4 iterations of my OC [Josie] Josie is a yellow anthro mouse with brown short hair, wearing desaturated blue jeans, a pink shirt with 3 bugs on it and a black hoodie In the 16/12 limit her proportions change to that more like a real mouse the bigger head allows for more recognisable details in the 32/8 limit she is now more upright, altho the 8 colour limit did prove trickier than expected, I should have been more deliberate with my colour choices since here she looks quite flat [shut up jon] other than that she's quite cute and has seemingly found a shiny thingy :O the 64/4 limit is back to a comfort zone for me haha this one resembles the default Josie the most The hardest part was deciding what colour from her triad palette to use as the prominent one, I settled on pink since is seem the most versatile

Decided to do one of my less monochromatic OCs
Specifically to challenge myself more on the last prompt

one thing I noticed is; if you look at mine and Tudor's we both messed around with the original proportions in the smaller sizes

~Ali

#SketchaQuest #ArtChallenge #PixelArt #Mouse #OCsky

Drok, the orc, drawn 4 times, with each iteration matching a set limit on pixels and colours used.

Practicing pixel art has been a fun exercise, with some surprisingly satisfying results! Drok has never looked so good...or square.

You can join in the #sketchaquest too by copying the template tagged on our profile.

~ Tudor

#pixelart #fantasy #orc #gameboy #dnd #oc #artchallenge

Since launching our March #sketchaquest pixel art challenge, Inky has been going through my copy of POP!NK magazine to see what he can learn to make with pixels.
I wonder what he will create?

Join the Sketch-a-quest using the template pinned on our profile.

~Tudor

#OC #pixelart #artchallenge

A template of 4 canvases, each with its own associated limitations for a pixel art challenge. The first has no limits. The second has a 16x16 pixel canvas size with a 12 colour limit. The third has a 32x32 pixel canvas size with an 8 colour limit. The fourth has a 64x64 pixel canvas size with a 4 colour limit.

We're making this March pixel perfect with a pixel art Sketch-a-Quest!
Want to join in?
Copy the template below and follow the instructions for each canvas then post it with #sketchaquest.

#illustration #challenege #pixelart #gameboy #sprite

An early Inspiration: Gunnerkrigg Court A current Inspiration: My Mutuals :D -[I ran out of space so please forgive me if you're not depicted here🥺] Another Person's OC: @ebonyjai.bsky.social [Hazel, Mahto, Poot, Spout, and Ellis] A favourite storytelling environment: Nature/Outdoors- I would really like to set a story in a setting inspired by the Turkish fairy houses too :? A favourite Genre: Supernatural/Folklore... even if I have been doing alot of slice of life stuff recently haha

Another Sat- Monday! another entry for our January drawing activity from a member of the Pop!nk magazine team.

Want to join in? Just copy the template pinned on our page and post it with #sketchaquest in the caption!

#artchallenge #digitalillustration #comicart

An early Inspiration: [Purple] Gunnerkrigg Court A current Inspiration: [Blue] My Mutuals :D -[I ran out of space so please forgive me if you're not depicted here🥺] Another Person's OC: [Orange] @ebonyjai.bsky.social [Hazel, Mahto, Poot, Spout, and Ellis] A favourite storytelling environment: [Green] Nature/Outdoors- I would really like to set a story in a setting inspired by the Turkish fairy houses too :? A favourite Genre: [Turquoise] Supernatural/Folklore... even if I have been doing alot of slice of life stuff recently haha

Currently can't access the @pop1nk.bsky.social account, I think the big T-dawg might be logged-in :?
but I really wanna show off the #SketchAQuest I did, so I'll tease it with the dominant colour bonus challenge thingy

#Art #Illustraion #ArtPrompt

A template with 5 small illustrations, each one matching a prompt.

Another Saturday, another entry for our January drawing activity from a member of the Pop!nk magazine team.

Want to join in? Just copy the template pinned on our page and post it with #sketchaquest in the caption!

#artchallenge #digitalillustration #comicart

Illustrations of Pokemon, Rayman, OCs, a fantasy library, and a mech versus kaiju fight, laid out in a grid with prompts for each illustration underneath.

