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Sketchavember 2012 - Part 3!
21 - Meilee, my adorable and awkward factory girl. She always looks pretty gormless, because people leave you alone if they think you're an idiot.
22 - Lin, who came to the same conclusion in the boy's side of the factory. Also has the misfortune of being on the back of Jemima's page, which I shaded with markers.
23 - It got to about 11:30pm and I was falling asleep, then I remembered I hadn't done a picture, so I drew Coda falling asleep.
24 - I almost got through Sketchavember without drawing Duo again. Almost.
25 - Noone, the main character of a graphic novel which I planned and then scrapped. I still want to do something with the characters though.
26 - Haha, I tried to draw a demon but he kept going wrong, so I rubbed him out and drew an angel instead, which was a million times easier. I wonder if that says anything about my psyche.
27 - Ah, here's the demon.
28 - Having developed a character model for Hephzibah, I completely failed to make one for Gorse. Oh well.
29 - A Vrega, having a nice stretch.
30 - Last but not least, Kero. Originally he was some kind of alien that resembled a demon, but I've been thinking I might just make him a sort of feral demon instead.
And that was last year's Sketchavember! I hope you enjoyed this insight into my pathological fear of drawing anything that's not people. XD
Now I'm in the habit after Inktober and Sketchavember, I decided to do a colour picture every day during December! Although for the sake of my sanity, they're only small doodles and I'm allowed to go back and fix them the next day.
I might or might not upload them every day, here are the first four anyway.
Day 1 - adventures in coloured ink! Tabitha is helping out around her Granny's potion shop. Don't worry, that's not her flying broom.
Day 2 - Meruch again, in watercolour, because this seemed like a good opportunity to show that Vrega do look a little different to humans when they're in colour. He might have come out a little too purple. The idea is that their blood is purple, which makes their human-like skin look greyish.
Day 3 - Fret in coloured pencil, because I wanted to practice his skin. He should have pale, pearly skin and hair with dark 'cracks', like a silver birch.
Day 4 - I'm doubling up! Alexis and Leilus in coloured pencil. Adventures in coloured lineart and drawing long, disgusting tongues.
I’m surprised how well these line up, since they’re several pages apart in the sketchbook. Didn’t manage such an extreme angle on Alexis though... In their world this sort of cosmic ‘fair warning’ principle in the notes is behind the many stories of the Devil walking with a limp due to his cloven feet. I wrote ‘can’ in my notes, but the same fairness principle actually forces Alexis to hide his angelic features most of the time. It doesn’t count if you lead a soul to sin by disguising yourself as a human and directly deceiving them, and it also doesn’t count if they do good because you said so and you’re obviously a messenger of Heaven. Leilus must love anime conventions where he can pretend his eyes are just really good contact lenses.
This seems like a good moment to quickly spam some posts I drafted last year!
Originally this was going to have spot colour, but I already had the coloured pencils out so here we are. Put that tongue away Leilus.
Inktober 2017 : Day 12 - brush pen and coloured ink Demons aren’t allowed to walk around in human form without at least one tell-tale feature.
Inktober 2017 : Day 29 - fineliners and felt tip pens
Here are some of the demonic features Leilus can use as his ‘I am a demon’ warning sign. The rule is it has to be something that will be immediately recognised as non-human, so it can vary according to cultural norms. He used to be able to use his black fingernails, but these days they just look like acrylics so they don’t count any more. Most demons choose something they can hide, like claws that they can hide under gloves, or hooves that can be hidden inside shoes. Leilus can just keep his long, disgusting tongue inside his mouth, so it’s by far the best option. The stereotypical spaded tail is probably the worst.
Inktober 2018 : Day 29 - pentel pocket brush As Hallowe’en approaches it gets harder for Leilus to hide his unnatural features, but in this age of contacts, acrylics and prosthetic makeup he can still hide in plain sight if he chooses his outings carefully. This was originally going to have spot colour, but I ended up having to do it at work where I didn’t have any of my colour pens, so it became a game of ‘how much flat black can I put on this before it becomes an unreadable mess’.
Happy New Year! I hope everyone still likes eyeballs in 2019. I realised I had exactly enough pages in my sketchbook to do two more sets of four eyes, so here is a fantasy set of an angel, a demon and two fairies.
Inktober 2019: day 17 - Pentel pocket brush and felt tips
His whispers blend right in with your own thoughts, until you can’t tell the difference.
He's only telling you what you already believe.
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Inktober 2022 Day 6: Fountain pen (medium nib)
I made a few mistakes on this one, but I had to draw it in the middle of the night after a very long day, so I can let it go.