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TJ Trewin

@tjtrewin.com

┏◆ Pixel artist & award-winning worldbuilder ┠◇ Commissions: vgen.co/tjtrewin ┠◇ Shop assets: tjtrewin.itch.io ┗◆ Email: hello@tjtrewin.com ⚧️ Pronouns: [ he / him ] ░▒▓▝▛▟ ▓▒░

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Dorian Blackwood (They/Them)@dorianblackwood.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Gang! We already have some great submissions to Birbday Jam, so you just know I'm going to start a thread! itch.io/jam/birbday-...

TJ Trewin @tjtrewin.com · last mo.

I just finished making my first birdwatching art zine! 😍 tjtrewin.itch.io/cool-birds-i... trying out some worn-out marker brushes in Affinity really helped fight the perfectionism to get this finished hahaha xD #Zine #Zines #ArtZine #MiniZine #Birdwatching #Birding #NatureReserve #AvianAugust

(front cover)
Cool birds that I've seen in:
Área Natural Yrigoyen, Vicente López, Buenos Aires
TJ Trewin
tjtrewin.itch.io

Zine title with the feather of a Crested Caracara. A simple background illustration of tall, foreground grasses, and wetland in the background.

(back cover)
Pictured: A simplified map depicting the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Área Natural Yrigoyen nature reserve is marked - it's a short distance north of the city. The Mitre train line (to Tigre) is highlighted to show a convenient route for visiting (from Retiro).

What will you find?
tjtrewin.itch.io

Pages 2 & 3
Birds of Prey
One of the things I love the most about living in Buenos Aires is getting to see sooooo many birds of prey every day, even in the city!

Pictured:
- (bottom left) A large, dark feathered Harris Hawk on a log, bending down to tear meat from an unknown morsel held in place with its talons. A doodled annotation reads "om nom nom".
- (right, main) Two big Crested Caracaras perching amidst tree branches, looking off into the distance. The top one has doodled questionmarks to imply a curious expression, the lower one has a scribble to emphasize the tuft of its darker head crest sticking out.
- (bottom right) A Chimango, smaller than the Caracaras, has a smaller beak, no head tuft, and a lighter coloured body. A doodle of exclamation marks implies an alert expression.

Pages 4 & 5
Passeriformes
The mockingbirds often trick me into thinking that there's a bird somewhere nearby that I haven't seen before!

Pictured:
- (left, edge) A Narrow-billed Woodcreeper with a long, narrow beak, climbing the trunk of a tree and looking for insects.
- (left, bottom) A Red-crested Cardinal with a prominently pointed crest, standing on grass and looking downward and with doodles implying an expression of frustration.
- (right) A Chalk-browed Mockingbird perching atop a ledge and peering downards (seemingly towards the cardinal on the opposite page). Angled doodles from the beak look like an expression of speech, or birdsong, in the form of scribbled wavelengths.
- (right, bottom) A Great Kiskadee perched on a branch.

Pages 6 & 7
Water Birds
I enjoy staying motionless by the river (especially in the rain) and silently noticing all of the wildlife around me.

Hold on... am I a heron?

(Smudgy, partially erased text: I should stretch. I also have the same posture.)

Pictured:
- (top left) A huge Cocoi Heron in a relaxed yet hunched pose. It has a black crest atop its head and its neck has long, white, hair-like feathers.
- (left, main) A Maguari Stork as seen from below, soaring above with an enormous wingspan with black edges contrasting its white body.
- (right, edge) A large, almost-black Neotropic Cormorant with its webbed feet perching on a rock. Its long neck bends as it twists to face its beak directly facing forward to the viewer.
- (right, fold) A Grey-cowled Wood Rail, kind of chicken-sized, wades through the muddy river bank. It has a black tufty tail that sticks upwards, and it has a strong pointy beak like the heron and cormorant, though not as long.

TJ Trewin @tjtrewin.com · last mo.

hello i am 800 people

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · last mo.

we must recover the old wisdom

Biryani for 800 people
4 kg ginger
2 kg garlic
200 kg mutton (cut 6 pieces from each 500g of meat)
50 kg rice
32 kg masoor
80g saffron (8 tolas)
2 kg chilli powder (red)
2 kg crushed chillies (red)
500g whole green chillies
360g elachi
250g turmeric (use sparingly of this quantity and use egg yellow to obtain richer colour)
500g jeera
250g shah-jeera
250g tuj
20 kg ghee (use sparingly. If mutton is fatty, less with be needed)
20 litres oil
1½ litres lemon juice (or vinegar or ½ vinegar and ½ lemon)
40 x 500ml yoghurt
12-16 doz eggs
25 kg potatoes
20 kg onions
1 kg fine salt (use only as much as is required)
6 kg coarse salt (for rice and meat)

Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · last mo.

