Rovina Cai
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Hi! I'm Rovina and I like poetic imagery and swishy lines. ✨
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Aahh I can finally share this: I got to draw a sad gothic lady! My favourite subject! 😭
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I'm in the mood for something gothic. ...er, more so than usual? ✨
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A respite from your doomscrolling...
Here's an old piece from 2016 inspired by Marianne North, a 19th century explorer and botanical artist, who travelled the world in search of flowers.
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(Just updating my pinned post)
Hi! I'm Rovina and I like poetic imagery and swishy lines. 🍃
Portfolio:
Instagram:
Prints:
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I love this drawing by Ludwig Rösch. So atmospheric, so gothic. 😍
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Old work from a few years ago - Fake it till you make it!
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Random periodic reminder that this is one of my favourite paintings of all time. Everything is so perfect.
Edwin Austin Abbey, 'Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and the Lady Anne' (1896).
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Jumping on the bandwagon of people who didn't get into SoI this year. I realise my work probably isn't a great fit for the annual, but I like entering anyway. Here are some of my rejected pieces, just because I'm especially proud of the work I've been doing this year :)
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I'm completely in love with this modernised Hanfu look! It's also great inspiration for illustration; I feel like my characters are always wearing boring clothes 😅
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Currently trying to draw the most poetic birds possible. Maximum poetry.
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HELLO. My first Magic card got previewed!!
It's one of the Mystical Archives cards from Strixhaven. AD Tom Jenkot.
I’m sitting on a years worth of Magic art right now, it's so good to finally be able to show one of them 🥳
#MTGStrixhaven
#MTGSTX
#mtgart
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It appears my specialty for MtG is illustrating people breaking apart into tiny pieces :D
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Hi! I'm Rovina and I like poetic imagery and swishy lines. Always open to working on book, editorial, or otherwise interesting projects. Say hello at: hi
@rovinacai
.com
Website:
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Hi
#VisibleWomen
! I'm Rovina and I like poetic imagery and swishy lines. ✨
Portfolio:
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Omg I'm in love! Found these on Pinterest, but I *think* they are traditional Norwegian folk costumes? With a contemporary twist? They are from Eva Lie Design.
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Exciting news: I'm illustrating a special limited edition of Coraline by
@neilhimself
! This edition is being produced by
@lyrasbooks
, a fine press publisher and bookbinder based in the UK. There will be 16 colour illustrations, and a bunch of silhouettes. [1/4]
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I recently got to illustrate the cover for The Witcher: Tower of Swallows! It's part of a hardcover set being released by
@orbitbooks
. Every cover in the series is illustrated by a different artist - which is *such* a cool idea :)
Thanks to
@planetpinto
for the art direction!
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New personal piece; 'Queen of the Ashes' 🐲 This was a chance to experiment with flat shapes and negative space - both things that I've been trying to push further in my work. I'm quite pleased with how it turned out! ✨
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Hey
#visiblewomen
, I'm Rovina and I like lines and shapes. I also like tangled branches, haunted museums, and all things gothic. ✨💀✨
Portfolio:
Instagram:
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I'm VERY excited to share this cover art, for a special edition of The Once and Future Witches by
@alixeharrow
, to be published by
@SubPress
next year.
The book won't be out for a while, so details will follow later - I just wanted to post something witchy for Halloween!
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Drag Under 🌊 for MTG Shadows Over Innistrad Remastered. AD: Zack Stella
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I miss the internet circa 2011, when not everything was on fire, and people seemed nicer, and we weren't all slaves to the algorithm gods. So here's some of my old art from that time, relics of a bygone era 🙃
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Heritage Druid ✨ for the MTG 30th Anniversary Countdown Kit Secret Lair. AD Tom Jenkot.
This one has some fun elements to it, so here's a 🧵 about it:
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Here's my second piece for Strixhaven Mystical Archives!
I know my style is not something you'd usually expect in Magic, so to see that people actually liked the first piece means the world to me. Thank you all so much!
