Grieving (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 12)

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.

Happy Birthday (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 7)

[Sweet Nightmares]

Choi: When the main storyline starts, we have it set around June/July of 2018. MyungJin's birthday is on August 15th, so we planned to have some birthday shenanigans for our witch's 25th birthday :)

On a sidenote, MyungJin's not opposed to wearing lingerie. They just never really had people who were interested in it as much as their current boyfriends, so she can't help feeling bashful about wearing lacey intimates in front of people she just only started getting committed to. Plus when all MyungJin's ever worn were comfortable lounge clothes, flannels and denim, and one little black dress, expensive underwear doesn't even come into consideration.

At the same time, she isn't wrong for calling out Bidan's kink for lingerie. However self-serving it may seem, Bidan knows what he likes and takes great joy in giving his lovers all the finest garments he can buy for them 💖

Morning Routine (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 8)

[V E S S E L S]

Choi: Obviously you can't see it, but Victor has worse sharpie graffiti on his front. Fortunately none made it on his face, which he made absolutely clear to anyone with the marker that he'd "bite their dick off."

... Yeah, Victor's a hot mess, but we love our high-functioning trash baby. Who says you can't party and run a high-profile company at the same time? All you need is a smart mirror and a daily planner 👍🏻

And for clarity's sake, he's brushing his teeth.

Guilty Pleasure (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 9)

[The Judge]

Ismaire: I guess it's about time I dragged Darr and Ashe into a sweet prompt together, huh?

Let this be proof that, at least much later in the story, Darr finally lets his death grip off the gas a little and learns to relax… sometimes. Almost exclusively with Ashe, and still not as much as he should, but he's learning. He still tends to feel like anything done for personal pleasure is a 'guilty' pleasure, but the two of them just love jamming together so much.

I mean, he painted those lilies on Ashe's guitar for him, for hell's sake. He's so dumb sometimes. Still, progress~

Worst Fear (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 13)

[Hollow Hearts]

Choi: This is a recreation of an angsty shower scene that I wanted to do of Samak. Back when it was Tegaki E, I doodled a moody composition of Samak just brooding under a running shower. Unfortunately, I couldn't do very much to expand on it because a few users started commenting on it and started taking it to very irrelevant story territories. Samak back then just had the quality of being a thirst trap in RP circles, I guess 🤷🏻

Anyway! I'm happy how this turned out as far as redraws go. It certainly was cathartic to draw Samak crying out of anger, rather than lying back passive and depressed.

Now as for the prompt: Samak's worst fear was losing his boyfriend, Cole. Which happened. And not only did it happen, it was in the worst possible way - at Samak's own hands. Now he has to live with that, and it haunts him all the time. And that was all just the *beginning* of Samak's story.

How exactly that all shook out, and what happens next, you'll have to stay tuned to see...!

warm up sketch-painting

these were fun to loosen up with