Target Sighted (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 6)

Target Sighted (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 6)

[Sweet Nightmares]

Choi: Remember Giuliano from awhile back? Yeah, that's him in his shifted bipedal form. Fox spirits in general are large in size (for example, Bidan's fox form measures to 8ft long from nose to hind quarters), so you can only imagine how menacing it must be to be stalked by a towering hulk like Giuliano.

Hopefully Bidan's backup is coming soon...

warm up sketch-painting

these were fun to loosen up with

Target Sighted (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 6)

[RED]

Ismaire: This sketch prompt turned into a 3-panel sketch comic about how dragons in this world go just non-functionally feral around cats. In particular the dragons' young leader-to-be, Celine, loses her composure the first time she travels to a human town where they keep cats to hunt the mice, and… this.

Yep. Celine and I are one and the same in this regard. God I love cats a/sldfjdljafd;k

Grieving (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 12)

[Rara Avis]

Choi: I promise, Izzy and I didn't intend Day 12's prompt to bring twice as many child deaths in the pictures. But I do gotta say... I'm glad that we're really showing off the "dark" in dark fantasy in our works now ✨🌑✨

The royal siblings Goldie and Sand grew up in happiness, preparing for a life of responsibility and duty, until the assassination of their entire family line. Goldie (26) and Sand (23) found themselves orphaned, grieving, and wandering into the wild countryside. This particular scene is timed around 2-3 weeks since their loss, after they encountered a mysterious scoundrel, whom they contracted to lead them the way to a remote dwarven stronghold.

When everyone turned to sleep that night, Goldie was left alone with her grief while carrying the weight of the last remaining royal bloodline. You can only imagine the ruminating it would take for her to then see a hallucination of her dead baby brother in the mirror.

And it doesn't get easier from there.

Grieving (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 12)

[V E S S E L S]

Ismaire:

The three exhausted survivors finally made it back to Wendthy's hideout to move her little family to somewhere safer, as agreed... only to find the door hanging open - and just past the threshold, her whole life turned upside-down.

No... not them, they were just children! It couldn't be too late. Wendthy couldn't have just lost everything she had worked so hard to protect because of one terrible, vengeance-driven mistake.

The kids couldn't have known what was going on outside. They must have seen her friend at the door and let him in, with no way of knowing he had downloaded that virus that was making every robot, cyber-body and implant in the city go nuts and... and do things like this.

Not the kids, please. Please let this be a bad dream.

Movie Night (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 10)

[Sweet Nightmares]

Choi: The trio decided to watch The Nun for their movie night at Bidan's apartment. You would think that living a life of fighting monsters and exorcising ghosts would numb them to the horror genre, but it really doesn't. At least in their line of work, they have control of their actions and choices. It's different when you're watching helplessly as the audience...

The specific scene they're reacting to is when Sister Irene gets blindsided by one of the possessed nuns. Vance has an appropriate reaction to the jumpscare (his maek ears pop out when he's distressed). Poor MyungJin actually hates dealing with ghosts, and as far as she's concerned, demons are just god-modding ghosts. Bidan's gauge on being terrified by horror movies has yet to be determined, but he's not unhappy that he's in the middle of a cuddle sandwich; he's just critical of the human's stupid decisions for going without any firepower.