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benmce.bsky.social
run around, draw thing ✦ PDX ✦ Senior Concept Artist @ Gardens🌳 ✦ Contact: [email protected] https://linktr.ee/benmce.art
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highly recommend climbing a big hill

if you’re an artist who ever thought “what’s the point? The world is Hell and I should do something that matters instead” even in an ICE detention center people will treat art as sacred, seek it out, and find joy and comfort in it. You aren’t making art, you’re making hope.

Hey! A little news from me! I'm back to talking about games (video and otherwise), twice a month, on a new podcast I'm hosting with the crew from @friends-table.bsky.social!

Seed Dagger

Golden Season

It was great to collaborate with such a cool group of people, check out the first episode of their new season later today!

Any medium can be art, but the more we refer to something as "content" or "product" the further we get away from that.

Okay, my turn again! Do you need a narrative designer or game writer? Lucky you, because I need a job! I’ve led narrative teams and worked on some of your favorite franchises! Based in LA and not looking to relocate, but happy to travel! Open to full time or contract!

Brittle Facades

couldn’t eat ALL the pretty danishes at my local coffee shop so I had to draw them

Drink & draw doodlin’

Sketchbook bits from the fall

Here is the current schedule for tomorrow's stream!!! I will be on all day, and Emily will be on and off intermittently! See you tomorrow at 10 am PST— donations are already open! www.youtube.com/live/iQ1FbkI...

that's right

it's been a while time since i did any personal art 🥺 started this near the end of 2024 but finally finished it up now... feeling very rusty but just happy to be creating againnn

An Ashcan release of Realis, the TTRPG that I've been working on (and off and on) for the last four years is now available for preorder! thecalcutec.itch.io/realis

While it was a difficult climb, the old city was never hard to find. Scavengers need only look for the static lines of captive stars.

sneak peek at some lovely @phandy.bsky.social concept art 👀

As the angelic parasite takes root, Lena molts her old self

Like many couriers before her, Lena was selected to guide the light of a young star towards its place in the constellation.

Kickstarter is now live! The Beasts and Blessings of the Hallow’d Hall: a deck of 45 bestiary cards along with a companion compendium of folk prose cowritten by myself and writer/composer @notquitereal.bsky.social kickstarter.com/projects/badbucket/the-beasts-and-blessings-of-the-hallowd-hall

The Starry Season🌟 If you’re in Portland, you can see (and purchase👀) these at the Gallery Nucleus Postcard Show starting this Sunday!

This is kind of the crux of why none of these huge tech companies could figure out how to make games. They see it as a technology problem, but when a lot of what makes a great game great is an Arts and Humanities journey

Game night doodles

Some months ago the Saltenpepper team and I decided to finally give up on the game project, none of us had enough time or resources to put into it and i realised i was completely done with it. I'll put together a book of all my work on it as a send off. Here's some never seen stuff in the meantime

more sketchbook bits!

I wish I could play Elden Ring for the first time again

Daylight Well

In love with Tokyo’s trucks

Some recent doodlin’

Ponder

Doodle while rewatching Andor, I need season 2 so baaad

Tending to a Memory

Envoy of the Shepherd Moons

The Kestrel, a fantasy mech from an old story idea.

Heavenly Husk

Archangel Yolk