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Published: 2017-10-12 19:11:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 243; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 0
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Description Speedball super black india ink on watercolour paper

Illustration for "The red Etin", page 328 of "The blue fairy book"
Here's the book
My first year of doing inktober!! WOOOHOOO \(^o^)/Ok so for this challenge I decided to illustrate 31 short stories! And I picked two old fairy tales books I found online. They're "the blue fairy book" and "the orange fairy book" by Andrew Lang
I'll leave the links here for you to download them for free (I know the site is in Italian, but don't worry the stories are in English)
http://it.feedbooks.com/book/4037/the-blue-fairy-book
http://it.feedbooks.com/book/6021/the-orange-fairy-book
So every day I'll upload my illustration, but I won't put the text in the description. On the other way, I'll write the name of the story, the book I took it from and the page where you can find it, so you can follow me along during this adventure and don't worry I picked the shortest among all of them 
That's it! I hope you'll enjoy my works an the stories I chose! 
Happy Inktober everyone!! ^_^
This is the last story I'll illustrate from "the blue fairy book", from tomorrow it will be "the orange fairy book"^^
Also...no lineart this time I didn't do that on purpose though, I just started inking without realising it xD
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Comments: 16

hans-sniekers-art [2017-10-13 18:20:21 +0000 UTC]

Wow, you really make the inktober drawings look really good with the greyscale! <3

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Booksdust In reply to hans-sniekers-art [2017-10-13 20:51:41 +0000 UTC]

Oh my! Thank you so much Hans!! I'm trying to get better at it because I usually use watercolours, but I need to understand how grayscales and values works as well! So I hope I will achieve my goal by the end of this month^^

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hans-sniekers-art In reply to Booksdust [2017-10-14 08:45:28 +0000 UTC]

Yes, that is very beneficial to watercolors as well!
I'm sure you will accomplish your goal :3

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Booksdust In reply to hans-sniekers-art [2017-10-14 18:36:01 +0000 UTC]

that's true! thank you very much for your support

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veeveeyan [2017-10-12 19:27:41 +0000 UTC]

Oh -I love it! It immediately reminded me of Harry Potter. 
First thought: Butterbeer Pie. Yummm.

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Booksdust In reply to veeveeyan [2017-10-12 19:32:57 +0000 UTC]

OH MY!! You're totally right!! I didn't think about it because the story is totally different from Hary Potter! xD
But thank you, I'm really glad you liked it

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veeveeyan In reply to Booksdust [2017-10-12 19:34:43 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad you appreciated my Harry Potter comment! XD 
I really do like it --it's simple yet profound at the same time. Keep up the amazing work! 

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Booksdust In reply to veeveeyan [2017-10-12 19:41:46 +0000 UTC]

of course I appreciated it!! I'm such a potterhead you have no idea hahaha xD
AWWWW you're so sweet! thank you so much for the compliment and the encouragement! I definitely will keep going! (also because I still have 19 more illustrations to complete xD) 

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veeveeyan In reply to Booksdust [2017-10-12 19:50:44 +0000 UTC]

I'm a Potterhead, too! A bit too much of one, if we're being honest, here. XD 

I've been working on Inktober, too, but I haven't posted anything up yet. Soon~ I'm gonna watch you so I can keep up with all your posts. ^^ 

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Booksdust In reply to veeveeyan [2017-10-12 19:57:24 +0000 UTC]

hhahaha don't worry dear I perfectly understand you! xD Which house are you in? I'm a hufflepuff (although I did the test again with the new pottermore and I ended up in ravenclaw...so I guess I'm a huffleclaw, or a ravenpuff hahaha xD)

oh such a pity I would've loved to see them! but I'm glad you're watching me now, it means so much to me! oh what the hell! I'll watch you as well! xD so if you'll post your inktober stuff I'll see it^^

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veeveeyan In reply to Booksdust [2017-10-12 20:07:13 +0000 UTC]

I'm (technically) sorted into Ravenclaw via the new Pottermore, but I switch between Slytherin and Ravenclaw, so I usually just say Slytherclaw and people understand LOL 

I'll post them up sooner or later. xD I have so many things that are back logged that I need to add up! :3 

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Booksdust In reply to veeveeyan [2017-10-12 20:18:18 +0000 UTC]

ooohh cool!! so you're a hatstall as well! but I guess we all are at this point xD so sad pottermore is not the sorting hat because I feel like I have traits from both houses so it would be nice to know which house I'm in!

of course! I'll wait patiently until then^^

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veeveeyan In reply to Booksdust [2017-10-12 22:38:42 +0000 UTC]

Haha! I guess you could say that. XD 

Honestly, I'd rather be in Slytherin, if I could help it. I have all the Slytherin memorabilia. XD 

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Booksdust In reply to veeveeyan [2017-10-13 21:10:18 +0000 UTC]

for me is weird...because at the beginning I desperately wanted to be a Ravenclaw! you know because I wanted to be acknowledged as smart and clever and because I was (I still am) a huge bookworm, so I guess I thought Ravenclaw was the only logical option! but then I did the test and got sorted twice into Hufflepuff and it was during the first year of Pottermore when you could interact with other people from your house and do potions, and spells and whatever...so I got attached to my house because people were super friendly and welcoming and we would help one another!! 
but then everything changed...when the fire nation attacked!! hahahahaha I'm sorry I had to! xD I hope you'll understand the reference
no, but seriously, everything changed when they did the new layout for Pottermore, no more games, no more interaction...now it's too boring basically! but anyways I had to do the test again because my account got deleted aaaand I got sorted into ravenclaw...twice xD
so I don't really know what I am...I think I'm sentimentally attached to Hufflepuff at this point, but if I think about it, I have more Ravenclaw traits...sooo yeah :/
ops...sorry I tend to write too much

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veeveeyan In reply to Booksdust [2017-10-13 21:22:48 +0000 UTC]

Haha --don't apologize for writing too much! It's entertaining to read. I like interacting with people here but it's hard since people really just lurk for the art or try to promote themselves, etc. etc. I can't say I'm not guilty of that, but still! Making new friends is enjoyable. (And yes! I got the reference!)

And yes!! I remember the OLD pottermore --I had SO much fun with it. You got to go through each books, and it's like an interactive game. i miss the old Pottermore, even though this new one is pretty interesting too. It dives in a lot more into detail of the Wizarding World! 

I can't say I remember what I was sorted into, to be honest. I remember you were able to choose your own house if you weren't happy with your sort, but I ended up choosing Ravenclaw for the exact same reasons you did. xD I think as I grew older, I began to understand more of Slytherin's side and really enjoyed the House. I'd like to think I'm really cunning and ambitious; I like to whatever I can to get what I want, haha.

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Booksdust In reply to veeveeyan [2017-10-14 18:57:14 +0000 UTC]

yes you're right! I mean after all we're here for the art, but making friends is always super nice^^
yey! I'm glad xD

yeah I miss it too! it was so much fun!! my favourite thing was making potions

well that's a really useful quality expecially in the work field

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