Theresa Arzola
@thispapercloud.bsky.social
Graphic novelist and freelance illustrator. I mostly post random sketches and crochet hobby stuff here…
💠 Portfolio: http://TheresaArzola.com
💠 Linktree: http://linktr.ee/theresaarzola
💠 Portfolio: http://TheresaArzola.com
💠 Linktree: http://linktr.ee/theresaarzola
Needed a break from all this Kickstarter prep for Beyond the Road… Meet one of my OCs. Serra - a half-elf dragonic bloodline sorceress whose details I can’t currently pull from my tired brain. A traveler with a highborn past. Originally made for BG3. Hoping to player her in a D&D game one day.
January 10, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Needed a break from all this Kickstarter prep for Beyond the Road… Meet one of my OCs. Serra - a half-elf dragonic bloodline sorceress whose details I can’t currently pull from my tired brain. A traveler with a highborn past. Originally made for BG3. Hoping to player her in a D&D game one day.
It's official. "Beyond the Road" launches on Kickstarter on 1/28! 🙌
This is the project I spent all of 2025 drawing. Kickstarter will help fund the FIRST PRINT RUN! Excited to be making this real!
Use the "Notify Me" button on the page to follow along!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...
This is the project I spent all of 2025 drawing. Kickstarter will help fund the FIRST PRINT RUN! Excited to be making this real!
Use the "Notify Me" button on the page to follow along!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...
Coming soon: Beyond the Road – A Graphic Memoir | READY TO PRINT
A true story, 110-page full-color comic about rediscovering adventure with chronic illness through a 4-day campervan trip.
www.kickstarter.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:28 AM
It's official. "Beyond the Road" launches on Kickstarter on 1/28! 🙌
This is the project I spent all of 2025 drawing. Kickstarter will help fund the FIRST PRINT RUN! Excited to be making this real!
Use the "Notify Me" button on the page to follow along!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...
This is the project I spent all of 2025 drawing. Kickstarter will help fund the FIRST PRINT RUN! Excited to be making this real!
Use the "Notify Me" button on the page to follow along!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...
I bought myself a manga inking kit (dip pen & nibs with test illustration cards) and decided to play a bit. It’s a lot easier to use than I remember! Or else muscle memory kicked in. 😄 I will note the included (deleter?) paper makes a huge difference. Less snagging and stray fibers in the pen…!
January 6, 2026 at 1:53 AM
I bought myself a manga inking kit (dip pen & nibs with test illustration cards) and decided to play a bit. It’s a lot easier to use than I remember! Or else muscle memory kicked in. 😄 I will note the included (deleter?) paper makes a huge difference. Less snagging and stray fibers in the pen…!
Here’s to 2025! I like seeing these collages from the art accounts I follow, so wanted to create one too. I was primarily working on Beyond the Road last year, but did do a couple of character illustrations (mostly for D&D 😍).
January 4, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Here’s to 2025! I like seeing these collages from the art accounts I follow, so wanted to create one too. I was primarily working on Beyond the Road last year, but did do a couple of character illustrations (mostly for D&D 😍).
It’s the last day of the 2025 year…! I did a blog post reflecting on all the highlights from the year as well as made a semi-announcement regarding Beyond the Road.
www.thispapercloud.com/2025/12/30/e...
www.thispapercloud.com/2025/12/30/e...
End of 2025 Review
We’re at the end of 2025. I figured it’s a good time to look back and see how it all went. Overall, things have been… busy. Pretty work-heavy, with some of that work bleeding into 2026 (more …
www.thispapercloud.com
January 1, 2026 at 2:22 AM
It’s the last day of the 2025 year…! I did a blog post reflecting on all the highlights from the year as well as made a semi-announcement regarding Beyond the Road.
www.thispapercloud.com/2025/12/30/e...
www.thispapercloud.com/2025/12/30/e...
Parents are in town for Christmas and with mom comes mom food. I am spoiled. This is just day 1! 😋
December 25, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Parents are in town for Christmas and with mom comes mom food. I am spoiled. This is just day 1! 😋
Reposted by Theresa Arzola
RIPPLE EFFECTS is an Eisner & Harvey Awards-nominated Graphic Medicine series that explores life as a superhero with an invisible disability - available in print as a softcover with a foreword by Harvard Medical School’s @noethematt.bsky.social!
fanbasepress.ecrater.com/p/39178444/r...
fanbasepress.ecrater.com/p/39178444/r...
December 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
RIPPLE EFFECTS is an Eisner & Harvey Awards-nominated Graphic Medicine series that explores life as a superhero with an invisible disability - available in print as a softcover with a foreword by Harvard Medical School’s @noethematt.bsky.social!
fanbasepress.ecrater.com/p/39178444/r...
fanbasepress.ecrater.com/p/39178444/r...
