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October 19, 2018
YouTube Videos to Learn With (and more)

YouTube Videos to Learn With (and more)

Most of my drawing skills have come from YouTube tutorials and copying from art books (not specifics, just details and lessons I think is the best way to describe it). Thanks to this education I have seen so many videos that I would consider “okay”, bad, and some were just highly useful and inspirational. Just …

October 18, 2018
Update and Future October 18

Update and Future October 18

I don’t normally post on my website, but lately some stuff has been going across my mind. Specifically the latest news that Google Plus is going away, and since I got my start in fantasy illustration there and still would consider it a large part of my art experience. I want to talk about what …

May 15, 2018
Runaway Hirelings! Release Notes!

Runaway Hirelings! Release Notes!

This post will acting as my notes concerning Runaway Hirelings! So everything out so far and updates concerning this game. I just added a note on current sales figures, as well as added a second extra sauce! Text in purple was added in the last edit! Runaway Hirelings was released in its full version a …

March 11, 2018
What am I up to, March 2018

What am I up to, March 2018

It is March 11th! Stuff has happened! I am working hard! This is work. First the quick updates on stuff that I am doing that you can go check out RIGHT NOW! Notifications: Runaway Hirelings, my short tabletop rpg about hirelings escaping a dungeon after their employers die is out! IN PRINT AND PDF! Print …

January 7, 2018
Sword Arms and Spellbook Brains

Sword Arms and Spellbook Brains

Each player has a character, that character is an adventurer, a collector of magical treasures. A hero with a hoard of treasures so large that their individual strength and power is defined by powers contained in enchanted boots and wizard hats. Characters To create a character do the following: Make up a name and choose …

November 6, 2017
Episode 2: Altered Histories and Inheritances w/ Slade Stolar

Episode 2: Altered Histories and Inheritances w/ Slade Stolar

In this episode of Castle Vomit, Thomas (thats me yo!) and the cool Slade Stolar (of Scablands Press and The Indie Hack fame) ramble on about the versioning of history and the various effects of inheriting the world. This includes some silly examples and very vague adventure concept midway through the episode. At the end we …

June 22, 2017
The Bleakest Pyramid (Runaway Hirelings Actual Play)

The Bleakest Pyramid (Runaway Hirelings Actual Play)

Thomas Novosel and his friend Tony play a game of Runaway Hirelings (soon to be released), a game about hirelings seeking to avoid dying in a dungeon and are trying to escape as best they can. This session created the dungeon “The Bleakest Pyramid” a reawakened mythos pyramid of weirdness and oddities drawn from the …

May 28, 2017
My Tools and Art Supplies

My Tools and Art Supplies

Since having started drawing early last year I have accumulated quite the collection of tools to use for illustrating, painting, drawing fantasy maps, and castles. Here is where I give a rundown and also links to everything I use and where you could get it from (and where I recommend getting it from). As a …

April 27, 2017
Reference Zine: Volume One (PDF)

Reference Zine: Volume One (PDF)

I have recently been looking at a ton of different art styles that involve pens, or things that I could replicate using technical pens. So I have been looking at old woodcuts and engravings, the type I remember finding in the school libraries copy of Dante Aligieri’s “Divine Comedy”. Specifically the first book, Inferno. After …

February 7, 2017
John Silence 1.5: Ritual for Retrieving the Third Madness

John Silence 1.5: Ritual for Retrieving the Third Madness

Here is issue 1.5 of the John Silence series of zines, a co-creative endeavor where Josh T. Jordan comes up with the words and I come up with the art for the weird detective and his various adventures (although this one is more of a game you see?). The Ritual for Retrieving the Third Madness …

January 15, 2017
Form Fillable Alternate Character Sheets for The Indie Hack

Form Fillable Alternate Character Sheets for The Indie Hack

The Indie Hack is this cool game by Slade Stolar that I can easily say I am a pretty big fan of. So it only makes sense that I make some cool and easy to use character sheets right? RIGHT! These character sheets are bookmarked, have all the character info on each sheet for each …

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