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Shades of Chicago – A Let’s Play with The Fourth Leg

Back in 2022, I met and befriended some great folks in the TTRPG sphere on Twitter (back before I left the platform), and we made a podcast called The Fourth Leg. We started the podcast to “give GMs a leg to stand on!” It was intended as a resource for new game masters, and then we grew to have let’s plays of various RPGs.

One of them was Urban Shadows, an RPG that allowed players to play as vampires, ghosts, monster hunters, and other creatures in an urban fantasy setting. In this setting, we played a campaign called Shades of Chicago.

The cast included:

  • Joe Dunn as DM
  • Sabrina Rau as Lulu the Spectre
  • Hunter Anderson as Jain the Dragon
  • Joe Fraioli as Jesse the Tainted
  • and me as Archie the Vamp

You can hear and download ALL the episodes below:

EPISODE 1 – SEARCHIN’ SO LONG

(Download Episode 1 here)

EPISODE 2 – CALL ON ME

(Download Episode 2 here)

EPISODE 3 – BABY, WHAT A BIG SURPRISE, PART 1

(Download Episode 3 here)

EPISODE 4 – BABY, WHAT A BIG SURPRISE, PART 2

(Download Episode 4 here)

EPISODE 5 – OLD DAYS

(Download Episode 5 here)

EPISODE 6 – MOVIN’ IN

(Download Episode 6 here)

EPISODE 7 – GONE LONG GONE

(Download Episode 7 here)

EPISODE 8 – SEASON 1 Q&A – RETROSPECTIVE

(Download Episode 8 here)

Unfortunately, due to…life, we could not finish Season 2. But we have season 1 here!

And for Art Club members, you’re getting a zine all about Archie in this month’s rewards! If you want this zine mailed to you, head over to my Memberships page and pledge at the Art Club tier or higher.

That’s all for now. Thank you for listening!

You. Are. Awesome.

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The Puppet Master – Fighting Game Concept Art

an elf with dark brown skin sits in the air, wearing a neon green mask made of wood. Behind her floats an ethereal masked spirit with enlarged, clawed hands.

This year I have been drawing concept art of fighting game characters. Previously, I posted live streams. Today, I’m sharing a finished art piece – the Puppet Master character.

Puppet Master is a fighting game archetype in the character roster. Their gimmick is that they are a fighter who also controls a puppet. For this character, I decided to play with the idea of a “puppet” and make the controlled character a spirit.

My first draft was closer in concept to the Earth spirit dancers of the Bwa people in Burkina Faso. But I decided to revisit the idea and draft a few more takes. I’m very pleased with how this turned out.

If you would like to see the process of drawing this piece, check out this stream archived on YouTube and here on the blog. Each step got done in Clip Studio Paint.

That’s all for now. Thank you for reading!

You. Are. Awesome.

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Art for My Dungeons & Dragons Campaign

For those of you who don’t know yet, I’m nerdy enough to be the Dungeon Master for Dungeons & Dragons and run a home-brewed, not-based-on-any-campaign-books campaign.

So it falls to me to illustrate some things for the campaign, which I can totally do, and I’m happy to do so.

A good chunk of the campaign takes place in a section of the world called The Weird Wastes. This is a realm where all the magic in the world exists, because it bleeds from a place called The Rift. The magic in this realm can cause things like pirate ships to sail in deep forests, trees to be colored various shades of blue and violet, and for the boundary between desert and arctic to be a literal line in the sand.

The Weird Wastes also allow for unusual creatures, like Pom.

pm dungeons and dragons spirit sketch Continue reading “Art for My Dungeons & Dragons Campaign”

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The Voice and The Messenger: A Painting

For the last two days I’ve been working on this new painting to submit to a local art gallery. They’re holding a show themed around “Visions & Shadows,” and “explorations of the unknown.”

So of course I had to make something for it. (The show is also set to open on my birthday, so that motivated me, too. But shhh – don’t tell the committee that.)

painting in progress
Step 1.

I’ll be showing the step-by-step process of how I made this painting during the course of this blog post. Of course I made an initial sketch in my sketchbook of the idea, but I didn’t scan that in or take a photo of it because… I didn’t think to. Continue reading “The Voice and The Messenger: A Painting”