Fate's Constellation

I'm up to my neck with responsibilities, but I'd thought I'd hop on and make a post while I eat my dinner. The beef barely soup my mom made is burning my mouth as I shove in bites-I sadly am short on time and stacked with things I have to do.

I have a Physics final exam coming up on Sunday, and I am quite literally shitting my pants about it. All I want is to pass. The stakes are in my favor, so perhaps I will end this class with triumph. (Hopefully..) I'll be sure to let you guys know. I also have a big project I'm working on for a client tomorrow, and I have assignments for my Chemistry class due tonight (I finished the final, but I want to catch up on missed assignments for partial credit.)

By the stars, I just want this week to end.

This upcoming Monday I have a lovely facial appointment coming up, and I'll also be planning on seeing the movie Wicked next week, so, I'll have a week to relax, reflect, and focus more on my businesses. Academic stress is deafening.

But, anyway, enough about me.

I finally have an official book cover for my book. It's visible on Wattpad, and now here. This cover was made by the talented @khimzzyy on Instagram. He's made a few great pieces of art for me now, and we have another exciting project in the works.

I am still writing the draft of Fate's Constellation: The Phoenix and the Dragon, and I'm currently on chapter thirty six. I would say I'm approximately half way, or a little under half way through. The plan was to be done drafting by the end of December, so hopefully, after this week of being slammed by academic burdens, I'll be able to get more of a move on.

The Art of Villains

I really should be sleeping right now, but I had a very intense blog itch.

I came across Lucifer-inspired art on Pinterest, and through research I learned this was made by by Nell Fallcard, and the piece is called, "The Tragic Prince" Inspired by the famous "Fallen Angel" Painting. I changed the hair, eye, and skin color to better depict a character in my book, Zephyran of House Drakkonis.

When I saw this on Pinterest, I thought, wow, his features are the epitome of Aesterian male beauty-sharp, strong, and masculine, touched with godly-like beauty. I know you guys don't know anything about my characters yet, and while there is good and bad in everyone I write, Zephyran is someone you will either love...Or hate.

Making the perfect villain is hard. They have to be complex-in emotions and intentions. Though, some people will say the best villains are 100% evil and unhinged with no tragic backstory, and that's very fair. To each their own.

I like to have complexity in my characters. I like to leave my readers pondering and debating. I want to have an open space where some readers may love my characters, while others may hate them. That is how it is in real life too.

I think Eren Jaeger is a great example of the perfect villain. He was such an intoxicating mix of sympathy, love, passion, and evil, that many viewers couldn't hate him despite his gruesome crimes. When Attack on Titan first came out in 2013, people heavily underestimated Eren's character and claimed he was the typical anime leading male protagonist, and boy, were they wrong.

Zephyran is a character whose been hard for me to write for some reason, but as the chapters go on and the story evolves, he speaks to me more. Perhaps it's because he's so mysterious that he wasn't easy for me to write in the beginning, but as the story goes on, getting to know Zephyran is like slowly piecing together a puzzle. He is evil, but so, deeply passionate.

Delving into Draetas

Back in my mom's house, though I kind of miss my dad's house for some reason. I had a lot of fun there.

Right now I'm working on finishing the map of Draetas, a small, but impactful country in my world. The island in the corner of the page is Tanama Mountains, Aesteris.

When I work on art, I tend to listen to ASMR in the background. I don't really know what the connection is there, but I kind of roll with it. I usually listen to @Vivasiti ASMR, and I've been following her for a few years now. I also fall asleep to her. She's great.

I'm not a master artist, but I think I draw maps decently well. Right now I'm writing the outlining of the map on Notability, and then i'm going to transfer this over to Procreate, where I'll color and label it.

I'm kind of holding back the urge in sharing my world building lore on here. Should I save it as a surprise, or should I tease some things? I don't know what I'm going to do yet.