I'm opening very niche commissions of Lady Knights draw in ballpoint pen, cut out in the shape of playing cards. If interested please DM or email me at [email protected]

Just a sleepy cat…?✨ #owl #illustration #digitalart #originalart #birdart #bird #blueskyartist #owlart

well if instagram won't let me into my accounts BEHOLD MY NEW ILLUMINATED (gold foil)) STICKERS HERE ✨ they're available on my store now!!! puns-and-needles.square.site/shop/sticker...

Cover reveal for this next week! It's got dragons ✨

It may sound odd, but to switch myself off after busy days, I make stuff. Often simple things, but sometimes I lose myself in more complex models, a kind of meditation. This little ship has been exactly that. 🙂 Made entirely from recycled cardboard tubes. www.darrellwakelam.com #edusky #skyart #UKEd

I could still use a bit of help with this 💜

A free fantasy anthology to curl up with and read this weekend through yet another snowstorm ❄️

Here's the book deal announcement in full. Many thanks to @helenlane.bsky.social of @kiagency.bsky.social and TJ of @zandoprojects.bsky.social It's an honour to work with both and I can't wait to share these novels with you all! 📚💙🏳️‍🌈 #EvilTwin

getting really sick of my friends telling me the cursed blade is warping my mind. it's LITERALLY fine. i can stop fucking using it whenever i want. i think they're just jealous. like they know it'd corrupt them but i'm clearly stronger than its influence. in fact, i'm stronger than all of them...

We only need 24 more backers to make it!! It could be YOU with a beautiful smorgasbord of indie fantasy fiction on your shelf in its foily glory!

Illustrations made this year

2023年自分が選ぶ今年の4枚、新作4枚あってよかった！来年はもう少し頑張りたいです。

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

My witchy botanical short story FOUR GIFTS FOR THE WITCH OF THE WOOD AND ONE FOR THE WOLF is out today from @indiebites.bsky.social! A witch claims her magic via gardening in this cottagecore fantasy ✨🌿 Read it and 6 more new fantasy stories for free in the Bandits & Botany issue of Indie Bites.

I'm so dead serious that if someone is offering a pittance of an advance or no advance at all and keeping some of the royalties, you're so much better off raw dogging it in self pub

worldwide streaming for a week! finally something to look forward to

I was really betting on our last big snowfall to be The Last Big Snowfall but I forgot the sibling always gets a snowstorm on their birthday. So there's at least one more to look forward to before spring.

Cover reveal for this next week! It's got dragons ✨

everyone being cruel to this smiling vessel is projecting their insecurity. you are easily corruptible. you no magus of acclaim. I, however, am different and would be able to wield its charm with ease. ungrateful parlor magicians, you lot.

Cold Kisses 2025

Short stories coming soon: FOUR GIFTS FOR THE WITCH OF THE WOODS AND ONE FOR THE WOLF - imminent from Indie Bites Magazine! Portal fantasy with friends-to-lovers gay romance - March 1st. Nature piece about Arctic seabirds and sharks - early March in the Polar Lights zine.

Hey! The Indie Bites Special Edition Hardcover Kickstarter is live!! Featuring: ✨my gay bardic romance COURTSHIP AND KULNING ✨19 more fantasy stories from amazing indie authors ✨illustrated gold foil dust jacket by moi ✨illustrated endpapers ✨ribbon bookmark ✨100% human-crafted fantasy art+writing

Black Mandrakes

these have been good years for medievalists, first wondering if the pope will excommunicate the emperor and now watching the king have his brother locked up

I love what Indie Bites do, which is publish short stories from indie authors using various cool themes! I've backed this campaign and encourage you all to check it out.

Hey! The Indie Bites Special Edition Hardcover Kickstarter is live!! Featuring: ✨my gay bardic romance COURTSHIP AND KULNING ✨19 more fantasy stories from amazing indie authors ✨illustrated gold foil dust jacket by moi ✨illustrated endpapers ✨ribbon bookmark ✨100% human-crafted fantasy art+writing

more sketchbook

a belated valentines day drawing 💘 #art

Sooo... I know I just released a new book 30 days ago. But... check out what's coming from Neon Hemlock at the end of April. I just posted a sample chapter at my patreon if you want a taste: www.patreon.com/post...

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UBI would turn our society into a cultural powerhouse. i can't even begin to describe how creatively freeing it would be. i would make *so many* games. i would write *so many* novels.

I had a really cool vampire dream last night but I'm already forgetting the details of the transformation. If I can figure those out I'm keeping the idea in my back pocket to write later. It's wild that I've never written vampires before.

it comes from the heart 🫶

I could not resist drawing the horse

I have 17 tabs/windows open right now and I can't close any until I finish the work in them and it's //too fucking many//

Short stories coming soon: FOUR GIFTS FOR THE WITCH OF THE WOODS AND ONE FOR THE WOLF - imminent from Indie Bites Magazine! Portal fantasy with friends-to-lovers gay romance - March 1st. Nature piece about Arctic seabirds and sharks - early March in the Polar Lights zine.

Duality of Creachure #fantasyart

The arc of history can bend towards a little justice, as a treat

Okay, US. Your move.

Just a reminder for everyone that the Public Lending Rights program in Canada is up and taking registrations for next year - publiclendingright.ca Free money if your books are in libraries and you're a Canadian author. And this money goes direct to you.

You know how anthropologists love finding interred skeletons with bones that have been broken and safely set, lbecause it shows that real humanity happened there? Old literature is like that too, if you read it.

First look at the cover I created for Shen Tao’s ‘The Poet Empress’. The gold foiling just takes this to another level 🤩 I’m so excited to see this one irl! AD: @divineliterary (Instagram)

Dragon scales perhaps? A golden iceberg from the beach at Jökulsárlón in south-east #Iceland 6 years ago.

#PudgyHorse Lascaux Tribute 2. A companion piece to the first, following one of the other cave horses with a darker colour morph. Again, painted with pigments made by Mary Sanche from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020. #ArtAdventCalendar

Oh for the days when I could sit on the floor of the living room and paint atop the coffee table (2017), instead of having to rig up a desk with two lamps and maybe a magnifying glass (now)

Science fiction needs to become aspirational again. Show us better tomorrows are possible.

I'm rewriting March's isekai short story from scratch today to make it a) weirder b) more romantic It was originally going to be tropey and kind of making fun but we're fully leaning into sincerity now. We're falling in love and into a fantasy portal with our best friend ✨

The sun finally came out and it's above zero so my day of errands wasn't actually too bad, even if I need to find a second wind to get through the evening.

We're funded. Incredibly grateful to the folks who have pitched in and increased pledges and hyped up the project over the last few days (as well as the folks who been there from day one). I don't take any of you for granted. So so thankful to everyone who is making this a reality.

cowboy ✨️