Drawtober 2025 Prompt 23. Undersea

Oct. 23rd, 2025 05:13 pm
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Title: No.23 Undersea
Rating: G
Content Notes: And what is starting to be in the grand tradition of using an Inkvent Calendar during one of these challenges Diamine has presented me with the standard ink "Fireside Snug" which I think is about as far as you can get from an Undersea prompt.

However this thing just started drawing itself with the dip pen, and when you think about the colour of some of the kelp you get around here it all falls into place, so, my friends, let me present to you the Giant Kelpy Seadragon. This large and cryptically adapted dragon is no relation to the Leafy Seadragon being much bigger and no relation to the pipefish at all. They can be found anywhere there are large stands of kelp, particularly favouring the larger species like Giant Kelp.

Their cryptic colouration and fronds lets them ambush their prey, usually fish. There is no evidence that the resident Giant Kelpy Seadragon took Prime Minister Harold Holt although residents say that the creature was 'unusually agitated at the time' for reasons unknown.

Calls to destroy the beast were shouted down by locals and conservationists, and Finnigan, as the beast was affectionately known, was a popular attraction for many years before starting a migration to the Sargasso Sea in 1973 where the species is believed to spawn. What happened to Finnigan after this is unknown.
A giant kelp seadragon




An ink bottle and pen on stand

Celestial Rhythms - days 21 & 22

Oct. 23rd, 2025 02:31 am
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Title: Celestial Rhythms
Artist: [personal profile] mific
Rating: Gen
Fandom: original work
Notes: Made in Procreate for the prompts "rhythm" and "celestial. My pic's based on the various animations of the forward movement of our solar system through the galaxy. Imagine it all continuing to zoom and spiral off to the right at over 200 km/sec - although the real movements and oscillations are actually more complex, as this explains. (I also snuck Pluto in there as well - I'm not ready to give Pluto up yet!)



full-sized pic under here )


Drawtober: Friendship and Flutter

Oct. 22nd, 2025 03:36 pm
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Title: Friendship
Artist: [personal profile] mekare
Rating: G
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
Character: Charles Rowland & Niko Sasaki
Content Notes: ink, watercolcour, digital fudging (to make it darker)

girl hugging a sick boy

Title: Flutter
Artist: [personal profile] mekare
Rating: G
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
Character: Charles Rowland, Edwin Payne
Content Notes: pencil, watercolour. additional process notes in the post in my journal

couple of boys holding each other tenderly

Drawtober 2025 Prompt 22. Celestial

Oct. 22nd, 2025 05:29 pm
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Title: No.22 Celestial
Rating: G
Fandom: N/A


Content Notes: I went back to the nib that gave me no trouble and it was such a relief. Today's ink is Diamine's 'Tinsel' and a fine ink it is indeed, even sparkling for the camera in the late afternoon sunshine.

A Celestial Dragon of some sort is making some galaxies and stuff, as you do.
Tinsel ink on a stand



A dragon puffing galaxies into existence


A close up with sparkle

Drawtober Day 20 - Desert ruin

Oct. 21st, 2025 08:13 pm
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Title: Scar and Ishval
Artist: [personal profile] chacusha
Rating: G
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Characters/Pairings: Scar
Content Notes: I don't have time to do the full Drawtober, but I got a few suggestions from my friends for what to draw for some prompts, so I'll try to do those days at least!

Art on dA | Art on Tumblr

Drawtober No. 21 Rythm

Oct. 21st, 2025 03:40 pm
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Title: No.21 Rhythm
Rating: G
Fandom: Frank Herbert's Dune

Content notes: I got so, so frustrated with the nib that I was using, it just wouldn't flow properly, I had to keep dipping and tapping and it would pool in the nib but not at the tip and threaten to get all over everything at once and I'm still really grumpy about it.

But. The ink is really pretty, it's Tranquility from Diamine and it's a lovely purple, and as if to try to make up for the nib it showed off some of its Chameleon sparkle for the camera.

I'm so grumpy though, I need cheering up. So, I need a caption for this picture.

If you're not familiar with why it is this Rhythm Band is in such peril ask in the comments.


A rythm and blues band go to Arrakis.


