Happy Birthday (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 7)

Happy Birthday (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 7)

[The Judge]

Ismaire:

Darr gets this Day 7 prompt for the second year in a row, whoops. He just has that kind of luck, I guess~ But where last year I showed him saying a happy birthday to someone who really needed it, this time he's wishing he could say it in a situation where it's just better for everyone if he doesn't.

He'll never send that text. He can't. This is supposed to be a one-way communication channel, and it's not worth the risk.

Target Sighted (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 6)

[Sweet Nightmares]

Choi: Remember Giuliano from awhile back? Yeah, that's him in his shifted bipedal form. Fox spirits in general are large in size (for example, Bidan's fox form measures to 8ft long from nose to hind quarters), so you can only imagine how menacing it must be to be stalked by a towering hulk like Giuliano.

Hopefully Bidan's backup is coming soon...

Movie Night (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 10)

[Sweet Nightmares]

Choi: The trio decided to watch The Nun for their movie night at Bidan's apartment. You would think that living a life of fighting monsters and exorcising ghosts would numb them to the horror genre, but it really doesn't. At least in their line of work, they have control of their actions and choices. It's different when you're watching helplessly as the audience...

The specific scene they're reacting to is when Sister Irene gets blindsided by one of the possessed nuns. Vance has an appropriate reaction to the jumpscare (his maek ears pop out when he's distressed). Poor MyungJin actually hates dealing with ghosts, and as far as she's concerned, demons are just god-modding ghosts. Bidan's gauge on being terrified by horror movies has yet to be determined, but he's not unhappy that he's in the middle of a cuddle sandwich; he's just critical of the human's stupid decisions for going without any firepower.

Grieving (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 12)

[Rara Avis]

Choi: I promise, Izzy and I didn't intend Day 12's prompt to bring twice as many child deaths in the pictures. But I do gotta say... I'm glad that we're really showing off the "dark" in dark fantasy in our works now ✨🌑✨

The royal siblings Goldie and Sand grew up in happiness, preparing for a life of responsibility and duty, until the assassination of their entire family line. Goldie (26) and Sand (23) found themselves orphaned, grieving, and wandering into the wild countryside. This particular scene is timed around 2-3 weeks since their loss, after they encountered a mysterious scoundrel, whom they contracted to lead them the way to a remote dwarven stronghold.

When everyone turned to sleep that night, Goldie was left alone with her grief while carrying the weight of the last remaining royal bloodline. You can only imagine the ruminating it would take for her to then see a hallucination of her dead baby brother in the mirror.

And it doesn't get easier from there.

I was just noticing how our Cara media was turning out, and had to take a sec to record this cute arrangement. Outer 4 corners are my sketches, with Izzy's in the cardinal directions.

In all my years online, I finally made a compressed GIF on my own. Nothing fancy other than the snipping tool's record and exporting with Clipchamp. Making that lil gif up there really got me to appreciate gifmakers who create hi-def gifs under the size limit and still make it look good. Hats off to you folks 🫡

Target Sighted (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 6)

[RED]

Ismaire: This sketch prompt turned into a 3-panel sketch comic about how dragons in this world go just non-functionally feral around cats. In particular the dragons' young leader-to-be, Celine, loses her composure the first time she travels to a human town where they keep cats to hunt the mice, and… this.

Yep. Celine and I are one and the same in this regard. God I love cats a/sldfjdljafd;k