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Inktober 2024

A black book with shiny green ink is spread open to see the entire cover. On the left is the back cover with a large golden 8 pointed sun and the artist's (my) signature and on the right is the front cover of Open Sea Creative's sage sketchbook.ALT

I’ve actually completed my Inktober challenge! 31 Caudata (Newts, Salamanders, Axolotls and their Clade) for 31 days of October.

On the left, a table of contents with "Sun's Salamanders" at the top with the Inktober logo and the 31 Inktober 2024 prompts (listed in plain text below). On the right is the first drawing. Day 1 - Backpack - Western Tiger Salamander. An anthropomorphic speckled and shiny green salamander wears a blue backpack. A blue scrunchie ties back their feathery gills as if it was hair.ALT

2024 Prompts and their accompanying salamanders:

  1. Backpack - Western Tiger Salamander
  2. Discover - Black Bellied Salamander
  3. Boots - Eastern Tiger Salamander
  4. Exotic - Crocodile Newt
  5. Binoculars - Spotted Salamander
  6. Trek - Threshold Salamander
  7. Passport - Green Tree Skink
  8. Hike - Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander
  9. Sun - my salamandersona
  10. Nomadic - Northern Dusky Salamander
  11. Snacks - Hellbender
  12. Remote - Mole Salamander
  13. Horizon - Olympic Torrent Salamander
  14. Roam - Small Mouth Salamander
  15. Guidebook - Salamander Life Cycle
  16. Grungy - Common Mudpuppy
  17. Journal - Three Toed Amphiuma
  18. Drive - Mud Salamander
  19. Ridge - Red Backed Salamander
  20. Uncharted - Malatgan River Caecilian
  21. Rhinoceros - Three Lined Salamander
  22. Camp - Marbled Salamander
  23. Rust - Northern Red Salamander
  24. Expedition - Rough Skinned Newt
  25. Scarecrow - Greater Siren
  26. Camera - Long Tailed Salamander
  27. Road - Blue Spotted Salamander
  28. Jumbo - Japanese Giant Salamander
  29. Navigator - Eastern Newt
  30. Violin - Laos Warty Newt
  31. Landmark - Axolotl
This salamander is mostly brown with a ribbed midsection, like a tootsie roll. The neck, belly, and tail of this salamander are a lighter color with brown spots. We are examining this specimen through a magnifying glass.ALT
This anthropomorphic yellow and brown cow spotted salamander with a wide smile is seated reaching for a brown hiking boot. They are already wearing one hiking boot. A pink worm is wiggling in the boot they're reaching for.ALT
An anthropomorphic newt with a black body but orange limbs, tail, and face. Orange knobs line this newt's back. Their arms are clasped in front of them. They are wearing a sheer blue collared shirt.ALT
A tan anthropomorphic salamander with bright yellow spots stares directly at you with binoculars.ALT
One of the orange salamanders from the Star Trek Voyager episode Threshold dressed in a red skant giving the live long and prosper sign with the 3 fingers they have.ALT
An electric green lizard is trying to casually hide their face with their hand. Their tail is curled in front of them like they're trying to hid behind that too. In front of you between you and the guilty lizard is a salamander passport card.ALT
A shiny brown salamander atop a large boulder the size of a small boulder.ALT
This salamander-sona is warm yellow and tan with green spots and a red brown ridge down their back. They are beginning to transition between the late aquatic and early terrestrial phases as common for newts. They are a cross between a Western Tiger Salamander and a Crocodile Newt. They are wearing a blue Hawaiian shirt with red flowers and pumping their fist for the camera. Behind them is a golden 8-pointed Filipino sun.ALT
A dark green and splotchy anthropomorphic salamander with a white speckled belly is walking away from the viewer dragging a lavender hard shell suitcase behind them.ALT
Two hellbender salamanders. One of the flat wrinkly idiots is eating the other's face. The one being eaten seems unconcerned with this. With their heads interlocked in the middle of the page and their paddle tails spiraling away from them, they look like a big tan letter S.ALT
A chubby little salamander-sona still in their adolescent aquatic phase with green speckles and feather gills. They are reclining on a bright pink chaise lounge, TV remote in hand.ALT
An electric orange anthropomorphic salamander. They have a navy blue pirate hat and are peering to your right through a spyglass.ALT
A blue-grey anthropomorphic salamander with a red checkered bindle over their shoulder. There's a worm in their mouth and another worm trying to escape the bindle.ALT
This shows the 5 phases of the newt/salamander life cycle. First, an egg that looks like a frog's egg. Next is the larval aquatic phase where they look like a frog tadpole with huge gills. Then comes the salamander's tadpole phase when they start growing front legs and their gills begin separating and branching. Terrestrial juveniles, also called an eft, still have feathery external gills. Finally the Caudate will develop into it's mature terrestrial form as either a newt or a salamander.ALT
The Mudpuppy is seated in the L position with their hands supporting their back and shoulders behind them. Their flat paddle tail comes around to the front by their feet. Despite their pinky red feather gills, they are an adult salamander. They are green with brown spots and a light belly, but it's hard to tell because they are muddy from head to tail.ALT
A long gray snakelike amphibian lays on their stomach, their long body snakes around like the number 9. Under their head is a purple open book. They hold a pencil in their right toe? fin? thing.ALT
A scarlet salamander with brown freckles wearing a blue visor has just hit a golf drive.ALT
This brown salamander with a raised spine is T-posing with their chin up showing their whole bright red back to the viewer.ALT
A long blueish tube coiled around itself like a snake. It's hard to tell which end is the head and which is the tail. It looks like a very long, very moist penis has escaped its ballsack and flopped on the ground.ALT
A yellow salamander person with brown freckles and three brown stripes down their back walks a shiny brown rhinoceros beetle on a hot pink leash.ALT
A blue and white marble colored salamander stands posed like the statue David. A green fig leaf covers the groin.ALT
A bright scarlet salamander with freckles stands with a hammer in one hand and a saw in the other. They are wearing a bright yellow construction safety helmet. Their tools are also safety yellow. They are ready for anything.ALT
This newt person has a bright orange belly and a brown bumpy back skin that looks like the texture of a rash. They are wearing a bright blue delivery driver uniform and carrying two large and heavy looking packages. One of the packages has a familiar smirk logo, but the arrow points down to match the massive frown on the newt's face.ALT
The Siren is dappled gray with pink feathery gills. They are holding themselves upright with their two tiny arms on a wooden scarecrow post. The post has a teal flannel filled with straw and the Siren is centered to operate as the scarecrow's head.ALT
8 salamanders in a variety of orange and yellow hues crowd together for a selfie in the viewfinder a purple iPhone.ALT
A pair of human hands cups a small blue salamander with spots that range from light blue to white. The salamander looks like a tiny walking galaxy of stars.ALT
This almost looks like it's just an anthropomorphic version of the Hellbender; big, flat, a little wrinkly. But cupped in the large salamander's hands like a bug is Sun, the artist's sona.ALT
You are looking over this newt's shoulder as it is reading a compass. The newt is electric orange with 6 evenly spaced red dots down it's back.ALT
The newt is smooth and black along its back with a flat paddle tail, but has a wrinkly newt skin texture along with orange patterning along its belly. This newt is carrying a Violin Beetle in front of them similarly to the way a toddler holds a large adult cat.ALT
An Alebrije wood carving of an axolotl. The body is bright magenta pink with yellow, orange, and sky blue accents.ALT

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