Category: MicahxAndrew

Art!, MicahxAndrew, Original Characters, The Heartwood Trilogy

ostara vibes

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well, the release of Promise Me, Lord Heartwood is flying closer with reckless abandon. I’m so ready. Rend Me came and went with little to-do because it was the middle book, I couldn’t get any ARC readers to sign up, and it really just felt like I was sighing my way through it to get to this one.

My proof of Promise Me came and it was very shockingly emotional. It certainly helped that this is the first of the three books I didn’t have to fuss with to get the frame positioned right, so the copy that I got was so close to perfect I felt like it was basically the final copy.

I still can’t get over Andrew’s perfect face. It feels like he is everything he’s always been meant to be.

My experience with Micah in the trilogy has been that maybe I get defensive when he’s imperfect or annoys people because I believe that heroes can fail and suck and screw up without making them less worthy of success. Or because I just care about him too much.

I’ve been working on an IngridxChamomile short story and it’s been brutal. I think it’s been good practice for like, pushing through on a project I don’t feel like is organically flowing at all. I’ve had some good writer friends rooting for me which has helped.

Chami has Keeley Jones vibes in this.

Other Miscellaneous Heartwood Art

Random Traditional Andrew

I’m going to be at Minneapolis Pride in June and I’m trying to be very extra prepared for it. This drawing is gonna go on a huge sign with the logo for the trilogy omnibus.

Lol god this blog has taken me like three weeks to finish and I haven’t written anything

Art!, MicahxAndrew, Myoku Needs a Tag, Original Characters, The Heartwood Trilogy, Writing!

summer palette 2024

z.m. celestaire

I’m watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood for the first time. I will never be the same. But no fanart yet – I’m not done with it.

Anyway, Ostara brings summer colors. Pastels and creams and oranges. Getting the final book in The Heartwood Trilogy ready to launch has helped me enjoy the boys more again, so here’s my latest art.

sketch:

drunken babygirl
promise me andrew sketches
neons
ostara pics 🌸
Art!, Holiday Drawings, MicahxAndrew, Original Characters, The Heartwood Trilogy

holidays 2023

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Kind of like with the Emotia drawings, I’m going to start this as a Christmas master post.

I think I’m going to add a few finishing touches for this but there’s something freeing about posting on my blog where I know nobody will see it. It’s been a pretty “curated” art year for me which is fine to an extent but definitely adds pressure. This Christmas drawing literally came about because I told myself I was going to have all week to see if I could come up with a good one, thus relieving the pressure of making the perfect drawing, so I ended up making the perfect drawing haha.

Looking at that 2020 drawing though with the whole cast in the house kinda makes me want to do another one like that though. It’s always been one of my favorites.

SO IS THIS THOUGH COME ON

Micah’s gauges? His snowflakes? HIS NAILS? Andrew looking DAINTY AF? come onnnnnnnnn

Also I pulled this up on my iPad and realized the only finishing touch I actually need for sure is my signature lol. I kind of want to add a border or something but idk

Through the years we all will be together.

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Art!, MicahxAndrew, Original Characters, The Heartwood Trilogy, Writing Journey, Writing!

Updates & Pride Month

z.m. celestaire

Hi blog! I have been very distracted and consumed for the five or so weeks since joining a writer discord server which has propelled me into the writing world in an exciting, but overwhelming way. I’ve gotten three critique partners who are blazing through my work and responding to it in the way I always hoped readers would respond to Andrew and Micah and co.

I also found an absolutely phenomenal typographer who’s been working with me to decorate Deny Me, The Nightshade Boy‘s cover.

Um, also, I don’t know that I’ve announced on DIC that Deny Me is the final name of the book? The trilogy is:

Deny Me, The Nightshade Boy
Relinquish Me, Your Broken Knight
Promise Me, Lord Heartwood

Overall I’ve been happily committed to my self-publishing route, but I’m also looking at indie presses going…if they would pay for printing, is that so bad…?

I’ve really hit my stride with Twitter and I’m happy with my growth trajectory within the writing community. I wanted to write my numbers but it feels lame, even though it seems like for unagented writers that I’m hitting the Sweet Spot for good engagement and a sense of community.

I’ve also been working on lots of promo art and just ordered some acrylic pins and glitter stickers this morning of Micah looking ADORABLE

But I had to neglect Andrew during this round and that makes me sad because he turned out SO SWEET

Anyway these will be fun to display for Super Stories next month.

My discord server was pretty jazzed about Pride Month starting yesterday. I’d already decided I wanted to make Pride-themed stickers for my cast but yesterday I got the itch to just start a full-scale drawing of them and add them with their lil Pride flags. It led to some interesting discussions regarding Micah since he evades any sexuality identification for all of The Heartwood Trilogy. There’s an undefined sexuality flag, and a couple of clients and I thought that there was a flag with question marks, but when deciding Micah’s design re: flags it ended up being the snappiest just to do a queer rainbow flag.

Sam is a favorite among my readers so I was excited to include him in this. Just so weird since he’s the only new character in the cast!

I was also yearning for the beach so I made this painterly one of Andrew and Micah looking super queer, and also because I’m obsessed with bucket hats rn because I drew a pfp for one of my readers (Olive!) and they were wearing one and I fell in love hehe.

And yes, I did draw Micah’s rig too exaggerated the first time and had to shrink it ehehehe.

We’re re-watching New Girl (again) and my first CP Vic loves New Girl too so I ended up turning Andrew into this Nick Miller quote hehe.

I want to release bookmarks as a bonus for preordering so I cooked up this whimsical magical beauty.

So yeah, as you can see, my focus right now is on promotional work for DENY ME, but I’m excited by how good a lot of the stuff looks.