CJ Yeates
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CJ Yeates
@cjyeates.bsky.social
📚 Writer of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror
🧬 Neuroscience PhD | 🎨 Artist | They/them
✍️ Currently querying: space fantasy with a queer love story

Find me elsewhere: https://bio.site/cjyeates
Made a couple pour paintings today. I didn’t pour them at the same time, but the patterns ended up matching really well. May keep them as a set like this.
May 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Done with my painting of the anomaly from #Arcane! This was a lot of fun, basically one big experiment. Acrylic paint with a ton of modeling paste and also beads for texture and color variation.
March 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Saturday Caturday.
March 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Texture painting experiment based on the anomaly from Arcane. I want to make a few more adjustments, but I need to let it dry.
March 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Sketch of an old character of mine. Seriously, I’ve had some version of this guy in my head for twenty years, and I am tempted yet again to resurrect an old comic project.

Eventually. For now I’m just trying to practice drawing faster.
February 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Just a sketch of a little dude inspired by both Flow and a fluffy black cat that lives in our neighborhood.
February 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
He was just staring at this patch of sunshine on the floor.
February 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Here’s a short timelapse, too. Gotta say, I wholeheartedly recommend doing an Arcane style study as an art exercise. It’s really fascinating to compare how the style works in characters with vastly different facial features.
February 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Self portrait in the Arcane style! I really sank some time into this one because I wanted to use it as painting practice. And as an excuse to stare at tons and tons of Arcane character art.
February 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
WINTER’S ORBIT X BALDUR’S GATE 3

Remy, a scholar of magical architecture, must work with Felix, a secretive sorcerer, to save a war-torn kingdom from a curse.

🌌 Space fantasy
🏛️ Archaeology
🌒 Celestial magic
❤️ Friends to lovers

#P2Ppit #Q #A #F
January 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
WINTER’S ORBIT X BALDUR’S GATE 3

Remy and Felix, two mages with a fractious friendship, must navigate interplanetary portal networks and face sorcerers wielding cosmic darkness to save a war-torn kingdom from a curse.

#P2Ppit #Q #A #F
January 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Also! I wanted to introduce my serialized novel. WE LEAPT INTO THE SKY is a sci-fi serial that I wrote and illustrated. It’s like my love letter to academia—created to mark my transition from laboratory researcher to writer.

In that spirit, it’s free to read on my website and on World Anvil.
1/2
January 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
WINTER’S ORBIT x BALDUR’S GATE 3

Remy, a scholar of magical architecture, must work with Felix, a secretive sorcerer, to save a war-torn kingdom from a curse.

🪐 Space fantasy
📚 Academia
🌒 Shadow magic
🏛️ Ancient ruins
🌌 Interplanetary portals
❤️ Friends to lovers

#BluePit 📖 #A #Q #F #LGBT
January 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Remy and Felix, two mages with a fractious friendship and powers as different as light and darkness, must navigate ancient interplanetary portal networks and the echoes of their pasts to save a war-torn kingdom from a curse.

#BluePit 📖 #Q #A #F #LGBT
January 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My pretty tiefling, my partner’s half-elf, and our usual crew.
January 12, 2025 at 5:26 AM
A little guy looking out the window.
January 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
In other news, I definitely like #Arcane and Viktor in particular a normal amount.
January 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Here are a couple portraits of Felix and Remy, the main characters in the space fantasy novel I’m currently querying.

#drawing #illustration #CharacterArt #CharacterPortrait
December 19, 2024 at 12:43 AM
A recent portrait of my character Elias, a professor of magic and the protagonist of my newest fantasy manuscript.

#characterart #drawing #illustration
December 17, 2024 at 5:08 PM