Talk Parlor No. 13 Weekly Roll for Art Challenges

Roll for Art Flash Challenge – Human Portrait | Realism | Charcoal The dice have spoken… and this round got serious. In this episode of Roll for Art, the artists roll D&D dice to determine what they’ll create—and this time the challenge landed on a human portrait in a realistic charcoal style. No shortcuts, no color, just charcoal, shadows, and raw drawing skill. Portraits are one of the tough...

🎲 Roll for Art – Fine Line Eye Challenge 👁️ This week on the podcast, the dice decide our fate once again. We rolled up a challenge that’s all about control, patience, and tiny details: drawing an eye using pen only, in a fine line and dot work style. No pencils. No erasing. Just clean lines, intentional dots, and trusting the process. We break down our approach, talk composition, texture, and ho...

In this episode of Parlor No. 13, we take on Kratos from God of War, reimagined through the bold lines, heavy blacks, and limited color palette of American Traditional tattoo art. We break down how translating a modern, hyper-detailed character into a classic tattoo style forces you to strip things down to their most powerful elements—just like Kratos himself.

This week’s Roll for Art challenge takes a heavenly turn ⚔️😇 We rolled the dice and landed on an angel, drawn in a neo-traditional style using nothing but graphite pencil. Bold linework, smooth gradients, and classic tattoo-inspired structure meet soft shading and realistic details—all in raw black and white. Neo-traditional gives us the best of both worlds: strong, timeless shapes with just enou...

This week’s Roll for Art challenge takes a heavenly turn ⚔️😇 We rolled the dice and landed on an angel, drawn in a neo-traditional style using nothing but graphite pencil. Bold linework, smooth gradients, and classic tattoo-inspired structure meet soft shading and realistic details—all in raw black and white. Neo-traditional gives us the best of both worlds: strong, timeless shapes with just enou...

🎲 Roll for Art Flash Challenge – Surreal Robot Edition! 🤖✨ What happens when you roll the dice and let D&D decide your art fate? You get a surreal robot brought to life with nothing but charcoal, imagination, and a whole lot of creative chaos! In this episode of Parlor No. 13 Roll for Art, our artists face off after rolling for: 🎨 Style: Surrealism 🧰 Medium: Charcoal 🤖 Subject: Robot Fro...

🎲 Roll for Art Flash Challenge — Dice Decided Edition! The D&D dice have spoken, and this round’s artistic fate was sealed with: Impressionism 🎨 Landscape 🌄 Alcohol Markers 🖊️ Cool Color Palette ❄️ That means dreamy scenery, loose expressive vibes, and icy blues and greens brought to life with alcohol markers! Two artists go head-to-head, but only one can claim victory… and you get to decid...

🎲 Roll for Art Flash Challenge is back, and this round gets weird in the best way possible! The D&D dice gods handed us: Surrealism 🌀 Charcoal ⚫ Robot 🤖 That means dreamlike visuals, moody charcoal textures, and a mechanical mind-bender straight out of a sci-fi fever dream. Two artists go head-to-head, but only one can emerge victorious… and you get to decide who wins! Tell us what blew yo...

🎲 Roll for Art Flash Challenge is back, and this round gets weird in the best way possible! The D&D dice gods handed us: Surrealism 🌀 Charcoal ⚫ Robot 🤖 That means dreamlike visuals, moody charcoal textures, and a mechanical mind-bender straight out of a sci-fi fever dream. Two artists go head-to-head, but only one can emerge victorious… and you get to decide who wins! Tell us what blew yo...

🎲 Roll for Art Flash Challenge is back, and this round we let the dice decide our fate once again! For this challenge, the D&D dice gods gave us: Impressionism 🎨 Landscape 🌄 Alcohol Markers 🖊️ Cool Color Palette ❄️ That means loose brushy vibes, dreamy scenery, and icy blues and greens brought to life with alcohol markers! Two artists enter, one masterpiece leaves… and you decide who wins....

This week’s Roll for Art challenge brought the holiday vibes in full force 🎄🎲 The dice landed on Realism, Alcohol Markers, and a classic Christmas red truck hauling a tree in the back. Shiny paint, soft winter shadows, crisp highlights, and that unmistakable festive nostalgia all came together in this piece. Every marker layer was pushed for depth and realism, from the chrome details to the text...

This week’s Roll for Art challenge landed us on Realism, Graphite Pencil, and the subject of a Cardinal 🐦⚔️ Clean whites, rich blacks, and all those subtle graphite gradients came into play as this piece focused on texture, contrast, and capturing the quiet intensity of this iconic bird. Feathers were treated like armor plates, highlights were rolled with intention, and every shadow was earned—no...

