Notice: I finally got around to scanning my Inktober drawings, and all posts in that series have now been updated with the scans, if you're interested in looking at those.

Inktober day 19

Eh, I totally failed at getting my planned drawing done, but I did draw this:

It's ink. I'm counting it.

...Stupid concentric circles.

Inktober day...17?

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. We've been traveling, and I'm not quite brave enough to try to ink something in a moving car, let alone in the dark while trying to calm an angry cat.

Prompt: swollen (although the drawing is really only tangentially related)

The akhlut is a creature from Inuit mythology. It's a shapeshifter, capable of taking the form of a wolf or an orca. I love these things.

I considered doing an ahklut for the prompt whale, but the bake-kujira won out for that one, so I used it for this prompt instead.

SCAN:

Inktober day 14

Prompt: clock

Don't know what this guy is, but the irony of the post being late is astounding. Now I want to know his color scheme....

SCAN:

Inktober day 13

Prompt: guarded

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Inktober day 12

Prompt: whale

This is a bake-kujira, a ghostly whale from Japanese mythology. They're typically accompanied by "strange fish." This is probably my favorite piece I've done for Inktober so far, and also the most time-consuming. It's a fin whale--don't they have the most delightfully alien skulls?

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Inktober day 11

Prompt: cruel

"Mostly she is gloomy and cruel." ~the Prose Edda, about Hela

Not that I interpret her character that way....

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Inktober day 9

Prompt: precious

I don't often draw hoarding dragons, but it seemed appropriate.

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Inktober day 8

Prompt: star

Not something from actual mythology, but this is what the prompt makes me think of.

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Inktober day 6

A bit late, oops.

Prompt: drooling

Was planning to draw Cerberus, but I can never get his heads to look right, so I reused the body for a similar but easier to draw mythological figure: Garmr, the guard dog of Helheim in Norse mythology. He's a Rottweiler in my head for some reason. I guess he should probably be more menacing, given his role, but I didn't feel like drawing that.

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Inktober day 5

Prompt: chicken

A cockatrice! Danger chicken.

SCAN:

Seems more menacing in the blurry photo. Huh.

Inktober day 4

Prompt: spell

Someone from mythology who's not a death god or a monster?! This is unprecedented!

Thoth is the Egyptian god of writing and magic, among other things. I probably failed at some of those foreign characters in the background--I'm never tried to write Arabic letters or kanji before.

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Inktober day 3

Prompt: Roasted

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Inktober day 2

Prompt: tranquil

The expressiveness of brush pens works well for fiery creatures like phoenixes!

SCANNED VERSION:

Inktober day 1

I've decided to participate in the Inktober drawing challenge this year. I'm probably going to do it fairly loosely--I already technically failed at posting anything on the 1st, due to my weird hours and current lack of scanner--but hopefully I'll manage to at least get all 31 drawings done.

The daily prompt for the 1st was poisonous, and I've decided on a mythology/mythical creatures theme, so I drew a hydra. (Sorry for the terrible quality, I had to take a picture using my surface tablet's camera because, like I said, I don't have a scanner right now. I'll upload a scan when I've got one.)

This many-headed monster from Greek myth was said to possess deadly poison.

 Since I was feeling inspired by the poison theme, I also drew this quickly (using the tablet this time):

Tu Eshosh is a spirit-creature in the same vein as Misheth the Spectral, but a lot more dangerous. He/it's got a radioactive bite and aura, and lurks in areas like the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. It's mostly mindless, functioning on instinct.

UPDATE: Scanned version of the hydra: