My Art from Inktober 2022 (Part one)

I am back with another Inktober series! This year is my second year doing Inktober, I did it for the first time last year. Continuing the theme of last year, I will be dividing the series into three parts-- 10 drawings for each part, and then 11 in the final post.  If you wish to check out my Inktober posts from 2021, you can check them out here: part 1, part 2, and part 3. 

Also, as a reminder, I am doing a Q&A on this blog for novel. If you wish to leave questions for the second part of the Q&A (if you haven't already) you can do so here.  But back to this post, let's get started with the drawings: 

                                                       The Official Prompt list for Inktober: 

And here are my drawings... 

Day #1 Gargoyle, I thought it would be interesting if someone (a spy/rogue), was hiding amongst gargoyles waiting to make a move. 

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Day #2 Scurry, I drew of a dog character from a children's book I'm working on, whose name is Toto. This isn't one of the drawings for the book, but I thought it would be fun to draw none the less. 

Day #3 Bat, I drew an (elvish) vampire, since that was the first thing that came to mind. She has a tattoo/face-paint of a bat on her left cheek, and I gave her red eyes. 

Day #4 Scallop, I had to look up what a scallop was to make this drawing. Once I figured it out, I decided to draw a mermaid with a scallop as a necklace. It ended up turning into Arisias as a mermaid.

Day #5 Flame, Since Karleon the god of Mischief gives his devotees blue fire magic (along with sometimes the gift of prophecy, but that will be talked about later), I thought it would be fitting to draw him.

Day #6 Bouquet,  This drawing was inspired by a John William Waterhouse painting "Gather Ye Rosebuds While You May (1908)". I took the life drawing approach and only drew the lower part of the body (not the face), so that I could focus on the hands. 

Day #7 Trip, This reminded me of my characters traveling in my novel, Becoming the Body Thief. So, I drew something inspired by that. Since the writing on the sign got a little messed up, I'll tell you what it says. It says "The Woodland Tavern." There is an also an altar to a god off to the side with coin offerings from travelers. 

Day #8 Match,  The first thing that came to mind was lighting a match. So, I decided to draw that along with a candle. 

Day #9 Nest, It's been a while since I did a drawing of a bird! So, I decided to draw a bird sitting in its nest. 

Day #10 Crabby, For this I thought I would reference the mermaid theme from earlier, and draw a mermaid sitting with a crab. I really like how it turned out. 

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Which drawing is your favorite? And are you doing Inktober this year? 

-Quinley 

Using Polls to Create Art #7

 Previous parts: #1, #2, #3, #4 ,#5 and #6.  

Hello everyone, 

I am happy to tell you that I have finally fixed the doubling effect in the character interview with Phoenix, and I plan to have it edited and posted sometime soon. I'm sorry about the delay. 

But now on to this post. Here's the next installment of Using Polls to Create Art. Unless otherwise stated, all of the art in this post came out of majority votes... 

This was not a majority vote. When I made a poll about which character I should draw, people started wondering "what does a ghost bride look like?" and "what would a ghost bride mermaid look like?" because of the questions that were circling, I decided to draw the ghost bride as a mermaid. 

However, I did also draw the majority vote, which I will include in the next post, but since this post is themed around mermaids/merman it won't appear here. 

I asked the voters whether I should draw a sailor or a siren, and a siren ended up winning. 

So I drew Oceana again. I may end up doing a digital version of this drawing in the future. 

In this poll, the pollers helped create an original character who is a merman. I'm not sure what to call him, so if you have any name suggestions I would love to hear them in the comments below.  

Ophelia as a mermaid. This was fun to draw. 

Phoenix as a merman. I decided to make his tail feathery almost like a bird's feathers, but actually a fish's tail. 

This is breaking from the mermaid theme a little bit. I had the voters vote on what should appear on the cover of The Case of the Poisoned Goblet. The three things that needed to appear were Annabelle, Ophelia, and a dragon. I ended up having the dragon appear on the poisoned goblet, and I thought it would be neat if Annabelle and Ophelia appeared above. 

Now, I have a poll for you: 

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Which drawing is your favorite? Do you have a favorite mermaid/merman character? 

-Quinley 

My Art from Inktober 2021 (Part One)

   I normally don't post two drawing posts in a row, but I recently found out about Inktober, and have been participating in it, and I wanted to share what I have been drawing. If you don't know what Inktober is, here is the link to their official website. 

To me, it's like NaNoWrimo but instead for artists, to use to draw more. I already draw a lot (as you may already know), but I like giving myself challenges. (Hence the reason I made the Using Polls to Create Art series.) So this seemed right up my alley! Also, I wanted to learn how to draw in a different medium with COPIC markers, so I am using Inktober to help me practice using them. 

 I intend to share with you each ten drawings that I draw (with eleven being the last one), so that it will be divided up into segments (for all the thirty-one drawings), so you don't get all thirty-one all at once. 

                                         Here's the prompt list for Inktober this year: 

And here are the first ten drawings of mine (some of them are Halloween-y, but that is because I am very excited for Halloween, so that influenced my drawings)...

Day #1 Crystal. I decided to draw the Crystal from The Dark Crystal. 

The character you see behind the crystal is Kira, she is a Gelfing and one of the movie's protagonists. The hands you see reaching towards the crystal are supposed to be Kira (left) and Jen (Jen being the one holding the crystal shard (right)).  I also decided it would be fun and mystical to add mist around Kira and the crystal.

Day #2  Suit. I drew Oscar Wilde. I don't know why my mind went to Oscar Wilde from the word "suit," but it did. It's probably because he is one of my favorite Gothic writers. I had a bit of trouble drawing his arms, since I was finding it difficult to figure out where it connected.  

Day #3 Vessel, my first thought was a spirit using a human as a vessel for possession.  I feel like I am probably going to (eventually) write a story about this person and spirit. 😉

Day #4 Knot, I decided to draw a Celtic knot. This made me realize how hard drawing Celtic knots is, but I am happy with how it turned out. 

Day #5 Raven, This prompt reminds me very strongly of "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe. 

So I drew something inspired by that. 

Day #6 spirit, This is the same spirit you saw possessing the person earlier, I was inspired by this cover of "Remains of the Day" (from Tim Burton's Corpse Bride) and just decided to delve into her backstory a bit. She was going to get married, but then she died, and possessed the character you see for the prompt Vessel (who was also getting married, and possibly, the ghost could have caused the wedding to happen, so that she could have that experience that she lost.)  Her plan goes as well as you can expect a possession to go...

Day #7 Fan, I wasn't sure what to draw at first but then I decided it would be fun to draw one of my characters holding a fan. I decided to draw Ophelia from The Mystery of the Body Thief fanning herself while she is at ball. This drawing is mixed media, because I used a mix of ink and water color.  

Day #8 Watch, I interpreted this prompt as a verb, as in "being watched." So I drew what could be a mermaid looking at you. This was another mixed media drawing I used the same materials as the one before. (Also this was partly inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Ginny Di's Songs to Drown Sailors To). 

Day #9 Pressure, Crime and Punishment was the first idea that came to my mind, this may be due to the fact that I am reading it right now. All of I could think of was the pressure Raskolnikov put on himself. 

Day #10 Pick, a lock pick. I drew my D&D character Jinx, he is a rogue and knows how to pick locks (and pockets). I had to redraw this one, because I messed up the coloring of the previous one. This also made me realize I should practice on working on foreshortening in figure drawing, since I had difficulty with the arms again. 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Which drawing is your favorite? And are you participating in Inktober? 

-Quinley 

Martin Luther King Jr. Day Drawings 2020

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day everyone! 

To celebrate I decided I would post drawings of my characters of color. In Fantasy there tends not to be as many characters of color, which is sad, but hopefully there will be more stories that do have that in the future. 

The first drawing is of Elm, my dryad character. 

I really love how her hair turned out in this drawing. 

The second is of a character who doesn't currently have a name yet, but she is from

The Silver Key, and is a priestess and martial artist. 

This character who doesn't have a name yet, was actually inspired by 

the fact that Halle Bailey is going to be playing Ariel in the live action Little Mermaid. 

Even though the character herself is not Ariel. 

A drawing of Elm dancing in the rain, I really love the way this turned out.

As for this drawing, I thought it would be fun to draw her in a pose that showed she was ready to fight. In my book, she is a very skilled marital artist and someone you probably don't want to anger or hurt her friends. 

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Which drawing is your favorite? Also, do you have any favorite Fantasy books where the main character is a person of color? 

-Quinley