Day 31: Crawl. #inktober2020
August 22, 2012. When the kiddo turned 1, enjoying the tunnel that’s still hanging out on the front porch. Dama in the background. [retcon for emotional accuracy]
Day 30: Ominous. #inktober2020
Sailors take warning
Day 29: Shoes. #inktober2020
John Fluevog Shoes from my closet. Fun to fill in with a brush marker and add the paisleys with the white gel.
Day 28: Float. #inktober2020
I found #huevember a few days ago. I’m looking forward to focusing on color rather than medium next month and explore more things like this with lines, shapes, color.
Day 27: Music. #inktober2020
Kit sings the blues.
Day 26: Hide. #inktober2020
Bee balm in the garden
Day 25: Buddy. #inktober2020
Essica-Jessica and Eema-Amy. Love you to the moon and back, sister mine.
Day 24: Dig. #inktober2020
Happy weekend everyone.
Day 23: RIP. #inktober2020
Wil Wheaton posted a picture of Miss Guanajuato. How could I say no to that? I’ve been reading rip as R.I.P. since I read the Inktober prompts. When I was in Central Sq this morning for a dental visit, I stopped off to get mostlySakura pens: fine tip pigma, copper Pen-touch, white Gelly Roll. And a gold Uni Posca. I may need to find a black paper notebook to get into the gelly roll.
Days 21-22: Sleep and Chef. #inktober
21 is basically a conglomeration of a stress dream.
22. Tony Bourdain. In the kitchen. I hate that he’s gone. Him yanking out a cork with his teeth to slosh into a pan— that’s our guy. He’s why I wanted to go find the weird little restaurants down small, dark alleys in Rome to find the best food. It was there. I am still sad he’s been gone, it’s been 2 years.
In the realm of the drawing itself— this one came easily to me. It’s not perfect by any stretch, but it’s also recongisable and full of the motion I think comprised most of his career.
Days 17-20: Storm, Trap, Dizzy, Coral. #inktober2020
2020 is a storm. What can we do to weather the storm. Despite a lighting strike, do what you can to find your calm, your center. Consume stories in whatever way makes sense for you. Learn and expand. Take comfort with those who care about you. And cake is also helpful. Also. Vote.
I’ve been staring at this Tumblr post for days and days. I learned from 14/armor that this was going to need a grid from the get-go. I’m very happy to have the option of easy/free grid overlay available on the internets.
I wanted my drawing to evoke that moment. The tilt of her head, sweep of her hair, the deep shadows. In this moment, there’s nothing else but the people in that room. This is, hands down, the best rendering I’ve ever done and I’m really proud.
Day 19: Dizzy!
Day 20: Coral
After so much energy put into Trap, 19 & 20 are quick sketches. Nice to be able to do that. Living coral… dang, yo. Turns out color is really helpful to render it well.
Day 16: Rocket. #inktober2020
Day 16: Rocket. #inktober2020
Joan Jett but not. This compared to armor was not a struggle. Also new sepia pigma pen
Day 15: Outpost. #inktober2020
I seem to have figured out one way to resize my images here, which is nice.
Not all prompts are going to be world-bendingly great to do.
I used the reverse of Dune, which had bleed through, which then bled onto Dune. I figured a red aurora borealis and a lonely spot felt like an outpost. I’m going with it.
Day 14: Armor. #inktober2020
Makeup as armor. [source]. Inara Serra <3
This was a very difficult prompt to finish the way I wanted it done. My first attempt I scrapped entirely and I’m going to have to reuse the page and the palimpsest effect the graphite has left behind. Then I left my inktober sketch book at home yesterday so worked on getting sources with grids printed out and doing the test sketch. Used pencil for 90% of it, and pigma pens for finishing.
Day 13: Dune. #inktober2020
Not executed quite like I wanted to. I used an Ansel Adams photo and decided if I was gonna go with sand, I might as well add a sand worm. Still fun to do.
Day 12: Slippery. #inktober2020
Pencil rendering and then India ink washes and one drop of blue ink in one of the lighter washes. [source]
Day 11: Disgusting. #Inktober2020
Brought to you by year 1 million of pandemic.
Day 10: Hope. #inktober2020
Day 10: Hope. #inktober2020
My first job out of high school was as an apprentice sign maker. While I had already discovered the joys of calligraphy, working with Jim helped me hone my love of fonts. I used pigma pens again for inking and did all free hand except the central one. …. Hm. I may ink in the central vote now that I look at it on a screen and on the page.
Inktober 2020
Day 1: Fish, Day 2: Wisp
I’m using a notebook that I got in Coolidge Corner at the travel store. The paper is super textured like corduroy— Not my preferred texture for most drawings, but after a week of using, has been pretty great, actually.
Day 3: Bulky. I went with bulky yarn. Leftover from protest related hats from dear god, 3 years ago?
Day 4: Radio. Originally was going to do a radio wave, which I did include, but also the different ways we have radio-ed over the last 100+ years.
Day 5: Blade. Blade of grass + Grasshopper. This was my first foray into ink washes. I have an Aquarellum kit, and I decided that their paint = ink. The challenge of water droplets! I decided to not go for broke with hyper-realism, just a gesture of water droplets. This was also the first prompt where I went to the Internets to get a photo reference.
Day 6: Rodent. My hope: find a SUPER cute mousie on a flower. [Source]. I like the composition, how the branch bisects the page diagonally. The flower petals were a challenge.
Day 7: Fancy. Total nerd reference. This is Fancy from Killjoys. I’ve not really dug into portraiture much. It’s easy to get wrong. I broke out the India Ink on this one, which is a delight. I have a water brush, which is amazing for this. I also used pigma brush pens and watered those down for the blue. Fine details the micron pigma pens. Definitely will do a lot more with ink washes for future prompts
Day 8: Teeth. Can you picture that?! I used Crayola markers to color in Dr. Teeth.
Day 9: Throw. I was stumped on this one for a while. How do you capture “Throw” — I was looking at pictures of people throwing each other, trees. Google kept showing me blankets. But by this time it was Thursday night and the meeting of friends on the zoom was happening, and the group conscious said “DOG! Ball!” and here we are. A Jack Russell catches a ball. Adorbs. Like in every other prompt, I start with pencil and go over in pen after. I was a little anxious about how the dog was rendered, but the whole works fro me. Portraits of animals… gah. I think that might be harder than portraits of adult humans but not as hard as portraits of baby humans.
From here on out, I hope to post the prompts as I go with some explanation— I’m absolutely posting to Insta. Stay tuned!
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I started a temp job last Thursday! Translation = not as much time to make art or blog posts this week.