Brian Bennudriti

Let's fix a travesty, shall we? I set out to restore Lord Dunsany’s The Book of Wonder—not just the text, but the original pairing with Sidney Sime’s haunting illustrations that gave it life. grailrunner.com

The Journey to Pen & Ink Mastery — 15 lessons learned from returning to drawing after decades away. What the masters understand about line, contrast, restraint, and why most drawings fail before the first stroke is finished. grailrunner.com #PenAndInk #Illustration

It takes me seven years to write a novel. Not because I’m slow. Because I rewrite while I’m still discovering the story. I learned from concept art something that might help! 👉 grailrunner.com Do you draft fast or rewrite as you go?

What if classic Dungeon Magazine adventures were a podcast? We tested it using Google’s NotebookLM—and the results are fascinating. 👉 grailrunner.com #DnD #OSR #DungeonMaster #TabletopRPG

🂡 Before poker ruled the Wild West, there was FARO. 🂡 Fast. Elegant. Ruthless. The most popular gambling game on the frontier—now almost forgotten. New post on Grailrunner + free RPG & tabletop resources 👇 grailrunner.com #WildWest #GameHistory #TabletopRPG

Merry Christmas from Grailrunner!!

The Experimental Concept Art Masterclass 🎨 A free, beautifully illustrated and interactive guide and workbook to ideation techniques in concept art. 🚀 Download Now at grailrunner.com #ConceptArt #DigitalArt #ArtBook #Worldbuilding #ArtistsOnX #Grailrunner

We streamlined the Salt Mystic landing page! It’s like we cleaned our room—looks better, still can’t find anything. Take it for a spin and tell us what you think before we break it again. grailrunner.com/SaltMystic

"Geysers of Coral Nova" by Sung Choi artstation.com/artwork/eRLagP

Horror + ink collide. We interviewed Mateusz Lenart—Creative Director of Silent Hill 2 & pen & ink master—about comics roots, Slavic myth, & building fear in black & white. 👉 Read it here: grailrunner.com #SilentHill2 #PenAndInk #HorrorGames #IndieArt #Grailrunner

Using a 1796 travel diary, a paper map, and a small-town archive, I pinpointed the exact Ohio River shipwreck site from an adventurer's journal—and the earliest footprint of a town's founding. Dive in: grailrunner.com #History #OhioRiver #Waynesville #LocalHistory

What happens when Tolkien and the Monkey King co-design a naval wargame…with a little help from Admiral Nelson & Hannibal? Come see for yourself -it's free! grailrunner.com

New shirts on the way! We're literally just waiting on some proof shirts to make sure they're awesome. Then they'll be available for all plasma gunslingers! grailrunner.com/SaltMystic

What's a half-year birthday called? Or maybe a half-a-versary? Anyway, Grailrunner is celebrating 6 months of diceless roleplaying goodness following the publication of SALT MYSTIC: BOOK OF LOTS with a gritty new t-shirt design! Available soon! grailrunner.com

"Yes, there's a Grailrunner theme song now" We're telling the origin story of Grailrunner Publishing. To celebrate, we're bringing you...believe it or not...the Grailrunner theme song! You should probably hear this. grailrunner.com

I stumbled into an antique mall and discovered a hidden “master class” in pen & ink illustration—twenty stunning 1891–92 Harper’s Magazine plates that showcase mesmerizing linework by luminaries like Remington, Reinhart, Abbey and Gibson. Take a look at grailrunner.com

"When you need a little encouragement from Hemingway..." New article live now at grailrunner.com. Pick up a free copy of the short story, "The Line and the Light" inside the article.

"A creator of souls and the original literary universe" on grailrunner.com

Airport people: why do you need the volume turned up so loud on your manic videos?

I discovered a new ChatGPT super power today. Arthur Guptill wrote one of the most influential books ever on pen & ink drawing. It turns out, you can upload your own drawings and ask ChatGPT to act as a famous artist (in my case, Guptill) to critique your work. Crazy!