Art

Folktale Week

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.

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Inktober 2018: Together Alone

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.

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Inktober 2018: Characters

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…

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Potter Week 2018

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!

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Inktober 2017 Gallery 2

I overachieved in 2017 and combined the official Inktober prompt list with the Dralloween prompts of artist Mab Graves. I kept it all in my sketchbook and brought back a few of the characters from previous years to have some fun with their development. Sketches and references shown. The last half of the month:

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Inktober 2017 Gallery 1

I overachieved in 2017 and combined the official Inktober prompt list with the Dralloween prompts of artist Mab Graves. I kept it all in my sketchbook and brought back a few of the characters from previous years to have some fun with their development. Sketches and references shown. The first half of the month:

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Recommended

My most popular comics are:
Surprise, a series about being thrown unexpectedly in touch with genetic relatives via a DNA site
Inktober Comics, because Inktober is awesome!
• My MerMay drawings are some of my best (be warned, I do not believe in modesty shells!)

Printable Fun Stuff

• Coloring Pages: People enjoy coloring my black & white line art! Historical romance and mermaid coloring pages are available here.

• Boy Pages: Paper dolls and coloring pages that feature a neutral boy, can be downloaded here!

On the socials

I’m @sharksketchbook on Instagram (and Twitter). I’m the most active on Insta, so DM me there if you need to get in touch.

If you enjoy what I create and would like to buy me an iced chai, I’m sharksketchbook on Ko-Fi.