#MTGStrixhaven
#mtgart
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I had an amazing dream last night where I was exploring an old city at night. There was some sort of festival going on with weird art installations, it was magical. 😭 The dream was basically like this illustration, which was inspired by a midnight walk around Prague...
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In case you missed these earlier - I got to draw some dragons! For the first three books in the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik. 🐉
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An Avian Alphabet by Elizabeth Rashley. Inky Parrot Press, 1996.
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I am thrilled to have these two pieces accepted into the Society of Illustrators annual!
Coincidentally both pieces feature towers, maybe that is the trick to getting in. 😅
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For
#InternationalWomensDay
I thought I'd share the beautiful bird paintings of Jessie Arms Botke. Which I've somehow only just discovered🤔
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New art ✨ Cover for the Subterranean Press edition of Witch King by Martha Wells.
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Just realised that Halloween is almost upon us, so I only have a few days left to share spooky art 😱
Here's an illustration from 2015, for a short story - 'Tom, Thom', by K.M. Ferebee. One of my first jobs, and possibly still one of my favourites?!
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More spooky (or gothic) art! Fading Hope, for MTG Innistrad: Midnight Hunt.
I think Innistrad might be one of my favourite planes ✨🧛♀️✨
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Currently watching season 3 of The Witcher, so I guess it's a good time to repost this cover I did for The Tower of Swallows ✨
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I have something super exciting to share: my Artist Series
@MTGSecretLair
!
My AD Tom Jenkot said I could create whatever I wanted, and I thought "what if Magic cards were tarot cards?!" ✨
So here are 4 Magic cards made to look like antique (possibly cursed) tarot cards...
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Plot twist, these two pieces were accepted into the Society of Illustrators annual!
I can't believe a MTG piece got in. I always feel like my work is too fantasy-oriented for SoI, but not fantasy enough for Magic, lol.
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In my latest Muddy Colors post, I share a bunch of unedited drawings, so you can see what they look like before I add colour, shading, textures and flat shapes! ✏️
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New art! For a beautiful, lyrical book by Sarah Tolmie, from
@TorDotComPub
, with thanks to AD
@CFoltzer
✨
The story is set in Ireland, but I looked at lots of Japanese prints to figure out how to arrange compositional elements for maximum ~*POETRY*~... I hope it worked ☺️
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QRT with your art with the moon in it.
Moons are great for composition & framing. 🌙
QRT with your art with the moon in it. 🌙
I thought I had loads of moon pics, turns out I do not. This is my fave of those I do have though.
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I don't post my old work enough, so here's a throwback. This piece was inspired by a short story by Nicola Griffith, 'Cold Wind'. It was an assignment for the Illustration Master Class in 2014, when I was still a newbie trying to figure out my style.
I miss those days.
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I want to do more weird/surreal imagery. 🤔 Anyway this is from 2018, an illustration for a short story; 'The Word of Flesh and Soul' by Ruthanna Emrys.
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It was
#internationalmuseumday
yesterday, so thought I'd share this older piece, 'Museum Magic'. I basically took a bunch of sketches from my sketchbook, done at various museums around the world, and combined them into a finished illustration. ✨
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Happy Halloween!
Here's more spooky art! Clawing Torment for MTG Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty. The art description called for a piece inspired by Japanese horror films.
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'How The King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories' by
@hollyblack
is out today! ✨
I'll share some interiors later, but for now, I just wanted to post the cover with some closeups of the characters ....ok let's be honest, I actually just wanted to post my new plants again.🌿
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New to me; the strange and haunting paintings of Edwin Dickinson (1891–1978).
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My Ephemerate drawing is now on MtG Art Market, ending Thursday:
(Tendrils of Agony is still up, that one ends on Tuesday!)
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Halloween seems to be the perfect time to share this new piece! It's for a gothic novel by debut author Tani Loo called 'Ivywood Manor', published by
@BrainMillPress
. This was a joy to work on, because it's basically all of my favourite things, combined into one image.
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One more thing from
#MTGMidnight
- this was used for the prerelease insert. It’s a poster "advertising" the Harvesttide Festival, which is an in-game story event… thing? I have no idea how to describe this to both people who play Magic and also people who don’t 😅 (1/2)
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Who's looking forward to the season finale of House of the Dragon?
