What I drew in September

and the start of october

Oct 12, 2023

Hello! Here’s what I’ve drawn in the last month and a half, and some store updates.

Kez & I will be at Auckland Armageddon next weekend (20-23 Oct), our first Auckgeddon! So come along if you’re nearby. Everyone else - my online store will be closed from about next Wednesday for a week or so.

New a5 & mini prints

Old Bookshelf A5 prints / Little Thieves Prints / A5 fantasy aesthetic prints / A5 book fanart prints

New stickers

These arrived today, finally!

transparent snail & velvet worm stickers / old bookshelf stickers / puppycat stickers

Sticker sheets are on their way, if you’ve been waiting for them, probably won’t come before auckgeddon. I’ll make sure to save some for my store, but feel free to ask me to put anything (sticker sheets or otherwise) aside for you if you want to make an order at the end of the month when my store opens back up!

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New art!

These powelliphanta snail & velvet worm designs, which you can get as stickers above.

1: Drawing of a snail on a green textured background. It is a powelliphanta, with a stripy warm brown shell and dark body, and the shape of the body is continuing the round spiral shape. 2: Drawing of a peripatus on a green textured background. It is a bright blue caterpillar-like creature with a textured deep blue body with orange dots like stars, and is arranged in an S shape.

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Finished up these Roots of Chaos designs! These are also on my store as prints.

illustration of a bunch of fantasy objects on an orange background, in a flattish textured style. They are, a gold crown, a rose, two oranges, a small ring, a corner scrap of old paper, a long silvery sword, a candle in a candle holder, a grail, a aqua blue scale, a round whitish rock, a scroll with a red seal, an orange flame, and a small orange tree. — twitter / tumblr / bsky / insta / tiktok

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I FINALLY did some fanart of The Spear Cuts Through Water, which is one of the best books I read last year.

Illustration in green and blue tones, of two young men facing each other, a hand on a cheek and on the back of a neck, eyes closed. They are both in loose pants and have shaved dark hair. The boy on the left has a short jacket, and red wing tattoo on his cheek. The boy on the right has a missing left arm and no shirt. They are are in front of a stylised ocean pattern and big round moon in the night sky, and framed by a light teal lineart frame surrounded by light green leafy vines. The frame has lineart drawings of a sword, bone necklace, on the left, a spear on the right, and two tortoises at the top. there is a watermark at the bottom reading layaroseart.com — twitter / tumblr / bsky / insta / tiktok speedpaint

I did this art of Trillin & Sian from How To Get A Girlfriend (When You're A Terrifying Monster) by Marie Cardno, commissioned by the author! It’s based on La Belle Dame Sans Merci, loved drawing this.

Illustration based on la belle dame sans merci, but with space lesbians. trillin is a purple space monster with thick tendrils of hair that turn into tentacles, and have eyes poking out of them. She has extra eyes, and is in a flowy dress that's growing off her skin, and leaning down towards Sian. Sian is butch, with short dark hair and wearing a white tank top and dark pants with plaid around her waist. She is looking up with a shocked but happy expression about the tentacles wrapping around her biceps and neck. The background is starry space. — twitter / insta / tumblr / bsky / tiktok

And here’s the cover for Sweethearts by I.S. Belle, last in the Babylove novella trilogy! It comes out in December.

That’s all! Will probably get back to you around the end of the month.

Good Books I’ve Read

Wren Martin Ruins It All - a great YA romcom

The Hills of Estrella Roja - a great paranormal graphic novel

Emergent Properties - such a great novella about an AI investigating zir own ‘death’

Feed Them Silence - unsettling novella about a scientist connecting her brain to a wolf

The Spider and Her Demons - YA urban fantasy with a teen girl spider demon MC. love her.

The Deep Sky - very good sci-fi thriller

Where Echoes Die - YA horror about grief and a weird creepy town

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth - YA historical gothic horror about an autistic trans boy

Our Hideous Progeny - grand-niece of Frankenstein makes a dinosaur to prove herself to her scientific peers

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