Ouida’s Art Blog

you know even if like two people on earth want to see them i will do my best to get some posts together 😭😭😭

Little art deco illustration of Saul from KJ Charles's Spectred Isle, which is one of my very favorite supernatural/fantasy queer romances. I think about it literally all the time lmao. It's so atmospheric and clever and funny and full of love and mystery and all of the main characters are so darling, especially in the audiobook!!! I was sold on it immediately when like 5 pages in it started talking about spontaneous combustion. idk i could talk about this book forever, every time one of my friends brings it up on discord i experience a category 5 autism event lol

It's set in the 1920s and it feels so art deco to me, like one of those illustrations of the era full of graceful lines and beautiful liminal feeling gardens and forests, so this is partially a redraw/digital collage using an André Édouard Marty illustration which is actually from the 1940s I believe but still felt like the right style. I kept giggling drawing this like ough he's just a little 1920s guy, pleasant as the morning dew, confused, upsetti

last month i blacked out for 4 hours and painted Stephen Day from KJ Charles's Charm of Magpies books which are a wonderful queer historical fantasy romance series. anyway this asshole is so vivid to me. i told everyone on discord that i wanted him to look angry and malnourished and sickly and to make his freckles as un-cute as possible and everyone enabled me by calling him a perfect angel babygirl who needs a nap and a juice box. the placeholder file name for this painting was "tiny and rotten and bad" and i just never changed it

H. hello. I still have a backlog of art to post from me learning how to draw a bunch of new characters and practicing how to Paint Good lol

Anyway a fun fact about me is I will read the fucking shit out of a queer historical romance novel so a couple months ago I decided to practice my drafting and digital painting skills by doing some fanart of Daniel da Silva from KJ Charles's Think of England. I need u to understand that all of this author's books are certified bangers that make me feel like I'm high on drugs and you should definitely read them. This one is an Edwardian pulp thriller. It's gay spy romance. I think about it every goddamn day brother

Hello, I certainly haven't been posting for a while 😰But I'm not dead!!! I have things for you!!!

My second Buggre All This server fall exchange gift for hapax, who also asked for historical hats and silly costumes lol

Little gomens illustration I did to figure out image overlaying in CSP! I love vintage greeting cards and 1920s Halloween costumes🧡 I did this while I was working on some other Halloween paintings for an exchange, which I'll post later, where I had to choose some other vintage costumes for the lads, but I didn't want to pass up my idea for a witch Aziraphale and clown Crowley lol