A sketch of Hela, the Norse goddess of death, and all the canines associated with her: Garmr, her guard dog; Fenrisulfr, her brother; and Narfi, her half-brother. Wow, it's been a while since I drew Norse myth characters, hasn't it?

(I've always pictured Garmr as a Rottweiler for some reason. Don't ask why.)



In other news: we are done with moving out now, which means I'll have time to draw Falchron again! I'll try to get a page out next Friday, although no promises--I haven't even figured out sleeping at a consistent time yet, so it's possible I won't be able to get into the swing of doing scheduled, non-packing things right away. And I still need to do layouts for the next few pages, and probably re-familiarize myself with the style after not drawing ponies for a few weeks.

(Seriously on the sleep thing. Since we left I've gone to bed at 1pm (after packing all night and driving all morning), 6pm,  and now it's looking like it's gonna be 4am. I think I drove myself to exhaustion so many days in a row that my body hardly even registers regular everyday tiredness anymore.)

Inktober day 30

Prompt: combo, from A.I. list 1.

Ammut again

I don't know if you've noticed, but I like this girl a lot.

Some Random Doodles from Throughout This Year

In approximate chronological order:

A guy in a cloak and warpaint

  

A griffon and a ferret

Yeah I still have no clue why I drew this

This was a cool overlap of layers from a WIP.

An oncilla phoenix! Inspired partially by the lammergeier. I never was entirely happy with this...

Bedsheet ghost!

One of my brothers jokingly requested I draw someone made half of slime, so...

This is so stupid

This came from an in-joke. "Oh, Black Panther's the wrong color? He must've gotten in some kind of paint factory accident or something."

Wasn't really happy with the light effect on this one, but oh well.

More sketches of our cat

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 13

Prompt: guarded

SCAN:

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?

SCAN:

Some dragons

One Asian-styled, one European-styled. Still haven't done my Inktober drawing, oops.

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.

SCAN:

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:

Anubis and Ammut

The Egyptian god of the dead and his maybe-daughter, the Devourer of Souls.

Hela Lokadottir

Tryin' a slightly different style than usual. And a new design for Hela...again. I'm pretty happy with this one.

From my sketchbook

4/19/18

Loki's Family

Top row: Jormungandr the Midgard Serpent, Loki's first wife Angrboda, Nari Lokason

Middle row: Fenris Wolf, Loki's second wife Sigyn, Loki the Trickster God, Hela the Goddess of Death, Sleipnir the horse of Odin

Bottom row: Narfi Lokason

New designs for Fen, Jormie, and Hela here--not sure which ones I like better. Typically for an artist, I'm looking at this now going, "There are so many things I could have done better...." Ah well.

And yes, if you're wondering, Nari and Angrboda are ghosts and most of Loki's kids are animals. It's mythology, what can I say?

Loki's Children

Not sure I'm entirely happy with the shading on this, but oh well. These three are the children of Loki and the giantess Angrboda in Norse mythology; Hela, (front) is the Goddess of Death, Fenrir (middle) is destined to kill Odin at Ragnarok, and Jormungandr (back) is the Midgard Serpent and the prophesied killer of Thor.

Ammut