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Swords & D&D character art, when I have time to draw. No AI.
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Advice from Portland
December 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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December 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Swordtember Day 30 - Winter 🪾

And that is an actual wrap for #swordtember2025 ! Thank you all for following along, and here’s to drawing more swords & stuff in 2026
Greyscale drawing of a jian, a straight double-edged short sword from China. The blade is blackened, and the hilt is formed from a branch of witch hazel. The sword’s name, “Hamamelis”, is written in block letters at the bottom of the image
December 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Swordtember Day 29 - Autumn 🍂

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Greyscale drawing of a jian, a straight double-edged short sword from China. The grip and fuller are formed by the branch of a birch tree, while the cross-guard and pommel are twined with leadwort. The name of the sword, “Ceratostigma”, is written in block letters at the bottom of the image.
December 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Swordtember Day 28 - Summer 🌵

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Greyscale drawing of a jian, a straight double-edged short sword from China. The hilt is formed from a single twisted arm of an orchid cactus. The cross-guard is formed by a full bloom, and the pommel is formed by a budding bloom. The name of the sword, “Epiphyllum”, is written in block letters at the bottom of the image.
December 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Swordtember Day 27 - Spring 🧄

Garlic & other alliums bloom in spring, so it’s appropriate

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Greyscale drawing of a jian, a straight double-edged short sword from China. The hilt is formed from a garlic bloom, where the leaves form the cross-guard and the bloom forms the pommel. The sword’s name, “Allium”, is printed in block letters at the bottom of the image.
December 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Swordtember Day 26 - Harpy 🦅

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Greyscale drawing of a flamberge where the cross-guard and schilt are formed by the wings and legs of a heraldic harpy. The pommel is also stylized to look like heraldic feathers. The sword’s name, “The Will of House Adler”, is written in block letters at the bottom of the image.
December 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Swordtember Day 25 - Bubble 🫧

Had to get a magical girl sword in there somewhere

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Greyscale drawing of a rapier formed by a diamond-shaped bubble wand. The pommel is formed by a round bubble wand, and the guard is formed by a six-winged heart and a coiled ribbon. The sword’s name, “Iris”, is written in block letters at the bottom of the image.
December 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Swordtember Day 24 - Venom 🦎

Today’s sword modeled (loosely) off of a red-bellied newt

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Greyscale drawing of a firangi, a sword made from an Indian basket hilt affixed to a Western sabre blade. The hilt is formed by a red-bellied newt in the form of a “C”, while the blade is formed by its tail. The sword’s name is “Agni Shira”, printed at the bottom in block letters.
December 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.
December 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Swordtember Day 23 - Owl 🦉

I invite you all to look up Stygian owls sometime, they are cool

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Greyscale drawing of a misericorde (a long stiletto-like dagger) where the cross-guard is formed by a gnarled branch and the handle and pommel by the figure of a Stygian owl. The dagger’s name, “Boatman’s Talon”, is written below.
December 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Swordtember Day 22 - Swan 🦢

Aka, “post-modernismo, the sword”

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Greyscale drawing of a billhook-style machete where the hook is formed from a swan’s neck and the remainder of the blade is formed by its wings. The sword is named El Fin, Spanish for “The End”
December 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Swordtember Day 21 - Ring 💍

Ended up changing my mind on what to draw for this one last-minute, but very happy I did!

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Greyscale drawing of an urumi, or whip sword, whose handle is formed by a coiled snake. The sword is formed into a circle so that the snake’s head on the pommel appears to be eating the point of the sword.
December 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Swordtember Day 20 - Vapor 🌁

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Greyscale drawing of a kalis, a Filipino sword, whose blade is formed from swirling fog.
December 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Swordtember Day 19 - Membrane 🦇

In retrospect, I definitely just made a variant of a Kingdom Hearts keyblade, didn’t I

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Greyscale drawing of a falchion formed by a bat’s wing. The veins are visible on the wing and the pommel is formed by a single bloodshot eyeball.
December 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Swordtember Day 18 - Beetle 🪲

This year I learned fireflies are beetles, which gives me an excuse to draw more fireflies 😈

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Greyscale drawing of a naginata where the hilt is stylized to look like a firefly with a very long abdomen. The very end glows like a firefly’s would.
December 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Swordtember (Swordcember?) Day 17 - Gem 💎

Since I draw in greyscale it’s not obvious what kind of stone this is, but I used tanzanite as an inspiration for the gradient in the stone.

