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This month I worked on drawings of characters, and learned how to weave bookmarks!
My OC in Symbolism sheet – Wren Silva
At the beginning of this month I was accepted to a survival horror text rp where I’ll be playing my character Wren Silva. I filled out a ‘my OC in Symbolism’ sheet (the original sheet is by Iguanentapioca and was reformatted by Cereovo on twitter).
I made a Toyhouse Profile for Wren which you can check out, here’s the link!
Drawing of Styx Acherontia
A couple years ago I played a Grave domain cleric named Styx. All my artwork of them is *super* old, so I’ve been wanting to make a new drawing of them so I can add them up on Artfight. I didn’t get around to it for the 2026 season, but I’ll at least have some art for 2027 now!
It was a fun pose to draw, so I had fun with it. I’m hoping to make them a proper reference sheet sometime soon as well.
Portrait of Grimmel
I’d already done a fullbody reference of my Pathfinder character Grimmel, but it didn’t really have a proper portrait reference to use as an icon. I just wanted something a bit more detailed to be able to use for stuff like Toyhouse/Artfight
The colors turned out kinda crunchy when it tries compressing the shadows, but otherwise I like hose it turned out! I tried out adding dark blues/purples for the shadows and liked it a lot, and played around with both cool and warm highlights and liked the mix.
Woven Bookmarks
I haven’t done a lot with sewing/weaving/embroidery, but I was in the mood to try something new, so this month I focused on learning how to make woven bookmarks!
I ended up having a ton of fun with it. There’s a gift exchange I have coming up for a holiday party, so I decided to make a couple for that to give out.
I tried a plain dark blue, and a lighter gradient blue yarn. I was kinda sad cause I think the gradient is prettier, but it doesn’t show the patterns as well as the solid dark blue. I think if I find some yarn that has a gradient, but the colors stay pretty close to the same value and aren’t getting darker or lighter, then maybe it would still work out okay?
I know I’ve still need a lot of practice with it, but I feel like I’ve been getting the hang of it pretty quickly, which has been a relief since I’m so new to it. It’s been super fun as a hobby. It’s great to play videos in the background, or sit on call with friends, and have something to keep my hands busy.
I started with the yarn I already had, but later went out and bought some more colors from a thrift store. I’ve been having a lot more fun now that I get to do more color combos I wasn’t able to before. I’ve also ordered some orange and golden yellow warp string that I think will work really nicely for fall colors.
I was learning how to weave bookmarks from the youtube channel Spruce & Linen. They have a ton of different weaving and embroidery tutorial videos, but here’s a link to their playlist for weaving bookmarks if you’re curious about that in particular.
Fixing the Perspective on my Artfight Piece
During artfight I’d finished an illustration of my character Morrigan and my friend’s character Illaes, but at the very end realized I’d messed up the perspective. So even though it’s not really a new drawing for this month, I still wanted to show the final piece!
I ended up lowering the banister instead of raising it in the corner since it would’ve taken a lot more adjusting.
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