Support (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 11)

Support (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 11)

[Sweet Nightmares]

Choi: Rico, Rico, oh Rico… She genuinely means well and is a brilliant mind when it comes to magitech engineering and field medicine, but her bedside manner has always been a point of contention from her teammates. Thankfully, she doesn't care what they think as long as she can do her job and get the results. Auset's her boss and his opinion trumps everyone else's. Besides, Auset's never told her to stop what she's doing in spite of the shared feedback.

The poor guy in the foreground is Dietrich. He remembers very well they had no choice about using duct tape last time, which he did consent. But that doesn't mean he appreciated her enthusiasm in MacGyvering a medical wrap out of an inappropriate adhesive.

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...

Happy Birthday (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 7)

[The Judge]

Ismaire:

Darr gets this Day 7 prompt for the second year in a row, whoops. He just has that kind of luck, I guess~ But where last year I showed him saying a happy birthday to someone who really needed it, this time he's wishing he could say it in a situation where it's just better for everyone if he doesn't.

He'll never send that text. He can't. This is supposed to be a one-way communication channel, and it's not worth the risk.

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.

Worst Fear (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 13)

[The Judge]

Ismaire: Matthew's worst fear is losing Eden and Bradie. And much to his own horror, especially as he continues regenerating toward his previous full size, he realizes one of the things most likely to cause that to happen is… his own monstrous instincts.

When he was injured, Matt's body had undergone a hard-restart. Growing back to full size was like growing up all over again, and just recently he had started experiencing these insanely strong hunting urges, as if for the first time. It had caught him off guard, and Eden had… he didn't know, maybe just moved the wrong way at the wrong moment, and something in Matthew had screamed--

-- 'PREY.'

Guarding Eden's bedside that night, Matt promised himself he'd ensure this never happened again, or he would leave.

I was just noticing how our Cara media was turning out, and had to take a sec to record this cute arrangement. Outer 4 corners are my sketches, with Izzy's in the cardinal directions.

In all my years online, I finally made a compressed GIF on my own. Nothing fancy other than the snipping tool's record and exporting with Clipchamp. Making that lil gif up there really got me to appreciate gifmakers who create hi-def gifs under the size limit and still make it look good. Hats off to you folks 🫡