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e ([personal profile] enemyofperfect) wrote2019-11-04 12:17 am
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Inktober part one

Every day in October, I drew a picture in ink. This was mostly stubbornness: I only sporadically draw and hardly ever in ink, so I wasn't really invested in the practical side of it, but once I started, I wanted to see it through.

And I did, and I'm proud of that! Not because it would have been bad to take a break or stop if that's what I'd needed to do, but because I don't have a lot of practice sticking with things just because I want to, and I like that this time, I did. And it's given me practice in accepting things I've made whose flaws frustrate me, and that's probably good for me as well.

Instead of using the official Inktober prompts, I used these amazing prompts by a neural net (thanks to [personal profile] alchimie for linking them!), each day picking my favorite from the three levels of weirdness. In this installment, that's two from the most normal set and three each from the weirder ones, which seems like a nicely even split to me.

Content notes: several pen drawings of invertebrates and one of a sort of skeleton creature follow. Also, the scans are pretty messy.

Anyway, without further ado!

1. Timeline, low weirdness.
A woman in a striped shirt and suspenders lying in a field.
An ink drawing of a woman wearing a short-sleeved shirt with horizontal stripes; suspenders; loose calf-length trousers; and dark boots. She is lying on her back in a field with her eyes closed and her hands open. A sonic screwdriver rests nearby.

2. Spoon creature, high weirdness.
A long eared creature curled in the bowl of a spoon.
An ink drawing of a rather self-satisfied looking long-eared creature that lies in the bowl of a spoon with its slightly tufted tail resting along the handle.

3. Bone familiar, medium weirdness.
The dark silhouette of a furry animal whose bones show through.
An ink drawing of a sitting creature that has silhouetted ears, paws, and a furry tail, but whose bones show through.

4. Cooldown, low weirdness.
A fluffy dog luxuriating in water from a sprinkler.
An ink drawing of long-haired floppy-eared dog lying down, tongue lolling and legs in the air, in the stream of a sprinkler.

5. Profane words, medium weirdness.
A cat precariously perched atop a bookcase batting at a spider.
An ink drawing of a cat about to push some books off a tall bookcase while trying to reach a spider. From off the page, various frustrated speech bubbles emit emphatically disapproving emoji: no, stop, down, bad cat.

6. planetqueen, high weirdness.
A crowned bipedal insect holding honeycomb and a flower.
An ink drawing of a a crowned, winged, large-eyed bipedal insect who holds honeycomb in one hand, a flower in another, while gesturing towards far off moons with a third hand, with the fourth held low.

7. damselcoiled, high weirdness.
A melancholy dragon wearing a hennin near two discarded slippers.
An ink drawing of a slightly melancholy dragon, wings furled, long body coiled, wearing a cone-shaped hat with a streaming veil. Two slippers lie discarded nearby.

8. Old moth medium weirdness.
A moth perched on an hourglass.
An ink drawing of a slightly tattered moth on the lower bell of a large hourglass that is still running.
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[personal profile] amovingtarget 2019-11-04 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
These are really good, you monster. I think 'cooldown' is my fave, but 'profane words' has the most awesome detail. They all look like illustrations in a classy book of...weird fables or poems. I like them.
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[personal profile] phoenixfalls 2019-11-04 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, these are really cool! I think I like "Bone Familiar" best, though "Cooldown" is a very close (and very adorable) second, and "Old Moth" is just the right level of creepy/ominous.
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[personal profile] violsva 2019-11-04 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I love them!
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[personal profile] felis 2019-11-05 10:25 am (UTC)(link)
I love how whimsical these are, like a world just to the left of ours. Great work!