Nilah Ate the Blog

Illustration, books, and baking… probably

All Tweeted Out

There’s this thing about Twitter. And I know, like, one of the weird quirks of Twitter is you’re in this space occupied by millions of other people the majority of whom you don’t know personally and will never know past…

Burdened with glorious purpose...

Tricking My Way Through NaNoWriMo

Note: I originally wrote this post in 2013 for another blog, but I still find the contents to reflect my own approach to NaNoWriMo, so I’m reviving the post here on my own blog. Welp, it’s almost November, which for…

from the camera roll: coal, all ready for a quiet, relaxing morning

Why am I here, again?

I started this blog to stay focused. What I mean to say: I left Facebook and Twitter. It felt like they were consuming too much of my life, and I needed a break. It’s a hard transition. Back in the…

Character Design and Consistency

So, one thing I’ve grown to appreciate since starting a comic is it’s really, REALLY easy to go off-model. Most (all?) sequential artists and animators know this. And now I’m gonna try to talk about it ahahahaha *sobs* So when…