James’rpgart

Alchemists Shop - Animated Image

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Alchemists Shop - Still Image

I still have a few common shop interiors that come up quite often in a game, and one of those, that my party at least has shopped at a lot is the Alchemists. In my world at least, Alchemists hold a fairly high rank in society, so their stores are usually in the nicer parts of town and deal with the upper echelon of society. I...

Desert Dunes - Still Image

I wanted to fill a few gaps in the wilderness travel scenes and someone the other day suggested a desert dunes location, so just goes to show if you suggest a location, I'll probably do it :) I had to finish this quick one up before the end of the month, but next month I'm going to hop back into a few interior scenes, as they...

Desert Dunes Night Animated

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Desert Dunes - Animated Image

https://imgur.com/a/WFc9ifu

Town Gates Night Animated

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Town Gate - Still Image

After the Castle Gates image last month I wanted to make a smaller town gates that could be used for similar encounters but in a different setting. I think these encounters come up so often in D&D games that there's plenty of opportunities to use...

Town Gates - Animated Image

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Western Desert - Animated Image

https://imgur.com/a/4k11x4a

Western Desert Night Animated

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Western Desert - Still Image

I get lots of good feedback from the wilderness travel locations that I have made in the past and people asking for more of a variety of them. I was watching some an old western movie the other week and was inspired by the landscapes in the film, so I felt like I had to paint something like that. 

I don't know if y...

Volcano Cavern - Animated Image

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Volcano Cavern - Still Image

This week is a really fun location that I got to make in collaboration with Abyssal Brews. We brainstormed a location and magic item that could be found. We settled on a volcano interior theme, and they came up with this Barbarian helmet magic item t...

Vistani Camp Night Animated

Vistani Camp Night Still

Here's how I have been using my scenes to write my recent homebrew.

I have been a huge fan of Matt Colville for a long time and I loved Matts new video about prepping an adventure using inspiration from maps, and it's basical...

Castle Gate - Animated Image

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Castle Gate Night Animated

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Castle Gate - Still Image

I have played through a few scenes over the years where the party has to talk their way into a castle of through city gates, and so I thought it would make sense to paint a scene here. Bored guards can always be looking to take advantage of a weak looking party member or two, and so it's usually a fun time for the party to sh...

Sword of Gormingard Night Animated

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Sword of Gormingard - Still Image

We're back this week with a very fun and unique collaboration with Daniel from Daniels Maps on Patreon. He approached me with the idea for a map/scene collab last month, and this location is very unlike anything I've done in the past, so I had to say ...

Sword of Gormingard - Animated Image

https://imgur.com/a/VPMMjlt

Royal Garden - Animated Image

https://imgur.com/a/aKcLQK2

Royal Garden Animated Night

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Royal Garden - Still Image

Spring time is here in the Northern Hemisphere and I have been visiting a few gardens, and it has been on my list for a while now to paint some royal gardens for parties that are lucky enough to have a patron of such high stature. I have seen some D&D map makers that I follow draw some garden maps in the past so, after vi...

Summoning Circle Night Animated

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Summoning Circle Night Still

Ice Cave - Animated Image

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Ice Cave - Still Image

I recently was suggested to paint Reghed Glacier from Rime of the Frostmaiden, but I realized its just a wall of ice, and it wasn't obvious how to make that interesting. But that leads into the Caves of Hunger, which inspired this location. I tend to run my dungeon delves very narratively nowadays, instead of using a big dung...

Saltmarsh Night Animated

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