Admin Post: Drawtober 2022: Requesting Prompts

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DRAWTOBER starts next weekend! \o/

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We will be putting together our own community Prompt List this week, and would once more love to have your input.

As with previous years (2018 | 2020 | 2021), we're requesting prompts from you guys for this October. A few words/phrases from each person will be selected to make up our community list of 31 prompts (one for each day in October).

You can suggest your own prompts, or any that pique your interest from other Prompt Lists out there. The deadline for suggesting prompts is this Wednesday (28th September).

Please reply in the comments with 1-5 prompts.

Thanks! :)

Drawesome Prompt: #48 Finish a WIP

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Title: Jared Padalecki
Artist: eye_of_toad
Rating: G
Fandom: Supernatural
Characters/Pairings: Sam Winchester
Content Notes: colored pencil layered over alcohol marker

I forget which season this publicity photo was from, but his expression amused me at the time and it was one of the first drawings I did in Sketchbook #1. (I've had many "sketchbooks" in the past, but I always tore out pages I didn't like until there were no pages left. 2017 was the first year that I vowed to fill up sketchbooks without tearing any pages out.) I hated the initial drawing and tried again in 2018 and was super impressed with my improvement, so after that it became a tradition to re-draw Jared Padalecki every year or so using the same publicity photo as a reference to see if I noticed improvement in my art.

I'll be posting more meta thoughts on my own journal, but the short version is that I don't think colored pencils are really my medium of choice, nor is realism my prefered style. I think it's good as an exercise to test myself once in awhile and see how realistic I can make something, but this is not my happy place and I think I'll be going back to more stylistic drawings for the most part.