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mekare

Title: Drawtober 9,11,12
Artist:

mekare
Rating: G
Fandom: -
Content Notes: Sakura Pigma 0.2, for the prompts acorn, squash, leaf, tree, book

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leecetheartist

Title: Drawtober 22 Crystal Ball

Artist:

leecetheartist

Rating: G

Fandom:n/a

Characters: n/a

Content Notes:

Today I had to quickly draw this - I've just had the chance to post it now. I've been on the Reconciliation W.A walk, just got back, had dinner and slumped for a bit, walked a long way at King's Park, Kaarta Koomba.

Anyways, the prompt for Drawtober 22nd was 'Crystal Ball' which isn't much to do with Kambarang, so I thought about how the Nyoongar People would be moving towards the coast and the ocean at this time of year. As things warmed up, and the swirling water and droplets by warden, by maambakoort, by the sea, by the deep ocean, boola kep, much water.

Also it's a bit like abalone shell, these colours which is very pretty and good tucker too. Our Aotearoa folks have the similar paua shell, which is greener and darker, but they both have that rainbow sheen.

Both the Robert Oster Blue Water Ice and the Born In California have a wonderful sheen which I've even managed to catch in the photos. The star bright inks from Diamine are shining away there too, Glacier, Noble Fir and Chilly Nights.

leecetheartist

Title: Drawtober 21

Artist:

leecetheartist

Rating: G

Fandom:n/a

Characters: n/a

Content Notes:

Drawtober 21st - The prompt was Black Cat, but I'm trying to lean into Kambarang and Nyoongar Boodja here and the domestic feral cat has contributed to so many extinctions here it's not really appropriate.

So here is W.A's largest endemic terrestrial carnivore, which in Nyoongar Boodja is called the Djooditj and even most folks around here into nature might have heard the term Chuditch. Folks over East have their own Quolls, but this one varies significantly and is most closely related to one recently discovered in Papua New Guinea.

Anyway, I have seen these little marsupial hunters many times in the Western Shield Camera project on Zooniverse, for which I am a moderator. When they're walking along the ground they carry their tails like this, and it's one of the fantastic identifiers, nothing else does that on the cameras, so it's nice to have an easy tell.

And exploration of names -Djooditj (Nyoongar) Anglicised to Chuditch. Western Quoll, another commonly used name. The Arrente might call them Ateyelpe & Chilpa The Western Desert mob -Kuninka and the Adnyamathanha - Idnya

Djooditj - a spotted carnivorous marsupial

Current Location: Boorloo
Current Music: fountain outside

mekare

I've done a couple of prompts and want to do at least two more this week, so this is my accountability post!

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Can I have a Cabin Pressure fandom tag, please?

leecetheartist

Title: Drawtober 20

Artist:

leecetheartist

Rating: G

Fandom:n/a

Characters: n/a

Content Notes:

It's day 20 of Drawtober. The prompt for today is Jack-O-Lantern which is not very Kambarang-mokiny but never mind. I've got a butternut pumpkin here so it can model for one of the vampire fruits that 'crop' up in Serbian mythology.

Hmm I've seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers recently and it's kind of making me think of that in a way.

I drew it after spilling quite a bit of the Diamine Cinnabun ink, coincidentally rdm was cooking cinnamon buns at the time - I just picked it for the colour. rdm's cooking smelled better than this scented ink, but it's the least artificial smelling of the Diamines I've scented so far.

Anyway this vampire pumpkin looks pretty feisty but — Tatomir Vukanović, who wrote about them after gathering the stories "But it is thought that they cannot do great damage to folk, so people are not very afraid of this kind of vampire."

Pro tip, keep the lid on before tilting the bottle to read the label.

Sketch of vampire pumpkin with real butternut pumpkin.

Current Mood: amused
Current Location: Boorloo
Current Music: Red Wattlebirds going berko outside

leecetheartist

Title: Drawtober 19 Potion

Artist:

leecetheartist

Rating: G

Fandom:n/a

Characters: n/a

Content Notes:

Drawtober 19th and the prompt is 'potion'

I had it all planned out in my head - not a usual occurrence - but then the pens and inks said let's do this instead.

Diamine Glacier ink, it's one of the star brights. It works well with the Teranishi glass nib.

Van Diemen's Azure Kingfisher in the faithful Eco carrying on.

mific

Title: Days 13-18 on my DW journal
Artist:

mific
Rating: Gen
Fandom: original works & Addams Family
Characters: Morticia Addams
Notes: Made in Procreate. TW for a spider. Prompts are: crow, broom, spiderweb, candle, moon, owl.

leecetheartist

Title: Drawtober 17th Moon

Artist: leecetheartist

Rating: G

Fandom: Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer

Characters/Pairings: n/a

Content Notes:

In The Freeze, Ross MacDonald (the pseudonym for Ken Millar) introduces us to this poem. My dad was a big fan of gumshoe novels, and I read anything I could get my hands on, including the 87th Precinct novels, Travis McGee, Lew Archer and Spencer for Hire, and MacDonald was amongst them. I would have read this poem in my early teens, and it stayed with me up until now, decades later.

