Ok this year I tried to leave my artblock by doing Skektember for the first time ! Sadly it didn't truly work because even though I drew all 10 prompts made by SkekLa, I was sooo "blocked" it took me veeeery long to sketch and ink them and now I wouldn't ever have the time to color so even if I had planned to well black and white with red pen at times it is. This year's theme was having TDC OCs (or just one the whole time more) interacting with canon Skeksis according to 10 prompts, so 10 canon Skeksis with an OC whose relationship fits the day's prompt. The thing is I have most of my OCs, ESPECIALLY Skeksis, only in mine and dracocheesecake's Natives AU, because since in canon there were only 18 UrSeks sent on Thra, so a precise number, I never felt like making more or it would contradict (sure I do rewrite or ignore some canon or semicanon trivias but this one is important to the worldbuilding and lore so I can't). So a good opportunity to draw characters from that AU either again or for a first time !
We start with SkekTek and his colleague, SkekLoom the Doctor, co-created with Draco. In canon, SkekTek isn't a doctor but does a doctor job despite not being a real expert at that (he does a shit job diagnosing SkekMal), he does science he doesn't heal that's not his job. In the AU, no need for these distractions from his work, SkekLoom is the one who heals everyone, diagnoses, helps delivering Skeklings etc. And he is treated as much as shit if not more as SkekTek since unlike him he isn't even a courtier and is taken for even more granted than SkekTek who even if treated like shit for being a commoner still did contribute to the empire with his inventions keeping him trapped in his illusions to be respected and recognized again. SkekLoom in fact is always gloomy and Squidward mode, even barely aknowledged by anyone, so why hoping for more ? He hates his life. But at least he and SkekTek are on cordial terms. Not friends, but 2 Skeksis of the same background and of a form of science. They both studied anatomy, and can in fact exchange their works and discuss observations they made on dead prisonners or slaves after an autopsy to help their fields progress and know more. At least someone does value their work, each think

The Dark Crystal and SkekTek © the Jim Henson Company
Skektember © SkekLa
SkekLoom and the Natives AU © dracocheesecake and me
Drawing and idea © me