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I really dislike photo covers for books, so I made my own for this story. (The book was recommended to me on my book post, that you all left so many book recs on, thank you so much!)

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I just realised that so much of the CaPri art I really love is from you... Haven't recognized it before but thank you so much 🥰

I mean the new one with Aimeric of course, then the one with Nicaise and the feather and Nicaise and the fork (Really love that one)... And Laurent asleep cuddled against Damen (This is just perfect)

I love the others, too, but those are my highlights 💕

Thank you!💕 💕💕 It's always interesting and sometimes suprising to see which scenes people like. The feather is actually an earwig It's a bit meaner towards poor Damen. (I know, hard to tell because the drawing is so tiny and quickly done.)

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"He loves me!"

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Book recs?

Hey capri community! I would love to hear some book recs from you! Setting: prefer fantasy/otherworldly/period over the real current world.

Gender doesn't really matter, there can be romance and spice (slowburn is always fun). Can have darker topics if done well.

Most importantly I really want to feel what the characters experience. Can be love/deep connection, fear/panic or whatever emotion but I want to gasp or laugh when reading… It's really hard to describe.

Pacat gave all that to me, but it's hard to find in other books so far. (Freya's A Marvellous Light was one of the ones that managed to do it, the second book less so tho, haven't read the third yet.)

So if anyone has a recommendation, please drop it in the comments. 👉👈 ----------------------------------------

EDIT: OMG thank you so much for all the recommendations! I compiled them in alphabetical order, so other people can refer to the list in case they need a recommendation as well:

A-Z (☑ read / ☐ not yet read /📜 currently reading)

☐ A Ballad for slayers & Monsters - Rita A Rubin ☐ A bone in his teeth - Kellen Graves ☐ A Gentleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel - KJ Charles ☐ A Master of Djinn - P. Djeli Clark ☐ A Spear cuts through water - Simon Jimenez ☐ A Strange and Stubborn Endurance - Foz Meadows ☐ A taste of Gold and Iron - Alexandria Rowland ☐ All for the game - Nora Sakavic ☐ Angels & man - Nicolás Rafael ☐ Angels before man - Nicolás Rafael ☐ Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu -Tang Jiu Qing ☐ Beacon Hill Sorcerer series -Sheena Jolie ☐ Blood Over Bright Haven - M. L. Wang ☐ Crier's War - Nina Varela ☑ Dark Rise - C.S.Pacat ☐ Glitterland - Alexis Hall ☐ Heaven Official's Blessing Mo Xiang Tong Xiu ☐ Iron Breakers Trilogy - Zaya Feli ☐ Long Live Evil - Sarah Rees Brennan ☐ Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett ☐ Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao ☐ Murderbot Series - Martha Wells ☐ Nightrunner Series - Lynn Flewelling ☐ of Knights and Books - Rita A Rubin ☐ Parasol Protectorate - Gail Carriger ☑ Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon ☐ Realm of the Elderlings/Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb ☐ Reforged - Seth Haddon ☐ Rose of the Prophet Cycle - Margret Weis/Tracy Hickmann ☐ Scum villain's self saving system - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu ☐ Shades of Magic -V.E. Schwab ☐ Silver Blood - TL Morgan ☐ Simon Snow Trilogy - Rainbow Rowell ☐ Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo ☐ Skulduggery pleasant - Derek Handy ☑ Something Human - AJ Demas ☑ Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller ☐ Song of the bullrider - Alex "Muun" Singer ☐ Swordcrossed -Freya Marske ☐ Sword Dance -A.J. Demas ☐ The Alexander Trilogy - Mary Renault ☐ The Binding - Bridget Collins ☐ The Crossroads trilogy - Kate Elliott 📜 The Darkness Outside Us - Eliot Schrefer ☐ The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison ☐ The Grandmaster of demonic cultivation (Mo Dao Zu Shi) - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu ☑ The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue - Mackenzi Lee ☐ The Hair Carpet Weavers Andreas Eschenbach ☐ The Hands of the Emperor - Victoria Goddard ☐ The husky and his white cat - Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou (check TW) ☐ The Hyperion Cantos - Dan Simmons ☑ The Last Binding Trilogy - Freya Marske ☐ The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin ☐ The Magpie Ballads- Vale Aida ☐ The Magpie Lord Series- Kj Charles ☐ The Prince's Psalm - Eric Shaw Quinn ☐ The Queen's thief - Megan Whalen Turner ☐ The Queer Principles of Kitt Webb - Cat Sebastian ☐ The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater ☑ The Rifter Series - Ginn Hale ☐ The Scottish Boy - Alex de Campi ☑ The Tarot Sequence Series - K.D. Edwards (check TW) ☐ The Traitor Baru Cormorant -Seth Dickinson ☐ The Winner's Curse - Marie Rutkoski ☐ Tiger, Tiger - Petra Erika Nordlund (Webcomic) ☐ Will Darling Adventures - KJ Charles ☑ Winter’s orbit - Everina Maxwell ☐ Untamed - Anna Cowan

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I came here from Pinterest and I just want to say that the way you draw Laurent and Damen are so amazing, the angels are soooooo good and the lighting is actual perfection 😭.

