Art Archive

hello! here’s – Aoife: an artist who can summon weapons from her tattoos, Enda: a librarian who can find any rare magical book, Kassia: a huntress-for-hire with a list of places to go, and Xander: a self-taught healer with a close connection to nature.

they were all a long way from home when they met as teenagers and decided to travel together on a life-changing road trip. now after more than a decade, Enda gets a tip about a book she’s been tracking down, and she thinks it’s time to get the old band back together. road trip – again!

hello everyone meet my children: a weaponsmith turned magical librarian, a very stabby tattoo artist, their tired self-taught healer baby brother & a traveling huntress who likes climbing tall trees. they’re on a road trip. like dnd. but domestic.

messin’ around with the pen tool and came up with a super cute shai, and then i had to draw the rest of the gang. i always wanted to draw TRH in this style!

from left to right:

helen – best girl, book blogger, aspiring writer and the sensible friend,
aiden – literally raised in a barn, giant teddy bear and the middle of the jock-nerd spectrum,
page – friendly neighborhood overachiever making his two moms proud, and-
shai – the art kid hanging out in the library because it’s quiet and also they like watching their boyfriend at work.

normal brain: NO NO NO YOU SHOULD BE WRITING!! OR EDITING!!
monkey brain: OC INSTAGRAM EDIT GOOD 😀

when in doubt… draw modern au designs… of the fantasy OCs

journal doodles (oc’s from ’the road home’)

send help i have colored pencils in the office but i don’t know how to draw or color on paper anymore.

(OCs, The Road Home)

tfw you were 18 and you could hardly ask ur crush for a dance and then years later she’s ur wife <3

tfw you gotta cross some bridge but the bridgemaster’s 8 year-old daughter has a crush on you and demands that you marry her someday

…and years later it’s basically tradition that you propose everytime you have to cross that bridge

(from the road home)

a weaponsmith-slash-librarian and her huntress-warrior wife

(from the road home)

a family can be a blacksmith, his fighter-slash-tattoo-artist wife, and their honorary baby bro who is a self-taught healer

I’ve always wanted to do these four in this style and then thought it would be nice to do a simple animation of their magic stuff. <3

i’m trying to turn this abandoned novel into a webcomic. send help i keep writing fanfics instead.

Various doodles & requests throughout the year.

I’m gonna write a pretty female-centric novel for this year’s NaNoWriMo. So for this OC-tober, I decided to choose my favorite female OCs from everything I’ve written. Everything. From way back in ye olde days. Even the embarrassing ones. I thought it would be good to have a look back to see how much I’ve changed when writing/designing female characters through the years. So!

Characters from my original novel. I’ve always wanted to make art for them in this style and I finally finished it! Wee!

Prompt: Three different outfits for your character
(+ your character as a child, adult, and senior from Week 2)

Last challenge! I realized I wanted to do the child/adult/senior prompt from Week 2 as well so I fused these into one. Although it’s more like child/teen/adult for story reasons (because this story of mine jumps back and forth from these four as teens and then as 30-something adults).

Anyways, these are the main characters of my original novel The Road Home, which is currently a work-in-progress (but there’s an excerpt at Inkitt if you’re curious). Notes under the cut.

Xander is the youngest of this bunch. He was a tiny kid (look at that lil bae). He came from a tribe in the mountains so his clothing was pretty simple. As a kid, he covered the scars he sustained from the attacks on his tribe.

By the time he was thirteen, he was traveling alone, trying to learn how to be a healer. His traveling attire usually had a hooded cape, to cover his unique hair and eyes. His trip was supposed to be a peaceful and educational one until he Kassia, Aoife and Enda, and his role became primarily shouting at the girls to “please stop trying to get killed” and then healing them after. He has an innate ability to harness energy from nature, and he uses this mostly for healing. However, after facing dangerous stuff, he decided to learn how to use it to defend himself as well. Just to give the girls some backup, on the rare times they need it.

Years later, after they went separate ways, he still travels from town to town, but now as an experienced healer and researcher. A pretty badass-looking healer. But an actual softie. He’s a lot more laid-back, and comfortable with his scars. He doesn’t have a permanent residence, but he knows he has a family and they’ll welcome him anytime.

Aoife and Enda both came from the town of Falconport, a town of weaponsmiths.

Aoife as a kid was often called ‘princess’ and considered the ‘darling of the town’ because she was a very beautiful and graceful girl.

By the time she turned fourteen, she studied ink magic, which allowed someone to summon an object (in her case, weapons) from tattoos on her skin. She studied it primarily for the art side. When they started traveling at sixteen, she also started training herself (usually as Kassia’s sparring partner) to use the weapons to fight as well. She was a fast learner and quickly became a good fighter.

As an adult and after settling down, she quickly became known as the best ink artist in their town, and occasionally still went on hunting trips to keep herself in fighting shape. She no longer keeps her tattoos covered. And she never forgets to keep in touch with…

Enda. She is Aoife’s childhood friend, and she worked with her mother in a weapons forge, so as a child she rarely spent time outside her working clothes.

Even though her work was making weapons, she was studying to be a Spellhall librarian like her father. With Aoife’s encouragement, they set off for Spellhall, so Enda can become an accredited librarian. She changed into more comfortable traveling clothes, and always carried a special protective dagger by her waist.

As an adult, Enda settled down in a small peaceful town a little ways off Spellhall. She is still a librarian, this time doing her work, which were primarily studies and research, at home. She also teaches a subject in the town’s school, and has a couple of apprentices under her wing.

Kassia came from a mountain province, and was a pretty active kid, always running around town doing errands, and joining their local pastime of climbing trees.

She set off on a trip to go see the world when she was seventeen. She has a list of places to see, all taken from stories of her parents who were adventurous hunters. She trained in fighting while on this trip, and found her footing as a huntress.

As an adult, she still travels, still going from place to place and taking various jobs (hunting, guarding, please get that wild rampaging troll out of our carriage’s way, etc.). Her years of experience show in her various scars and stronger build. She still has a list of places to see, but the last destination is always ‘home’. On a little house on a hill, and Enda’s smiling face happy to see her again.

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Whew, that was long. Anyways, the novel really is how these four met and traveled together, became this little family, and what happened after they went separate ways.

I don’t know what got into me, I suddenly had an urge to draw these children. It took longer than I expected. “The Road Home” is the working title for my ongoing original novel. It’s currently just at 60% when I decided to write and finish Sparks first. These kids are my fave side-characters.

Left to right: Aiden, Helen, Page and Lian. These four are all apprentice librarians (in the novel, librarians do more than sort books and help people in the library, they also do magic stuff).

characters from my current novel. drew this a few months back, thought it’d be good to have some non-fanart work in this blog for once.

Nah, don’t mind me. Just doodled a ton of my OC’s in chibi form.

1.) Edlin and Nyle are twins and they come from a family specializing in water magic. Edlin’s a kinda grumpy big sis and Nyle’s a cute puppy. Everyone says Nyle is cuter and that’s probably why he has a boyfriend and his sister doesn’t.

2.) Shai and Page are from my current project, The Road Home. Shai is a shapeshifter and Page is a librarian. They travel together. Page has a habit of giving Shai flowers while innocent Shai doesn’t exactly know what flower-giving means among humans. She just appreciates it because she thinks flowers are pretty and they smell nice.

3.) Those three are from my first NaNoWriMo novel. Andrei and Ragine are brother and sister while Tristan is kinda their third piece. Both An and Tris are Gine’s sorta-protectors whenever she gets bullied. 🙂