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Inktober Day 1 - Randomly a Dane

So, I had this epic idea to like draw this epic creature thing for the first day of Inktober right? Well. That didn't pan out so you're stuck with my friend CC's character Dane instead. Because shamelessly advertising is just kind of what I do. Now you may be asking, what happened your stuff Kaze? Well. That's a very good question. I'll get back to you on that. All I know is, her manga/comic project Long Road Home got an update after a billion years and I've been on a Dane kick ever since. Sorta. Kinda. Maybe. I DUNNO I JUST HE WAS THERE AND I DREW HIM. So that's why.

BUT UM if you're interested in who this character is and his amazing story you can read what's up with him so far here: http://www.christianmanga.com/smf/index.php?action=project&id=54 I think this link works right. I logged out and checked I think it works even if you don't have an account or aren't logged in. XD correct me if I'm wrong though.

Day 2 - Griffinjay

So about doing my own stuff.... XD heh. Yeah. Well, there's always next time. or the time after that... anyway this is another one of CC's things, from a secret project that will remain nameless... It was just so stinkin' cool I  had to draw my own rendition of it. XD And I got to use my old prisma-markers in the process, so iz happeh~

Day 3 - Magpie

So I had this idea to draw one of Dia's chars, Maggie, with a magpie but she hasn't finished drawing her yet so imma wait on that... in the meantime, I had a reference of a magpie up so I drew it. XD Hence thing. Coloring = prisma-markers again plus digital edit (messed up the coloring and ink on the bird XD; and the twig. I redid the wood/branch thing in digital as well because that was also poorly done in the trad)

Ref: http://www.larkwire.com/static/content/images/ipad/LBNA1/Black-billedMagpie.jpg

Day 4 - Chiaroscuro

Four pen sizes and a ton of digital retouching later (i.e. the entire background almost is digital), I have a thing. XD Yeah I'm still a day behind and shamelessly calling it day 4 when I just did this today, but I will claim EJ's thing and say it's still yesterday somewhere on Earth. XD So there. I think I'll do another thing today since this wasn't actually what I wanted to draw but I had a ref up and I drew it, so yeah.

Ref: http://shgraphicarts.edublogs.org/files/2011/09/hardlight-221ha8u.jpg

Day 5 - Eriol

Hey look, it's actually one of my characters. XD So yeah. About an hour of photoshop crashes later... eAe Sheesh, I was considering just dumping an unedited thing up here it was so bad eAE Probably need to restart PC or something... Anyway! So yeah. This... is Eriol. Did something a little different from the others as far as traditional goes, and that is to say I didn't do any major digital overhauling aside from a bit of cleanup and adding a texture overlay on top. And no color. XD Yeah that's a first... Since I did a lot of hatching/shading traditionally with this one, I figured color would just be redundant. So yeah. A true pen drawing this time. XD Texture via Pareerika of Flickr. Randomly found you on google, but you got some epic textures so props to you! XD http://www.flickriver.com/photos/pareeerica/sets/72157623259930731/

Day 6 - Transient / Aedan / Art Trade for CC

Right so, yesterday I drew absolutely nothing for Inktober so I gotta catch up again! XD Here's what should have been day 6's drawing. 'Bout a week ago or two I said I'd do an art trade with CC and for some odd reason I dared to do Aedan. Even though feels. But yeah, I lived. XD Helps that I'm not drawing him angsting or anything, just normal... happy face but even that has feels... Especially since the theme I picked for it was "Transient." Not saying why... ;A; BUT ANYWAY yeah. So, I decided to merge Inktober with art trade and here we are. XD Hope you guys like!

Day 7 - Vignette

So, yeah. Little different than what I normally do XD; This was originally just an anatomy practice sketch but I needed something for Inktober so I threw some ink on it and called it a thing. Not a character, btw. Based somewhat loosely on an ooold drawing I did like... 6 years ago. I didn't dig it up, more did it from my imagination because I didn't like her outfit in the original but I always remembered her. I redrew her last year too with a more appropriate outfit than the original, but I hated that one because she wasn't anything like the original in personality/essence, she was polar opposite in both. So I guess I always wanted to retry her for that reason, to get her closer to that original essence/character. Yeah. Anyway, I'll stop talking your ear off now. XD Or, boring your eyes by reading all this, as the case may be.

