Crystal Yates
@glassgates
Illustrator. Story Teller. Homebody. Author & Artist of Earthsong, A Dance With Death, and The Storm Stained.
RIP legend. You were amazing in everything you did, but my favourite is always going to be Clue (closely followed by Muppet Treasure Island). Between you and Dolly, the world's a little dimmer this week.
Hey Toronto! I'm at TCAF all this weekend! You can find me at 220B on the 3rd floor of the Mattamy Centre!
Heck yes, I got into the Pin and Patch Show! ( www.instagram.com/pinandpatchs... ) I love doing a new show and getting to show all my dorky cryptid/monster/pun pins to new people :D
Calgary! I am at your Expo! Come see me at booth A410 in the artist alley (see previous post for a map)
Hey! I'm going to be at the Calgary Expo this Thurs-Sun! Booth A410 in the Artist Alley. Come by and say hi if you're there!
I'll be at the Calgary Comic Con this weekend! I've got a bunch of new sticker sheets and prints that'll be available. These cuties are part of my Candy Creatures sticker sheet - you can see the rest of them on Instagram ^_^
I spent an unreasonable amount of time making a cute little animation of Willow and Tristram, but I'm having issues posting it here, so you're gonna have to go check it out on my Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DVZSN3HCVKE/
Spent the morning feeding a flock of my favourite feathered friends. They were ravenous, if you can say that about chickadees. Had 4 on my hand at once several times. Froze my poor fingers off, 100% worth it
Anyhow! Here's a Beholder Paladin from my "Critters With Class" sticker sheet that I just finished up. 5 more cute/funny mashups will be popping up on my Instagram over the next few days 👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️
The world's best desk mat arrived today. My nerdy little hearts sings ✨🌌🚀
Hey! I'm at Hal-con in Halifax all this weekend! Come see me at booth I3. I won't have any comics with me, alas, but I've got everything else!
Only just saw that Drew Struzan has passed away. Such an amazing artist. My favourite of his many posters is one of his lesser known ones, a Return to Oz variant that features one of my fave villains, Princess Mombi. RIP Drew, you were a legend.
Watercolour petunias courtesy of the 4 hour power outage in my neighbourhood yesterday. Forced into analog art methods against my will! /s
Ran into this monstrosity while trying to look up some art nouveau inspiration for a new poster. Thanks for absolutely nothing, image search. AI slop is the worst.
At FanExpo booth AP16 in the artist alley! Come see me and @varethane.bsky.social and @feathernotes.bsky.social all this weekend!
Keep forgetting to post this, but this is the super cute baby bun we rescued from our neighbour's basement window well a week or so ago They were named Bun Jovi (in honour of it being my mom's bday). Get window well covers, everyone!
I'm still tweaking a few of the designs. I might add batwings to the blood droplet on the vampire design, for instance. Oh, and I am waffling something fierce on putting "lycanthrope rescue society" or "werewolf rescue society" on the werewolf pin. (seriously, if you have feedback, I'm all ears)
Oh, ha! I should probably say what the pins actually are, eh? This set is The Beastly Bureau of Monster Merchants! It's a companion campaign to my Cryptid Club set, but this time around it's based on these monsters running small businesses and scam charities.
Come see me even though it's raining? lol Find me in Tent E37 at MCAF, where I am bundled up like the cold little Hobbit I am
Gonna be at MCAF in Montreal this coming weekend! Come say hi to me and @varethane.bsky.social if you're in the neighbourhood :D (and all the other delightful webcomic peeps in that tent too) (Fingers crossed for good weather, pls pls pls)
Also: My new business card holder! I had a little extra fun with the laser cutter when I was making my shelves
Come see me at the Calgary Expo this weekend! I'm at booth A551 in the artist alley! Come see my new shelf at least and tell me it's pretty, lol
Starting the 2025 Convention circuit with Calgary Expo this weekend! The Artist Alley is back in the BMO centre, so it'll be interesting to see how it goes this year. Hope to see you there!
Currently regretting all the life choices that have led me to having to peel off a million tiny pieces of painters tape from my tentacle engraved shelf. (not really tho, it looks great, I regret nothing)
Making use of my local library's makerspace to laser cut some shelves for my artist alley booth! (btw, it's green bc of the Painters tape to protect the non-engraved parts from singeing)
Evergreen comic for me. Really feeling the vicious cycle of social media hermitdom as of late. Yet reposting this somewhat breaks it?
And finally, I also did a science fantasy about a wingless fairy society and the struggle to get their wings back by prophecy or technology, The Storm Stained overmorrowtales.com/stormstained...
I also did A Dance With Death overmorrowtales.com/death/cover.... - a modern fable about the end of the world
Now that the frenzy seems to have died down, I figured I'd finally introduce myself to everyone who used that webcomic starter pack (thank you again, @feathernotes.bsky.social ) So hi! I'm Crystal and I did that webcomic you used to read back in middle school, Earthsong! earthsongsaga.com