Simon Roy
@simonroyart
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award-nominated artist/writer on stuff like GRIZ GROBUS, FIRST KNIFE, Prophet, The Field, Habitat, Jan's Atomic Heart, and more (profile pic by @ohotnig
Victoria, British Columbia
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AT LONG LAST, GRIZ GROBUS BEGINS ITS DESCENT TO THE MORTAL REALM!
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ARTISTS you can only use one Art picture to convince people to follow you.
Which art piece you using?
OK GO UWU
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"Everybear knows" (a comic from 2010, made on a whim during art school) 1/3
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An old comic from 2012ish - about two inquisitive magpies finding a curious, giant metal nest in their patch of forest (1/2)
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A lesser noblewoman with her necromantically derived automaton- the command and control spells can be seen affixed to the automaton’s control hump
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A brief thread devoted to the true protagonist of "REFUGIUM" - Betty the Goat. (1/8)
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I'm celebrating "Kaijune" with a story from 2017 about some gigantic alien monsters - and the crashlanded humans who find a home with them (for a time). Part 1...
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I made a comic about fifteen years ago about humans, in the far far future, filling this same role (1/3)
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for today's installment of
#mermay
- posthumans of the open ocean (1/5)
Next up, for
#mermay
- Some of the coastal hominids of far future earth, in a piece originally made for a volume of ALMOST REAL, organized by
@JayRock5858
and others 1/4
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Next up, for
#mermay
- Some of the coastal hominids of far future earth, in a piece originally made for a volume of ALMOST REAL, organized by
@JayRock5858
and others 1/4
For the final week of
#Mermay
, i'll be posting some of my own aquatic hominids (from a slow burning project of mine called "men of earth").
First up - the ancestral monopod, from which all later mer-folk would evolve...
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my idea for this big construction bot was "chichen itza walks"
Do you know 'Habitat' by Canadian comic book writer and artist Simon Roy? It's one of my favourites from the world building perspective
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this was printed in b&w in "Jan's Atomic Heart" in 2014, but this color version hasnt made the rounds as much. Bonus points if you can decipher the environmental storytelling lol (2/2)
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a planned but never printed screenprint poster for "HABITAT"
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fuck this thing rules - gotta retweet the video again
Prosthesis is called 'the anti-robot' because it has no automation and is 100% controlled by the person inside via the exoskeletal interface. This is why it is what is known as a mech, not a robot
{learn more, exosapientech: ]
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One of my favorite pieces for
@Lancer_RPG
- a Sparri hunting mech (with loads of storage for prey and camping gear)
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Thanks
@Alex_Connolly
! I haven't drawn too many mechs lately, but i have some machines for the
#mechtrain
- some pieces from the Lancer RPG, for one
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A rare relict species, from before Altamira's human colonization
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The preparations for Azkon's summoning proceed apace, in this week's installment of GRIZ GROBUS
#WEBTOON
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I’m Simon, from Canada, and this is my art
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In service of this same project (in development), i made this state-of-the-art photobash - who needs AI, eh?
Stay strapped (in the emperor’s monster hunting tractor-mecha)
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I was so inspired, back when I first saw this machine, that I designed a version to give the space cannibal antagonists from my book Habitat (2016) … (1/4)
Timberjack Walking Forest Machine (Concept by Plustech)
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Fuck I gotta give this to a guy on a pseudo-medieval planet
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just thinkin about breech loading swivel guns again, u know
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if you see this tweet, you have to mention one of your favorite paintings
Ilya Repin, “what freedom!”
if you see this tweet, you have to mention one of your favorite paintings
(symphony of the 6th blast furnace, evgeny sedukhin) (a piece that stops my heart)
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"Kaijune" concludes with part 4 of "The oxpecker and the elephant"...
Thanks for reading!
"Kaijune" continues with part 3 of "The oxpecker and the elephant"...
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I feel like a real dumbass for not having ever watched venus wars until last night. JUST LOOK AT THIS VEHICLE DESIGN
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Drawing some space guys after finding too much Soviet frogman reference
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My old friend and collaborator
@cmkosemen
has recently uploaded the (near) entirety of our 2009-2011ish speculative biology project on his website - and I suggest you take a moment to pore over his lovingly assembled summary of the project's development.
