I keep thinking about the my aye-dunno world/story and so am starting a second part to add on to it, but also want to go back and redo all the pictures to a new style - maybe this one. I did the first part when trying out digital stuff and just wanted something quick to draw. This style I find more pleasant but I fumble on clarity of composition when I try to do it as fast as I did the more simplistic thing as below.

If unclear the main image is a christmas beetle using a ghostgum club to attempt to clobber an octopus hiding in the eucalyptus flowers. not sure how easily it reads as that, I could probably have posed the beetle better (still trying to not sacrifice too much time)

Stuck inside a spacesuit, with no person to help left on the world to which it returned.

Which one wins in a fight?

• Hamid the informatics wizard
• Galina the structactics wizard
• Jakub the energetics wizard

The thing is here: Dialogues in Aye-Dunno

It is about an octopus and a dragonfly taking a pleasant walk together, any creeping dread or sense of hidden secrets as you read is totally in your imagination.

Should take less than an hour to read. You can also just skim the pics if you like.

This was an exercise in learning some digital drawing basics so the illustrations are a bit amateurish. Also experimentally copying some writing styles of authors I like, hopefully it lands right.

Though I did became a bit smitten with the underlying physics and history of the world in the story. I'd like to make something proper of it in the future.

I don't do much creature design. Still trying to iron out various tweaks in their design that I keep changing. Are you immediately wanting to pet any, or what would need to change for that to happen? My main goal is mushroom-cuttlefish vibes in a friendshape.

I also want to define their biology a bit more, but I don't have much technical knowledge about that stuff. Generally, I imagine their heads are mostly lungs and they tweet like a bird and parrot some sounds. They can hold a note for a painfully long time. They can fit their head and arms into really small spaces as there is little bone in there. And they can temporarily make their heads textured/coloured to look like other things to a degree. They have 5 face tendrils, the centre is the strongest for grappling/holding, the off-centre two are a bit weaker and thinner, used for manipulating, and there are two sensitive ones almost always tucked back and away, used for feeling/sensing details of things they pick up. They often sit/stand on their hind legs like meerkats and prairie dogs because their arms are super weak and their centre of mass is weirdly distributed.

The full thing is here: https://inivekin.github.io/abosa/

About 1.5-2 hours of reading if you like that kind of thing - or just skim the pics if you like.

I read Beowulf and thought I could do better. I guess I probably didn't but I gave it a shot and I'm pretty proud of a few things in there. I'd like to record it in a sing-songy way someday...

You can pick one skill from each row, and they can't be from the same column.

which style do you prefer?