Here is my submission for our January Sketch-a-Quest.
I have been jamming Rayman 3 - Hoodlum Havoc for a few days now.
I drew 2 characters by @elenicartoons.bsky.social for prompt 3 (another person's OC).

~Tudor

#sketchaquest #artprompt #challenge #rayman #pokemonadventures #mechs

A grid of prompts for illustrations.

We're kicking off this year with a Sketch-a-Quest!
Want to join in?
Copy the template below and create a little illustration for each of the prompts then post it with #sketchaquest.

#illustration #challenege

[Popink] Sketch-a-Quest! Everyone has a story. What inspires you to draw? Create a small illustration for each of the promts: An early inspiration to your art. A current inspiration on your art. Another person's original character. A favourite storytelling environment. A favourite genre.

Had a productive meeting last night :]
Got some plans for Jan and Feb

One of which is this Sketch-a-Quest:

#SketchAQuest #ArtPrompts

A Field Sketch of a newly discover creature Based on Jon's Favourite dessert: The creature resembles a humanoid mass covered in cream like secretion with it's stomach secretion in crimson flesh.

Field sketch #19: The Velvet Maw, This creature was discovered in a secluded lake during the later years of the Ventura Expedition, The Velvet Maw remains one of the most grotesque entities ever recorded during the expiation. Equal parts dessert and nightmare.

#SketchAQuest
#Monsters #Food

A Field Sketch of a newly discover creature Based on Jon's Favourite Fruit: A larva that uses mimicry to look like an apple

Among the smallest yet most disturbing discoveries of the Ventura Expedition, the Eden Larva was initially mistaken for a harmless fruit grub. At only 5 mm in length, it burrows itself inside anything with flesh whether it be living or dead.

#SketchAQuest
#Monsters #Food

A voracious worm creature that looks like a green bean bursts out from the ground with its mouth open.

Recorded in the Ventura Expedition Logs, the Bean Basilisk earned its title as one of the most lethal plant-based organisms ever encountered. This predator slithers beneath the sand like a root-come-alive, then springs up with it's mouth wide open to consume its prey.

#SketchAQuest
#Monsters #Food

A Field Sketch of a newly discover creature Based on Jon's Favourite Breakfast: A four legged fluffy docile and gentle creature, with a floppy ears and obscured face with only it's biddy eyes poking through. It's adorned with an egg on it's back

Discovered by the Harbinger Crew during the first month of Ventura Expedition, this creature, aptly named The Immortal Meal, was unlike any other specimen encountered. Composed primarily of corned beef-like fur and crowned with a perfect sunny-side egg.

#SketchAQuest
#Monsters #Food

A Field Sketch of a newly discover creature Based on Jon's second Favourite Meal: A floating, oddly menacing, creature which resemble a clump of spaghetti and meatballs on a fork

The first first encounter for the Ventura Expedition:

This hostile entity was dubbed The Pasta Guardian by the note found by the members of the Harbinger Crew
An anomaly of tangled strands and simmering fury, it floats the jungle edge as if defending something ancient

#SketchAQuest
#Monsters #Food

A field Sketch of a newly discover creature Based on Jon's Favourite Meal: It resembles some sorta sushi... or maybe a prawn tempura? Also today is Jon's Birthday, wish him a good one

Field Sketch #8: Squilla Multa Labia, Tempura Leviathan.

First documented by the Harbinger Crew in 1956 during the Ventura operation in the Arctic, this colossal crustacean drifts beneath the ice, creating miniature rumbles as they move.

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#Monsters #Food

Size Index: 2 Flavour Rating: Creamy Threat Level: Ice Age A fanged vanilla flower dripped with icicles emerges from a tub of ice cream baring its name: Vanillord!

Tudor's final flavourful fiend based on his favourite dessert:
Vanilla Ice Cream.

You heard it here first folks; Vanilla ain't boring! It's so good in fact, that its name has become a substitute for 'normal'.

It isn't plain. It's the archetype.

