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The Ink Demonth 2025 - Day 06. Stitches

What would Ink Demonth be without the appearance of my favorite villain? XD It's funny how Alice used to be my absolute hated character, and now I like her so much - but that's just how it is. Which doesn't change the fact that even I'm surprised by her reaction to Princess Sammy XD

Alice may be a villain and cuts out other ink people's hearts - but she definitely won't tolerate the desecration of a woman's attire. If she could, Allison would also get a complete makeover XD I'm sure Alice wants to get her just to change a few things about her appearance (the changes might include facial mutilations, yes, but it's also about the outfit).

Oh, look! This entry has a BONUS!

It always amuses me how much SATIM Sammy and SATIM Alice could get along and become friends if they weren't so focused on hating each other and scolding each other XD Actually, Alice has a reason - Sammy was mean to her from the very beginning. But Sammy's only reason for being mean to Alice was 'cause someone told him it was the right thing to do, and somehow it stuck in his head.

I wanted to add glasses to Alice while sewing, but then she would have looked too much like Rarity from MLP XD

PS. Here you have a draw about Stikers' front mouth!

Link to event rules.

Bendy and the Ink Machine (c) Joey Drew Studios Inc. Sammy and the Ink Machine, especially Princess Sammy (c) Nayia Lovecat

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The Ink Demonth 2025 - Day 05. Fallen

Yes, Sammy lets others touch him. It shocks me too.

Brody probably expected Sammy to start cursing and raging, and all the Princess Sammy charm would be shattered - and it probably would have been, but before that happened, the gentlemen showed up. Even Sammy is shocked.

I promise we will eventually get out of the Lost Ones' Hideout.

Link to event rules.

Bendy and the Ink Machine (c) Joey Drew Studios Inc. Sammy and the Ink Machine, especially Princess Sammy (c) Nayia Lovecat

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The Ink Demonth - work progress

Because I like to brag :)

Legend: Green - done Orange - sketch and/or lineart Blue - I have an idea (or the beginning of an idea) Red - no idea yet

Loop

Comedy

Tragedy

Homesick

Fallen - I do lineart just now!

Stitches - sketch

Contract - sketch

Identity - sketch

Perfect - I will sketch it today

Mistake - sketch (I love it!)

Mischief - I will sketch it today

Fool - sketch

Promise

Tomorrow

Wolf

Theory - this idea will probably stay

Not What It Seems - plot-important idea

Feast - it has no shape yet, but it has substance

Flood - this idea will probably stay

Ships - this idea will probably stay

Sewers - it has no shape yet, but it has substance

Chaos

Death - just the beginning of an idea

Taxes

Steal

Split - just the beginning of an idea

Spin

Sanctuary - just the beginning of an idea

Swing - just the beginning of an idea

Past - plot-important idea

Fate - plot important idea

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The Ink Demonth 2025 - Day 04. Homesick

Please, no one tell this Lost One who just now becomes Searcher again, that his daughter is currently 34, okay?

And again, a happier strip :) Sad memories don't always bring down the mood; sometimes they spur us into action. But Brody isn't thrilled when his sheep regain their self-confidence and decide to leave the Hideout to risk their lives. So what if cycles reset and nothing is permanent - still people die, are maimed, eaten, etc. And in the end, there's no telling how each death affects each person and what the consequences will be if one day they ever manage to escape the Workshop...

By the way, each comic is getting wider and longer so far, lol. The next one, thankfully, will be shorter again - and I really like it. I cannot wait to start linearting it :) PS. I forgot to draw the arrows for this strip, so I just stole them from the Comedy page from day 2. You probably wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't written it now X"D By the way, how noticeable is it that the backgrounds in Ink Demonths are drawn on a computer with a mouse? I suspect there's a noticeable drop in quality X"D

Link to event rules.

Bendy and the Ink Machine (c) Joey Drew Studios Inc. Sammy and the Ink Machine, especially Princess Sammy (c) Nayia Lovecat

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The Ink Demonth 2025 - Day 03. Tragedy

Another Ink Demonth. As I promised: next depressing one. Join a wonderful rollercoaster of emotions with Princess Sammy! For me, as a mother and wife, these types of topics are extremely sensitive: the loss of a child, separation from family, or the disappearance/death of loved ones... That's why I chose this interpretation for the theme Tragedy.

By the way, DeviantArt didn't exactly shine this time, suggesting Undertale hashtags for this comic X"D From which side, exactly?