So when I looked it up I was surprised to find that Jim Steinman had used it in one of his early works and not attributed it, and that hardly anyone appears to have known that it was MacDonald. I guess readers of hard-bitten detective stories from the 60's and listeners to popular music interested in the musician's early works don't often crossover!

Anyways, the poem's always stayed with me and I thought I'd use it as inspiration for the 17th - a little late, been busy for

rdm 's birthday.

Rotring art pen and wash.

Here's the text if you can't read my writing.

If light were dark and dark were light
The Moon a black hole in the blaze of night
A raven's wing as bright as tin
then you, my love
would be darker than sin

leecetheartist

Title: Drawtober 16th Candle

Artist: leecetheartist

Rating: G

Fandom: n/a

Characters/Pairings: n/a

Content Notes: It's the 16th of Drawtober, and today's prompt is 'candle'

What with the fire danger warnings starting to crank up we don't want to be lighting any fires around here, so as it's #Kambarang (you might call it a second spring, or Sprummer) in the #NoongarSeasons calendar the Candlestick Banksias are giving us a show with their bright lemony yellow flower spikes.

Also known as Biara by some Nyoongar people.

leecetheartist

Title: Drawtober 14th Broom

Artist:

leecetheartist
Rating: G

Fandom: n/a

Characters/Pairings: n/a

Content Notes:

An ink and wash drawing depicting a white cat on a bedraggled broomstick flying in the sky. The ink sheens purple on bright blue, and if you turn it right, has gold flecks too. There's writing in the sky, it says

"The Broom and the Cat had never got on. But with the Witches disappearance an uneasy alliance began. Together they set forth into the night sky."

I was going to go all Kambarang and go searching for some flowering Native Broom, but I have had a couple of nights I terupted sleep and early mornings, I am not even letting myself drive, I'm that tired and headachy so here's what was easier. The ink is a favourite of mine and the pen is glow in the dark! :-)

Current Mood: tired

leecetheartist

Title: Drawtober 13th Australian Raven

Artist:

leecetheartist
Rating: G

Fandom: n/a

Characters/Pairings: n/a

Content Notes:

Australian Ravens are found all over the country. They are (usually) completely black, except after a year old, when their eyes turn white. Only once, in over 50 years, have I seen one with a single white feather. This isn't that one. They're quite a large bird, apparently, compared to their American cousins, when Elizabeth Moon came over some years ago and we took her birdwatching she was gobsmacked with how big the ravens were and quite distracted by them when we were trying to show her more, to us locals, unusual birds.

They're smart, of course, and handsome birds. They're of particular importance to Nyoongar people, being one of the moieties - Waardong the Raven, and Manatj the Corella - Waardong must marry Manatj, and Manatj must marry Waardong since the Nyittiny - the cold times, the time before anything existed.

There's a lot of them in the suburbs, and you will often see them investigating builders' leftovers in building sites.

And hear them. Arrrrrr aaarrrrrrrrrr aaar AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRR!

Anyway, drawn using a very pretty Diamine ink, Upon A Star, and the funky glass nib from Teranishi.

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Location: Boorloo

leecetheartist

Title: Drawtober 12th. Gum Leaf

Artist:

leecetheartist
Rating: G

Fandom: n/a

Characters/Pairings: n/a

Content Notes:

Drawn in inks with a couple of dip pens, the Kakimori and the Teranish glass dip pen. It's a bit of a swathe of Van Diemen's Ink 2024 inks, with a small interloping from Diamine's Brandy Dazzle. Otherwise we have August, March and January from Van Diemen's 2024 range.

The tree was grown from a seed next door, and given to us by neighbours who got it from up North, maybe near Millstream. It's a gum tree of some sort, I must try and get it identified some time. It's about 40 years old. It has very nectar smelling blossom, and its lower leaves play host to heaps of leaf miners.

In this image, the mining activity looks brighter, it was more of a tan colour. The stalk, however is a much brighter pinky red in reality.

Current Mood: cheerful

leecetheartist

Title: Drawtober 11th

Artist:

leecetheartist

Rating: G

Fandom: n/a

Characters/Pairings: n/a

Content Notes: Had to do this one super fast, not much time before bedtime, so it's super slack. The prompt was pinecone, but I was not able to get out there and find a fine subject. Instead I'm subjecting you all to puns. The pens were a Pelikan Twist with Aventurine, and a Rotring Art Pen with Rotring black.

An inverted pine tree with a scoop of icecream on top.

