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Arttrober 2026 (Part 3 of 4)

October means drawing lots of character art, one a day for the entire month. Once again I'm following Stanley Lau's Arttrober list. This post will collect the third eight days of the challenge, starting from the 17th of October.

The first eight days of this drawing challenge are to found here.

A drawing of Jinx, a character from the videogame League of Legends and also the animated adaptation Arcane. Jinx is a skinny young woman with blue hair (tied into two long braids) and pink eyes. She's tattooed with clouds down her right side. She wears a dark brown crop-top with four eyelets through which pale cloth is threaded to form a cross over her chest. She wears purple striped trousers and asymmetric detached sleeves over her arms. A long belt is looped around her hips. In the drawing, she's glaring psychotically at the viewer.
17 Jinx (League of Legends / Arcane)

A drawing of the character Jinx (originally Powder) from League of Legends and its animated adaptation Arcane. I'd quite like to see Arcane: I generally like good animation, and I've heard it's very good. Unfortunately I also don't have a Netflix account—I probably should create one for a month and watch all these shows I've been missing out on, but I'm not mentally a very organised person.

A drawing of Raven, one of the Teen Titans in various DC comics and animations. Raven is a pale, dark-haired teenager with purple eyes. In her superheroine guise, she wears a dark navy hooded cloak over a black sleeved leotard. The cloak is pinned above her breast with a red gem, and a chain of red gems floats around her hips as a kind of belt. In the drawing, she seems to be pushing her way out from the background, arm raised above her head as if she's about to fly off.
18 Raven (Teen Titans)

I'm mostly familiar with Raven from online analyses of tropes arising from the Teen Titans animated show, which I have not actually watched myself. Still, the concept of a goth-coded, taciturn young woman with suppressed demonic powers is not one I dislike, and her design is clean enough not to be too troublesome to draw at this point over halfway through the month, when perhaps the well of inspiration is starting to run a bit dry.

A drawing of San, the eponymous protagonist of the animated film Princess Mononoke. San is a dark-eyed dark-haired woman raised by wolves who dresses in a rough-spun tunic and skirt with a white-furred animal pelt worn as a cloak. She also wears a headband and twin armbands, a necklace of animal teeth, and large white disc earrings. In the drawing, she's holding up a knife threateningly.
19 San (Princess Mononoke)

I watched Princess Mononoke (or most of it?) many years ago, so I don't really remember it well. I do remember the eponymous princess however. I haven't really watched as much Studio Ghibli as I probably should. As a drawing, San came out adequately, but I feel the composition hasn't quite come out as well as I hoped. I don't think I've got the hang of drawing very dark irises yet.

A drawing of Tifa Lockhart, a character in the videogame Final Fantasy 7. Tifa is a woman with brown eyes and long dark hair tied at the end. She's wearing a cropped white tank-top, detached sleeves and a black leather skirt. She's also wearing red gauntlets a long thigh-high stockings. She's striking a side-on combative pose, looking off somewhere to the right of the drawing.
20 Tifa Lockhart (Final Fantasy VII)

I've fond memories of playing Final Fantasy VII (and many other Final Fantasy games) when I was younger. I've never been one of those who consider the seventh entry to be the best one, but I liked it well enough. I've heard good things about the Remake, despite the apparent deviations from the original's plot, but I'm not sure I want to go back—I think I'd be constantly clinically comparing versions, rather than enjoying the game (or trilogy, I should say) on its own terms.

A drawing of Atom Eve, a character from the comic and animation Invincible. Eve is a red-haired woman with green eyes who dresses in a pink bodysuit with cape. In the drawing, Eve is depicted as flying through the air, her hair whipping around her head.
21 Atom Eve (Invincible)

I'm not very knowledgeable about the Invincible comic or animated show, except that the eponymous protagonist appears to regularly go through hell. So I don't really know Eve's character at all. I decided for this drawing to try a 'floating' pose, with mixed results.

A drawing of Rumi Usagiyama, also known as Mirko, a character from the manga and anime My Hero Academia. Mirko is a muscular, tan-skinned woman with ruddy red eyes, long straight white hair and long rabbit ears. Mirko wears a sleeveless white leotard with purple trim and a metal plate around her midriff, white gloves and purple thigh-high boots. In the drawing, Mirko is slightly crouched, one hand upon her thigh while the other is raised to pull back her hair as she gazes off to one side with a slightly savage grin.
22 Mirko (My Hero Academia)

Two superheroes in a row. Rumi Usagiyama, also known as Mirko, is a professional heroine in the manga/anime My Hero Academia. She's apparently rabbit themed. I'm aware of the popularity of My Hero Academia, but haven't gone out of my way to read/see it myself, since 'superhero' media isn't usually subject to my passing obsessions.

A drawing of Kang-Jin Star, a character (and boss) from the videogame Black Myth: Wukong. Kang-Jin Star appears as a very pale skinned woman with long straight black hair, dressed in a red robe tied with a copper sash. A thin trail of blue markings decorate her forehead descending from her widow's peak. Wrapped around her neck, almost like a stole, is a dragon-like ornament, possibly in bronze. In the drawing, she is looking at the viewer with her eyes aglow, cold as frost.
23 Kang-Jin Star (Black Myth: Wukong)

Black Myth: Wukong is a game that I've seen some footage for, but is outside of my usual genre of videogame, so I've not had the pleasure of playing it. Hence I have little knowledge of Kang-Jin Star, a boss in that game, other than what I can glean from a Youtube recording of gameplay. I do know a little about the source material for the game itself, that being the Journey to the West. In any case, I'm fairly satisfied with this drawing, after a couple of (I feel) weak entries.

A drawing of Mary Jane Watson, the sometime girlfriend or wife of Spider-Man. Mary Jane is an attractive woman with green eyes and long red hair. In the drawing, she's looking back at the viewer from a side-on pose while starting to open her leather jacket. She has a pair of glasses pulled up over her brow and is wearing a dark blue dress under the black leather jacket.
24 Mary Jane (Spider-Man)

Another Spider-Man heroine: this time, it's Mary Jane Watson. Mary Jane is slightly odd as a subject, because I feel she doesn't really have a strong canonical appearance other than 'attractive long-haired red-head', though perhaps I'm betraying a fundamental ignorance by saying so.

Arttrober continues with the next post in the series.

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