An eejit is an idiot, a fool, a gormless ignoramus. An eejit is a creature who doesn’t know any better.

Born in the Highlands of Scotland, these weird and wonderful creatures are even rarer than the famous haggis. Due to their incredibly stupid nature and natural curiosity, they have now been collected together for their own safety. A curious collection of creatures, a menagerie of misfortunate misfits gathered together for the entire world to see.

They were starting to take up space in my house, so it was either I charged them rent or they went out in the world. Needless to say, they never paid me a penny......

A new eejit makes an appearance every Sunday (and occasionally more often if I'm overrun).

eejits is a Scottish term for an idiot, fool or bampot and seeing as I am from (you guessed it....) Scotland, it's a term I use quite a lot. It seems that more often than not I'm surrounded by them (present company excluded, of course). When I first started drawing these creatures, the more I had drawn the more the collection looked like a bunch o' eejits. Hence the name has forever been attached to this project o' mine.

How did it all start.....?

eejits was first started in 2005 after an experiment in digital colouring. I needed to try different colouring techniques out so needed something to colour. So I drew a weird wee creature and started on that. I kept practicing and as my drawings took shape and I created more creatures, the more and more that I looked at them, the more gormless they looked. Together they looked liked a bunch of idiots, so they became eejits. 'eejits' was a term that I used on a near daily basis so it was natural for me. Doesn’t really say a lot for the people around me!

After I had been showing my new creations around the internet, people kept asking me about them and what each individual eejit was called. I hadn’t given any of them names. I didn’t want to call them ‘Bob’ or ‘Steve’ or something boring (sorry Bob & Steve). eejits needed something different. When looking at the collection all together, it had dawned on me that they had evolved into the species ‘eejitus’ Hence the faux-Latin names have been forever attached to the collection.

So how do you create all these creatures.....?

Mainly, paper, pencils and processors mixed with a little bit o' inspiration, frustration and stupidity.

Paper gets drawn on with pencil. Pencil gets set on table. Paper gets crumpled up and thrown in the nearest bin. Repeat until a design for an eejit is good. Do not throw in bin.

That's my general drawing practice. But once I've completed that ritual, it's into the scanner and then on to Paint Shop Pro for a bit o' computer fiddling. All the 'inking' and colouring is done within PSP. After a wee while the newly born eejit is ready to be displayed to the world. Conception to birth usually takes between 3 and 4 hours, depending on my mood and what I want to achieve. It may not sound like it, but I do actually enjoy the process (otherwise, what would be the point?).

Commissions tend to take a wee bit longer as people are paying good cold 'ard cash for a unique creature or to have themselves (or someone they know) turned into an eejit.