Detail showing a little shine


Ink on stand with Lego minifigs

Stranded - days 18, 19, 20

Oct. 21st, 2025 02:58 pm
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Title: Stranded on AO3
Artist: [personal profile] mific
Rating: G
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Notes: Made in Procreate for the prompts "daydream", "flutter", and "desert ruin".
Summary: They huddled in the shelter of the ruins, the Stargate dead behind them, useless with its broken DHD. John held Rodney close to him, feeling Rodney's rapid pulse flutter under his hand, and dreamed of rescue.

see AO3 post

AWS outage

Oct. 20th, 2025 10:11 am
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DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.

Drawtober 2025 Prompt 20. Desert Ruin

Oct. 20th, 2025 11:56 am
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Title: No.20 Desert Ruin
Rating: G
Fandom: original work

Content notes: I love the evocative prompt so thank you to whoever had that idea! The ink is a chameleon shimmer from Diamine called Astral, and I even managed to get you a hint of its sparkle.
A bottle of Astral ink

Splodge of Astral ink

This page turned out to be more writing than drawing but I thought it was in keeping with being the diary entry of some off-planet amateur archaeologist surveying an intriguing site with a helpful local guide.

An explorer and a giant kangaroo mouse like creature


Here's a transcript in case you can't read my writing.

***
Desert Ruin.

There was not a lot to see.

My guide gestured. "Here we are."
Amongst the sand there were a few scattered stones, probably parts of some walls. But the main item was a dark stone statue half buried in the sand. Upright, large eyed and winged, although one was broken, the tip lying next to the sculpture.

"Thank you." I said to the guide. "Did the ancients look like this, do you think?"

A snort was my reply. "No one know what they looked like. They made us what we are, gave us intelligence and language but didn't deign to leave us with thumbs. All we have is an oral tradition of powerful beings."

I put down a survey marker. "Do you mind helping me?"

My guide flicked an ear. "You're paying me. And you made sure I can get the saddle off if I need to."
***

Drawtober: Propped up and Daydream

Oct. 19th, 2025 11:08 am
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Title: Propped up
Artist: [personal profile] mekare
Rating: G
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
Character: Charles Rowland (my most beloved muse atm)
Content Notes: Pentel brush pen, Sakura Koi markers in light warm and light cold grey, blender

sad boy with curls in jacket

Title: Daydream
Artist: [personal profile] mekare
Rating: G
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
Character: Crystal Palace Surname Van Hovercraft (it's ridiculous, I know)
Content Notes: Pentel brush pen, watercolours, Kuretake starry colours, white gel pen for highlights, Wearingeul ink "From the Earth to the Moon" for some sparkle in her hair.

curly-haired woman with closed eyes

Signal Boost: Art exchange

Oct. 19th, 2025 10:54 am
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Just saw this on [community profile] fandomcalendar:

Doodle4Doodle - an art for art exchange

The community with info is shere: [community profile] doodle4doodle

Oh, and in case you were wondering:

"Images that are wholly or in part generated by genAI models such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, etc are not eligible to be posted to the collection. Use of generative AI is banned."

Drawtober 2025 Prompt 19. Flutter

Oct. 19th, 2025 03:34 pm
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Title: No.19 Flutter
Rating: G
Fandom: original work
Content Notes: Dip pen and nib, the ink is Diamine's Cinnabun which is warm and very good to work with - smooth and rich. Usual, no pencil, no rubbing out. These psuedodragons are inspired by the real life Draco volans that has extended rib structures that enable it to glide.
One of the creatures has caught a dragonfly, and is unwilling to share with its companion.

A small dragon like creature defending its catch from another

Cinnabun Ink on stand

Drawtober 2025 Prompt 18. Daydream

Oct. 18th, 2025 11:03 pm
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Title: Daydream
Rating: G
Fandom: original work
Content Notes: Dip pen, usual, just straight pen to paper. An exercise in doodling and daydreaming, I don't know what other people daydream about but my mind took me to the sun and the moon, to rainbows and opinicus and unicorns and dragons and dinosaurs and numbats and sailboats, just sketching away in Diamine's Buck's Fizz chameleon ink. The photo doesn't do the tangerine hue justice, and the sparkle isn't picked up either. Huh, tangerine dream...

Anyway, a fun one, and pretty much just daydreaming on paper.


Waking dream

Buck's Fizz ink on stand with Lego stars in the background.