Link to event rules.

Bendy and the Ink Machine (c) Joey Drew Studios Inc. Sammy and the Ink Machine, especially Princess Sammy (c) Nayia

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The Ink Demonth 2025 - Day 02. Comedy

Tom won't be laughing when Allison turns around and sees his slab X"D Princess Sammy is a princess, no matter what: she's gentle, sensitive to others injury, doesn't use bad words - but she's still Sammy, who never misses an opportunity to lash out with his frenemies. By the way, I don't know how many SATIM fans have figured out that these three were once besties until Sammy sacrificed Tom's hand to get Bendy out of the Machine (which didn't quite work out). I think I've mentioned this before. If not, then duh, spoilers! Sorry not sorry.

I had a lot of fun making this comic, especially the penultimate frame, where Sammy shows off his nonexistent breasts X"D I wonder... it's very obvious that I don't like the Connors, and Allison in particular? X"D

By the way, while posting this comic, I was amused that deviantArt suggested "princess" next to the standard "comics" hashtag XD This means I'm doing a good job and Sammy's appearance is recognized by bots and AI as a princess - which is what I meant XD Just so there's no doubt that he is one (although his outfit is a bit more reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland).

Link to event rules.

Bendy and the Ink Machine (c) Joey Drew Studios Inc. Sammy and the Ink Machine, especially Princess Sammy (c) Nayia Lovecat

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The Ink Demonth 2025 - Day 01. Loop

We're entering the game with a bang! Yes, trigger warning: suicide - unexpected start. But I don't think anyone would deny that the entire BATIM plot, especially the fate of the employees, is depressing. When you think about it, and the fact of being stuck in an endless loop can (especially for those aware of the loop) rob you of the will to live.

Princess Sammy. As I announced, this year's Ink Demonth will be themed: Princess Sammy. Surprisingly, at least for now, the subsequent entries (the next four to be exact) form a relatively continuous and coherent story. I didn't expect this, so I think I'll forgo the gags and really try to create a coherent, 31-episode story about Princess Sammy bringing joy to the people of the Workshop. We'll see how it goes :)

Today you'll catch the first, rather heavy topic: the loop. And I can already promise you that this won't be the hardest, most depressing strip ever. You've been warned. But next one is Comedy, so maybe it will be even funny :3

PS. No, I'm not making fun of suicides. I've had a rough patch myself. But in this case, let's remember three things: first, this is the Workshop, where a time loop prevents everyone from dying effectively, because when it resets, they're alive again. Second, this is Sammy, who has the sensitivity and empathy of a rock, and has the strange vision how princesses work. Third, I've always believed that the only way to survive in this lousy world where you constantly want to cry is to find small things that lift your spirits and smile because of them. One of my favourites is exactly Princess Sammy. What's yours?

Link to event rules.

Bendy and the Ink Machine (c) Joey Drew Studios Inc. Sammy and the Ink Machine, especially Princess Sammy (c) Nayia Lovecat

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Yay, my propositions are here!

This year, I have ambitious plans for the Ink Demonth: Princess Sammy! This year's ArtFight and the arts I received about Princess Sammy have inspired me to draw more of this wonderful lady, so I plan to tie every entry into her. But don't worry, the rest of the characters appearing in the pictures will be more canonical X"D And I even have (in my own way) a logical explanation for Princess Sammy in the Workshop X"D I cannot wait to start drawing!

I just don't know yet if I'll be posting on Tumblr. I still feel a huge resentment and reluctance to post anything here, but then again, Ink Demonth has always been associated with Tumblr for me… Oh well, we'll see.

Anyway, good luck everyone and have fun!

Something inky this way comes! The Ink Demonth emerges once again!

The Ink Demonth is a 31-day event dedicated to the game Bendy and the Ink Machine (and other games associated with the Bendy universe). It’s based on daily themes. As long as your creation involves elements from the game along with any interpretation of the respective day’s theme – it counts!

You don’t have to create something for each day, make as many creations as you’d like. However, if you manage to do all 31 of them, you can submit a form to receive a little gift (drawing request)! In the form, you will have to provide a link to each of your posted event submissions (it doesn’t have to be Tumblr, just a site that’s publically accessible!).