Adding to the collection

TJ Trewin @tjtrewin.com · last mo.

I had the house to myself today, but I was a GoodBoy and caught up with allllllll of the housework that I intended on doing 🙌🧼 AND I told myself that I'd not start #FieldsOfMistria until I'd finished my birdwatching art zine I just finished 😤 mfw it's already past my bedtime 😭😭

TJ Trewin @tjtrewin.com · last mo.

thinking of doing a fresh run on #FieldsOfMistria but with a few personal challenges for... for... late game reasons 👀 (major #spoilers in thread below)

deli 🍓@deliciest.bsky.social · last mo.

Best art advice ever.

EG ☕@lzr-mki.bsky.social · last yr.

Christie 🖤 (brief hiatus for September)@ndchristie.bsky.social · last mo.

Pico-8 x Magical Lesbians

Sprite and high res pixel art of Lyre, a magical girl wearing folksy clothing. She is presented with either light or dark skin depending on player preference

Christie 🖤 (brief hiatus for September)@ndchristie.bsky.social · last mo.

Naomi can have a little pixel art, as a treat

Two female sprites

One more adventurous girl with long curls in a sort of wrap cloak labeled Lute

One more magical girl with a long bubble braid and skirt

Both appear in two palettes, one with fair skin and another with darker skin

TJ Trewin @tjtrewin.com · last mo.

You'll be pleased to know I'm cooking up some armoured versions 😉 (ty for the requests, folks!!) tjtrewin.itch.io/pixel-art-ha... If you wanna grab it early, you'll get the new additions for free when they're released (bc price will go up a lil bit) :D

Pixel art hand cursors by TJ Trewin

Hand cursors in 32x32 pixel art (point, click, hover, zoom, grab, release)

tjtrewin.itch.io

Fields of Mistria ✨ Out now in 1.0 @fieldsofmistria.bsky.social · last mo.

The wait is almost over! 🎉 Fields of Mistria 1.0 launches on Aug 5th! Check out the graphic below to see what time it launches in your region ⏳✨

Daniel James Freer @dfree.bsky.social · last mo.

big drill! #pixelart #ドット絵

TJ Trewin @tjtrewin.com · last mo.

QRP with your most popular piece on bsky - For me it continues to be my pixel hand cursors! #pixelart #cursors #pointers #indiegamedev

🔸Rafael Françoi🔸@rathaelos.bsky.social · last mo.

QRP with your most popular piece on bsky - Apparently it was this one

Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · last mo.

Daily reminder that GDscript supports the Sumerian clay table alphabet, Akkadian cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia. This is perfectly valid code you can write in your game:

TJ Trewin @tjtrewin.com · last mo.

QRP with your most popular piece on bsky - For me it continues to be my pixel hand cursors! #pixelart #cursors #pointers #indiegamedev

🔸Rafael Françoi🔸@rathaelos.bsky.social · last mo.

QRP with your most popular piece on bsky - Apparently it was this one

Terrible Toybox @terribletoybox.com · last mo.

We have good news and bad news! The good news is that we just started production on Thimbleweed Park 2, due out in early 2028. store.steampowered.com/app/4932120/... Now the bad news... there is no bad news, it’s all good news! P.S. Thimbleweed Park 1 is on sale on Steam, Switch, iOS and Google.

The cover image from the video game Thimbleweed Park with a bright red spray-painted number 2 on the corner of the words, announcing the game's sequel coming in 2028.

TJ Trewin @tjtrewin.com · last mo.

400 Worldbuilding Questions has relaunched on @itch.io! 🎉 tjtrewin.itch.io/400-worldbui... - Genre-agnostic, suitable for any setting - 20 categories with d20 roll tables - Low-ink .PDF - a VeryCool™ Google Sheet - 100% human made, always #worldbuilding #printandplay #ttrpg #indiedev #gamedev

Preview showing stacked pages of the printable, low-ink .pdf of 400 Worldbuilding Questions. Pages shown are: the front cover with title and thematic icons surrounding it, an index page with instructions and tips above it, and two pages showing a d20 roll table of questions in legible, alternating greyscale colours.

