Tennotober 2023 Collection
Here's every drawing I made for Tennotober 2023! Tennotober is a month-long event hosted by the Warframe community team that coincides with Inktober, prompting artists in the community to make Warframe fanart based on each day's custom prompt! You can find the forum post with everyone's submissions here: https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1366392-official-tennotober-2023-megathread/
I tried hard to push my skills with each submission and I'm still really happy with the results! Despite being in the midst of college midterms, I was able to commit to every single prompt! It was a month of nonstop practice that I still see dividends from, as I learned to be an even more efficient and proficient artist, allowing myself to be messier in order to get each message across in time.
Day 1: Portal
Rough digital sketch concept of Nova Atomica wearing Holsom Yurr's armor from her Levurian.
Day 2: Fangs
Digital sketch of Valkyr Carnivex with her talons out in Hysteria, fangs stylistically displayed.
Day 2: Fangs (alternate sketch)
Pencil sketch made from memory during class of Banshee wielding the Fang Prime in a very exaggerated perspective.
Day 3: Decade
A digital paint study of a screenshot that I got from Pascal Brax's video "Warframe 2013-01-03 gameplay" at 2:03
Day 4: Crystal
2 hour digital of a Citrine skin concept that I'll try to return to at some point, based on the idea of asymmetry and volcanic rock.
Day 4: Crystal (alternate sketch)
A pen and marker sketch made from memory during class of an Amber Archon Shard.
Day 5: Beetle
Digital rough sketch of Inaros Prime from Warframe with the Osiris helmet, hand and body wreathed in green flame as he surrounds himself with a scarab swarm.
Day 6: Throwback
Photo of an ink, pen, and crayon sketch partially from memory of one of the infested from the Warframe 1999 trailer.
Day 7: Knives
Kullervo from Warframe based on the Traitor Lord from Hollow Knight, the 54th addition to Hollowframe!
Day 8: Whisper
Digital sketch of the Fragmented One and Fragmented Tide from the Warframe Whispers in the Walls Tennocon trailer.
Day 9: Man in the Wall
Digital sketch of various elements related to the Man in the Wall, referencing Albrecht Entrati's Vetruvian recordings, the Requiems, and the symbol found both on Albrecht Entrati's computer and on the computer in 1999.
Day 10: Orowyrm
Rough digital sketch of Nyx using her Absorb ability to climb Lodun outside of the arena's borders, based on my own experience doing so back in May. Also based somewhat on the Metal Gear Ray fight from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
Day 11: Inspire
Digital sketch of the bard found at the Lonesome Outlook in Duviri giving a bit of bardic inspiration with his shawzin.
Day 11: Inspire (alternate sketch)
Pencil sketch drawn from memory during class of Octavia Prime shredding on a shawzin in a dramatic, overly exaggerated pose.
Day 12: Solidarity
A digital sketch of The Business, Eudico, and Little Duck standing beneath bright neon lights.
Day 13: Courage
A colorful digital sketch of Kahl-175 about to sacrifice himself to destroy a Sentient Orphix, as seen in The New War quest.
Day 14: Rally
A digital sketch of Styanax facing off against Leviathan from the animated short, using Rally Point to raise the subsumed horde against the Philanthropist.
Day 15: Uplift
An overly saturated digital sketch of Octavia playing a shawzin in a dazzle of light and colors with exaggerated foreshortening, based on the Day 11: Inspire alternate sketch.
Day 16: Family
A digital sketch of Nekros Irkalla with a Galantine Prime facing off against Lephantis in a cosmic battle.
Day 17: Dedication
A digital sketch of Loid, from the Warframe: Whispers in the Wall gameplay reveal, readying to seal Albrecht Entrati's containment chamber with a swift strike of a mallet, as per Albrecht's request.
Day 18: Kaithe
A digital sketch of Dagath and her kaithe Rakhali from Warframe based on the Mask Maker and the stags from Hollow Knight, the 55th addition to Hollowframe!
Day 19: Cave
A digital sketch of Hildryn Prime (based on my own fashion of her) charging into battle against the Exploiter Orb in Deck 12, wielding her Larkspur Prime in front of her.
Day 20: Spiral
A digital sketch of the Dexennial Drifter (based on my Drifter fashion) experiencing one of Duviri's harshest cycles: blinding joy.
Day 20: Spiral (alternate sketch)
A pencil sketch of the Dexennial Drifter suit made from memory during class.
Day 21: Assassin
A digital sketch of Ash (far back, top of stairs enshrouded in shadows) using Blade Storm to summon two shadow clones, which are seen taking out two Corpus ship crewmen on a set of stairs.
Day 22: Bombastine
A digital sketch of Bombastine from Warframe with his hand outstretched to the viewer, splayed out in expectancy.
Day 23: Hunt
A digital sketch of the Myrmidon from Ivara's Levurian, using the brief animation clips from the Ivara Collector's Statue trailer video as reference for their appearance.
Tennotober 2023 Day 24: Beard
A digital sketch of Albrecht Entrati from the Warframe: 1999 trailer, The Man in the Wall showing himself through Albrecht's smile.
Day 25: Hammer
A digital sketch of a Solaris worker from Warframe holding a mother wrench hammer.
Day 26: Mirror
A digital sketch of the void mirror found in Conjunction Survival on Lua, partially eclipsing Earth.
Day 27: Crime
A digital sketch of Kullervo springing forth with his sword, Vaenn, outstretched behind him.
Day 28: Bat
A digital sketch of Octavia Maestra donning a Nyctalus Ephemera, singing a reverberating song for all to hear.
Day 29: Crown
A digital sketch of Oberon, donning the Ferosh helmet and Feyarch skin, facing away into the beams of sunlight peaking through the forest canopy.
Day 30: Prison
A digital sketch of the Wolf of Saturn Six (bottom) behind bars. Above him, the hands of Alad V hold an Amalgam mask, and above that the hands of Pazuul hold a Narmer Veil.
![Day 31: Faceless
A digital sketch of Dagath facing the viewer, standing in front of the void gate described in Albrecht Entrati's Vetruvian logs on Deimos.
Two empty mirrors.
[VOME]. Order. A reflection with dimension.
And the mirror that accuses.](https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/078/389/314/large/nicholas-lobaugh-day-31-faceless-tennotober-2023.jpg?1721950884)
Day 31: Faceless
A digital sketch of Dagath facing the viewer, standing in front of the void gate described in Albrecht Entrati's Vetruvian logs on Deimos.
Two empty mirrors.
[VOME]. Order. A reflection with dimension.
And the mirror that accuses.
Tennotober 2023 prompt list, provided by Digital Extremes.