Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Drewly: Third Eye Lens

 Third Eye Lens

Third Eye Lens: When a person looks through all three of these lens they can peer into different planes, dimensions, and realities. The arrangement of lenses, down to the most minute distance, determines where you are able to perceive.

Drewly today is an item I gave my players so that they could see Chulhu and other eldritch horrors were out there and could be a problem in the future. Hopefully, the cults trying to attract their attention fail.

What is Drewly?
#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

Rules:
Share art you have already made.
Share as often as you want.
When you share, tag your art with #Drewly and #Drewly2025

I will be posting art every day of Drewly, so check back in tomorrow for something new.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here: #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.
-Ceph

Monday, July 21, 2025

Drewly: Pearl of the Sirens

 Pearl of the Sirens

Pearl of the Sirens: Fashioned by a sea seductress who didn’t want to immediately drown and devour their victims. This necklace allows drylanders to survive beneath the water for as long as the seductress wishes.

We have been going strong with drewly for three entire weeks!

For a random one-off item drawing for my homebrew Pathfinder game, I am very happy with how this turned out.

What is Drewly?
#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

Rules:
Share art you have already made.
Share as often as you want.
When you share, tag your art with #Drewly and #Drewly2025

I will be posting art every day of Drewly, so check back in tomorrow for something new.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here: #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.
-Ceph

Sunday, July 20, 2025

The Minish Cap: A Seeing Stone

 A Seeing Stone


Earth Element: To reforge the Picori blade and revive its power to seal away evil, Link must gather the four elemental essences. The Earth Element is guarded by the Big Green Chuchu in Minish Cap’s first dungeon, Deepwood Shrine. Link must wait until he has earned two of the four elements before he can begin the reforging process.

In a crazed display of foolishness, a spiderlike fae tossed this seeing stone in her fire, thinking it destroyed. A fire far greater than a witch’s hearth is needed to shatter such a potent artifact of natural power. The brave young girl escaped The Beldam’s web, but should another young victim find themself in the sinister fae’s domain, a potent artifact awaits them in the hearth’s cold ashes.

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It was deeply disheartening to hear of the sexual assault allegations against Neil Gaiman. It sucks that there is always this sword of Damocles hanging above important and influential male figures.

Today in drewly we are going to focus in on how great Laika’s films are. Go watch some great stop-motion films and support my favorite movie medium.

Drewly today is my normal weekly item card post, where I post drawings inspired by all the items in all the Zelda games. I am currently posting the items from The Minish Cap. I’ve got complete sets for the first 11 Zelda games and a bunch of other item sets already posted here. https://thespeakingsquid.blogspot.com/search/label/Collected

What is Drewly?
#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

Rules:
Share art you have already made.
Share as often as you want.
When you share, tag your art with #Drewly and #Drewly2025

I will be posting art every day of Drewly, so check back in tomorrow for something new.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here: #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.
-Ceph

Saturday, July 19, 2025

Drewly: The Shiny Rod

 The Shiny Rod

The Shiny Rod: The Claiomh Solais is an immensely powerful magical artifact with the slumebring power to change the world. Which is why it is currently in the possession of Atsuko Kagari, witch aspirant, and generally ineffective pupil of magic.


Drewly today is a whole-hearted recommendation of Little Witch Academia. Wacky, inspiring, and wonderful.

What is Drewly?
#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

Rules:
Share art you have already made.
Share as often as you want.
When you share, tag your art with #Drewly and #Drewly2025

I will be posting art every day of Drewly, so check back in tomorrow for something new.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here: #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.
-Ceph

Friday, July 18, 2025

Drewly: Llama Potion

 Llama Potion


Llama Potion: The poison, the poison for Kuzco, the poison chosen specially to kill Kuzco, Kuzco’s poison. Turns out its actually llama extract.

Sometimes I just put on a movie and draw some props from that movie. That is how we have Emperor’s New Groove fan art for drewly today.

What is Drewly?
#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

Rules:
Share art you have already made.
Share as often as you want.
When you share, tag your art with #Drewly and #Drewly2025

I will be posting art every day of Drewly, so check back in tomorrow for something new.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here: #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.
-Ceph

Thursday, July 17, 2025

Drewly: Shepherd’s Journal

 Shepherd’s Journal

Shepherd’s Journal: A detailed account of a nomadic shepherd’s journey to the lost city of Atlantis. The shepherd’s account could be used to retrace their steps and once again find the lost city.

