nat’s sketchbook

Hiatus Notice: Hello everyone! Life’s gotten pretty overwhelming for me, so I need to take a step back from my creative practices, including social media, to start enjoying life again while focusing on my overall mental health and wellbeing.

Don’t you worry though! Development on the LORRAVERSE, and my own personal works, will continue when the time comes. I can’t give you all a direct answer right now because I’m not even sure what’s to come, or when I’ll formally be back, but I will follow my intuition to guide me when the time’s right. In the meantime, I thank you all for your patience while I take this much needed rest 🫀.

the pain of becoming

tumblr pls don’t shadowban me for this it’s pride month 💔

🎪 when the circus is amazing and digital 👾

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I felt the show’s ending was a solid 3.5/5. I wish they stuck with the darker themes of the show and really played around with that aesthetic, so I decided to take matters into my own hands and have it reflect in the character redesigns.

i thought the “everyone’s happy and all best friends irl” ending with the implication that abstraction CAN be reversed with support and time REALLY weakened the narrative. Not to mention, I was also pretty irritated by the fact that the ending retconned the age differences presented in the series.

@siggokart was calling a SOMA-like event to have happened and honestly? I would’ve been more satisfied with an ending of Caine revealing the fact that their real bodies are all dead, making it SO much more dramatic as they have to figure out how to live their lives in the circus and potentially undo abstraction THAT way with Caine’s help.

With the series, I was overall really disappointed with how weak the writing was for the female characters (aside from Jax) and could see the creator’s misogyny seep through with how certain characters are treated and abused (*COUGH COUGH RAGATHA*)

I thought Jax was a very interesting character, but I was annoyed with how much she hijacked the show. I wish we learned MORE about the rest of the cast—learned more about POMNI who’s meant to be the OTHER PROTAGONIST. All we know is that she’s an accountant who unwinds by urban exploring….Ok? Oh and that she’s kind...

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🌈 NO LGB WITHOUT THE T! PROTECT TRANS LIVES. PROTECT TRANS YOUTH. F**K B!GOTRY. TRANS LIVES WILL NOT BE ERASED! TRANS RIGHTS FOREVER AND ALWAYS! 🏳️‍⚧️

HAPPY PRIDE!

It’s my birthday! 🎂🌀💕

I’ve been especially busy this year, BUT I squeezed some time to make a silly dub of THE GUGGENHEIM on my YouTube channel.

A very fun fact is that this comic was physically debuted as an extra in "THE SOWERS: A ONE-SHOT COMIC” in May 2024 at @desertislandcomics ! Thanks so much Gabe! I had only self-published a handful, so I hope they’re out somewhere in the cosmos being enjoyed…

THIS WEEK MARKS THE 1st YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE “OG” SOWERS!

Originally debuting a day earlier at my university’s art gallery, the OG thesis project was released May 7th, 2025. It followed the first iteration of Alé and Ryvera’s story.

Link here: https://ndotmov.itch.io/the-sowers

Admittedly, I have bittersweet feelings attached to this version of The Sowers, but ultimately, I’m happy and satisfied with the project because it serves as a foundational point for the Lorraverse—including an upcoming revised version (short story).

Keep an eye out for May 7th (also my birthday) as I made a silly little dub of the “GUGGENHEIM - Aridom” comic that made me laugh and I’m sure will make you too!