#SketchAQuest
#Monsters #Food

Size Index: 1 Flavour Rating: Toxic Threat Level: Fairy An animated apple in some sweet drip, unfortunately he took a mouth to the face, leaving him scarred. His drip: Light brown baseball cap [turned on it's side, because he's cool] A blocky dark green coat [hand in pockets all chill like] Red kicks with yellow socks [He got them with the dosh from his new job]

Based on Tudor's favourite fruit:
The poisonous Master Appleton the Third!

Ever wonder what happened to the rest of the poison apple after Snow White took a nibble?
Answer: he got a fresh start working as a pot wash in a corner café.

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#Monsters #Food

Size Index: 2 Flavour Rating: Elemental Threat Level: James An animated carrot brought to life who knows how. Their massive head gives the illusion of a bulky body but if you look closer you'll see the stem and leaves make up quite a thin and delicate... although it can support that big ol head, so maybe they're stronger than they look.

Based on Tudor's favourite veggie:
The carrot golem; James!

This gnomish pest will steal your keys, but pairs well with potatoes.

What more can we say? It's James.

#SketchAQuest
#Monsters #Food

Size Index: 5 Flavour Rating: Nutty Threat Level: Giga A granola rock monster A misshapen and craggy homunculus with one notably bigger hand

Based on Tudor's favourite breakfast:
The oat rock giant; Granolock!

Nothing beats a bowl of granola and the milk of your choosing.

Tudor would pick this monster in a game of 'King of Tokyo'.

#SketchAQuest
#Monsters #Food

Size Index: 3 Flavour Rating: Hot HOt HOT Threat Level: Slow Cooked A shriveled sizzled up Chili Pheonix The a body constructed from chili with a rice belly, lit tail and gammy claws

Based on Tudor's second favourite meal:
The Chili Chicken terror; Chiliken!

Served with a belly of rice, this dish is sure to sizzle.

Maybe next time I should make it a bean-based monster?

#SketchAQuest
#Monsters #Food

Burritoad Size Index: 6 Favour Rating: Atomic Threat Level: Zilla A burrito that has grown legs and took the form of a giant toad. Lettuce spines rip out of it's back, as it's insides fall out of it's cavernous mouth

Based on Tudor's favourite meal:
Beware the over-stuffed Burritoad!

This behemoth spews out the excess because Tudor has yet to grasp the right amount of food that can be wrapped within the confines of a tortilla.

Despite the mess, Burritoad is a dinnertime delight

#SketchAQuest
#Monsters #Food

Two Ghosts looking at each other floating by their gravestones, where the dirt is sorbet. The green ghost is based off the zesty lime sorbet, she has leafy hair and her tail starts to turn to a murky yellow to reference ginger She also is more sharp and angular compared to the yellow one to highlight the zesty-ness. The yellow ghost is based off the tropical sorbet, she has a straight cut with a hair leaf that sticks out and her tail starts to turn pink to reference guava She's also more round and soft compared to the green one to resemble a mango and to show a warm bubbly personality.

Based off of Ali's Favourite Desserts:
Tropical and Zesty Lime Sorbet Ghosts
And yes, they are girlfriends :3

She's really proud of the graves, but I do feel Ali cheated with the monsters haha
+ This was inspired by the Scooby Doo Ice cream Ghosts

#SketchAQuest
#IceScream
#Monsters #Food

A Lychee themed Vampire and her Bat mode. Bat: Using lovely reddish/pink wings to create the peel of the fruit A cute round little white head poking out reference the fresh of a lychee And the brown legs acting as the stalk Vampire: Quite a simple look but I think it's quite striking, the classic 'vampire holding up their cape to make a huge silhouette' pose Her cape is styled after the same peel as the wings of the bat mode. The rest of her is white par from some hints of red and a few accessories The face still has a lot of bat influence The outfit is a mix of modern and old White shirt, jeans and high heel boots and a jabot with a gem which looks like the seed of a lychee.

