Ink, 8″ x 10″
Tremble in fear! Feel the terror. I know, I know this is my scariest Inktober drawing yet.
Horrible 5-Eyed Monster
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Three Inktober Drawings
Ink, 8″ x 10″
As mentioned previously the most difficult thing for me about daily drawing challenges is posting the work regularly. I have three days worth! Instead of making three separate posts I thought I would just put them together here. These are all Sktchy inspired drawings, like all of my other Inktober drawings this year. Read More
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Vampiress
Ink, 8″ x 10″
This Inktober drawing is a vampiress from Sktchy. My Inktober drawings this week will have red ink in addition to the black and grey. This is the first of five. Things started melting a bit in the mouth because the grey and red are water soluble. I had to just let it be instead of trying to correct. It works for me, though.
Oh! This is exciting. There is a shop in Houston that sells art, crafts, jewelry, housewares, etc. by local artists and they announced an Inktober exhibition and party at the end of the month and I am one of the selected artists! Last year I did all my Inktober drawings in sketchbooks. This year I chose to do them all on separate papers with the hope that some of them could have a life outside of books on a shelf. A good choice, I think. It’s pretty cool to see them all together on the wall.
Platinum Carbon Ink in parallel pens, Grey and Red in Pentel Color Brush pens. Strathmore Bristol-smooth.
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Pagan Headdress
Ink and white-out, 8″ x 10″
More Inktober madness, inspired by Sktchy. I got carried away with the spatter and had to rescue it with my trusty white-out pen. That headdress was super fun to do.
I have decided to not do Inktober on the weekend. I’m short 2 days since I’ve done 5 drawings and today is the 7th. Yes, math skills for the win. Being behind was stressing me out earlier today and you know, it’s not worth being stressed out about a self-imposed drawing challenge. So expect a post every weekday in October, and if any happen on the weekend it’s a bonus. My revised goal is to complete 23.
Tomorrow will be one of very few days where I use the prompts. The prompt tomorrow is “star”.
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Sparkly Mask
Ink, 8″ x 10″
This drawing was supposed to be my Inktober day 4 but I didn’t finish in time. I’m calling it day 4 anyway and will try and get another done tonight so as not to be be short a day.
I have been working on Strathmore Bristol- smooth paper,
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Crow Mask
Ink, 8″ x 10″
A woman in a crow mask for Inktober, day 2. I spent a couple of hours on another drawing that just wasn’t working out the way I wanted. This one felt rushed because of it, especially the torso. That’s ok- I’m mostly pleased with it. Besides, I had to have something done for day 2! It’s too early to fall behind. The failed drawing still interests me so I’ll revisit it in a couple of days or maybe next week.
Materials: Pilot Parallel Pen with waterproof ink, Pentel Pocket Brush, Pentel Color brushes in grey and black, Speedball Super Black for the spatter. All on Strathmore Bristol- smooth. That is a lot of “P’s” in those pens! Now that I think of it my other 2 favorite tools are P’s also: PITT artist pens and Platinum Preppy fountain pens.
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1937 Morris Sketch
Ink, 6″ x 9″
This is a 1937 Morris, a car make I had never heard of until seeing this one. They were a British car manufacturer and were the creator of the Mini. The owner of this car drives it nearly every day, as long as it’s not raining.
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An Inky Portrait, and Time Wasted
Ink on paper, 6″ x 8″
It seems to me that every time I sit at my computer I do the same things: look at Facebook for far too long, check the weather, look at the news and email. An hour is gone and I probably didn’t even do the thing that I had intended to do in the first place.
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A Page from March
Ink, 5″ x 8″
I participated in an art journal workshop last month called 30 Pages/30 Days. It was quite fun and helped reinforce the importance of a daily art practice. The drawing above is from Day 25.
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Ain’t No Wifey
Ink and coffee on watercolor paper, 5″ x 8″
“Ain’t No Wifey” was drawn in a Strathmore watercolor book. The inspiration for this drawing came from Sktchy. The sweet face, the leopard print coat, the hat and the cool little Vans shoes hooked me and I had to draw her. The foreshortening at this angle is tricky! Most of the line work was done with waterproof ink, and then I re-stated some of the marks with water-soluble ink where I wanted it to bleed. I created the tones and washes with a water brush loaded with coffee.