Here's a kinda-GoT-inspired piece from 2019 🐲
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I'm a few days late, but it was Emily Bronte's birthday last week, which is always a good time to repost these Wuthering Heights illustrations that I did for the
@foliosociety
in 2014. 🍃
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Thought I'd do a process post! Sometimes I work completely digitally, but for all the Mystical Archives pieces, I did a pencil drawing, with digital colour.
Here's how Tendrils of Agony came together (thread):
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So I actually did one more Mystical Archive card. This one is part of a Secret Lair drop:
Again, many thanks to AD Tom Jenkot! These were some of my favourite things to work on last year :)
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Interior illustration & accompanying spot for 'The Seventh Raven' by David Elliott, out March 16, 2021 from
@HMHteen
. I love doing weird layout/shape things with interior art! 1/2
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'Night' ✨ A small piece for the upcoming LOCALS show at
@outregallery
, which opens tomorrow!
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I got to draw a magpie! Wearing spectacles!! In an antique shop!!!
(The first of three spots for Lost in the Moment and Found by
@seananmcguire
)
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Have you ever woken up from a vivid dream, and had the feelings and thoughts from the dream linger well into your day? ✨
The 'Traces' art book is available today from
@BLCKDRGNPRSS
(), and I'm honoured to contribute this piece to it.
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Just realised I never posted the full art for this: Cover illustration for Foul Days by
@gen_dimova
, published by
@torbooks
, with art direction and design by Jamie Stafford-Hill. 🔥
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Obscure illustration tip: Come up with a good signature, and make sure it's easy to sign 700 times 😅
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Not buying or selling anything today, just sharing some art :) Here's one of my favourite pages that I had the pleasure of illustrating from 'The Wind in the Wall' by
@TheSallyGardner
. I don't often use bright colours, but when I do, I use all of them 🙃
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Rose O'Neill appreciation post. She's known for her Kewpies and monster drawings, but her other illustrations are equally amazing. I've just noticed this - the way she draws faces is so engaging and expressive!
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I recently did a cool project illustrating endpapers; they're printed w/ UV ink, so some areas are revealed only when exposed to light! It's for a book created by
@KobeBryant
(!) The book is called 'Legacy and the Queen', written by Kobe and Annie Matthew, published by
@granity
.
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This outfit. This is too magical for words. I can't decide if I want to wear it, or to illustrate it. 😍
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Hmm I really miss doing experimental book arts stuff like this.
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I'm thrilled that The Giant and the Sea, written by
@trentonomicon
and illustrated by yours truly, has won the
@Wilderness_Aus
Environment Award for Children’s Literature!
This seems like a great opportunity to share some more art from the book :)
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Just a reminder that I'm on Cara (@ rovinacai)! I've been posting a lot of fun/interesting old work, like this accordion book experiment :)
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Illustrations for the Subterranean Press edition of The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow, published in 2022. I don't think I've ever shared the b&w images 🙃
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FYI I have prints of my Secret Lair art available here:
And I plan on doing sketched & painted APs once I get them (which may take a couple months)!
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Creepy witches! For Innistrad: Midnight Hunt. AD: Taylor Ingvarsson.
I thought all the cards I did were in Crimson Vow, but I guess not? So I'll possibly have more art to share soon?
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Actual picture of me trying to keep up with social media and my projects and life right now.
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One last
#MTGStrixhaven
Mystical Archives piece!
I don't think I've mentioned this yet, but these were supposed to be inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts, with emphasis on decorative framing elements & simplified forms. A bit different from my normal work, but very fun!
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Frankenstein's Monster, created for the Month of Fear art challenge in 2015 💀
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I've come out of hibernation to post some art. Not sure if people still do that here these days..... but I drew some ravens 🤷🏻♀️ 1/2
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In case you didn't know about The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones - it's a 19th century book on decorative motifs and is fantastic for illustration reference.
I just found a bunch of high res scans from the NYPL! 😍
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