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Greyscale drawing of an Old Norse boat sword. The straight portion of the blade is formed by a faceted gradient gemstone, with the gradient aligned to the true edge. The curved tip of the blade has two round gemstones set into it.
December 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Returning to Swordtember 2025 with Day 16 - Carved 🪦

Is it a sword? Is it a gravestone? Who’s to say 🤷

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Greyscale drawing of an executioner’s sword made from a gravestone. The stone bears a carved image of a shrouded, six-winged angel hiding their face.
December 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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And here’s the final 5 prompts for #swordtember 2020! ⚔️ 26 - Ocean/Water; 27 - Floral; 28 - Royal; 29 - Ceremony/Ritual; 30 - Ancient. As always, many thanks to @faithschaffer.bsky.social for putting together a prompt list every year!

Next up: The rest of the 2025 prompts 🤺
Greyscale drawing of five swords laid horizontally, altering in direction they are facing. From top to bottom: a boat sword styled to look like a wave with three ships, a Celtic bronze-age sword with a dual pommel composed of Queen of Night cactus blooms, a Qin dynastiy bronze-age sword with gilt symbols of nobility along the blade, a Nordic full-hilted sword with a drawing of a tree dividing the sky into day and night on the blade, a khopesh with a corroded handle and false edge.
December 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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As expected, I’ve dropped off on my reposts… oops. 😬 Here’s the next 5 from 2020’s #swordtember prompt list! 21 - Glowing; 22 - Dragon Slayer; 23 - Guardian; 24 - Sinister; 25 - Jeweled ⚔️

Going to round out the year with the rest of this year’s prompts, so keep an eye out!
Greyscale drawing of five swords laid horizontally, altering in direction they are facing. From top to bottom: a katar (Indian push dagger) filled with fireflies, a two-handed zhanmadao whose cross guard and pommel are formed of tiger’s heads, a shamshir (scimitar) whose false edge is patterned like a chess board and whose hilt is decorated with chess pieces, a jian whose cross guard is formed of a wolf’s head and whose blade is formed by two pheasant’s feathers, a xiphos whose fuller, pommel, and cross guard is inset with carnelians.
December 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Next 5 from 2020’s #swordtember list 🗡️ 16 - Magic; 17 - Fragmented; 18 - Nature-Inspired; 19 - Justice; 20 - Many, Multiple
Greyscale drawing of five swords laid horizontally, altering in direction they are facing. From top to bottom: a firangi (a sabre with a western blade and Indian hilt) decorated with symbols of Shiva, a khanda (broad-bladed Indian sword) with a blade made of shattered glass, a dark-steeled yataghan with a pommel fashioned like a ram’s skull and mushrooms growing from the hilt, a dao with a cross guard formed of a lotus flower, a shichishito (seven-branched Japanese sword) where each branch is a gladiolus bloom sprouting a Roman gladius)
October 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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And another 5 from the original 2020 #swordtember list to celebrate the end of this year’s challenge! ⚔️🤺 11 - Elegant; 12 - Powerful; 13 - Electric; 14 - Knight; 15 - Wings
Greyscale drawing of five swords laid horizontally, altering in direction they are facing. From top to bottom: a sabre with a winding and twisting guard; a dagger that uses smoke from its explosion to transform into a smallsword; a shotel (dramatically long and curved sabre) formed of an electric eel; an akrafena with adinkra symbols associated with knightly values; a two-pronged urumi (whip sword) whose guard forms a bird of paradise.
September 30, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Time ⌛

#swordtember #swordtember2025 #conceptart #design #apricityart
The image contains a fantasy blade I based around the Swordtember prompt "Time". The text reads as: Atelier Apricity. Swordtember: Time. The blade's foundation comes from Loki's scissorblade, simplified into a single blade. He doesn't directly wield it and instead uses his magic to swing it much like a chained dagger or whip instead.
September 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Next 5 from the original 2020 #swordtember list! This set is still a personal favourite of mine even five years on. 😊 6 - Moon/Night; 7- Stars; 8 - Cursed Relic; 9 - Divine Relic; 10 - Rose/Thorn
Greyscale drawing of five swords laid horizontally, altering in direction they are facing. From top to bottom: a kukri knife with the phases of the moon inlaid along the spine of the blade; a rapier with a basket hilt carved from a nebula of stars; a sword cane made from a piece of driftwood; a schiavona whose hilt is made of wings and whose blade is scorched; a mortuary sword with a thorny basket and rose pommel.
September 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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#Swordtember day 24 - Venom
Colour illustration of a sword where the hilt resembles a brightly coloured lionfish and the blade is solid black.
September 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM