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J.E. Holmes - COMMS OPEN
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Author 📖, Artist 🖊️, Editor 📝, human 🤷🏻, lawful good.
he/they, ADHD + autism 🏳️‍🌈
NO 🚫 AI

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I think every artist knows that feeling. There are people here who look at you and feel inadequate, and others who look at them and feel the same, and on and on. It can be hard to remember the good behind that admiration.

I've been feeling similarly, and it helps to know I'm not alone.
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
elyssiabooks.bsky.social
Courtyard Dance

Just a little joy. I was inspired by @aidenr0.bsky.social 's scenes that are peaceful and romantic, and I tweaked my style just a little.

#OC #fantasy #yuri #lesbians #sexualtension #romance #sapphic #wlw #gl #dancing
digital art of a scene in a warm-looking, enclosed courtyard with original characters Celani—a pale-pinker plus-size woman with long wavy blue hair—and Zari—a woman with brown skin, an undercut, and multiple piercings. Celani dances, closer to the viewer, twirling. She's wearing a loose red halter top and a big red skirt, both fanning out as she spins. Zari sits off to the side and a little farther back, and she watches Celani with a sly smirk. At this point in the story, there are sparks between them, but they are not in a relationship (yet).
November 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
elyssiabooks.bsky.social
Taking a break to draw a villain.

Lore: This is Figment. The mask he wears is no mask at all—it's his face, which doesn't move but always looks like it does out of the corner of your eye. He can glean everything from other people's facial expressions. #oc #fantasy #villain #novel
digital illustration of Figment, a figure clad in all black with a hood over a white mask resembling a face with generic features and solid yellow eyes. The figure stands, head tilted and looking down at the viewer, very eerie, with hands behind their back. They are in a dark room, lit from behind by a small flame and an open window out on a dark sky.
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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qospress.bsky.social
#Booksky We’re back at Fables & Flames today at Booth 35 with great deals, badge ribbons and more! Come see us! fablesandflames.com
Author Michael Merriam standing at the Queen of Swords Press table.
November 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Number 6 is Sage! She's the oldest at the Tree, very sweet and indoorsy, small (think gnome/halfling/goblin size) and introverted, yet with a huge curiosity. She has an endless repertoire of little songs that she uses to make water dance. #OC #fantasy #lineup #gnome #goblin
drawing of Sage, an original character sort of like a gnome from Dungeons & Dragons. She has dark hair pulled back in a bun, big, long ears, and wears a dress with a blue top and white skirt. She dances barefoot while humming, eyes closed, and animated water swirls in the air around her.
November 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
elyssiabooks.bsky.social
DAN! #himbo love
elyssiabooks.bsky.social J.E. Holmes - COMMS OPEN @elyssiabooks.bsky.social · 6d
Hoo boy, it’s been a while. Posting is hard! 😭

Here’s no. 5 in my series of OCs from the Dusklight Tree. The first book is coming soon, I promise.

Dandras (AKA Dan) is an affable, lighthearted, somewhat simple himbo. Everyone is his friend and he takes that seriously. #oc #Fantasy #himbo #tokenguy
Digital illustration of original character Dan, a strapping blonde man with a golden sheen to his skin. Pose: one hand on his hip, the other on his forehead, fingers in his hair as he laughs. He wears a blue and purple kind of dress suit with puffy sleeves and a broad open chest.
November 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Repost of characters 1 to 4—Atheya, Anja, Saskia, and Kira. I promise only 1 of the others has a name ending in "a".
A stylized drawing of an incredibly muscular woman with a long mohawk tied into a loose braid, she is shaded bronze and is thrusting a spear in the viewer's direction. Her expression is focused but calm, with almost a little smirk. illustration of a girl with palpable attitude, dressed in black with black hair half hanging over her face, arms crossed, leaning against a wall with one leg kicked up. She is thin and pale, with a pretty face and prominent clavicle. Her name, Anja, is in the corner in a punkish style. An illustration of a warrior woman with black skin with a marbled look, with glowing red rivulets running through it. She is wearing a gray top shaped to her body and a purple skirt. Her hair floats as if underwater and emits a candle-like glow. Her name "Saskia" is written in bold red in the corner. drawing of a girl standing, leaning over toward the viewer with her hands braced on her knees, with a disgusted look on her face. She has dark hair in a ponytail draped across her shoulder and wears a pale pink sweater and brown pants. There are vertical effect lines across her and a blur in the background that resembles her with similar effect lines, implying that she has just teleported closer to the viewer. Her name, Kira, is drawn and circled in the corner with a heart over the letter i.
November 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
elyssiabooks.bsky.social
Hoo boy, it’s been a while. Posting is hard! 😭

Here’s no. 5 in my series of OCs from the Dusklight Tree. The first book is coming soon, I promise.

Dandras (AKA Dan) is an affable, lighthearted, somewhat simple himbo. Everyone is his friend and he takes that seriously. #oc #Fantasy #himbo #tokenguy
Digital illustration of original character Dan, a strapping blonde man with a golden sheen to his skin. Pose: one hand on his hip, the other on his forehead, fingers in his hair as he laughs. He wears a blue and purple kind of dress suit with puffy sleeves and a broad open chest.
November 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
elyssiabooks.bsky.social
A weird power outage on #portfolioday kept me away, and an annoying cold has been incapacitating me since! I'm naturally disinclined to use social media, so it has been hard to get back on this horse, as they say.

