Swordtember Day 19 - Membrane 🦇 In retrospect, I definitely just made a variant of a Kingdom Hearts keyblade, didn’t I #swordtember2025

Swordtember Day 18 - Beetle 🪲 This year I learned fireflies are beetles, which gives me an excuse to draw more fireflies 😈 #swordtember2025

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. #swordtember2025

Returning to Swordtember 2025 with Day 16 - Carved 🪦 Is it a sword? Is it a gravestone? Who’s to say 🤷 #swordtember2025

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 🤺

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!

Next 5 from 2020’s #swordtember list 🗡️ 16 - Magic; 17 - Fragmented; 18 - Nature-Inspired; 19 - Justice; 20 - Many, Multiple

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

Time ⌛ #swordtember #swordtember2025 #conceptart #design #apricityart

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

#Swordtember day 24 - Venom

While this year’s #swordtember is on hiatus for me, I figured I’d post some of my backlog from earlier years in the meantime. ⚔️ Here’s the first five prompts from @faithschaffer.bsky.social’s 2020 prompt list: 1 - Fire; 2 - Ice; 3 - Poisonous; 4 - Duel; 5 - Sun/Day

Swordtember Day 15 - Lace 🪡 Unfortunately, this is my last scheduled Swordtember post for this year. With everything going on in the world and in my own life, I’m just not able to dedicate enough time to it. 😞 I hope I can pick it back up again soon! #swordtember2025

Swordtember Day 14 - Rot 🥀 Had a fun time figuring out how to make this one an alternate version of yesterday’s bloom sword #swordtember2025

Swordtember Day 13 - Bloom 🌸 #swordtember2025

Swordtember Day 12 - Concealed 🫥 Really kicking myself for making a fabric drapery study out of this one… 😑

Swordtember Day 11 - Reliquary 👑 Yes this is Locked Tomb-inspired, how could you tell? 💀 #swordtember2025

Swordtember Day 10 - Rodent 🐀 #swordtrmber2025

Swordtember Day 09 - Feline 🐈 Akrafenas are another favorite to draw. #swordtember2025

Swordtember Day 08 - Canine 🐕 Had fun looking up different branches of the canidae family for this one #swordtember2025

Swordtember Day 07 - Clock 🕰️ Really satisfied with the design on this one (even if actually holding the dang thing is impractical as hell) #swordtember2025

Swordtember Day 06 - Fossil 🦴 #swordtember2025

Swordtember Day 05 - Bell 🔔 #swordtember2025

Swordtember Day 04 - Scales ⚖️ #swordtember2025

Swordtember Day 03 - Automaton ⚙️ #swordtember2025

Swordtember Day 02 - Moss 🌱 Realized I draw one of these almost every year, but I’m ok with that 😎 #swordtember2025

Swordtember Day 01 - Shell 🥚 Kicking this account off in predictable fashion by posting my contribution to @faithschaffer.bsky.social ‘s lovely #swortember2025 prompt list! ⚔️ Will also start transferring my old Swordtember contributions (all 5 years’s worth) once this year’s is done.