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Rovina Cai @rovinacai.bsky.social · Aug 1

I have a sketched AP of Inalla, Archmage Ritualist available in the Commander Sealed Charity Auction ✨ Proceeds go towards the Trevor Project and Trans Lifeline. The auction is now open, and will end on September 7th!

app.auctria.com/Redirect/bd2...

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Rovina Cai @rovinacai.bsky.social · Sep 1

I have no idea how I ended up here, but I've fallen down a rabbit hole looking at ridiculously extravagant UK property listings. Look at this omg 😭

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Nathan Fowkes Art @nathanfowkes.com · Aug 28

Watercolor.

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Wraithmarked Creative @wraithmarked.bsky.social · Aug 26

There are only 3 days left to back @naominovik.bsky.social's A DEADLY EDUCATION Full-Color Illustrated Deluxe Edition!

This is the ONLY chance you'll have to pick them up at $110 before they go as high as $140.

Link in our bio and below!
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Art by @rovinacai.bsky.social
Design by STK Kreations

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Rovina Cai @rovinacai.bsky.social · Aug 19

The book is a contemporary horror set in nyc, exploring anti-asian racism during the pandemic.

While I'm not usually a fan of horror (there's a difference between horror vs gothic, but that's an essay for another day), this was a nice change of pace & it was fun illustrating a spooky subway ghost.

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Rovina Cai @rovinacai.bsky.social · Aug 19

Jacket cover for the @evernightbooks.bsky.social edition of Bat Eater by Kylie Lee Baker.

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V @visceralhit.bsky.social · Aug 6

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

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Rovina Cai @rovinacai.bsky.social · Aug 18

"The programme will launch in autumn 2026 with Our Strange Duet by Erin A Craig, a YA reimagining of the story that will bring a new voice to Christine Daaé, a central part of the iconic Phantom canon".

PLEASE who do I beg at Penguin to let me illustrate this????? 😭

Phantom of the Opera to be adapted in ‘multi-book, global deal’ with PRH

LW Entertainment has entered into a partnership with Penguin Random House to expand the Phantom of the Opera franchise into a “new worldwide book publishing programme.

www.thebookseller.com

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Rovina Cai @rovinacai.bsky.social · Aug 12

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Rovina Cai @rovinacai.bsky.social · Aug 7

Posting this old bookbinding project to remind myself to get back into bookbinding! I wish there were more opportunities for weird/unique things like this in illustration; maybe for a super-special-very-limited edition book? ✨

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Rovina Cai @rovinacai.bsky.social · Aug 1

I have a sketched AP of Inalla, Archmage Ritualist available in the Commander Sealed Charity Auction ✨ Proceeds go towards the Trevor Project and Trans Lifeline. The auction is now open, and will end on September 7th!

app.auctria.com/Redirect/bd2...

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Wraithmarked Creative @wraithmarked.bsky.social · Jul 25

Yes! @naominovik.bsky.social's A DEADLY EDUCATION is shipping outside the US/CA! Sorry for the scare!

To celebrate, here's the reverse jacket illustration done by the amazing @rovinacai.bsky.social!

Sign up for a launch reminder via the link in our bio and below! Coming Aug 5 at 9am ET!

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Rovina Cai @rovinacai.bsky.social · Jul 12

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Rovina Cai @rovinacai.bsky.social · Jul 12

Weftwalking 💫 For MTG Edge of Eternities.
AD Taylor Ingvarsson.

#mtg #mtgEoE

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Rovina Cai @rovinacai.bsky.social · Jul 9

I have too much new art to post, and am overwhelmed about which ones to post and where and how. So let me just post the curtains I (ok mostly @alexstoneart.bsky.social) just put up. 💪💪💪

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Rovina Cai @rovinacai.bsky.social · Jun 19

🎶 A whole new wooooorld 🎵 A new fantastic point of view ✨

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John Constable RA @johnconstablera.bsky.social · May 30

Good Day!
Windsor by Arthur Streeton 1904
Oil on Canvas
(National Gallery of Victoria)

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Rovina Cai @rovinacai.bsky.social · May 21

I really wish someone would publish special editions of Juliet Marillier's books. I mostly just want to own pretty versions of her books...... but also, I would die to illustrate them. 😍

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Sam Guay @samguayart.bsky.social · May 20

An old favorite of mine.

a watercolor painting of a person in a tangle of leaves and mushrooms. A gooey pomegranate is held over them and is being fed to them by decaying hands, while a skull hides among the foliage.

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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · May 13

cc: @tanaudel.bsky.social @rovinacai.bsky.social @abigaillarson.com @michaelwhelan.bsky.social @juliedillon.bsky.social @geraldbrom.bsky.social @alawinans.bsky.social /3

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Locus Mag: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror 2025

Celebrating and uplifting authors, artists, and story -- the guide to the world's imagination | Check out 'Locus Mag: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror 2025' on Indiegogo.

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Wraithmarked Creative @wraithmarked.bsky.social · May 8

After many months of delay, we FINALLY have our proofs in for V.E. Schwab's A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC Deluxe Edition!

The wait was worth it! These books look... genuinely incredible.

Buy below, or via "Our Past Projects" link in our bio!
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Art by @rovinacai.bsky.social
Design by STK Kreations

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John Constable RA @johnconstablera.bsky.social · Apr 25

He was Heavily Laden by Simon Palmer 1985
Watercolour, Gouache, Pen & Ink
(Private Collection)

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Subterranean Press @subpress.bsky.social · Apr 21

In stock and now shipping -- our signed, limited edition of @alixeharrow.bsky.social's STARLING HOUSE, featuring scads of art by @rovinacai.bsky.social! subterraneanpress.com/newsalix-e-h...

Alix E. Harrow's STARLING HOUSE Shipping Now!

Please make no mistake, Alix E. Harrow’s Starling House is a major novel, and we’ve gone all out with our production. Our edition of Starling House: Is printed in two colors throughout. F...

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Rovina Cai @rovinacai.bsky.social · Mar 3

I also created an illustration to go across the spines, featuring a tessellated pattern (inspired by Escher) turning from garinafins to airships! ✨

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Rovina Cai @rovinacai.bsky.social · Mar 3

I have to remember to post here more often 🤔 Here are some recent cover illustrations, for a new paperback edition of the Dandelion Dynasty series by Ken Liu!

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