Dema Draws

like fire that did not burn

Lucanis set his jaw. An expression the spirit recognised from many memories. When Caterina asked where he and Illario had snuck out to instead of lessons. When a target flaunted their cruelty in front of his face. Stubbornness. Defiance. His entire being hummed with it, and it was beautiful. “I must choose to hope.” The spirit did not yet know what form it was taking, but it was not Hope. “I will be here,” they said, “when you must choose something else."

Or, the story of how Spite found Lucanis in the Ossuary, and what led up to their joining.

Written by @monsterthalia (meee!) with art by @demarogue (above!) for the @dragonagereversebang

Never Your Enemy | An Art Licensing Collection 🩸⚔️♥️

As a book illustrator, I mostly did commissions over the last year. And I had a very few time to work on my artworks. So this year I decided to make more original art and to make small collections with illustrations and patterns.

Never Your Enemy is inspired by my favorite romantasy tropes : Enemies to Lovers and Forbidden Love.

Funguary 2026! The drawing challenge where we draw fungi during the month of February. This will be the last time I’m hosting this event, which is bittersweet… So join in on the fungi fun one last time, so we may end it with a bang✨ Event starts Feb 1st

In order to join, create one art piece centered around mushrooms per weekly theme. Drawing daily is a lot of pressure, so I thought we’d keep it chill this time by only doing one a week. This will give us more time to flesh out our character! Ive written down species suggestions, but please feel free to draw whichever shroom you fancy!

The only official rule is to honor fungi as your almighty deity. Oh, and to use tags #Funguary & #Funguary2026

He's All That

Written by: Beasty Illustrated by: Dema

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Content Warnings: No archive warnings apply Fandom(s): Dragon Age: The Veilguard Major Pairing(s)/Character(s): Taash/Rook, Chance/Fletcher, Neve/Lucanis, Elek/Bellara, Davrin/Illario

Horses? Soccer? 90s Teen Romcom Vibes? The entire Veilguard cast in a boarding school AU? Yeah it definitely happened. Because Rook's all that, and Taash knows it.

More from Beasty: AO3 | @woundedsoul12 More from Dema: @demadraws | AO3

The Keeper and the Dread Wolf: A Randy Dowager Exhibition

(aka me having some fun with the smut books that might be written about my Lavellan, Dhavihal, she/her; version without Solas’ wolf shroud under the cut)

Achilles & Patroclus (2021)

Of all the art I've made, this is one of my most beloved pieces. I also created a plate version for a double-sided acrylic standee that had one side in the red-figure and the other in black-figure style painting.