I’ve been working on the story about June and Eden lately, so I drew this sketch of Eden.
Category: Art
Thoughts about art, writing, and imperfection
I took a kind of sabbatical from author spaces and spent a lot of time drawing over the last couple months, while also dealing with my health.
In the meantime, I wrote a lot of the next chapter in Lira and Willow’s story, which then got cut up and edited into about 30k words as of now. This book has been fighting me harder than any book I can remember in recent memory, but I hope it’s all worth it in the end.
I’ve been wanting to do more with my art lately. It’s something I’ve wanted for a while, to be able to integrate it with my writing, to be able to see my characters and worlds come to life. I haven’t felt “ready” or “good enough” for a long time, and in many ways I still don’t!
But I’ve also been having some thoughts about “professionalism” and what it means, and how in some ways, I think it’s what’s led us to where we are, re: gen AI art and the way some people feel like they need to use it, or that it’s more desirable than their own imperfect efforts. And I do believe that human art is good and vital and necessary, despite and maybe because of its imperfections. So I think I will at least try to begin cultivating the visual world of my novels, in whatever way I can.
Maybe it will be a growing experience for both of us!
Fairytale boy~
I set out to draw Mouse (tbh I thought it would be fun to draw all the boys from Fairytale in their prince-inspired outfits…) but this looks more like Charis to me?
I’m still working out their designs, but I think this might be Charis in Mouse’s clothes 😂👀
Art-ing and Writing
Koreatown is done (?) but I’m having trouble figuring out the cover, so it’s a bit of a work in progress.
I’ve really committed to doing my own covers in recent days, and it’s been frustrating, exciting, and kind of hilarious. I have a perfectionism problem. I’ve made a ridiculous amount of thumbnails and sketches.
On the writing– I went back to Willow and Lira’s story, of all things. I like the chapter I’m working on today. I think I might try to finish it by the end of the day and then maybe get some art up.