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leecetheartist

Title: Card selections

Artist:

leecetheartist

Rating: G

Content Notes: I drew these in pencil first and then watercolour pencil, and fountain pen over them.

So these are some very small works I've done to help raise fun for our local community Shed open day on Saturday (it's like a Men's Shed, but for everybody. We have carpentry, pottery, art group, welding, turning etc etc) They're going to be pasted on some greeting cards and put in a cellophane envelope. I've been given 6 envelopes, and as you see there are eight designs so two won't make the cut. They're going to go for $5AUD each, and we were told not to spend too much time on them, so they're a bit less detailed than my usual.

Current Mood: cheerful

mekare

Fanartist's name: dorkbait, Kaitlin Wadley
Content Notes: some works are explicit, or feature injuries (think of the Winter Soldier here)
Medium: traditional, mixed media
Artist's main websites: Official website,

dorkbait
About this artist: Kaitlin is a professionally trained artist from the US. I first came across her work on Tumblr while I was deeply in Marvel fandom after the Captain America films. I love her style of painting portraits and the focus on portraying vulnerability and identity issues from a female gazey perspective.
The stuff from the 2010s was mostly ink, gouache and acrylics, but it seem she recently started embroidery art too (see example below).

I think partly my work with Bucky does stem from a kind of longstanding frustration with the MCU’s continued refusal to give me what I want. It’s kind of a vicious cycle, because I go into the movies hopeful but knowing that I’m probably not going to get a coherent emotional arc or an examination of Bucky’s psyche, and then of course neither of those things ever happen. So I end up thinking, well, I guess I better make that for myself!

Source: This article at the Daily Dot by Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

I can relate to this quote so much, especially regarding all my feelings about Bucky several years ago.

Examples:

silk embroidered bird (G rating)

Bucky Inktober piece from 2015 (I‘d rate this one T because of "viscuous nightmare fluid"), it‘s best to look at the whole Inktober series in sequence because each art piece also features a bit of writing which shows Bucky‘s journey dealing with recovering his sense of self.

Young Man with stigmata from 2023 which clearly shows her Renaissance painting influences (look at that hand!). This is Interview with the Vampire fanart of Armand, I think.

mific

Fanartist's name: alby_mangroves
Content Notes: some works are explicit, esp. those on AO3
Medium: traditional art - drawing
Artist on DW:

alby_mangroves
Artist's main websites: Alby as artgroves on tumblr, alby_mangroves on AO3
About this artist: Alby is an Australian-based artist who does traditional art - drawings, often in graphite/pencil/ink, and sometimes in coloured pastels. Alby's style lately is usually monochrome, sometimes posted with a sepia tint - it's very vivid and three-dimensional, and I love the use of shading and cross-hatching to convey depth. Alby posts largely to tumblr and AO3 these days, and often does collaborations with writers in Big Bang-type challenges. Works are in many fandoms, with the MCU being a favourite, often featuring Steve/Bucky.

Example: An earlier work in pen & ink and brush, with effective use of a little colour.
He Looked Right At Me

Example: An example of Alby's coloured pastel work - MCU bros.
Sons of Ipswich

Example: Several gorgeously detailed illustrations (some NSFW) for a Russian folklore AU (MCU).
Hunger of the Pine

Example: Sketches from the show "The Last of Us".
The Sketches of Us

mific

Something different for November, as we figured people might be a bit worn out after Drawtober, and starting to get busy with seasonal projects and challenges.

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Art Rec Challenge: Rec a Fanartist

This is an art recommendations month. Pick a fanartist you like and tell us why you enjoy their works - and link us to a few examples, and to their main site or sites.

Any fandom, but only fanartists please, not professional artists (it's okay if they're fanartists who do commissions or have a buy-me-a-coffee, though, as that's fairly common these days.) They can be from any era - from early Star Trek vintage to artists posting currently.

Tell us about just one artist per post, please - you can make more than one post if you want to rec two or three artists!

A round-up post for this recs challenge will be done at the end of November. Happy reccing!

goss

December's just about a month away, so we're kicking off our annual Community Card Exchange this week. :)

Drawesome's Community Card Exchange 2024

How it works:
During this time of year, we make and exchange cards with members of our drawing community. A list of mailing addresses is created and shared privately with participating community members. Cards may be general, seasonal or holiday-themed, and you're free to mail out one or as many cards as you wish.

Please fill out our poll to indicate whether you'd like to take part in this year's Community Card Exchange:

Poll #33794 Community Card Exchange 2025

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7

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Would you like to participate in our Community Card Exchange this year?

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Yes
4 (57.1%)

Maybe
3 (42.9%)

And if you're new here, or you have any questions about the exchange, please feel free to ask in the comments section of this post. All community members are welcome to take part in our card exchange. :)

mific

It's just after the end of October, and we'd love to have you check in and chat with us. How have things been with you since August? (having just realised we haven't had a check-in post for a while, oops, sorry!)

Did you sign up for or take part in any fandom activities in the past three months, or have you been working on any personal art projects? Are you looking at a bunch of end-of-year deadlines? Feel free to share upcoming art challenges that have got you excited, any frustrations you've been experiencing, possible goals for the next month, and so on. There's probably been a lot happening since it's been a while since we did this, so feel free just to give us the highlights!

mific

Congrats to those who took part in this challenge!

Entries submitted for Drawing Challenge #74 - Drawtober 2025:

Too many to list! So just follow the challenge tag to see them all.

As usual, this challenge as well as all of our previous challenges will remain open, so you can continue to submit entries to the community any time after the Round Up date. Be sure to tag your art post with the challenge name, so that it can be added to the list.

