Roasted Witch's Blog

Roasted Witch
•{Zelda Lindsman}•
| She/Her | INFP-T | Artist | Witch | Pisces | Idiot |
Nicknames: Roasty, Zelda, Witch, Zy
Age: 31
From: Spain
Languages: ENG/ESP
Job: Full Time Artist

•{A Bit About Me}•
Good Stuff comes in Tiny Bottles

Born in Mexico, raised in Spain. Grew up in the era of the begginings of internet. Back when blogger, myspace, hi5 and facebook were the top places to be. We used MSN to get in touch with our pals and Skype was the best friend you could have to contact your family.

TLDR yes, I'm old. A little Respect.

As a proud anime and manga lover I can say of course things at home weren't always so good, but even with all the fights with mom, she never tried to stop me from creating. She just wanted me to focus on the right path but not even her knew how to raise me to my full potential. As a result, we might say I'm a late bloomer at art but have tons of experience in life.

Years have passed and after a lot of struggle with dayjobs and life as an adult (not a functional one, just, adult), the damn pandemic, two depressions and an oreo(?), I finally decided to take the leap of faith and dedicate purely to art. Thanks to my friends (and that one hit TikTok) I've managed to come this far! I am so excited to see what the future has saved for me~

I also love roleplay. Tabletop, pen and paper, larp, text, forums. I absolutely love the creative space about building your character and their world and interact with other characters and people around the world! You will probably see my OC's a lot in here!

•{My Art Career}•
Slowly but Surely

I've been drawing since I have memory. I've drawn my characters for ages, my favorite cartoons, my pets, my mom, my surroundings...

I actually decided to be an artist a bit after discovering anime and manga at 15 years old. Silly me was thinking about being a veterinarian or a journalist, when someone saw my drawings and went "hey, why don't you become a comic artist?" and realization hit me like Truck-kun, sending me right down the Rabbit Hole.

Since then I had to study harder than ever because drawing became my goal, and obviously my marks at school dropped terribly. Of course the educational system is not the best so, even after convincing mother of letting me take the artistic branch, I ended up dropping out of highschool.

It didn't stop me, I kept drawing and reaching out for my goal of being an artist. 

My first steps were through deviantart, under the name ~momomochyang. I don't think you can find anything under that name anymore. I refined the label to MomoPandart, it all dissapeared from the internet, tho I still have my files, of course.

Then it came Zylc Art. Half of that era is gone because I'm dumb. I've changed handle over and over again. Anyway, zylc was another acronym of my real name, the label started in Mexico, when I was full ready to become a known artist. I dedicated to traditional art and my teachers told me I had to use my real name in order for companies and patrons to find me and my identity more attractive to hire. I went to events, even sold merchandise like shirts, mugs, stickers... I worked with some organizations and was gaining some momentum within the latam community. But contacts weren't synonim of wealth. I had to keep working full time jobs and draw almost every day to get just good memories in exchange of my effort. Nothing wrong about it. It's just, it wasn't working for me. It went to hiatus for a while.

Paralel to zylc, Eroyaki was born. Ohh... Eroyaki. I tasted success there. It was my first contact with NSFW art. I really think I developed most of my early digital art skills, understood a lot of stuff about how the world of art on the internet works. In over four years I had a very good label, I got to 8k followers, met a lot of very good artist who luckily are still with me, and I really enjoyed art.

Pandemic came and looking to refresh my image I changed ZylcArt for PeixesWitch, later to be VyannaVT. Pandemic was the uprising of vtubers and I have a very curious mind, what could I've done about it? I now had too many accounts to keep tabs on so I deleted permanently ZylcArt and MomoPandart, leaving only VyannaVT and Eroyaki active. Or so I tried...

The pandemic took too much from me and I fell into a deep depression. During some panick attack I ended up deleting all my Eroyaki accounts. Dooming my career there for a while. I told you I was dumb(?). Tho I erased the accounts, a lot of art is still available on various... Ehem... shady places. Don't blame me guys, it was a NSFW account, of course it was going to spread all over.

The thing is, I erased my accounts and in the end I quit vtubing too. I changed VyannaVT back to ZylcArt just because I learned from my mistake and wanted a back up twitter account in case I needed quick log ins into apps(lol). I stopped drawing for almost three years. Just the casual art here and there, but really, just because I still loved drawing, not because I felt like an artist anymore...

But, I'm here now, right? What happened?

I. Got. Fired.

I was working on a dayjob, well paid and all the stuff. I got fired. And I simply broke. I was so tired, so sick of it. I just... UGH! You know? It took some time to get my ideas in order, but with the support of my friends (and surprisingly, my mom) I decided to dedicate myself fully to being an artist.

And so, I started Zeluvvu. I used another account I used mainly for NSFW and changed the handle. I was desperate for the first two months and then I made "Tears of the Slime". It started as a silly minicomic using the fuel of Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. And I posted it on TikTok. And it got viral. Full Viral. After that, TikTok slapped me in the face and took down all my videos each and every time, so I don't post anything there anymore, but that first video is still there. My friends also decided to help me and teach me new ways of doing art, with their help I improved really fast, I really feel I grew up as an artist ten years in just one. Kinda felt that I was waisting my time before that(haha). I used that TikTok hit as impulse, I kept on going for a whole year with that name, but then Twitter became X and well... You know how that's going for artists...

And so, in 2024 I became RoastedWitch. I got conviced to change my label one last time, trying to enclose my identity into a name that could define me with more accuracy. I kept my training arc until quite recently, but I'm still in awe of how far I've come since then. Now I live mostly through commissions, but I intend to loose the fear I have and make the leap to making comics! I would be publishing them in my patreon and I would really love to have them printed some day.

As you can see, my path hasn't been short. And I will keep going and fighting against the algorithms over and over again. This world we live in right now is crazy, but if you have read this far, I would love for you to join my journey forward from now on. Supporters like you are the ones making artists dreams around the world become true. Living from our creations is the thing that fuels us and keeps us going.

Boy that was long. You can go to the bathroom and prepare some snacks if you want(?).

•{About My Art}•
What to expect?

I have my head full of stuff and I hardly ever manage to take it out. I love drawing women and feminine men. I love all that is curvy and soft and squishy. I like a lot of stuff, from witchcraft to pastel goth, to fantastic creatures, to maids, to silly memes.

Since I live from commissions you have to expect seeing a lot of my work dedicated to what I do for the money that feeds me. Original characters from people and the casual fanart.

For patreon I'm trying to be more organized and I do a monthly request space so I can do at least a piece exclusively decided by patrons. The rest of my content resides in minicomics, all my sketching progress, and even unedit stuff that I don't post on social media.

I also try to draw my OC's, making a bit of space for them once in a while really feels good, but if you really are that interested in my art, remember to follow me on social media! You have all my links on the left sidebar~

•{Extras}•
I need more time!

- I'm quite into Witchcraft, spirits and the Occult and I'm a practitioner. So yeah, being called "witch" is not just a funny gimmick to me, it's part of my daily life.
- I wish to have a garden with little crops and a bunch of medicinal plants one day.
- I will grow old to be that lady with a bunch of cats that will eat her the day she dies.
- I have TONS of books I want to read, series I want to watch, things I want to learn, stuff I want to do!! I need more time to do all of that!!

- I tend to procrastinate too much. TOO MUCH. But in the end, tho slowly, I always deliver and try to do my best on every thing I do.
- I have a strong suspicion I have ADHD but no doctor has listened to me on the matter.
- Zelda Lindsman is not my actual name. It's just an acronym. But ZL are my initials, that's for sure.
- If you read everything, wow, thank you, really.