Here is the link to the form (it will be opened from September 1st to September 30th 2025):

Tag your creations with #The Ink Demonth and #Bendy and the Ink Machine. It’s important if you want to have your entry reblogged by me, which I’m going to do to everything I’ll see in this tag. (So don’t @ me, just tag it with the event’s tag and the game’s name. It’s possible that your post may not show up in the tags, if you notice that I’m not reblogging your entries for a longer while, feel free to DM them directly to me on Tumblr. My focus will be mainly on Tumblr, I may interact with posts on other sites but it is going to be with whatever I run into, as this event is Tumblr-focused. Feel free to post on other sites too, though!)

(And, though I think it goes without saying, if I notice a post containing something I consider harmful content, I will not reblog it and will warn the creator of such content that, depending on the case, they cannot continue to take part in the event with content like this or perhaps even not at all.)

Remember to tag only the finished entries, so the tag isn’t clogged with WIPs!

You can create whatever you’d like! Draw a picture! Write a fic! Do a video edit! Take a cosplay photo! Anything you can come up with that is a creative interpretation of that day’s theme!

(Don’t try to „cheat the system”, though – don’t submit a, let’s say, straight line for each day, I will notice this kind of spam and remember: spamming is a terrible sin. You can make an entry that covers a few themes but as long as you don’t create 31 things, the gift will not be granted to you.)

The event starts on the 1st of August and ends on the 31st. Although, don’t worry if you’re too busy in August, late entries are always welcome! (…for reblogging, as for drawing gifts I’m going to give all of you an extra month, so if you’re aiming for that, the end of September is your deadline.)

Why in August? I figured that since August is the month on Joey’s calendar in his apartment and August is the month during which BatIM takes place, it should be the one! 

Please, make sure to tag appropriate trigger/content warnings!

Thank you for taking your time to read this. Reblogs are appreciated in order to get the word out.

Have fun everyone! 💛🖤

The themes this year have been thought out with the contribution of @raven-anime @insane-control-room @skxllbxnny @appreciatedvillain @archer-kacey @salpho @akiraidraws @baconsoupaddict @ghostly-wren @willyfeltching @caffeinechao414 @nayialovecat and from Twitter whom I can't tag here @MadHatterison1 @ArtsyDumpsterr @RecordingGold @MCake6058 @twinscover12

Thank you all for the theme suggestions! <3

You can view this year's themes in text under the cut~

Loop

Comedy

Tragedy

Homesick

Fallen

Stitches

Contract

Identity

Perfect

Mistake

Mischief

Fool

Promise

Tomorrow

Wolf

Theory

Not What It Seems

Feast

Flood

Ships

Sewers

Chaos

Death

Taxes

Steal

Split

Spin

Sanctuary

Swing

Past

Fate

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I just changed teams in ArtFight for a few hours, so if anyone from Team Fossil wants to attack me, now is the best time :) (more points for attack)

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I wasn't going to post anything on Tumblr anymore, but I thought I'd make one exception to let you know that I've been participating in this year's Art Fight for about a week now if someone even cares.

So far, no one has attacked me, but I have had a few successful attacks, in case anyone was curious. I'm even very proud of two of them.

(I still need to get the character sheets for Kuro and Ninja sorted out.)

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Fuck it! From now on, I'll only use tumblr to like things, no posting anything :/ People are horrible. Hate speech is horrible.

I've moved my review to a private post.

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Sorry, I tried, but I couldn't finish the strip this month. I tried really hard, but it's been a really hard month for me and everyone around me: illnesses (e.g. my daughter got chickenpox), accidents (e.g. my dad ended up with a stitched hand), my own health issues (especially mental), and yesterday I found out that my acquaintance lost her battle with cancer.

I can't finish the strip. I'm not even close to finishing it. It'll be up in June.

But you have one frame from it. Sammy seems happy. But it's bad kind of happiness.

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What if...

So I was reading this amazing comic and had some really interesting thoughts about what would have happened if the drawing had gone differently and Rhea had stuck to the original drawings.

In reference to this wonderful conversation, I couldn't resist drawing a quick sketch of Poseidon swimming in the one of the rivers of death. And then I thought: why not, let's draw all the brothers.

So here's Poseidon, God of the Underworld, swimming in a school of the dead souls in the river Lethe. (Yes, souls are transparent.)

