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Joe Watson
@jwillustration.bsky.social
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✍️ Freelance Artist based in Scotland (He/Him)

Art, photography, all the good stuff 🦆

Open to work!

Inquiries ✉️ - [email protected]
My work 🕸️ - https://www.joewatsonillustration.com/

No AI/NFT art 🛑
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Join the dance or be buried by the chittering tide…
An alien-like women holding a strange staff skips euphorically over a destructive looking bunch of long bug like aliens, smaller flying insectoids also following the direction of the swarm. Grayscale in color but highlights in orange
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Dennis may need a cone of shame but @ianmcque.bsky.social @rossignol.bsky.social should get cones of success for this big beautiful book that just turned up 🎉
Photo of the artbook Mileships, shameful corgi in background
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Little sneaky peek of my lady skipping across the ruins of civilisation for @novamali.bsky.social @damesprod.bsky.social new book Villainess up on kickstarter for just 1 more week! Lots of cool art by cool artists in here get you one >>>
www.kickstarter.com/projects/nov...
Snippet of a larger art piece, you can see the head of an alien like lady, the logo text for the book ‘Villainess - we support women’s wrongs!’ and some toothy alien bug worm in the background. Grayscale with orange
November 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Quick 30min #dailyart with morning coffee,

Zoom is a curse I am trying to break
Landscape painting , ruined house in the mid ground, hill leading down to river and mountain the distance. Stylised autumnal colors
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Ref is this cement mixer I saw somewhere
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Working man’s mech 👷‍♂️

#dailyart
Painting of a Building site inspired mech stands on two legs and a roller arm, worn dated livery, rust, two cement barrels on the back. A person in a red jumpsuit holds a walkie talkie in the background
November 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Gloomy autumn lake house 🍁

Used yesterdays and today’s #dailyart time for this one, clocking in at 4hr 30, suffering for architecture
Painting of an old house on a lake, autumn leaves on the trees and on the water. The day is overcast, and a group of crows perch on the roof, slightly spooky vibe
November 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Dare ye cross the path of the dark prince? 🐈‍⬛

todays #dailyart , 1hr 45min on the clock
Digital painting of a wooded path with steps leading upwards, strong sunlight casts dappled shadows. A black cat sits in a tree stump at the top of the steps
November 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Fireball! 🔥

This was supposed to be Fridays #dailyart but it ran way overtime, I ended up noodling on it over the weekend

#witch #artbyhumans
Lineart + colored drawing of a witch flying through the air getting ready to chuck a fireball, her bird familiar flies alongside.
November 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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King of the beach 🦊

Painting of my boy for today’s #dailyart , clocking in at 1hr 30min.

#corgi #petportrait
Digital painting of a happy corgi at the beach on a sunny day, a graphical crown and stars around his head.
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Let’s make a deal…

Today’s #dailyart , technically started this one yesterday but I was totally beat. Clocking in at 3hrs on this one, it really ran over, just like driving probably shouldn't draw when tired 😴
Digital painting - night time, spooky atmosphere - lone figure stands at the mouth of a large cave with a torch raised, holding out a scroll, in the darkness of the cave we can just see a strange face and four gesturing arms attatched to some larger creature
November 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Portrait study 🗡️

Just north of 2hrs on this one, gotta get those numbers down (the guy who made made many pots something something) #dailyart

Ref from @trueref.bsky.social 👈 go check it out
Slightly stylised portrait of a woman wearing amour, short hair looking up.
November 3, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Junker 🚀

Space jazz for todays #dailyart , 1 hour on the clock
Digital painting of a junky spaceship flying through a purple and blue nebula, light from the engines makes an orange glow on the clouds
October 31, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Happy Halloween friends good spookin 💀

