YoinkTober 2024!

[Jitter]

Hmm, Lalli seems to think he has encountered a giant! But of course it's just windmills. I suppose there are some grasslands in the distance as well.



Inspired by Grey's photo montages. The background picture is from the game Horizon Forbidden West. Which I can recommend, but I love the first part, Horizon Zero Dawn even better. It caters to our interests too!

[Jitter]

She loved the path along the water. There was this spot, where a big rock stood. If you sat on the rock, and turned your head just so, and placed your left hand so that it covered the lights, you could look upon the lake and not see the barrier. Then it was easier to imagine that one day you might step on the riverboat and go forth to the world.

As a child the lake (a different one, but a lake nevertheless, always a constant in her life) had felt like such a boundary. If only it were possible to just walk and keep on walking until you get to somewhere new. But the water prevented it, and she was too small to row a boat fast enough to get anywhere. And the winter was too harsh to make it to the shore either, even if she didn’t walk into one of the melted places.

But here and now, in addition to the water there was the wall. It kept her safe, but it also confined her. Restrained. Suffocated her. A change will come, but until then she walked along the water, sat on the rock, and raised her hand. And dreamed of the world the riverboat could - no, would - one day take her.

[Jitter]

Mutely witnessing
These abnormal formations
Legacy of man


Sorry about the (relative) flooding

[thorny]

Nice, Jitter!

I believe I recognize the person on the path along the water --

[Mirasol]

Please no apologies for the flooding, great works, Jitter!

Spoiler: show

the path along the water is about Tuuri, right?

thorny, I really liked this story! What an interesting premise!


Now apologies for my absence. I´ve had a REALLY busy weekend. Hope this will stay the only triple-post this year... ^^'

17: Townsquare

Another Christmas Market cup (I´ve drawn at least one for YoinkTober over the years). As I wouldn´t have much time to draw on that day, I tried to find something simple that showed a townquare, and Christmas Market cups tend to do. I chose this one from Schwarzenberg in the Erzgebirge. I quite enjoyed the bold lines in the stylization.
Halfway into drawing I realized there is absolutely no townsquare on this cup. (in my defense, I had very little sleep) xD But a friend of mine had the great idea that I should add an actual Christmas Market in the background, as that would be held on the townsquare usually. I tried to make it look somewhat out of focus, not sure if it worked...




18: Inn the middle of nowhere

(my very selectively cooperative phone camera has apparently no problem taking good photos of drawings on a moving train, but on the floor of my room...!)

I got to play my first Pathfinder-oneshot some months ago, and I played a pirate captain character (the one eating soup). The players were told to invent a bit of backstory, and I accidentally invented her whole crew (which obviously didn´t show up in the oneshot, but details xD)...
They call themselves "The Magpies" because they specialize in elaborate heists for shiny objects, and I love them. ;_;

This is actually a scene from a few years before the oneshot, in their favorite Inn. It´s a pretty secluded building on a rivershore, yet never short of customers due to the widely-known amazing cooking-skills of the owner and his apprentice (the waiter here). And as said owner has a strict policy of "as long as you pay for your food and drinks, are polite to everyone there and don´t bring any weapons, you´re welcome", a pirate-crew is nothing too out of the ordinary to see here.
(The apprentice later joins the crew.)

Spoiler: they are drinking alcohol here, so just in case someone has a problem with that • show

19: Shanty Town

So a shanty town has apparently nothing to do with songs sung by sailors... Good thing I googled that before starting to draw.
Here the reference for this study, a shanty town in/around Caracas in Venezuela.

[Jitter]

Thorny, Mirasol, you are of course right about the person on the path. It’s not even intended to be mysterious, I just like writing in the way that something is left unsaid but is (often) clear in the context.

I love both of your Inns, and they’ve something in common too - not all of that work was done by hand! I’m fascinated about the idea of trolls staying (more or less) sentient, and it’s clearly canon too, in addition to the various fics we have on the subject.

Dmeck, your troll apparently wasn’t sentient any more? At least I hope not. But were they a troll even before the Rash? Oh sell, no one will ever know now…

[thorny]

spoiler

That's my guess, also.

thorny, I really liked this story! What an interesting premise!

Thanks!

-- spoiling for spoiler, especially since the story itself has wound up as the last thing on the previous page:

Spoiler: show

I didn't have that in mind at all, at least in conscious mind, when I started writing the story. I just started off writing about an isolated inn, hoping that what to write would become clear as I went along. When I put in the earlier line about their not saying where the beer comes from, I was mostly thinking that I didn't want to figure out who was making the beer.

So I went on writing, describing the inn and precautions and so on, and I came to the point at which it seemed somebody ought to tell a story. But what story should they tell -- I'd need at least a bit of description? Story, story, I need a story!

At which point, as near as I can tell, the back of my head put together (if it hadn't already) the line about the source of the beer, the canon troll who kept her soul, and the noncanon troll written about elsewhere here who keeps his mind and his compassion; wrapped them all up together neatly and presented them to the front of my head. Aha! That's what I'm writing about!

