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Gareth Sleightholme / hesir
@hesir.bsky.social
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Freelance #comics #TtRPG #Illustrator #Educator based in #Hull, #UK. Find my #TtRPGArt #FantasyArt, #myth & #monster #comics @ http://hesir.artstation.com & http://ironshodapecomics.com and my TtRPG writing @ https://www.dmsguild.com/m/product/375079
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autocratik.bsky.social
Great new video from @hesir.bsky.social today, with some nice mentions for Aegean, WILD, The Laundry, and more, as well as a cool scratchbuild and a look at some awesome comic projects.
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Ep-003 - Toy-Bashed Xenomorph
YouTube video by anotherDMcrafter
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August 28, 2026 at 10:18 AM
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autocratik.bsky.social
Check out this week's entries for #RPGaDAY2026 from @runeslinger.bsky.social who, this week, is creating characters using my game WILD. Amazing!
castingshadowsblog.com/2026/08/10/r...
#RPGaDAY: Day 10 – Secret (Associates; Fair; WILD)
The tenth day of #RPGaDay2026 invites us to take a dream journey through one of the cool games designed by the founder of RPGaDAY, David F. Chapman. The game is called WILD and it pits its characte…
castingshadowsblog.com
August 10, 2026 at 12:00 PM
hesir.bsky.social
Looks like this is the first visual announcement, and so the cat is out of the bag. WIP cover art for a music/bio comic written by Roland Gift, illustration by yours truly. Best crack on...
#Music #MakingComics #UKComics #Comics
A screenshot that shows a comic cover in black and white, with the image of a young punk in silhouette in from of the now lost venue of The Queen's Hall in Leeds, the title text says "Roland Gift - A Punk's Progress - 1978" Above is the announcement of the comic book on Roland Gift's FB page.
April 28, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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stoogoff.com
The Isle of Pelops is now available from the GMS website! It covers important people and places of the Peloponnesos and includes a four part epic campaign which takes you through the Peloponnesos to uncover the motives behind a new and pervasive mystery cult. gmstabletopgames.com/product/isle...
Isle of Pelops — For the Aegean RPG - GMS Hobby Game Logistics
Isle of Pelops is a sourcebook and adventures taking your heroes from their home in the Aegean to the Peloponnesos and visits Argos, Mykenai, and Sparta.
gmstabletopgames.com
March 17, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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stoogoff.com
Including writing by @yvris.bsky.social, @wulfboyraff.bsky.social , @sabbad.bsky.social, and James Barton. Interior artwork by @hesir.bsky.social and glorious cover by @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social
March 17, 2026 at 11:37 AM
hesir.bsky.social
Once again the internet lights up with chatter about a #Blakes7 reboot... Who knows? Maybe this time it'll make it. The illustration below was my "fantasy casting" from last time it was mentioned. - Blake's 7, SF, British TV, Science Fiction etc etc
The image is an illustration of several actors painted as if in the role of characters from the TV show Blake's 7, below a logo for the show. None of this is in any way related to the new news of the shows potential reboot. It's just my fantasy casting as an image.
January 20, 2026 at 12:35 AM
hesir.bsky.social
Hey! If you are around Cottingham Road, #Hull tomorrow there's a Xmas Market (behind the large head sculpts) at #HullUni. #FantasyArt, #ttrpgArt, #comics, www.visithull.org/whatson/hubs...
I'll also be at #HullCentralLibrary on the 6th (www.visithull.org/whatson/chri...).
December 4, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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wulfboyraff.bsky.social
I wrote a bunch of stupid Herculean adventures for Aegean, one of which has a really giant crab in it. God willing I'm writing some more for the new supplement. Pick it up - it's cheap at half the price.
May 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
hesir.bsky.social
For anyone interested in #Comics, #Literacy, #Education, #Innovation, and #Culture
downthetubes.net/lakes-intern...
Lakes International Comic Art Festival launches UK Development Agency for Comics
The new agency will be based in Barrow
downthetubes.net
May 1, 2025 at 10:29 AM
hesir.bsky.social
In York today, making a #flatbow from a stick, in amongst some trees, hatchet, draw knife, little fire, all the mod cons.
A stick of oak, as it was at the beginning of the day. Before I hit it some with a little hatchet. Cutting in the main shape using the hatchet. Refining the the shape / "Tilling", using the draw knife. The not quite finished product. Plenty of sanding and oiling to do yet.
February 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
hesir.bsky.social
Well those framed up nicely... youtube.com/shorts/J5QYk... #illustration #ttrpg #fantasyart #prints
December 6, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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stevelieberart.bsky.social
And right after the lush detail of the page quoted below, Breccia follows with some devastating minimalism as he shifts focus from atmospheric settings to Ezra’s personal experience of dread.