#doot #art
Close up - Digital painting Album cover for DOOT in the night - a quintet of purple and green robed skeletons playing various brass instruments emerge from a red mist, background is the woods at night. Spooky mood. Close up - Digital painting Album cover for DOOT in the night - a quintet of purple and green robed skeletons playing various brass instruments emerge from a red mist, background is the woods at night. Spooky mood. Close up - Digital painting Album cover for DOOT in the night - a quintet of purple and green robed skeletons playing various brass instruments emerge from a red mist, background is the woods at night. Spooky mood. Digital painting Album cover for DOOT in the night - a quintet of purple and green robed skeletons playing various brass instruments emerge from a red mist, background is the woods at night. Spooky mood.
October 31, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Ref is a photo I took when I was out exploring, one of those photos that is not good enough to stand on its own but still Had nice light and an interesting subject, with a bit of enhancing
Photo of an old stone shed on a sunny day, leaves are on the ground and there is dappled shade
October 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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The Guardian 🦊

Continuing my attempt to get back into daily art, this one site just shy of 2 hrs

#dailyart
Digital painting of an old shed in dappled sunlight, traditional animation style background with a fox dog sat in an open doorway. Cosy mood
October 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Some shots from round the city ft scrungly crow

#edinburgh #photography
Strong light falls through windows onto concrete shapes Scrungly crow on a rooftop Image of the city skyline distorted in a glass sphere Modern rooftop on a crisp sunny day, leaves on the trees are yellow, circles and squares lead forward
October 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Garden (Adventuring) Party 🍄

Been doing these guys as my warmup for the last few days, I do love a character lineup.
Autumnal character lineup of 3 garden characters - deathcap, a buff mushroom in barbaric leathers, flibbit zing, a frog magician wielding a spoon, and meadow, a mouse with a bow for shooting thorns.
October 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Gideon Nav 💪🗡️💀

Where is Alecto Tamsyn 🍽️

#thelockedtomb #gideontheninth #procreate
Digital painting of Gideon Nav from the Locked tomb books - Nav stands in a strong pose having just thrown off their jacket, dressed in black and brandishing a big ol’ sword. Green mist swirls out of tomb in the background, moving towards us over the saturated red floor.
October 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Since it’s spooky season here’s some photos I took recently(ish) with an ominous vibe, severe lack of misty Edinburgh pics though which I shall have to correct at the next opportunity 📸

#photosky #photography
Interior of a small church, light enters from the left with the focus on a closed wooden door Drainage tunnel stretches forward into the darkness Bright shot of a cliff face, think midsommar with wild flowers, crack leads into dark cave Low evening light, gloomy, train track leads the eye to the terrifying visage of cranky the crane
October 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Morning Medusa using @trueref.bsky.social excellent monthly challenge reference! I wanna get into doing a daily drawing again but every time I’ve tried before I’ve fallen off after a week or so, maybe a weekly is more realistic (it’s gonna be a monthly isn’t it🖍️🥲)
#TrueRefDT009 #spooktober
Comic style green Medusa perches on a pillar, looking threateningly(?) at the viewer. Stylised orange shape background
October 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Hello #portfolioday !

I’m Joe, a freelance artist based in Scotland, working in games physical and digital on illustrations and concepts, previously in animation assets and UI.

Currently looking for new projects!

✉️ [email protected]
🌐 joewatsonillustration.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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The final stretch goal is so close! Shake those wallets y’all! blast those #crescentsona s! Support indies!
June 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Had a blast at #ukge2025 this weekend - it's my first BIG con and I met loads of new people and familiar faces. Also somehow managed to do well enough in the #gwent tournament to snag myself a copy of the game early, and we also won on the big raffle which resulted in this frankly disgusting haul!
Photo of a big ol' pile of board games fronted by gwent: the legendary card game
June 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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#crescentcounty has been living rent free in my brain for a while now, been nice to draw something chill in between jobs.

I backed it and you should too 😎

#witch #art
Witch in a big blue hat sits on top of a futuristic red food truck enjoying the morning breeze/coffee, birds are gathering around the truck and a cat is sneaking up on them. A motorbroom is charging while some food cooks on the stove.
May 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM