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A.R. Ivanovich

@arivanovich.bsky.social

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Author of HAVEN, PAPERGLASS, MONARCH, and LASTLAND (The War of Princes series is undergoing a 3rd edition). ♠️✨🌿📚 YA Fantasy & Sci-fi. Artist. Poet. Gamer. Nature lover. Introvert with spasms of extroversion. Creative instigator. (she/her)

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A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · Nov 20

Time to share some art! I painted this long ago, imagining a scene I’d written in my book HAVEN (The War of Princes). Dylan and Kat race across the beach at Breakwater, a military hover-ship in the distance. #ArtSky #BookSky

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A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · 1d

Your art never ceases to stun me! It’s always so lovely and cinematic. 🩵✨

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A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Thanksgiving my friend! 🍁🎉

A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · 1d

Ohh thanks Jeff!! 🫂✨ It’s good to be back!

A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · 2d

Drawing with sharp objects.

All things are connected.

#artyear #scratchart #art #traditional

Black and white scratch art depicting two panels of twinkling stars, framing a patch of grass with a plant growing and reaching for the dot-and-dash beams of sunlight radiating from above.

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A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · 2d

Haha Thank you, I think I will!

A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · 2d

I second this!

A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · 2d

😂 I fear! I fear!! I tremble in the glory of the power of anime!

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A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sending you a big, big hug my darling. I’m sorry it’s so difficult. I wish this world was kinder and more fair. You’re beautiful and wonderful and you deserve to be happy and feel like yourself.

Art is oxygen. It keeps so many of us breathing. Thank you for making yours. 🩵

A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · 2d

Late insomnia nights are excellent for writing.

The pairing of darkness and silence leaves plenty of space to be colored by imagination.

#night #writing

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A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · 3d

Hahaha You and me both! 😅😅

A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · 3d

🔥🖤💥

Satisfying pew-pew!!

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A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · 3d

A possible aurora seeped through the clouds the other night. There was nothing but pasture and trees beneath it.

Whatever it was, it was beautiful. 💜

#nature

Night blackened trees reach up toward a vivid and eerie magenta light, saturating the heart of voluminous white-gray clouds.

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A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · Sep 9

Oh good! Ty!!

A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · Sep 8

@holyhera.bsky.social, @mcleansix.bsky.social, @robynn.bsky.social

Thank you for the feedback! I'm glad you guys like it! 🖤✨

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A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · Sep 7

Love those days! When the story wants to write itself.

A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · Sep 7

Simplicity.

I thought about filling this scratch art with detail… but I kind of like the negative space too.

#art #artyear #starry

A black sheet of scratch paper has been scraped to reveal the white layer beneath. A triangle is filled with chime-like vertical lines ending in dots and dashes. The triangle top is crowned by a circle filled with stars. Two curving lines seem to radiate from the triangle beneath the circle and the negative space is resounding.

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A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · Sep 3

…Absolute perfection. ✨

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A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · Aug 27

Sketching with sharp objects again. 🖤✨

#scratchart #art #artyear #doodle

Black scratch paper has been scraped with an xacto craft knife, illustrating a sharply pointed triangle filled with asymmetrical subjects. Arrows and cut flowers rain down on a trio of weeping eyes, while plants grow and unfurl from below. A single spearhead points upward at the peak of triangle.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · Aug 22

Hope some good shit happens to you tomorrow.

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A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · Aug 22

Oh hell yeah!!

A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · Aug 21

This is looking amazing!! I'm not sure about what the background should be, but I love where it's going!

A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · Aug 20

Such beautiful craftsmanship! I wouldn’t have wanted to leave either!

A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · Aug 20

Rolling up my sleeves for final edits.

There are so many details to track in original world fantasy epics. Keeping organized notes is imperative! Every edit requires note updates. An encyclopedia is beginning to take shape!

#writing #writingcommunity #fantasy

A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · Aug 17

Nope, just a wild little guy on a deck under a plum tree, chilling.

A.R. Ivanovich @arivanovich.bsky.social · Aug 17

A beetle and a wild plum.

The beetle knows to keep their friends close and their snacks closer!

#outdoors #nature

A small wild plum sits beside a black beetle on weathered wooden planks.

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