I really love Atlantis: The Lost Empire. I really love Mike Mignola. I really loved finding out that Mike Mignola did the major concept push for the movie and that the animators were told to study and adapt his style as best they could. Look for Mignola’s tell-tale hands; Atlantis has Mignola hands.

What is Drewly?
#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

Rules:
Share art you have already made.
Share as often as you want.
When you share, tag your art with #Drewly and #Drewly2025

I will be posting art every day of Drewly, so check back in tomorrow for something new.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here: #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.
-Ceph

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Drewly: Hanafuda Earrings

 Hanafuda Earrings

Hanafuda Earrings: Do you like the sun? Do you like breathing? Have you heard of Sun Breathing?

Drewly today is brought to you by being stuck in a rut and watching anime. Drawing these earrings did help me get out of that rut.

What is Drewly?
#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

Rules:
Share art you have already made.
Share as often as you want.
When you share, tag your art with #Drewly and #Drewly2025

I will be posting art every day of Drewly, so check back in tomorrow for something new.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here: #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.
-Ceph

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Drewly: A chaotic mask

 A chaotic mask


Loki Mask: Cast out from Valhalla for causing chaos, Loki’s desire to cause mischief and make trouble was woven into a rough wooden mask. Whenever a person dons the mask, they are overcome with the pent-up eagerness to cause trouble.

Drewly today is another drawing that I am not fond of. Drewly isn’t about just sharing your highest achievements, its about sharing what you make, and sometimes you make something that isn’t great.

What is Drewly?
#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

Rules:
Share art you have already made.
Share as often as you want.
When you share, tag your art with #Drewly and #Drewly2025

I will be posting art every day of Drewly, so check back in tomorrow for something new.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here: #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.
-Ceph

Monday, July 14, 2025

Drewly: Guillotine for Bastille Day

 Guillotine for Bastille Day

Guillotine: A device to improve and standardize the practice of execution by beheading so that state-sanctioned murder might be more enlightened. 

Drewly today is a guillotine I drew on No Kings Day, which also happened to be the day Minnesota Democratic politicians were assassinated, so a political violence drawing felt wrong to publish.

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
- Frederick Douglass

There is a lot of quiet submission and eager oppression happening in the United States right now, and it is allowing a lot of injustice. In response, people are resisting with words and with blows. If you don’t like demonstrations, protests, and riots, you can either look at why the people are protesting and try to fix things, or you can suppress demonstrations and limit the ability to demonstrate.

All people deserve to have food, shelter, education, opportunity, and safe honest personal expression. If you don’t agree with that, you should find another place for item cards.

What is Drewly?
#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

Rules:
Share art you have already made.
Share as often as you want.
When you share, tag your art with #Drewly and #Drewly2025

I will be posting art every day of Drewly, so check back in tomorrow for something new.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here: #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.
-Ceph

Sunday, July 13, 2025

The Minish Cap: Frog Legs

 Frog Legs

Flippers: The flippers allow Link to swim in the many waterways of Hyrule. He can find them beneath the Royal Hyrule Library, but only after he finds and returns all the library’s missing books.

A hedge witch charm for safe traveling through swamps, bogs, and marshes starts with catching the third frog heard on the third day of the third week after a new moon. In the light of the waxing moon, anoint the frog with blood taken from your ankle, your knee, and your hip, and then eat all of the frog but its legs. Hang the legs from a braid of your hair, and you should have no trouble when passing through even the most fearsome swamps.

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I feel like the secret to a good witch’s charm is making it both prohibitively complex while also being gross.

Drewly today is my take on the flippers from The Minish Cap. I have drawn flippers before, so I went a bit more abstract with the concept of swimming tools. I am currently posting the drawings based on items from The Minish Cap. I’ve got complete sets for the first 11 Zelda games and a bunch of other item sets already posted here. https://thespeakingsquid.blogspot.com/search/label/Collected

What is Drewly?
#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

Rules:
Share art you have already made.
Share as often as you want.
When you share, tag your art with #Drewly and #Drewly2025

I will be posting art every day of Drewly, so check back in tomorrow for something new.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here: #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.
-Ceph

Saturday, July 12, 2025

Drewly: A long distance from a cigarette

 A long distance from a cigarette

Cigarette Extender: Are you a class lady in the Gilded Age who is trying to discreetly cast a spell at this soire? Use this cigarette extender as your wand. No one will bat an eye if they see you shaking your cigarette at someone across the room; they will just think you are gossiping while you are really cursing them with ill fortune.

