Cartographer's Notes on the Heart of a House
2020-present

A story about a Cartographer, a Porter, and a House.

See also: Introduction to Cartographer's Notes

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The protagonists: Porter on the left, Cart on the right. I keep changing my mind on how I want Cart's shawl/overcoat to look, but otherwise these are pretty much the definitive images of them. (Drawn July 2023)

Imagining the protagonists' first meeting! Also a fairly definitive portrait. (Drawn October 2022)

A smaller sketch. The Porter's jacket here is somewhat inspired by one of Pearl's outfits in Steven Universe! (Drawn January 2025)

Expression practice. Don't worry about what Porter's saying; it's spoilers. (Drawn May 2025)

Imagining a tense scene from later in the story - no telling if it'll actually appear in the finished thing! (Drawn July 2023)

Something I drew after watching Stalker (1979). (Drawn November 2023)

Small limited-palette doodle of Cart. (Drawn May 2021)

The first digital art I ever did of these two—this was before I knew much about how I wanted the story to go, but the designs are still fun and not that far off from how they look today. (Except Porter's eyes...?) (Drawn July 2020)

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Porter sketch

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Porter again. They only wear the striped-tie/striped-socks look once in the story, but it's really fun to draw, so I keep doing it.

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Testing out some outfits for the Cartographer

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Earlier Cart sketch, from when I was drawing them with a ponytail

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A scene from the novel. Cart descends down a long passage...

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Somewhat more realistic portrait of Cart

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Some cute scenes

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I think this might be the only art of Cart smiling on the whole page

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One of the first drawings I did of Cart and Porter. Again, the designs have changed a bit since then.

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Self-explanatory (Jun 2023)

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Meme redraw (Jun 2023)

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Extremely rough sketches. Please ignore the "Madame Web" "redesign" (??) that I didn't feel like cropping out. (Aug 2024)

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Don't worry about it (May 2025)

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A whole bunch of sketches