#creatury2023

Day 5 = 1/6/2023. Platinum Preppy fountain pen using Noodler's Ink. Colored with Copic markers. Some clean-up on Krita. Tried harder to keep chibi proportions and remembered deer antlers this time. Forgot the deer ears.

Struggling to get back into daily drawing practice. So doodled something simple.

Came up with a whole dimiclaude fic idea, that'll probably just stay a headcanon, about mandrake-Claude and mandrake-Dimitri meeting during their pre-timeskip ages. Claude just appears, planted near Dimitri. They occasionally spend time outside of the soil, talking, or looking at stars, before re-burying themselves. Then during one of their dormant times of the day, Dimitri gets kidnapped by mandrake poachers. He spends years captive by a circus freak show type of group, until one day from his cage, he sees a hooded spectator peeking a flower out of his hood when they make eye contact. Apparently, Claude has spent years blending in with humans and tracking Dimitri down. He helps him escape, and they return to their mountain, far from any humans, re-planting themselves back into the ground to rejuvenate---this time, sharing the same hollow in the ground, so they can stay embraced. Then maybe later, because of their proximity, their flowers pollinate each other. But while Dimitri's flowers fruit, Claude's flowers are the type to create parachute seeds. Dimitri spends time outside of the earth, watching for Claude's seeds to sprout so he can catch them, instead of letting them fly far away. Then he plants Claude's parachute seeds and his fruit nearby. It's all very odd for Claude who comes from a type of mandrake that is accustomed to their offspring planting far away, but he indulges Dimitri and finds it actually kind of endearing. I doubt I'll actually write a fic; at the most I MIGHT get around to doodling a comic…but probably not. I almost couldn't keep up with this month's Creatury challenge already. ^.^;

1/2/2023. Text with embellishments in Crayola Super Tips markers. Lamia drawn in Platinum Preppy fountain pen, using Noodler's Ink. Colored with Copic markers and ShinHan Art Touch marker.

Tried drawing larger on the paper and non-chibi.

Wanted to try drawing a lamia again, since my Creatury day 1 lamia had some things I wanted to change.