Figuwhump Day 17

[ID: A pencil drawing. A woman with braided hair and freckles slumps forward, supported by one person on each side. Her shirt has been torn shorter; the edge is bloodstained, and more blood soaks through bandages wrapped around her abdomen. The trio is walking through a field of tall grass. End ID.]

Wasn't entirely certain what to do with this one; since the reference photo shows only part of the people in it, the situation could go a lot of ways. Decided to injure Catha for it again. The people supporting her are no one in particular, just other mercenaries with whom she's worked. This would take place before the main story.

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Figuwhump Day 11

[ID: A pencil drawing. A woman with short dark hair, wearing a wide-necked shirt tucked into trousers, sits on the floor, facing away. Cuffs attached to chains pull her arms up and outwards; there are scars visible on her upper back. End ID.]

The reference for this day's drawing was pretty dark, which left some room for inventing details of leg position etc. - fun. This is Tsetsig again. This scenario probably happened to her at some point, but I don't have a specific episode in mind; most of the story featuring her and Ide is just ~vibes~ at the moment, with a few clearer scenes standing out.

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Figuwhump Day 7

[ID: A pencil drawing. A shirtless woman with braided hair and freckles is tied by her wrists to two poles, one on each side of her an arm's length away. Her head hangs down, and she grips the poles to take strain off her wrists. Indistinct tattoos decorate her right arm. She's standing in water up to her knees. End ID.]

I don't have all that many characters, so there will be a lot of repeats! None of my existing characters have been in this particular situation, I think, so I just picked Catha; she's the most buff of them, and this is a fun position for drawing muscles.

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Figuwhump Day 31

[ID: A pencil drawing. A skeleton wearing robes and slippers, with lights in her eye sockets, reclines on a bed. She holds a closed book in her left hand. End ID.]

Done! I didn't do a drawing every day, but I did 31 drawings over the course of 31 days, so - close enough! Quite pleased; I haven't managed to complete any month-long events before. Also quite surprised it was with drawing rather than writing, since the latter is much more my thing.

Anyway. Why is Maella flopped despairingly on her bed? Maybe she's running low on necromantic energy again. Maybe she didn't sleep well. Maybe the book she's reading ended really badly. I'll go with that last one; emotional whump is nice. :')

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Figuwhump Day 20

[ID: A pencil drawing. A woman with short dark hair, wide-set eyes, and a scar on her face reclines in a rectangular, thick-barred cage. She rests her hands on the cage bars, and her legs are partly bent - she looks casual, but her position cannot be comfortable. Chains run from the corners of the cage to outside the frame of the picture, holding it in mid-air. End ID.]

I was initially going to use a bonus image for this day, but was inspired to instead just change the cage so it's less of a big dog cage and more of a horizontal gibbet cage! Because I love gibbets. Anyway, not sure Tsetsig has been imprisoned in anything exactly like this before, but she might have been.

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Figuwhump Day 8

[ID: A pencil drawing. A light-haired man with a short mustache slumps against a cell wall. His eyes are closed - one is bruised - and there are scrapes on his face. He wears a vest over a torn shirt; the right knee of his trousers is stained with blood. His hands are bound in front of him. End ID.]

This pose was by far the hardest yet, and I'm still not 100% satisfied with it. Anyway. This is Iesto, who appears as a side character in my main story, and will show up again later as a secondary character. He does get captured at some point, but I'm not sure he's this roughed up - just wished to injure him a tad here. :)

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Figuwhump Day 1

[ID: A pencil drawing. A woman with braided hair and freckles, wearing light clothing and with an empty scabbard strapped to her back, pins down a person in plate armour, holding their wrists on the ground. Blood drips from an injury in her side onto the person below her. A sword lies nearby, just out of reach. End ID.]

Probably not going to do many of these - I'm primarily a writer, not an artist! - but figured I'd try one or two. This one is my character Catha, who has apparently been caught off-guard by a knight or soldier of some sort. They've both lost their weapons in the resulting scuffle. Didn't really come up with a story for it, but hey, I drew something.

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Figuwhump Day 9 (substituting bonus image 9)

[ID: A pencil drawing. A man with short dark hair turning grey at the temples and a scar on his jaw crouches against a boulder, holding a young person who is crying. The man looks slightly sad, but not too affected by the situation. End ID.]

This isn't for a particular scene - both Catha and Radomil (pictured here) have doubtless comforted various bereaved peasants etc. many times over the course of their mercenary careers - but it is for a particular time period in my story. Between Pt. 33 (...which I haven't posted yet) and the climax, a number of years pass, with just a few sort of one-off episodes scattered across them. This would take place during that time, as shown by the fact that Radomil's hair has started to turn grey.

