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Inktober day #2

Inktober day #1

Kind of a self-portrait? I drew this based off of a reference photo I took of myself for another drawing.

I did this on a new paper that I got that seems somewhat delicate; if you go over it with the pen more than once it starts to pill a little.

Inktober day #26-31!

Day #26 - The Jeopardous Jade Djinn Gem from The Hero’s Guide to Storming the Castle by Christopher Healy. I have mixed feelings about this one--I was pretty tired that day and didn’t have much time to do an Inktober drawing. I considered just skipping that day and making the 26th drawing the next day, but decided to just do something simple because I’d done each drawing on that day so far and didn’t want to stop. I am planning on coloring this with watercolor, so I kept the lines pretty minimal.

Day #27 - For some reason I’d been kicking around a Baba Yaga-style teapot with legs for a couple of days.

Day #28 - Another mushroom! This time I wanted to make a stereotypical toadstool-type fly agaric.

Day #29 - A lanner falcon! I’m pretty sure I accidentally gave it a hawk beak, though.

Day #30 - An oak leaf and an acorn. Aside from the place where my pen spat ink and I put my hand in wet ink, I’m really happy with this because it shows how much more control I have when inking now compared to when I started Inktober.

Day #31 - I wanted to do something character-related because I’d been doing a bunch of other non-charactery things for most of the month. I wanted to draw someone trick-or-treating and decided that, if Baymax were to dress up as another Disney character, he’d definitely be Winnie-the-Pooh.

Inktober day #21-24

Day 21 - Stormfly / Deadly Nadder. This one gave me bear of a time sketching it out, but I’m pretty happy with the inking.

Day 22 - I did this one using a G nib instead of my now-standard Blue Pumpkin. I felt like I started to have a little bit more control of the nib by the time I was done, and discovered that a huge benefit to using a nib that is actually meant for drawing is that you can drag the nib sideways more smoothly.

Day 23 - I finished watching Voltron season 4 on the 22nd and was looking at the Wikipedia page when I read that the 23rd was Keith’s birthday. I’m a little on the fence about this one because I followed the reference I was looking at a little too closely and made a bunch of inking mistakes. On the plus side, I’ve definitely developed a sense of what I want out of my lineart?

Inktober day #20

Inktober day #19

I was pretty tired and started today’s drawing rather late, so I bounced between several ideas before settling on another mushroom. This one is based on a Boletus reticulatus, or summer cep.

Inktober day #18

Inktober day #17

I got super behind on posting mu Inktober drawings, but I haven’t fallen behind on actually making these each day! *knocks on wood*

Day 10 - Magpie! This is the first drawing this Inktober that I did an ink wash over. It’s also the only one in this set done in black ink.

Day 11 - I was going to draw a bushtit, but then this happened. This one was a stinker because I was going to use my G nib in my Speedball holder like I did the day before, but it fell out into my bottle of ink. I had to pour the ink into another container, fish the nib out, and then pour the ink back into the original bottle using a makeshift funnel I made out of paper and packing tape.

Day 12 - This was what I was goig for the previous day: a super round, fat, totally adorable bird.

Day 13 - Tired again, so more birb. A barn owl this time.

Day 14 - Bicicle from Undertale! Freehanding diagonal lines with a dip pen is rather difficult, and going over the same diagonal line twice does not really make things any better.

Day 15 - I was going to draw a nightjar, but then I decided that potoos are way more entertaining. They look like muppets! I felt like I finally had more control over the nib with this one.

Inktober day #8

Today’s entry into the Undertale food that I have in the game so far series is Monster Candy! I’ve discovered that most of the food that I’m drawing doesn’t have an in-game sprite, which is kinda fun and challenging at the same time. It definitely makes me think more about the design of each item before I draw it.

Inktober day # 7

One week down!

I returned to the Undertale food that I have in the game with Spider Cider. I included bits of spider because it’s “made with whole spiders, not just the juice.” Somehow, I don’t feel like this one fits the design sensibility of the game as much as the Spider Cider I drew for day 4, but I’m still pretty pleased with how this turned out.

Inktober day #6

I was super tired again and almost didn’t do a drawing on 10/6. Fortunately, my sister encouraged me to keep going, and I’m happy she did! This is the first year that I’ve been so consistent about doing a drawing each day.

I was going to draw a European robin, but then drew this after getting distracted by @fat-birds