Rovina Cai
@rovinacai.bsky.social
Illustrator of books and other things ✏️ www.rovinacai.com
Conducting some R&D ✨ Thinking of offering medieval illuminated manuscript inspired signatures at MtG events next year 🤔
December 3, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Conducting some R&D ✨ Thinking of offering medieval illuminated manuscript inspired signatures at MtG events next year 🤔
If you see this, post your bird art!
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I have so much bird art to post.
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I have so much bird art to post.
November 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
If you see this, post your bird art!
🐦⬛
I have so much bird art to post.
🐦⬛
I have so much bird art to post.
If you see this, post your bird art!
November 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
If you see this, post your bird art!
I have NOT seen Frankenstein yet, but I wanted to join everyone in posting about it, so here's a very old drawing.
October 27, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I have NOT seen Frankenstein yet, but I wanted to join everyone in posting about it, so here's a very old drawing.
A (maybe?) new to me artist; Ernest Biéler. The shapes and patterns are so pleasing.
October 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
A (maybe?) new to me artist; Ernest Biéler. The shapes and patterns are so pleasing.
The new Katamari game is everything I hoped it would be.
October 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The new Katamari game is everything I hoped it would be.
Let me post some art since I haven't done that in a while. 🫠 It's spooky season so how about an illustration of some cranky old lady ghosts?
Read the short story here; reactormag.com/also-the-cat...
Read the short story here; reactormag.com/also-the-cat...
October 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Let me post some art since I haven't done that in a while. 🫠 It's spooky season so how about an illustration of some cranky old lady ghosts?
Read the short story here; reactormag.com/also-the-cat...
Read the short story here; reactormag.com/also-the-cat...
Oh no I have over 500 adjustment layers 😵
October 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Oh no I have over 500 adjustment layers 😵
I have no idea how I ended up here, but I've fallen down a rabbit hole looking at ridiculously extravagant UK property listings. Look at this omg 😭
September 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I have no idea how I ended up here, but I've fallen down a rabbit hole looking at ridiculously extravagant UK property listings. Look at this omg 😭
Jacket cover for the @evernightbooks.bsky.social edition of Bat Eater by Kylie Lee Baker.
August 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Jacket cover for the @evernightbooks.bsky.social edition of Bat Eater by Kylie Lee Baker.
Posting this old bookbinding project to remind myself to get back into bookbinding! I wish there were more opportunities for weird/unique things like this in illustration; maybe for a super-special-very-limited edition book? ✨
August 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Posting this old bookbinding project to remind myself to get back into bookbinding! I wish there were more opportunities for weird/unique things like this in illustration; maybe for a super-special-very-limited edition book? ✨
I have a sketched AP of Inalla, Archmage Ritualist available in the Commander Sealed Charity Auction ✨ Proceeds go towards the Trevor Project and Trans Lifeline. The auction is now open, and will end on September 7th!
app.auctria.com/Redirect/bd2...
app.auctria.com/Redirect/bd2...
August 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I have a sketched AP of Inalla, Archmage Ritualist available in the Commander Sealed Charity Auction ✨ Proceeds go towards the Trevor Project and Trans Lifeline. The auction is now open, and will end on September 7th!
app.auctria.com/Redirect/bd2...
app.auctria.com/Redirect/bd2...
July 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I have too much new art to post, and am overwhelmed about which ones to post and where and how. So let me just post the curtains I (ok mostly @alexstoneart.bsky.social) just put up. 💪💪💪
July 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I have too much new art to post, and am overwhelmed about which ones to post and where and how. So let me just post the curtains I (ok mostly @alexstoneart.bsky.social) just put up. 💪💪💪
🎶 A whole new wooooorld 🎵 A new fantastic point of view ✨
June 19, 2025 at 4:04 AM
🎶 A whole new wooooorld 🎵 A new fantastic point of view ✨
I also created an illustration to go across the spines, featuring a tessellated pattern (inspired by Escher) turning from garinafins to airships! ✨
March 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I also created an illustration to go across the spines, featuring a tessellated pattern (inspired by Escher) turning from garinafins to airships! ✨
I have to remember to post here more often 🤔 Here are some recent cover illustrations, for a new paperback edition of the Dandelion Dynasty series by Ken Liu!
March 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I have to remember to post here more often 🤔 Here are some recent cover illustrations, for a new paperback edition of the Dandelion Dynasty series by Ken Liu!
New traditional piece! 'Stars', coloured pencil and acrylics on board, with metallic foil highlights ✨
This piece will be in the Antipodes 2025 show at Beinart Gallery, opening this Saturday!
beinart.org/collections/...
This piece will be in the Antipodes 2025 show at Beinart Gallery, opening this Saturday!
beinart.org/collections/...
January 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
New traditional piece! 'Stars', coloured pencil and acrylics on board, with metallic foil highlights ✨
This piece will be in the Antipodes 2025 show at Beinart Gallery, opening this Saturday!
beinart.org/collections/...
This piece will be in the Antipodes 2025 show at Beinart Gallery, opening this Saturday!
beinart.org/collections/...
And of course, my two favourite pieces of the year did *NOT* in fact make it in. 🙃
December 12, 2024 at 12:02 AM
And of course, my two favourite pieces of the year did *NOT* in fact make it in. 🙃
This cover, for Foul Days by Genoveva Dimova, also got in!
December 12, 2024 at 12:02 AM
This cover, for Foul Days by Genoveva Dimova, also got in!
I'm happy to share that these pieces were juried into the Society of Illustrators annual!! It's always fun entering MtG card art because I feel like it's so... different to the kind of work they normally accept. 😅
December 12, 2024 at 12:02 AM
I'm happy to share that these pieces were juried into the Society of Illustrators annual!! It's always fun entering MtG card art because I feel like it's so... different to the kind of work they normally accept. 😅
Working on a traditional piece for a gallery show. Kinda can't believe how well this is going 😅
December 6, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Working on a traditional piece for a gallery show. Kinda can't believe how well this is going 😅