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Slayers Artober v3

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Day 11: Absurdly Sharp Sword- It’s a riff off of the Metal Gear Rising cover. I probably could have come up with something else but it was the first solid (ha) idea I thought of.

Day 12: Awesome, But Impractical- I’ve always kind of wondered if the gang ever went back for their Dragon Cuisine after the months upon months it was going to take to make the meat safe to eat. Plus, I like having excuses to draw Chef Ashford.

Day 13: Not So Harmless Villain- About as soon as I got done doing flat colors on Fibrizo I remembered Joyrock existed and would have fit the theme better but eh, w/e. I thought I would throw a mosaic/glitch effect over the prompt name since he’s not really introduced as a villain at all. I tried to play up the cute a little more than normal on this one just to experiment but I feel like everything *but* the face kind of flops.

14. Badass Adorable- Amelia is a character I didn’t ‘get’ at all when I first saw the series but after rewatching it with more familiarity with Japanese pop culture hero stereotypes, I love her. Not really satisfied with the proportions or pose in the end and I kind of feel like the ripped clothes comes off more like fanservice than ‘tough.’ Then again, neither thing is bad… right?

16. Teenage Genius- Sherlock Lina Sherlock Lina Sherlock Lina

16. Signature Move- I know I said before I try not to go ‘too obvious’ on prompts and I spent the entirety of last year’s list drawing just Lina but… c’mon. The Dragon Slave is so iconic other shows even copy the *chant* part.

Slayers Artober, Collected vol. 2

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Day 6- Idol Costume: I’d kind of like to go back and clean this one up. It’s actually done some Numbers and got retweeted by Rui Araizumi which is always hype and like the one thing I’ll miss about the site once it finally explodes. I have kind of mixed feelings about the abstract airbrush backgrounds I’ve been doing but it feels like it makes things a little less dull than just drawing on plain backdrops.

Day 7- The Magic Touch: This was hard to settle on an idea for given how many ways you can depict magic in Slayers so I wound up thinking about that scene in season 1 where Lina spends a while crafting amulets to sell. She’s supposed to be sprinkling powder on a lump of crystal but it kind of looks more like she’s zapping it. Not a fave tbh. Shoujo bubble brush in the background is kinda nice though.

Day 8: Destructive Savior: Originally I was going to have Lina shouting “Hey, I got your wallet back!” but I think it speaks for itself pretty well. People seemed to like this one.

Day 9: Divine Conflict- I’d never really tried to draw Shabranigdu before but I’ve done dragons. Probably could have replayed the episode where Lina tells their origin story for a better look at their full forms but I kind of just worked from memory and wiki screencaps.

Day 10: Super-deformed- Drawing a chibi basically felt like a ‘free space’ prompt. I always liked that bit in Try where Zelgadis spends the entire episode strumming guitar by himself, even when the haunted ship goes down. Honestly it was kind of more interesting how many younger fans didn’t seem to know the term “Super Deformed” for cute mini characters and drew like, weird, warped versions or surreal poses. Not gonna lie, for a minute I was thinking of drawing someone under the ‘turned into a chunk of meat being eaten by a snake forever’ curse since I like to take prompts in weird directions but decided to be… kinda normal. Also I did this to go with it.

In general, when I do these prompt lists, I like to strive to be ‘different’ in some way since I know a lot of fan artists default to glamor shots or shipping as subjects. No shade or anything, they’re having fun and some are definitely good at it. I’ve just always kind of been more into the action, adventure and comedy side of the series and try to put a sense of ‘fun’ into all my sketches through poses or picking subjects that are kinda out there. Hopefully I can keep it up! Day 11’s pic is going to have to wait, though, it’s late and I’m kind of under the weather so I’ll play catch up on my day off.

Theth out.

Slayers Art-ober Is Upon Us Again

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I’ve already fallen behind a bit with work and work 2: the squeakuel tapping me out pretty good, but I’m participating in the Slayers fandom prompt list this year again as my Inktober/Artober challenge. I’ll be posting my entries in batches here for (my own) convenience’s sake, so check back every week or so for a catch up ‘masterpost’ collection if you aren’t following me on my socials. Does such a person exist, who solely gets their 3/2 content through this site and not social media drip feeds? I don’t know! But if you do, big ups.

The prompt list this year was taken from TV Tropes… tropes, which is a pretty easy set of prompts for the most part, honestly. Here are 1-5!

Force Of July

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Just a quick update as the weekend and my freedom draws to a close, last week was the first ‘normal’ feeling one in a while and my energy is finally leveling off, despite the summer skipping straight past ‘Yay, summer!’ temperatures to sticky, greasy uncomfortable mugginess. I’m much more of a winter guy, but the smell of sunblock before I go riding or my neighbor’s chintzy Americana/beach life decorations makes me kind of wish I’d made time to see the ocean this year. I hope to post art a bit more often after rearranging my PC desk but still fool around with the drawing app on my phone before I hit the sack most evenings.

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