Thanks to all who participated in this challenge! :D

mekare

doodle4doodle has some open pinch hits! Check them out here. You can state your preferences for a treat in return on a special post for pinch hitters too.

chacusha

Title: Bridge of Stars
Artist:

chacusha
Rating: G
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Characters/Pairings: Odo/Quark
Content Notes: Another suggestion from a friend -- did this as a kind of bookmark design. *dramatic reach!*

Art on dA | Art on Tumblr

Title: Masks
Artist:

chacusha
Rating: G
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Characters/Pairings: Odo/Quark
Content Notes: One last suggestion from one of my friends. Some silly sketches of Quark and Odo wearing masks.

Art on dA | Art on Tumblr

That's it for me for Drawtober!

mekare

Title: Glitter
Artist:

mekare
Rating: G
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
Character: Crystal Palace, Charles Rowland
Content Notes: ink

Title: Glam
Artist:

mekare
Rating: G
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
Character: Charles Rowland, Edwin Payne
Content Notes: ink lineart for a fic, I made up my own prompt for this

Title: Propped Up V2
Artist:

mekare
Rating: G
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
Character: Charles Rowland, Edwin Payne
Content Notes: watercolour

two boys leaning against each other in front of a window

Title: Noise
Artist:

mekare
Rating: G
Content Notes:ink

leecetheartist

Title: No.31 Balls

Artist:

leecetheartist
Rating: G

Content Notes: A lighter view of the guard dog of Hades. It's always the way, there are balls lying around everywhere, but which one does your typical doggo want? The one that someone else has. Fortunately in this case the serpent headed tail of the hellhound is willing the throw it for the rest of itself.

I like putting as much monster as I can - so I'm going with the descriptions of Kerberos as having the serpent headed tail, and the fur made up of snakes, I don't think it's done enough.

Various inks, including Diamine's Glacier, Bliss, Cocoa Shimmer and Sugar Snap and Robert Oster's Red Orange.

This was a great bunch of prompts and I hope that everyone else has had as much fun as me, whether drawing, viewing, or both!

Super fun Drawtober, thank you for the organisation!

Current Mood: accomplished

leecetheartist

Title: No.30 Mask
Artist:

leecetheartist

Content Notes: I was thinking about the Owl Service by Alan Garner (not anything in the book like this), and the Welsh legend of the woman of flowers, and thinking about a masquerade and vaguely wondering whether it's a good thing or a bad thing putting on a mask sometimes...

Diamine's wonderful Grotto ink, in my wonderful Diplomat, such a lovely pen to write and draw with. I probably should have grabbed a mask as a model but I think it turned out reasonably well without any references. Also I walked 9.5 kilometres today, so I was a bit tuckered when I drew this.

Two hands are holding a mask, we're looking at the inside.

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Location: The Butterfly Ball
Current Music: Nik Kershaw - Faces

mific

Title: Dancing on the Bridge of Stars
Artist:

mific
Rating: Gen
Fandom: original work
Notes: Made in Procreate for the prompts "bridge of stars", "bell", "mask", and "balls". The planets include Pluto and Ceres, because.
And that's the last of the Drawtober prompts for me.

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leecetheartist

Title: No.29 Bell

Artist:

leecetheartist

Rating: G

Content Notes: Vaguely inspired by stories of hearing about mermaids ringing the bells of submerged churches to warn of storms.

Diamine's Sugar Snap ink, with the bell using Pelikan's Golden Lapis. Touches of another ink which I don't know what it was.

A close up showing the gold and silver shimmer

Current Mood: tired

leecetheartist

Title: Bridge of Stars
Artist:

leecetheartist
Rating: G
Fandom:

rdm 's fiction
Characters/Pairings: Rose and Nathan's meet cute
Content Notes: This is based on one of my husband's short fictions, which you can read here if you like. The ink is Cosmic Glow from Diamine and the line work is done with my beloved Rotring Art Pen.

Night time and a dragon landing next to someone on a bridge.

Current Mood: calm

leecetheartist

Title: No.27 Fire

Artist:

leecetheartist

Rating: G

Content Notes: Drawn with a Kaweco Sport, mainly. I'm not sure what the ink in the Kaweco Sport was, that I used for the dragon. It's got a sheen, and also seems to have a shimmer, so maybe I can track it down, but it's closest to Sleigh Ride from Diamine so let's go with that for now.

The new Pelikan ink helped with the orange bits, and the rest is just some brush markers.

An Iridescent Pearl stubby pen on a stand, from above.

mific

Title: The Big Bang
Artist:

mific
Rating: Gen
Fandom: original work
Notes: Made in Procreate using multiple brushes, for the prompts "noise" and "fire".

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leecetheartist

( Feeling chirpy? )

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Location: Cloud Cuckooland
Current Music: Chirpy Chirpy Cheep

mific

Title: Forgotten Treasure
Artist:

mific
Rating: Teen (for the mermaid)
Fandom: original work
Notes: Made in Procreate for the prompts "undersea", "forgotten things", and "map".

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leecetheartist

( Here be dragons. Except in that one spot. )

Current Mood: nerdy
Current Location: Upper Middle Earth
Current Music: Journey of the Sorceror

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mific - Fanartist rec: alby_mangroves
mific - Admin Post: Art Rec Challenge - Rec a Fanartist
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mific - Admin Post: Drawing Challenge #74 (Drawtober 2025) - Round-Up Post
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chacusha - Drawtober Days 28 & 30 - Bridge of Stars and Mask
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leecetheartist - Drawtober 2025 Prompt 31. Balls
leecetheartist - Drawtober 2025 Prompt 30 Mask
mific - Dancing on the Bridge of Stars
leecetheartist - Drawtober 2025 Prompt 29. Bell
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mific - The Big Bang - days 26 & 27
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