🎲 ROLL FOR ART — STRANGER THINGS THEME WEEK! 🎨🧇 Welcome back to Parlor No. 13! This week our D&D dice dragged us straight into the Upside Down, tasking both artists with creating a Stranger Things inspired piece using a true Stranger Things color palette — eerie reds, void blacks, electric blues, soft purples, and that signature Hawkins neon. All done entirely with colored pencils! And the...

Get ready for another Roll for Art showdown at Parlor No. 13! This week’s challenge took a wild turn when the D&D dice served up Deadpool as our character and graphite pencil in a neo-traditional/American traditional style as our medium and theme. And you already know—when the dice speak, we listen. Armed with nothing but pencils, bold linework, stylized shading, and plenty of chaotic Deadpool...

🎨 New Roll for Art Challenge! This week Jordan and I dove straight into the realm of Hyrule with a fantasy illustration of Link from The Legend of Zelda — but with a twist from the D&D dice! The roll pushed us into a black-and-white watercolor palette, so this challenge became all about atmosphere, contrast, and that moody, storybook fantasy vibe. Armed with nothing but watercolors, value shi...

🎨 Roll for Art Flash Challenge: New School Turtle in a Cool Color Palette! 🐢❄️ This week on Roll for Art, the dice gave us a shell of a challenge! 🎲 Jordan and Adam rolled up a new school–style turtle, painted with acrylics and a cool color palette full of blues, greens, and purples. From a slick water turtle to a radical ninja turtle, both artists took the theme in totally different directions...

🎲 ROLL FOR ART FLASH CHALLENGE – SURREALISTIC HELLCAT EDITION 🔥 This week, the dice came for us. We rolled for subject and style, and fate said: A Dodge Challenger Hellcat… but make it surrealistic… and do it in a warm color palette… using alcohol markers only. So this piece got weird in all the best ways — melting forms, dreamlike distortion, shifting reality, and a muscle car that looks like i...

🎲 ROLL FOR ART FLASH CHALLENGE – HALLOWEEN SPECIAL! 🎃 This week, Jordan and Adam faced off in a spine-tingling Roll for Art Halloween Edition! Our dice led us straight into the nightmares — landing on the one and only Freddy Krueger 😱. The twist? We had to create his portrait using alcohol markers in a black and white color palette. No color to hide behind. No dreams safe to escape. Just pure,...

🎨 Roll for Art Challenge | Abstract Cosmic Wallet (Crayola Crayon Edition!) 🌌🪙 Welcome back to Parlor No. 13 by J & A! In this episode, the dice took us on a wild ride — straight into the cosmos! Our challenge? To turn an ordinary wallet into an abstract masterpiece bursting with cosmic color energy, all using Crayola crayons. 🌈✨ From vibrant galaxies to surreal shapes, this one’s all abo...

🎨 Roll for Art Challenge! This week, Jordan and Adam rolled the dice and landed on a mythic masterpiece — Medusa! Using a triadic color palette of yellow-orange, turquoise, and magenta, and armed only with watercolors, the artists had to bring the serpent queen to life in true Roll for Art fashion. 🐍🎲 Inspired by the luck of the D&D dice, each stroke was a critical hit of creativity — from...

🎨 Roll for Art Challenge | Parlor No. 13 We rolled a Nat 20… and let the ink fly! 🎲🖊️ What special one this one was as Jordan and Adam tackled a tattoo on fake skin, bringing an angel to life in a Tim Burton-inspired style. 😈👼 From planning the design to capturing that spooky-whimsical Burton vibe and surviving the quirks of fake skin, this challenge was full of laughs, smudges, and delightful...

🎨 Roll for Art Challenge | Parlor No. 13 This week, things got hands-on! ✋ Jordan and Adam rolled a Realism hand — drawn entirely in colored pencil with a cool color palette. ❄️💙💜 We dive into capturing anatomy, blending tricky colors, and surviving the tiny details that make or break a hand. Expect laughs, creative chaos, and plenty of colored-pencil smudges! ✏️😅 💬 Come hang out, see our th...

🎨 Roll for Art Challenge | Parlor No. 13 This week, things got monstrously creative! 👹 Jordan and Adam rolled the theme “Monster” — but with an Impressionist twist and only pen or micron pens to bring it to life. Add in an orange, blue, and cyan color palette, and you’ve got one wild combo! 🎨💥 In this episode, we dive into how we tackled the challenge — from loose sketching and wild texture wo...

🎨 Roll for Art Challenge | Parlor No. 13 This week, Jordan and Adam got a real twist of fate from the dice — the theme was a Tattoo Machine, done in a surrealistic style using charcoal! 🌀🖤 In this episode, we’re breaking down how we each approached this challenge — from the initial concept sketches to the messy, smudgy reality of working with charcoal. We’re talking ideas, symbolism, design hur...