#holly keys

[redbootsthetimetraveller]

gonna admit a good chunk of the reason I have not been posting as much recently is because I had a massive backlog of art and it was too much for me to think about. so here's the highlights of my current sketchbook!

all of these are my ocs, aside from one random person I felt the need to put into sketched form in the fifth pic. idk. these are from late january through to late june of this year

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[leslove-draws]

♡﹒ 𝑔𝒾𝓇𝓁𝓈, 𝑔𝒾𝓇𝓁𝓈, 𝑔𝒾𝓇𝓁𝓈﹒🩰﹒

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Kofi commission for a lil Holly joestar from JJL :)

just a lil redraw of her over some DiU panels!

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[dior-addict]

[sarahreesbrennan]

Also also: is there any way, or will there be any way, for readers without whichever special edition (?) it’s in to read “Letters to My Lady from the Abyss…”? Reading your Reddit AMA in a desire to know more about this wonderful book and the idea of a tiny bit extra has me 👀

Thank you for wishing to know more! FairyLoot special edition is the special edition with bonus content. I will explain more. FairyLoot is a wonderful UK-based group who make fancy special editions for their monthly boxes. People sign up for FairyLoot and get books picked for them. You can get Young Adult, Adult Fantasy, or Romantasy, or a combination thereof - Long Live Evil was the August Adult Fantasy pick - and you can buy other special editions from their website. So the FairyLoot folks are Tastemakers as well as makers of beautiful objects. (ISN’T IT BEAUTIFUL? Pictures stolen. Interior art by Bon Orthwick who got Marius’s hair PERFECT.)

But you can’t buy the monthly boxes, unless they have extras! If they do have extra Evils to buy, I will put up a link.

There are many boxes now, but FairyLoot and Illumicrate are the two biggest and have made a lot more people embrace reading and see books as a special treat. Waterstones and Barnes & Noble have started making special editions of books because of them. A while back I knew none of this, because I was staying away from publishing, working with IP books (very different branch of publishing) and training for a different job. But then I did a catch-up call with my frien. She talked about FairyLoot. I did not understand her and thought maybe the deadlines had got on top of her and she believed fairies had looted her manuscript.

Holly: So these FairyLoot editions have (She holds up a copy of… I think… the Coldest Girl In Coldtown?) been amazing for UK sales.

Sarah: Sorry but why are these books so beautiful?

Holly: Because I just explained to you why, girl. Sarah: Can I have this.

Holly: No they’re limited!

So then I knew FairyLoot was a Giant Deal and they were offered Long Live Evil but I was sure they wouldn’t pick me.

My lovely editor Jenni: great news, the FairyLoot people picked you! Sarah: are you. are you quite sure.

Jenni: … yes? Could you write them some bonus content? Sarah: YES! A thing I can do for them? Oh yes! Here’s three things I can do. Tell them they can pick which one they would like!

I wrote a letter for them as well, to be bound in with the book. But the bonus content is an extra adventure or point of view you didn’t get to see in the main book. FairyLoot picks what they think their readers might like most.

I really like epistolary novels, where the action is told though letters, such as Jane Austen’s Lady Susan and Amal El Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s This Is How You Lose The Time War. So I thought it would be fun to do a story through letters!

Obviously I then had a moment of dark self-doubt.

Sarah: O my god why did they pick this nobody’s going to like him what shall I do! Holly: When I was writing Cardan’s letters you said ‘epistolary is so fun, you said, this is a piece of cake, you said, get in loser we’re writing romantically sinister letters, you said…’

Sarah: my Vision is a romantic The Screwtape Letters. Holly: … oh dear. Okay. Get in loser we’re writing romantically sinister letters.

And so with a lil help from my kind frien, I wrote Letters to My Lady From the Abyss, which is an epistolary short story with a POV we don’t get in book 1 and an adventure we don’t get to see. But I did write it, as you see, for FairyLoot so it belongs to them and it’s up to them. I think I might get it back in a year and then I’ll put it up on my website. I will let you know!

I am so sorry for this very long explanation, I just wanted to let you know what was up.

Should you read it, I hope you enjoy. And I will write more bonus content, I promise!

Also speaking of FairyLoot, they’re doing a readalong of Long Live Evil right now if anyone might like to chat about the book. Here’s a link to people talking about chapters 1-7 - they will do a different chunk every day! I like that people are choosing favourite characters, so far the Cobra, Key and Emer have the votes!

[ourpleova]

kei nijimura my sweet silly girl you will never do any wrong ever

[immortal-angels]

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥Why the hell is it that sometimes I want to be admired and loved and then not even five minutes later its like "Bitch kill yourself why would you talk to me" ???? Like pick a side damnit ;-;

[y4yoangel]

[dinnasaw]

finished colors for Holly Wood, now to order prints and I can start the mixed media part.

[redbootsthetimetraveller]

realised I never posted these here... here’s some sketches of in order isabelle, sylvia, holly and mary, aka my leading ladies. still love that lovely pink-red tombow with graphite sketches

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[crttvset]

if hirohiko araki wasn’t a COWARD he would LET THEM BE SIBLINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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some stills from the animatic i made yesterday :3

[duarteegreenbriar]

Going to meet Holly Black today for The Stolen Heir book signing and I’m wearing all black because

[vampiricsheep]

hey uh

[ourpleova]

girl how are you so holy

sorry my posts have gotten less frequent college ended up being a lot more difficult than I anticipated!

[rocals]

who up fucking a loaded gun