October art challenges!

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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 I picked Ira from an unpublished WIP because he's an annoying little shit who dresses like an old man and that's fun.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.

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Nothing terrible? I sense future trust issues, lol. Dunno why, but it's always fun to see human versions of anthro characters, maybe because the reverse is more common. The little spots of color tying them all together was a nice touch!

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Day 5: Re-designed OC

Didn't have a lot of time for this one because I didn't know who to draw, lol. I don't really redesign characters. It's very likely what you see is what they originally looked like. Anyway, here's Oliver from an unpublished WIP. I didn't so much re-design him as I did the whole story. He's horrified at how cartoony he was before.

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I think that his current and old desings are cute, I like his silly witch hat. But his hair style is nicer in the newer version. I personally love redesigning characters. I think its cool to see characters grow and change as I get older. but also of a big proponent of "if it aint broke don't fix it" and these are pretty fun designs!

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Ik that cyan isn't the most unnatural eye colour but I wanna draw my bird boi!