October art challenges!

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Who's doing them this year? I kinda forgot until right now, but I've decided to do OC-tober again with my newer characters from both Dreamseer and Antemortem. Dunno if I'll do all the prompts because I have so much to do but I'm trying! Feel free to share your prompts here!

And here's the one I'm doing:

https://x.com/_bweird/status/1836691420591296549

I love how forgiving this challenge is, lol.

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I'm doing cringetober! but I have other prompt list around (goretober scarbaretober. phobiatober. drawtober) Those are more for sketchbook prompts, I am SO HYPED for October (it is also exam season for me but whatever).

I'll be posting my cringetobers to tumblr and insta, I'm dedicating it to my paranormal horror project Keep The Moon To Your Left I've got something a bit overly ambitious planned for the animation meme prompt but I've been prepping for weeks.

I love october prompt lists, I love october in general - A) its spooky month and god do I love horror and all things spooky B) it's my birthmonth, C) everyone is doing these prompt lists so there so much art to go around! its great.

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You're trying so many! Those sound cool though, especially cringetober, lol. No exams for me but I have a couple books I'm working on apart from general life stuff.

This is just a really good way to improve as far as art goes. I did it last year and I think I got a little better, so might as well do it again. And also I just love the spooky season! Which is probably why so many of my stories have death and other morbid things as themes. That's nice that you get to have a spook-tastic birthday though!

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Screencap is from The House of Usher

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That looks really good! Love your use of color and how the blood really pops (which is something I can only say during the spooky season without getting the FBI's attention, lol).

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I'm gonna be doing a lot of sketchy stuff because I don't have it in me to do colors stuff with neat linework everyday. Gonna try to do more backgrounds this year to get some practice in, though!

Anyway, Day 1 of Oc-tober is fav character! I picked Ira from an unpublished WIP because he's an annoying little shit who dresses like an old man and that's fun.

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Thanks!! I really wanted the blood to be the focal point of the piece. Ira looks great I love the cozy cardigan and background shelf with the roman bust it's giving ️pretentious history major️ funnily enough, my favourite character (whose gonna pop up fairly often for cringetober) is also called Ira! (Though his name is pronounced ee-ra rather than eye-ra)

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Not super into the tsundere trope, Kani (the subject of this piece) isn't hostile towards her girlfriends. She's just easily worked up about academia, she studies occult practices and hates it when people disrespect her field. She is pictured here ranting to her GF, Emerald.

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Yeah, it's not a trope for everyone, lol. I love your twist on it being her getting riled up about something she cares about, and also love the art! Love her design, btw, definitely screams academic while the bright colors make the character stand out.

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Okay, so Day 2 is New OC! I have a couple because I just started a new story, but I'm going with Cassian! He's a necromancer and kind of a jerk, but he's nice deep, deep down. He also looks half dead because of plot relevant reasons.

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He's so spoooky I love it . (If he's a jerk who'se rude to people he cares about deep down, does that make him a tsundere? things to ponder I suppose)

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Day 3!

Emerald! She's a girly girl, with a big sword, and reclusive tendiencies. more of her to come!

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He's just a jerk who decided the life of a hermit was perfect for him until some thief broke into his house, lol.

Love Emerald's look! Definitely getting girly-girl who's not afraid to bash some skulls in with a sword, sorta vibes, lol.

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Day 3: Old OC

Gotta go with Eli who is definitely a tsundere, lol. But I think I'd be moody too if I were an exhausted and broke college student who'd caught the eye of the local vigilante. And also he works in a coffee shop, so that sucks.

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Customer service will turn anyone into a tsundere.... I really like howyou ground your characters in interesting scenes that tell you about them, Ira's got a bookshelf with a bust on it, Cassians stuck in the woods, eli's in a cafe. It tells you a little about the character and the world they interact with. It's something I'd like to integrate into my work

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Tbh war flashbacks to my department store days. Usually I don't bother with backgrounds because I'm not really good at them, but that's why I'm trying to use more this year. Even if it's simple stuff it's good practice!

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Emerald's a notdeer and Ira's a cowardly mountain lion. It's kinda funny that I drew Ira as a furry before I drew him normal for this challenge. for reference he looks like this (mind the tiddies)

He's a demigod of death, and Em's soul is stuck halfway between life and death, so I thought it'd be neat if he was a carnivore and she was a herbivore that got messed up.

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That's a pretty cool concept, but I'm biased because I always write about death for some reason, lol. I love the vibrant colors you use!

Day 4: Under-appreciated OC!
Going with Elias, but only because his story is new so he hasn't had a chance to get fans. As you can see, he's sulking about it while Cassian is probably laughing at him off-page, lol

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homie will get his time in the sun he seems rad as hell

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Some human versions of anthro characters I made for an unpublished comic, Dile, Wolf and Cat. They're a bunch of scavengers in a alien post apocalypse where all humans were killed and alien technology has given animals sentience. and nothing terrible happens to them I promise.