#dravite

A spectacular dravite 'Tourmaline' floater from Tanzania that has the most exciting green color! 🔥💚

Hello. My name is Copper, and I wanted to show some sketches I recently made.

This usually isn't the type of thing I draw... I usually prefer to stick to the characters I made up for my story. But...something possessed me to draw these little scenes of the friends I've met over the recent years. They're not great drawings, I know, but I just seemed to want to do this.

This first one features Lead and Broom. It seems Broom came all the way from Keshly'm to show off a game project his group was working on, and Lead seemed interested in trying it out with him. Seems like the kind of thing he might be interested in.

It might be a short play session though; that little power supply Broom uses to run those electronics only lasts about an hour before it has to be recharged.

This one has Husker from Byra offering Dravite one of his homegrown apples. Husker's managed to make quite a name for himself with the large fruits he grows; his grapes are apple-sized and his apples are watermelon-sized.

Like Broom, I met Husker when I got abducted by aliens. After I chased the aliens off their ship he keeps calling me a hero. I kinda wish he didn't do that...

So this one...Mica is a Teijroid that can apparently be separated into pieces. The idea came up to have Beryl, our self-proclaimed “puzzle master,” try to put Mica back together using nothing but a picture reference. And Beryl doesn't want any hints on how to do it, so she taped Mica's mouth shut.

I really hope this doesn't give Beryl any ideas. I'm not sure Mica would be too happy to go through this for real.

This one features another Teijroid friend, Topaz. He resides on a farm owned by a bunch of Linkha, and here he's trying to introduce my Linkha friend Tea to them. I've known Tea to be a bit shy, so this could be a little struggle.

Thinking about it, considering that shyness, it's kinda crazy Tea is so willing to hang out with me. But I guess I kinda have something similar going on, so maybe it's a “relatable” factor.

This last one features someone I met pretty recently, Pezzo. He's one of the few Teijru that owns a boat, and he's offering a ride to Graphite. Most Khejians know Graphite is VERY strong, but all his muscle means his body's too dense to float on water, so he's clinging to a life ring.

I'm familiar with Graphite after going on a few missions...it might be a bit presumptuous to call him a friend as well. In fact, I don't know if he'd like this drawing considering he looks kinda scared here...I probably should've reconsidered this one...

Looking back...I didn't really have very many friends growing up. To think I've managed to meet so many folks from all over who's willing to put up with me...my flaws, my typical silence, everything...it's still mind-blowing. And humbling. I rarely say much, but...I'm thankful I met them all. Sometimes it's hard to keep going, but they support me whenever they can. I doubt I could do it alone.

Maybe...that's why I did these. As thanks.

Dark Blue Green Dravite with Blue Sapphires in a Mica Schist Matrix $135 plus shipping.

https://www.oldearthminerals.com/shop/p/dark-blue-green-dravite-with-sapphire-in-mica-schist-matrix-wt27h

Dravite Tourmaline

And finally, the fourth gift I’ve created for Christmas of 2023. This one is for @malamiteltd and @treevis121.

Just a simple night at Copper’s house. Copper’s Syrlian friend, Broom stopped by with one of the old video games that the Intent Group is importing from Earth. It also seems that Broom stopped by on a day when Dravite and Lead happened to stop by as well. They all seemed to have gathered around Copper’s bed to sit down and play this new/old game. I’m not sure if Copper has managed to really figure out the game or not, but I think part of him here is just happy to be around his friends, having a good time.

This drawing ended up being quite tricky for me to pull off. As I mentioned in my other drawings, this year I made a switch to drawing my holiday art using raster graphics. And a lot of that doesn’t seem to work with some of the Teijru’s more angular facial features. At least in the style that I’ve drawn them in the past. So, this was a lot of having to rethink a few things. I’m not sure if it turned out for the better. But I feel it can’t hurt to try changing a few things with my style up. Especially with adding in the new shading effects.

“I think you’re a great big... Oh, no, I can’t do it!”

“Courage, Topaz. You’ve got to be cruel to be kind!”

I didnt give up I promise  this art just took me forever

soooo say hi to Tiger’s Eye, Dravite, and Labradorite!! this drawing’s prompt was ‘AU’, it was supposed to be finished on the 27th but as you can imagine I didn’t have enough time cuz of the level of detail.