MY OWN LIST!! i have struggled for years to complete inktober challenges and had actually saved several others this year to try and at the last minute just made my own prompt list
this is the FIRST YEAR i've ever completed yucktober & i'm still pretty jazzed about it, especially since i managed to white knuckle thru some rough shit last month while waiting to be approved for medical cannabis (which i didn't get until the 30th LOL)
eyes and teeth are two of my favorite concepts but even the sketches for these felt like a struggle. that part of my brain was just turned off... UNTIL!!
i like how all three of these turned out and they gave me a boost of confidence i'd been in bad need of. not every composition is gonna be great and i started out very fucking rough but i stlil love how these turned out!!
i wanted to do something more elaborate & i love drawing moder but i was starting to flounder a little after the TRIO and my sketches just weren't turning out so i compromised with a bust shot & just did something kinda cute
GENTLE X and ANOK, both OCs of a friend! Gentle X was ESPECIALLY fun and I definitely want to draw more of him (and i love how the piece turned out!) and Anok is always a delight to draw & a welcome break from so many complex pieces in a row
Zalika Odarr! off script but who could resist drawing a lizard lady pirate when your friend comes up with her??? also i got to use my granulating black watercolor on her pants/boots and love the result. def wanna draw more of her
drawing my own OCs for a bit! poor Bazungy & Ool. i keep coming SO CLOSE to drawing a comic of them & completely rehaul their story & start from scratch lol. BUT I'LL GET TO EM! I LOVE EM!!
someone... a random stranger.... suggested i use OFFAL as meatspiration and i did!! i definitely wanna clean this up a bit when i have my tablet back & make a sticker of it
my poor threshold comic keeps getting mangled and rearranged but i THINK if i change the opening to what i originally imagined instead of trying to fit it into some niche, i can finaly fix it
i was kinda flailing at this point, like past the point where i'd ever managed & honestly ready to quit, unable to even look at my prompt list bcuz it felt overwhelming (EVEN THO I FUCKING MADE IT LOL) but just kinda knuckled in
and a terribly proportioned, half off the page wrinkly body horror vampire from the strain. neither of these are particularly good, but i did them anyway instead of quitting!!
around this point i got just a SHITLOAD of bad news at once & swallowed my pride & asked for help & some WONDERFUL PEOPLE helped me out BIG TIME so i made em stuff
none of these ppl asked for anything in return but i MADE them give me recs, so here is Trungo & Johnny Marinara crooning, which i think turned out fantastic
and then... something magical happened.... the inktober collection i ordered at the start of the year, which had been stuck in hong kong for literally 2 months.. arrived!! and it had... a BRUSH
pls note i do have brushes, but i don't like to cross contaminate and have not experimented much with ink brushwork bcuz when i started workin with ink, i was obsessed w/the control of the dip pen
i did a little experiment just to get the feel for how using a brush to ink might be. composition is fully whack and i could've gone into a LOT more detail, but i was eager to just have a piece done and i was VERY hype with how it turned out and more importantly how it felt to use
then my lovely friend & supporter canis commissioned me to do a traditional piece and i went HOGWILD. THE POWER OF THE BRUSH PEN... I HAD BECOME DEAHT DESTROYER OF WORLDS
i ramped up (more like WHEELIED up!!) with my weird hairy ghoul dragon and NYARG from Meeting in the Flesh, the cutest & best dating sim/visual novel of all time
i'm obsessed with how this turned out. pablo was gifted to me by meanboss but i still feel its very much his character & obviously his design so i always like to keep the credit!
i want to do a whole comic based around this invasive medical shit, the whole artificial being thing is a concept i'm obsessed with and pablo is the perfect vector
i was thrilled to complete YUCKTOBER & even more thrilled to reconnect with a medium i feel i stagnated on & thru a new tool reached a new level of competence with
originally it was just billie joe in a roleplay, but i liked the character so much i not only started to draw again (after almost like 10yrs of not lol) i started to create a new story for her!
i divorced her a bit from the roleplay since my terrible untreated mental health at the time caused me to fall out w/the person i'd been roleplaying with (rip! lol) so i wanted some distance from that to create my own stuff
i wound up doing (and winning!!) a nanowrimo by writing THRESHOLD which has a lot of the raw story beats i wanted to hit but didn't get to do or expand on in a collaborative environment
while that manuscript is garbage, a lot of the ideas i still rly like, and started to revisit the idea when i was feeling more confident in my comic making skills (fun fact, i thought i could 'make it' as a novelist at one point and was only writing LOL... CAN U IMAGINE)
EVENTUALLY they evolved into what you see now, a plucky kinda inbred lookin gal and her VERY nervous sidekick who actually has a bank account and residence
i've rly struggled to focus the story & got kind of lost w/what i wanted to do with it vs what others MIGHT want which made it almost impossible to go forward w/the story, BUT i think i've got that licked, i just need to sit down & actually write it out
Sometimes a story just takes a while to come back together honestly, there's a reason I'm still side-eyeing a certain old piece of fanfiction that has a decent premise but needs everything else entirely reworked
with bj & walt a big roadblock was realizing what the comic was About ie what the core story was that i didn't REALIZE was the core story until i took a few steps back from it. like Aberrunt very much wound up being abt my journey thru processing & healing from trauma
Threshold (bj & walt) is a lot about learning how to integrate with others after living with an undiagnosed & destructive mental illness & some measure of grief in relation to that
like overall aberrunt is a cute bug girl adventure and threshold is about 2 horny weirdos trying to solve eldritch mysteries, but DEEP DOWN they have very personally rooted things at their core
going thru my own work like... hey... wait a sec.... was this some primal attempt to process some specific events that i couldn't even acknowledge to myself or nah
I have never shown a therapist my artwork or writing or anything, they usually have enough with my throwing nightmare disorder symptoms at their feet and running
hehoeheoheoheohe i had SO MUCH FUN doing that envy piece!!! and thank you, i am always trying to improve my body hair game & i am glad it is appreciated
like you can see what i was going for, but i think you can also see i'm struggling
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Have I mentioned I love your way with body hair? =3