"Octavia's eyes slowly blink open to find herself laying in the melting snow, surprised to be awake, or alive."
first sprout fight drawing! let's see how many I can do before May. all original characters for these, exploring situations they might be in at the end of my planned book trilogy, when the snow is finally giving way to spring again after a too-long winter (the rest will be cosier than this, just needed to initially set the scene).
vaguely inspired by Habbart's ranchers apocalypse au for this storytelling style (won't ping since it's not really relevant but I've really been enjoying reading their series).
proof shots and mockups below the cut!
completely forgot to take any progress shots, my bad. this is what happens when you draw in the evening, you think "I'll take a photo in the morning when the lighting is better" but then forget and keep drawing.
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this is Elissa, Fawn's mother, and of course Fawn herself! I've attempted to draw Elissa on many occasions but I think this is the first time she has actually looked how I imagine her to.
progress shots and story below the cut :)
Elissa is what in my world is called a hertmens - "deer-person". Fawn's father was an elf. their relationship was forbidden by his village and Elissa's mother, and lead to him being detained. so Elissa is left to raise Fawn on her own, not really knowing how to fully nurture her half-elf daughter. she does her best, but Fawn internally grows to hate her father and the elf side of her, thinking that he hurt her mother somehow, until she meets her father herself.
this is Natalia (she/they, right) and Fawn (she/her, left), two of my main characters. they're partners :)
Fawn was getting fidgety so Nat told her to weave a basket to do something with her hands. Fawn responded that she had never woven anything before, Nat said she would be able to figure it out, and so she did.
I don't know what possessed me to draw the entire caravan but here we are.
progress shots and further story rambles below
After helping Fawn to offload some of her healing work onto other local practitioners, Natalia spontaneously decided that they should go travelling together and hired a caravan for a few weeks. Fawn is always talking about how she'd love to explore further outside the kingdom, so Nat figured this could be the push she needed to actually do it.
They have a great time, visiting the places their parents are from and studying the various wildlife and geography. Fawn starts to create a journal of all her findings, with drawings by Nat. They will continue to go on many more journeys like this for the rest of their lives, gradually creating and publishing a long series of research journals together.
"Grass crunches beneath their boots as Isaac finally walks away from Melaxia."
hello I've been camping without internet or pencils and then got distracted making character references lol. I have two more of these lined and ready to colour :)
featured character is Isaac (he/they), I don't think tumblr has seen him yet! they're the last of what I refer to as my main six characters. Isaac is Octavia's partner for a period of time, and is sort of a second antagonist. here they reflect on their past actions and choose to move on to a totally new life.
progress shots below the cut!
making up for the last couple posts by having way more progress shots than usual for this one lol (that's how it works, right?)
was torn for ages between two compositions but ultimately decided I'd have an easier time drawing a bunch of pine trees than I would drawing a bunch of yet-to-be-designed buildings.
need to work on scale when it comes to trees, I have a tendency to draw them way too small compared to people. but! otherwise quite happy with this, I've come a long way with drawing trees in the last couple years
decided to draw my original characters for the last page of my sketchbook! I can't remember the last time I coloured them traditionally, this was fun taking what I've been doing recently in fanart and applying it to some of my older characters.
characters are Fawn (she/her, left) and Natalia (she/they, right) in the first image, Fawn again in the second image, and Victoria (she/her) in the third image.
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this is Luka (he/him), Victoria's partner. Luka is from another city that keeps to itself and doesn't usually allow its citizens to leave. one day, Luka showed up in Melaxia (the kingdom where the others live) with his brother and dog, all covered in burns. he met Fawn and her friends, and continued to live in Melaxia from then on. but all the others knew about his past was that he had been caught in a house fire, and had come from the elemental city that no one comes from.
I was initially going to skip this prompt since I could only think of water and didn't really want to draw any of my mermaid characters, but realised I didn't know when else I would draw Luka. so since he's a water elemental I just went with that, and managed to sort of relate the prompt to his backstory. so here we are lol
progress shots below the cut. I think I'll leave his story up to interpretation for now so no extra story stuff today :)
and here are my protagonist and antagonist, Victoria (she/her, left) and Octavia (she/her, right). they are twin sisters and princesses, and due to being technically born first, Victoria is the heir to the throne, and also receives the magic that comes with being the first born to the previous Monarch.
progress shots and further story stuff below the cut!
so this is the main magic system of my world! Monarchs are the human leaders who, by being the first-born of the previous Monarch, are connected to a Monarch Jewel (usually worn on a necklace) and able to use any magic of any race that exists in the world, as long as they learn how to use it.
there are seven kingdoms that have Monarchs, and at any one time will usually have one Ruler with a pale-coloured Ruler's Jewel (granting them full access to all their power), and one Prime (neutral term for prince/princess) with the brighter-coloured Prime Jewel (essentially a training Jewel with less total power to initially learn how to use magic before they are coronated).
Victoria is the Monarch of Melaxia, the kingdom with green Monarch Jewels. Octavia, under normal circumstances, should not have any magic. however her father (Lorcan, drawn for Inktober prompt 1) has spent much of his life studying Monarch Jewels and not only figured out how to artificially connect a person to a Monarch Jewel (something that has been traditionally practiced in the neighbouring kingdom of Berdiac in order to only have Monarchs who are men), he also happens to have a red Prime Jewel! uhh don't ask where he got that from, he will change the subject very quickly.
so upon Octavia's request, Lorcan connected Octavia to this Jewel (or what remained of it, he had already used some small parts for experiments), so she also has Monarch magic. however, their mother still refuses to acknowledge the potential for Octavia to become the Ruler instead of Victoria, despite both princesses agreeing that Octavia would be more fitting for the role. this is the main conflict going on in this story, the two being torn apart by their mother's rigid beliefs surrounding Monarchs and the manufactured fight for the crown, both attempting to do what they believe is best for the kingdom, even if it means Victoria has to banish her own sister.
decided to attempt Inktober again this year, we'll see how far I get. using the official prompt list, probably mostly just drawing my original characters and their world, whatever moments or characters the prompt even vaguely makes me think of. no colours, just fineliners for line art and hatching like I've done here. good opportunity to introduce tumblr to my characters :)
for this one I drew the only character I have who has a moustache. this is Lorcan, the father of Victoria, the protagonist, and her twin sister, Octavia (they'll definitely come up later in the month).
digitally cleaned up the image a bit to remove the mockups from the corner.
progress shots and story rambles below the cut :)
so Lorcan is from a neighbouring kingdom to the one the story is set in, but left as a teenager and spent most of his adolescence and early adulthood boat-hopping, and as a result has been to many many places. he eventually ended up in Melaxia where he met the twins' mother. she seemed interested in his research and they got along well so they tried dating, ended up having kids, and due to the time period and her being royalty they kinda had to get married. she was coronated to be the new queen, the twins got older, and Lorcan grew more distant, not liking being tied down or the way the queen treated their children. he is a fairly good father, just kind of absent.
