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Published: 2014-02-21 15:21:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 4180; Favourites: 235; Downloads: 0
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Description Two days ago I had a great urge to practice traditional inking (guess I've been reading too much manga hhaha). As it turned out, my old ink (which was not very high quality anyway) had become a diluted, mucky shade of grey, no matter how much I stirred it. With only 20 minutes left until the shops would close, I ran out through the rain to the nearby art shop and bought myself a nice flask of pure-black ink! And it works fantastic! I almost forgot what fun inking is! All of these are based on sketches I made in my sketchbook in the period I was in Leicester and later. We have Millie in the top left corner, running away with a half-eaten biscuit. Then, 3 drawings of my newest character Tobikuma the tanuki (raccoon dog). Various expressions and poses to figure him out He's rarely really angry or defensive as on this portrait, but it's good to reach the limits now and then. He's usually a rather cheerful guy Madeleine up right does not really seem like her normal self either, she looks very sarcastic, or even slightly mad. I liked the sketch a lot and her spots seemed like fun to ink so there we are. Esben in the lower right corner is drawn more realistically, like a real beech marten. The eyes are not quite marteny though, they give him away. And then finally there's the deer-like guy in the middle (deer, mouse, dog??? I don't know ). He belongs to the same world as Elias, William and Maloki do (the anthropomorphic hybrid animals in renaissance-ish style thing haha). Doesn't have a name, profession, or even a set design yet. I just really like his face... That's as far as it usually goes when I draw him, haha. He does have quite dark grey fur, black hair and lighter grey (either blueish or beige, not sure yet) on his face. hmm hmm.

Ink is so much fun!! Will do more

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Comments: 28

sytac [2023-03-31 13:44:12 +0000 UTC]

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sheepuns [2016-10-30 06:30:04 +0000 UTC]

Love these poses and how expressive they are!

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Avanii In reply to sheepuns [2016-10-30 21:22:17 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much

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Wolfchild123 [2015-01-20 23:28:27 +0000 UTC]

I love Madeleine, her pose is fantastic!

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Avanii In reply to Wolfchild123 [2015-01-23 19:28:24 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot!

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IamETOH [2014-10-10 13:28:59 +0000 UTC]

aww

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TigerDragon1001 [2014-10-10 08:59:35 +0000 UTC]

Raccoon dog! 8D I love those! My favourite is the one of him sitting in the top right.

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Avanii In reply to TigerDragon1001 [2014-10-10 10:21:33 +0000 UTC]

Thank you Yes I love them too, such adorable little fluffballs ahhh

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TigerDragon1001 In reply to Avanii [2014-10-10 11:03:29 +0000 UTC]

Welcome! Yeee x3

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rieke-b [2014-08-25 12:38:15 +0000 UTC]

Aaww, these are so wonderful!!

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Avanii In reply to rieke-b [2014-08-26 07:19:22 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much It was a lot of fun to do, I love working with ink, I almost forgot about it but ahh, such a great medium!

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Patrik356b [2014-03-01 15:42:35 +0000 UTC]

looking nice

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Avanii In reply to Patrik356b [2014-03-02 16:59:01 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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Araselis [2014-02-24 20:46:31 +0000 UTC]

they're beautiful<333

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Avanii In reply to Araselis [2014-02-26 12:46:43 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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Araselis In reply to Avanii [2014-02-26 13:01:03 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome ^^

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RainComa [2014-02-23 17:26:34 +0000 UTC]

oOOOoo love the mousie!! and my hubby loves the cat! very nice!

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Avanii In reply to RainComa [2014-02-24 15:57:00 +0000 UTC]

Thank you both

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RainComa In reply to Avanii [2014-02-25 20:56:50 +0000 UTC]

no problem!

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DCLeadboot [2014-02-22 10:29:06 +0000 UTC]

Heh, heh... that rascally mouse looks rather funny!
And I see you even got a tanuki in there!

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Avanii In reply to DCLeadboot [2014-02-22 10:34:49 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! She's very, very happy with her biscuit Millie is the kind of character that enjoys all the little things as much as she can (being a mouse and all, it's something to cherish considering the innumerable dangers facing those small critters). And yes, tanuki! He's my latest character so I draw him a lot to get to know him (his name is Tobikuma).

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DCLeadboot In reply to Avanii [2014-02-22 17:07:32 +0000 UTC]

Heh, nice!

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Duzloo [2014-02-21 20:57:12 +0000 UTC]

Absolutely beautiful! I love your inks here

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Avanii In reply to Duzloo [2014-02-21 21:21:42 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much

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Duzloo In reply to Avanii [2014-02-22 02:16:54 +0000 UTC]

No problem!

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D-eer [2014-02-21 19:42:50 +0000 UTC]

Woah these look great!
I really like the Tobikuma drawings c:
Perhaps it's a cool idea to also colour these or other ink drawings?
I don't know if that's possible though ;3;

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Avanii In reply to D-eer [2014-02-21 21:21:34 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, glad you like little Tobi haha Yeah I may colour them (digitally, I want to keep this paper the way it is), but they were intended to function as black-and-white in the first place But I definitely want to experiment with colouring them too as digital inking is still much less fun to do for me so who knows in the future I will make art that way too.

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D-eer In reply to Avanii [2014-02-22 10:52:37 +0000 UTC]

Yes, he's an awesome character! c:
Oh yes I understand, though I think aquarel would look really pretty as well ;u;

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