P.S. If you think she looks/feels anything like Mint from Tokyo Mew Mew, that's a completely valid thought. I'm pretty sure the original was at least loosely based off of or inspired by her, so that explains just about everything going on here. XD

Day 8 - Quail Dad & Son + Name Turkey

Really, don't ask what this is. XD; It's called desperation. Actually, it wasn't supposed to be this. I was going to draw a quail like I did for the magpie, but quail characters invaded instead. and a Name Turkey. They do that. But yeah. At least I'm caught up now with Inktober. XD;

Day 9 - Sacqui

Well, today I kinda took the easy way out and inked something I already had drawn up XD Messed up that hand pretty badly but hopefully no one cares... that much. Yeah. In the original she had a lot duskier skin but now that it's inked it doesn't come out as well. XD; I figure she's more midtone, like maybe an Indian color? So dark, maybe a darkish toffee color but not really black-black. Anyway though Sacqui is one of two jungle characters for a collab world/RP I'm doing with some awesome friends of mine~ You can expect the second one... uh, idk when. XD; I need to work on Anco's design a bit, but I'll probably have it up sometime! Anywayy enjoy~

Day 10 - Maggie and a Magpie

AAaaaghh. So. XD It's been a while, Tumblr. Sorry I basically dropped off the face of the earth there. Things happened, forgot about Inktober. Y'know, the usual. XP But in any case I'm back and I'll be doing my best to see if I can't catch up with this here Inktober. So for your viewing pleasure... Dia's character Maggie, with a magpie. XD Waay overdue. I had a little sketch of this from like day 2 but never went anywhere. So here's a full one now. XD yayy...

Day 11 - Spotil Plant

Still getting back into the swing of things with Inktober. Thought I'd try something simple. What's more simple than a plant to draw? XD So yeah. This, is a fictional plant. The Spotil. Its fruit is the staple food of Buddy World, basically their potato. They eat it all the time, it's versatile and can be made into all sorts of dishes, from Mashed Spotil to Fried Spotil Slices or strips. It can be stuffed, boiled, or just eaten raw! So yeah. That's the Spotil for you. XD It actually tastes a bit like an apple when it's raw, but its consistency is more potato-ish. Kinda a mix actually but when you cook it I think it becomes a little more potato-y. So yeah. XD Confusing but I'm pretty sure that's how it works.

Day 12 - Nola

So I actually made this two days ago for Inktober but I was like agh this is terrible I can't submit this... eAe But just now I was looking at my sketchbook and went you know what, this is Inktober and I'm 8 days behind. I need something to beef up my drawing count anyway! XD So here it is. Feel like the day system is completely dishonest. I feel like I should call it like, drawing 12 instead of day 12 but that still wouldn't work since technically it came before the other two. >3> But whatever. Have a Nola. She's from the RP I'm doing with CC and Dia and Sword. She can manipulate plants and stuff so I was like OH WAIT putting wind in the picture is misleading, that's Echoe's power. XD So I put a random flower there last minute to kinda compensate. XDD Yeah... anyway bai.

Day 13 - Phyrne (sketch and ink; color still WiP) So yeah. I doodled this earlier today and was like you know what? Let's ink it. So here it is. Phyrne here is somebody I've been concepting for a while now trying to get right, and I think I finally got somewhere. XD Only problem is, I botched the color on the ink! ...Or more specifically, I have no idea what her color scheme is! XD I can't decide if I want her to be more part-plantish with plant-like skin or just plain human skin... I'm leaning towards plant though, so I put up both a colored version of the sketch with a more idealized color scheme done digitally, and a cool but not quite what I wanted traditional color of her on the ink. XD easier to just put both up than to digital-edit the traditional constantly to get it more what I want. XP Phryne © Me Nadir world & concepts © Me, CielaRose and EnjoliqueJ

Day 14 - Chocotil

Soooo. Yeah. XD Apparently, I have this thing now where if I don't know what else to draw... Buddy World plants! XD So yeah. This here is Chocotil. Relative of the Spotil, native to the Great Buddy Forest. It also has life-giving properties, much like the Spotil, but because of its chocolatey/cacao taste is considered to be more of a snack by some. Still though, because of its easier accessibility in certain regions than the Spotil, it is eaten in some places as a more-or-less staple food, though often supplemented in places like the Great Buddy Forest and the Fuline Archipelago with various other small fruits or berries for additional nutrition. So yeah. XD that's basically that. If you didn't understand any of that, basically it's a chocolatey fruit because why not, aaand in some places on the JI Planet it's eaten instead of the Spotil because there aren't as many of those. Okay? Okay. Okay. We're good. XD Now that you have that pointless tidbit about my world I'll leave you be.

