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Paul Scott Canavan
@paulscottcanavan.com
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🌙 Creator of Pale Tides, the witch TTRPG
⚔️ Art for MTG, DND, Silent Hill: Townfall, Destiny 2, GW2, Warhammer, Daggerheart, A Highland Song etc
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Can’t play Arc Raiders because it disconnects every minute, freezing my character for 30 seconds. Just spent like 15 minutes trying to extract.

Anyone else experienced this?
November 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Some Destiny 2 cinematic concepts I painted during my time art directing at Axis Studios in Glasgow (rip 🖤)
Concept for the Dreaming City matte painting I would later create - this was for the Forsaken expansion I think? Pretty sure I had a big old scan of this skybox to use as reference. It shows a gleaming, scifi city in the distance, great mountains behind. Another Forsaken concept - this one featuring the shrine that Uldren reawakens in. I also went on to paint the background matte for this shot. It shows a beautiful, Rivendell-esque mountain landscape with a shrine and warm light. Early establishing concept for the look of the Warmind cinematic. Ana Bray standing on a cliff edge, her crashed ship behind. I painted several of these to express my idea for the lighting and tone of this cinematic. Interior concept for the Curse of Osiris cinematic. I joined this project midway through and had some block models to work from. My job was helping define the look and atmosphere for this one, in particular getting the lighting and mood right. It shows a blocky interior with tons of mist.
November 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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🥁 DRUMS DRUMS DRUMS 🥁

Trying out the new GDD Matt Garstka pack - it's delicious.
November 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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The side monitor is crucial for productivity 🙏
A photo of my workstation setup. Usual stuff (monitors, lights - you know what a computer is), but with a bonus plushie CRT monitor on the left…. … containing THE BABY. Brandy the chihuahua, wrapped in my Silent Hill map blanket, inside a plushie CRT.
October 15, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Best thing I’ve ever seen tbh
October 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Sketches, development and my new son, Astaroth, who I got for reference.
The initial sketch - a demented looking furby, insane colours and a reflection figuring out the composition and how everything might fit in the frame Astaroth, my new son and model for this card.
September 28, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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As an unapologetic Furby-enjoyer, it was a real pleasure getting to work on the Furby Secret Lair.

Shout out @evynfong.bsky.social for recommending me on this set 💖

#mtg #furby #secretlair
Distant Melody - FURBY EDITION. This is the card art with the frame. Shows a Furby leaping in the air, singing, with other Furbies in the background. A lush, mountainous landscape with big old clouds. "Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type. (Furby language nonsense)" Distant Melody - FURBY EDITION. This is the art. Shows a Furby leaping in the air, singing, with other Furbies in the background. A lush, mountainous landscape with big old clouds.
September 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Someone steal this giant Distant Melody for me pls xxx
September 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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I did, just not the spooky ones sadly!!
September 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Skate 3 rules. It GETS skate culture.
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Skate 3 is still unbeatable 🙏🙏🙏
A screenshot of Skate 3 on my TV, playing from my PC (shhh). Just a guy mid-kickflip, low angle, in the university area of the city.
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Setting my phone up to block Twitter, Instagram and all the other distraction websites is doing wonders for my productivity and mental health.

Bsky is allowed because my feed is actually (mostly) nice.
Screenshot of my chrome browser showing that I can’t access x.com because it’s restricted
September 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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September 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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(excuse the mess) this is where Brandy likes to lie while I write 🥹
My desk POV. Brandy the chihuahua lying in a blanket RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME so I have to work around her.
September 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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visual design peaked here
September 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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papped in full on dad mode
Me on a bench with Brandy. We are both asleep in the sun. I’m wearing a frankly outrageous fit and I will not describe it.
September 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Look at her little face (she’s been unwell all week, bless her❤️)
Brandy the chihuahua, wrapped in a towel and a blanket and a me
September 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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A few more snaps! I live for this.
The main entrance to the fort at the center of the build. The main dining hall in the fort. Large dining table, Atreides furniture, a big old hole in the ceiling that leads right to the top of the build. Living quarters in the fort. Yes, I spend too long on this don't judge me. And a shitty shot of the assault ornithopter hanger. These spaces are all MASSIVE so difficult to capture :3
September 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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my Dune: Awakening base has turned into some kind of Cyberpunk city...
A screenshot from Dune: Awakening showing my SICK character looking over my solo build base. Lots of little buildings, different build types, with a huge overhanging ornithopter hanger above. A screenshot from Dune: Awakening showing my SICK character looking over my solo build base. The view towards the assault ornithopter hanger. Some kind of Harkonnen nightclub on the right of frame. A screenshot from Dune: Awakening showing my SICK character looking over my solo build base. This is an interior shot from the top floor of the main Atreides base. Weird, sloping architecture, a mix of stone and holo plants. A screenshot from Dune: Awakening showing my SICK character looking over my solo build base. The outskirts of the "town" with smaller mechanic buildings.
September 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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5) A Highland Song is one of my proudest achievements. Working alongside Inkle was a dream, and it's so rare to be given free rein over the look of a game. To use YOUR style and expression so directly.

I streamed it on launch, and having my community there was just a joy. I'll never forget it.
A screenshot from the game, A Highland Song. It depicts a young girl balancing on a rock in a loch. Mountains in the background. She's saying, "I'm getting good at this."
September 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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3) I landed Magic: the Gathering because of this post on Imgur:

imgur.com/gallery/im-s...

I had quit my long running job as an Art Director and Lead Concept Artist to pursue illustration, and threw this folio together over a few months.

That very night I got the email from Jeremy Jarvis. I cried.
text that reads, "Hello from MtG"
September 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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A Scottish studio. Working on a Silent Hill game?? Absolutely mental.

For context, I'm a HUGE Silent Hill fan, and I love Jon and his work. Getting to work on one of my favourite franchises with a Scottish team was a dream come true. I can't wait to play the final game, it's going to be insane.
The Silent Hill Townfall reveal image. The title of the game with a top-down image of waves on a beach in stark RED.
September 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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the icon, the artist, the art 👁️👄👁️
sigh, it's a photo of me taking a photo of me in the mirror. I just got this jacket, okay, and it's really nice and I wanted to take a photo of it. I need a proper icon. Okay, now we're talking. A photo of me as a child in a vampire costume. Yeah, it's that furby horse again. Look, I don't know how better to encapsulate my art or my brain. It's a majestic horse with a furby head in the sun, what more do you want from me.
September 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Some Warhammer 40k paintings to darken the timeline 🙏 Apparently I can't get away from this palette.
The Warriors & Warlords cover I painted for Black Library. It depicts an Ultramarine Chaplain standing over a Hive Tyrant. There's lightning and explosions and honestly this is just the coolest thing I've ever painted. I painting I did for Rahul Kohli depicting him as a sick Ultramarine with a chainsword. Also very sick tbh. A cover I painted for GW depicting a grotty Nurgle lad fighting an Ultramarine... guy (I forget what flavour of Primarus this is). In the background there's a Blood Angels terminator fighting a Necron. This painting kinda sucks tbh, the posing of the space marine is trash, but I do like the gribbly plague marine.
September 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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forgot I started this
An astonishing drawing of Watto in the hit movie, Showwattos.
September 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM