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👤 Creature Concept Artist & Founder of @SonghornStudios 💼 Prev: Rare, Ubisoft, SixMoreVodka, Volta ✉️ s.santala @songhorn .com He/Him 🇪🇺 Carbon-based biped

Helsinki, Finland

https://t.co/3lv9W76Xcf

Joined August 2012

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Sam Santala

4 months

Whilst not one of the Riot/Blizz folks, I was let go from my role as a concept artist as well this week and am now looking for work. I specialize mostly in stylized or creature work, but I'm very interested in more character-based and historical projects

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Sam Santala

3 years

Mario in Mario in Overwatch 1 Overwatch 2

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2 years

Gonna tell my kids this was the Cowboy Bebop live action

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3 years

But I need them if I am to be successful in the battle, Potion Seller!

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4 years

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Who knows what we might find on these deserted islands. Maybe even some Monster Hunter Villagers?? #AnimalCrossingNewHorizons #AnimalCrossingNewHorizon

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3 years

My thoughts on #ResidentEvilVillage 😍

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6 months

The power of art is the ability to make shitposts like this.

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2 months

This is like, the cutest VTuber I've ever seen in my entire life

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4 years

Rook - Dragonborn Fighter #Dnd #commissionsopen

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24 days

Going through the Turning Red concept art and I love these expressions. Bottom left is definitely me answering emails.

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3 years

Wishing these old Monster hunter villagers I made were in the final Animal Crossing update... #AnimalCrossingNewHorizons

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1 year

Sorry, I was gatekeeping art :( I didn't realise I was stopping you from picking up a pencil.

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5 years

Iceborne Monster Crossing Villagers So that's all of them, 13 villagers in total! Tell me who's your favourite :D #iceborne #AnimalCrossing #MHW アイスボーン予約で0時から

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5 years

Hunter Crossing: Coral Pukei-Pukei Celebrating the release of #Iceborne with some #AnimalCrossing crossovers. Which Iceborne monster or variant should I do next?

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3 years

Areg - Crystal Dragonborn #DnD

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3 years

Elidur - Minotaur sketch #DnD #minotaur

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4 years

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne Releases today on PC! Celebrate by RT'ing these little Animal Crossing villagers of the monsters :D #MHWorld #Iceborne

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2 years

#DnDcharacter is trending so here's a painting of my Dragonborn bard Faeraxx

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Sam Santala

4 years

Let's make a thread of artist/creature design memes. I'll go first:

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4 years

5 years ago today I made this creature design. My first real foray into anatomy sheets (and now seeing some mistakes) This got me my first studio gig.

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4 years

@human_not_bees Reading this post like:

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4 years

Bruvros Iron-Skull: Minotaur D&D commission #dnd #minotaur

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4 years

Emery - Kobold Sorcerer/War Cleric Private sketch commission #DnD #kobold

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1 year

Grisel - D&D Commission #DnD

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1 year

ArtStation is now apparently disabling comments on these protest uploads. Which means they DO have a means of moderating their site. Just not for OUR benefit.

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1 year

Artstation remaining conspicuously quiet about AI flooding their platform comes as no surprise. They've never seemed like they have the back of their base, their foray into NFT's should have been example enough about just how out of touch they are

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Sam Santala

5 years

Coming up with Having to work out a new creature how it works design anatomically

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Sam Santala

3 years

Creature Comparative Anatomy One thing that made creature anatomy a lot easier to understand when I was starting out, was learning how similar a lot of the internal structures were. Just largely in different positions and proportions

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1 year

Draelish - Creature Design This was a fun piece made to try and explain the anatomy of a Draconic species

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4 years

Bleureagaurd Brookvale Private D&D Commission #DnD #Lizardfolk

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Sam Santala

4 years

Aspiring artists. Slight thread incoming. Alex posted an thread about how the skills you have might not be enough to land a job right now. This can really hurt, especially if you feel you've out your all into your work. So I'll tell you how I felt when I heard that myself.. 1/10

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3 years

Do'Lovaas - Dragonborn Bard (Commission) #DnD #dndartists

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3 years

My wife eats her pizzas like this... Should I alert the authorities?

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Sam Santala

1 year

Kumo-Mori Spider-Man Tbt to a #spidersona I created back when Spiderverse 1 came out. A forest dwelling Spider-man who swings among the giant trees of his universe.

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4 months

Absolutely Serving 💅 (Private #DnD Commission)

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Sam Santala

3 years

I'm 32, I should be better at painting than I am. I see some of the stuff you teens and 20-somethings put out and it's just.... holy shit. I'm gonna go extinct.

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Sam Santala

3 years

Frostfang Barioth x Viper-Tobi Kadachi Was so fun to get a #MonsterHunter hybrid commission like this!

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Sam Santala

3 years

My apologies to those working on the project, this has very 'execs want us to make them look "advanced" so we have to add gimbles' energy.

