Miscellaneous

I am, at heart, a generalist. I want to do everything - I feel empowered by the creative process when I see all sides of it - designing what I implement, sketching worlds and molding them with my bare hands. I am not a master of all, by any means - but I want to highlight every little thing that I do here in order to actualise it. Progress is slow, and I am easily distracted - but if I want to continue to put whatever I make into the world, I need to keep embracing the awkward one-offs, embracing that growth.

This is all entirely self-indulgent, so that's why it's tucked here at the bottom. But on the off chance someone else is reading all of this, let me know! My emails are always open.

"I feel, at any given time, tuggеd in all directions at once. That is, if anything can be thus dеscribed, my defining quality." - the Narcissist Cookbook, STOPPING A GARDEN HOSE WITH YOUR THUMB



Music

I've been playing music since I was a kid - forced by school, took piano lessons, self-taught guitar, the classic story. One thing that held me back from composing is that I couldn't make what I wanted to - so I devalued what I could make.

But based on some advice from musician extrordinaire Calum Sarjeant (linked below) - I've just been setting out with the desire to create something, anything - and seeing where I can go from there. That's what I'm chronicling here!



2D Artwork

When I started at uni, I made a promise that I would try and draw something, every month, to see the improvement process. I kept this up for all of 2020, and whilst I did less in following years, I still try and keep it up.

(There's quite a lot of art here, so I put it under it's own gallery. Click on the button to see it!)

Artwork showing many little characters - from top left to botton right - a little guy sitting on a rainbow with the colours of the non-binary flag, a little ravioli creature, a can of fanta lemon bursting, two hands interlocking creating a face, a bus made out of bread, a sock puppet with the colours of the trans flag, a camel with a large snot dripping from it's nose, a snail with two large triangular eyes, a little stickman at a bus stop, a dinosaur with a large rectangular cloak/collar, a spark(?) bird, a pair of leaves with fangs, a pink person with a large pencil, a giraffe with a single hand pondering, a mole giving a peace sign, a man doing a large thumbs up, an axolotl with a triangular head and a propellor cap for a tail, a shark with crow's feet, a judgemental hexagon, a cyan ghost with human feet and slides, a blushing lilac cloud with lightning bolt legs and high heels, a snake with a piano for a body, a little green robot with a fork for an arm, a crocodile creature trying to catch the ghost in a bug catching net, a little figure dancing around some fruit musical notes, a person hanging from a large leaf attached to a stalk, and a pensive eraser. In the lower left corner, there is a small illustration of Jams (artist) with a question mark above them, drawing the picture, with a plant and framed painting to their left.
jambigous feelings (10/04/2024)
I was waiting for something to download, and just kind of started... drawing little characters without an exact set goal. Particularly a fan of the snotty camel, the Breadbus, and cloud with heels.
Art of a laptop with stickers on it, spelling the word ED, and a plug extension with many plugs spelling out the word indies
Edindies (23/03/2024)
Edindies is a coworking meetup I like to go to in Edinburgh! But often I don't have a good laptop to work off, so everyone there just convinced me to draw instead.
Art of a mysterious figure standing under a streetlamp
streetlight (21/12/2023)
The burnt out amber of streetlights has been my favourite colour since I was incredibly young - so nostalgic and otherworldly. I wanted to capture some of that midnight mysticism here.
art of the dundee skyline with two moons
Dundonian Moons (21/12/2023)
Woke up from a dream where I turned the corner on Dundee's Bell Street and saw two moons - and immediately tried to recreate the scene. I have aphantasia, so dreams are a mystery to me, and I often want to explore them longer than my conscious mind will allow.
self portrait of me, Ewan Fisher, with medium length brown hair and a patterned shirt. there is a green glitchy pattern in the background
Self-Portrait (15/12/2023)
This was one of the first things I drew when I got my iPad! Before this I was drawing on my phone using my fingers, yikes!
art of a little guy sitting on a lily pad floating on a pond of retro(?) patterns
feeling a bit like this (20/01/2023)
This drawing feels very emblematic of my 2023. 2022 was a huge year for me, but 2023 felt more wandering, lost, floating by and taking my time to self-discover.
Artwork depicting an astronaut with their eyes reflected in their helmet. There are words adorning the outside of the frame, a quotation of the song It Felt Fake by the Narcissist Cookbook - I looked out at nothing, felt nothing looking back at me
It Felt Fake (20/10/2022)
Based on the song by the Narcissist Cookbook of the same name. I had just seen them live and so I was particularly inspired - but honestly tNC's art just lives rent free in my brain.
Art of my DnD character, Baja (the Blast) Herbert
Baja "the Blast" Herbert (22/02/2021)
Baja! My DnD character - I've drawn them a few times - but this is the best. They are a dragonborn wizard who loves nothing more than a good mystery.
Art of Mismagius from Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
Wandering Spirit Haunting the Lost Tower (31/10/2020)
For Halloween, I drew Mismagius and took it more as a colour study. It's my friend's favourite Pokémon too, so I wanted to make it for her.
Art of Crono and Robo from Chrono Trigger hugging beneath a dead tree with an ominous daybreak in the background
Death's Peak (27/09/2020)
In this scene in Chrono Trigger, Robo doesn't hug Crono - but I wanted to change history. I think I was a bit too ambitious with this one compared to my skills at the time!
self portrait of me, Ewan Fisher, with short hair and a school uniform on. there is a pink glow and an exclamation mark above my head
Self-Portrait (09/09/2020)
This was based on my ID photo in high school! I was one of those people that was a little kid for a very long time - but I didn't really look like this in 2020.
Pencil Illustration of Lava Reef Zone
Lava Reef Zone (03/09/2020)
Continuing with Sonic, I wanted to try and learn pencil illustrations during my art exploration, so I drew this based on my favourite Sonic zone.
Art of Sonic the Heghehog looking up at Star Light Zone
Gazing Under the Star Light (03/08/2020)
During 2020 - I got really into playing all of the Sonic games to cope(?) with the lockdown. This was my favourite piece for a long time!
Art of Pokémon I had on my team when I played Pokémon Pearl - Vespiquen, Torterra, Spiritomb, Hippowdon, Pachirisu and shiny Medicham, with the background of the Sinnoh Pokémon League
Sinnoh League (12/11/2019)
One of the first pieces of digital art I ever made! I would play Pokémon Pearl and draw the team during 1st uni lectures. (12/11/2019)
Art of Febail from FE4 - drawing a bow and arrow. He has blond hair, with a blue outfit and light armour on.
Febail from FE4 (18/06/2018)
Created for Fire Emblem Compendium - definitely the first piece of digital art I ever did. It was part of a big event to try and make fanart of every Fire Emblem character.

