AKA Harpy Life Ruiner. I’m a white cis woman; preferred pronouns are she/her/hers. I am currently on hiatus while finishing up my master's thesis; I'll be back in a couple of months, as *crossing fingers* I should graduate in May. I love Dragon Age, especially Origins, and extra especially Loghain Mac Tir. I’m the author of “Unshaken by the Darkness,” and I also record Dragon Age songs. I’m in love with the dragons over at Flight Rising, as well. Unfortunately all my links to my story and songs and things seem to have vanished, and I'm too lazy to look them all up again just now, but my posts are tagged consistently. Just search "Rhianna Cousland" or "Thedosian Music Initiative" and you should find most of what you might be looking for.
A bit of a stretch for the prompt, but horns and antlers and other types of ornamentation in animals can be called “headgear.” Another redraw; I intended to ink a pencil sketch I did last year of some Rocky Mountain elk. In the end, I decided to mostly start from scratch, at least on the elk, since I am not in love with the original sketch.
Day 26: Ego. Research done on magpies indicates that they can recognize themselves in a mirror, which shows a level of self-awareness previously considered exclusive to humans and very few other mammals.
Inktober is almost done! So, here are all the days that I haven't posted yet (including today). All of these were started on the correct day of the month, but I just haven't finished most of them yet. I will have a lot of projects to start rendering next month! OH YEAH.
Day 1: Gargoyle (based very loosely on one of the gargoyles on Tower Bridge in London). I'm very pleased with the way this is turning out so far, although I will probably still adjust the anatomy somewhat. And then render it to hopefully look like animate stone. We'll see how that goes.
Day 24: "Fairy" (Superb fairy wren)
Day 25: "Temptation" (not super interested in this prompt, so I probably won't ever render this drawing).
Day 28: "Camping" (Steller's Jay, in honor of the fact that I was often woken in the morning by these birds calling in the tree above my tent while doing field work on the turtle project).
Day 29: "Uh-oh" (Yeah, I think this is self-explanatory)
I've still been working away at Inktober, and have at least started a drawing every day this month. I've just been negligent about posting them. So, here are a few of the new ones!
10/19: PONYTAIL. A literal interpretation . . . this is Przewalski's horse, and I'm not in love with the ink shading, but that's what November is for, right? To fix all the things I don't like that I did this month?
10/20: BLUFF. If pretending to be an owl isn't a bluff, I don't know what is. :D Probably the best thing I've done so far this month.
10/21: BAD DOG. No such thing (as a bad dog), but I drew this anyway. Originally, I'd intended to draw an entire werewolf (which is a better interpretation of the prompt), but the anatomy was giving me trouble, so I gave up on that haha.
10/22: HEIST. No commentary necessary (there is a video of this event, if you feel like going to look for it).
10/23: BOOGER. I'm not a fan of this prompt, but I figured out a reasonable way to fulfill it. Hagfish are pretty gross haha.
Day 12: Forget. I decided to do something ghostly for this prompt. I added "Never" before Forget, and did an illustration of one my favorite ghost stories: "She Moved Through the Fair." At least, I interpret it as a ghost story.
"My love said to me
My Mother won't mind
And me Father won't slight you
For your lack of kind
Then she came close beside me
And this she did say:
It will not be long, love
Till our wedding day
"She stepped away from me
As she moved through the fair
And fondly I watched her
Move here and move there
She went her way homeward
With one star awake
As the swans in the evening
Moved over the lake
"The people were saying
No two e'er were wed
But one has a sorrow
That never was said
She smiled as she passed me
With her goods and her gear
And that was the last
That I saw of my dear
"I dreamt it last night
My true love came in
So softly she entered
Her feet made no din
She came close beside me
And this she did say:
It would not be long, my love
Till our wedding day"
Here is a recording of me singing a version of the song from several years ago: https://soundcloud.com/lark-in-summer/through-the-denerim-fair?si=04b86c2ddc2346e9877252c725c86063&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Day 13: "Kind." This illustrates the word in two different ways: first these are different "kinds" of animals. And maybe we can consider symbiosis a way of being "kind" to one another. (Okay, so that'a a stretch, but I'm going with it anyway).
Day 11: Eagle. Yeah, that's not an eagle. It's a red-tailed hawk. But this is another re-draw. The older drawing, done in actual ink on actual illustration board (WEIRD haha) is something I did back around 1984. I like the new one better. (Although the old one wasn't bad).
Day 9: Nest. Super happy about the way this is turning out. Clearly, it's not yet finished haha. But these are some Australian Darters that we saw when we were house-boating on the Murray River back in 2005.
Day 8: "Match." I decided to add "Death" to the front of today's prompt, so I could justify this Battle Royale design. I'm not sure who's going to win. Well, actually . . . I suspect that the shark and the whale are going to gang up and take that squid DOWN! :D