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Wetsuit design based around the idea of normal streetwear and a baseball tee. Thought it would be kind of cool if companies got a little more creative with these considering everyone looks like a seal or a skittle in the lineup.
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Inktober Day #16 is Laetitia Bowers from the Nickelodeon animated series, As Told By Ginger. As Told By Ginger is a weird one for me because I still remember when I first saw the show, I thought it was one of the most ugliest looking shows from an art perspective I had ever seen. But fast forward 10 years and I gave the show another chance and ended really enjoying it. Anyway, there was an episode that featured a Darkly-Inclined girl named Laetitia who was a new student and found her first day at school wasn’t going so well since a lot of the popular girls were spreading rumors about her and her father what with them believing her mortician father did things like murdered his wife and embalmed a corpse who was still alive. And considering how on her first day to school, she had a plastic skull with her, it only made people even more suspicious. Obviously all of these rumors were not true and the main character Ginger and her friends befriend her and they all get along very well.
I was so sad that Laetitia only appeared in that one episode because considering how well she got along with Ginger and her friends, she would’ve joined their friend circle. She was just so down-to-earth, sweet, and chill and I was so upset they didn’t make her a recurring, regular character. Just another missed opportunity characters (Seems to happen a lot with these kinds of characters doesn’t it?) Anyway, she was quite fun to draw. :)
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Laetitia Bowers © As Told By Ginger
Artwork © Myself ~
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Next up in the Inktober challenge of Darkly-Inclined characters is Gwen from the Total Drama series. I still remember when Total Drama Island was being hyped up for it’s debut and thinking how stupid it was gonna be and while it was pretty stupid, I actually enjoyed it quite a bit and I naturally took a liking to the token Gothic girl Gwen. Again, I wouldn’t consider her a “Goth” because of the lack of implication of her liking or listening to Goth music but still, she was quite the memorable one and I really liked her down to earth, sensible personality.
It’s unfortunate that her character got ruined in the later seasons where she went from sensible to annoying but I’ll always love the way she was originally portrayed in the first season Total Drama Island. I’ve been wanting to draw her for awhile now and this was the perfect opportunity to do it
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Gwen © Total Drama series
Artwork © Myself ~Ratchetjak
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Inktober Day#2 (Tuesday) was Triana Orpheus from The Venture Bros. Easily one of my favorites and I wished she was more of a regular character in that show. She’s honestly one of the only actual Goths in animation. I still remember being surprised that they actually referenced Bauhaus with her as she had a “In the Flat Field” poster in her room.
And not to mention she was actually voiced by the awesome Lisa Hammer, best known as the singer for 90s Goth rock bands Requiem in White & Mors Syphilitica. <3
Anyway yeah, It was so fun to draw her. Onto day 3!
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Triana Orpheus © The Venture Bros.
Artwork © Myself
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Also if anyone is inclined to participate in this ongoing fun, feel free to draw Kohl in your style and tag me so I can see it!
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Draw this in your style challenges are fun! Here’s one I did for a warmup~ character is @pernilleoes.
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No… zimno,
I’m finally getting a handle on my life. With 15 more days of undergraduate, I’m happy to say I’ll be more into my blogs, video games, anime, etc.
So, let’s get started with K.O. 14!
子
This is the character for “child”. It’s supposed to be a picture of an infant…I guess. I mean, it sort of looks like a baby’s head and the bottom half is the blanket? Like many kanji, I’m not too sure what this was originally.
It’s worth noting that while 子 means ‘child’ in a gender-neutral way, it’s often slapped on the end of names for girls. For example, “花子” translates literally to “flower child”, but it’s only used for female children. Same with赤子、紀子、and 月子. I guess it’s almost equivalent to the “-ley” sound ending in English names, where general names that involve the sound are used for girls (like Karleigh and Lilly) or at least unisex (like Ainsley and Riley).
Examples:
子供: child, children
女子: young woman, girl
男子: young man, boy
息子: son
金子: money, funds
皇太子: Crown Prince
子会社: Subsidiary company
親子: Parent and Child
字
Likely due to 子’s common meaning, it is also put in a lot of characters. 字 is a very common character that means, well “character”, “letter”, or “word” (given that a character in Japanese can be both simply the letter or a whole word). It’s most commonly seen in 漢字, the kanji for “kanji” or “Chinese characters”.
The picture is supposed to be a child under a roof “⼧”. It was supposed to convey “being taken care of” at some point, but I’m not too sure what happened.
Examples:
数字: Numbers
文字通り: Literal
点字: Braille
英字: English letter
字数: Number of characters
字幕: Subtitles
字形: Character style/form
学
Again, another commonly used kanji. This kanji means “school” or “field of study”. It’s supposed to be a picture of a covered mind, so take that as you will.
Examples:
学校: school
学生: student
科学: science
医学: medicalscience
文学: literature
留学: studying abroad
女
After covering 男 so long ago, we finally mention 女! 女 means “woman”. Unlike 男 that has two kanji to convey a masculine attribute, 女 is just supposed to be a picture of a woman. Maybe it’s the dance like motion about it? I’m…I’m just not sure.
Fun fact: 女 is often used as the radical for a lot of both positive and negative words, attributing to the fact that no one is sure what a woman is. One of the most notable words to me is 姦. It’s three women together and it means “wicked” or “noisy”. (sarcasm on) Of course (sarcasm off)
Examples:
女性: woman, female
男女: men and woman
彼女: she, her
女優: actress
女王: queen
女神: goddess
好
This is a basic character in both Chinese and Japanese, even though the meaning slightly differs between the countries. It’s a woman and a child together so it must be…good! 好 means something is liked or preferred. It’s exactly what it is–a woman and her child. That’s it.
Examples:
好き: liking, fondness, love
友好: friendship
好評: popularity
好む: to like, to prefer
絶好: best, ideal, perfect
好感: good feeling
穴
Last one for this time. This means “hole”. It’s a picture of 八 under a roof “⼧”. That doesn’t make much sense until you remember that 八 is supposed to represent division. What’s under a roof? The ground. What do you get when you divide the ground? A hole.
Examples:
穴: hole
落とし穴: pitfall, trap
墓穴: grave (the hole in the ground kind)
穴熊: badger
毛穴: skin pores
穴あきチーズ: cheese with holes in them (i.e. swiss)
