Paul Scott Canavan
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🏴 Creative Director at GRIMOIRE making Pale Tides, the witch RPG ⚔️ Art for Silent Hill: Townfall, MTG, DND, Daggerheart etc 🥁 Drums for SOREGUMS
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Hiya! I'm Paul, a Scottish Art Director and illustrator who works on Magic: the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons and other nerdy things ⚔️
#PortfolioDay
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ADHD is really good. It has taken me 3 hours (technically 8 weeks) to fill out a contract.
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When I graduated animation school I remember a fellow student saying to me, "Good luck, we're technically enemies now."
This is total bullshit. Competition is super unhealthy. Supporting and celebrating your friends is the best thing you can do for your career as an artist.
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oh hey, now that I'm just working for myself and some amazing clients, I feel comfortable talking about a big old thing which has plagued me throughout my life and career as an artist and art director:
I am colourblind.
Like, really quite colourblind.
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used Photoshop's shake reduction filter on the Black Hole photo and was amazed by the result
#EHTBlackHole
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Hey! I put all of my custom Photoshop brushes into a single pack - you can download it for free here:
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New evidence suggests that Spinosaurus was actually an aerial predator capable of gently floating around, snapping at birds, using it's powerful tail as a propeller.
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Hi, it's me again, I want to talk about studies.
Studies are really good. You should do them. There are lots of different things you can study, and lots of different approaches, so let's chat about them a bit . I'll share some of my own studies in this thread ✌️
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Do you have a "breakthrough" piece? That painting where things suddenly clicked and your path forwards became that little bit clearer?
This was mine.
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apparently all I can paint right now are simply cowboy scenes, so here's another.
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I talk about character concept art with students all the time and made this quick guide for folio building - figured I would share it here too 🙏
Obviously it doesn't cover everything, but these are some good practices.
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Hiya! I'm Paul, a Scottish Art Director and illustrator who works on a lot of nerdy stuff 💀⚔️
#PortfolioDay
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A little art thought which I have struggled with forever: you don’t have to be a sketchbook person.
I have never been able to keep a nice sketchbook or to draw from imagination in public - my mind STILL goes totally blank and I find it super anxiety inducing 💀
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I was playing around with portraits to animate using this mad software and, well...
@matthewmercer
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I finished this painting of
@ContraPoints
' character, Lenora LaVey, to celebrate the super blood full moon 🌘
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Pro tip for artists struggling to find work and gain online traction: POST MORE ART.
That's it.
Oh wait, that isn't very helpful at all. Let's explore some ways to make the process easier!
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Some thoughts which I had to put down. I hate writing this stuff because it shouldn’t have to be said, but if I want to try and enact positive change in some way I feel like I need to voice my feelings.
Supporting folk who clearly don’t give a shit ain’t it.
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luckily behaviour like this makes it reeeeal easy to decide to who hire.
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I rewatched Children of Men today. A film set in 2027.
A bit too real, honestly.
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Hello! I'm Paul, a Scottish artist who works on Magic: The Gathering and D&D.
I was previously an Art Director at Axis Animation, creating AAA game cinematics. Now I'm making my own game, a gothic horror detective RPG called Pale Tides ☠️
#PortfolioDay
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Tabletop companies offering $100-$200 for interior art but expecting WoTC level artwork. Get fucked.
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okay okay, here's another cowboy painting. I think I have a problem.
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Last night I 3D scanned my bedroom while lying in bed. Technology is amazing
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Hey remember that time I played Red Dead 2 and couldn't stop drawing cowboys?
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well I started doodling and this came out! Guess I'm pretty pumped for Red Dead 2 on PC 🤠
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Ariss the Eternal.
The first personal illustration I did after going freelance in 2017! I still love her 🔥
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I made some more Photoshop brushes - grab them here! Triangle Friend might be my new favourite.
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time for another flashback piece - I painted this 5 years ago! I remember it being a breakthrough for me in many ways.
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here is what I painted for my demo at
@industry_works
: big thanks to everyone who came to watch, it was a blast!
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some Magic illustrations which went a bit under the radar :)
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Well I guess I can finally talk about what I’ve been working on…
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it's my birthday so you have to share my work, I don't make the rules 🤘
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✨Artists Looking for Work thread!✨
Share your 4 best pieces, what sort of work you're looking for and a link to your portfolio/email below.
