Saffron

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Saffron the Sprite was a character who found me when I was planning for the first time to organize a novel to write. I was living in Beijing, sitting in a trendy hamburger shop in Wangfujing that overlooked the main crossing, and I remember for the life of me that I had absolutely no motivation. A small doodle of the first iteration of Saffron showed up with the intention to help motivate me to write. I think whatever novel I would have written at that time would have been sub-par, and that the first appearance of Saffron was a much greater success to have been birthed from that time in my life. 
Since then, Saffron adorns each corner of my notebooks as a sort of creative familiar. He's drawn on my light switches and the glass of my door, scolding me into good habits and causing havoc wherever he invades with his inky black figure. 
You can see more of Saffron on Instagram



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