I have always been a huge Wonder Boy/Monster Boy fan, and I couldn’t help but put my digital sketch skills to doing one of my Hollows Glen characters in the style of the Dragon’s Trap re-release.

I hope you like it as much as I enjoyed creating it! 😁

#wonderboy #hollowsglen #otter #fantasy

Oil painting of a penguin pirate holding an orcas hollowed rib bone up to the viewer. He is missing a flipper, a leg, an eye, and has scratches all over him from his travels. He stands atop an ice outcropping with the cold depths of the ocean behind him. This is one grizzled anthropomorphic creature from Hollows Glen, who is feeling victorious after a long voyage chasing the orca that killed his friends and family.

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.

5" x 7" oil painting
£50

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

And so my minstrel characters continue. Today I penciled this mouse and ladybird trying to catch up to the rest of the group.

What do you think?

#hollowsglen #dnd #sketch #character #otter #acrobat #mouse #bard #flute #ladybird #ladybug

On today’s Twitch livestream I continued my minstrel characters with this otter character. I’m thinking of calling him Oliver the acrobatic Dratsie.

It was nice to work in traditional pencils on Bristol board again. What do you think of the result?

#hollowsglen #dnd #sketch #character #otter

I have been having so much fun creating my travelling minstrels that I continued with this little English Horn player.

What do you think, are you enjoying this troupe of minstrels too?

#hollowsglen #dnd #sketch #character #hedgehog #horn

It’s time to continue my troupe, and the next one in the row is this rather nervous bear. His heart is in the right place, but he is a little big to hold the sticks correctly. What do you think his name should be?

#hollowsglen #dnd #sketch #character #bear #bard #drummer

I’m not obsessed with this Beaver Bard character I created, I swear 😁 I absolutely need a better name for him though…any suggestions?

#hollowsglen #dnd #sketch #character #beaver #bard

Monday sketches! This is the Beaver Bard that I sketched on my Twitch livestream Monday 6th May 2025. I did a digital tidy up yesterday and now he is ready to perform for you.

#hollowsglen #mondaylivesketch #beaver #bard

I can’t wait to show you all the full image tomorrow, but here is a sneak peak of one part of a new drawing.

#hollowsglen #bestiary #sketch #pencil #martin

Which of these adorable creatures would you like to see me draw on my next livestream?

Otter, Hedgehog, Mouse, or Hare?

#hollowsglen #creature #illustration

Apparently my favourite kind of art is called anthropomorphic fantasy. I had no idea, but I suppose I can thank Disney, Ninja Turtles, and Warner Bros. for a childhood full of wacky characters 😁

I guess Hollows Glen is anthropomorphic fantasy now 😁

#hollowsglen #disney #tmnt #otters #dratsie

I thought this could be an interesting look at how I make a colouring book page for Hollows Glen.

I already did the pencil sketch in my sketchbook and then I go into CSP to give it some “ink”

What do you think of the “Puggle Protector”?

#hollowsglen #coloringbook #fun #cottagecore #hedgehog

I just wanted to let everyone know that todays post is going to be later than usual because I thought I might put together a QuickDraw video of the next colouring page 😁

#runninglate #dailypost #myart #hollowsglen

So, I kind of brought this up before, but this time I created one of the pages for the Hollows Glen Colouring Book.

What do you think?

Would you grab a colouring book that had art like this in it?

#question #advice #research #hollowsglen #coloringbook