I’ve finally finished these besotted ineffables! I hope you all have a sweet day and feel love, for yourself and your people, whoever they are. I got ranked best pretend boyfriend by not one but TWO people this week so I’ll be sitting here beaming with my trophy. Oh and I guess cuddling the spouse who deserves one too 😆
If you fancy getting a card like this, consider joining my Patreon! On the $5 tier I send out 5-6 cards a year including this one! And you will be able to see how I made it, step by step, on any paid tier. 🥰
Hello, Goblins! I hope everyone had a very merry holiday season! With New Year’s just around the corner, a small coalition of artist and writer goblins of @goodomensafterdark has teamed up to bring you a very special calendar tailored to your goblin needs!
Every month has a gorgeous piece of art and a poem or short story to go with it, and the calendar itself features some special goblin dates.
I'm proudly announcing that I'm partaking in the 12 days of christmas project on @sendarya 's GO server♥️
I had so much fun drawing this piece listening to Christmas oldies all along the way. I took inspiration from Rob Wilkin's Christmas sweaters (hopefully to come soon 🥺)
This painting was meant to be posted much earlier. To be honest, I have been in a very bad place mentally in the last 4 weeks or so. I felt overwhelmed by the smallest things and even thinking of posting anything made me sick. I took some days off from my phone and social media and fortunately, I'm already doing better. So please be patient with me, there are a lot of drawings and fics i cannot wait to share with all of you 🙏🏻
Every month I’ll be doing an ineffable toast, and what else should I choose for January than champagne and some 20s glamour?! I wish you all peace and prosperity for 2026 🥂
I have free time today and that makes it a book sharing day. This is a bind of Long Haul by snae_b, a Good Omens human!au where our favorite angel and demon are truckers. It's sweet and very sexy and full of excellent characterization and Americana, and it was the first of snae's works that I ever read. Wonderful story that I've wanted to bind for ages, and I finally got around to it!
For cover materials we have Japanese book cloth on the spine (the color's called celery and it's a remnant from when I bound Northanger Abbey last year) and Italian book cloth on the main part of the cover (this one's called rainwater and it was also bought for another project, but ended up clashing with the endpapers for that one). Both of them have interesting textures. The green cloth is really soft and the gray is smooth but stiff, like car upholstery, and the contrast makes it nice to hold. I originally intended to just have the two materials, but there was a tiny sliver of visible board when I did that, so I added the green ribbon to cover the join. I made this decision very late in the process, after it had been cased in, so I had to cut and glue it very precisely and it doesn't actually extend under the endpaper like it should. Also fun fact! If you're using polyester ribbon you can just put PVA directly on the back and glue it down and it won't bleed, no special treatment necessary.
I chose not to put a title on the cover of this one, because it's got this nice soft romantic feeling to it and I couldn't find a font or layout that worked with the vibes of both the cover and the story. It looks plain but the materials are rich and you know it immediately when you pick it up.
More pics under the cut!
I forgot to take a photo of the endbands while I was doing the rest of my little photo shoot, so please forgive the messy backdrop. Here we have: nice square back tight to the spine, higher-res textures, the same ribbon for the bookmark that I used on the covers, and the endbands which are handmade and striped in alternating shades of soft green. One shade was chosen to match the spine, and the other...
...matches the endpapers. These are two-sided cardstock and they came from Joanne's (rip). The florals reminded me of a scene in the fic where Crowley's trying on a shirt with little white flowers, and it's not the right color for that (he's in burgundy) but once the comparison struck me it wouldn't let up. And the checkered print on the back reminds me of the Americana diner aesthetic that is also strongly represented in the fic, so there really wasn't any other choice.
Look at this title page. I am in love with it. I put it together from various free assets (the Noun Project really came through for me here) specifically to mimic the types of signs you see on the highways listing amenities in the next town. There's a lot of highway and interstate driving in this fic, as you'd expect, and I thought this was a clever way to set the mood. This is like, 15 elements that I had to manipulate separately and attach to each other, and the angel and demon had to be cropped down from full-body images. With wings, in the angel's case. Finicky process that was worth every minute. (It's so cute.)
First page, and an image of the interior with my line break art. I made them look like roads, and the lines in the center of roads. Like I said, a lot of driving in this one, and much of it in the large empty stretches of the country. I love these designs. They're so simple that I made them right in Word with its built-in shapes, and I've said it before but I am not skilled or knowledgeable on how to do 2d art. Almost all my image assets are pre-made and I do the barest possible edits to them. But these suit the story and set the tone so well that I'm kind of obsessed. It's making me think about trying more complex things in the future. I guess we'll see.