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Figuwhump Day 27

[ID: A pencil drawing. A skeleton wearing robes and a circlet, with lights in her eye sockets, collapses backwards as if falling over. Two humanoid creatures made of wisps of shadow grasp her hands and an arm to keep her on her feet. End ID.]

These are shadow-creatures (wraiths or something, probably) instead of people for two reasons: Maella almost never spends time around living humans, and this way I didn't have to draw any faces on them. :') This isn't for a particular scenario, but Maella is very old and runs out of (necromantic) energy sometimes.

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Figuwhump Day 5 (substituting bonus image 2)

[ID: A pencil drawing. A skeleton sits slumped on the floor, facing away, leaning on one arm while her legs extend off to the side. Her other arm is visible through her rib cage; she's holding her face in her hand, as if tired or sad. Bookshelves line the wall beside her. End ID.]

Had an awful day and did not draw. Fortunately I finished this last night and only had to photograph it. :) This character, Maella, has been mentioned in my ongoing story but has not appeared in person. She's a very old (very morally dubious) lich. Maintaining her unlife takes a lot of energy, so she's frequently tired; this scene has probably happened at some point.

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Figuwhump Day 24

[ID: A pencil drawing. A woman with short dark hair slumps forward, held up by cuffs on her wrists, keeping her arms in an outstretched position. Abrasions are visible on her wrists; the left one is bleeding. The back of her shirt has been torn open; bleeding whip marks cover her shoulders. End ID.]

Attempting to keep up with, if not get ahead of, the prompts. Here's one way Tsetsig might have gotten the whip-scars on her back which were visible in the Day 11 drawing. Not sure it's the canonical way, but it might be - I haven't worked out all the details of her earlier life. By the time the story in which she features begins, she already has these scars.

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Figuwhump Day 4

[ID: A pencil drawing. A man with short dark hair, multiple earrings, and a pained expression leans back against a tree. He's hunched over; his shoulders are drawn up, and he's holding his midsection with one arm while looking down at the other hand, which is bloody. More blood seeps down from his abdomen. End ID.]

This scenario has definitely happened, though not (at least yet) during my current story. My character Radomil, here, is a mercenary and has sustained a lot of injuries over the course of his career.

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Figuwhump Day 15

[ID: A pencil drawing. A skeleton wearing robes and a circlet, with lights in her eye sockets, stands behind a frightened, kneeling person, holding a knife to their throat. Her other hand pulls their head back; strands of magic wrap around their arms and hands and pin their knee to the ground. One strand uncurls their fingers, forcing them to drop their sword. End ID.]

This one is Maella (the lich) again, with some random unfortunate warrior. No specific scenario in mind, but this would most likely be a number of centuries prior to the main story, before Maella has a change of heart and becomes a morally grey character rather than just - well, evil, I suppose.

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Figuwhump Day 12 (substituting bonus image 10)

[ID: A pencil drawing. A grinning woman with braided hair and freckles points a sword at a man with short, dark hair and a beard, who is on the ground. He also holds a sword, but it's just resting on the ground at his side; he's smiling a little wryly and has a smear of dirt on his shirt, as if he's been hit with something dusty. End ID.]

Honestly this one isn't very whumpy. I forgot about that element of Figuwhump while drawing it. It's (young, pre-story) Catha and Radomil doing some sparring. I guess maybe Radomil banged his elbow on a rock when Catha knocked him over - there, that's whump, isn't it? :')

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Figuwhump Day 10

[ID: A pencil drawing. A man with dark hair, a goatee, and a glum expression kneels on the ground as if he's collapsed there. He wears a black robe; there's a scar across his nose, one on the side of his neck, and one between his fingers. Someone in armour is pointing a sword at his throat. End ID.]

Once again, please forgive any armour inaccuracies. :') This one doesn't fit a specific scene in my story, but similar scenarios have happened often enough to Mures that he isn't really fazed by them anymore.

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Figuwhump Day 6 (substituting bonus image 5)

[ID: A pencil drawing. A dark-haired woman with painted nails, wearing a gauzy shawl over light clothing, braces herself on one elbow and her knees on a tile floor. Her free arm is wrapped around her abdomen. She seems to have fallen or collapsed. End ID.]

Back to drawing things on the same day I post them - living on the edge, apparently. This one is Ide, the other protagonist from the second story I may write someday, with Tsetsig. She has a disorder which causes (among other symptoms) weakness and abdominal pain, so this reference image works well for her! Ide is a bard, and so is much more stylish than my other characters.

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