Phillip Vircks

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Signs More Pardons, Freeing a Fraudster for 2nd Time www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01... This guy is just giving us every reason to wipe the slate clean and start over.

Going forward I am pledging to donate 25% of proceeds from my Patreon page and 25% of net sales from my website to my local food bank. My site: VanArthurStudios.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/cw/PhillipVi... Foodbank: lacrossehtf.org (for direct donations) #FoodBank #FoodPantry #Art #Illustration

First real illustration commission delivered and paid for as of today. Happy client, happy artist! #illustration #art VanArthurStudios.com 20% off and free shipping on prints and originals through 11/2.

Final painting added to the website for the Grand Opening sales event. 20%off all order over $50 through 11/2. www.vanarthurstudios.com/category/lan... #art #landscape #illustration

Apparently I need to get better at this whole hashtagging thing. Anybody feel up for some #art prints? My site is new, and I am still figuring out how to do this thing, as I imagine many of you are as well. What do people use to get started on social? YouTube? Insta? VanArthurStudios.com

First set of Halloween themed illustration prints are up on the website. 20% off all orders over $50 and free shipping til 11/2. www.vanarthurstudios.com/category/ill...

Today is the day! I have officially opened the webstore for my illustration prints, merch, and original paintings. There is an automatic 20% discount active for the next week! Please share! BlueSky is my only social media and I need a boost getting started! VanArthurStudios.com #illustration

It’s done! Photography over the weekend and should have prints of it available for order by the end of next week. Never too early for holiday shopping, right? www.patreon.com/PhillipVirck... Vanarthurstudios.com #illustration #painting

The more I paint, the more I realize that the struggle is not in knowing what to paint or where to start. The real trick is in knowing when to stop. For me as an artist the only thing more agonizing than finishing a painting is the realization that I was done 10 strokes ago #painting #illustration

Well I’ll be blessed by the spirit of John Singer Sargent. I just got my first Patreon sub!

Early progress on another rendition of the tree as lighthouse series I have been working on. I genuinely missed working in oils. For any projects where I have the time to work this way, it is going to be what I choose to work in. www.patreon.com/posts/medium... #illustration

On starting over with a project and learning from mistakes. www.patreon.com/posts/hallow... #illustration #illustrator #painting #drawing

First public post about the indie #boardgame I am developing. Ruleset is still being tested. Once I get closer to a final ruleset I will begin work on the illustrations for the prototype. More info to come as the ruleset nears completion. www.patreon.com/posts/on-boa...

I find myself listening to “People of the Sun” a lot lately.

Monster Hunter:Wilds launched this weekend with 1.3 million players. What games were overlooked because they had the unfortunate timing to release the same weekend? What did we miss?

The more time you spend consuming other people’s media the less time you have for creating your own. Get to work!

We might have just rung in a new year, but it feels like an epidemiological Groundhog Day.

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

Sneaky top played song this year; Jeff Beck-Over the Rainbow Absolute legend

Xmas parties catching up with acquaintances. “What’s new? I’m designing a board game from the ground up. It’s humanity vs mutating Kaiju on a hex map but with asymmetrical resource systems and hidden betrayal mechanics. Starting playtesting and illustration next month. … “So, how are the kids?” FML

Working lunch today. Woodford Double Oak while I wait for my burger.

#boardgames #illustrator I need more people to follow who into produce board games, illustrations, or illustrations for board games. Hit me up. I am new and am making it up as I go along.

Illustrators. What is something you didn’t think about getting for your new studio but had to run out and get once you started setting up your workspace? Asking for a friend.

Watching the Eagles play and Cooper DeJean just reminded me how much I appreciate Gute taking projects with knee problems in the first round instead of rookie of the year candidates.

@ Solo board game inventors. How do you go about getting your game prototypes made when you just need a handful to send out for testing. I am looking at cards at this point. Later on I will need boards, chits, cards, and custom dice, with small batch 3d printing for miniatures. Anyone do all that?

I take no responsibility for my posts until I’ve had a night of sleep not trampled by insomnia.

Ok y’all. We really need verification on BkueSky. “Kamala Harris” just liked one of my posts.

Imagine my kids’s shock when they learned that “Snoop Dogg”, the guy saw on the Olympics a few months ago, is in fact NOT his real name.

Doing my best to stick to analog painting and illustration techniques. Gotta justify this new studio space somehow.

I will not start the illustrations until the RULESET is complete. I can doodle. That’s fine. Gotta get the ideas down, but no brushes until then.

I am an artist and illustrator by training. Currently knee deep in creating a board game for the first time. Feature creep is real, so I find myself jotting things down as ideas to iterate on later. Right now I have a phrase i cannot shelve; “Asynchronous resource generation.” This one is going in.