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Art for HEART OF FIRE: Camilla, Dragon-Mage

Hi everyone! Heart of Fire comes out tomorrow (April 16th), and I am back with another art piece for Heart of Fire. This time, by another artist, the lovely MidnightRose. Here is Camilla, standing in front of some bushes and shrubbery with a few butterflies flying around, on a windy fall day, with her magic …

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Art of HEART OF FIRE: Kario Flameheart – Chosen of the Obsidian Guardian

This coming Wednesday is the Cover Reveal for Heart of Fire so for this Saturday Art post, I will be sharing another hand-drawn digitally-coloured picture, this one of the secondary main character in the Dragon-Mage series, of which Heart of Fire is book one. Kario comes from a semi-nomadic people who live in the sheltered …

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Art for HEART OF FIRE: My Brother and His Dragon

Art Saturday is back, and the second in the series is another piece I did by hand, and colored digitally, for Heart of Fire. This one features a face, and this is a sign of my unexpected victory over "the inability to draw a human face that looks remotely the way I intended it to. …

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Art for HEART OF FIRE – A Cozy Scene: Camilla Watching Radiance

Hello! It's been quite a while ago since I did an Art Saturday, but they are back for a while! I did a handful or two of sketches for my new release, Heart of Fire, and I took to coloring some of them. We're launching off with those one, which is the only one that's …

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Portrait of Corostomir: Character Art for Kindred of the Sea

Today I'm featuring a portrait of Corostomir that was sketched in pencil by an artist friend of mine, and which I scanned and digitally colored. Corostomir is the primary Point-of-View character of my up-coming release, Kindred of the Sea, and you can see the Cover Reveal for that here. Corostomir is the asexual partner of …

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#IndieApril Updates and Expectations – and Narratess Sale

April comes around. First off, I entered the first ever Indie April Narratess Sale with Children of the Dryads. That's a sale of 99cent and 1.99cent independently published science fiction that will be taking place from April 18nth to April 22nd. So be looking for that. I will post an update/reminder just before the sale …

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Character Art of Lyan and Shobura from Sorceress of the Dryads

I got a real computer graphics program - GIMP - in late December of last year. Since then, I've been exploring how to use it and make various kinds of art with it. This is my first time doing character art (as opposed to monster art), as well as my first time (successfully) making a …

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Character Art of Noren and Elninya (Art for the Return of the Dragonriders Trilogy

I made this picture of Noren and Elninya with a friend (who drew the man for me, since I am really bad at drawing humans) a while ago. It matches this picture of Silmavalien and Minth. Noren found Elninya's egg shortly after Silmavalien found Minth's, but Elninya did not hatch until much later (just as …

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