Needed some non-coding time to think about how to approach something, so used that time to take care of today's #hARToween while brainstorming on how to approach the work thing.

Thus here's day 2: Spooky House

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I actually already drew tomorrow's #hARToween image tonight because I don't know how much time I'll have for it tomorrow, with #mrmcd2024 starting.

So here's a somewhat early day 3: Ghost

This was not the original plan, but one thing led to another and I just ran with it. Turned out way cuter than I thought I could pull off 🤭

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Today's #hARToween image is admittedly a rush job as I'm currently at #mrmcd2024 and thus can't focus as well on drawing as on the first three days.

But I took the graphic tablet with me and tried my best to paint Granny Weatherwax in under 30min.

Day 4: Witch.

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Now that I'm feeling better, let's try to get back on top of #hARToween.

I'll try to also catch up on what I missed, but if I don't have the time for more than one drawing per day, I'll focus on the current one.

Today I (so far) did two.

First one is today's, Day 11: From the Depths.

The seconds on is the first one I missed, Day 5: Haunted Doll.

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I'm quite happy with today's #hARToween drawing... Day 12: Full Moon (first). Awooooo! I think working with minimal lining here and just letting everything be backlit worked great!

I'm not that happy with the second one I did for the (missed) Day 6: Closet Monster (second). I like my idea, but I couldn't figure out how to add some details and shading without things looking weird. Ah well. I'm learning :)

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Some more #hARToween drawings...

First of all, today's, Day 13: Mask.

I'm not very happy with that one, didn't help that this was my third try either I guess. At least experimented a bit with lightning, and glowing eyes.

And the second one, Day 7: Bloody Mary.

With that one I'm quite ok, especially happy with the light effects and the lime. And yes, from the get go I planned to draw the cocktail vs. something creepy, sorry 😅

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#hARToween Day 14: Bats

I tried my hand a bit more on dithering (manually, with custom brushes, apart from the gradient in the back), and I might have overdone it a bit maybe, but tbh I kinda like it...

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#hARToween Day 15: Death Wreath

I gotta admit, not my favourite prompt so far, struggled really to be creative with it as it shows IMHO.

But at least I could practice a bit to draw plant stuff. And thankfully I managed to not have it look like a christmas wreath, or at least I hope 😅

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#hARToween Day 16: Black Cat

I think that's the first time I've ever drawn a cat that actually looks like one and not just like a weird dog 😅 Though admittedly, this one looks like it has a black panther somewhere in its family tree 🤔

#hARToween Day 17: Spiderweb

I feel a cold coming up, so I'm kinda happy that today it was an easy prompt. More geometry than anything else 😅 Decided against a spider in the web, because aaaaah! 😬

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#hARToween Day 22: Vintage Vibes

Thanks to some health issues I still have to do days 18-21 and also 8-10, but those will follow when they follow.

Meanwhile, today's prompt made me think of a 102 year old movie I have yet to see, but which I think definitely has vintage vibes. So here's my attempt at turning one of the most well known scenes of Nosferatu into a pixel art drawing - a scene that really scared me as a child I should add. It was kinda therapeutic to draw 😅

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#hARToween Day 18: Skull/Bones (backlog)

I thought about a skull, but in the end decided a Jolly Roger would be more interesting. Especially since I thought about a candle on top of a skull for October 19's prompt "Creepy Candle". We'll see.

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#hARToween Day 23: Trick Or Treat

We are returning to the place of Day 3 here, but this time there's not a child dressed up as a ghost trying to get some candy but... someone else 🤭 Who says that only human children enjoy going trick-or-treating? 😉

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#hARToween Day 24: Nightmare

Yikes, I think that was so far the longest work 😅 First thought was a pixelart version of "The Nightmare" by Henry Fuseli, but that didn't work with the aspect ratio. So I decided to try a more modern version. Not happy with the background, feels not detailed enough, but I think I at least managed to rescue it a bit with adding the bookshelf and lamp.

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#hARToween Day 25: Headless

I was SO tempted to just draw a terminal with an SSH shell opened (headless server) but then I figured I'd rather try my hand at an homage to the movie poster of Sleepy Hollow, because that's frankly the actual thing that comes to my mind when I hear the word "headless" in a non-admin context.

Three colors only this time. And I have to say, I surprised myself with that one, I did NOT expect that I'd be happy with this one, but I am very much!

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#hARToween Day 26: Horror Movie

I decided to go with one my favourite horror movies here, which I sadly so far never saw in the cinema.

The palette is really working against me in these darker settings, would love to have some darker colors as well 😅

*edit* in a video call at the same time, forgot the alt text 🙈

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#hARToween Day 8: Stormy Night (backlog)

I decided to go with a thunderstorm at night seen through a window... First time I tried my hand at lightning, actually kinda happy with how that turned out.

No timelapse for these catch-up ones now as that's saving on time while working through the backlog 😅

#hARToween Day 9: Sinister Shadow (backlog)

I thought long and hard about this, but frankly this was the best I could come up with that I felt like I could pull it off 🙈

Once more, no timelapse, trying to get through the backlog here.

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#hARToween Day 10: Devil/Demon (backlog)

Not happy with the ground, but couldn't figure out how to add details without making it look extremely weird.

Perfection is the enemy of done, so here we go.

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#hARToween Day 27: Seance

I think I overdid it yesterday, drawing almost 4 of these, and this is why this one looks quite boring 😅

And I also managed to forget starting the timelapse 🙈

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#hARToween Day 28: Cryptid Creature

And of course, I chose Nessie 😊 That was probably the first cryptid creature I ever heard the stories about, so obviously it has a special place in my heart.

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