Is there anywhere else you post all of your comics/fanart and stuff, in one place?

Also - any tips on male proportions?

Thank you so much! 😊 I only post on tumblr, insta and in case tumblr complains that it looks nsfw I will post that drawing on bluesky. (I had a twitter, but since twitter went the AI way, I removed all my drawing from there.) I know I post super rarely (apologies!) but I'm currently learning a bit of animation which takes all the free time I have. Hmm, not sure I have any tipps.... for a long time I mostly drew ladies and couldn't even draw men very well. Proportions can vary so much from man to man, so there is not the one correct thing. I guess make the shoulders a bit wider, the hips less so and the angles a bit more squarish. Otherwise I mostly draw them the same as the ladies as the anatomy is not that much different. You can look up "anatomy for sculptors" if you want to understand muscles and things like that.

I hope that helps!😊

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Hii! Your art is sooo beautiful!!! I love the atmosphere and the colors you choose, they are always perfect!! All the dynamic movements are soo beautifully captured by you and it feels like such a difficult thing to master! Maybe this has been asked before, but if it hasn't, how did you get so good at art? Did you go to art school or are you self-taught?

Thank you so much!! I did go to art school, but think it was pretty much a waste of time because the school wasn't very good. So it's mostly self taught with help of tutorials and online courses I suppose. I did meet a lot of great people outside of school that were a big influence on me though, so I will always be greatful for that. <3 I think theses days going the self taught route is much easier with all these resources available, than when I started. In regards to difficult things: It all seems difficult and it still is ( I still struggle a lot), but it really is just a lot of practising and actually trying to draw the things you find difficult. For example if you are scared to draw backgrounds and never do it, you will never get better at it, right? Because you haven't gone through the actual process of figuring out a structured way to do them yet. I was always scared to draw more than one person in an illustration in the past. But then I had to get over that fear because I needed to all of a sudden draw like 6 people in one illo for my job and that is how I learned it: By just doing it, struggeling at it but not giving up and it the end it turned out okay and everytime I got better at it. Not sure that was helpful...😅 But yeah struggle through it and be kind to yourself! Sometimes we have to draw 50 ugly drawings to get to that one pretty one. <3 (Sorry for the late reply, i never get notifications for these messages on my phone.)

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🐛"I think it's time that he moves out..." (I kinda imagine Nicaise still annoying Damen for fun even when he's almost an adult, hehe.)

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The fork incident ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Gonna let this one go into the archives.... I can't make it work. But I thought I post at least the sketch, because I haven't been able to post anything the past months.

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I’m absolutely in love with your art grahhhh!! Do you do commissions at all?

Thanks so much!!❤️❤️❤️ Sorry that i've seen these so late. Somehow messages don't show up on my phone? I have never done any personal commissions for three reasons: 1.)I think I would have trouble drawing characters that I have not come in contact with or seen/read their story. I feel like I wouldn't be able to fully draw them as the people they are. But maybe that's just my anxiety talking, haha. 2.) I feel much more comfortable asking for appropriate payment from big publishers with big budgets than from individual normal people. 3.) I have not much time to draw outside of work. 😭I'm not even sure when to draw the fanart I want to draw for IWTV. If I ever change my mind, I will definitely post it here for all to see. ❤️

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Just wanted to pop in and say your Damen is so handsome. Most handsome iteration I've seen. Making Laurent's "You're very...attractive" line ring very true.

Thank youuuuu ❤️ I try my best to do justice to that fictional man.

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I just stumbled across your work on Pinterest (it was credited, I hope you gave permission) and I absolutely love your art style! Your composition is incredible and I love how vibrant your colors are.

Have you already illustrated the scene in Prince’s Gambit where Laurent is whaling on Aimeric in the tower? The line “Loves you? You paltry little upstart. I doubt he even preferred you” rings in my head, it’s so clear on re-reads that Laurent is partially talking to himself. If I could draw at all, it would be the first scene I’d depict, but as I cannot, I have come to suggest it to you.

Thank you! I prefered if people wouldn't upload it on pinterest, because I don't like that that you need to have a pinterest account to get to the source of the image. But it was credited and it brought you here, so that is lovely. ❤️ All scenes I've illustrated for Capri are on this blog except if tumblr told me it's too spicy for this website, then it's on twitter. :) Which means I unfortunately have not illustrated that one yet. I'm currently taking a break from fanarting (I made that word up didn't I?), because my brain likes to skip around between interests/hobbies for some reason . I still draw for work of course, so I will probably cycle back to fanarts soon.

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I wanted to tell you, that I love you and your aet so much! You associate me with warmth♡

Thank you so much!🥺❤️

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Hi, just wanted to say I've casually found your art of the captive prince on my dash and I love it. The characterisation, the composition, the light!!!!

Thank you for your work, it's amazing.

Thank you so much! That makes me very happy.😊 I started these fanarts a bit as a side project to just try new things and different subject matter with my art and it turned out I really like drawing these two characters.

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Apparently you can't even post suggestive content under the mature label here, for it to be flagged. 🙄 There was literally nothing visible, they had their briefs on.

Anyways, the image is on twitter...

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His golden hair....

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Read a Capri AU fic yesterday and now I have brainrot. Ignore me.