And here's Hades, God of the Sky, who covers the sky with a dark shroud of storm clouds cuz his eyes don't like sunlight. Water is important to humans, right? Maybe less sunlight reaches the earth, but that doesn't mean we'll immediately have a Snowball Earth again, right? :D

And poor Zeus, God of the Sea. I think he ended up the worst, cuz with feathery wings, unless you're a duck or a seagull, it's hard to go underwater and then flying… X"D Especially when it's constantly raining, cuz your older brother won't stop creating storm clouds. So he just sits on a rock and complains.

Sorry not sorry X"D Silly fanarts for Silly Mythology X"D I hope it makes you laugh, @kdpartworks :D

By the way, does it count as Mermay?

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More sketches from my "Empire of the Sun and the Moon". Sorry, but that's my current obsession. I haven't had as much fun writing since "War-Zone".

While reading novels at our SOCK (literary club) meetings, we had a discussion about the appearance of characters and the fact that, as a rule, authors don't describe characters in detail. I recalled that I used to describe characters in great detail, but I gave up on it (cuz it was really boring). However, it turned out that people imagine my characters completely differently, e.g. with a different hair length (even though that is what is described) or with hair at all (where the text says that the character is bald). However, leaving aside such deviations, it turned out that from one description everyone imagines each character differently - so I started to wonder how I imagine them, and this resulted in a series of sketches made from the beginning of the week until Thursday (when it turned out that my child had chickenpox and from that moment on I stayed at home with her).

So first up is a complete sketch of Atian, which I've already sent in. Atian, one of King Tatucan's concubines, is a comfort character of mine, so I like to write or read about him when my anxiety mode kicks in.

I'm really glad I finally managed to draw him in a way that I was happy with. In the pages of the novel, he's described simply as a figure with black curly hair and skin the color of fresh cocoa beans. His face is described as "boyish" despite his age, and his figure as petite and feminine. I had a more detailed picture, but I couldn't get it right - so I'm proud that when I drew these sketches I had something like that "yes, that's exactly what I wanted!"

If anyone is curious about the inscriptions on the sketch, the arrows point to the features of the adult Atian that indicate he is a palace servant: hairstyle, makeup, and jewelry. In a world where people don't wear much on a daily basis, jewelry (especially earrings) immediately indicates position, status, and social role, so people often look at their ears first.

The next character is one of King Tatucan's six wifes, Tnyga. Tnyga comes from the Sea Kingdom, where she is her father's eldest daughter. Her people are so closely connected to the sea that if anyone tried to invade their Kingdom, they would simply get on a boats in a maximum few hours and sail away, showing the invaders their bare butts from the horizon as a farewell. I imagined them a bit like the native Hawaiians, but their rituals, beliefs and political system are also based a bit on Irish and Scandinavian coastal tribes - I know there's a big geographical spread, but hush… it's my alternate world! So they believe in the gods of nature, but they also have selkies. Their system is a hereditary monarchy, but the gender of the heir doesn't matter, so they have both kings and queens in power. Basically, similar to Empire of the Sun.

When I was drawing her, I had a look in my head that might be somewhat reminiscent of Moana. But in reality, the way I imagine her came out only on the third sketch I drew - the one at the very bottom (where she has a transparent cloth and you can see her breasts). This is my Tnyga. In the novel, she is described as a woman of average height with a wide mouth and hips, brown hair that falls in waves to her shoulders and a gentle look in her brown eyes. The king compares her eyes to the gentle look of a mazama (a type of South American deer). She is one of the king's two foreign wives who converted to the faith of the Empire and (like the other) remaining in the faith of their ancestors.

In the drawing where you can see her whole figure, she is in the traditional clothing of her people, below she is already in everyday clothing worn by high-ranking women in the Empire of the Sun. I also drew jewelry that testifies to Tnyga's "sea" origins - 'cause she is extremely proud of her roots and wants her daughter, Tialli to never forget that she comes from the sea.

I also drew 3 variants of hairstyles in which she appears in the novel: loose hair (often with pearls woven into it), which she wears at official feasts and meetings with important guests; tied in a comfortable braid, which she wears every day when she performs her duties in the palace; and tied in a high bun, in line with the Empire's fashion. She is not a fan of the latter, but when some protocols or holidays require it, she combs her thick, wavy hair in this hairstyle.

The next sketch is something I'm really proud of!

I decided to draw one of the more important secondary characters, the palace guard Katuro - and it came out exactly as I wanted it to, on my first drawing! So, to keep up the momentum, I also drew his younger brother, who has just finished his military training, so his hair is still growing. Yes, Konochi is a bit tall for a 7-year-old, but other than that, they both came out pretty well.