[Mirasol]

20: By the Docks

(Now there´s already a "2" in front of it, time flies...)
A redraw from a shot from Arcane Season 1 (hehe, as I can say now that the second season is coming out in a little over two weeks ), Episode 4.

I haven´t really figured out how to properly use that watercolor-white yet... Or I should really work on stopping to mix the paints directly in the pan. Or both.

[wavewright62]

Bravo, I really loved these stories, especially thorny's chilling / warming trolls.    And I imagine shanty towns would have cropped up in the Known World, although sadly they rpobably did as good a job of using exposure on their residents as cleansers protocols.  I do wonder though, about Y1-2 people who never would have imagined themselves *happy* to find a shanty town to live in. Alas that the writing mojo goes no further than that tonight.
I was just about to point out that I couldn't see Jitter's large pic, but now I can.  And of course, docks are also in the air!  FAscinating.

Bravo to all!

[Mirasol]

21: By the Beach

So a while ago when playing Tears of the Kingdom I got stuck halfway up a cliff by the beach because it started to rain (I didn´t have the complete anti-rain-gear yet). The place I was going was right there so I figured teleporting away to do something else wasn´t worth it (and the beach was full of monsters I didn´t feel like facing, so walking wasn´t an option either).
But yeah, waiting for better weather and looking into the distance, I realized once again just how beautiful this game´s scenery is.



I painted this during class with a little travelling-set of watercolors I have (where the glittery watercolors are in too ) and its accompanying self-watering brush. I haven´t really used this brush before. It worked a lot better than expected. Pretty much no unwanted paint staying on the brush and mixing. Definitely a viable option for painting on the go I think.

[thegreyarea]

Well, the region is somewhat teeming with rumours of one nicknamed "Godsquirrela" ... 

See what you made me do?



My take on day 4 - Deep in The Woods...

NEWS FROM THE SILENT WORLD

GIANT SQUIRREL!

Professor Mickelson shared another surprising, and terrifying,
picture from his adventures in the silent world,
on the land once known as Canada.
We can be glad that the professor and his team
managed to safely come out of this situation.

"For three days we walked deep in the woods, following a stream.
We were surprised for finding little to no big animals, infected or not.
I was taking some pictures just outside our camp, in that morning,
hoping to catch that magical moment when you can see a glimpse
of sun through the fog and the trees, when I heard... no, I felt,
coming from the ground, shaking my bones, a heavy "thump",
and every other sound in the forest suddenly died.

Of course I followed the first rule, and waited. It grew louder,
and each thump made the trees, and everything around, shake,
like a little earthquake. And then we saw it, through the fog.

I actually believe that fog, together with our
cold blooded stillness, saved us."

So many amazing things!!!!!!! I'm loving this! I'll just leave this one, and come back later for comments on all that great art!


Original picture of a person deep in the woods: https://unsplash.com/photos/person-standing-beside-trees-NLGtLHoP8UY

Original picture of the (pre-rash) squirrel https://whitesquirrelinstitute.org/articles/the-elusive-fox-squirrel-a-south-carolinian-charmer

[Mirasol]

Hehehe, I was hoping you´d do something with Godsquirrela, Grey. Was not disappointed with the result.


22: Exotic Flora

So what if Dahlias aren´t really exotic (according to my mom)*? I´ve been looking for an excuse to draw these all October! (Reference for the middle-one actually grew in my own garden. The other two are fancy special breeds I photographed in a park.)
But flowers are another thing I find quite difficult. So I attempted 3 different styles to see what works best for me.



*While they come from South America, they are insanely popular in my area in Germany to the point they grow in pretty much every garden. So how exotic is that at this point?

Spoiler: pretty pretty flowers • show

[Mirasol]

23: Cemetery

The cemetery on Toivosaari, as depicted in SSSS A2, page 108. Sorry, without anything clever to add, the creativity-juices weren´t really there yesterday...

[Mirasol]

24: Des(s)erted Drylands

Yes, I did spell this prompt wrong on the list (probably?), but so did the person I took it from, so I´m not sure if it was an honest mistake on their part or if it was an intentional pun...
I briefly considered adding various desserts into the landscape, but decided against it in the end...

Something a bit different again, trying to do something with abstraction. It´s loosely inspired by Tolkien´s artstyle (I have a book with the illustrations he made while working on the Hobbit and tLotR), though from memory, as I forgot to take a picture of the drawing I wanted to reference (I painted this in College again) and didn´t think googling it would work.
Here´s the reference, the wallpaper-site I took it from just said this place is in Arizona.
(EDIT: I replaced the photo for a less twisted one... )

[Jitter]

Mirasol I love your paintings as always. Dahlias are definitely exotic! I’d love to have them in my garden, but here they need to be dug up and stored for the winter and so would forget

Grey, I knew there were squirrels! Although I was thinking of the smaller, talking, baking kind, not the terrifying godlike kind.

My plan is to do at least half the prompts and I have more in the works I promise! Work is hectic but soon…