I still remember, from those school years, feeling that some of my backpacks were like home. Check the creative process below.
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“CASTLE” an Inktober Short Story
Written and Illustrated by Luis Roding
Reading time: 7 minutes.
I was just about to be done with my third cup; that’s how I knew the old man talking to me was real. I was broke then, so I could not afford another round unless I accepted his invitation, which I did not want because that meant only one thing.
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Written and Illustrated by Luis Roding
Reading time: 12 minutes.
Was it yesterday? Or the day before? I could not know when I started feeling it, a “pulse” from within myself, from my center. I just knew what it meant: I needed to set her free.
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Written and Illustrated by Luis Roding
Reading Time: 4 minutes
As a kid, I only heard stories about this place; now, I am here. I have left my hometown, crossed the sea, and came to the land I’d dreamt to see, but to do something terrible, not only to these people but to myself.
We managed to unlock the temple doors without trouble, which was very unexpected given the resistance we had faced until then. I was in the front group, so as the tall doors opened, I was among the first to look inside.
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Written and Illustrated by Luis Roding
Reading Time: 6 minutes.
Our sweaty clothes started to cool us down at last after eight hours of walking. Even Joe, who had been complaining during the whole trip, became silent and began to smile more often. The cherry on top was hearing Mike say, “I found it. It should be this way.”
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It seems, the more I move forward with the prompt words, the more I feel inclined to do sketch exploration. This centaur was very vivid in my mind, but took me a lot to reach this final stage.
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Probably, the most explored design of this challenge.
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Always wanted to do a mecha robot, the crabby theme fit like a globe, or claw.
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Here’s a character that took me a while to get the way I wanted, a hunchback rose-bouquet creature.
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During this inktober, I have decided to design characters for a hypothetical fighting video game. Find process details in the entry below.
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