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Sam Santala

4 years

I just can't get over how bad these are @Google The lack of value or colour differentiation is going to make everything indistinguishable when they're 10x10 pixels surrounded by dozens of similar tabs. This is what happens when brand is more important than usability.

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4 years

Kroniid Do Raghot Bronze Dragonborn Barbarian - Private D&D commission

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Sam Santala

3 years

Barash Shestendeliath - Dragonborn Paladin (and Glassblower) I really like how this piece came out. Tried a new method and I think it works pretty well, what do you think? #dnd

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Sam Santala

10 months

In shocking news to no one, most blocked man on Twitter thinks blocking is pointless

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Sam Santala

3 years

Hey #dndartists ! I've drawn so much D&D art the last year, so many dragonborn. Lovely to see everyone's awesome work 💛

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Sam Santala

4 years

DnD Character Commission slots are open! My hard drive with all my personal work has died, so I'm paying out of pocket to try and repair and recover them. If anyone would like to commission some art of their #DnD characters to help cover costs I'd really, really appreciate it 🙏

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Sam Santala

3 years

New creature design up over on my Patreon. Giving early access and WIP's to my lovely backers 💛 Please consider supporting if you like my designs and would like to see a bit more about my process :)

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Sam Santala

2 years

Dracthyr Card Got excited for the Dracthyr so decided to make my own Hearthstone card for it 💛🐲 #WoW @PlayHearthstone #Dragonflight

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Sam Santala

4 years

✨🎲 D&D Character Commission slots are open again! 🎲✨ DM me if you'd like a character piece done or want to discuss rates! RT's and Likes really appreciated! 💛 #DnD #characterdesign #dnd5e

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Sam Santala

1 year

I wish more companies accepted remote work. Some of us have families, and lives set up. It's not fair to ask, not only someone you're hiring, but their entire family too to move to whichever highly expensive tech area/country a particular gaming company has set up shop in.

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Activision Blizzard reportedly planning to end remote work

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Sam Santala

4 years

✨ Commissions Open ✨ I'm opening up a few character slots before Christmas. Feel free to DM me if you're interested! #DnD #commissionsopen

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2 years

Hey #PortfolioDay ! I'm Sam, I'm a concept artist & illustrator working mostly on critters and characters 🐸

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4 years

Studies in horses and painting fur.

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2 years

Another private Dragonborn commission 🐲 Was super fun to work on this kinda chunky armour and get these curved shappes. #DnD #Dragonborn

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4 years

Hi #PortfolioDay I'm Sam, a Freelance Concept Artist specializing in creature & character design. Always looking for new clients and projects :) If you'd like to work together at sometime let me know! 💌 samsantala @gmail .com 💼 📷

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4 years

Grrauk - Gnoll Barbarian #DnD #commissionsopen #Gnoll

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Sam Santala

11 months

I honestly don't really know, maybe this piece. I like my charming reptiles

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11 months

ARTISTS you can only use one Art picture to convince people to follow you. Which art piece you using? OK GO UWU

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Sam Santala

3 years

Hey everyone, I'm a freelance artist who's been working on a bunch of people's D&D characters this last year. Here's just a few, I hope you like 💛 #selfpromosaturday #TTRPGSolidarity

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10 months

Installing Baldurs Gate 3 and just looking through my art trying to sate that dragonborn hunger #baldursgate3

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3 years

This is Faeraxx. He was the first dragonborn I ever painted. And I've barely gotten to play as him. He's an oral historian who collects others stories and doesn't *quite* understand personal space. Also he has a spectral tail. #originalcharacter

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3 years

Kinda wanna redo art of my dragonborn D&D character. I feel like this doesn't really represent him anymore, as he's way more flamboyant and my art skills have improved. But I also know a lot of folks were introduced to my work through this piece, but maybe it's time for a change

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Sam Santala

3 years

You ever just think about walking cane pommels?

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4 years

Aleo - Dragonborn Polearm Master #DnD #commissionsopen

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10 months

Gold dragonborn Enjoy Baldurs Gate, everyone 😌 #BaldursGate3

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1 year

Pretty sure these scaley lads did about 50% of my followers.

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1 year

YOU THERE!! YES YOU!! HOW DID YOU BUILD YOUR TWITTER FOLLOWERS???

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4 years

Dryco - Dragonborn Monk #DnD #Dragonborn #commissionsopen

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5 years

Hi #PortfolioDay . I'm Sam, a Senior Concept Artist specializing in creatures and stylized designs. I'm currently available for projects on a freelance basis. 💌 samsantala @gmail .com 💼 📷

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1 year

Most likely this one. Started a very long path filled with art of scaled races. Maybe something else of mine sparked folks interest though?

