Colin Campbell

Been a minute since I've been here. Nice to see friends again here!

Trying to kick off a regular posting of work. Starting with some journal sketchbook pages soon. Counting my current one that's WIP for 2025, it'll be ten years worth.

I asked my son what he wanted me to draw. He said a chicken. So here we are.

Burke Mountain playground view over sunset - gouache sketch in the journal.

I was met with a surprise this week: a beautiful piece by the great @ccampbellart.bsky.social, delivered to my door.
Thanks and ❤️, old friend.

I’m glad you liked this one! I enjoyed the travelers theme of these illustrations. Felt appropriate for our group, somehow, even if we aren’t moving at that specific moment.

Restorative long weekend with kiddos and @ccampbellart.bsky.social

Favorite quote after kids have a discussion with a hiker comparing walking sticks (they had sticks, she had poles), said by the younger with a wistful sigh: “That human is my friend now.”

100% this. Been talking about it a lot on our team lately in places. Theater terms are helpful in game dev very often too!

HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you
#artshare

Vertical panels, the first is just a black starry night with the little Dipper at the top, and the second panel is the continuation of the black starry night, with a sea and cliff at the bottom and a person (Pia) standing there, watching the sky.

new page up on
www.littletinythings.com 🌠

I know this scene because we watched it shortly after our son was born and bawled and then CHEERED like we were watching the most emotional movie ever.

I’m probably a romantic but generally have always found Valentine’s Day pretty bland in contrast to the joys of everyday love.

This practice feels right, though: an intentional creation of something beyond a box of romantic love, and instilling something of a celebration around that in my boys.

For the last few years leading up to Valentine’s Day, my two boys and I make a gigantic mess and somehow end up with a big pile of hand-made cards for loved ones and their friends.
The process can get a bit wild and I try to embrace the chaos of it.

Any artist pals over on Cara? I need to follow more folks there.

QRP with someone watery :)

The finished journal page:

Gouache painting time-lapse of a snowy, sunny day out our window here in British Columbia.

Also *vibes

It’s out of reach for a 6yo to play by themselves, but also is a totally different type of game than he might play otherwise. So I’m enjoying watching him try and wrap his brain around it.

Currently helping my 6yo play a bit of Mario+Rabbids: Sparks of Hope and remembering how surprisingly good this game is.

Good depth, and good Mario story with a touch of darkness to it. Some vines of Super Mario RPG.

Oahu Inkwash

We had a pretty little moment. Then wet, just above freezing.

In grade school I had been so confused.

How had people let Hitler rise to power?

How had people let the McCarthy era happen?

And then now it’s, “Ah. This is how.”

We’re supposed to learn from history. Not repeat the mistakes of the past.

I say this to folks a lot, too.
It doesn’t need to be a big, ambitious thing. You don’t need to do it daily or fill pages.
Add sketches! Add stickers! Mess around on pages & write a few lines about what happened one day/week/month.
You’ll never regret spending even a few minutes a week on it.

This week I was telling a team member that my job these days is just dancing on the razor’s edge of how vague to be for different situations.

You could say that in the opposite way and it’s about how precise to be. But in this case he was literally asking me to “be more vague”.

This tweet feels like it could have been written specifically for @jharacampbell.bsky.social and her experience making video game spaceships.

(She’s new to Bluesky but she’s the best and you’ll all want to follow her. I am biased but I am also right.)

Yeah man! Congrats. :)

My art studio, too.
The fun part is it can be used positively. I want them to do some art with me? Set it up and completely ignore them at first. 100% they’ll come over to join in.

I’m decently good at pivoting and absorbing their presence and all its chaos into this kind of stuff. And mostly steering any dangerous bits from them.

But it’s a pretty sure fire chain of events.

A parenting trick is that if you want your kids playing in a specific spot start an intentionally non-kid project in that exact spot.