome.com/videos/int-p...

It's been too long since I've painted any Sea of Thieves fanart.. maybe this year I shall return to it 🏴‍☠️ (Old piece based on Thomas Luny's The Bombardment of Algiers)

Digital asbestos.

After months of hard work and many evenings giggling as I turned wacky kobold prompts into stat blocks, I'm thrilled to announce that version 1.0 is ready! If you got it on Itch, you can download the new version from the Itch page. If you got it on Backerkit, a download email should go out soon. 🧵

Maybe AI is really a virus that spreads by making its host talk about how inevitable AI adoption is.

Hey! Draw Steel won an Editor's Choice award from @gamingtrend.com! gamingtrend.com/reviews/draw...

Reminder in the face of all the angry gaslighting propaganda.

Some random doodles ft my new dnd character and stuff that's been in my head #art #sketchbook #ink #doodle

Folks we are LIVE! Like I say in our video, this an adventure*, if you’re interested, come along for the ride, we’d love to have you. #DrawSteel #MCDM #TTRPG #TTRPGRising #TTRPGCommunity #dnd #daggerheart #fantasy *”but Sam, I thought it was a setting book” www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... RATCATCHER MAGAZINE Issue 02 for @hellomcdm.bsky.social's DRAW STEEL launches in just 10 days. We have an EPIC new level 10 Necromancer Tyrant, a Ghost Ancestry, a new kind of elf, and more!

Just sent my and @silverbeak.bsky.social's pitch for Under Dark Eaves to @evilhat.bsky.social. Very excited!!!

An offering to the lorecast - Sir Frodrick the Knight and his loyal bard John Frogerty @thebenbyrne.bsky.social @dailydael.bsky.social @jamesjhaeck.bsky.social @shawnmerwin.bsky.social

It's a Draw Steel prozine!

This meeting could've been a Draw Steel montage.

No one even tried, I was disappointed.

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

Hello hello, it's my birthday today~🎉 I'd love to ask others to share my art around today!

MCDM just released the symbols they use in stat blocks under a free license. mcdm.gg/DrawSteel/Dr... If you've never worked with a CC-BY-SA license, check out the thread for some guidance.

Draw Steel Panel went great!!! Was a lot of fun with @dailydael.bsky.social @pattybvids.bsky.social @dreadedgm.bsky.social @ellybeandicequeen.bsky.social @retroarchetype.bsky.social and Aussiesupergirl. Thanks to @incandescaent.bsky.social and @barilleon.com for Fall of Blackbottom.

OMG PAX Aus is THIS WEEK!!! Australia's BIGGEST Gaming Festival! Game all weekend long with family and friends! Very limited Friday and Sunday Badges left! Book now: events.ticketbooth.com.au/tickets/pax-...

@hellomcdm.bsky.social's Draw Steel has finally arrived at my doorstep! Orden is such an exciting, dynamic chunk of the Timescape and it's been incredible to be part of it. I'm proud to be credited with the layout of these ambitious books, and excited to hold the completion of so much hard work.

Meet Moriel Gray, played by @dreadedgm.bsky.social and Pathos played by me! This is some early sketches from Joywire .ink over on IG!

Only one week to go! I'll be running @hellomcdm.bsky.social's Draw Steel at @paxaus.bsky.social. Come see me run through @barilleon.com's Fall of Blackbottom alongside some amazing creator's including @dailydael.bsky.social and @pattybvids.bsky.social Come see who survives! 1.00pm Saturday

Red - (My fave illustration from this year)

I’m thrilled to finally share the first piece from a series of stained glass works I created for MCDM Draw Steel! ✨ This has been one of my absolute favorite projects this year and one I’m deeply proud of. I hope you love it as much as I do!

Real Talk: I’ve been playing some form of D&D/ttrpg for a little over 20 years, and combat was NEVER my favorite part. I’m often a little checked out when waiting for it to be my turn. Doodling, checking sms, etc. Even in BG3 — which I LOVE — it feels real bad to miss when you use a level 6 spell.

I am so excited for this! I've been testing Draw Steel for 2 and a half years now and being able to run it live for everyone at @paxaus.bsky.social is pretty special. (Ignore the panic in my eyes, that's just years of tester experience talking - hopefully my players don't see it and exploit me!)

I will never pass up a chance to re-share this piece. Best way I ever found to talk about AI to anyone: softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

Hey that's me! And yes I'll be running Draw Steel at #PAXAUS - I am very ready and slightly terrified. More details incoming :)

Hey, wait a minute!

Spoilers for new ancestries!

@dailydael.bsky.social Happy Birthday, Les Mis, you're the Real Steel Also "ONE DAY OLDER"

When you start wondering if you're having too much caffeine, maybe it's time to check whether you're overworked. And by "you" I mean "me"

I’m truly so proud of this and the work the entire Draw Steel team did. It’s rare to be given both the opportunity and the freedom to take big swings like this, and @jamesintrocaso.bsky.social, @hellomcdm.bsky.social, and @mattcolville.bsky.social made it possible. So, so proud of what we made.

So, yeah, longer thread coming tomorrow after I have slept, because this whole team has been working SO hard to get this out, but Draw Steel introduces Art Description, a new form of image description combining alt text and new standards based on art museum best practices for image description. 1/

If you want to celebrate the release of MCDM's Draw Steel with us, check out the first episode of our Delian Tomb miniseries! Live on YouTube NOW! youtu.be/jGy1AWEMEfs?...

Oh hey, new Running the Game video! youtu.be/7_zie0B_XfI?...

Watched The Batman (2022) for the first time - brain wanted to art for it

Got a few moments of lucidity in amongst my sickness. Drew superman

There we are! All the Draw Steel rules are available in the MCDM shop: shop.mcdmproductions.com/collections/...

A game I spent the last 2 years working on is out. We worked really hard on this game and it turned out pretty good. You should check it out if you like that sort of thing.

So proud to have worked on this game with such a cool group of people! I can't believe it's out now. Draw Steel! If you have any questions or want a tester to look over your Draw Steel homebrew/3rd party. Shoot me a message!

An eloquent image: Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults. I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.

I’ve said many times the best advice I got as an undergrad was “have friends on the outside.” That means a lot of different overlapping things in my life. It’s a gift to have folks who get your work (whatever it is), but it’s vital to have folks oblivious to anything but your weird wonderful self.

"Starchaser" This took a lot of passes to figure out where it was going. I had an idea but not a clear vision, and so it had to be discovered bit by bit as I painted. I changed my mind a few times and there was a lot of "what if I tried this", but I'm very happy with it :) #watercolor #dragons #art

t's amazing how this is from more than 20 years ago but very well could have been from today.