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Drawing-themed month, day 1 & 2

#drawtober

A messy 1-bit black & white illustration. A stone wall connected with two towers with some grooves running vertically on their shafts. A diagonal bridge-like structure with an intricate framework connected to one of the towers, overgrown with hanging foliage. Several massive pillars, much bigger in diameter than the towers, can be seen up ahead in the distance. There is no one here — these ancient structures have stood there for centuries. Thick clouds spread across the sky; behind them a vague silhouette of a superstructure. Nothing but light rain and faint, calming wind.

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Day 3 & 4

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An illustration of a view from the ruins of an old building drawn in a very noisy 1-bit style. The interior of the building is a home to some bush-like species of plants with vines entwining the branches. The walls are worn down and decayed; a pile of rubble on the floor is what remains, but this gives way to a vast landscape up ahead. We don't see far into the distance, as the fog covers nearly everything. The crumbling temple looks outward in silence to some equally crumbling gigantic piece of machinery. A railway bridge suspended in the air by a line of giant pillars stretches into the distance, carrying a caravan of train wagons. A transit control tower looms up above in front of a layer of thick clouds.

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Day 6 & 7

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A 1-bit black & white illustration. Dappled, overexposed sunlight describing the defocused shape of a ground fissure on the surface falls against the architecture in a dark, underground tunnel. The central part of the image is occupied by a stone statue with a very square head, large nose, wide mouth, and a hand that holds some sort of a spear. A similar statue can be seen a bit further up ahead next to two large pillars that reach all the way to the ceiling. This ancient architecture is contrasted by a line of train wagons coming from the distance. The sunrays reveal numerous little particles floating in the air; a thousand little grains against the solid, featureless darkness.

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Day 8

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A grainy 1-bit black & white illustration. Water flowing from wide, rusted pipes, falls into a small reservoir that covers an entire floor of an old building. It spans several corridors that go off into the distance, embellished with sparse foliage, stone columns, and faded graffitis. Some old machinery near the ceiling: never-ending pipes and huge valve wheels.

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Devine Lu Linvega

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I loooooove this series

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charlie

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cheers 😀 more to come

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Day 20 & 21

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A 1-bit black & white illustration portraying a ruined communications facility amidst a backdrop of dense, layered clouds. Our attention is divided; a colossal mast seen through an opening in the cloud cover, its intricacies veiled by the mist. Stretching far beyond the clouds, we could probably see the top but its details would be blurred from the sheer verticality. In the foreground, crumbling pillars that straddle the clouds, adorned with numerous dish antennas that have weathered the passage of centuries; their purpose now a fading echo of forgotten voices, long dead.

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Devine Lu Linvega

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holy- you keep on getting better at this style, this one is my new favourite. I love the heavy contrast of the background with the lettering!

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charlie

in reply to Devine Lu Linvega • 1 year ago • •

@neauoire happy you enjoy it! Ignoring all the mess in the programming world and instead focusing on something artistic for once is such a fantastic feeling

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Day 25 & 26

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An illustration of a desolate, pitch-black dungeon, illuminated solely by the faint glow of neon signs with alien-looking symbols etched on the back wall and the radiant light emitted by three specimen of a rodent-like species that has the ability to glow in the dark. Two of the mice are peacefully sleeping, suspended from the rugged ceiling by their long, stretchy tails, while a third mouse, positioned closer to the foreground, remains vigilant with one eye open, casting a soft, ethereal glow that pierces through the gloom. The scene is drawn in a blocky and messy 1-bit black & white style.

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Day 33 & 34

A noisy 1-bit black & white illustration. Strange mechanical serpents peek from the murky water among a pile of rubble; their heads are covered in some sort of gears and elongated bug-like antennae. We seem to be in the middle of nowhere: a gigantic stretch of water engulfed in a thick, blinding fog from every direction. A calm breeze carries the waves off into the distance.

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Devine Lu Linvega

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ah yes, October 34th

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charlie

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@neauoire the whole year should be just one long October

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Day 93 & 94

A decorated skull of a deer-like animal, stuck on a tall pole amidst crumbling landscape. Its bones are embellished with various painted ornaments and an ancient symbol in the middle of the frontal, all done with a thick coat of some blood-like substance. Shiny data pearls with holes crudely burned through their centers hang from the antlers, twinkling, tied together in chains with some sort of twined plant fiber. An uncanny aura envelops the totem, where wisps of smoke and mist dance in the air, shrouding the plantlife.

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Day 49 & 50

An illustration of a long elevator shaft seen from above drawn in a 1-bit black & white style. The glancing sunlight hits its circular wall segments at an angle, but doesn't reach very far -- from our point of view, the pit might as well be bottomless. Deep down we see glimpses of some bridge-like structures that connect the openings in the wall of the shaft, but that's about it; anything deeper is covered in total darkness. On the surface, directly above the opening hang the remains of a mechanism, covered in creeping vines. It looks like the mechanism is missing some bits that perhaps fell down into the abyss.

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Day 56, 66 & 67

Two cephalopod-like creatures with insectoid wings playing with each other by spinning around in circles among the flooded ruins of a train station. There's something yin-yang-ish in their colors and the way they are rotating in the air. Their quick and blurry movement contrasts with the threatening stillness of the scene — massive train wagons hang above a collapsed bridge, almost by a thread, as if a tiny breeze could push them from the tracks into the lake below. Some sunlight pierces through the ceiling; the scene almost looks like an oasis in this dilapidated landscape. The illustration is drawn in a 1-bit black & white style and is very noisy and chaotic.

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Day 81 & 82

A sterile chamber with strange bio-mechanical creatures. Its central part is occupied by an arrangement of latticed memory matter hovering in front of a large circular window lit solely by an artificial spotlight. Long tentacles with creeping tendrils, weird fronds on arms made out of bone-like segments, schools of glowing firefly-esque insects — everything floating by as if being completely submerged in a liquid. Every creature, no matter how small, seems to have a great purpose here. A faint sound of a heartbeat can be heard through the walls.

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Day 88 & 89

Tall and thick fungal-like plants with stems reaching towards the sky, a sky that is somewhere out there, beyond the fog. These crops used to be cultivated in those trenches, spaced out evenly on multiple long rails called Linear Farms that stretch into the distance. The plants are neither blooming nor withering away, as if completely frozen, waiting an eternity for their harvest. Acres of dead flora. Swathes of useless farming plots. Fields of gently swaying grass.

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Devine Lu Linvega

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damn. You've honed this style, there's just enough detail to grok everything clearly, it's a very nice piece. I think one of my favourite from your recent ones, it has this sort of .. lurky feels

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Day 377

A night view from the edge of a megalithic construct, far above the clouds. The sky is a velvety black; the moonlight, reflecting off of the permanent shroud blotting the entire landscape, shapes out vague silhouettes of other distant superstructures. Up here, higher than almost any creature before us, we realize that this mass of pipes and machinery is just one of hundreds of worlds that stretch on the curvature of the planet, peeking out of the thick cloud layer. Despite the howling wind, and the rumbling of the downpours set by the rhythm of the venting cycles, for the first time what seems like ages, the world is quiet.

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charlie

in reply to Devine Lu Linvega • 1 month ago • •

@neauoire thanks Devine 😀 i'm thankful to you and everyone participating in this year's drawtober for inspiring me to continue

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