The Hungry Stranger - my 15th and final piece for #Octoby2025 🩸🍷🏺
This is a folktale from within my world building project, it tells the story of a Demi Goddess’s origin. Haemadipsa goes on to become the queen of all Vampires and the spirit of retribution
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Elven Noble - my 14th piece for #Octoby2025 🧝♀️🌳🏺
In the verdant Greenway of the Encircled Lands, wealthy city states provide lives of ease and comfort 🍇
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Small God’s Tithe, my 13th piece for #Octoby2025 🐈🐱🌿🍎🍏
The sacred forests of this world are filled with gods and spirits, both great and small; and they expect oblation
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Statues and sculptures, my 13th piece for #Octoby2025 🏛️🏺
A sketchbook page exploring how the sculptures and statues, of different cultures, from this Bronze Age fantasy world might look
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Draconic Sage, drawing number 12 #Octoby2025 🐲🌿🐆
In places where Dragons are worshipped, their priests and priestesses wield both divine and political power
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Seek the Elder, my eleventh piece for #Octoby2025 🐉🌴🦜
A young prince, looking for divine guidance, journeys deep into the jungle of the Lakelands
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Wandering Warlock, my tenth piece for #Octoby2025 🐈⬛🗡️
A soldier deep in the Red Desert patrols her city’s borders
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Enchantment by Moonlight, my ninth piece for #Octoby2025 🌕🔥
Enchanters use secret rites, elaborate ceremonies and arcane performances to imbue objects with magical power
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Wizard’s Weaving, my eighth piece for #Octoby2025 🫏⭐️💫
Quick one today, about an hour and a half. Onotane are donkey-minotaurs who guard sacred olive groves, but this one has left her people to study the magic of the stars
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Lost Leviathan, my seventh piece for #Octoby2025 🗻🐉
High in the mountains a great sea dragon drifts through the clouds, a young witch and her familiar pause to watch
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Centaur Prophet, my sixth piece for #Octoby2025 🔮
In my world building I choose to answer the question of “where are a centaur’s organs?” with, they have none as they’re made of magically animated marble
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Stampede Summoner, my fifth piece for #Octoby2025 🐎🎠
In the tundra of the Coldgrounds, a summoner invokes the spirit of a great stampede
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Mysterious Merfolk, my fourth piece for #Octoby2025 🧜🌊
Trying to be much quicker with these, managed this one in an hour and a half. Merfolk are reclusive messengers for the goddess of the sea, but their true motives are unknown.
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God King’s Chambers, my third piece for #Octoby2025 🍇🏺
I’ve always drawn the Demi-gods in this project as inhumanly tall, so I wanted to paint something that emphasised that with this piece
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Desert Dryad, my second piece for #Octoby2025 🌵
I’m trying a digital version of using toned paper, which I love in an analogue sketchbook. More world building here, thinking about biome specific spirits
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Day 1 of #Octoby2025 Selkie Priestess 🦭
Managed to get this done in a bit under 3 hours, used today’s drawing to explore some world building ideas… which I’ll probably do more of, we’ll see 🤷♂️
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OCTOBY 2025 - where I draw whatever I want (unless I don’t) and it’ll probably be an elf (unless it isn’t), for every day of October (unless it’s not)
Couldn’t decide what October drawing challenge to do, or even if I wanted to do one…
✏️Introducing OCTOBY 2025🎨
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