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My second poster for
@CHAPOTRAPHOUSE
is one that seventeen-year-old me would be extremely excited about - and which, honestly, I'm still pretty horned up over. Enter the ZONE... of CHAPO TRAP HOUSE!
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(psst also your boy simon is looking for work please retweet - comics/backgrounds/designs/storyboards etc - simonamroy at gmail dot com )
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SO - I'm excited to unveil the first of two posters I've made for the incorrigible
@CHAPOTRAPHOUSE
!
(the second will go up tmrw)
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This shit hit my fifteen year old brain like a freight train- I never recovered
What Image Comic is your "vibe"?
Bonus points for pictures. Let's see em.
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My favourite of these, in part because of that stellar moose emblem (the zil e167)
have a big weakness for wheeled vehicles with this kind of wheel config
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A little thread devoted to the alien life of Altamira, featuring the artwork of Jordan K Walker (1/8)
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I’m gonna put carvings like this in MY cave temple, by god
This makes me think of those bison sculptures in palaeolithic caves- similarly impressive to come across in the deep dark with a sputtering oil lamp
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So, your starship crashlands on an oceanic world, and your descendants want to set off from your archipelago and get into piracy. How do you make your pirate ship?
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"Kaijune" continues with part 2 of "The oxpecker and the elephant"
I'm celebrating "Kaijune" with a story from 2017 about some gigantic alien monsters - and the crashlanded humans who find a home with them (for a time). Part 1...
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After much deliberation, I've decided to start serializing my next book,
#Griz_Grobus
, on Webtoons
#WEBTOON
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This week on the patreon - "The River God", featuring titanic timber-rafts...
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note -this was made when i was living in calgary (the magpies and birch are straight from the bow river valley) and highly inspired by Anders Nilssen's "big questions" - enough so that i sent it to him as a student and his response was "bro wtf"
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Introduce yourself with four starships (i dont know if an orbital habitat counts, but i stuck mine in there anyways)
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This show is so fucking sick- like a French Sci fi comic but somehow more coherent
WATCH IT
episode 4 bgs from
#ScavengersReign
! the levi dream sequence bg is one of my favourites that i've painted for the whole show 🌱
bg designs by anastassia drobyazko and noémie leroux
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Bill Watterson is by far the artist that most inspired me as a lil kid - and every time i see one of his strips, it still rules harder than 90% of all other comics. The king.
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Another little preview of the first chapter of "GRIZ GROBUS" 1/2
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An oldie from 2017 - "An extrasolar nobleman and some of his travel companions"
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friday night, and somehow i find myself on another sleepy, forgotten, extrasolar world
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Another oldie-but-goodie (from 2015) - a posthuman warbody - pictured during battlefield reclamation and repair
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Slowly crawling up to 48k views, 800 subscribers... come on over and try Griz Grobus, Brother! The water's warm...
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The war-god laments his avian captivity in this week's installment of GRIZ GROBUS!
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This makes me think of those bison sculptures in palaeolithic caves- similarly impressive to come across in the deep dark with a sputtering oil lamp
This Megalosaurus was apparently made by sculptor and mining inspector Jean Caelen in May 1895 in the caves (Gemeentegrot) of Valkenburg. He and collaborators also made others, including Plioplatecarpus, Hainosaurus, and murals of Mosasaurus.
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jesus christ - someone's gotta remake "a bug's life" with this shit
Carbon Robotics' Autonomous Weeder can kill over 100,000 weeds/hour using 8 simultaneously operating laser modules that deliver quick zaps on emerging weeds [video: ] [read more: ]
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The mind/body problem, featuring Father Stanley, today on GRIZ GROBUS
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It's hard not to love how well Barlowe communicates the physicality of these critters (or dimensionality maybe?)
The world of dinosaurs, illustrated by Wayne Barlowe in "An Alphabet of Dinosaurs" by Peter Dodson, 1995.