Day 15 - Striatil and a Spotil I wonder If I should separate these and get two posts instead of one... .3. Nah I feel kinda guilty for just drawing a Spotil again. XD; Admitedly it's a different kind of Spotil though... It's probably a Small Spotil. Different species, slightly different taste, same deal. XD It's like how we have different kinds of apples. Yeah. As for Striatils, those are a whole different animal--or plant, so to speak. XD A relative to the Spotil of course, but actually tastes a bit like a mix between a pumpkin (hard, thick skin) and a melon. I think. I'm actually not sure what the second half is. It's sort of a bland, but sweet taste... like a white jellybean in sweetness but watery and melonish in consistency. ...Sorry I fail at descriptions. XD; but yeah. Striatils are less common, and hence can't really be counted as a staple food anywhere. They prefer the drier, more alkaline soil of the northern tip of Wing Alayna (continent on which the territory of Buddy World resides; ignore the erroneous naming there XD;), and can be found in various places along its coasts. So basically because they're less common, they're not eaten quite as often, and are considered to be more of a rare treat than a substantial food item. So yeah, that's about it. I'll leave you now to... stare at imaginary fruits. XD; yeah.

Day 16 - Panalia Fruit Okay so... This is turning about a bit like Hota and her bunnies. XD; I just keep... drawing Buddy World plants. I have tens and tens of them, so I guess they're a nice go-to... and heck, it's easier than drawing figures. XD; Kinda sorta, sometimes. Really I just need new ideas. And I don't have any. So until I do AND I'm also caught up with Inktober... yyyah. Plants. XD Alright so. I'm actually not sure the Panalia is a cannon plant. I kinda made it up out of neccesi... .3. Actually made I do have a place for it. The main problem I had with it is I had no idea where it would've come from, but now I do. XD I think the deal with it is the Panalia is native to Sky Buddy World (baskets of bread in heaven anyone? XD It made sense to me anyway), but it's cultivated on Wing Alayna too. So while it doesn't grow there naturally, it's possible that it was brought there. I can see it being especially popular in the Queen's palace, so maybe it's cultivated around that area. I'm sure the Queen would love nothing more than the comforts of home as it were. XD Anyway though, I suppose I should attempt to explain how it works. By the diagram I think it's obvious enough. Basically the leaves are insulated on the inside, so it stores heat from the sun inside there and bakes the Breadfruit like that over time. When the fruit is ripe, the leaves unfurl, and you have some freshly baked bread~ XD ...fruit. yeah. XD It probably doesn't make any sense in real life, but Buddy World has wacky physics anyway so any impossibilities we can always chalk up to being part of the Imagination properties of that universe. XP

Day 17 - Loopspeed Flowervine Now I know I keep posting Buddy World plants but I promise I'll... well, yeah. XD Anyway... I'm so sorry I wasn't gonna draw another one tonight but I was flipping through some old plant drawings and I really liked this plant, so I was like you know what maybe I'll just doodle some leaves a bit I still need to think about how this design works... Then that moved to a full drawing of the plant, and now here we are with yet another plant from Buddy World. XD Now I think there was an explanation for this somewhere in the annals of antiquity (that is, from my giant old sketchbook with plant drawings from like 2010 from them), but since it's all the way upstairs I'm not going to be getting it. XP I'll just wing the description and if I'm wrong, well... You'll never know anyway. XD  Right, so. I belieeeve this plant prefers the highlands or mountainous area--either the Great Buddy Mountains or the high plain just beyond it. So yeah. These flowers prefer a higher altitude, lot of sunshine and not quite as much rain. I believe the petals and leaves are popular being used to make a rich, spicy, energizing tea. I remember that was my idea behind this plant--it looked like it could start ripping up the ground at any moment and start speeding out of there! XD So yeah. 'Fast' was my image for this one. And that basically translates into a spicy, stimulating tea that can be made with its leaves and petals. So I guess that's about it for this one. There was probably more, but I'm not going to be finding it anytime soon... XD

Day 18 - Cygnet I'm alive XD Ain't dead. Not yet anyway. Yeah sorry about that. Don't have much, but it's a baby swan. What's not to like? XP Idk. I might do more plants later but I think I've moved on. At least for now... Ref: (bottom left one) http://www.sygnetswans.com/swpic3_cygnet1.jpg

Day 19 - Swan and Cygnets

Moving right along here. XD It's a swan and some babies. Idk why, I just suddenly had the urge to draw swans today. So I inked a few to boot. XP Ref: http://i.imgur.com/bIfK43H.png

Day 20 - Skylar Finally we get to something good! XD Enough swans and plants, it's fanart time again~! XD Sooooo yah. This is CC's Skylar, from an RPeh we're doing with Dia in it toooo... Basically I was flipping through my sketchbook and came across an unfinished/sloppy picture of Skylar so I decided to draw him again to make up for it XD sooo yep. thaat's that.