Scott Macniven Art

Flashback Friday
The Fish and the Ring was one of my first few watercolour painting that sold. It not only sold in a gallery in Australia but it was also a feature illustration in the FASERIP TTRPG manual, Epic Fantasy.
#flashback #flashbackfriday #watercolor #painting #fairytale #coi

YouTube video by Macniven Art Digital speed paint of a cow godess statue, WHAT?!

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A little bit of Sunday fun 😁 Here is a character redesign of Jin’s fourth form from Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom.

#characterdesign #jin #dragon #smaugust2025 #monsterboy #wonderboy #cellshade @gameatelier.bsky.social

I’m going to get more time to work on #smaugust2025 soon, but for day 2 this is the #forbidden #dragon for @katy_lipscomb prompt list

I didn’t have much time to do a finished piece for the first day, however here is my day 1 quick sketch for #smaugust2025 dragon for @katy_lipscomb prompt #terarium

Noah, the pirate penguin travelled the seven seas in search of the beast that slew his friends. Keeping and hollowing out a rib bone from it he now uses it as a walking stick.

7” x 5” oil painting
£50

#pirate #penguin #hollowsglen #fantasy #mtg #dnd #orca #ice #oilpainting #fantasyart

WIP of a character design for a gnome Druid

I rolled up a Gnome and a Druid, so now I’m half way through. After 5 hours work I think I’m finally happy with the direction this is going.

I can be a pretty slow artist sometimes, so these next few digital pieces are going to be my #10hourchallnge to myself.

#dnd #characterdesign #gnome #druid

A little bit of sketching fun before bed 😁

#characterdesign #sketch #WIP #fun #woman #fantasy

Comyn the Feorag Archer is finally complete! She is a fierce warrior from the Hollows Glen series that I am writing. This is an oil painting on 40cm canvas board.

#hollowsglen #fantasy #anthropomorphic #squirrel #dnd #whimsical #mtg #fineart

The whiskers finish her off nicely.

Just putting some small details into this very large painting while I wait for my other canvases to be ready.

#fantasy #whimsical #detail #fun #hedgehog #puggle #whiskers #fineart #dnd

The world of Hollows Glen is full of beautiful villages and towns, and this is just one of the roads to Clachan Holt.

#hollowsglen #fantasy #map #novel #dratsie #mtg #dnd #adventure #story

Callum The Vulpes Monk sketch.

This will be one of the next few oil paintings that I do for my Hollows Glen paintings. What do you think?

#hollowsglen #dnd #mtg #fantasy #fox #monk #character #sketch #conceptart

In a Dungeons and Dragons style of system, what “class” would you play a fox character?

This is the first time I have shared this, so I would love to hear what you think.

The Dratsie is the first book in the Hollows Glen series, and I’m hoping to bring it to market in early 2026.

#hollowsglen #dratsie #otters #hobbit #redwall #fantasy #novel #cover #sketch #design

Pirate Penguin V2

His travels put him in the path of many orcas, but he took a bit of the last one that tried to take a bite out of him.

#hollowsglen #pirate #penguin #orca #fantasy #characterdesign #sketch #mtg #dnd #ttrpg #csp

Not quite refined yet, but here is a rough sketch of Nix, the snow leopard rogue. She will become a part of the Hollows Glen mythos as the stories continue.

What do you think of her?

#hollowsglen #fantasy #character #sketch #dnd #mtg #snowleopard #leopard #rogue

Working on a Wizard Polar Bear today. I’m pretty happy with how the face is coming along so far, but haven’t figured out the pose for him just yet.

What do you think so far?

#hollowsglen #wizard #bear #polarbear #fantasy #dnd #mtg #character #sketch #design #illustration

Here is the sketch for my next 5” x 7” oil painting. This is the Door Mouse. He will be finished up next week, but first I need to complete my archer squirrel this week 😁

What do you think of him?

#hollowsglen #doormouse #mouse #sketch #illustration #mtg #dnd #cute #fantasy

The Hippoposthumous wades through the shallows in search of ingredients for his next spell.

“The Hippoposthumous”
7” x 5”
Oil on Canvas Board
By Scott Macniven

#hollowsglen #Hippoposthumous #hippo #witchdoctor #witch #africa #oilpainting #fantasyart #magic #dnd #mtg #illustration

Did you know… back in the day I used to draw comic books. I loved comic books, and for the longest time wanted to be a comic book artist, that was until I picked up a paintbrush.

Overnight I became a painter and it is so strange to look back at some of these old drawings now.

#comic #art #anthro

Just learned that today was International Turtle Day, so quickly started a digital painting of this turtle Druid character.

I don’t do digital painting very often, but this has been fun to do. What do you think?

#hollowsglen #fantasy #digital #painting #turtle #druid #tortle #dnd #illustration

Having a heap of fun working on this latest oil painting. This is the Hippoposthumous. He is an oil painting of a new Hollows Glen character I created.

What do you think of him so far?

#hollowsglen #hippo #oilpainting #illustrations #fantasy #dnd #mtg #witchdoctor

YouTube video by Macniven Art Creating a detailed character sketch - Martin Pentale from Hollows Glen

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So cute!

Sketching up a new character, I think I’ll call him the Frogue…maybe that name still needs some work.

I wasn’t sure what sort of character I wanted the frog to be, so I rolled a D12 and got a Rogue, this was the outcome 😁

#hollowsglen #fantasy #sketch #dnd #frog #rogue #digital #illustration

Sketching up a design for a Pirate Penguin which I will be painting over the next couple of weeks. I will be doing more doodles before paints go on the canvas but I’m curious, what do you think so far?

#hollowsglen #pirate #penguin #dnd #mtg #character #sketch #fantasy

Do you ever wake up with a vivid image in your mind?

Well that’s how this hippo shaman came to be! I transferred it onto a small canvas board this morning for the next step. What do you think of my latest addition to Hollows Glen?

#hollowsglen #hippo #shaman #dnd #fantasy #character #sketch

This is lovely!

Thank you so much

Today I was working on this painting. This is an archer squirrel I am still trying to figure out a name for. She is strong, powerful, and not to be messed with 😁

What do you think? I’m pretty happy with how she is coming along.

#hollowsglen #squirrel #archer #dnd #mtg #oilpainting