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I remember the concept art for this mod was one of the most powerful influences on my art and science if aesthetics when I was coming out of high school. Never played it but it looms large in my mind
NEOTOKYO° was released in 2009; A Multiplayer Team-Based Tactical Shooter - Developed as a Mod for HL2 Source. Since abandoned post 2014 Steam Release, the official website has been taken offline (all the High Res Map Images with it) I will be archiving all maps here. Thread 🧵
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nothing cuter than a girl feeding cherries to a disgusting arboreal manimal
I completely forgot about one of my favourite color work. Thank you
@simonroyart
for saying "yes" everytime when i suggesting to try something crazy.
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I am proud and excited to present
@DirectedByRay
's magnificent short "Good Business" - watch it here:
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"Kaijune" continues with part 3 of "The oxpecker and the elephant"...
"Kaijune" continues with part 2 of "The oxpecker and the elephant"
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Two more sketch cards from the GRiz Grobus kickstarter - razorclam warrior and mysterious molluscoid mercenary
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Self indulgently designing more aliens for “Refugium”, the griz grobus sequel, instead of doing paid work…
#specbio
#specbioart
#aliens
#scifiart
#scifi
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including the original line drawings for these sick-ass lancer pieces - all for friggin sale baby
A hodgepodge of new
@simonroyart
original art is now available on ! Lancer and RuneQuest RPG illustrations! Covers and Cayrel's Ring!
Check it all out in Simon's Gallery, right here:
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An ancient drawing (done with crayola washables whilst in a meeting at an animation job) that was one of the main precursors to GRIZ GROBUS (Specifically the Domekan Warriors in the "Azkon's Heart" storyline)
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Today on the patreon - 20 pages of powerful colors from
@the_nazavr_art
! A little tale called "A Portrait of the Artist as Hive Parasite"....
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I hate to grub for subs, but we're only 26 subscribers away from qualifying for a little fart of Webtoon's advertising income - why not mosey on over?
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im late to
#smaugust
but i wanted to sneak in some fan art i did for my favorite Jack Vance book, the Dragon Masters - reptilian aliens, bred by men of a medieval planet for war (thread)
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After much deliberation, I'm proud to announce the winner of our
#REFUGIUM2024
contest -
@TheCountofS
and his Walrus-grappler! I'd like to present - my version of his entry, the PORKOFOKO (1/2)
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i swear, you turn your back on an authoritarian regime for five seconds, and
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if you see this, post an extrasolar lesser noble and his posthuman entourage (an older piece i love, but cannot find the source file for the life of me)
If you see this, post a knight (or at least a mounted extrasolar aristocrat)
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Today, on patreon - "The River God"
(with colors from
@the_nazavr
and some writing help from
@Evil0Dan
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Thinking about derelict starships and those who live alongside them
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an Evangelion and a Godzilla commission finished this weekend
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Adding one more Altamiran creature to the shared bestiary we are building for refugium…
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Crossbow-golem of karazad -like Boston dynamics but made from magic and ritual sacrifice
Karazadi golems- woven from the flesh of human sacrifice, seeing through painted eyes, commanded by written amulets
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Another animation-meeting-drawing from the archives - some sort of sorceror who would provide most of the costume for Lord Peka, a barely-present side character from the book GRIZ GROBUS...
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Karazadi golems- woven from the flesh of human sacrifice, seeing through painted eyes, commanded by written amulets
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This month on the upper levels of the patreon is the beginning a rather disturbing lil feature called “Men of Earth” - an all-human ecology of the far future. Not too dissimilar to the Dougal Dixon classics like “Man After Man” and the like!
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damn still my best mech, tbh - never to be topped again
credit where credit is due, blue blood monster head is ripped directly from
@simonroyart
but hey ya gotta learn from the best
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By far one of the funnest jobs i've had in my whole dang career, tbh - there's nothing so exciting as very loose commission guidelines!
When I reached out to
@simonroyart
to commission a new poster for Chapo, I said I was thinking of something influenced by either "Dune" or "Stalker", as if I could have chosen one when I saw his sketches for both ideas. Had to double down. Should be available for purchase soon.
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Honestly I am shook by seeing this pressure suit- I designed one that is almost exactly the same for habitat, and while I clearly saw the griffon at some point, I have no memory of it
The absolute beast that is the Griffin Command/Control Pressure Suit
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Another royal monster-hunting tractor-mech, now with more harpoon and winch
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