I am an author and illustrator, book cover maker, doing fantasy art. Comms open!
Book cover for The Prince with Six Faces by Anna Holmes depicts the face of a male elf, eyes closed, face drawn down. The background looks like green cracked glass. Arrayed around him are five other faces with matching facial expression and similar features, except the other faces are: 1. a gray-purple skinned woman, small, with white hair done up in a bun; 2. a burly red-skinned man with horns and long gray hair; 3. a blue-skinned man with gills and fin-like ears; 4. a glowing blonde woman with an undercut with long hair on one side, sporting some small wings; and 5. a plain woman with wavy red hair and freckles. Digital illustration depicts J.E. Holmes character Celani, a pretty young woman with a plus-size body and long blue hair. She wears a purple dress that flares out as she whirls, wisps of green magical energy trailing behind her fingertips. She has a serious expression, focused on something out of frame. A square comic panel split in half. The top half shows a petite dark-skinned woman with glasses and a long swinging braid named Flora, hand on her chin and head cocked in thought as she says, "Hmm. That's interesting. That to me suggests that the hormone isn't present in your body—any of your bodies. You say there are six—is there one for each lineage?" Just the top of the head of a horned man peeks out, eyeing the bottom portion of the comic, and he says, "You are correct." His name is Max. What he's eyeing is an infographic, depicting each of the six lineages Flora mentions, with small drawn faces of Max in each of the six forms. 1. Elf: sharp features, pointy ears; 2. Underkin: soft features, attuned to the dark; 3. Fiend: horns, tail, and hooves; has innate magic; 4. Fey: varied as the natural terrain; has innate magic; 5. Celestial: angelic, wings, glows; has innate magic; 6. human: come in all shapes and sizes and colors. There is an asterisk and a footnote that reads: "Humans are assumed the original form of all people prior to Solasthalas's divergence—everyone used to be human until long, long ago, Solasthalas messed everything up by altering reality and reorganizing people into six lineages. Without anyone's consent. Digital illustration shows a Dungeons & Dragons party gathered around a table at a tavern. On the table, a bottle spews fog, which seems to be filling up the whole place, and the party at the table are having a variety of reactions. From left to right: Ezra, a blue-skinned tiefling in a wheelchair, slender and wearing a fine purple robe, reaches forward with trepidation, clearly hesitant about the situation. Val, a pale human woman in a dark red sleeveless under-tunic, open-collared, with a handsome swoop of black hair with a red highlight, leans back on an elbow, assessing the situation. Theryn, a burly gnome with a trim beard and a tight braid, has jumped up onto his chair and leans over the table, clearly excited. Granny Goodberry, an elderly silver dragonborn wearing a shawl and a simple brown dress, works on her knitting while everything else goes on around her.
October 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
elyssiabooks.bsky.social
Only the best Lego unicorns for you ♥️
October 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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No. 4 in my OC lineup is Kira. She's easily disgusted but also morbidly drawn to gross things, so I tried to capture that expression. Her magic can teleport her to any point she can see, which can be very dangerous! She's also only 16, so no creeping!

#oc #fantasy #characterdesign #sketch #teen
drawing of a girl standing, leaning over toward the viewer with her hands braced on her knees, with a disgusted look on her face. She has dark hair in a ponytail draped across her shoulder and wears a pale pink sweater and brown pants. There are vertical effect lines across her and a blur in the background that resembles her with similar effect lines, implying that she has just teleported closer to the viewer. Her name, Kira, is drawn and circled in the corner with a heart over the letter i.
October 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
elyssiabooks.bsky.social
4th coming up!
elyssiabooks.bsky.social J.E. Holmes - COMMS OPEN @elyssiabooks.bsky.social · Sep 30
No. 3 is Saskia. She has a very distinct, very "fantasy" character design, so I wanted to make sure I got all the details right. I referenced art by @loish.bsky.social to get the "hair floating as if underwater" vibe.
#OC #fantasy #characterdesign #genasi #sapphic #novel #illustration
An illustration of a warrior woman with black skin with a marbled look, with glowing red rivulets running through it. She is wearing a gray top shaped to her body and a purple skirt. Her hair floats as if underwater and emits a candle-like glow. Her name "Saskia" is written in bold red in the corner. The same illustration but with darker lighting.
October 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
elyssiabooks.bsky.social
No. 3 is Saskia. She has a very distinct, very "fantasy" character design, so I wanted to make sure I got all the details right. I referenced art by @loish.bsky.social to get the "hair floating as if underwater" vibe.
#OC #fantasy #characterdesign #genasi #sapphic #novel #illustration
An illustration of a warrior woman with black skin with a marbled look, with glowing red rivulets running through it. She is wearing a gray top shaped to her body and a purple skirt. Her hair floats as if underwater and emits a candle-like glow. Her name "Saskia" is written in bold red in the corner. The same illustration but with darker lighting.
September 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
elyssiabooks.bsky.social
3rd incoming soon!
#oc #fantasy #characterdesign
elyssiabooks.bsky.social J.E. Holmes - COMMS OPEN @elyssiabooks.bsky.social · Sep 28
No. 2 is Anja!

