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-Ceph

Thursday, July 16, 2026

Drewly 2026: A mighty wand

A mighty wand

Fountain Pen Wand: The pen is mightier than the sword, and this magic pen is mightier than a magic sword.

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What is Drewly?

Drewly is the month-long art challenge where you don’t make any new art. Just celebrate all the art you’ve already made, finished or not.

How do I join?

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-Ceph

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Candle Wand: This unassuming candle burns endlessly and can be lit or extinguished with a mere thought. The bookish mage that keeps this as their wand knows that there are more traditional ways of using magic to illuminate reading rooms, but they loathe the unnatural glow of witchlight.

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What is Drewly?

Drewly is the month-long art challenge where you don’t make any new art. Just celebrate all the art you’ve already made, finished or not.

How do I join?

Share whatever work you’d like, however you’d like to share. Tag your posts #Drewly #Drewly2026 #Drewly26.

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Drewly 2026: Spinster’s Wand

Spinster’s Wand

Spinster’s Wand: A spinster is an unmarried woman who spins thread, and it is thrown around idly as an insult as it must be the ultimate goal of every woman to be married as soon as possible. This spinster couldn’t be bothered to marry because she was teaching herself to see the invisible threads of magic and spin them into spells, charms, and hexes.

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This is another wand from the domestic mage set of wands. I enjoy my wands project alot because really anything could be a wand if you wanted it to be.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is the month-long art challenge where you don’t make any new art. Just celebrate all the art you’ve already made, finished or not.

How do I join?

Share whatever work you’d like, however you’d like to share. Tag your posts #Drewly #Drewly2026 #Drewly26.

You can also join me on reddit at /r/Drewly

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How to support me:

Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Monday, July 13, 2026

Drewly 2026: Dual Knitting Wands

Dual Knitting Wands

Knitting Wands: A notorious homebody and accomplished mage was once asked why they spent so much time knitting when they could just use their magic to conjure up finished clothes. They responded with, “the thing that brings you the most joy should be done the slowest, rush the things you hate.”

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This is from a set of wands I drew imagining what an accomplished mage that had no interest in adventuring would empower to be their wand.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is the month-long art challenge where you don’t make any new art. Just celebrate all the art you’ve already made, finished or not.

How do I join?

Share whatever work you’d like, however you’d like to share. Tag your posts #Drewly #Drewly2026 #Drewly26.

You can also join me on reddit at /r/Drewly

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How to support me:

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Sunday, July 12, 2026

The Minish Cap: Azure Transformo

Azure Transformo

Joy Butterfly: These rare butterflies can only be discovered after Link fuses Kintstones with the three traveling oracles visiting Hyrule. Fusing Kinstones with each unlocks a unique breed of butterfly that confers a speed bonus to a specific skill when caught. Link must go out into the Castor Wilds and catch the butterflies to gain the bonus.

The only reason this butterfly is rare is because it was hunted to near extinction for its lustrous blue wings. The butterflies’ iridescent blue wings have no special properties, but were a fashion must have for a few seasons. Tastes change and fads fade, but the astronomical demand for butterfly wings was an almost permanent end for the delicate creatures.

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Getting heavy handed with my save the planet subtext. Go read the Lorax, but make sure to get it used, there are enough copies out there for you to find one.

Drewly continues, but so does out normal Sunday posting. I post an item card representing an item from a Zelda game every Sunday. Right now we are working on The Minish Cap. Come back tomorrow for more Drewly posts and check in next week for more Zelda items.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is the month-long art challenge where you don’t make any new art. Just celebrate all the art you’ve already made, finished or not.

How do I join?

Share whatever work you’d like, however you’d like to share. Tag your posts #Drewly #Drewly2026 #Drewly26.

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How to support me:

Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Saturday, July 11, 2026

Drewly 2026: The return from adventure

The return from adventure

Question mark: Thanks for all the gallbladders. Now I need you to head back to that same far away land and use this salamander lure to find the big mean salamander and get its gallbladder.

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Nothing hits quite like doing a fetch quest and then having a follow up mission go back to the same place for something vaguely related that you probably could have gotten at the same time as your first quest.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is the month-long art challenge where you don’t make any new art. Just celebrate all the art you’ve already made, finished or not.

How do I join?

Share whatever work you’d like, however you’d like to share. Tag your posts #Drewly #Drewly2026 #Drewly26.

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Friday, July 10, 2026

Drewly 2026: A call to adventure

A call to adventure

Exclamation point: Hey I’ve got a job for you! You gotta go to a far away land and gather 12 salamander gallbladders. Most salamander gallbladders pop when they are killed, so be careful.

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If I got this as a random bit of loot for a player, I would say they received a quest related to whatever dropped the item card.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is the month-long art challenge where you don’t make any new art. Just celebrate all the art you’ve already made, finished or not.

How do I join?

Share whatever work you’d like, however you’d like to share. Tag your posts #Drewly #Drewly2026 #Drewly26.

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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Thursday, July 9, 2026

Drewly 2026: Carrot on a stick

Carrot on a stick

Carrot on a stick: Get your mount moving that sweet 3% faster with your very first trinket, a carrot on a stick. All you need to do is journey into the desert, kill a oasis kaiju, and return with one of its scales to be rewarded with this exotic trinket.

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*pulls teeth out and hikes up pants*

Back in my day you had to walk to different zones in World of Warcraft and that 3% speed boost eventually added up to save you quite a bit of time.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is the month-long art challenge where you don’t make any new art. Just celebrate all the art you’ve already made, finished or not.

How do I join?

Share whatever work you’d like, however you’d like to share. Tag your posts #Drewly #Drewly2026 #Drewly26.

You can also join me on reddit at /r/Drewly

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How to support me:

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Drewly 2026: Sacred stone of Laputa

Sacred stone of Laputa

Laputian royal amulet: Carved from the incredible stone that powered their once globe spanning empire, this amulet has been passed down through many generations of your family. With it, a story of destructive pride and a song to sing in the darkest of times.

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Like many millennials, studio ghibli is a hugely important influence in my taste. Laputa is one of my favorites, as it is a part of the “I wish I could fly” cannon of Ghibli films. I really wish I could fly.

Week two of Drewly continues. We are 8 days in and I’ve got plenty of art I’ve never shown anyone. What about you?

What is Drewly?

Drewly is the month-long art challenge where you don’t make any new art. Just celebrate all the art you’ve already made, finished or not.

How do I join?

Share whatever work you’d like, however you’d like to share. Tag your posts #Drewly #Drewly2026 #Drewly26.

You can also join me on reddit at /r/Drewly

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How to support me:

Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Drewly 2026: The Heart of Te Fiti

The Heart of Te Fiti

Heart of Tefiti: Stolen by the trickster Maui, the heart must be returned to Tefiti, the great mother, to stop the spread of decay filling the world with monsters and draining life from land and sea.

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My kid loves Moana. I drew this for them. I also made a quick cardboard version with some sharpie and string. They LOVE that 5 minute craft. You don’t have to be great at art to make something someone will love.

In looking up the characters’ origins, I was surprised to find out Te Fiti seems to be a whole cloth creation for the movie, but they just used Maui’s existing mythological identity. That isn’t surprising, but it does feel odd.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is the month-long art challenge where you don’t make any new art. Just celebrate all the art you’ve already made, finished or not.

How do I join?

Share whatever work you’d like, however you’d like to share. Tag your posts #Drewly #Drewly2026 #Drewly26.

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