(These are from the 2018 @fantagraphics.bsky.social edition, translated by Erica Mena.)
Six panel page of Mort Cinder, translated into English. Overhead shot of ezra backed against a doorway, looking down at an ominous shadow of a man. The vertiginous pov allows Breccia to carve the space into unexpected black and white diagonal shapes. ezra cowering in the doorway as a British cop in a custodian helmet and long coat passes him. Breccia has used the fog to eliminate nearly all of the background in the panel, implying the walls and sidewalks with artfully placed cast shadows. The cop is nearly a silhouette, with only rim lit edges revealing any internal detail. White drybrush fog is visible against the shadows but disappears against the blank white of the implied walls. Ezra is relieved and looks out at the reader from the doorway. As in the preceding panels, the doorway is pure white, defined only by the shadows it casts on ezra and the space behind him. But it’s shot straight on from an ordinary eye-level, giving the moment a (temporary) sense of stability and safety.
December 1, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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hesir.bsky.social
Interview with me over on the Hull Maritime site, for National Illustration Day
maritimehull.co.uk/whats-happen...
#HullMaritime #NationalIllustrationDay
Interview | National Illustration Day – Interview with local illustrator Gareth Sleightholme
To celebrate National Illustration Day on 29 November 2024, Emma from Hull Maritime had a chat with Gareth Sleightholme - local illustrator and creator of the popular Maritime Tales comics.
maritimehull.co.uk
November 25, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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gorangligovic.bsky.social
If you enjoy drawing medieval stuff you might want to have a bit of fun by designing a soldier for the

𝕾𝖔𝖓𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝕺𝖗𝖐𝖚𝖘
mercenary company

Guidelines:
-15th century equipment
-green metal
-some sort of monstrous or grotesque design on the helmet
November 26, 2024 at 10:42 AM
hesir.bsky.social
Interview with me over on the Hull Maritime site, for National Illustration Day
maritimehull.co.uk/whats-happen...
#HullMaritime #NationalIllustrationDay
Interview | National Illustration Day – Interview with local illustrator Gareth Sleightholme
To celebrate National Illustration Day on 29 November 2024, Emma from Hull Maritime had a chat with Gareth Sleightholme - local illustrator and creator of the popular Maritime Tales comics.
maritimehull.co.uk
November 25, 2024 at 11:20 PM
hesir.bsky.social
Oh, & this, a bit of #Tolkien fan art "So [Gandalf's] doubt slept -- but uneasily. Still [he] watched and [he] waited."
Showed this at Oxonmoot back in Sept', & handed a few postcards of it out too. Detail pics of some fun background elements, inc. amongst other things a familiar looking kerchief.
Gandalf the Grey sits in Bag End as Bilbo makes the tea, sometimes between the end of "The Hobbit", and the begining of "Fellowship...". He watches his friend with no little worry, while the hobbit nervously checks his pocket. ...in the background of the image is a framed painting, based on the postcard Tolkien said had influenced his own image of Gandalf in the beginning of the work on the wider LotR Legendarium. Again the shape of the wizard's staff is styled after the elvish rune for "G". The books on the shelves have some familiar design shapes to their spines, plus a small carving of an ancestor perhaps? The hobbits hand nervously moves towards his pocket to check on "the trinket" there.
November 24, 2024 at 10:01 PM
hesir.bsky.social
Seeing as I can't show you any current work (for all the usual reasons) here's "Space Truckin'!" a toybash / kitbash project for my new(ish) a side project #anotherDMcrafter - you can see the full build on YouTube here > youtu.be/jttn85NTRXg?...
The Space Truckin' project just prior to priming. You can see some of the scratchbuild greeblies including the washing up liquid bottle tops as front thrusters, the marker pen lid as a rear facing engine, and the cable tie as a ladder. The underside, this was a lot of fun to do. Both sets of wings there came off an old Revell Tomcat model. The back of the vehicle showing the big side engines, marker pen kids, with old super glue tube lids fitted inside them. Old electrical wire for engine piping. Side view showing the additional greeblies on the left side. And the windows after having the the printing mask removed.
November 24, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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angusyoung61.bsky.social
Suffragette City: When suffragette Charlotte Marsh came to Hull in 1909. Artwork by @hesir.bsky.social

