Sarah Waites

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Artist and mapmaker. She/her. Commissions open!

https://theillustratedpage.net/design/
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sarah-waites/the-romance-writers-oracle-an-inspiration-deck

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Another card that I'm going to be posting to Instagram soon, "The Friend." This is basically my "friends-to-lovers" card when it comes to romance tropes. I wanted something that seemed light and sweet... although I guess his shirt is undone which isn't entirely "sweet" as far as the romance genre!

Here's the close-up I'll be posting to Instagram. If you think that 90% of the work on this piece was the sunflowers... you'd be correct.

Anyway, if you're new to my account and haven't seen me blathering on about it before, I've got this big honking art project that's making a card deck based off romance book genre tropes, character types, and sub-genres. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sar...

Coming soon: The Romance Writer's Oracle: An Inspiration Deckwww.kickstarter.com A creative writing card deck based around romance genre tropes and characters, with illustrations by artist Sarah Waites.

Welp, note to self to avoid ever ordering from StickerMule.

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Courtney Milan

But if your hardline position is that not paying authors for their labor is a great way to end capitalism, you do not understand what capitalism is.

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The thing that is really obvious reading this chat between a hacktivist furry and Mike Howell, executive director of the Heritage Foundation, is that Howell is a hateful jerk and our furry friend is hilarious.

Found it! files.catbox.moe/i0tkbp.txt

files.catbox.moe

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Yet another fake agency alert: Vanderbilt Literary Agency. Content & book covers plagiarized from a real agency (Frances Goldin Literary), AI-fake photos of supposed agents, & a website just 21 days old vanderbiltliteraryagency.com

Vanderbilt Literary Agencyvanderbiltliteraryagency.com

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My Friends of the Library will have a two day book sale in October. We sell used books, but I want to do some genre giveaway packages with newer books as a promo during the event. If you're an author and would like to mail me a copy of your book, please DM me. 🥳

I'm posting this one to Instagram later today. For my Romance Writer's Oracle deck, "The Mate" is the fated mates trope, shifter romances, etc. The golden thread represents fate. I often use 3D model references for my artwork, but the 3D models are skinny by default...

You can use morphs to change the body shape or buy specific models that are larger, but I still feel like the 3D has issues with the bending and limbs that are accentuated with larger bodies. So I skipped the entire 3D reference thing and bought a photo reference pack.

Specifically, a pack on Artstation from Grafit Studios that has over 800 poses of this one model. So I may end up using some of her poses for future cards!

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Oh my gosh! I was a Scottie too! It's so rare for me to run across another in the wild.

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Thank you! I love her -- she's a sweetie even if she can be a load of trouble when she's awake.

A rare drawing not for a specific project -- just my parent's dog curled up with a book. I'm getting this made into a t-shirt to give to my mom.

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Poets! WE ARE NOW OPEN!!! 🦄😁

Please Share!! Poets! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from July 5 to July 19! Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki can't wait to see your gorgeous poems! @betsyaoki.bsky.social www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/

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Wole Talabi

That cover is fantastic!

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Morgan Johnson

The most recent thing on the artists Behance is labeled “generated images.” I agree this piece looks like AI.

Thank you!

Thank you! I’ve got a whole bunch of marbled paper textures I’ve been layering in. Plus some glitter textures, metallic textures and whatever else I’ve got handy! It can be hard not to go overboard lol

This card from my upcoming Kickstarter project, The Romance Writer's Oracle, is the source of my current profile picture! When I was devising the structure of the deck, I decided to focus each card on a character archetype and some associated tropes. This is essentially the cowboy card!

I went with "Ranger" as the name of the card because I didn't want to deal with the gendering of cowboy/cowgirl, and "cowpoke" just didn't have the right vibe.

Gender, tropes, and the romance genre is probably a whole topic in and off itself. I've thought about it a lot in relation to the project, and I'll probably talk about it more when I share cards drawing from very gendered tropes/archetypes.

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Thank you!

Sharing this again for the morning crowd. For the last year, I’ve been in the process of making a romance genre card deck. I’m now halfway done with the art and in Kickstarter pre-launch!

Coming 2025, my writing inspiration card deck for the romance genre! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sar...

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The incredibly talented @illustratedpage.bsky.social is launching a writing inspiration deck! It's soo pretty, you know you want it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sar...

Thank you Zoe!

Thank you Skye!

Thank you!

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I’ve been watching this project develop and honestly it could be useful for so many different creative projects! Highly suggest bookmarking this if you do any writing, game modding, etc.

Coming 2025, my writing inspiration card deck for the romance genre! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sar...

Thank you Renay! It's been wonderful to share this with you as it develops.