Scott Murphy

@murphyillustration.bsky.social

Traditional artist working on Magic: the Gathering, D&D, and other fantasy delights. Heavy Metal fan, Bike Nerd. All works are hand painted in oils unless otherwise noted. 🚫AI Website: www.Murphyillustration.com Shop: murphyillustration.etsy.com

High Tide 🌊 ✨ Hey guys I just finished this new painting in my ongoing series of paintings called ‘A Starry Place’ where I explore spaces that are meaningful and nostalgic to me. This piece is inspired by overcoming insurmountable challenges.

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If you're an artist wanting to break through in TTRPG illustrations and feel like you need an Art Directors feedback on your current portfolio. Feel free to reach out, comment or DM me here. I feel like the industry is hard enough as is. I will reply slow but I'll do my best to support! 💜

Working on a new cover painting for a science fiction novel and playing with the themes of geometric abstraction which helped build this piece for an anthology, Down These Dark Spaceways. Psychohistorical Crisis II 30" x 18" Oil on Panel 2005 collection of Edie Stern and Joe Siclari

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Here's the cover art I did for The Poisoned King, Book 2 of Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell, out today! In addition to the cover I also did 30 b+ w interior illustrations. Many thanks to AD Carol Ly, type design by Jason Carne and additional interior illustrations by Virginia Allyn.

Cover art for The Poisoned King, Book 2 of Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell. Two kids stand back to back holding swords in the silhouette of an immense manticore

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

AI impoverishes us at every step of the process: 
- data centers pollute our environment
- energy use drives up costs
- content theft robs creators of income
- the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages
- using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence
- the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape

All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people