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I'm taking the inktober challenge this year, 2019! For me the inktober will be a prompt list of experiment doodles for me. My goal? Only use values. Grayscale. Black and whites. No colors at all. This is the only rule for my personal journey this inktober~ As you all might know, I'm quite a colorful-sparkle-overload. So this is something I hope with enough elbow grease will help me creatively expand while also having a lot of fun! The biggest goal out of this journey? HAVE FUN. THIS IS FOR FUN. No time limits, no hard rules (except for no colors), just have fun. c;
What do we say? Never be afraid to draw badly!
Inktober 2019 - Bait
So much for a stretch?? Creating this piece was a bit of a marathon for me! Normally I can not stand to work on projects in small parts. You know, the key to success?? Haha, I seem to lose interest so quickly in everything I work on I get very anxious about not completing the artwork in one sitting. I don't know why, it feels like my brain compares it to taking a long break from a video game and not knowing how to play when it comes back. Feeling shame and embarrassment, I easily give in and not pick up old work that I struggled with. As a creative, I feel this was the worst decision I can do to myself. But at least past AJ did one thing right, she saved all her crappy doodles and ideas that she tried to work on in 1 sitting. Now that I grow older and learn much more patience with not just my craft but with my health, I find it to be a fun experiment to look through all of my older artwork and try to find pieces I wanted to draw but was clearly not at the skill level I wanted. Being older I know and understand how to break down a lot of these key elements that baby-aj was looking for, I still don't really feel confident that I could draw the image I imagine in my head. But that's not the point!! Just draw the image, done is always better than perfect. And so long as I have arms and cannabis, I will be able to keep drawing to my heart's content.
The theme for this prompt was "Bait". My mind had a couple of ideas to juggle, first an old OC from a cage/Colosseum competitive brawling world of poverty and prejudiced. But that seemed too complicated to boil down, certain maybe later after I write about the bait-girl more and try drawing her more often. So I went onward to my second idea, prey animals. Specifically rabbits much like the stories of Watership Down. They have been big influences on the stories I want to tell and enjoy.
This is one of my takes on the Watership down world. Mostly thinking of the quote by Richard Adams,
"All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed."
I feel at this time I captured the feeling of that quote. It's a little bit like how my brain operates. Depression and anxiety have taken a choke hold of my life. It is hard to find your independence and self satisfaction when you're constantly fighting your declining health. But did that stop El-ahrairah and his kin? Instead they thrive, even now in my mind they run freely.
I did sneak a tiny reference to my own personal fantasy world, Clo, into the painting as well. In the world of Clo rabbits have one more predator they often fear, those of their own kind... Every once in a while a doe will give birth to a healthy litter of kittens but they quickly realize one of the kits has two hard claws on their hind legs and tiny little nubs on their soft fuzzy heads. It is the first sign of a growing Clawed Jackalope. They can only survive underground for the first month or two of their lives. But once their horns or antlers begin to grow in they can no longer safely venture into the burrows lest they get stuck and potentially die of panic.
The rabbits of Clo do openly fear the clawed jackalopes. These rabbits can grow two or three times the size of your average wild rabbit. With razor sharp claws they easily can tear open their opponents with just a kick. Their horns growing from the skulls help harden the bone and allow them to butt heads without much damage to themselves. But what the rabbits fear most of their large brethren is how desperately they crave nutrients for how difficult the growing pains are. The more bone, bone marrow, and minerals they eat, the easier their bodies adjust. Many clawed jackalopes born to warrens who don't know any better will keep the jackalope close to home and accidentally starve it until the poor creature usually snaps and kills it's warren mates, devouring flesh and bone alike. Many warrens have fallen to their own kittens, now it's pretty well known to kill or abandon any clawed jackalopes that are born. Though it can be a hard sacrifice to bare, one for the many.
