#igtober
Ink sketch for the Igtober prompts “Friendship” and “Smile”.
This is the last of the bunch from me ♥ Will be posting a collective + some personal thoughts on doing the art challenge by the end of the month.
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Ignis woke up feeling cute today, might wear a designer dress to Council, nbd.
Ink sketch for the Igtober prompt “Fashion”
Based on a tweet from Raptor_Redeem (which seems to have been deleted now? I can’t seem to find it again), but it was about Ignis attending an Insomnia Council meeting with a rather stunning dress. I’ve linked to it over on Twitter.
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Still thinking about Ignis re-learning his entire magical arsenal while blind during World of Ruin.
Ink sketch for the Igtober prompt “Magic”
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Me, before FFXV: Suspenders lame.
After FFXV + reading fics: Suspenders, shirt stays, sock garters hot.
Honestly, the things I learn from this fandom. ♥
Ink Sketch for the Igtober prompt “Suspenders”
I’m sure there are still a ton of mistakes, but have to cut the cord. This one was a bit exhausting, but I think I learned quite a bit from trying to make it.
(Thanks to the bestie, @mooglecharm, and @aleseanart for their help and patience while I grappled with this. ♥ )
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Gladio’s about 3 seconds away from being roundhouse-kicked in the face.
Ink sketch for the Igtober prompt “Flustered”.
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It’s all fun and games until it’s been 2 weeks roughing it and Ignis has to smell you in the tent.
Ink sketch for the Igtober prompt “Water”
Many thanks to the folks who helped when this was looking wonky in the October Patreon WIP dumps ♥
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I couldn’t fit both Gladio and his big freaking sword without making Iggy look smol, lol.
Ink sketch for the Igtober prompt “Agile”.
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Friend: So what’s the context here, why is Ignis holding Gladio’s necklace, why is everything bloody?
Me:¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ink sketch for the Igtober “Glasses”prompt
I’m posting the finished versions about 2 prompts ahead on my Patreon, but apologies to my patrons who have been seeing these and their WIP versions since October.
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“Specs, Prompto just wanted a sip…”
For the @ignis-scientia-estrogen-brigade Igtober prompt “Coffee” ♥
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After a couple of weeks of fielding some outstanding prompt suggestions, the 2020 Igtober Prompt List is here for everyone to read and share! Believe me when I say it was extremely difficult to whittle down 100+ words to just 31, but hopefully everyone will be content with the prompts that made the final cut. (Shout-out to the person who suggested “Meteor Shower”—while I didn’t include it in this list, I wholly appreciated the Episode Duscae reference!)
Igtober 2020 Rules:
- Must have Ignis
- Tag it with #igtober
That’s it! Traditional drawings, digital art, Ansel photography, cosplay, you name it—if it’s got Ignis, it’s welcome to be a part of Igtober. You don’t even have to follow the prompts if you don’t want to, especially if you’re following another prompt list. In fact, I would highly recommend checking out @he6o’sawesome FFXVtober list for more ideas! We have a few identical prompts and although they don’t overlap on the same days, feel free to recycle anything you did for @he6o’s prompt list and tag it with #igtober if it applies!
I am super excited to participate in my 4th (!!!) October drawfest focusing on everyone’s favorite strategist, and I’m even more excited to see what everyone else comes up with. My thanks again to everyone who supports my decision to nix the free sketch giveaways this year in favor of making them available as donation incentives; I’ll be posting about Extra Life Game Day later this week, so stay tuned for more information about that. Otherwise, I’ll see you all in October! ٩( ᐛ )و
[Side note: I’m going to do my best to reblog as much of the #igtober tag as I can, but I keep this blog fairly SFW so I won’t be reblogging anything ~too~ spicy. Also, I’m not a shipper so I won’t be reblogging shipping-related pieces here on this blog, although I highly encourage anyone who does ship to feel comfortable using the #igtober tag. Even if I personally don’t ship, there will still be plenty of people who’ll appreciate your efforts!!]
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October is officially one month away, and if you’re a part of the artist community and/or have been following Inktober in some capacity, you’re probably aware that there’s been a lot of dissent surrounding the event. I won’t bore you with the details, but suffice to say I’d rather not give Inktober any more free publicity if I can help it.
