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Title: Card selections
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.
 
8 fantasy animal designs









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Title: No.31 Balls
Artist: [personal profile] 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.


A Cerberus playing

Silver sheen showing up on the ink.

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!
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Title: No.30 Mask
Artist:
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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.





Ink shine detail
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Title: No.29 Bell
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 long tailed merperson with a bell

A close up showing the gold and silver shimmer
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Title: Bridge of Stars
Artist: [personal profile] leecetheartist
Rating: G
Fandom:[personal profile] 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.
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Title: No.27 Fire
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.



A dragon making fireworks

Shining scales with this shiny ink


An Iridescent Pearl stubby pen on a stand, from above.
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Title: No.24 Forgotten Things
Rating: G
Content Notes: Well a bit of a bonus today. Firstly thanks to [personal profile] galah_central for the suggestion of a dragon settling down for so long it became part of the landscape and forgotten by people, because I needed inspiration. And it's a special day, we have two inks, because today was the Pelikan Hub event, and Pelikan kindly gave registered attendees a bottle of the year's ink, which you can see below. It's a bright one!

It's Apricot Achar in the Eidelstone range. The other ink is the 24th ink the inkvent calendar that I'm nearly at the end of, it was the 2023 calendar and I think there were some beauties in it!

So without further Ado, here we are, not wonderful photos tonight but I'm a bit tuckered now.
Big orange ink, little green ink.

Cryptically coloured dragon and picnicker


Showing a silvery glint
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Title: No.23 Undersea
Rating: G
Content Notes: And what is starting to be in the grand tradition of using an Inkvent Calendar during one of these challenges Diamine has presented me with the standard ink "Fireside Snug" which I think is about as far as you can get from an Undersea prompt.

However this thing just started drawing itself with the dip pen, and when you think about the colour of some of the kelp you get around here it all falls into place, so, my friends, let me present to you the Giant Kelpy Seadragon. This large and cryptically adapted dragon is no relation to the Leafy Seadragon being much bigger and no relation to the pipefish at all. They can be found anywhere there are large stands of kelp, particularly favouring the larger species like Giant Kelp.

Their cryptic colouration and fronds lets them ambush their prey, usually fish. There is no evidence that the resident Giant Kelpy Seadragon took Prime Minister Harold Holt although residents say that the creature was 'unusually agitated at the time' for reasons unknown.

Calls to destroy the beast were shouted down by locals and conservationists, and Finnigan, as the beast was affectionately known, was a popular attraction for many years before starting a migration to the Sargasso Sea in 1973 where the species is believed to spawn. What happened to Finnigan after this is unknown.
A giant kelp seadragon




An ink bottle and pen on stand
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Title: No.22 Celestial
Rating: G
Fandom: N/A


Content Notes: I went back to the nib that gave me no trouble and it was such a relief. Today's ink is Diamine's 'Tinsel' and a fine ink it is indeed, even sparkling for the camera in the late afternoon sunshine.

A Celestial Dragon of some sort is making some galaxies and stuff, as you do.
Tinsel ink on a stand



A dragon puffing galaxies into existence


A close up with sparkle
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Title: No.21 Rhythm
Rating: G
Fandom: Frank Herbert's Dune

Content notes: I got so, so frustrated with the nib that I was using, it just wouldn't flow properly, I had to keep dipping and tapping and it would pool in the nib but not at the tip and threaten to get all over everything at once and I'm still really grumpy about it.

But. The ink is really pretty, it's Tranquility from Diamine and it's a lovely purple, and as if to try to make up for the nib it showed off some of its Chameleon sparkle for the camera.

I'm so grumpy though, I need cheering up. So, I need a caption for this picture.

If you're not familiar with why it is this Rhythm Band is in such peril ask in the comments.


A rythm and blues band go to Arrakis.


Detail showing a little shine


Ink on stand with Lego minifigs
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Title: No.20 Desert Ruin
Rating: G
Fandom: original work

Content notes: I love the evocative prompt so thank you to whoever had that idea! The ink is a chameleon shimmer from Diamine called Astral, and I even managed to get you a hint of its sparkle.
A bottle of Astral ink

Splodge of Astral ink

This page turned out to be more writing than drawing but I thought it was in keeping with being the diary entry of some off-planet amateur archaeologist surveying an intriguing site with a helpful local guide.

An explorer and a giant kangaroo mouse like creature


Here's a transcript in case you can't read my writing.

***
Desert Ruin.

There was not a lot to see.

My guide gestured. "Here we are."
Amongst the sand there were a few scattered stones, probably parts of some walls. But the main item was a dark stone statue half buried in the sand. Upright, large eyed and winged, although one was broken, the tip lying next to the sculpture.

"Thank you." I said to the guide. "Did the ancients look like this, do you think?"

A snort was my reply. "No one know what they looked like. They made us what we are, gave us intelligence and language but didn't deign to leave us with thumbs. All we have is an oral tradition of powerful beings."

