lukeoram.bsky.social

Luke's the name, and the kind of imagery you can see here is the game. #artvartist #artvartist24

This has left me really unhappy. I just don't see how it's a fair price for a soldering job only-slighty-too-tricky for an amateur to do himself. Two connections and a £0.50 component.

I have a guitar pedal with a broken DC jack, which I left with a local shop to have this one component replaced, along with £36 deposit. They just phoned to say the total cost is £75. Absolute scam.

Yeah I like R&B. Riffs & Blastbeats.

DREAM WARRIOR Thrilled to have painted this homage to the late John Blanche for Secret Passages forthcoming tribute. #JohnBlanche #SecretPassages #Art #Artsky #Fantasy

*me, uploading the best thing I've done* That's 30 likes in the bag, baby.

Info: www.kickstarter.com/projects/jdh...

What do I need to do in order to illustrate the cover of a mainstream publisher's sci-fi novel? Which devil must I bargain with?

APPROACHING ORBITAL Some personal work, largely inspired by my recent re-read of #IainMBanks Culture novels. #artsky #scifi #art #spaceships

Self promotion is depressing and futile.

Oh, it's #portfolioday? I'm Luke, an illustrator from Bristol with a focus on Science Fiction Luke@lukeoram.com

Being stuck in a call queue, with infuriatingly crap music, 30 second loops of a voice telling you to hold, and nearly as frequent inducements to use a website instead (I would do that if it would help) should be considered hostile architecture. It is very clearly designed to get you to hang up.

Hen's teeth rare dentist appointment missed because the police had closed the road and connecting dual carriageway. Can't wait to spend weeks with holes in to my jaw because there's no availability.

TERROR NEXUS One of my fave paintings from my recent work with And Tomorrow Games. Feels apt for many reasons. #art #artsky #scifi #nightmare #pain

I don't update my website very often, because loads of work gets stuck in the unpublished pipeline, and also because I find it depressing to look at it all. However I now removed much old and added some new: #art #artsky #portfolio #hello lukeoram.com

"world extermination by Insect Warfare"

The scene where Ziller expresses his deeply-felt sense of futility (a composer in a world of god-like AI) only to be gently chided by said AI, and then meet a dying man still filled with wonder...is beautiful. End of Bladerunner type emotional defence of life. I am struck by this book's maturity.

Oh, you "care about our British traditions"? What's your favourite Middle English poem regarding a river?

Currently re-reading #IainMBanks SF novels. Sticking to the old school illustrated covers that don't look like supermarket thrillers. HMU if you are trying to shift any.

There's some fuss about the forthcoming Eggers Romeo & Juliet apparently being filmed in "olde English". I'm going to assume everyone means Shakespearian English (i.e. early Modern English) and not the language of the Saxons etc (i.e. Old English).

It would be really cool if this nudged over 12k. Be your best friend...

It is not too late to support this fine project I am involved with: #ttrpg #mothership #scifi www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...

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I want to put a comic I made online. Is there a better place than my existing ITCH.IO place, given nobody looks at anything there??

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As a kind of crustpunk-adjacent character, I have often found myself buying surplus clothing for it's comparative durability and economy. So I can say first hand that this is on the money.

I am in no way against using whatever means are available to make art. Having said that, I cannot help but think the incentivisation behind certain design practices that are predominantly reiterative has lead to an industry of visual reproduction.

Solid secondhand find. #scifi #theculture

My new module Trapped On Schrödinger’s Moon is top spot front page above the fold mega featured over on Backerkit.com right now, oooh fancy. Last time I was front page anything it was all a terrible misunderstanding and besides I did the community service so

Trapped on Schrödinger's Moon is live on Backerkit. Cool module extremely cool 2027 wall calendar and most importantly another goofball video that makes little sense www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a... Great work from @lukeoram.bsky.social and @lonearchivist.bsky.social on this so far 👍👍👍

It is 1996. I am reading Iain M. Bank's EXCESSION, and seeing for the first time a desirable vision of the future. It is 2026. I am reading Iain M. Bank's EXCESSION, and feeling that vision is more distant than ever.

Some tasty WIP on this project.

Just sharing this again for reasons. #Creepshow

If you see this, post a knight ⚔️

Finished another revisit of Bank's The Player of Games. My fave scene is where one character is blackmailing the protagonist, and must first explain the concept of blackmail to him because life in a utopia means it's completely alien. Superb book.

Whenever I see or read anything from someone who describes themselves as "post left" it's usually a bunch of insincere scoffing + mental gymnastics to produce an argument for Trump. Idgi.

Whenever someone makes the case for *obligation* toward historical accuracy, they tend to actually be describing a very particular case for cultural sensitivity. And this tends to be remarkably ironic.

HBD TOVE

So weird that whenever a band gets cancelled for transparently offensive behaviour, the hordes of defender-posters are mostly American.