DuneDeca

A couple of concept thumbnails.

Some profile heads for bios

Iggy concept, and some thumbnails. not too much art of her, she was nailed pretty quickly.

Here's Elias, one of the supporting cast and some extra sketches Sage drew. He has difficulty emoting, but it made him very fun to write. At the very last minute, I found out his name is an A/I-ism (infuriating) so we were debating a quick switch to Elliot.

I will forever be mad that mass market paperbacks don’t really exist anymore & if they do, they’re hideously expensive.

Here's some main character design stuff, it was fun to see these concepts spring to life. I'll share more of these each day since I got a folder of them

Made a very fancy pitch with @sagedherb.bsky.social but scifi is a bit of a hard sell right now. Still, it would be a shame if no one got to see the amazing work they put into it!

How to speedrun recovering from burnout

My entire life, I thought the "grains are the biggest foodgroup" stuff sounded fake, until I came I came into possession of a breadmaker, baked some bread, and inhaled it in one night like a vegan dog discovering meat for the first time.

This is the funniest pitch image I have ever seen, I'd buy the book off this image alone

I think ZA is my favorite pokemon game of all time

I just learned the first name of my side character is an "AI-ism" and I'm so angry that I have to constantly break my back trying to avoid these new ever-shifting vague rules because the slop machine wants to eat us all. I spent 2 years writing this book and it can all come down to a name apparently

It's easy to lose track of perspective when I'm working on a weekly series, but I'm glad I can look back a year later and laugh really hard at all the jokes I was too busy to feel anything about.

The autofill feature on querytracker is both a blessing and a curse and after tailoring a query to an agent I accidentally forgot to change the name

@dunedeca.bsky.social
ive been following spellward bound for a while and love the world building and character design so while im waiting for the next episode to be free on webtoon i drew Mateo as his abyssal hyleft form. enjoy. hope to see where the comic leads.

Commentary: Storytellers aren’t your saviors: representation, headcanon & KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE

A recent story about the animated Knights of Guinevere on YouTube sparks a consideration of headcanon and queer representation.

I totally missed that it's #unhingedpit today and so have a 5 min book doodle from a discord call a week ago

Me, when I see a spelling/grammar error on my manuscript after I've already sent the pitch

I don't know how to do anything normal, I can only do things with the force of a lightly flavored LaCroix or 700 semi trucks.

Jesus Christ

This is what rent for a two bedroom apartment cost in my hometown before 2020...

Secret project ;D Crossing fingers it takes off and I can share it with everyone

Oooooooh, am I regretting not taking that mid-season hiatus right now. I'm working on two projects right now and I'm out of buffer episodes for one and the other is right at the deadline. Might get one of those armchair cushions because my hand doesn't want to work anymore.

The problem with nasal strips is that I've learned what it feels like to actually be able to breathe through my nose and now I feel like I'm suffocating without them

Oh thank god, this isn't just a me thing

Pikachu, Chonkichu, and Spynxichu

Trying to fit the plot of my book into a single post for queerpit is like,

I'd give a shot at posterpit too, but I'm actually awful at understanding poster design elements, which is kind of funny considering I have a comic series

I will be participating in #Queerpit tomorrow, in case you see me make some strange tweets. For those who are curious, you can find the rules here: queerpit.wordpress.com