Sketch of the Day

[Cyon]

First Sketch of the month! Maeve is Listening for the Baby!

I agree with the comments on the site: Flora will indeed be a great mother. I can feel it. (Pun not intended.)

That means Maeve will have a future play buddy!

...and, even if you can't feel it, you can hear it

[SomeOtherTom]

Now in colour! Great minds think alike and all that I guess?

[amenon]

5th place in the color vote

Thought for sure it'd be higher than that, but it was another really tough month. Still, that's the best suggestion I've ever had... I guess I'd need to get better to play in the big league

If it was hard to choose which sketches to have coloured, then Tom's been putting the effort in all along! I'd say that's a good thing

Oh, Tom's basically always putting in the effort. But the last two months have been crazy good, at least as far as I'm concerned. I could have conceivably voted for almost 2/3rds of the pictures.

But still, even with a crazy month, it's a huge misestimation on my part. When I saw the sketch, I said privately to people that that would be in the top three in any month, or I didn't know anything about anything. So the takeaway is... I don't know anything about anything

On the upside of that, I didn't really expect Keith and Alaric streaking to make it, and it did, and that's really, really good. Indeed, everything I voted for made it, and it's probably my favorite lineup of winners yet.

But it's time for me to give up on the notion that I can predict any of this, or that I can call my shots. When perception and reality disagree, it isn't reality that's wrong.


By the way, a tip to anyone here making suggestions: I think Tom does his best work when you don't constrain him too much. Explain the core idea, but leave the specifics to him, because good god can he execute

Now in colour! Great minds think alike and all that I guess?

It's an excellent followup, because I think it even retroactively enhances the original. I wish I'd been able to do that when I tried.

[Foxx Trotter]

Yes, this one is way cooler in color. The sketch posted yesterday with Maeve and Flora was kyoot as well.

[Cyon]

Now in colour! Great minds think alike and all that I guess?

Well hey, the colour really "fleshed-out" that drawing

I'll see myself out...

[GaySailors]

Come on Natani, you don't need a spell to get him to undress, I'm sure he'd be glad to do so if you simply asked him in his free time.

[IHeartMaeve]

Natani: Kat! You were supposed to focus on Keith!
Kathrin: "But you said the spell was supposed to knock the apple off. Why are you taking your clothes off?"
Natani: "BECAUSE I WAS LYING!!!"
Keith: (thoughts) "What... is... happening?"

Hilarious. Purely hilarious.

[Warrl]

Well hey, the colour really "fleshed-out" that drawing

I'll see myself out...

Actually, these beings look more furred out.

Which I guess means that what Natani's doing is a furring strip.

Right behind you

[Lordadmiral Drake]

The Tiger Dance, now in Technicolor, they look absolutely lovely, perfect scene

[Foxx Trotter]

A beautiful scenescape.

[TinyVoices]

The Tiger Dance, now in Technicolor, they look absolutely lovely, perfect scene

Magnificent. I believe if there was a human Trace version of this, it would check all boxes, but this here is pretty damn good nonetheless. It's a work of art much like the Tavern drawing Tom drew a while back.

[Cyon]

What a wonderfully romantic moment!

And now we hope for Nora to turn Trace into a Keidran once and for all...

[TinyVoices]

King Madness, now in color.

I love it. :3

[Cyon]

King Madness, now in color.

I love it. :3

Next thing you know she'll have twice as many grapes in her hand and there will be a feast set out before her.

...and that's about all you need to run a country

[Warrl]

I think Maddie got one thing right. With a throne that size, she can't possibly look intimidating by the standard means, and attempting to would just make her look small - so she makes it plain that she feel no need to look intimidating. Which can, in its own way, be VERY intimidating.