This is exciting because I have a better image of Anja than I've ever had. I have aphantasia, I can't see images in my mind, they're just ideas. I knew Anja is: 18, skinny, black hair, gothy, Attitude, pissed at everyone; but they hadn't coalesced into a LOOK. Now they have!
illustration of a girl with palpable attitude, dressed in black with black hair half hanging over her face, arms crossed, leaning against a wall with one leg kicked up. She is thin and pale, with a pretty face and prominent clavicle. Her name, Anja, is in the corner in a punkish style.
September 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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🧵 UPDATE FOR MY BIRTHDAY:
Hi, so AI killed my career(s) and I'm still barely holding on. Some people tried to get me to start a fundraiser, but that felt weird, so I thought maybe if I was contributing something? So I started making shirts. Can you share this and maybe think about grabbing some?
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September 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
elyssiabooks.bsky.social
No. 2 is Anja!

This is exciting because I have a better image of Anja than I've ever had. I have aphantasia, I can't see images in my mind, they're just ideas. I knew Anja is: 18, skinny, black hair, gothy, Attitude, pissed at everyone; but they hadn't coalesced into a LOOK. Now they have!
illustration of a girl with palpable attitude, dressed in black with black hair half hanging over her face, arms crossed, leaning against a wall with one leg kicked up. She is thin and pale, with a pretty face and prominent clavicle. Her name, Anja, is in the corner in a punkish style.
September 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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for those who don’t know, and I don’t blame you since it hasn’t been on the news, last night Trump posted a now-deleted AI-generated video of himself on a Fox News segment hawking a medbed miracle cure that many gullible folks believe the deep state is suppressing to protect hospital profits.
September 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
elyssiabooks.bsky.social
Completed commission! A D&D party of 4 having an animated discussion at a tavern. This was tricky, and while I like how it turned out, I think I would have gone about it a little differently.

Looking forward to the next.

#d&d #dnd #commission #adventurers #ttrpg #tavern #art #amdrawing #ampainting
Digital painting of four adventurers gathered around a table inside a tavern. Fog spills out of an item on the table, filling the tavern around them. The party consists of: a blue tiefling wearing a purple coat with gray sleeves who sits in a red-padded wheelchair; he is reaching forward with a concerned look on his face; a pale human woman with short swooping black hair with a red streak near her brow, in a sleeveless tunic, leaning back with a bemused expression; a buff gnome perched on his chair, leaning forward excitedly, hands up on the table as if he will spring out of his seat at any given moment; and an aged silvery-blue dragonborn with a red shawl and brown dress who knits a green scarf seeming to be unaffected by the hijinks around her. The atmosphere is dim, with light coming from a stairway opening at the back of the room and a blueish glow coming from the right.
September 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
elyssiabooks.bsky.social
Going to do some art of all my secondary characters who reside at the Dusklight Tree (upcoming novel #hype), and the first up is

Atheya

A hardened warrior who is also nurturing, patient, and incredibly sincere. Of all the residents of the Tree, she's the only without magic. She has muscle.
A stylized drawing of an incredibly muscular woman with a long mohawk tied into a loose braid, she is shaded bronze and is thrusting a spear in the viewer's direction. Her expression is focused but calm, with almost a little smirk.
September 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
elyssiabooks.bsky.social
Every time a piece of news like this comes out, this is my reaction. Also glee.

#anti-ai #aideath #bubble #thingsnobodysawcoming #meme
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
elyssiabooks.bsky.social
I haven't heard anybody talk bad about wikipedia in ages. It's the best.
rincewind.run Micah @rincewind.run · Sep 21
we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · Sep 21
for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
September 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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In addition to a sale on commissions and gratefully accepting any coffees and clues bought, I've put out my ebooks on kofi for just $1 each for a limited time. :)

I promise I'll post actual art soon. Promise.
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September 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I'll be back around later, but we are in need of short-term funds—even a tiny donation helps tremendously—so I am chopping my commissions by 50% for a limited time.

I'm finishing up a bigger commission of a D&D party, so I'm looking to get to work on some new ones! Fast turnaround and flexible.
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September 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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I am going to be annoying AF about this the next 7 hours or so if people are serious about this boycott. I don't want yet ANOTHER thing to go wrong money wise this month.
anotherindiewriter.com S. Morgan Burbank @anotherindiewriter.com · Sep 20
Anyway. Go get 40% off most everything on my Ko-fi using the link below. This is (one of) my thank you for folks funding @bailswrites.bsky.social's Kickstarter for Plot Twist Cafe. Help me deplete my stock, please.

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(I know the preview says commissions. it's wrong)
September 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
elyssiabooks.bsky.social
Thank you so much! ♥️ I think this was the first piece of your art I was exposed to, in 2017, and I just loved her intensity the moment I saw it. I’ve been a fan ever since.
September 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM