Hey! I'm M.E. Harker -- pronounced like Emi Harker!
Call me Harker 👋 she/her
I'm a Sci-Fi & Fantasy Author.
I have a lot of other odd jobs. (Graphic Designer, Medical Worker, Cat Wrangler. You know, the usual! 🤣) I also draw sometimes.
You can check out my debut novel, Just One Command, here:
Author Website: https://www.meharker.com
Other Socials: | BSky | Instagram | Facebook | GoodReads
June / July only: ArtFight
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🌟 Current Status 🌟
Mostly offline. Just a bit too busy!
-> Slower Posting - Will still leave ❤︎s!
-> Working on IRL things, my jobs, and next manuscript!
Art Commissions?
Nope! I mostly draw for myself or as a hobby. On rare occasions I may do art trades, but right now I have other careers.
Silly Reblogs and Cats:
Find them on my alt @harker-asides
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Some Useful Tags:
#HarkArt : original illustrations + creative projects
#just one command : posts about the novel!
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I'm also occasionally lurking in communities ✨ I'm not online a ton, so forgive me if I'm slow to reply!
This is a semi-professional account (I admit, I post some silliness!) But there's certain blogs/content/questions I can't respond to ❤️ Thanks for understanding!
I have a full interaction list if you click on the "Keep Reading" line. Thanks!
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Will Sometimes Follow: All-Ages-Friendly Blogs focused on creating original content. (And occasionally blogs I find very funny!)
Will Not Follow: blogs that are mostly personal-life posts, blogs of minors, or blogs that contain mature, controversial, or dark content.
General Interaction Policy
Mostly, I keep things wholesome & positive!
I don't send or accept DMs ✍️ but feel free to comment in a reply!
For legal reasons I cannot accept, read, or respond to unsolicited book pitches or unsolicited book ideas. If you have a book idea just bursting out of you, I encourage you to give a shot writing it yourself! You might be surprised!
Any requests for donations or otherwise scam behavior will be ignored & blocked! Even if sent with good intentions, I can't verify these things over the internet.
I will always be kind & supportive to those under the age of 21, but generally will not interact too much and will not Follow (because I am older than 21 🤣 and want you to be able to comfortably hang out with your friends & other teens!)
To protect my personal peace, I do not interact with posts or tumblrs that are highly polit𝗂cal, controversial, mental-health related, or otherwise tough-topic discussions. Even if I agree with the sentiment.
Generally no NSFW. I don't mind occasional cursing or dark themes. And hey, I don't judge. But it isn't what I'm here for 😂
Instant Blocks or DNI: Untitled Blogs with No Bio. Spam Blogs. Blogs that are primarily AI generated images, videos, or text. Donation requests. Harassment; Hostility. Polit𝗂cal-only or Rant-only blogs. Any mentally unhealthy material (TW/SI) that could cause harm, even if unintentional.
Eska redeux, for @annatomicallyno in the July Art Fight event!
This is a second drawing, because I wasn't entirely happy with my first one! I drew her early on while I was still adapting to an entirely new art tablet and art program 🥹
I've already gotten so much better thanks to the practice, so I wanted to try again to give Eska a bit more justice 💪
Bonus sketch of what will (likely) happen 2 seconds later:
I wanted to make a Clip Studio asset pack of public domain things I found on wikipedia while looking for inspiration & textures for my own stuff, so I did! These were made using various ads, books, & articles from the 1900s-1920s, so they're great if you're doing a period piece from those times.
The pack contains:
14 pattern fill brushes
8 Line Brushes
18 Stamps Brushes
17 Ribbon Brushes
+ a folder with a bunch of public domain paper (mediafire only bc it too big) & patterns, jpg & png
There is a .Psd file containing all the assets in the pack. This can be used & converted into brushes for any art program that can open .Psd files. If you do convert them, feel free to reupload them on your post (and link back to this or one of the other links so people can find the original Clip one if they want!).
A more clean-line art style this time, with minimal shading.
Drawn for Art Fight! Character credit under the cut.
Wanted to give a shout-out to @artfromsaturn -- the background pattern here is from Saturn's amazing "Art Deco Patterns" set, which I love to bits! I've used the patterns so much already, especially when I need a quick background and want just a bit more than a flat colour or gradient.
I'll also be reblogging Saturn's public domain party pack here in a second, for any of my artist followers!
Drawn for Art Fight for Stellarz. Original character design by Stellarz. (This user does have socials, however the user is a minor so for sake of privacy I don't link or tag socials in these cases!)
One of my more painterly drawings. I'm not sure how many of these I'll do since they take me so long 🤣 but it was great to try with my new art workflow!
Character by @artbyalp -- wanted to give a shout-out, because seeing her art made me want to challenge myself.
Bonus sketch for @theriu because I'd already mentally set myself on the challenge of drawing Barrenger, but how could I pass up the Mythical Expert once I saw her posted? M.E. represent!
The leash might look like she's trying to rope in the dragon...
But genuinely, I imagine this is some queen's pet dragon (that the court retainers are too terrified to even touch) and M.E. is helping out by taking the dragon for a nice walk while the queen is on vacation 🏖️
Drawn for the lovely @theriu as a part of the Art Fight event!
...I might've gotten a little carried away with lighting effects once I realized this character was 🌟neon green glowing🌟 theme, but how could I resist?
Character interpretation thought-process below "keep reading"
This one was tricky! I was reminded why I don't usually do Character Redesigns 😭 I get stressed deviating from a character's intended vision, so I hope this is alright.
Going by the character description, I guessed that he'd be younger before he was turned. Thus I tried to draw him in a teenage growth spurt: some musculature, but not too defined yet -- a squarish-face, but still some rounded boyish youth.
I also went with rustic-style clothing, since this scene would take place BEFORE he went to Earth (so no modern-day clothing yet, possibly?) I guessed that an alien lycan-species might have simplistic clothing for ease of wearing. But if they actually had really high-tech fashion on their planet, forgive me 🤣
[edit: just went back and re-read his description where it said his world is an "Earth-adjacent universe" and that his human-form would be wearing the hoodie outfit. whoops 😂 okay this is just an alternate vision then]
Also he'd probably be wearing a much thicker coat or something to hide his markings (if he's ashamed of them!) But for sake of character identity, I chose clothes were you could see the marks so it would look more uniquely him!
I hope it's a fun interpretation!
(Also if you notice any weird fuzziness on the image, that's the watermark! Sorry for that!)
finally remade all these character reference sheets!
these all took...way more hours than I'd like to admit 🤣 but I feel like I'm getting faster and more comfortable with my new workflow.
Art Fight was thankfully good motivation to get these done! Though I wanted to have them made for the book regardless, it was nice to have a deadline to light a fire for me!
I don't know where I originally saw this originally because it was like 5+ years ago but the piece of writing advice that has genuinely helped me overcome writer's block the most over the years is 'if the scene isn't working, change the weather.'
Heads up starting July 1st, I'll start posting some artwork I make for the Art Fight event through July!
In short: you may get a LOT of drawing posts.
👉 For mutuals: no requirement to reblog art unless you just like a piece and feel like it :)
The art I'll make for the event won't be book-related, so it's not super relevant to this blog specifically. But I may get some return drawings of book characters. If the artists give me permission, I'll share those here!!
