E. Lewis Martel

Creator & Critic. Trans Woman & Artist. Alien & Robot. Supportive/ Inclusive / Intersectional.

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This image gets a special Tumblr only description because it is a journey. My theirfriend was describing a comic @olympusoverdrive to me, including a description of the character Hades, whose version of Cerberus was conveyed to me as a dog having three computer monitors for heads. Only having heard of this third hand, my concept of what this might look like came to mind immediately as a sort of monstrous, biomechanoid canine with three large CRT screens for heads, a bit of a mashup of FLCL's Canti and HR GIger's Alien.

Apparently dubbed Cyberus by everyone who saw the sketches, this is the outcome of fanart for something I've never actually seen or read, based on an idea I completely misunderstood.

Full view, of course, and remember reblogs matter most of all because there's the chance getting a paid commission work.

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sometimes you just want to draw a bunch of spikey bits

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You probably need to full view this. I don’t know how to process many of my emotions or thoughts or feelings verbally. But I know how to draw them, and I know vultures matter to them. 

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- The Second Coming by WB Yeats

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You probably need to full view this. I don’t know how to process many of my emotions or thoughts or feelings verbally. But I know how to draw them, and I know vultures matter to them. 

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Please view in full, and reblog if you enjoy this. Reblogging supports artists. 

This is a commission from @marblesarelost of the muse Calliope, eloquence and poetry. I had a mind of someone who voice and words are carried through the people she inspires. In a way, she is anonymous, hidden. Everyone knows her stories and her words but no one knows quite where they come from or their design. 

At the same time, I thought of Ophelia, not late of Shakespeare but the machine made from dreams of the same name, in Envy by Yuri Olesha. Not quite seen but always there, impossible to tangle up in the world of industry and mechanization. She’s a special machine that I carry with me always. 

I am still open for commissions and I hope you enjoy the work. 

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Please full view and reblog if you’d like to support my work. 

A version of Wayland the Smith commissioned by @marblesarelost 9x12 bristol pen and ink. 

I think as soon as I read that he crafted a winged cloak an image came almost instantly to mind, a kind of Daedalus in a radically different style, something reflecting the sort of iron and metal wings a smith might make, in his fire element. It’s nice when an image comes on so strongly, that it was only a matter of finding the lines and tweaking the little details into place. 

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Will I ever get a new scanner or will I use my phone and photoshop cleanup forever? 

I like how this picture makes me feel - like all my inside is coming out of my outside. A lot of parts cobbled together, still works, still drawing. No takers on commissions as yet. Please full view because the regular size is compressed.

If you like it, please reblog it. That’s how artists get to be alive artists.

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I was recently reminded of this completely fucking epic picture I drew about five years ago.

full view please, ok to reblog

[elmprophet]

Some dreams and spells, suns and serpents, vutlures and time.

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A picture of the lady, for @normal-horoscopes

She has dark skin, covered in scars, with large triangular teeth like a shark. Her robes are faded amber and cover most of her skin, including her eyes.

Somewhere my brain added “tattered” to the robes. I felt like she would not necessarily have a reassuring countenance. I did not find much about her hair, but it seemed appropriate to make it like smoke.

Once I have a permanent residence again and can do proper scans, I’ll be back to updating my art blog, but meanwhile feel free to browse it @elmprophet

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I started this drawing and forgot completely about it. This is pretty clearly a drawing about me, sort of illustrative of a lot of how I feel. I think it might be misinterpreted as indicating some sort of pain or sorrow, but that’s not really the deal. If it was pain and sorrow I’d use my words.

It’s been a really long time since I was doing regular commissions, and a long time since anyone paid for my art in general. I’m not sure of the best way to go about it. That is, I know all about joining sites and posting openings and the like, but this has yet to produce any tangible results in the past, so I’ll just keep mentioning it here.

You can buy commissioned art if you want. This represents a small piece (10x7 inches) which is going to be priced at $150 for anyone interested. I can work from general themes or ideas but I can’t draw to spec. I know the price is a lot, but I’m putting the cost and the limitations based on previous experience and where I’d need the price to be if I expected to do this full time. 

As usual, reblogging, boosting, etc is helpful because this is pretty much my only platform of any note and I don’t know what else to do with these things I send out into the world.

DM to @cipheramnesia if you’d like to commission stuff

[elmprophet]

Hello, I still exist. I have a scanner and a new home and sometimes I can draw. I am interested in potentially resuming commissioned work, but a bit more on my terms, which means I’d have to be looking at charging a whole heck of a lot more, while customizing things a whole heck of a lot less. Anyway, if someone wants to commission some original artwork from an artist who is pretty expensive and can’t draw to spec, I am definitely your girl.

Currently I’d say low end of my fee schedule would have to be $150 for a small piece to make this worth the time investment, and terms of service would be something along the lines of “I get general thematic guidance and do what I want with it,” because if you’re commissioning me it means you’re asking for the kind of work I’ve got on display - not some random artist to draw specific content to spec.

As always, reblogs of my work are good and potentially keep me alive.

[elmprophet]

we are still here

in the middle of moving and all i have is a small sketchbook, three pens and a pencil, and no real scanner 

please bear with me until permanent residence is resumed

[elmprophet]

Some images are just there, waiting to be seen with my vulture eyes. And I don’t know what they mean, or how they come alive.

(please share, reblog, etc)

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This almost never happens and I don’t know where to go from here.

I dreamed this. Very rare to get art from dreams for me. What makes this really unique is that I dreamed this as a tattoo over my heart. I never dream tattoos on myself.

I’m not sure where to go with this.

It was a long process, because the image in my dream was very unclear. In the same way that all my artwork starts as a scribbled tangle of lines, from which I draw forth the image, the tattoo in my dream was a kind of raw mess of ink lines. I knew the shape in the dream, but it did not reach my waking mind. Unspooled  thread left at the bottom of a bag for months.

So, ever so slowly and carefully, I eked out the shape of things. Physically I teased out the shape, instinctively I summoned up the forms, and finally the lines came together on the page.

Whatever this is has come from some weird raw buried part of my code which was written over my heart.

if you enjoy this and other artwork, please consider reblogging

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I had a vision of another one of the old dead gods that lives here. It wasn’t my fault. My wife told me to feed by fear to the void. When I reached out for an empty space, hungry for the the dark desperation of the soul, there it was. It was waiting and it was hungry.

As always, reblogs are appreciated and encouraged.

[elmprophet]

Please full-view.

Sometimes I try to cast spells, even though I don’t really have any basis for magical skill or talent. A spell for magic and growth and change and bringing things together. Rising sun and moon, vines which find their way together, and the crow and vulture inseparable. The foundation for new life.

Please consider sharing and reblogging if you like this, Every little note I’m sure will add to the spell’s power.