There are few cases of tech disappointments quite so spectacular as the moment Scotland failed to get its own emoji flag in September 2015.

"North Korea got one," was the disgruntled Scottish response, followed by a sheer level of affront so rigid you could have smashed an iPad on it.

"Updated my phone to IOS9, still nae Scottish flag or middle finger emoji," posted a disappointed Mel Fraser.

"Guys I can guarantee the day we get a Scotland flag emoji I won't ever complain about anything again," agreed fellow Twitter user Char.

While 246 flags were available for mobile users to express their patriotism, there was a distinct lack of saltire blue.

Residents of Christmas Island, Antarctica and even the Vatican City had a tiny picture of their flags. But Scotland? Nope.

Even the leader of the country got involved, with former First Minister Alex Salmond openly condemning the lack of a Scottish flag as "outrageous".

Despite a clamour on social media to introduce a tiny Scottish flag to standard emoji keyboards used across mobile phones, the emblem never materialised as part of the Unicode Foundation collection of symbols.

That's when an East Ayrshire artist stepped in to fill the gap.

Kayleigh Dempster, a 24-year-old illustrator from Cumnock, had been working away on designs for Scotmoji, a whole keyboard app packed with 100 emoji stickers for Scotland.

Approached by Tim Webber, who works for a company called Fanmoji, Kayleigh helped the team release an app with a selection of emojis, ranging from William Wallace to a full Scottish fry-up.

Now, they're back on St Andrew's Day with another attempt at an even more patriotic set of designs.

"We released an app for Scotland, called Scotmoji last March and the reception was great," says Tim.

"As we delved deeper into what we could include in the app we started to realise was that to really celebrate the individual characters of the two biggest cities - Glasgow and Edinburgh - a few additions here and there weren't going to be enough."

Instead Tim and the team decided they needed to produce emoji stickers that covered the whole range of categories, from landmarks, to sport to phrases and people, and that meant separate Apps for each city.

For each city, they signed up local illustrators who live in their respective regions.

Emily Fraser, a local illustrator in Edinburgh has produced 75 Edinmojis.

"I was contacted by the team at Fanmoji about the project and it sounded like a great excuse to do some more illustrations of Edinburgh," says Emily.

"I have lived and worked in Edinburgh for the last five years so have built up a small portfolio of Edinburgh illustrations, mainly of famous architecture in the city, so it's great to have the opportunity to expand the illustrations to different areas.

"I think people will love them, it's great to have something that is more personalised to the area you live in and uses phrases and mentions places you know so well."

Sarah Ahmad, their local illustrator in Glasgow, adds: "I've been busy illustrating everything Glasgow.

"From the very typical deliciousness that is a Scottish breakfast to the caterpillar-looking orange Subway, through to the beautiful and popular landmarks of this wonderful city.

"There's plenty of inspiration everywhere I turn."

The apps themselves are keyboard apps (including an iMessage app for iOS10) that you'll be able to add to your smartphone keyboard enabling you to access Glasmojis and Edinmojis.

Although the illustrators have completed about 95% of the emojis that will be in the first release of the apps, they have used St Andrew's Day to announce a poll to have locals decide the last 5%.

"We thought, as we were trying to represent Glasgow and Edinburgh and present a sense of what it is to live in the area, we'd better let you guys at home have a say too," says Tim.

The poll is on www.fanmoji.co.uk, which will allow people to vote for the last few things that should make it into the first release of Glasmoji and Edinmoji. The apps will then be rolled out before Christmas.

"I'd say the landmarks are both the most challenging and fun to do," says illustrator Sarah.

"The overall hand-drawn style that I'm going for with Glasmoji is very rugged and rustic, so drawing it up and making them detailed and pronounced for your phone is quite a challenge.

"But I love the end product. Quite different and unique, just like the city."