magpie in a city of towers

inktober 2 - divided

Her hair, parted in the centre, was snow-white on one side and blackasnight on the other, so that, depending on which profile she presented, she resembled either a stoat or an ermine.

from Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.

inktober 01 - swift

Karptember Final Day

Karptember week 4

gotta work fast cause there are two more coming up still and not much time next week due to business trip

incidentally business is also what this karp is about

Karptember Week 3

I think? losing track of time here

Karptember Week 2

Karptember Week 1

look at this beauty

forget what I said about not doing any challenges for now, this one is too amazing to skip it

stock image for the background and reference used. of a magikarp, in case anyone was wondering

also

smaugust - afterthoughts

so after keeping up for a fair bit, I discontinued the challenge like 5 days before it ended, oh well. I still learned a couple of things

- one picture a day is not how I work. I can do “30 minutes a day” or something like that, but with a life that is pretty much full of stuff, it is hard to commit to a whole finished picture if you work as slowly as I do and have a low tolerance for frustration

- I blame picking up mass effect again

- I like drawing dragons, but I like drawing other stuff as well

- this gave me the opportunity to try out media I don’t usually use, like the ink pens or more watercolour, which was nice

- will try again with inktober, but right now I am glad I don’t feel the “pressure” of feeling like I have to “deliver” something each day (self inflicted, I know, but still)

Smaugust Day 27

since I am rebooting my cosplay project, I need to redo some of the character design as well so here is a scribble of what I have in mind

Smaugust Day 26

since we spent pretty much all day at gamescom, I didn’t have the chance to draw at all

Smaugust Day 25

when you reach the point at which everything starts to look like a potential dragon

also I am late, but didn’t really have time to post during gamescom weekend

Smaugust Day 24

trying to sketch fire

Smaugust Day 23

Smaugust Day 22

Smaugust Day 21

a certain baby dragon from the OoT manga by Akira Himekawa

Smaugust Day 20

My plan was to do a much more glorious picture of this guy, but time management is not my strongest trait so all was I able to do was a coloured sketch

someone once wrote about Volga that he is not evil, he just has anger management issues, and I think they might be on to something there