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A place for me to put my random drawings. This isn't for my professional artwork which I keep elsewhere. Disclaimer: Art might be old, unfinished or done quickly - I'm aware of the mistakes.

[the-scottish-art-guy]

Since I’ve had a few of these now I thought I’d formalise my price guide. Please message me here if you’re interested - prices do vary.  I’ll update with my prices for other mediums including my sketches, pencil and digital work. After being asked I do have a Kofi and Paypal pay link, if you want to just show a little appreciation (or to pay for commissions through if you do want to purchase one). Paypal link.

Kofi link. You can also find my Instagram Here Or Here if you just want to see custom resin dice

[the-scottish-art-guy]

Cute little witch and her terrified-of-heights black cat. I was going to add shading and a background to this but I'm trying to ease back into drawing for fun so I think I might leave her as is and maybe doodle her a friend.

[the-scottish-costume-guy]

Booked in for first session of my tattoo :D

[the-scottish-art-guy]

This is the inspiration I sketched up for the artist to give a rough vibe, I have asked them to take this as inspo only - I dont want this directly (I think I bunched the flowers too much/made the middle ones too close in size - plus I'd like some leaves and vines in there) but I'm pretty excited! Also first picture of the new year :)

[the-scottish-art-guy]

This month will be the 5th year anniversary of the start of the dnd campaign I'm in - five years of playing this character. I'm honestly a little surprised I havent drawn him more than this - but I guess I have been in gradschool for just over 3 of those years at this point. This has been lightning in a bottle. I'd gush about my friends and the privilege of playing alongside them, of getting to experience the world of our GM's creation - but nearly none of them are on here and of those that are I don't know how much they'd enjoy me getting sappy. We aren't done yet, and I'm hoping to do more art of the rest of the party I'm just always a little nervous drawing other peoples characters in case I get something majorly wrong... still I'm gonna try. Hopefully after I graduate I can do a lot more :)

[the-scottish-art-guy]

That handprint thing is weird. How'd he get that?is it meant to be what chill touch looks like? cool art btw

So I don't know technically what the ability that caused that was but no it didn't seem to be chill touch - it was connected to my characters curse in a recent fight against someone now connected to that whole story. Originally it was meant to be claw marks with the same vein effect but I asked the GM if I could flavour it with the hand print instead. I just thought it added visual interest and gave a kinda interesting 'intimate' feel to the injury? Thanks for the compliment! I'm pretty happy with the art :)

[the-scottish-art-guy]

(And now for something completely different) I do the art for our xmas cards every year. My partner is a paleontologist so I thought it'd be fun this year to do a T-Rex getting in the spirit (of eating gingerbread men at least). This is a lot quicker and simpler than my standard art - just something a bit fun and silly before I get back to my more complicated stuff :)

[the-scottish-art-guy]

Your art would probably go further if you posted more regularly. Your stuff is cool but it's just not in the tags very often.

I claim no social media expertise, though I do think tumblr wouldn't be the place to post my art if I was really really after big numbers/wanting to make a career out of it. I post as and when I make things that I feel I want to keep/share. There was a time in my teens where I posted art on various websites very regularly and tried to build up a following - I don't have the time or energy for that anymore. I'm finishing off a post-grad, I'm teaching part time, and when I get time to I'm also picking up my work for theatre shows and short films, sadly my personal art just isn't the priority it used to be. Maybe one day, who knows, but I'm grateful for the friends who graciously accept me sending them random pictures of my characters at odd intervals, and I'm grateful to the people on here who send in questions or respond to the art when its posted. But here is, currently, a bonus. I've never been someone that gets a lot of commissions for my work, nor has it usually gone very far - its not stopped me from making it.

[the-scottish-art-guy]

You drew a hot twink covered in blood with a cool prosthetic arm - didn't you expect people to share it?

I've been drawing this twink for the past 5ish years. (Granted not quite like this). Genuinely though I've drawn things I thought would resonate with tumblr before and it rarely does. Most of my art gets between 10-50 notes, 200 is a fairly significant increase. I'm so grateful for it thats all :). I thought since the mature label got stuck on it (presumably because of large amounts of skin tone being flagged) that not many people would see it. Thats a particularly nice surprise.

[the-scottish-art-guy]

That arm is so fucking cool!

Thank you! When I first designed Mask I had two elements clearly in mind - his arm and the mask he was named for. The arms been replaced once since then but I'm so happy with its latest design. Its complicated though, and I've realised I avoid drawing it as much as I can when I'm drawing him.

[the-scottish-art-guy]

I want to bite him.

You know, my fiance said the same thing. I guess he's biteable.

[the-scottish-art-guy]

My boys been going through a time, he needs a smoke some place quiet.

[the-scottish-art-guy]

I really really reallly want the full story of your character and that art! Its so cool!

I'm not kidding when I say it's complicated. I've been playing Mask for about 5 years now. I love this game, I love the characters in it but giving a satisfying summary isn't going to be easy. I'm sure everyone wishes they could have an animated show of their dnd campaign but I genuinely wish I could have that, could watch it back that way, could see other people react to the things that have happened. I think the first time in game it was mentioned that Mask should go to fae court to try and do something about his curse, was in the first 5 sessions or so of the campaign. The sheer level of threat that came with this moment was just so good, and I hope I captured even a bit of it. There are some other things I want to draw at the moment related to this campaign, I'm taking a short leave from my studies/work so Im hoping to maybe do some more art while the inspiration has struck. I know I've not really answered you here either and I'm sorry, but the short answer of "Mask went to fae court and was threatened by dark magic in the shape of a skull" is the mid ground explanation without getting into everything about the character and pieces of the last 5 years of gameplay.

[the-scottish-art-guy]

Both Hands?!?!?

I completely forgot to answer you I'm so so sorry. Yeah Mask's lost both hands now - He got caught up in an acid trap.

[the-scottish-art-guy]

Theres something different about this one compared to your normal style. Can't put my finger on it but I like it!

Aside from just being a big illustrative scene when I normally just do portraits and small snapshots, its probably that its completely line-less. I find big painting style things like this one look better with no line work.

[the-scottish-art-guy]

My boy is finally in fae court trying to resolve his curse and nearly got eaten by a giant skull. Genuinely its so hard to explain this image and what led up to it but I love this campaign and I'm so happy to be a part of it.

[the-scottish-art-guy]

Things have occurred in the dnd game I play in. My character is feeling ways about it.

[the-scottish-art-guy]

New dnd character! A circle of stars druid fire genasi. The game situation is unique, so I didn't come up with this concept, just drew them out based on a mood board and description.