That said, ISEB has a long history with Inktober, starting from the very first year I started this blog in 2017. Inktober kept me sane during my dad’s cancer diagnosis, got me experimenting with media I hadn’t touched since college, and I gave away over a hundred sketches in the three consecutive years I’ve participated in it. Truth be told, it would feel like something was missing from this blog if I passed up on doing Inktober this year.
There’s an obvious solution to my dilemma, which is simply to participate in the spirit of Inktober under a name that isn’t associated with so much toxicity. So that’s exactly what I’m going to do! This will be the last time I’ll mention the name Inktober on this blog again—from now on, October 1st will be the start of…
Igtober! ٩( ᐛ )و
Since Igtober will work exactly like its predecessor, I was hoping I could recruit the masses to help me come up with some prompt ideas. Specifically, I’d love to see some one-word prompts that truly embody everyone’s favorite strategist—words like glasses, coffee, daggers, funambulism, etc. If you’d like to suggest a word or two, you can fill out this Google form right here as many times as you like. And if you’re an artist who loves drawing Ignis, feel free to join in the celebration as well! I’ll do my best to check the #igtober tag all month long and reblog anyone who participates.
Lastly, in a year filled with sadness and strife, I feel like Igtober presents an opportunity to do some good. In past years, I’ve always given my sketches away for free, but this year I’ll be taking a different route, one I hope you’ll all be on board with. On November 7th, 2020 I will be participating in Extra Life Game Day by playing Final Fantasy XV for 24 hours straight to benefit Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. I’ll go into more detail in a future post regarding that event, but my plan is to make all 31 of my Igtober drawings available as donation incentives, much like I did with the #AdamvsISEB stream earlier this year. Sketches won’t be priced outrageously—likely in the $10-$15 range—so hopefully some of you will be able to nab a sketch and contribute to a good cause in the process.
Until then, I hope to see some awesome and clever prompts from you all! I’ll leave the Google form open for a couple of weeks, then assemble the prompts into a list everyone can use and distribute! Here’s that link one more time:
https://forms.gle/L5sj6oqMM1grhXpX7
[Side Note: I’m not the first one to coin the term Igtober—that honor belongs to @atarostarling, @he6o, and @igniheart, the latter two being excellent Ignis artists in their own right! Go give them a follow if you want to see more Ignis-related goodness on your dash!]
Igtober Day 7 → Fire
To absolutely no one’s surprise, I am already behind on my #igtober prompts ಥ益ಥ I had slightly higher expectations for this piece, but my cheap watercolors caused my cheap colored pencils to smudge and bleed, so I was afraid of pushing the values further than I did. I’m also not sure if the metallic pigment I dropped in at the last minute really added anything to it, but who doesn’t like a little shiny with their Ignis? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Igtober Day 6 → Pun
Raise your hand if you wish Square Enix would bring back the Assassin’s Festival one more time ಥ╭╮ಥ
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Igtober Day 5 → Glasses
I probably could have worked the “Glasses” angle a bit more but I got lost drawing his beautiful face (⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)⁄
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Igtober Day 3 → Button
Don’t worry, Noct! Good brother Ignis will sew Carbuncle’s eye back on there for you! ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭*
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Igtober Day 2 → Hair
I’m definitely not the first person to imagine Royal Counselor Ignis with long hair, but I’m here for it! The crown was a late addition (wrong side, I know) to combat the fact that I had drawn Ignis’ profile too far to the left side of the paper, but I’ve long held the belief that the strategist had a touch of royal blood in him, so maybe it’s not that far-fetched that he would don a crown after all.
This drawing, along with all my other #igtober sketches, will be available as a donation incentive for my Extra Life Game Day Charity StreamonNovember 7th!
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Igtober Day 1 → Coffee
The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup shirtless Ignis on your dashboard
Happy October everyone! I’m super excited to be working with traditional media again and looking forward to tackling all of the prompts for this month. The next few weeks are admittedly going to be rather busy for me (I’m still working on October’s merch design ಥ‿ಥ) but I’ll do my very best to pop into Tumblr at least once a day and reblog all of the #igtober posts I see tagged!
And remember—all of my #igtober sketches will be made available as donation incentives for my Extra Life Game Day charity stream on November 7th! If you see a sketch you would like to own, be sure to stop by the stream when it becomes available! ٩( ᐛ )و
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