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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.

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.

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.

Title: No.23 Undersea

Artist: leecetheartist

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.

 

Title: No.19 Flutter

Artist:leecetheartist

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.

Title: No.17 Squashed

Artist: leecetheartist

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.

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.

Title: Day 13 Ice

Artist: leecetheartist

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."