Niklas Wistedt

🇸🇪 I'm an amateur artist drawing monsters and maps and other peculiar things to create worlds of endless adventure. Support

[Niklas Wistedt @PathsPeculiar]

Friends, I MADE A BOOK! (link in bio)

Expedition Log is a fictional travel journal based on the works of cartographer and worldbuilder, Paths Peculiar. It recounts the fortunes and misfortunes of a mysterious voyager in search of a legendary lost library.

[Niklas Wistedt @PathsPeculiar]

Was in the mood for colour pencils, so had a go at my previously black-and-white Death Guard insignia. Bonus throwback; my old plague marine. 🪰 🦠 💀

#warhammer #warhammer40k #spacemarines #deathguard

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@PunkDeLaCiencia It’s actually meant as a navigational transit, lining up with the similar mark on land.

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Throwback to Perchburrow Point. Love this little salt-stained outpost at the edge of the great sea. 🌊

#dnd #dungeonsanddragons #isometric #handdrawn #inkart

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@trolllordgames Thanks, buddy!

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A postcard from the Greenbottle Crones in Wraithbog 🪰 🍄 🧪

#dnd #dungeonsanddragons #handdrawn #isometric #map

[Niklas Wistedt @PathsPeculiar]

”Walk peculiar paths, find peculiar places” is my kind of artistic … motto, I guess? Anyway, tried out my newly drawn ”skull frame” with the phrase.

#handdrawn #inkart

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@KamiSawZe Whoa! 💀

[Niklas Wistedt @PathsPeculiar]

Drawing this was an incredibly stupid idea. Doing it with a bloody fountain pen was truly moronic. #inkart #handdrawn #skulls

[Niklas Wistedt @PathsPeculiar]

@FoW_Games Hello! Please contact me at [email protected].

[Niklas Wistedt @PathsPeculiar]

Please feel free to peek into my world. Have a seat by the hearth, a mug of ale and let us spend the night sharing stories of ancient realms, fickle gods and peculiar paths.

#dnd #dungeonsanddragons #ttrpg #worldbuilding #handdrawn

[John Doomer @jonathandoomer]

I’m not anti-AI.

I like MRI machines. I like collision avoidance systems in airplanes. I like software that can detect cancer before a doctor can. I like machine vision systems that stop factory workers from getting their hands crushed in hydraulic presses.

That’s what computers are supposed to do.

Cold. Precise. Mechanical.

I don’t need a technology to “express itself.”

The problem started when Silicon Valley decided the machine should paint. The machine should write poetry. The machine should compose symphonies and generate films and imitate the human soul like a skinwalker wearing a beret.

Now every ad, every song, every image online has this faint chemical aftertaste to it. Like the entire culture is being slowly replaced with synthetic substitutes because executives realized audiences consume slop at the same rate they consume art.

And the worst part is they call this “democratizing creativity.”

No. Creativity was already democratized. A guy with a guitar and 3 friends in a garage could make something beautiful. A college kid with a cracked copy of Photoshop could make an album cover that changed someone’s life.

What they actually democratized was content production.

Factories. Throughput. Infinite generation.

A machine can diagnose my low testosterone. Fine.

I just don’t want it writing the eulogy.

[Kotaku @Kotaku]

Darkest Dungeon devs say they were given permission to copy deceased narrator's voice with AI but would never do it.

"I would never, ever erode his incredible and timeless performances by teaching a machine to sound like him. His voice and delivery was human, and I'm forever grateful I got to write for him."

https://t.co/vdoqXUCFdV

[Dave @GamewithDave]

We didn’t “lose” physical media.
We walked away from it.

The shops still exist. The discs, the vinyl, the collections, all still there waiting.

Streaming is easy.
Owning something is meaningful.

If you miss it… support it.

[Niklas Wistedt @PathsPeculiar]

[work-in-progress] Starting to see the finish line on this little worldbuilding project. It’s been a fun draw! 🏰

#dnd #dungeonsanddragons #isometric #handdrawn #ttrpg

[Niklas Wistedt @PathsPeculiar]

Work-in-progress. Haven’t drawn isometric in a while, and was in the mood for some worldbuilding. So here’s some kind of keep or mansion. Perhaps an inn?

#isometric #drawing #handdrawn #dnd #dungeonsanddragons

[Niklas Wistedt @PathsPeculiar]

A couple of sword designs and an hourglass. Damn, chains are *so hard* to draw. ⛓️⚔️⏳

#handdrawn #inkart #fantasyart #sword

[Niklas Wistedt @PathsPeculiar]

@PaddyohCakes I doubt it, but thank you!

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Please note that this t-shirt uses art by me without my permission. I am not in anyway affiliated with the company Bold Boneco. It's hard to protect yourself from stuff like this, but boy it sucks when you see it.

[Niklas Wistedt @PathsPeculiar]

Working on my upcoming dungeon adventure "Arkabad". I hope to release a digital "alpha" version quite soon. hopefully in a few weeks. #osr #dnd #ttrpg

[360Genius🗣️ @_360Genius_]

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