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Captain Blood doodles 🏴‍☠️🪎☠️

Few books can rent a place so big in my mind that I must draw some fanart. I wish I could do some concept covers too but alas, there are commissions to be finished.

Colourful doodles 🦊

A maned wolf in alcohol markers on top and a fox in crayons below.

Some process pictures of Secret Door 🚪✨️

Also available as a print (in bio).

Secret Door 🚪✨️

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BOOKISH FREEBIES 🌞

In celebration of the Summer Solstice and my first year on Substack, I made a set of decorations for books and stories for all authors, poets and creatives, especially the ones that have been with me in this journey!

You’re free to use these designs in all sorts of non-commercial works: free posts, fanbinding, personal works… go wild!

With Summer and Cancer season in mind, these sea-themed embelishments are perfect for that mermaid story, pirate adventure or summer romance you might have in the works. Do tag me if you use them, I’d love to see how you’ll use these designs! 🌊🐚🪸

Thank you so much for everything so far! 🪷✨

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BOOKISH FREEBIES 🌞

In celebration of the Summer Solstice and my first year on Substack, I made a set of decorations for books and stories for all authors, poets and creatives, especially the ones that have been with me in this journey!

You’re free to use these designs in all sorts of non-commercial works: free posts, fanbinding, personal works… go wild!

With Summer and Cancer season in mind, these sea-themed embelishments are perfect for that mermaid story, pirate adventure or summer romance you might have in the works. Do tag me if you use them, I’d love to see how you’ll use these designs! 🌊🐚🪸

Thank you so much for everything so far! 🪷✨

Watercolour doodle of Sophie and Christian in the new sketchbook 🪻

Some pictures from the development process of The Pearl of Lunathir.

Finally I can share this piece for The Hag Under the Wood ✨️

For The Pearl of Lunathir we worked to bring together as much as we could of Lunathir’s lore in visual form so that readers could have an immersive experience when diving into Nettie’s story. Some of our biggest inspirations were the movie Atlantis, the animation classic, and real life abyssal animals.

You can read more about the Marrow Leviathan in Caitlin’s field notes from the Shadowroot

Christian and Sophie, the main characters of my novel-in-progress 🪻

It's been forever since I last made any illustrations of them. Lately I felt like I needed to unwind, so I decided to give myself a treat and made some personal art for a change.

More bookish art! These commissions were also made for several different Substack authors.

Careto, a quick study in oil pastels and coloured pencils 👹

In Northern Portugal, Carnival is still celebrated the same way since pre-Roman times.

The Caretos or Entrudos Chocalheiros run around the villages with their loud bells to chase away the cold and welcome the life of Spring. In some places, straw effigies are also set up to be ceremoniously burned. There's music, masks, colours and plenty of food for many days.