#loretober2023

[la-fumettista]

Loretober

Day 3: La Llorona

I like to switch between October drawing challenges, if I don’t feel inspired by the prompts of one. So today I decided to participate in Loretober’s theme.

[alihsi]

Loretober Day 8: Going for the more mothy Mothman with influence from a black-waved flannel moth, native to West Virginia, where this urban legend comes from. I chose it since it's one of the species that has the long feathery antennae. Pentel brushpen, Bombay Black ink and brush, red Daiso brushpen and Prismacolor fine-line marker on Canson mixed media.

[kores-pomegranate]

Loretober2023 Day 2: Wrath. Dread Queen Persephone drawn in the Castlevania art style

Character created and owned by Rachel Smythe

[mystmoon]

Moon moon moment

[sjwinklerart]

October Drawing Challenges: Day 12

[kores-pomegranate]

Day one of Loretober2023: Tarot

Dear Hephaestus seemed like the perfect fit for The Hermit—he takes pleasure in solitude but deeply values the people he lets into his life. He loves his Aetna and she loves him back.

Characters by Rachel Smythe

[mystmoon]

Look I know mothman is a very serious cryptid but like

He's just a liddol guy you know?

[mystmoon]

Pretty sure this is just the Japanese word for ghost from what I can find?

[sjwinklerart]

October Drawing Challenges: Day 17

[mystmoon]

Lady Midday strikes people down who work in fields at midday, which is honestly p based wish I had someone force my bosses to let me take my lunch at a consistent time

[sjwinklerart]

October Drawing Challenges: Day 25

It seemed like a good idea at the time..

[mystmoon]

More fox times, this one is kinda what it says on the tin really

[mystmoon]

The legends behind this one are very different to what I expected, Futakuchi-Onna is a kind of cursed? It affects women who are not being fed enough by their husbands, they become so hungry they grow a second mouth in the back of their head that constantly tries to eat and if left long enough her hair will form two snakes to help the mouth find food. Very creepy but I wonder how often starving your wife was a thing for this to become a folklore cryptid?

[mystmoon]

This one is a weird one and I'm not 100% happy with it but I tried, Dodomeki are thieves with super long arms covered in birds eyes (but also bird eyes might be slang for a kind of coin so maybe they have money up their arms? Idk)

[mystmoon]

Zombis as a way to deny you rest even in death they force you to keep working is just such a creepy concept to me

[sjwinklerart]

October Drawing Challenges: Day 9

"It is as foretold"