www.thehullstory.com/allarticles/...
‘By what right do you stop me?’: Day of protest when Suffragette Charlotte Marsh gave police the runaround — The Hull Story
Confronted by two policemen blocking her way, Charlotte Marsh gathered up her skirt and leapt from an elevated walkway, landing on a quayside track next to the Humber used by coal trucks. With her t...
www.thehullstory.com
November 24, 2024 at 12:57 PM
hesir.bsky.social
So, looks like more folk moving over this way... In that case, "Hi" to you new followers :)
I've actually been a bit quiet on here, but am close to having some new work/stuff go live, in the meantime, here's something fun/weird/newish...
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Scratch Truckin’ - a Space Truck for 28mm (Stargrave)
YouTube video by anotherDMcrafter
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November 9, 2024 at 5:58 PM
hesir.bsky.social
The Ravenser Odd comic written and drawn by myself for the Hull Maritime project is now free online!
You can find a downloadable PDF at the bottom of the article on the Maritime Hull pages, here:https://maritimehull.co.uk/whats-happening/news/news-new-comic-tells-the-story-of-ravenser-odd
The cover art for the comic, it shows a scene of a man Peter At See, discovering the shipwreck on the sandbank discussed in the story. Plus the two young investigators Lily and Jacob, and the crows that act as a Greek Chorus of sorts. Interior art from the comic, just showing how much art is in there. More interior art, here Lily and Jacob wander around the Hull art gallery and chat about the island.
May 17, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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emilyrobinson.bsky.social
The poster, designed by the amazing Marie-Chantal Hamrock, takes inspiration from the 1407 Inclesmoor map, showing the other end of the Humber. And the lovely iconography of a 1734 map of Spurn and the estuary. More details of the Inclesmoor map here: www.flickr.com/photos/12480...
Poster for ‘Hull/Ravenser Odd: twin cities, sunken pasts’, showing imagined medieval drawings of Hull and the island of Ravenser Odd. The grass on the mainland is similar to that in the Inclesmoor map. And there are mermaids and a sea creature, based on the 1734 map. Richly coloured map on parchment, with flowing rivers, lush vegetation, and detailed drawings of twins and villages, with towers and churches. Black and white map, with lovely mermen and sea creatures.
March 4, 2024 at 10:33 AM
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susanjordan.bsky.social
BBC News - Story of Humber's lost town Ravenser Odd to be told
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
Story of Humber's lost town Ravenser Odd to be told
Exhibition on Humber's lost town will feature original charters granted by King Edward I in 1299.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 24, 2024 at 10:22 AM
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isabellemarie.bsky.social
Ravenser Odd: the medieval city Yorkshire lost to the sea.
theconversation.com/ravenser-odd...
Ravenser Odd: the medieval city Yorkshire lost to the sea
Dubbed Yorkshire’s Atlantis, Ravenser Odd has been largely forgotten, despite its importance in the 13th century. That’s because it was swallowed by the sea.
theconversation.com
March 25, 2024 at 6:39 PM
hesir.bsky.social
Not sure this effects anyone, aside for making a little more room there. But I've not applied for a table @ thoughtbubbleuk this year. A number of factors. Maybe a year out of my fave comic fest might see me get back on track with my own #comics. Less pressure, though I'm kind of sad about it tbf.
February 20, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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mightylancergames.bsky.social
Mr MLG picked up some cool new art work for the shop today from @hesir.bsky.social
They are going to look great hung on the wall

#art #artist #rpgArt #fantasyArt #flgs #lgs #bridlington
December 17, 2023 at 5:22 PM