Clients/studios - come look 👀
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If you are struggling to get hired or to build a following online, here are some suggestions:
1) Make art and share it.
2) Study often. Share that too.
3) Be nice, friendly and supportive to your fellow artists. Share their work.
4) Be patient. This takes most of us years.
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I just want you to know that hey, if you are colourblind and think that a career in art is impossible because of this silly disability YOU CAN TOTALLY DO IT. It's going to be tough, you're going to have to learn a lot of stuff and work incredibly hard, but you'll get there ❤️
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✨Mentorships. They are HAPPENING.✨
My name is Paul, and I'm an artist who has worked with WoTC, Valve, Games Workshop, Axis, Blizzard, Riot, Bungie, ArenaNet and many more as an illustrator, concept artist and Art Director.
Read on for more info!
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it starts.
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Hello! I'm a Scottish artist working on Magic: the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons and Artifact. I was cinematic Art Director on Guild Wars 2 and Destiny 2.
I'm now making my own game, a gothic horror RPG called Pale Tides 💀💀💀
#PortfolioDay
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Really great to see a mainstream publication like Gamespot actually talk about Rowling's behaviour and how it's affected the HP franchise. This is important.
With Hogwarts Legacy on the way, it's time to unpack and try to understand JK Rowling's discriminatory behavior and the impact it has had on the franchise:
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NFTs are absolutely fucking the art industry. They’ve torn friendships apart, they are encouraging art theft on an unprecedented scale, and for what? To line the pockets of some tech bros who don’t give a shit about the art itself?
I’m so sick of it.
Glad to see this grand opportunity for artists (to get fucked over) is really taking off. Thanks NFT bros
via
@motherboard
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Hiya! I'm an Art Director and illustrator from Scotland. Clients include WoTC, Valve, Games Workshop and Axis Animation (Bungie, Arenanet, Riot, Blizzard).
I am currently creating my first game, a Gothic horror RPG called Pale Tides 💀
#PortfolioDay
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Chain to Memory dropped for Theros: Beyond Death.
This was an attempt to illustrate my own depression and existential dread. It is very personal to me.
AD: Dawn Murin
#MTGTheros
#MTGTBD
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Of course mine is this 💀
Reply or QRT with your most popular drawing
I don’t know why this is mine either
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My version of the artist rejection thing.
Please enjoy the 7 times I applied to work on Magic: the Gathering, plus what I sent them at various stages. I have since painted almost 50 cards 🙏
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Hello! I'm a Scottish art director and illustrator who works on Magic: the Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons 💀
I've worked with Valve, Riot, Blizzard, Bungie, Black Library, ArenaNet and lots of other lovely people. Links here ⬇️
#PortfolioDay
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spend time on your art. Push it that little bit further than you really want to.
This is probably the best lesson I learned over the last few years: once you made it, it's there forever, and if you are proud of the work then it'll keep rewarding you.
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I can't stop thinking about this stupid, fucked industry and what to do about it. We have studios acting like frat houses, we have known sexual predators crying about "being cancelled" online while still making bank off reference packs (just get your wife to sell them, easy fix)
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I should add, I am EXTREMELY anxious even posting about this stuff because my idiot brain is worried people won't hire me now, but I know that isn't really true. I am quite good at painting these days and I will overcome anything with time and practice. You can do this too.
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AI art really had the fastest “oh neat!” to “fuck I’m bored of seeing this stuff” pipeline didn’t it
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Some of my spooky Magic: the Gathering illustrations 💀
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Okay so
#characterdesign
is trending? Character concept art is literally my favourite thing 🙏
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Here's a thing I don't see getting talked about too much RE AI art, but in many ways it's the key reason prompt writers won't take over the vast majority of artist jobs: art is more than just a technical skill.
The reality is, most people have no idea what actually looks good.
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Young Necromancer for Modern Horizons 2! I really loved designing this character 🤎
AD: Cynthia Sheppard
#MTGMH2
#MagicTheGathering
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Yeah absolutely fuck this shit into the earth. Screams of a director/committee going “yo this new thing is cool, do that” without asking any questions or considering how it could be done well.
I’m deeply sick of this industry.
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