Screenshot of the interactive Google Sheet for 400 Worldbuilding Questions, showing a set of 20 colourful, partially-filled progress bars, and an overall main progress bar. Links above each of the 20 allow you to jump to each section.

Screenshot example of the category "Buildings & Structures" in the interactive Google Sheet of 400 Worldbuilding Questions. Table of 20 questions is shown, each with a number, checkbox, and space to the right for jotting down notes or ideas. A progress bar indicates the number of completed questions, and there's a separate checkbox to simulate rolling a d20 to randomly choose a question!

Screenshots of reviews. Examples include: "This is a really awesome resource and touches on a lot of points crucial to worldbuilding to really make your world feel alive that could easily be forgotten or overlooked.", "This is perfect!", "I've paid $20 on Amazon for less than this", "These are well-written and thoughtful", "I'll definitely gift this to people".

TJ Trewin @tjtrewin.com · last mo.

*emerges from beneath several pages of conjugation tables* holaaaa 😅 it's been a while since I had time to post things, huh! time for a life update? I've been learning Spanish at the University of Buenos Aires, and I recently passed my A2 exams! 🙌🎉 I'm chuffed to bits 😁

castpixel ⚧️⚢@castpixel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

People ask how I do illustrations at very small pixelart resolutions. The trick is practice, and the exercise to practice is this: 1. draw your character 2. halve the resolution (now you can't fit all the details; pick what to keep), 3. halve again to 1/4. After that, 1/2 res feels roomy.

max's sprite from Sam n Max hit the road. from right to left: original, half resolution, 1/4 resolution. Progressively fewer details, but still recognizable

LinPiX ≽(◉˕ ◉ ≼マ @lifeinpixelz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🖤 🐾 doodle for my mental health. don’t you have days when you just wanna go… blep? #pixelart #ドット絵 #aseprite

Yacht Club Games @yachtclubgames.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Check out these 4 things we did to help Mina navigate precarious platforms precisely in Tenebrous Isle. 😱 We are taking jumping mechanics to the next level making the experience fun for players and mice!🐁 🎮What are some of your favorite top down game mechanics?

Yacht Club Games @yachtclubgames.bsky.social · 4mo ago

TRUE FINAL RELEASE DATE!! 🐭🙌 Mina the Hollower launches May 29 for only $19.99! Prepare yourself for one of the greatest top-down adventures ever to be delivered directly to your soul for less than 20 bucks. Mark your calendars. Tell your friends. Wishlist now - links below! 🧵

Miles | Hibera Demo out NOW @milesthemighty.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Rebranding one of my schools of magic and doing some font upgrades at the same time @tjtrewin.com was kind enough to add the overdot characters to his fonts and I upgraded mine. #indiedev #irishgamedev #fonts

Ori-Warui -Wishlist KNUCKLE JET @oleivarrudi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

been thinking a bit about people doing all sorts of upscaling on old games with prerendered backgrounds and it hit me that it would be kinda fun to use the extra resolution to make them look worse in interesting ways instead, like trying to make the it look like a scanned 90s game mag screenshot

🌛Caio Santos Art🌜@blacksalander.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Shadow of Night

TJ Trewin @tjtrewin.com · 4mo ago

It's my friend @ap-cartography.bsky.social's birthday! I highly recommend The Wandering Library - it's cosy, solo journaling RPG with gorgeous artwork (human-created by AP. of course) and fun, thought provoking gameplay. 🥰 grab a cup of tea & treat yourself! #SoloRPG #Journaling #Worldbuilding

AP. | Maps and Games@ap-cartography.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It's my birthday! 🎂 For today only you can get 50% off The Wandering Library: Expanded Edition! 💚 (Sale ends at 11:59pm BST)

G @jasky.bsky.social · 5mo ago

If you leave nice comments on art and writing, you are a big part of why we get to continue seeing more art and writing. Thank you to everyone who takes the time to make the community continue flourishing. You, the audience, matter just as much as the creators do.

a beautiful middle-aged freak🐉🍙@monkhazard.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The tags on this Tumblr post really sum up how I feel as a writer about the current state of fandom, and my increasing lack of motivation to write & share fics

TJ Trewin @tjtrewin.com · 4mo ago

a pixel art study of Mina the Hollower for today's #PixelDailies prompt: "floorboards" :3 I can't contain my excitement for this gaaaaaaame!! so I put it into a lil animation 😆 #MinaTheHollower @yachtclubgames.bsky.social #PixelArt #Aseprite

Pixel Dailies@pixeldailies.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Today's theme is #floorboards. #pixel_dailies