Kelsi Jo Silva

Fall in Hades

Where death and growth join together again 🧡

Sketch concept for my November postcard Club! We're back to Hades and Persephone this month!

The Hovel--October Edition!

My Dearest and Loveliest Patrons,

It is once again a month turned over. We’re now in October. The weather has begun cool from warm, late-summer days to the auspice of fall, calling on winter’s frost. It isn’t uncommon for us to see the first snow in October, though the weather hasn’t hinted at turning quite so dramatically. I’ve lived here long enough to know that winter doesn’t...

Client Work--finished!

Hello everyone. Here is the finished art of the endpapers I've been working on. These will be for one of Rainbow Crates future boxes!

Endpapers update!

Hello everyone,

A while ago I posted about this client work. I'm almost finished with it, and just baaarely on deadline (Tomorrow). I have here the linework and flat color. All that's left to do is add lighting and that Special Sparkle!

I'll update you with the finished art when I have it!

Thanks f ok r sticking around while I've been quiet this month ♥️

Bookshop 😏

Hello everyone,

After picking at this for a long while, it is finished!

This will be the Postcard for October, so please join the Forbidden Fruits tier if you're interested!

THE HOVEL--August Newsletter

Hello lovelies,

It is once again the beginning of a new month! Well, it’s closer to the middle, but I’m only just now sitting down to write out my newsletter.

I’m writing this on a train, which, as an American who hasn’t spent much time outside of my own country, remains a novelty. I’ve spent a lot of time in cars, and on planes, but I can count my train rides on one hand. ...

BOOKSHOP-line art

Hello all, I've been picking at these witches on and off all month, before and after my normal work day ♥️

New work!

Hello Everyone!

I am currently working on some end pages for Rainbow Crate, and I thought I would share the process of working on them with all of you!

The first step is always quick sketches. For me, these are very quick, just to give the client an idea of what the composition will be. They can then choose from my quick sketches, you can see here the circled drawings are the sketches I'm going to take to finish.

let me know if you have any questions about working...

THE HOVEL--AUGUST NEWSLETTER!

Hello lads (gender neutral),

I’m late this month on my Newsletter. I don’t have a specific date other than vaguely in the first week that I’m meant to be writing it, so ‘late’ is maybe a bit dramatic. I’m not ‘late,’ by any actual measure of time, and I don’t have a real deadline. That being said, this is the latest in the month I’ve managed to write it since starti...

Witches in the window.

Happy August, folks.

This will likely be the September Postcard, if I don't get around to drawing something better!

August Postcard!

Hello darlings!

Here is the postcard for August! It's more Bury our Bones fanart.... Or just Georgian era vampires if you haven't read the book.

Join the Forbidden Fruits tier by July 31st to get a print in the mail!

Bury our Bones fanart

Alice and Charlotte from VE Schwabs latest ♥️ I loved this book.

The Hovel--July Newsletter!

(photo credit: Binky.and.crumb on Instagram)

Hello Babes,

It’s July now, and Summer has successfully settled over Colorado. These are the dry months here, where the lack of humidity acts as the only consolation for how hot it gets. These are times to play in the river (it’s a creek, but let me have it), where the water is still ice-cold despite the summer heat, or to hike moun...

IM BAAAAACK!

Hi everyone!

June was one of the most mentally trying months to live in America. I hope you all made it through safely and were able to take some time to celebrate.

I did some endpaper illustrations for Rainbow Crate that I can't share publicly yet, but you can see them 😘 I'll talk more about these two when they announce the box they're from. In the meantime, please enjoy.

THE HOVEL--June Newsletter!

Hello my Sweets,

Can I call you that? I’m going to. It’s Pride Month and therefore no one can get mad at me—virtually by law.

We are a few days off of the first, but still close enough that I don’t feel entirely like I’ve missed the deadline. Three days late is still on time when you work for yourself. (While I would not recommend that mindset to anyone just starting to work f...

Payments paused for Pride!

Hi all,

I just wanted to pop in to say that I am pausing payments and taking my first break from Patreon since starting around 3 years ago.

I'll be back in July, don't fret! I'll explain more in the newsletter (coming tomorrow!) but mostly, I want to focus on my projects, and making the best books I can without worrying about owing you all any updates or new work.

I hope you all have a restful Pride month ❤️

Snippet of HEARTACHE!

Hello everyone!

I have been absent this month, and I’m really sorry for that. When did it suddenly become the 30th, and why haven’t I had time to draw anything for my patrons T__T??

I’m working very hard right now on my graphic novel HEARTACHE, and I was able to turn in the first pass of sketches earlier week. It’s SUCH a relief to be done with that initial pass. For me, the hardest part of any piece of creative work is the ideas—it’s the sketching phase, the part wh...

June Postcard!!

Happy Mermay, kids! Join the Forbidden Fruits tier by May 31st if you want one of these 😘

The Hovel--May Newsletter!

Hello Everyone,

It’s the beginning of a new month, and the beginning of True Spring here in Colorado. The first half of spring here is always a game of chicken with the weather. It will be warm for weeks in a row and then dump three inches of snow seemingly at random. I always think of this as Persephone’s reluctance to leave Hades—her slow, weary return to the upper lands. Like Persep...

Hades and Persephone

What's this? TWO smut drawings in one month?! 😱 Like I always plan but have been struggling to accomplish? Why, yes. Thank you loyal patrons, I'm doing my best.

Gardening season ♥️♥️

The Postcard Club piece for this may. I'm a bit late with it, but I got there!

Join the Forbidden Fruits tier by April 30th if you want one!!

Love bites ♥️

I'm trying to sooth something inside of myself. Something hungry. Something wild.

The Hovel--April Newsletter!

 

Hello all, and welcome back to the Hovel. Month three, and I think this thing just might be a sustainable practice for me.

It’s the last day of March, and once again I’m writing the this all in a single sitting. In school, I was always one of the students hurriedly doing my homework in the class before it was due, so I already knew this about myself. I thought, perhaps, after sever...

I'M SO SORRY THIS TOOK ME SO LONG TO FINISH.

Thank you all for sticking around while I'm mostly absent this month. Ill tell you all about it in the newsletter but a LOT has happened!

Please enjoy the tieflings in the meantime.

Mermaid--April postcard club update!

Hi all, I was hoping to be able to draw something entirely new for this month's postcard, but I haven't had the time at. All. So I'll be using this mermaid as the April print!

I hope you all enjoy her anyway 😘

Mermaid

Just a mermaid, for no real reason ♥️

The Hovel-March Newsletter!

WELCOME

Hello, and welcome back to my news-letter-like venture, or just welcome to those who missed last month’s update. It’s my second month of this little space, and in my head, I’ve started calling it The Hovel, based on the opening paragraphs from last month. I like it—a grounding title to something that’s still very new.

I live in Colorado, wh...

More DND smut.

Not the last of it, either.

March Postcard/ Happy Valentines Day!

Hi all! Here is the Postcard for March! Join the Forbidden Fruits Tier by Feb 28th to claim one.

This one really pleases my inner child, and I hope you'll love it just as much.

Baby's First Newsletter!

Welcome!

It’s February, and it feels like the entire world has been holding its breath for a month straight. January is always a little like that, an anxious threshold standing between the true beginnings of the year. This year, that vestibule held a lot of weight. I feel it in the heavy center of every conversation, and at the edges of every day, wrapped in the comfort of my bedding where anxious thoughts sap at my sleep. It feels as if everything might collapse, and it is...