Current Mood: rushed

mific

Title: Days 7-12 on my DW journal
Artist:

mific
Rating: Gen
Fandom: original works
Notes: Warning for elf victimisation.
Made in Procreate. Prompts are: tree, mug, squash, acorn, pinecone, leaf

leecetheartist

Title: Drawtober 10th

Artist:

leecetheartist

Rating: G

Fandom: n/a

Characters/Pairings: n/a

Content Notes: Same ink and pen as yesterday, and a super quick drawing between games as I was gardening in the morning and then at boardgame club for the afternoon and evening. The prompt is 'acorn' and while there are a couple of oak trees closeish I'm still going with a more local tree. These seed pods are from an Allocasuarina commonly called Sheoak in Australia, and I was taught to call it Kwel by my Nyoongar teachers.

I took about 5 minutes to draw these little seed pods. They have a spiky texture, and black cockatoos are fond of them.

leecetheartist

Title: Drawtober 8th

Artist:

leecetheartist

Rating: G

Fandom: n/a

Characters/Pairings: n/a

Content Notes:

Pen and ink, drawn with the same as yesterday.

Squash is the prompt for today, and as squash isn't a huge thing in Australia, and we're warming up here in Kambarang in the South West of the corner of Australia where I live, I'm thinking about lemon squash.

And so is this Pipestrelle Dragonet. Whilst they can be very handy to gleefully snap up any wasps and flies that might show too much interest in your drink, tour operators warn that they will expect a tithe of ice licks for the service. People who accept the insect removal service and refuse the licks will find themselves slightly singed. It's best to work out the agreement carefully beforehand.

A glass with a small dragon coiled round it.

leecetheartist

Title: Drawtober 8th

Artist:

leecetheartist
Rating: G

Fandom: n/a

Characters/Pairings: n/a

Content Notes:

Well the prompt this time was 'Mug' which we do have in profusion here. It's still cool enough - in fact we had nearly 12 mm of rain here overnight that the prospect of hot drinks still has definite appeal (although who am I kidding, we drink hot tea and coffee all year round).

I got

rdm to choose what he thought was the most interesting mug of the ones in the gaming room, and this one was the one he chose. It's one that followed him from his parents' houses to end up here eventually. He thinks it was obtained from some pottery down in the South West. It's been salt glazed, with a wax-resist design of dragonflies, and has a partner mug in the same glaze, with a more abstract design. It's seen a lot of mahjong, boardgames and also RPGs since I met rdm in 1987, and consequently it, over the years.

I had two new things to try out, my untried Van Diemens Ink August 2024 and my just arrived Pelikano Stardust. This pen arrived with an gratifyingly huuuuge cartridge filled with boring blue, so I emptied it and after a thoughtful struggle of which ink, put the August 2024 in.

And started drawing away, all done now, so here we are.

Current Mood: pleased

goss

Title: Cozy Forest (Days 3 to 8)
Artist:

goss
Rating: G
Medium: Pencil, watercolour
Content Notes: Created for Days 3 to 8 of the Drawtober 2026 challenge.
Prompts: Fox, Mushroom, Book, Toad, Tree, Mug.

I'm continuing with the style from the first piece, starting with watercolour splashes and then overlaying with pencil sketching. I worked on the various prompts from Days 3 to 8, all on one page:

On the right side, there's a Fox curled up in the corner of a stylized Tree branch. And on the left side, there's a little Toad reading a Book, while sitting amongst Mushrooms and a steaming Mug. Toad is a portrait of a cute little character crafted by India Rose Crawford. <3

It's still a work on progress, but this was a fun one! ^__^

Preview:
Thumbnail of Cozy Forest (Days 3 to 8)

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leecetheartist

Title: Drawtober 7th. Bottlebrush Tree

Artist:

leecetheartist
Rating: G

Fandom: n/a

Characters/Pairings: n/a

Content Notes:

It's Kambarang, our second Spring and the days are getting warmer. The defining characteristic of this season is the profusion of flowers, particularly wildflowers.

The bottlebrush trees are used in my area as street trees, and at the moment they are everywhere in floric profusion.

These native trees are highly popular with honeyeater birds, so we are being visited by Red Wattlebirds, Brown Honeyeaters, Singing Honeyeaters and New Holland Honeyeaters.

I sketched this tree outside for about ten minutes, but I got cold and went inside to finish it.

For those not familiar with the tree, the flowers are tube shaped masses of stamens.

leecetheartist

Title: Drawtober 6 'Toadish'

Artist:

leecetheartist

Rating: G

Fandom: n/a

Characters/Pairings: n/a
Content Notes:

We don't really have toads where I live, so the next best thing for me is this little Motorbike Frog that I photographed in my garden some years ago, before neighbouring cats allowed to roam at night wiped them pretty much out. This was drawn with pen and ink that arrived today, courtesy of being informed about such things by my good friend S, so thanks for the heads up. Larry Post is a dangerous, dangerous shop, that's all I know..

Motorbike frogs are fairly common around here, and their distinctive call does sound like a motorbike changing gears. As the year warms up now, if they were around, we'd be hearing them like we used to, but alas, we need to go further afield to one of the lakes to be sure of hearing them now.

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: Back from a long day at Fremantle

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