Hey Healers! As you can see, Iโve completely lost control of Inktober. I slacked off for a couple of days, and any hope of keeping up with the challenge went out the windowโbut Iโm not giving up yet! Itโs too early for that.
For this prompt, I wanted to stick with something cuteโso I drew a little Miu perched on one of the buffest Holos, Terraox. Iโd never drawn these two before, so I thought itโd be perfect to feature them together in a fun scene.
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โ๏ธ Phase 1: Ibis Paint for Sketching
First of all, I want to thank for showing me how to flip all layers at once in Ibis Paint. It was actually super simpleโI just didnโt figure it out on my own. Being able to flip a drawing horizontally is a game-changer, and I highly recommend it for fixing mistakes and keeping things from looking crooked.
I wanted to draw Terraox for the first timeโa dragon I hadnโt drawn until now. But trying to draw him from a direct head-on view ended up complicating my life. No matter how much I sketched, I felt like it didnโt look enough like the original design of his head. I stubbornly refused to draw it in the same pose as the original design because it felt like just redrawing the same thingโand I already had Miu in a basic pose anyway.

๐จ Phase 2: Lineart
As I mentioned earlier, I really had a battle with myself trying to get Terraox's head right. Maybe on another occasion I'll give his head a better design that highlights his horns more prominently, but I did manage to capture his expression of effortโbearing the full weight of Miu's cuteness. By the way, here Miu ended up looking a lot like the robot cat from the Buzz Lightyear movie. ๐ฑ๐

๐ Phase 3: Ink
I tried to shape Terraox's muscles to show the strain of supporting Miu's weight. To emphasize the heaviness even more, I added vertical lines that simulate gravity or the pressure from Miu

๐ Phase 4: Final Touches
I separated Miu's little ears so it would stop looking like the Buzz Lightyear cat, made its pupils really dilated, and added lots of tiny sparkles to make it look super cute. I finished off the effort effect with a motion blur filter.
Let me know in the commentsโIโd love to check out your art and see how you interpret the prompts!

| Pierce |
Starfish |
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| Reckless |
Heavy |
Sweep |
Sting |
Shredded |
Drink |
Trunk |
| Ragged |
Blunder |
Ornate |
Deal |
Artic |
Rivals |
Blast |
| Button |
Firefly |
Rowsy |
Inferno |
Puzzling |
Onion |
Skeletal |
| Lesson |
Vacant |
Award |
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