Cafe sketching on a rainy day.
I forgot my white pen, but found an old speck of titanium white gouache on my palette so rewetted and used that instead. 😅
I forgot my white pen, but found an old speck of titanium white gouache on my palette so rewetted and used that instead. 😅
December 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Cafe sketching on a rainy day.
I forgot my white pen, but found an old speck of titanium white gouache on my palette so rewetted and used that instead. 😅
I forgot my white pen, but found an old speck of titanium white gouache on my palette so rewetted and used that instead. 😅
🚐 The comic is complete! All the pages of Beyond the Road have been drawn 🎉.
I guess next steps is… printing! Gonna be brainstorming this part a bit.
I guess next steps is… printing! Gonna be brainstorming this part a bit.
December 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
🚐 The comic is complete! All the pages of Beyond the Road have been drawn 🎉.
I guess next steps is… printing! Gonna be brainstorming this part a bit.
I guess next steps is… printing! Gonna be brainstorming this part a bit.
I was wondering what happened to all my lamination sheets.... But wow! As a DM, I'm going to have fun testing these out in our next Daggerheart session!
#ttrpg #dnd #daggerheart
#ttrpg #dnd #daggerheart
My weekend #ttrpg/#dnd project: making magnetic map tiles with Picasso tiles. Will need to re-stock my wife's office supplies after this 🙈 www.tiktok.com/@ancientbuho...
December 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I was wondering what happened to all my lamination sheets.... But wow! As a DM, I'm going to have fun testing these out in our next Daggerheart session!
#ttrpg #dnd #daggerheart
#ttrpg #dnd #daggerheart
Unicycle riding party of chaos goblins traversing a jungle in Imarian - live D&D show at Fan Expo SF today. The improv singing is amazing 😂 !
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Unicycle riding party of chaos goblins traversing a jungle in Imarian - live D&D show at Fan Expo SF today. The improv singing is amazing 😂 !
Watched the 1st 3 episodes of Mighty Nein and wow… this show is like, Avatar the Last Airbender levels of good. I’m both angry and impatient that I have to wait a week for the next episode. 😆
Non CR fans are going to love this as much as the Critters. IMHO. 😍
Non CR fans are going to love this as much as the Critters. IMHO. 😍
If you all watch this show nine times that would make me happy
www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...
www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...
Watch The Mighty Nein - Season 1 | Prime Video
A group of outcasts, criminals and misfits stumble into saving the continent when an arcane relic capable of reshaping reality falls into the wrong hands.
www.amazon.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Watched the 1st 3 episodes of Mighty Nein and wow… this show is like, Avatar the Last Airbender levels of good. I’m both angry and impatient that I have to wait a week for the next episode. 😆
Non CR fans are going to love this as much as the Critters. IMHO. 😍
Non CR fans are going to love this as much as the Critters. IMHO. 😍
How do you procrastinate?
Me? I decided to try baking an “apple rose tart”. A gluten free, dairy free (and hey! I think this ended up vegan too!) apple rose tart.
Into the oven it goes. Pls come out okay…. 🙏
Me? I decided to try baking an “apple rose tart”. A gluten free, dairy free (and hey! I think this ended up vegan too!) apple rose tart.
Into the oven it goes. Pls come out okay…. 🙏
November 19, 2025 at 11:26 PM
How do you procrastinate?
Me? I decided to try baking an “apple rose tart”. A gluten free, dairy free (and hey! I think this ended up vegan too!) apple rose tart.
Into the oven it goes. Pls come out okay…. 🙏
Me? I decided to try baking an “apple rose tart”. A gluten free, dairy free (and hey! I think this ended up vegan too!) apple rose tart.
Into the oven it goes. Pls come out okay…. 🙏
I'm 2 sessions into DM-ing my 1st Daggerheart (and first TTRPG) campaign and really enjoying building out the world. I feel like I want to record the table adventures somewhere. Do people share their adventuring stories anywhere?
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I'm 2 sessions into DM-ing my 1st Daggerheart (and first TTRPG) campaign and really enjoying building out the world. I feel like I want to record the table adventures somewhere. Do people share their adventuring stories anywhere?
D&D night and my brain is distracted….
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 AM
D&D night and my brain is distracted….
Reposted by Theresa Arzola
📒 If you need help getting started on studying with Benkyo Box, or just want to learn more about what it can do, our manual is now available:
www.autorelease.io/benkyobox/ma...
Happy studies - for us is back to feature development 💪
www.autorelease.io/benkyobox/ma...