I put down a survey marker. "Do you mind helping me?"

My guide flicked an ear. "You're paying me. And you made sure I can get the saddle off if I need to."
***

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Title: No.19 Flutter
Rating: G
Fandom: original work
Content Notes: Dip pen and nib, the ink is Diamine's Cinnabun which is warm and very good to work with - smooth and rich. Usual, no pencil, no rubbing out. These psuedodragons are inspired by the real life Draco volans that has extended rib structures that enable it to glide.
One of the creatures has caught a dragonfly, and is unwilling to share with its companion.

A small dragon like creature defending its catch from another

Cinnabun Ink on stand
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Title: Daydream
Rating: G
Fandom: original work
Content Notes: Dip pen, usual, just straight pen to paper. An exercise in doodling and daydreaming, I don't know what other people daydream about but my mind took me to the sun and the moon, to rainbows and opinicus and unicorns and dragons and dinosaurs and numbats and sailboats, just sketching away in Diamine's Buck's Fizz chameleon ink. The photo doesn't do the tangerine hue justice, and the sparkle isn't picked up either. Huh, tangerine dream...

Anyway, a fun one, and pretty much just daydreaming on paper.


Waking dream

Buck's Fizz ink on stand with Lego stars in the background.
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Title: No.17 Squashed
Rating: G
Fandom: Godzilla
Content Notes: Dip pen and nib, the ink is Diamine's Lavender Frost, a dark grey purple with a nice silver sparkle, which miracle, I managed to capture a little of. Meanwhile, a few type 61's get squashed by the squash, in the finest tradition of TOHO's SDF ,and Tokyo tower which I had to truncate a bit is awaiting its fate. We've been watching a lot of TOHO lately, does it show?

The giant mutated squash couldn't help it if it woke up feeling seedy.

Ooh may we have a TOHO tag fandom please Drawesome admins?

Giant rampaging vegetable



Sparkle close up






Ink and Pen on stand
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Title: No.16 Flat
Artist: leecetheartist
Rating: G
Fandom: original work
Content Notes: Dip pen and nib, the ink is Diamine's Merry and Bright shimmer, which I couldn't get to shimmer for you. The bits that do shimmer are gold against the green but it's a subtle one. Usual, no pencil, no rubbing out, and just something that vaguely came out of my head. I probably should've looked at some references. But why start now?


Diamine ink and dip pen on stand.





Ray in sand
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Title: Glitter
Artist: leecetheartist
Rating: G
Fandom: original work
Content Notes: Dip pen and nib, the ink is Diamine's Walnut. And while it is a perfectly servicable drawing ink, a dark sepia - it is an unfortunate ink to come up in the inkvent calendar on the day that Glitter is the prompt. *sigh* So it's the first prompt that I feel I have not really stepped up to the plate properly in execution. The deadly glitter I was imagining in this basilisk's eye I don't think really comes across. Maybe if I put a wash over everything except the eye? But I wasn't brave enough to do it.

Well maybe it doesn't really mean it. My basilisk/cockatrice usually wear sunglasses anyway because they tend to be friendly types.
The people at my Community Shed's art group burst into laughter when I referred to it as a killer chook.
Pen and Ink Cockatrice or Basilisk





Walnut titled ink with a nib pen.
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Title: Propped Up
Artist: leecetheartist
Rating: G
Fandom: original work
Content Notes: Dip pen and nib, the ink is Diamine's Rainbow's End chameleon. And it's a lovely purple in, quite beautiful, with that oh so hard to photograph chameleon, mostly red sparkle. I tried hard to capture it for you but I needed a third hand. rdm might assist later.

Anyway, I remember reading the Flight of Dragons some time ago and I vaguely remember that they kind of came to a conclusion that dragons were very light and filled with buoyant gas, so that's how I'm figuring these hopefully acrobatic dragons are doing what they're doing.

Otherwise we're just buoyed by enthusiasm and physics just looking the other way for a bit. The dragon on the left is, however, trying to put a stop to all this nonsense.


The Eastern Dragon must have great balance. Reminds me of my niece in law, she's tiny, but is the base for her acrobatic troupe.



Ink and Pen on stand


A bunch of acrobat dragons
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Title: Day 13 Ice
Rating: G
Content Notes: Drawn directly with a fountain dip pen, no pencil. A water brush was also used for some wash. And it comes with a little bonus story.

The penguins slid up onto the iceberg. "That was close! The leopard seals were bad, but the orcas were really fast!"
One of their number gazed up at the iceberg. "Um."
The iceberg, which before had only vaguely resembled a dragon, creaked and then grated out through its icicle teeth "Won't eat you. Bigger fish out there, you'd be barely a snack. Welcome."

"Oh. Thank you. What will you hunt? We can point the way to some shoals"

The ice dragon smiled, loosing several icicles which the penguins dodged warily. "You might say I have a Titanic appetite."
Ink and Pen on stand

Dragon iceberg and penguins

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