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elka 🌾 drafting!
@saintsbeware.bsky.social
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writer & illustrator ✦ he/they 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇷 ✦ patron saint of soulmates ✦ medieval enthusiast

☾ writing queer romantic fantasies and thinking about knights 𖤓 🔞 sometimes nsfw

🌱 wip: #cursebreakerwip
🌱 tips & shop: https://ko-fi.com/elkamarsden
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LOL here's the original meme if you want it!
November 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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an important addition from the group chat
the same sketch of me as DM but superimposed over a meme where I'm saying, "Being a DM is—" followed by a text bubble of someone in the back holding a woman and saying, "DM, shut up and get the fuck out. I'm gonna fuck your NPC now."
November 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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my wife is making a d&d animatic and they drew me as DM looking really cool

#artsky #d&d #ttrpg
bust sketch of a person with glasses behind a DM screen with their hands clasped in front of their mouth, the text says, "Meanwhile..."
November 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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art vs artist ❤️‍🔥🍁
#artsky #ocsky
November 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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i made a new intro for my instagram since i don't think i've ever made one??

anyway i'm an illustrator, graphic design is NOT my passion
#artsky #ocsky #booksky
November 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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If you're looking for character art for an upcoming story, some merch, or as a holiday gift for someone with beloved ocs, please consider commissioning me this season!! ❤️‍🔥

ko-fi.com/elkamarsden

I would love to work with you!
#ocsky #artsky #commsopen #wfh
full body illustration of a small in purple robes and a purple flame coming from one hand illustrations of two full body designs of the same character in earth tone robes, brown hair with a white streak, and pouches for herb gathering illustration of two men embracing and about to kiss against a stone wall with snow falling illustration of two characters facing the viewer, a red haired rogue woman wielding a dagger and a blue tiefling man holding the hilt of a large blade
November 15, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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another #zosan for the timeline

i have nowhere else to post my one piece brainrot 🏴‍☠️

#onepiece #fanart #anime
sketch of zoro and sanji from one piece woth zoro gripping sanji's lapel as if fighting. their faces are soft though and sanji's looking at zoro's mouth
November 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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#cursebreakerwip
a sketch of my boys Lord Frey and Koveh looking over some research 📝

#ocsky #booksky #fantasy
sketch of two men looking over some papers together. the man on the left is looking at the other man while the one on the right is reading a small notebook
November 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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i left everything i own in one 24 karat gold piece

#onepiece #fanart
a redraw of the popular 24 karat gold labubu tiktok meme featuring gol d. roger from one piece holding a golden devil fruit with the hashtags #gold #onepiece #kingofthepirates a screenshot of the original 24 karat gold labubu tiktok meme with a woman holding a golden labubu on a keyring
October 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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thanks for the chance, and congrats!! this is Koveh, the mc of my current manuscript 🖤
October 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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commission for @/lazycatnaps of her oc, Draíocht 💜

thanks so much for your support!!
#ocsky #artsky #oc #commsopen
full body illustration of a brown skinned man with short black hair in a flowing purple shirt, black pants, long grey sash, and bluish waist skirts. he has a purple flame coming from his outstretched hand full body illustration of a brown skinned man with short black hair in a flowing purple shirt, black pants, long grey sash, and bluish waist skirts. he has a purple flame coming from his outstretched hand
October 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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and the love interest for #cursebreakerwip, Lord Frey 🥀
a nobleman from a family of infamous necromancers
#ocsky #booksky #writingcommunity
two sketch illustrations of a man with black hair and amber eyes, a scar across the bridge of his nose, wearing robes in shades of purple, cool brown, and chartreuse, surrounded by tags about him such as: necromancer, calm and stoic, stubborn, reaearcher etc the same illustration as the first without the additional text
October 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Congrats!! I love your style :3
here's my boy Wark🖤
October 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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finally got a chance to sit down and sketch the mc of #cursebreakerwip, Koveh! he's a bitchy alchemist with a penchant for trouble🩸

#ocsky #oc #art #writingcommunity
sketch illustration of a man with pale skin, dark brown hair with a chunk of it gone white in the front, wearing two different brown palette robe outfits. they both incorporate a white undershirt, sashes at the waist, leather boots, and pouches for foraging sketch illustration of a man with pale skin, dark brown hair with a chunk of it gone white in the front, wearing two different brown palette robe outfits. they both incorporate a white undershirt, sashes at the waist, leather boots, and pouches for foraging
October 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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just putting Monty in a situation as my resident situation-guy🖤
#ocsky #oc #art
sketch page of my character Monty being slutty against an invisible wall
October 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Hey DVPit 🖤

My name is Elka, and I'm available for work as a character illustrator and book cover artist. I'm a latino, trans, and queer creator who is just trying to do what they love! Fantasy and romance are my favorite genres!!

ko-fi.com/elkamarsden
vgen.co/saintsbeware

#DVArt #comms #WFH
October 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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hey there!✨ you can get a character illustration like these starting at 85 USD! please share and let your friends know that I have available commission slots for this month! 🖤🥀

vgen.co/saintsbeware
#artsky #booksky #commission
October 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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congrats Myri!! I'd love to see my baby boy Wark in your style 🖤
October 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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❤️‍🔥Book Cover Request Form❤️‍🔥

for my indie authors out there, my new listing for book covers is officially live!!

If you need a cover for your ebook, itch listing, or a print-ready full cover spread, consider working with me! I'd love to help you! 🖤
#indieauthor #sff #artsky

vgen.co/saintsbeware
picture of a vgen listing for a Book Cover Request Form, 5 slots open starting at $200 photo of a book covers mockup featuring an illustration of a ranger sitting on a tree in the woods with the title A CONSORT FOR THE WOODEN GOD, Elka Marsden an illustration of a book covers mockup featuring mock up featuring a man holding a knife to another man's throat with a decorated illuminated manuscript adjacent border with the title DO KNIGHT NOT YEARN, M.R. Santua
October 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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blue 🔵

#onepiece #zosan #fanart
illustration of sanji and zoro from one piece on the deck of the merry looking really closely at each other, zoro is crowding sanji up against the railing while sanji smokes
September 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Artists, how do you draw hair? 🧶

i admit that curly/wavy hair is my favorite to render!
#ocsky #artsky #art
September 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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waves to all my friends
wait
chiitan bestie??
September 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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portrait illustration for @kmenright.bsky.social of Alon!
thanks again for your support 🖤
thigh up illustration of a cat boy in a white barong with a dark green-blue vest, both with gold trim, an over the shoulder holster, and holding an ornate flintlock pistol. his left cat ear has three golden hoops and his tail has a few bracelets on it
September 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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sonic saying let's take ibuprofen together
September 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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got back from Getting Witchy With It in Salem! here's the book haul by:
@byjjdegroot.bsky.social, @aafairview.bsky.social, @sjohnsonbooks.bsky.social, @marianneascott.bsky.social , K. Rose, and Sarah Biglow!

everyone was so lovely and I got so many little trinkets 🥰 truly a fun and inviting space ~
my hand holding up five books, spines facing the camera, ELEGY OF THE STARS by J.J. de Groot, THE BLOOD SHE CLAIMED by Sophia-Rose Johnson, TEETH AND TAROT by A.A. Fairview, HER SAPPHIRE BLADE bu Sarah Biglow, and OF VINES AND RIVALS by Marianne A. Scott. the aforementioned books with stickers and trinkets surrounding them; a mini plastic figure of cheese, a mini book, and chapstick
September 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM