May is nothing but mers! In 2019, I focused on characters. I brought back a few from 2018 but added a bunch of new undersea faces. It was nice to see how much I’ve evolved in a year! NSFW because I do not believe in modesty shells! The last two weeks of the month:
May is nothing but mers! In 2019, I focused on characters. I brought back a few from 2018 but added a bunch of new undersea faces. It was nice to see how much I’ve evolved in a year! NSFW because I do not believe in modesty shells! The first two weeks of the month:
I did the first half of March of Robots 2019, combining prompts in groups of five.
I do NaNoWriMo in November, so I don’t have much time to draw. Making these tiny drawings for a month-long color challenge was the perfect creative cooldown after long nights of writing.
I used the Folktale Week challenge as a side project for NaNoWriMo. Working within the world of my novel, I created seven folktales as worldbuilding exercises. These foundational stories enrich my story and drawing on the side helped me decompress from writing yet stay mentally connected to my book.
I split Inktober 2018 into several small projects. The last week of October was my attempt at a creepy rhyming comic, using the official prompts.
I split Inktober 2018 into several small projects. For the middle two weeks of October, I tried my hand at a short black and white horror comic. It ended up not being very scary, but creating a narrative out of the prompts was a fun challenge and I am proud of the tragic tale that resulted. People were divided about my schoolmistressy handwriting — some found it tough to read, others said it added a lot of personality.
I split Inktober 2018 into several small projects. The first week of October was dedicated to characters from previous years. These characters had been mostly hand drawn in years prior so I wanted to play with drawing them digitally. I didn’t get a chance to explore every relationship — example, the two Frankensteins. Maybe some other year…
I participated in a week-long Harry Potter challenge (it started in July around Harry’s birthday but I didn’t finish until August, oops lol). Building on my avatar from the Hogwarts Mystery game, I followed my character through seven years of Hogwarts. She had two pets (even though you’re only allowed one) and was a proud Slytherclaw. Her best friends were a pair of albino conjoined twins named Owen and Oz, and a fluffy girl named Chrysanthemum (Santhy for short). She was one of four daughters born to a Japanese wizard rock bassist and a magizoologist/magical vet, and her sisters were sporty Riho (Gryffindor), bookworm Aiko (Gryffindor) and sweet peacekeeper Hakucho (Hufflepuff). Her rival was a Slytherin boy named Felix Clement, and by their final year they’d gone from enemies to sweethearts training together to work with dangerous magical creatures. I really enjoyed the storytelling involved in this challenge!
A prompt and a childhood memory every day for this summer challenge. I enjoyed this and got a lot of positive response, especially for the panel featuring my dad.