3D Artwork

As of recent, I've been trying to 3D model using Nomad Sculpt - I've been finding it incredibly relaxing to listen to a podcast and sculpt something early in the morning. So far I've mostly been creating 3D models of For Hexposure characters - but I'm hoping to do some more when I have the time.

Models of (from left to right) the Witch, Trash Toad, Abby and Frodger from For Hexposure
Models of (from left to right) the Witch, Trash Toad, Abby and Frodger from For Hexposure (27/02/2024 - 29/02/2024)
Models of (from left to right) Strawby, Snigel and Hope from For Hexposure
Models of (from left to right) Strawby, Snigel and Hope from For Hexposure (27/02/2024 - 29/02/2024)
Model of Mushroomba from Mushroomba, yellow flatcap mushroom on a little blue cleaning robot
Model of Mushroomba from Mushroomba (29/02/2024)

This very website!

My original portfolio site (which I should be able to link to an archive) was made using Wix. Which worked great! But at the start of 2024 they greatly increased their prices and I am only a little guy - so I'm making my own little corner of the web right here. I was really inspired by my friend Ari - she wrote her own portfolio using HTML and so I'm trying to follow in her footsteps and be an amateur web dev (mine definietly isn't as classy as hers though!)

It was fun making a website for the first time since high school! I wanted to try and caputre that old web vibe - with the many little hidden pages and secrets and MySpace-era HTML and CSS. If I hide secrets all over my games - why not my web prescence as well?

When I was at uni, I was supposed to be studying for some class and ended up on some tangent, talking to friends about the Nowhereville Scottish town I'm from, Gourock - and one of the few pages I could find about it was called Images of Scotland by Alan Ingram. And I got wrapped into the magical world of this early web archive of Scottish history, with seemingly hundreds of interlocking pages and CSS that felt like it had escaped the wrong decade. I wanted to capture a little of that whimsical inspiration here.


Other places I can be discovered!


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