Katuro was barely described in the novel, except that he was a fairly tall and slender man who looked like all the palace guards. He was one of the youngest, having started his career as a guard at the age of 14 (he's 19 in the novel's plot). When I presented the other characters' points of view, I added that he had the appearance and build of a warrior (i.e. he was muscular), and I have to admit that I'm pleased with how well I managed this sketch.

Konochi is described as a short-haired boy with a sharp gaze, very similar to his brother.

Finally, I decided to make some outlines of the inhabitants of the two main nations in my novel's plot.

The inhabitants of the Empire of the Sun (aka Soleipo) are described as stocky, short people with slightly slanted eyes, black straight hair and skin in a cold shade of light brown. King Tatucan, sent by the gods (specifically the Sun), differs from them in both his figure - described as slim and tall, he is at least a head taller than most of the inhabitants - and his skin colour, which is described as copper (a warm colour, tending towards red) - which seems to emphasize his divine origin.

The Pakutan nation, on the other hand, has been described (through the eyes of one of the inhabitants of the Empire of the Sun) as being quite similar to them, but somehow fatter, more massive and with wide, flat noses. The colour of their eyes also distinguishes them, because they have eyes in various shades of brown and sometimes green, while the eyes of the inhabitants of the Empire of the Sun are usually very dark. When I imagined them, I based them somewhat on the indigenous inhabitants of North America, but also somewhat on the population of very cold zones in Asia or in the furthest Europe - that is why their bodies often seem "fatter". Unlike the inhabitants of the Empire of the Sun, the Pakutan have very long hair.

For scale, I included representatives of a neighbouring tribe called Dakota (I know it's a female(?) name and a state, but I can't help it - I like the sound of the word). No representatives of this nation appear in the novel, but they are often mentioned as allies and friends of the Pakutan, and one half-Dakota is a close friend (and lover) of one of the main characters in the novel. The Dakota are described as taller and thinner, though still massive, their tribe occupying coastal hilly areas, generally flooded and damp, and cold. The men of what I have described so far shave their heads, leaving only very long strands on the top.

I suspect that few people care about all I wrote here, since I don't post anything from this novel here (and I don't intend to, since I'm planning on publishing it as a regular book), but I wanted to share it anyway - because I'm quite happy with these sketches.

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Ha, ha, good one. Out of curiosity, in your silly mythology, is Pan the brother or son of Hermes? Wanna see them together anyway.

By the way, in one of my novels (temporarily suspended), which tells the story of a magic school in Slovakia, the entire second volume focuses on fauns who occupy and try conquer the school because one of them dared to teach human children about plants. Pan in this version is one of the great fauns, considered the greatest of them, and all the fauns and dryads (in my case it's one species) who descend from him are considered more powerful. I have to come back to this novel sometime.

I'd love to see how in your silly mythology look minor gods like my fav Pan (I have vibes for fauns) or Hypnos, or sons of Ares: Phobos and Deimos.

I didn't designed Ares' sons yet, but i have a draft for Hypnos here:

and my favourite, PAN, i drew it NOW in like 5 seconds, because I absolutely have to do this scene, after you know, the epic battle against Typhoon.

thank you for remind me about that

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What I found on my camera!

The left one is my kid's, the right one is mine. Yes, we bought 2 of the same Lego sets :)

It was in February. Valentine's Day or something.

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Finally! I finally managed to draw Atian the way I imagine him.

Explanation: Atian is a character of a concubine from my novel Empire of the Sun and the Moon, which takes place in an alternate reality in an Empire resembling the Aztec one (but I mix up a vortex of cultures there). In this world, Europe doesn't exist, and the dominant culture is the alter-Aztecs. I draw a lot of this content, but main medium is writing (and I've plan to publish it as regular book novel).

Due to his rather dramatic past and truly sweet and angelic personality, Atian is my comfort character in this story. He's around 25 years old in the regular novel, but his story (via flashbacks) begins when he's 13.

The name "Atian" in the language of my alter-Aztecs is a play on words meaning "gift from the gods". But maybe I'll change it (without changing sense and meaning) cuz something sounds wrong and not fit at him.

More sketches (older and rather poorly made) under the cut.

First ones made on May 8th wasn't good xD Don't look on deersnake (or snakedeer I dunno) xD

Second try (May 9th) was better but still not good.

I'm not good in drawing males. Or men generally.