Based off of Ali's Favourite Fruit:
Vampire Fruit Bat [Lychee]

Ali had the vision for the bat mode first and it all came together so well. After figuring out the Bat mode she then drew the vampire. Idk how often she has blood but like one drop will spell disaster haha

#SketchAQuest
#Monsters #Food

An Onion Zombie, who is crying, standing on the classic checkered garden of the PVZ games. She wears multiple layers, for obvious reason haha, including a light/bright brown blazer, a pale desaturated green shirt and a dark brown skirt, topped off with an allium in the top right quarter of the blazer and a tie with colours similar to a spring onion. Her hair is styled after a sprouting onion, with fresh green strands with a brown side part meant to harken to the dry first layer that can start peeling away at the top of an onion. She also has dark brown shoes to match her dress [this colour was chosen because of the roots of an onion] There are also a few purple highlight to call back to the allium :3

Based off of Ali's Favourite Vegetable:
Instead of Plants Vs Zombies here's-
Plants + Zombies = Onion Zombie

Alliums are also one of Ali's favourite flowers which may have created a bit of a bias :|
But Onions are so versatile, how can you not appreciate them?

#SketchAQuest
#PVZ
#Monsters #Food

A Mutant Tortoise Girl, standing on the edge of a stake pool, whilst holding a skateboard which looks like a shortened butter knife. She wears a yellow beanie in reference to the pooling butter one should always slather onto a crumpet. Her shell is made to resemble a burnt crumpet with it's holes filled with butter.

Based off of Ali's Favourite Breakfast:
'It's pooling- POOLING Catherine.'
It's a Crumpet Tortoise Mutant.

Another hot take [or perhaps burnt take] is that Ali prefers her crumpets slightly burnt... she says it add a new texture and favour to enjoy...

#SketchAQuest
#Monsters #Food

A female sea monster, accompanied by some males of the same monster species, floating in a 'lagoon' of apple cider with 'seaweed' [thyme] waving in the foreground. The female sea monster has a head resembling that of an angler fish, but with an apple as a bobber instead of the usual light. Frilled out from her neck are fins camouflaged like vegetation, in this case bay leaves. She has a short barreled torso with her lungs able to expand through her chest. The limbs are lanky with webbed fingers and toes. She is also wearing some cute swimming trunk, with colours and pattern referencing a 'My Little Pony' character [Applejack]. Her skin is coloured like cooked pork. The men look like small pig like fishies with big lips [coloured similar to the woman]

Based off of Ali's 2nd Favourite Meal:
Monster of the Apple Cider Pork Lagoon

Drawing clear inspiration from the angler fish, she thought it would be cute and funny to add some men of this ¿species?

IRL male angler fish are like these small pathetic leech type guys

#SketchAQuest
#Monsters #Food

A female werewolf design, based off of Shepherd's Pie. In the background there are hills, with an abstracted herd of sheep being guided through it be this werewolf shepherd. She wears a fluffy hoodie both meant to resemble fluffy sweet potato mash and the wool of a sheep [here dyed orange] Her and tights are inspired by the filling of a Shepherd's Pie: Lamb mince, Sauce, Onion, Carrots, Celery and Garlic

A female werewolf design, based off of Shepherd's Pie. In the background there are hills, with an abstracted herd of sheep being guided through it be this werewolf shepherd. She wears a fluffy hoodie both meant to resemble fluffy mashed potatoes and the wool of a sheep Her and tights are inspired by the filling of a Shepherd's Pie: Lamb mince, Sauce, Onion, Carrots, Celery and Garlic

Based off of Ali's Favourite Meal:
A Werewolf in Shepherd's Pie Clothing

She doesn't like Potatoes to everyone's horror
She always substitutes it with Sweet Potatoes

To ease the hearts of those who would be destressed by such atrocities she's made an alt just for you

#SketchAQuest
#Monsters #Food

Prompts curated by us all three of us at Pop!nk Design done by Tudor with feedback from Ali and Jon

A short set of art prompts to spark some monster Ideas for the spooky season... we may have also been hungry when coming up these haha

#SketchAQuest #ArtPrompts
#Monsters #Food
#Halloween #October