Anthony Scott Waters
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Anthony Scott Waters
@thehairycanary.bsky.social
Concept Artist, Illustrator, Author, Art Instructor. Old school Magic the Gathering artist. No AI, no NFTs, thank you please.

www.patreon.com/fyreant
Wateryant@gmail.com
Prints and playmats: https://www.originalmagicart.store/
I'm gonna be at Geek Fest West this weekend in Everett, Wa this weekend! Come by and say hi!
July 17, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I'm excited to announce my appearance at Geek Fest West this weekend in Everett, WA! Hope to see y'all there!
July 15, 2025 at 6:35 AM
If you see this, post your painting/drawing of a dragon
My cover for the 300th issue of Dragon magazine. MAN that was a long time ago.
April 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Still down in a hole. I'll rise out of it. Grief runs on its own timetable.

This and last Monday's art post were both sketches I drew after losing Ellie Mae, my last pupkid. I don't yet know if I'll be sketching to release the pressure for losing VI. #mentalhealthmonday
April 8, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Bless the staff at Village Vet for making this terrible day endurable.

Fly high, Violet Sherman Waters. Go play in fields full of bunnies and hamburger bushes.
April 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I bring you a little darkness for #throbackthursday. I created this for an article in FX Magazine, back in the 2000s. I didn't realize at the time that I'd just unlocked a door with a whole lot of scary shit behind it. #arttherapy #mentalhealth #selfcare #digialart #horror #monsters
March 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
So if you're poaching while fishing does that mean you're scaling? Inquiring minds and all that. (Another piece from my stint at Carbine.) #conceptart #digitalart #scifi #spaceopera
March 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
If you see this, quote with your Night/Dark art! #horror #monsters #art #digitalart
March 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This was always my favorite of the concept pieces I did for Carbine. It came together fast (for me) and I was happy with the vibe. Man, I want us to visit a small onsen one of these days.
March 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Butts come marching through my front door and set up shop in my head. The next thing I know I’ve got butts all over the place, cheekily blocking my view, denying me perspective, trapping me between the cakes of self-doubt.

The lesson: don’t get caught beneath your butt. Send it packing.
March 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Doing pre-viz development for the Ravnica block was a pure joy. Nothing can match being the feeling of being set free on a blank map. #ravnica #M:tG #art #conceptart
March 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Bluesky's open, quote art to promote yourself.
March 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I was awake this morning at 5am and the demons, they were talking. And when they get talking, they lay down some demonically rude grooves, good God y’all. I can shush them once I get my day rolling, but during the witching hour, they are LOUD.

#mentalhealthmonday #arttherapy #mentalhealth
March 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Happy Thursday, folks! Here’s an automated soldier from M:tG’s distant past. I used Chris Rush’s original design as my starting point. You are missed, good sir Knight. #throwbackthursday #art #conceptart #automaton
February 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
It hurts to be alive sometimes. I get it. I know how that feels.

There’s no rule in the manual for living which says you have to do everything by yourself, including things you couldn’t possibly know or manage on your own. We’re allowed to lean on each other when we need to. #mentalhealthmonday
February 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Hey all you Sweet Boos. Happy Thursday! I came across this thing I did for the Star Wars RPG, way back in the day. Only after the assn was complete did I think of drawing this thing scratching its ass on the leg of an Imperial Walker. Bummer. :/
February 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
In honor of my 666th watcher I give you a sneak peek of my work on the Mind Flayers for D&D. I was tasked with inventing what a Mind Flayer "city" might look like and boy howdy, did I have fun with that. Behold the Chamber of Orcus and the Pool of the Elders:
February 20, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Art therapy piece from 2017. When I drew this I was in a very, very dark place.

Don’t listen to the inside voices, don’t listen to the voices coming at you from the outside. They’re wrong. Nothing but white noise. Remember you have allies. I’m one of them. Don’t jump. #mentalhealthmonday
February 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Hello all you good peeps! I’m popping into your social media floorspace with a couple of concepts I created for Mirrodin, way back in…whenever that was. A long time ago. I hope you’re all doing well. Love to you, hugs, snugs, and bugs. Flugs. #throwbackthursday
February 14, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Be good to yourself. It can get stormy out there.
#mentalhealthmonday
December 17, 2024 at 3:57 AM
Taking that quiz brought up a lot of old questions and thoughts I've had about what/what I am. Has it hit anyone else in the same way?
November 10, 2024 at 11:07 PM
Hmm. Yeah....yeah, this fits.

If you're interested in taking this quiz, you'll find it here: uquiz.com/quiz/p0u5c3?...
November 10, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Where did all you new folks come from?? Holy cow. Lovely to receive this gift after being away from BSky for a couple weeks. Welcome. I'm glad to see you here.
November 10, 2024 at 8:16 PM
In celebration of all my new followers (and the publication of my Karn art from Vanguard in the form of a lovely foil), here's the ORIGINAL version of the painting, before R&D had me clip Squee from the image. Happy Tuesday evening, all you lovelies!
October 23, 2024 at 1:31 AM
Time for another Throwback Thursday: a couple monsters from Mercadian Masques, from a quarter-century ago. Yeesh. 0_0
October 18, 2024 at 3:04 AM