turnways • Tyler Windham

@turnways

Lead UI Designer & Illustrator | Polyarc, Firaxis, Tripwire, CCP/White Wolf | I draw things and make bad puns | He/Him

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turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· 5d

We had a li’l crow visitor today ❤️ My wife named them Archimedes (Archie for short)

Photo of the inside of my bedroom showing an adolescent crow perched on an overhang just outside my open window. There are two paper cups near the crow, one filled with water and the other with a bit of food. The crow is just chillin’

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· 8d

A screen capture from the Zelda game Wand of Gamelon, where the King is saying the line “This peace is what all true warriors strive for”

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· 16d

Workin’ on something #wip #art #digitalart #illustration #magik #tokon #marvel

Various full-body sketches done in Procreate of Magik from Marvel Tokon. Magik is posing with her sword in all four sketches. The sketches are done in a loose pencil style.

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· 22d

AI detection sites are untrustworthy, at best, and are likely harvesting the images fed to them for training. Here is an illustration I did for White Wolf's Book of the Wyrm (2014). It's on page 48, yet somehow it's also an AI-generated image. Do not use AI detection sites.

Screenshot of an image detection website, DeepAI, that is labeling an illustration as being 99% AI, despite the fact the illustration in question was published in 2014 in White Wolf's Book of the Wyrm

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· 25d

New character portrait I’ve been working on for my fantasy UI project. I need to do more hair and cloth studies, those are my current speedbumps. (repost to fix alt text) #art #digitalart #fantasy #wip #procreate

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Jun 28

Timelapse! #art #digitalart #illustration #Procreate #fantasy #elf

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Jun 28

Finished! #art #digitalart #illustration #Procreate #fantasy #elf

Digital painting of an elvish woman with long red hair. She is wearing a puffy-sleeved tan shirt with black pants and brown belts. She has an armored shoulder pad and dangly jewelry. There are leaves blowing in the wind behind her. The background is parchment paper.

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Jun 21

Progress! #wip #art #digitalart #Procreate

Digital painting of an elven woman with long red hair. She is wearing a puffy-sleeved tan shirt with black pants and brown belts. She has an armored shoulder pad and dangly jewelry. There are leaves blowing in the wind behind her. The background is parchment paper, and on the left are swatches of the colors used in the drawing.

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Jun 20

I almost never post my artwork, so let’s change that! Here’s a WIP of a character portrait for a personal UI project. #wip #art #digitalart

Digital pencil sketch with flat colors of an elven woman with long red hair. She is wearing a puffy-sleeved tan shirt with black pants and brown belts. She has an armored shoulder pad and dangly jewelry. There are leaves blowing in the wind behind her. The background is parchment paper, and on the left are swatches of the colors used in the drawing.

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Jun 3

Preview of an inventory menu + icons I am making for a space combat game. I wanted to work on a bit of UI that captured a particular space PC vibe first and foremost, and it's been a blast exploring this aesthetic. Plus it's always fun to draw some icons from scratch. #ui #indiedev #gamedev #sci-fi

A mockup of an inventory screen from a hard sci-fi video game. The screen features the login info for the current user, the amount of credits they have, and their ship's current inventory. There are several categories the user can pick between, from Weapons to Components and Trade Goods, and currently they're viewing All Items. The grid shows 16 items of various types and rarities, including Ship Repair Parts, Encryption Keys, and Nutri-Paste. The currently selected item is the Water Ration, a rare trade good that sells for 12,602 credits.

Sixteen inventory icons for a hard sci-fi video game. The icons feature hard sci-fi surfaces and greebles, and lots of small LED lights. The icons are, in order, a grey and orange rectangular case (Ship Repair Parts), a triangular prism with a metal base (Amethyst Shard), an orange cube with cyan lights (400mm Ammunition), a rectangular box with tubes and a handle (Jumpdrive Filter), a small handheld taser-like gun (Plasma Cutter), a sphere with a glowy blue inner circle (Energy Core), a tube with a glass middle that is glowing blue (Quantum Plug), a red and white tapedrive (Drive Tapedeck), a stubby metal cylinder with a green glowing LED on the end (Power Coupler), a thick USB-like key that also has green LEDs (Encryption Key), a square circuitboard with a process in the middle (MQI Coprocessor), a blue glowy cube (Data Cube), a tablet with blue lines and charts on it (Astronavigation Map), a red and white case with a white cross on it (Large Medkit), a thick plastic bag sealed with gold foil and filled with a blue liquid (Water Ration), and something that looks like sci-fi toothpaste (Nutri-Paste). There are sci-fi greebles on the border.

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Aug 15

I forget sometimes my Steam account is old enough to drink:

A screenshot from my Steam purchase history of the first several games added to my Steam account. They are as follows: Half-Life Platinum Pack on September 14th, 2003. Half-Life 2 Silver on November 18th, 2004. The Orange Box on October 27th, 2007. Audiosurf on February 12th, 2008. Doom Pack on June 27th, 2008. Max Payne Bundle on July 12th, 2008. Left 4 Dead on November 18th, 2008. Mass Effect on June 13th, 2009.

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Jun 1

Post a random photo otherwise everything goes wrong in June

A photo of someone holding up a DVD of the movie Grain Husband. The fake movie is about a husband who became a grain, and is part of Barack Obama’s “Top Films for Women - 2017” list.

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Apr 30

Black and white manga panel of Guts from Berserk giving a thumbs-up

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Mar 8

I love these little furballs

A photo of two well-fed grey squirrels sitting on a paved patio eating birdseed.

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Mar 6

If thou see this, post thine walker

A quick brown pencil sketch on parchment of Mechbeth, a mech (mechanical bipedal tank) that looks like a medieval king. It is drawn in a style somewhat reminiscent of an illuminated manuscript. He has a pointed crown, two shoulder-mounted 4-holed missile launchers, a giant knight's helmet on his chest as a cockpit for the pilot, a flowing cape, arm canons, and cricket double-jointed legs with three-toed armored mechanical feet.

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Feb 11

When I take a photo of the backside of my speaker and accidentally go a little too hard with it

A dimly-lit tilted photo of the backside of a speaker, with various knobs and switches and some foreground blur. The color, tilt, and depth of field all work to make this photo unintentionally more visually pleasing than it has any right to be.

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Feb 5

3. This woman's sleeves absolutely match; I've darkened the seamlines to show this:

Another cropped view of the Fantastic Four poster in question, showing a woman's matching yellow sleeves with the seamlines darkened to indicate how they match.

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Feb 5

2. A lot of the buttons on sleeves are pretty normal, and are either decorative or are near a hidden seamline:

Another cropped view of the Fantastic Four poster in question, demonstrating a number of buttons and how they would fit logically on their respective clothes.

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Feb 5

Not only are none of these indicative of this being AI, they're not even necessarily true: 1. The plaid scarf matches 100% above and below the sleeve; the extra white bit on the left folds under the rest of the scarf further up:

A cropped view of the Fantastic Four poster in question, demonstrating how a man's scarf clearly continues in a consistent way behind a hand and arm.

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Jan 21

Vegeta doodle WIP #dbz #dragonballz #dragonballsuper #art

A digital painting of a realistic depiction of Vegeta from Dragon Ball Z. He is wearing his white Saiyan armor with yellow shoulder straps, his arms are crossed, and he is smirking at the camera.

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Jan 18

He worked out of the same room my old office was in! Hell of an icebreaker at parties. He was also a bug-squashing beast apparently:

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Jan 13

Hell. Yes. Nearly every minute of this is from Sawayama Solitaire.

A screenshot of Steam of the library entry for the game Last Call BBS, highlighting the amount of hours played (696.9 hours).

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Dec 28

I apologize, but I had to:

General Grievous, an evil robotic general with a dark cloak, is placing the video game Unicorn Overlord onto their belt, adding it to their collection like he would a lightsaber.

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Dec 24

Holy shit, I can’t believe I still have this:

Cover of the Shogo:MAD video game strategy guide, featuring strategies and secrets plus “hardcore multiplayer strategies by Gamers Extreme”

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Dec 13

Not sure if this is helpful, but in Atlanta OTP means "outside the perimeter", or outside Interstate 285 that encircles the area commonly considered as Atlanta proper:

A map of Atlanta and its surrounding areas, with an orange circle drawn to delineate the area "inside the perimeter" and the area "outside the perimeter", the perimeter being Interstate 285

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Dec 12

It's funny rereading these old Casting Call articles from '90s Wizard and Inquest:

The first two pages of an article, Casting Couch: Inquest Casts the Lord of the Rings Movie, from Inquest #4, published in August of 1995. Tim Curry is their pick for Balrog, Frank Oz for Gollum, Sir John Gielgud for Gandalf, Joseph Mazzello for Frodo, and James Earl Jones as the lead Ringwraith.

The second two pages of an article, Casting Couch: Inquest Casts the Lord of the Rings Movie, from Inquest #4, published in August of 1995. Amy Yosbeck is their pick for Galadriel, Julian Sands for Legolas, Mandy Patinkin for Aragorn, Joe Pesci for Gimli, Merlin Olsen for Boromir, Willoughby Gray for King Theoden, Max Von Sydow for Saruman, and Christopher Lloyd for Treebeard

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Dec 5

Since these are out in the wild now, I wanted to share a neat idea I had for button icons that passed usability testing. The half-circle helps guide you which face button is A/B/X/Y (helpful when swapping between Xbox and Switch), while also keeping the familiarity of the standard button icon:

Two sets of four circular gamepad button icons (A, B, X, Y) with the colored Xbox icons on the left, and the colorless Switch icons on the right, with both sets arranged in a cross. Each icon has a letter in the middle indicating which button it is, and a half-circle along its top, bottom, left, or right edge indicating whether the button is the top, left, bottom, or right button of the four face buttons.

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Nov 24

LMAO, boy this hit close to home:

Two icons, a glass half full and a glass half empty, one with a black upper half and a white lower half, and one with a white upper half and a black lower half

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Nov 16

Posting another old sketch from that time I painted a realistic Marceline from #AdventureTime for reasons I can’t remember #art #digitalpaintings #illustration

turnways • Tyler Windham@turnways· Nov 16

Every time we receive a delivery our cat, asleep just moments before, launches herself at the glass front door, tail puffed and menace unbridled.