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꒳Star✡ COMMS OPEN (0/2)

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Im bored so let's do something artists, What is a drawing you think you're iconic for? and let people reply to you what drawing they think you are iconic for

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5 years

Hunter Crossing: Coral Pukei-Pukei Celebrating the release of #Iceborne with some #AnimalCrossing crossovers. Which Iceborne monster or variant should I do next?

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1 year

This particular tummy 💛

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Sam Santala

4 years

Hey #AnimalArtistsUnite . I do fantasy and real animals. How's it going?

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2 years

Some Draconic Knights for #SIRptember

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Hey everyone! I'm Sam Santala, a Concept Artist & Illustrator specializing in creatures and characters 💛 #PortfolioDay

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2 years

D&D commission - Tarmac Chasakkinei #DnD

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3 years

Brazuldül Commission A nice little stately portrait of a Dragonborn and his pet Zaratan and Otyugh after succefully completing his campaign 💛 #DnD

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4 years

Taong Gustong - Dragonborn Wizard #dnd #dragonborn #commissionsopen

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Sam Santala

11 months

I have been corrected. Apparently, it's this toothy tooty boy 🎺

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11 months

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Sam Santala

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Hey I'm Sam, a Senior Game Concept Artist specializing in creature & character design currently looking for freelance and remote work opportunities. If you'd like to work together, check out below: 💌 samsantala @gmail .com 💼 📷

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Sam Santala

4 years

So does it hurt to hear. 'You're just not there yet'? Of course, believe me, I know. But that doesn't mean you're far. Make art you enjoy Network at events, make friends And I cannot emphasize this enough *Work on those fundamentals* You can totally do it! ✨💪✨ 10/10

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Sam Santala

3 years

Gonna put up another that's maybe a bit more true to my process: The Sketch The Result

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Sam Santala

4 years

Okay, I actually really like how this current commission is coming along.

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Sam Santala

9 months

Advertise your account with ONE image

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@Haematinon

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9 months

Advertise your account with ONE image:

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Sam Santala

3 years

Liking the progress on this current piece. I've been testing out some new processes, using Blender & Daz3D etc, trying to get my colours more vibrant. Looking pretty good!

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Sam Santala

4 years

Citlia - Feywild Dragon Hybrid . . #creaturedesign #DnD

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Sam Santala

3 years

Twitter Crop did this boy dirty last time. Enjoy Bleureaguard's face, not just that text.

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Sam Santala

3 years

#DnD Commissions - Blue

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2 months

FromSoftware has a job opening for a concept artist that listed it's monthly salary. After converting it, I nearly spat out my drink.

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3 years

Shana - Elf/Dragon Hybrid Commission #DnD #CharacterDesign

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Sam Santala

4 years

✨Happy 34th Anniversary, Zelda ✨ Can't wait for BotW2.

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Sam Santala

3 years

I'm a creature concept artist and illustrator who's worked on things like Avatar, Everwild and Dragon Prince. And I'm currently writing a book on creature design principles. Did I miss the #AnimalArtistsUnite train?

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Sam Santala

4 years

Please congratulate my wife on making the cutest caterpillar cake for our nephew's birthday 💛

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3 years

Alea Ravenblade - Tiefling Oath of Vengeance Paladin Really love how this came out, it was super fun :D #DnD

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Sam Santala

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I'm a Freelance Senior Concept Artist who recently worked on #Everwild . I specialise in creatures & I'm looking for freelance and remote work opportunities If you'd like to work together, let me know! 💌 samsantala @gmail .com 💼 📷

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Guild Wars 2 | Roundtail Dragon Concepts #GuildWars2

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3 years

It's December 1st, so I wish you all a very...

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6 months

Love being banned from art chats.

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4 years

Ahh I forgot to add these villagers! And they're my favourites ;____; #AnimalCrossingNewHorizons #AnimalCrossing #acnh

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Hey #PortfolioDay I'm Sam, a Freelance Concept Artist specializing in creature & character design. I'm looking for freelance and remote work opportunities. If you'd like to work together, let me know! 💌 samsantala @gmail .com 💼 📷

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This is my PNGTuber Avatar Honestly, making this was a hard decision, and I detailed my thoughts on this over on my Ko-fi/Patreon But I hope this will allow me to stream often enough for you folks :) what do you think?

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3 years

Rook - Character Turnaround It was lovely to work on this character again. I really like the tail :D #Dragonborn #furry

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1 year

I showed my Finnish wife this image, and she said: "Why would you ever make your parents proud? Did your parents ever make you feel proud?" ...She's got a point.

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Sam Santala

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Hey everyone, I'm Sam. I'm a concept artist and Illustrator with 9 years experience. I've worked on things like Everwild, Guild Wars 2, and The Dragon Prince. I'm currently available for full-time and freelance :) ✉️samsantala @gmail .com 🌍 #PortfolioDay

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T'surian - Another Dragonborn commission painted on #Twitch :) #DnD

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