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Carly A-F
Illustrator & author.

Freelance enquiries: [email protected]

Kidlit Agent: Anna Olswanger [email protected]

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SHARDS

Been doing experimental traditional work lately, combining my halftone print work with layers of inks, paint, charcoal and more into original pieces. Really enjoying it!

The base piece for this will be in an upcoming Tolkien zine, this piece is in my studio shop - carlydraws.sumupstore.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Reminder that i have a newsletter for quarterly art updates, shop news and info on any shows I'll be at! No spam, no faffing about on social media, just shiny art and news straight to your inbox.

buttondown.com/CARLYDRAWS
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Want some human made grotty scanline goodness sci fi spaceships for your ttrpg? Interchangeable backgrounds for mix n match fun!

Check out my artpack SPACESHIPS VOL 1

From A-F INDUSTRIES (Chief executive idiot: Me)

carlydraws.itch.io

#art #ttrpg
November 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Something from the archives, my cover art for 'Prince of Nowhere' by Rochelle Hassan. Don't get to do many middle grade - young adult covers, but would like to!

#art
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I'll be trading at two events this weekend, in Leicester and Nottingham, with posters, original collages and drawings, some new prints and maybe a few surprises! see you there!

#art
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I also do colourful art too ;-) as well as picture books! half drama, half chill :-D

Here's 'catnap'. and 'Mathilde'. perfect for your reading room/home library/ that corner by the comfy sofa that the cats always steal even though you paid for it, not them.

#art
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
something something black friday? what else is black? My art! like this SINSTER CROW, who you can adorn your home/spooky castle/desolate cave upon the moors with. Or perhaps a mysterious LONELY SPIRE for your fortress walls?

Support artists and spooky crows today!

www.inprnt.com/gallery/carl...
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Here's another artefact inspired piece, a cover for PREQUEL, a ttrpg of heroic sacrifice & legacy by @glyphtide.games (available now!)

Fun challenge to figure out how to give a subtle woven tapestry effect for this cover inspired by massive ornate medieval tapestries and banners.

#art
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
colourful myth! i like to draw it! [SUBTLE HINTING]
Here's some more. :-)

(also check out Premee's excellent books!)

oil pastel + digital colour
charcoal + digital colour

#art #myth
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
some making of bits and close ups. oil pastel base drawing on the left- i wanted a greasy, oily feeling for all those old coins; and a hand-drawn map of the labyrinth. detail shot on the right where those parts are combined with digital colour and more painting for the final art.
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Read The Deadlands and support independent publishing!

Here's my cover for this beautiful issue full of great stories.

Oil pastel with digital colour
November 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Thanks Jeremy! I'm an illustrator of fantasy, sci fi and horror!

I have a print shop in the US www.inprnt.com/gallery/carl...

Or a UK studio shop where i sell original drawings/collages carlydraws.sumupstore.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
more details! fun to mix solid tile colour with textures and internal lightning effects, as if the mosaic itself is a glowing world. Kept them irregular and imperfect because i wanted them to look like a handcrafted old byzantine style mosaic

#art #fantasy
November 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
tiny tiles tiny tiles
satisfying to paint them all, but it does take a while. I wanted this to look glowing, like the lightning serpent was alive inside it

#art
November 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
mosiacs! drawing many tiny tiny tiles. It's fun to make art that looks like it could be an ancient magical artefact!

still very happy with this cover art i drew for @hatchlingdm.itch.io, maker of beautiful #ttrpgs
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I've updated the shop a bit, and added CACODAEMON in case anyone has always wanted a demonic Greek myth figure on the wall, obscured in dizzying mists and here to give you the evil eye and a bad time! :-D this is a really weird one and i loved making it.

oil pastel + digital colour

#art #fantasy
November 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Hi Ben! yeah of course, I can add that to the shop in a moment. The colour version from the cover or the black and white interior?
November 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Last call for free worldwide shipping on SANTA CAWS (regular version without jaunty hat available) and also all my other prints

www.inprnt.com/gallery/carl...

give the fit of dramatic and/or deranged art this year :-D

#art #bsnm
November 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
that is ofishally true, I've done a science diagram about it. William Shakespeare WISHES he had a sardine pen
November 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
free WORLDWIDE shipping ends today in my US print/poster shop!

And to all the folks spamming up my inbox lately asking me about N F flipping Ts, (go funge yourself) I'm going to pretend you mean

Nice
Friendly
Tortoises

like this fellow, available as a print! [hashtag seamless promotion ;-D ]
November 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Out now in pdf!
November 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
As well as sci fi, fantasy and spooky art, I also have some pieces of my children's book art available as prints.

www.inprnt.com/gallery/carl...

#art #kidlitart
November 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Bookings for Dec onwards now open. Drop me an email if you want some colourful drama art or grotty, textured interior art :-)
November 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
PREQUEL is here! a tale of heroic last stands and legacy.

I had the pleasure of illustrating the cover for this, in embroidered banner style!

#ttrpg #art
November 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Had the pleasure of illustrating the cover for this wonderful book, please check it out!

Here is my kelp filigree fairy-tale star ocean fishy cover

#art
November 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM