Forgiveness (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 3)

Forgiveness (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 3)

Two sisters come to terms in the afterlife. The lady-in-white cradles her estranged sibling, shedding tears of sadness, remorse, pleading for the other woman to come out of the darkness. They can move on together, says the lady-in-white, because as it turns out, the afterlife isn't as judgmental as she thought it was when she was alive.

Choi: I might have the unpopular opinion that spoilers don't have to be treated like the entire story has been ruined. I can understand if one person feels like they were robbed of the journey, kinda like how my friends got upset when they found out Dumbledore died. Sure, it's shocking, but I never understood people who stopped reading entirely without finding out *why* the death even happened to begin with.

Besides, wouldn't it just give you more context and the thrill of dramatic irony when you can't change the outcome? And maybe, just beyond the death scene, that perhaps there's a more satisfying conclusion to it all? Or maybe I am the weird one.

Food for thought... 😗

Sketchtember 2024, Day 1 - Tender

[Sweet Nightmares]

Choi: Go figure that on the first day I'd already run into an obstacle. This was done in 3 hours, but halfway through my entire PC crashed on me right before I could ctrl + s... (lll￢ω￢) anyhoo --

Here's Jaeon (Jeh-uhn, left) and Sedrik to kick off Day 1! We have so many relationships that I can't wait to share with you all, and I'm glad that the next in line would be these two. There's a lot to say about these characters, but for now, just know that Jaeon is a vampyr noble and Sedrik is an immortal burdened with a dark secret. This is a snapshot after Jaeon's rival Vintola, a vampyr who disregards the hierarchy within their nightkin society, beat up Sedrik to send a message to Jaeon. You can barely see it, but Jaeon is actually snarling protectively underneath all that mane :)

While Sedrik protests that he's not made of glass, they're not displeased by the tender affection the towering monster has to share.

Majestic ✨

Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove (Ptilinopus regina), family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, Australia

photograph by Matt Latimore‎

after seeing the original anime series, it's wild to think that we were fed by just one episode near the end of the series for an m/m pairing to originate. I didn't even get to experience the original NGE until now, and I was seriously wondering when this Kaworu guy was gonna come out. And then he just.. dies?? The shit that Shinji had to go through e_e

Anyway, we just happened upon the NGE remastered series on Prime Video, and dang! It's been super fun to see how a lot of the lore is being filled in ㅇㅂㅇ)b Stoked to see how Kaworu showing up earlier in the first quarter while introducing a whole new Unit character is gonna fit in to the canon.

Also the animation is so superb... TㅅT

Cuddle (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 5)

[The Judge]

When you're the newly-minted queen of Hell and you are supposed to go end a long and bloody war with a godlike weapon of shadows, and pretty much every other plan has been tried and failed, except for…

… Kindness.

Sometimes the most badass thing you can do is be the first to put down your sword.

Lol what does this have to do with The Judge? Everything. It will eventually come together I swear.

Secret (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 4)

Choi: Vance has a secret, and that's his pent up aggression. As disciplined as he is with his temper around his family, day-to-day microaggressions of being a human-passing spirit can build up a lot of pressure like a geyser inside Vance. So they find catharsis in an underground fight club, where humans and spirits test their might and wit against each other, consequences be damned.

After this sketch, I'm finding I just really like drawing my characters in the middle of a transformation. Likely an influence from flipping through The Animorphs books back and forth lol

This is something that I really want to improve on because there are quite a few spirits that can shapeshift between human/spirit forms, and I'd feel very silly if I didn't continue practicing and studying. Our dear monster boys and girls deserve to shine during their monstrous moments ^_^