A brick. Dropped from an overpass while I was doing 70 on a motorway. A tree. Which I fell out of while doing clearing work with a chainsaw. A boulder. While I was building a drystone wall. Not a large boulder, it was size of a small boulder.

People need the literacy and maturity to say when something isn't for them as opposed to 'boring' or any of the other derisory labels. It's especially disappointing when otherwise intelligent people choose the latter.

Welcome to Year of the Horse 🐴🖤

#ArtVsArtist2025 My faves from this year 🙂

I turned 41 about ten minutes ago, but more importantly, Ripley turned 10, so to celebrate this, I have blessed your timeline! www.instagram.com/p/DS5Csq9kg3X/

Do I have this right? A Wall Street financier is shaping opinions for a newspaper owned by hedge funds to manufacture consent for technology built on intellectual theft to consolidate wealth and power into the hands of narcissistic billionaires while pouring gasoline on a climate crisis? 🤔

Art vs. artist for 2025 — oils. So many paintings I can't yet share due to NDAs. But a weird year for art nonetheless.

Day 30 of my 2025 charity sketch sale, in aid of my local food bank & MSF. Today’s sketch - Tsintaosaurus. Rules are simple: First person to reply “Mine” gets it. Minimum donation for each sketch is £15 ( but you can donate more if you are able). Payment via PayPal.

My #instagramtopnine for 2025. Thank you so much to those who’ve supported my work this year. I’m going to be honest, I’m exhausted, so it feels like I don’t have many words. This year has been an incredibly transformative one 💚

Just wanted to say thanks for the recent likes and shares of this, its very much appreciated ☺

Looking for more work coming in to the new year if you're into work like this and have a game that needs art or a d&d campaign or you're just feeling it, hit me up.

No better day to share my Art -vs- Artist 2025 than my birthday #artvsartist2025

Art vs Artist 2025. (Or 9 portraits of old things). #SciArt

Art vs Artist 2025 sketch version, minus my face. I'll leave that to all the pretty youngsters out there. Hopefully next year I'll have enough finished paintings to fill one of these. 2025 was definitely a weird one...

Blackthorn. Spoilers for Wind and Truth in comments! (Sorry, no alt text today. *my* eyes are done for.) #stormlightarchive

Cover #art for "Shadows of Sparta" by C.R. Jane. This one was on SUPER short notice, and I don't think I've ever drawn this many roses before 😆 (There's even more roses on the audiobook cover!) Fortunately it worked out well in that short time. Client: Podium Entertainment AD: Dawn Adams

Probably the last painting of 2025. This year was a lot at times. medium: Schmincke Horadam gouache on Arches watercolour paper

The selkie from the illustrated fae compendium, Fairylore. ✨⁠ I had so much fun with the illustrations in this book! 12x16 inches, oils on wooden panel ⁠ #fae #fairyfolklore #illustratedbook #fantasyart #fairytales #folklore

Here is my #artvsartist2025 ! A relatively quiet year in terms of posting new work. Besides a few personal pieces and sharing some older freelance assignments everything is still under NDA. Should have more to share in 2026 though! Hope you all have a blessed newyear. Best, JCH

Jennifer's Body Studies

Post christmas self portrait 🐷 I wanted to do another ink piece for a while and seeing all the hype for the new Nurgle Warhammer releases got me keen to paint a Rotsword Knight. I think this is one of my favourite things ive painted in a long while! Ink on bristol paper- 9x12"

Johnny Strong - Operator Pencil drawings on A4 sketchbook paper.

Creatures of Innsmouth. Digital pencil sketches. thisnorthernboy.blog/2024/12/22/t... #Innsmouth #Illustration

Two heads are better than one…?

Sleep until spring- 2022

Masonry study 🐭🐁 (because it’s been ages since I did a study)

Very very old sketchbook and possibly the best drawing I’ve ever done. Sketched from the train in seconds as a lady walked to her car at the station. Over 30 years old ….shudder. Never getting that good again

#artvsartist 2025 - not a bad year at all in terms of stuff painted 🎨

Johnny Strong - Operator Pencil drawings on A4 sketchbook paper.

Imagine going up to a guy selling pirated t shirts, giving him your art, then complaining when he puts it on the t shirts and sells them. Kind of like what artists on twitter are doing when they upload their art there. Best to delete your art and kill your account with fire xx

Low Light - Winter Solstice

Any article observing that the AI bubble is about to burst *but then suggesting AI is too important to our financial systems to be allowed to fail* is missing the point. Generative AI is a massive fraud and a brain drain on humanity, even leaving theft and resource issues aside.

“Love it or hate it it’s here to stay” is a crazy thing to keep saying about a technology. If people don’t like using something it doesn’t have to stay we’re not talking about bad weather here

Day 17 of my 2025 charity sketch sale, in aid of my local food bank & MSF. Today’s sketch - Lambeosaurus. Rules are simple: First person to reply “Mine” gets it. Minimum donation for each sketch is £15 ( but you can donate more if you are able). Payment via PayPal.

Also. References are for making things look believable and real. If you're using ai gen references they're not real, they're vague facsimiles, so the more you use them the further you get from reality. How can you ask people to believe your work is real if its based on fakery?

Reply or quote if you are anti-AI, anti-generative-AI and pro-human made art. I don't have the time, energy or patience for cults that blindly follow a trend in the name of profit or because they're afraid of being "left behind". If you throw that excuse in my face I'll go for your throat.

I've always gravitated towards Indie movies and music but in recent years, I've leaned specifically in that direction. Mainstream stuff feels too polished and slick, like investors have rubbed away the rough edges and passion thats still there in Indie art.

WOLF’S GATE- Lilith, daughter of the Moon, falls from the heavens and is unable to return. She must survive a hostile human world in a mortal body until she can reach her wolf siblings in the forest. -my work and story 2025

Going into 2026 like...

Those Vanity Fair photos are funny. Everyone looks so tiny. Dwarfed by the enormity of the building they're squatting in.

Going into 2026 like...

I Am Spartacus

Winter again ❄

Really thrilled to learn that due to a huge outpouring of public support, Argonaut Books in the Edinburgh area will not have to compete with a Waterstones planned for around the corner. Kudos to Waterstones for listening and everyone on insta for being vocal. One of my very favorite UK bookstores.

Last chance for international folks to grab something from my shop if they want it to get to them before xmas. It's still not guaranteed, but this is the date I was given! (non EU). www.emilyhare.co.uk #xmas #gift #xmasgift #christmaspresent #gifts

I'm just a little guy and I need you to stop giving me hives by celebrating the bursting of the AI bubble before it's a corpse in the cold ground that you can confirm is dead by shooting stabbing and burning it to make sure