Distance can be physical space, but it can also be time. I haven’t smoked in 12 years as of tomorrow, and that is pretty cool.

I debuted my wands project in Drewly 2022, and it continues to grow whenever I think, “Oh, that would be a fun wand for some strange mage.”

What is Drewly?
#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

Rules:
Share art you have already made.
Share as often as you want.
When you share, tag your art with #Drewly and #Drewly2025

I will be posting art every day of Drewly, so check back in tomorrow for something new.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here: #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.
-Ceph

Friday, July 11, 2025

Drewly: Obelisk

 Obelisk

Obelisk: An iconic piece of ancient Egyptian architecture, associated with the sun god Ra.

Drewly today is the first drawing from the Standing Stones project. I posted them in reverse order to get my Miscast fanboy post out as soon as possible. Other standing stones that I’ve drawn outside of this project are the summoning stone from World of Warcraft and the place of power stone from The Witcher 3.

What is Drewly?
#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

Rules:
Share art you have already made.
Share as often as you want.
When you share, tag your art with #Drewly and #Drewly2025

I will be posting art every day of Drewly, so check back in tomorrow for something new.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here: #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.
-Ceph

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Drewly: Henge Stones

Henge Stones

Henge Stones: A set of standing stones based on a photo of Stonehenge.

In googling this, henges are only defined as circular earthworks rather than anything to do with stone circles or other lithic monuments.

The more you know.

I’ve always been fascinated by standing stones, so I started drawing them. They are definitely outside my comfort zone, but it is good to pursue uncomfortable projects that excite you to grow your skills.

What is Drewly?
#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

Rules:
Share art you have already made.
Share as often as you want.
When you share, tag your art with #Drewly and #Drewly2025

I will be posting art every day of Drewly, so check back in tomorrow for something new.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here: #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.
-Ceph

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Drewly: Hoodoo

 Hoodoo

Hoodoo: These naturally occurring rock pillars are one of the many amazing things I saw visiting the National Parks of the American Southwest.

National Parks are more important than the comfort of the rich. Fund the parks. Enjoy the rock and the heavy-handed politicizing for drewly today.

What is Drewly?
#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

Rules:
Share art you have already made.
Share as often as you want.
When you share, tag your art with #Drewly and #Drewly2025

I will be posting art every day of Drewly, so check back in tomorrow for something new.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here: #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.
-Ceph

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Drewly: Father’s Ancestor Stone

 Father’s Ancestor Stone

Father’s Stone: An ancestor stone guarding the Heart of Atlantis.

I was watching Atlantis: The Lost Empire, like I do at least once a year, and I thought, “I could draw that.” Unfortunately, I really hate this finished drawing, but it is done and posted and off my mind.

Drewly isn’t about loving everything you’ve done, but it is about celebrating what you have accomplished. I finished this drawing, and I moved on.

What is Drewly?
#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

Rules:
Share art you have already made.
Share as often as you want.
When you share, tag your art with #Drewly and #Drewly2025

I will be posting art every day of Drewly, so check back in tomorrow for something new.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here: #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024

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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.
-Ceph

Monday, July 7, 2025

Drewly: Elven Waystone

 Elven Waystone

Elven Waystone: A stone set by a mad wizard to guide explorers through the uncertain lands of creation.

Miscast is, as Trent would put it, a bloody legend.

Everything Trent does is inspiring, and every time he drops a new video, I am immediately inspired to hobby along as I watch, even though I don’t paint minis or make terrain.

Thank you, Trent, for being a pillar of my online joy.

All of that to say, our #drewly post today is fan art of a five-year-old terrain project he made and released a template for, so you too can make it.

What is Drewly?
#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

Rules:
Share art you have already made.
Share as often as you want.
When you share, tag your art with #Drewly and #Drewly2025

I will be posting art every day of Drewly, so check back in tomorrow for something new.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here: #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024

Since you’re here, please consider supporting:
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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.
-Ceph