Drawtober

Oct. 17th, 2025 10:55 am
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Title: Wisp
Artist: [personal profile] mekare
Rating: G
Note: watercolour, black ink brush pen, stencil, sparkly ink

Preview: meadow

Drawtober 2025 Prompt 17

Oct. 17th, 2025 03:14 pm
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Title: No.17 Squashed
Rating: G
Fandom: Godzilla
Content Notes: Dip pen and nib, the ink is Diamine's Lavender Frost, a dark grey purple with a nice silver sparkle, which miracle, I managed to capture a little of. Meanwhile, a few type 61's get squashed by the squash, in the finest tradition of TOHO's SDF ,and Tokyo tower which I had to truncate a bit is awaiting its fate. We've been watching a lot of TOHO lately, does it show?

The giant mutated squash couldn't help it if it woke up feeling seedy.

Ooh may we have a TOHO tag fandom please Drawesome admins?

Giant rampaging vegetable



Sparkle close up






Ink and Pen on stand
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Title: Four Ways to Eat an Egg
Artist: [personal profile] mific
Rating: Gen
Fandom: original work
n Notes: Drawn in Procreate for the prompts "propped up", "glitter", "flat", "squashed".

alt

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Jensen time

Oct. 16th, 2025 09:37 pm
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 We're all aware that Jensen's series, Countdown, was cancelled recently.  I'm sad for him, and although Countdown was no Supernatural, it was nice to have a weekly dose of Jensen again, even just for a few weeks.

Jensen posted a video after the ennouncement and I really felt for him, he really did look gutted.  But from a completely shallow Point of view - it's me, you should know to expect shallow - it looked really good on him!

And oh god, the exquisite clean shaven look...  *faints*

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Another pic here )

Drawtober 2025 Prompt 16. Flat

Oct. 16th, 2025 03:29 pm
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Title: No.16 Flat
Artist: leecetheartist
Rating: G
Fandom: original work
Content Notes: Dip pen and nib, the ink is Diamine's Merry and Bright shimmer, which I couldn't get to shimmer for you. The bits that do shimmer are gold against the green but it's a subtle one. Usual, no pencil, no rubbing out, and just something that vaguely came out of my head. I probably should've looked at some references. But why start now?


Diamine ink and dip pen on stand.





Ray in sand

Drawtober 2025 Prompt 15. Glitter

Oct. 15th, 2025 04:49 pm
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Title: Glitter
Artist: leecetheartist
Rating: G
Fandom: original work
Content Notes: Dip pen and nib, the ink is Diamine's Walnut. And while it is a perfectly servicable drawing ink, a dark sepia - it is an unfortunate ink to come up in the inkvent calendar on the day that Glitter is the prompt. *sigh* So it's the first prompt that I feel I have not really stepped up to the plate properly in execution. The deadly glitter I was imagining in this basilisk's eye I don't think really comes across. Maybe if I put a wash over everything except the eye? But I wasn't brave enough to do it.

Well maybe it doesn't really mean it. My basilisk/cockatrice usually wear sunglasses anyway because they tend to be friendly types.
The people at my Community Shed's art group burst into laughter when I referred to it as a killer chook.
Pen and Ink Cockatrice or Basilisk





Walnut titled ink with a nib pen.

Drawtober 2025 Prompt "Propped Up"

Oct. 14th, 2025 04:10 pm
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Title: Propped Up
Artist: leecetheartist
Rating: G
Fandom: original work
Content Notes: Dip pen and nib, the ink is Diamine's Rainbow's End chameleon. And it's a lovely purple in, quite beautiful, with that oh so hard to photograph chameleon, mostly red sparkle. I tried hard to capture it for you but I needed a third hand. rdm might assist later.

Anyway, I remember reading the Flight of Dragons some time ago and I vaguely remember that they kind of came to a conclusion that dragons were very light and filled with buoyant gas, so that's how I'm figuring these hopefully acrobatic dragons are doing what they're doing.

Otherwise we're just buoyed by enthusiasm and physics just looking the other way for a bit. The dragon on the left is, however, trying to put a stop to all this nonsense.


The Eastern Dragon must have great balance. Reminds me of my niece in law, she's tiny, but is the base for her acrobatic troupe.



Ink and Pen on stand


A bunch of acrobat dragons

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