Hey! I'm M.E. Harker -- pronounced like Emi Harker! Call me Harker 👋 she/her

I'm a Sci-Fi & Fantasy Author. I have a lot of other odd jobs. (Graphic Designer, Medical Worker, Cat Wrangler. You know, the usual! 🤣) I also draw sometimes. You can check out my debut novel, Just One Command, here:

Author Website: https://www.meharker.com Other Socials: | BSky | Instagram | Facebook | GoodReads

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🌟 Current Status 🌟

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Some Useful Tags: #HarkArt : original illustrations + creative projects #just one command : posts about the novel!

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I'm also occasionally lurking in communities ✨ I'm not online a ton, so forgive me if I'm slow to reply!

This is a semi-professional account (I admit, I post some silliness!) But there's certain blogs/content/questions I can't respond to ❤️ Thanks for understanding!

I have a full interaction list if you click on the "Keep Reading" line. Thanks!

Special shout out to @creative-liberty who created this amazing Charles Mark One inspired die for the Art Fight event. This might be the most unique thing I've ever seen and it's so cool.

The dice is playable! Each face has a countable number of "lines" in the design to symbolize the numbers 1 through 6!

Even more amazing art of the Just One Command crew, received from the Art Fight event!

Artists are credited and linked in the Alt Text of each image! I absolutely adore these all so much.

Some of the drawings I received of the Just One Command crew, from Art Fight. (If I missed including your drawing, I still love it!! I just hit the photo limit and I'll be making a second post!)

All of these are drawn by various artists during the event. Credits and links to the artists are in the Alt Text of each picture!

Art Fight was an absolute blast! Everyone was so amazingly kind, and I still can't believe I get to see art of my characters!

Eska redeux, for @annatomicallyno in the July Art Fight event!

This is a second drawing, because I wasn't entirely happy with my first one! I drew her early on while I was still adapting to an entirely new art tablet and art program 🥹

I've already gotten so much better thanks to the practice, so I wanted to try again to give Eska a bit more justice 💪

Bonus sketch of what will (likely) happen 2 seconds later:

A more clean-line art style this time, with minimal shading. Drawn for Art Fight! Character credit under the cut.

Wanted to give a shout-out to @artfromsaturn -- the background pattern here is from Saturn's amazing "Art Deco Patterns" set, which I love to bits! I've used the patterns so much already, especially when I need a quick background and want just a bit more than a flat colour or gradient.

I'll also be reblogging Saturn's public domain party pack here in a second, for any of my artist followers!

One of my more painterly drawings. I'm not sure how many of these I'll do since they take me so long 🤣 but it was great to try with my new art workflow!

Character by @artbyalp -- wanted to give a shout-out, because seeing her art made me want to challenge myself.

really like how this one turned out!

I've been a bit too distracted with work to post all my Art Fight drawings to my socials, so I figured I'd just upload my favs!

Bonus sketch for @theriu because I'd already mentally set myself on the challenge of drawing Barrenger, but how could I pass up the Mythical Expert once I saw her posted? M.E. represent!

The leash might look like she's trying to rope in the dragon...

But genuinely, I imagine this is some queen's pet dragon (that the court retainers are too terrified to even touch) and M.E. is helping out by taking the dragon for a nice walk while the queen is on vacation 🏖️

Drawn for the lovely @theriu as a part of the Art Fight event!

...I might've gotten a little carried away with lighting effects once I realized this character was 🌟neon green glowing🌟 theme, but how could I resist?

Character interpretation thought-process below "keep reading"

Eska, drawn for @annatomicallyno as a part of Art Fight!

20% of this drawing was spent on lines and color. Remaining 80% spent remembering how to draw biceps, I swear.

First drawing for the event! Excited, even though the website is so swamped right now I can't get it to load enough to post this 😂

character drawn for the lovely vestakore.bsky.social over on BSky

Bonus below:

finally remade all these character reference sheets!

these all took...way more hours than I'd like to admit 🤣 but I feel like I'm getting faster and more comfortable with my new workflow.

Art Fight was thankfully good motivation to get these done! Though I wanted to have them made for the book regardless, it was nice to have a deadline to light a fire for me!