Day 10 is Faun

Didn’t quite feel super up to doing the thing today, so the theme of monsters going to a rave in 2005 continues, I suppose!   Might like to add some more orange-y color later. 

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Day 9 is Corpse

So this is my zombie girl who leaks galaxy, ripping the guts from a cassette tape because I was thinking about how often I used to see the tape tangled in bushes and things and that I liked the way it kind of sparkled.  shrug emoji

Day 8 - Naga

“Oh, let’s make this one feel like a Hot Topic in 2004.  I know!  I’ll use my favorite tools from 2004, my Prismacolor Colored Pencils!”

earlier today me was a fool why did i think this was a good ideaaaaa did i learn nothing from 2005 me

Next time I say I want to use these for fun, ask me if I am prepared to have that ‘fun’ for the next four hours and if I will in any way enjoy the way it looks when scanned. 

That said, I love 2004 Mall Goth Naga

Day 7 is Fae

My childhood was heavily mixed with Brian Froud’s fairies,  Amy Brown’s fairies, the custom fairy dolls in an issue of Barbie Bazaar, and the Fairies of Cottingley Glen fairy toy/dolls.  I spent a lot of time in 7th grade making drawings of fairies, I was just super into them as a thing.   

This one skewed pretty Froud, though her legs did get some striping thanks to the memory of all those fairy pins I got at Hot Topic 20 years ago, haha.  

This was incredibly enjoyable.  

Day 6 is ‘Beasts’

I see ‘monsterfolk’  as partly human, so this is a little basic in terms of hybrid-ing.  Just a human head on an ibex. With the ears and horns, obviously.   Wasn’t feeling this one extremely, but inking it was nice.  Looking forward to the next several, I desire things I can make scary and weird.

Day 5 is ‘Spiritual Manifestation’ 

I have a weird relationship to the concept of ghosts, now, I think, especially as a ‘oooooo spooooooky~~’ kind of thing.  I don’t believe in them and they feel kind of bad to me now under most ‘let’s make things scary’ circumstances.  I like them vengeful, mostly, and there of their own will rather than something like ‘religious ritual not performed properly due to technicality’ or whatever.  I want ‘I’m here to destroy the person who abused me’ ghosts, not women named Elizabeth who got influenza in that one hotel room and now she’s there forever.  Since I’ve done all this research into old family history and have been to several colonial cemeteries by now, it is hard for me to see anyone as just a generic spirit for a story and not as a person who had connections.  I can’t not imagine all their siblings and cousins sitting in the enormous family reunion photos I have.  Seeing stories and photos just makes people less ‘and then they became the cold spot in the hallway’ for me.   

In my quests for graves of relatives, I searched for videos of relevant cemeteries on YouTube, and since I come from a bunch of Revolutionary War folks,  the places where they are buried are typically the most visited by people who just want to see Ye Olde Spooky Graveyard Shit,   But I’ve got much closer and more recent family in the same cemeteries, too, and people going out and sitting among them and trying to ‘communicate with the spirits~~~’ just makes me so mad.  It’s easy to just see rows of names and not think about it, I guess.  Or easy to think that there’s no one left who feels that people buried 200 years ago are relevant, but now that i know how tightly woven I am to nearly every cemetery in the county in which I grew up, I feel very protective of everyone, even if they’re like a second cousin four times removed or something.  

That all said, I based this image loosely on a girl in a century old photo found among my family things who I haven’t identified.  Her environment is based on photos of my several greats grandparents’ living rooms.  Long flowing tatter sleeves didn’t work super well, but ah well.  I started this with the full intent of this just being the sketch, but I ended up just getting in the zone and filling it out more and more, so it’s much smaller in real life than all the others and is just pencil.  Pencil felt more ghosty than ink anyhow.

Anyway, here’s my turn of the (last) century ghost girl.  In my mind she’s here to right an injustice she was killed trying to right in life and she’s going to get shit done.  She’s not tortured or miserable, she’s orchestrating.  

Day 4 is Harpy~

I like harpies a lot.  I draw weird variations on them frequently, though they’re never posted here because I always decide I’m being weird or something.  

Being weird, I say, posting a glowstick harpy or something.  

Wanted to go digital today, so you get sPaRkLe

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Day 3 is Vampire

Just wanted to use my new pens, and was thinking about the doll project I’ve got going on in the background.  

Day 2 is ‘Feline’ 

I went with a manticore!  A little more person-bodied than they’re generally portrayed, and I don’t think I ever see them portrayed as female, but the bulk of the thing is feline dammit

Some black leaked through to this page from yesterday’s cyclops and I just left it on her.  We’re gonna be seeing bits of it for a few days I think, hahaha