Happy studies - for us is back to feature development 💪
November 5, 2025 at 1:23 AM
📒 If you need help getting started on studying with Benkyo Box, or just want to learn more about what it can do, our manual is now available:
www.autorelease.io/benkyobox/ma...
Happy studies - for us is back to feature development 💪
www.autorelease.io/benkyobox/ma...
Happy studies - for us is back to feature development 💪
So not only did Affinity go "freemium" (which always has caveats), they stopped allowing you to purchase the previous version with the universal license a month earlier. :(
Heads up on the new Affinity program.
You can tell them not to use your content to train AI, BUT, there is another AI setting that is on by default until you turn it off.
You need to go to your account settings and switch it off. I just found it switched on by default.
You can tell them not to use your content to train AI, BUT, there is another AI setting that is on by default until you turn it off.
You need to go to your account settings and switch it off. I just found it switched on by default.
October 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
So not only did Affinity go "freemium" (which always has caveats), they stopped allowing you to purchase the previous version with the universal license a month earlier. :(
Reposted by Theresa Arzola
Manga Ichiba at FanimeCon 2026 is now accepting artist applications. If you’ve been dreaming of selling English-language doujinshi, submit your application now and bring your work to North America’s first dedicated doujinshi market. https://fani.mobi/manga-ichiba
October 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Manga Ichiba at FanimeCon 2026 is now accepting artist applications. If you’ve been dreaming of selling English-language doujinshi, submit your application now and bring your work to North America’s first dedicated doujinshi market. https://fani.mobi/manga-ichiba
Wow a manga/doujinshi event at Fanime 2026? Applications for mangaka and indie comic creators just went up today. www.fanime.com/exhibits/the...
Manga Ichiba
FanimeCon, Northern California’s largest anime convention, is proud to be “By Fans, For Fans”. Packed with nonstop video programming, extraordinary costumes, music, games, tournaments, panels, and ren...
www.fanime.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Wow a manga/doujinshi event at Fanime 2026? Applications for mangaka and indie comic creators just went up today. www.fanime.com/exhibits/the...
When you work near a busy intersection and decide to keep the windows open, you get to hear just how many assholes exist in the outside world. 🚗 🚓🤬🗯️🚦 🏎️ 🚖🚘🚔
October 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
When you work near a busy intersection and decide to keep the windows open, you get to hear just how many assholes exist in the outside world. 🚗 🚓🤬🗯️🚦 🏎️ 🚖🚘🚔
Game was a lot of fun! Had some technical issues with Foundry VTT (FYI it’s buggy on Safari), but it great getting to play with Ari in a haunted house 🎃 #DnDArt
About to play my first @startplaying.bsky.social 1-shot today - took the time to draw portraits for my (tiefling rogue) and @ancientbuho.bsky.social's (halfling wizard) characters before the game! Hoping this one goes well! 🤞 #dnd #dndart #ocart #dndoc #ocsky #skyart
October 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Game was a lot of fun! Had some technical issues with Foundry VTT (FYI it’s buggy on Safari), but it great getting to play with Ari in a haunted house 🎃 #DnDArt
About to play my first @startplaying.bsky.social 1-shot today - took the time to draw portraits for my (tiefling rogue) and @ancientbuho.bsky.social's (halfling wizard) characters before the game! Hoping this one goes well! 🤞 #dnd #dndart #ocart #dndoc #ocsky #skyart
October 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
About to play my first @startplaying.bsky.social 1-shot today - took the time to draw portraits for my (tiefling rogue) and @ancientbuho.bsky.social's (halfling wizard) characters before the game! Hoping this one goes well! 🤞 #dnd #dndart #ocart #dndoc #ocsky #skyart
TIL resizing & compressing in certain applications can blend out a lot of details. Case in point - My D&D character’s portrait, before photo adjustments and after.
October 20, 2025 at 6:51 AM
TIL resizing & compressing in certain applications can blend out a lot of details. Case in point - My D&D character’s portrait, before photo adjustments and after.
After several months of drawing in solitude, I've hit a huge milestone and finished drawing the pages for Beyond the Road! Here's a little blog post about that experience #comics #blog
Beyond the Road Graphic Novel – First Pass Reflection
October 4, 2025 marks the date I finished drawing all the pages for Beyond the Road! 🎉 Beyond the Road is my 80+ page graphic novel memoir about rediscovering adventure with chronic illness, told through the lens of a 4-day camper van trip. While I’ve worked on comics in the past (White Angel Vol 1 is still available to read on Tapas), this marks a personal milestone for me since it is my first fully self-contained and full-color book.
www.thispapercloud.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:11 AM