Simon Underwood

It is #PortfolioDay once more. I'm a traditional illustrator specializing in pen and ink. I've contributed to a number of fiction publications and TTRPG projects, and I am currently looking for more work!

Finished this scenario! It's adapted from the Liminal Horror game I ran for my family--you got a gooey, slimy body horror cult versus a couple cosmic-void-worshipping noise musicians with investigators caught in the middle. Fully illustrated, of course. Go take a look if you like that spooky shit

Here's some art! More NPCs, haunted houses and eldritch flesh for the Liminal Horror scenario I'm working on

Poltergeist! First genuine horror movie I watched, probably around 9 or 10 at my cousin's house. I ran out of the room when the guy started peeling his face off and didn't finish it until I was an adult

One of these bad boys, already a decade old when my grandpa gave me his old one in 2004ish. I created many an elaborate MSPaint scene on it, and eventually accumulated enough yard sale CD-ROMs to upgrade to Windows 98 and play Thief: The Dark Project on it, which was formative to my whole deal.

Trying a slightly different thing for a scenario I'm working on for the Liminal Horror Summer Jam. Classic small town doomsday cult cosmic nightmare stuff. More to come!

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Two extremely different pieces of art you've made. See, it's only MOSTLY fiddly pen and ink stuff around here.

A couple of brooding warriors for my dear friend @esque-arts.bsky.social

If you want to read some dark fantasy adventure, the new chapter of my comic "May Thy Hand Not Slip" is finished! In it a monk gets stuck in a pit with a bandit, who put him there, creation myth is told, and a seal on a magic sword gets broken. You can check it out on my itch io store (link in bio).

Just watched Knightriders for the first time, and it made me wonder how many movies there are where pretty much everyone except the protagonist is having a blast, and the protagonist probably could too if they'd just chill the fuck out. Twister is a similar scenario

This is something that people without illustration experience tend not to see: every single thing in an image was put there with intention, nothing can be incidental. A writer says "the car," but an illustrator says exactly what model, inside and out, from every angle, and it's not optional.

If you see this, post a knight!

Ocean, dog, gorgeous comic by @ramonkey.bsky.social . Nice morning.

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky

Stuff like this is why "I had to use AI because I couldn't afford to hire an artist" is a horseshit excuse. There's so much incredible work you can use for free and lovely people like this that want to help you do that.

It's done! Much like our diminutive heroine, I've reached the end of this particular quest. Shout out to every dungeon synth artist; I must have listened to most of them while working on this.

I've got a good one about Argos but there are a lot of eyes on it right now

The Matrix. It was 2004, I was a child on an Internet abuzz with Matrix references and goofy Flash parodies, and my dad finally got so fed up with me and my brother quoting a movie we'd never seen that he sat the two of us down and made us watch it. Needless to say we thought it was pretty radical

Ruining family craft night with the sculpey Nuckelavee

“Knight and Dragon", by Bernie Wrightson, c.1987.

Rapidly turning into my album of the year (although I guess it came out last year). Just can't resist music that sounds like it was unearthed from an ancient burial mound youtu.be/A5STP-yU_n4?...

When I was planning my middle school DnD campaign 21 years ago, I found a fantasy name "widget" for my iBook that spat out stuff like "the Nomad's Nipple" for a tavern or "Hideous Pants of Karandria" for an artifact and if you need more than that, you're creatively bankrupt

Working at this scale kinda makes me feel like I'm building this damn thing stone by stone

Bouba and Kiki, elder gods

Time for a new logo

My studiomate @markmolchan.bsky.social is swinging for the fences on this Elric piece!

Did someone say it's make a terrible comic day?

In the early stages of my largest ink illustration to date and it's terrifying/very fun to work this big

We’ve got double art by @saprophial.bsky.social and are careening toward spray edges… www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

This is probably the hardest illustration to post on the internet for aspect ratio reasons but it remains one of my favorite compositions I've done. Go read @mollytanzer.bsky.social 's Jirel stories, they're fantastic

It found my backyard

Ten-season infinite budget Malazan Book of the Fallen

Artists, show what built your style! Alan Lee, Angus McBride, Gustave Dore and Hayao Miyazaki are the big four for sure. More comments in the alt text.

Oh man, John Blanche has passed away. What a legend. RIP.

Working on some stuff I can't show yet, so in lieu of that here are some ethereal black metal vibes from my time inside a cloud yesterday

"The Archlich" For Jetpack7's 'Legendary Undead' I always wanted to paint a proper lich. I think I did liches justice with this one.

Old Stone, New Stone, Copper, Bronze, Bronze Collapse, Iron