Hello and welcome! I'm Ash, a 2D Animator working out of Los Angeles. I most often work within The Animation Guild (Local 839) contracts, but occasionally I freelance on smaller projects. My credits include Warner Brothers, Titmouse, Nickelodeon, CBS, Bento Box, Hot House Productions, Cartuna, and more!

This here blog is just for me to throw art I create up into the world without a care. It's self indulgent and often caters to whatever my brain chose to hyper fixate on the particular day/month/year.

You can find me at

@madmeeper - is my catch all, put everything there blog. I’m particularly chatty in those tags sometimes and have a few specific tags that I make use of.

@tehareinspiration is my inspiration blog where I put art that I find particularly inspiring, photographs, occasionally history. It’s meticulously tagged, and I use it a lot for reference.

Slaying Adatok: The Paragon of Shatterpeak, is available now for free!

"Slaying Adatok: The Paragon of Shatterpeak" is an unofficial dragon-slaying Dungeons and Dragons 5e adventure for Level 20 players. Players will venture into 4 unique lairs where they will de-power The Barrier protecting the peak of Shatterpeak Mountain. Once they climb to the mountain's top, they will get to face off with Adatok the Paragon, the Amethyst Greatwyrm.

This adventure includes a two pdfs (one normal and one print-friendly), battlemaps and art for each of the 7 unique locations and custom tokens for every named monster and NPC. As a Dungeon Master you shouldn't have to do any extra legwork to find assets to play your adventure!

This adventure assumes that you own the following sourcebooks.

If you played this adventure, please tag me on social media (@AshMcGivern) and let me know how it went. If you enjoyed it, consider leaving a tip! Either way thank you so much for playing!

Download it here from Ko-Fi!

Slaying Adatok: The Paragon of Shatterpeak releases TOMORROW!!!

I'm extremely proud of how the whole thing has turned out, and I really hope you all enjoy the adventure. This mini campaign comes with everything you'll need to run your adventure, assuming you own a few sourcebooks (Fizban's Treasury of Dragons being the main body of inspiration!).

This free Level 20 dragon-slaying module will be available for free download on April 5th on my Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/ashmcgivern)! Shares are appreciated!

“Slaying Adatok: The Paragon of Shatterpeak”, features 7 unique locations with battle-ready maps and splash images for each location! It was my goal when putting this adventure together to make Dungeon Masters’ work as easy as possible, and so each location has all the artwork necessary to bring these locations to life.

This free Level 20 dragon-slaying module will be available for free download on April 5th on my Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/ashmcgivern)! Keep an eye out for the drop in the coming days. Shares are appreciated!

Slaying Adatok: The Paragon of Shatterpeak, is going to be available for download on April 5th!

"Slaying Adatok: The Paragon of Shatterpeak" is an unofficial dragon-slaying Dungeons and Dragons 5e adventure for Level 20 players. Players will venture into 4 unique lairs where they will de-power The Barrier protecting the peak of Shatterpeak Mountain. Once they climb to the mountain's top, they will get to face off with Adatok the Paragon, the Amethyst Greatwyrm.

This has been a very long 2 year journey for me, and I'm so excited to finally share it with everyone! Keep your eyes out on my Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/ashmcgivern) where the adventure will be available. Reblogs and shares appreciated. Thank you!!!

2 straight days of working in InDesign…. 2 years of writing and playtesting....the time is nigh…. free dragon slaying mini 5e campaign is ON THE WAY

I lived, bitch

Said goodbye to Sandi today. It was time, I’m out of sorts, simultaneously torn asunder and unimaginably relieved. Taking care of a geriatric lizard is a lot of work, but she was worth every ounce of effort. She was a good one, she made it 22 years. That first photo was one of the last I took with her. The others are photos from the past few months.

I don’t know what else to say - I could speak about her for hours, and at the same time there’s not much else to say. It doesn’t feel real and I’ll be adjusting for a long, long time.

Sandi’s gone.

Hi I’ve been absent a lot lately, the whole of 2024 in fact I’m realizing.

On top of just not having the spoons to really share much of what I’m doing, in combination with NDA, social media just exhausts me now. The state of the internet in general. I can’t really mentally handle constantly hearing and seeing how AI seems to be permeating every part of online existence, how every website is one big pool of advertisements, and uh, the state of the world in general. There are too many things for my dumb brain.

So I’m taking a bit of a back seat, or rather I have been I guess. Tumblr is really tbh only social media I spend any time on and even then there’s whispers of Automatic partnering up with Midjourney. If it happens I won’t stay here long that’s for sure.

And where does that leave me then? I have a lot of great friends on Discord I talk to and I’m getting into Twitch more, but I know people here still want to see what I’m up to. I have mutuals I like and artists I want to follow that I don’t necessarily want to abandon. But with the state of things, everyone just seems tired. People are sharing less. Is there really nowhere for artists left?

It’s just kind of depressing tbh. I get more fulfillment being away from social media than being on it, which is a GOOD thing, but it sucks that the time I do spend back here doesn’t feel safe anymore.

All this to say, I wish I had more to share, but I’m tired and feeling recluse, and I’m tired of shifting where my social media presence is at any given time. I’m very close to finishing a BIG project that I’ll finally be able to put online, but there’s a lot of processing I have to do first and these things take TIME.

I only have about one month left at WB (unless they extend me AGAIN which would be the 5th time fjdhdhdh) and maybe a break is what I need. But I dunno. I for sure will be streaming more if nothing else, but idk about my other social media presences. If you see me active on social media again, know that it’s def not because I enjoy it. It’s to get my name and face out there ultimately so I can find work again. Not to mention I’ve begun the process of archiving/moving my art blog to a new location where I can self host because…….. I’m so tired.

Idk!!! Morning thoughts. This is nothing my friends don’t already know but for those who are curious, here it is. I spend a lot of time on tumblr but I do t share a lot because of *broadly gestures*. Hope y’all feel me.

Pretty exciting stuff! Thanks to everyone who's been dipping into my streams over the years. :') Hopefully when I have time to stream I can be entertaining and educational for yall.

In case you didn't know, I'm going to be unemployed come March as my contract at WB comes to a close. Until I can find a new gig I'll be streaming much more frequently to share what I'm working on.

Right now I'm finishing up the final pieces of my dragon-slaying mini 5e adventure. After that, more Adventure Squad comic, and also actually animating! So if that's interesting to you, come hang out.

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And the blood moon rises once again