Annnd... enjoy! ; W ;
I'm taking the inktober challenge this year, 2019! For me the inktober will be a prompt list of experiment doodles for me. My goal? Only use values. Grayscale. Black and whites. No colors at all. This is the only rule for my personal journey this inktober~ As you all might know, I'm quite a colorful-sparkle-overload. So this is something I hope with enough elbow grease will help me creatively expand while also having a lot of fun! The biggest goal out of this journey? HAVE FUN. THIS IS FOR FUN. No time limits, no hard rules (except for no colors), just have fun. c;
What do we say? Never be afraid to draw badly!
Inktober 2019 - Bait
So much for a stretch?? Creating this piece was a bit of a marathon for me! Normally I can not stand to work on projects in small parts. You know, the key to success?? Haha, I seem to lose interest so quickly in everything I work on I get very anxious about not completing the artwork in one sitting. I don't know why, it feels like my brain compares it to taking a long break from a video game and not knowing how to play when it comes back. Feeling shame and embarrassment, I easily give in and not pick up old work that I struggled with. As a creative, I feel this was the worst decision I can do to myself. But at least past AJ did one thing right, she saved all her crappy doodles and ideas that she tried to work on in 1 sitting. Now that I grow older and learn much more patience with not just my craft but with my health, I find it to be a fun experiment to look through all of my older artwork and try to find pieces I wanted to draw but was clearly not at the skill level I wanted. Being older I know and understand how to break down a lot of these key elements that baby-aj was looking for, I still don't really feel confident that I could draw the image I imagine in my head. But that's not the point!! Just draw the image, done is always better than perfect. And so long as I have arms and cannabis, I will be able to keep drawing to my heart's content.
The theme for this prompt was "Bait". My mind had a couple of ideas to juggle, first an old OC from a cage/Colosseum competitive brawling world of poverty and prejudiced. But that seemed too complicated to boil down, certain maybe later after I write about the bait-girl more and try drawing her more often. So I went onward to my second idea, prey animals. Specifically rabbits much like the stories of Watership Down. They have been big influences on the stories I want to tell and enjoy.
This is one of my takes on the Watership down world. Mostly thinking of the quote by Richard Adams,
"All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed."
I feel at this time I captured the feeling of that quote. It's a little bit like how my brain operates. Depression and anxiety have taken a choke hold of my life. It is hard to find your independence and self satisfaction when you're constantly fighting your declining health. But did that stop El-ahrairah and his kin? Instead they thrive, even now in my mind they run freely.
I did sneak a tiny reference to my own personal fantasy world, Clo, into the painting as well. In the world of Clo rabbits have one more predator they often fear, those of their own kind... Every once in a while a doe will give birth to a healthy litter of kittens but they quickly realize one of the kits has two hard claws on their hind legs and tiny little nubs on their soft fuzzy heads. It is the first sign of a growing Clawed Jackalope. They can only survive underground for the first month or two of their lives. But once their horns or antlers begin to grow in they can no longer safely venture into the burrows lest they get stuck and potentially die of panic.
The rabbits of Clo do openly fear the clawed jackalopes. These rabbits can grow two or three times the size of your average wild rabbit. With razor sharp claws they easily can tear open their opponents with just a kick. Their horns growing from the skulls help harden the bone and allow them to butt heads without much damage to themselves. But what the rabbits fear most of their large brethren is how desperately they crave nutrients for how difficult the growing pains are. The more bone, bone marrow, and minerals they eat, the easier their bodies adjust. Many clawed jackalopes born to warrens who don't know any better will keep the jackalope close to home and accidentally starve it until the poor creature usually snaps and kills it's warren mates, devouring flesh and bone alike. Many warrens have fallen to their own kittens, now it's pretty well known to kill or abandon any clawed jackalopes that are born. Though it can be a hard sacrifice to bare, one for the many.
Annnd... enjoy! ; W ;
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Category Artwork (Digital) / Fanart
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Size 900 x 695px
File Size 421.8 kB
I am reading Watership down at the minute when I saw this image I immediately thought of that book. His people will never be destroyed. I just finished reading this part of the book and am a little further though I remember the animation did this part rather well too. I think this is the best piece you've done or at least it is my personal favorite. I like the lore you put in about the Jackalopes too.
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