Lydia S.

It’s interesting to me how different people imagine the same characters. For instance, I see Faramir as having black hair (short and raggedly cut) and blue eyes.

But I can see how that’s him even though it doesn’t look like what I imagined.

@mineralizedwritings

That’s…

*Bursts into laughter*

The blue light filter on my phone gives the poor guy fiery red hair. He looks good though (besides the conspiring on technology).

I need a cloak like that.

@freed_and_redeemed

So awesome! Soon you’ll get to hold your own book in your hands!

*Throws confetti everywhere*

@freed_and_redeemed

Gracious, those poor dear charies, put through so much trauma by their author. XD

I vote Fin!

@ellette-giselle

I like number 7 best I think. The title feels like it is part of the picture.

Jonathan, you reckless, courageous, foolish kid. What did you think you were doing? (I think you’d get a long just fine with Vulkasin to the rest of the world’s danger)

@ellette-giselle

So pretty!! I love the soft shimmery feel of your cover.

My only critique on the cover is that the words feel a little crowded and off balance, like they were shoved into the top of the picture. I might move your name to the bottom of the page, enlarge the words, and drop them down a little bit. Maybe even flip one or both of…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle

Sure! I love book covers and might be constantly redesigning my working covers to a point that it’s probably bad for my health.XD

Blurb away!

@theducktator

I tend to study a map after or during the first book, and then I will reference it again if ai gets confused with the author’s directions. However, I tend to modify maps in my head to fit my own impression of the fantasy world, so after the third or so book I rarely if ever look at the map.

@esther-c

*Ecstatic squeals*

That’s awesome!

And yeah, sometimes a charies just don’t make the smartest choices (never mind that we’re technically the one’s making them make those choices).

@ellette-giselle

Welcome to the kingdom! I’m Koshka, a writer of middle-grade stuff ranging from rustic fantasy to sci-fi, plus the occasional poem or two. I play violin and scribble somewhat decent sketches on random pieces of paper.

Oh, and I’m halfway addicted to research. Especially the archeological, cultural, and historical kinds.

Smalls…[Read more]

@loopylin

Finally, here he is. (Poor guy’s way confused)

Leo

Talan? Leo blinked. Blinked again. The thought of another type of living mankind brought dusty memories of bedtime fairytales floating back.

Still, humanity was almost species, not a race.

“Yeah… I guess I’m human, but aren’t…” His voice faded away at the sight of those four…[Read more]

@ava-blue

Thank you! It was drawn in an F pencil, then shaded with a 4B with highlights lifted out via random eraser I picked up.

@keilah-h

Thank you!

@highscribeofaetherium

Thanks!

And your signature is hilarious.

And… here’s a sketch I’ve been meaning to share, especially for y’all sci-fi peoples who inspired this medieval girl to actually start a random sci-fi WIP.

It’s Silvia. And I got carried away trying to figure out gauntlets that she and her (crobar?) were never finished (and I have now forgotten what she’s holding. It’s not a sword).

@highscribeofaetherium

That map. Wow. It is quite literally one style that my brain makes book maps up in, but which I haven’t been able to get on paper.

This is so weird, like seeing a spare brain cell just laying around. (Which is a weird metaphor, now that I think about it.)

Anyway, great job!

@freed_and_redeemed

Ahhhh! His backstories have come to the scene!!

Great job…have you finished the scene yet, and are you willing to share?

*GASPETH* she’s using AI.

I once tried to generate a character face claim for Raphael once. I don’t think it understood me. It was….uh… interesting.

@loopylin

*Stumbles in covered in glitter glue*

Sorry I vanished for a couple weeks. I just worked some kids summer camps and stuff. I’ll pick up Leo in a minute.

@loopylin

Leo

He sighed and shuffled back a little more. If this Liko fellow wanted to fix the pipe proper, if he had some clue what he was doing, Leo would be the last person to stand in his way.

Or rather, flop in the way.

“Call me Leo.” He folded his arms under his chin to watch and point his headlamp. Liko seemed to know what he was doing,…[Read more]

@loopylin

Leo

The light in his eyes was vaguely familiar in all the wrong ways. Leo squinted, wrinkling his nose into a grimace. “That’s what the paperwork said.”

The light shifted to his handiwork, leaving Leo to blink away the two suns imprinted on his retina.

“The leak’s stopped.” He said, adding a for now under his breath. A small bulge…[Read more]