inktober starting soon!

Eric Castleman

I am. I will be doing whatever comes to mind, but am leaning towards doing a bunch of drawings of characters from my childhood. My main goal this Inktober is to get really good with my fountain pen.

QuietYell

@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen @Eric-Castleman

Will you be posting your Inktober work anywhere?

I'll have mine at:
http://www.Instagram.com/QuietYellSketches
http://www.Twitter.com/ScottMonaco

BTW, My other IG w/ my paintings is http://www.Instagram.com/QuietYell

MOO

I post everything on my facebook page. I just finished a daily doodle challenge for September. I had to make a doodle each day from an S and the subject had to start with an S. Some of them were pretty lame but I did it. Today is my last S doodle and then on to Inktober. I hope I can keep up because I want the Inktobers to be more professional-a product, as Jake Parker suggested in one of his posts somewhere.
Here's my facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Marsha-Ottum-Owen-Books-1747069445578537/?fref=ts

MOO

@QuietYell BTW, where did you get that poster of Inktober rules I saw on your page? I'd like one of those on mine

MOO

@Eric-Castleman Please post them. Shouldn't we have something on this forum where we can post our Inktobers? I wonder if we do.

QuietYell

@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen oh, the original is from @Jake-Parker and/or his Inktober Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/jakeparker/

https://www.instagram.com/inktober/

The original was just in black & white. I grabbed it from the Instagram and personalized it with my own little monster sketches and turned it red. Here is the original that I grabbed:

evilrobot

I'm doing it. I'm just going to continue with my 100 Superheroes challenge and do all October's by hand instead of digital.

evilrobot

Only thing (well not the only thing they all might really suck) I'm worried about is finding a good white acrylic pen to use. I finish all my digital inks off with white strokes to add highlights and get some cool effects. I've used two or three different pens and a couple different inks and haven't found anything that covers over ink very well without fading and it showing through. Anyone have any suggestions?

QuietYell

@evilrobot Have you tried these?

Sakura 37488 3-Piece Gelly Roll Blister Card Medium Point Gel Ink Pen Set, White
http://amzn.to/2dFy40J

@Jake-Parker (http://mrjakeparker.com/tools) and Kevin Keele (http://beawesome.blogspot.com/), amongst others, use this. I'd like it to be a little more immediately opaque than it is, but perhaps it might suffice for what you need

QuietYell

@evilrobot Or have you tried this? (I don't have this but @Jake-Parker lists it as an option in the "tools" portion of his site: http://mrjakeparker.com/tools)

Deleter Manga Ink - White
http://amzn.to/2dfQJC4

evilrobot

@QuietYell Thanks just ordered both. I'll give them a shot.

QuietYell

@evilrobot I hope they work for you!

evilrobot

Just a heads up on the subject of the white ink and paint I've tried these two products and I haven't had any luck with them so might think twice before buying

Eric Castleman

Feel free to add me on facebook or Instagram. My facebook is Eric Castleman, and my instagram is Castleman711

Tyler Blake

This is my first year doing Inktober. I just found out about it about 3 months ago when I discovered Jake Parker's Youtube channel. I've been trying to focus on improving with ink this year and found it looking for inking videos....goldmine

evilrobot

Just bought a bunch of fun stuff at the art store can't wait to start got some watercolor stuff had to explain to my wife why that one little paint brush cost $30.00....

MOO

@evilrobot I just bought Dr. PH Martin's bleed proof white. I have never used white ink and I mainly go tit for mistake cover ups. I haven't used it yet. Hopefully it works! Have you tried it? I wonder what you thought of it if you did.

MOO

@QuietYell Oh, thanks!

evilrobot

It hasn't worked great for me. It seems really watery and after I use it it fades and the black shows through again. I'm going to try leaving the top off and drying it out some. But then I'm guessing it will be too thick to work on my dip pens.

evilrobot

Got my space all set up now for Inktober and to do Lee White's water color class