Inktober (removed)
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Great work so far!
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@andyg It's definitely a great opportunity for that! I like your pug drawings a lot! I haven't quite decided what I'm doing today yet, but I might do studies of trees or mountains. Not very exciting for the viewer maybe, but useful for me as the artist.
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@nowayme Thanks!
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Day 6!
I started out today doing some ink studies of moss and rocks and bark and that was going to be my thing for today, but I felt the urge to do something more narrative, so I slapped this together over about 15 minutes or so. I'm pretty happy with it. I pushed my values by going heavier with my hatching lines and was able to experiment with some things like the clouds in the background. I even included Mr. Bearis' sword as a nod to today's prompt.
And I have to say, I really enjoy these vignette style pieces. I like that they just kind of drift off at the edges, unconstrained.Great job to everyone participating in Inktober so far. I'm loving the work I'm seeing!
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@jazeps-tenis you know what i like about your work? i can tell you are telling yourself a story about whats happening in your images as you draw them
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@bursaroo That's a high compliment to me because I only picked up the art when I was 30 (34 now), but I've been at it with the storytelling in some form since I was 13. It's always been my goal to tell stories visually, but for various reasons the mediums I was working in never quite clicked together. Drawing means I can tell any story no matter how ambitious, if only I develop the artistic skill to do it. I love that about illustration.
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Day 7!
I think I'm getting faster with this. This one was maybe an hour and a half? I'm happy with it. My wife commented that it looked a bit like some of the early Zelda art by Katsuya Terada which wasn't my intention, but it's a welcome comparison. I really want to make adventurous stories. I can't say I'm the most up to date on what's out there, but a lot of what's available for kids these days seems rounder, softer and safer. I want to bring a bit of that Howard Pyle and N.C. Wyeth flavor to things.
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Yeah - me too, which is great!
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Faster? Haha....you’ll hit a brick wall. Trust me...the real sign you’ve cracked it is when you push through the wall ;-). I believe you can though!
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@andyg I mean faster working with my tools! I'm sure you're right about the broader aspect of it all though. I hadn't done tons of dip pen up to this point and so I was pretty slow, cautious and worried about blotches. I also was more reserved on my line thickness, but I actually like some of the thicker lines I've been putting down the last couple of days.
I was planning on just dabbling with the dip pen and primarily using a brush pen and multiliners for Inktober, but the more I use it, the more I like it. I got some new nibs, including a maru nib which I've never used before, and I'll probably start incorporating those soon too.
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Day 8!
I started dabbling today with the maru nib for the first time. It's a nice compliment to the g-pen nib. I used it on this one for the finer hatching. I was a little short for time today, so not a whole lot of thought went into this, but I had fun with it and like the general composition.Tomorrow is supposed to be our first snow day of the year. I'd like to reflect that in my work, but we'll see! Onward to 31!
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@jazeps-tenis snow day?! We just have various forms of rain...
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The last few years have been really underwhelming with snow at the foot of the Rockies here, so we're well overdue for this.
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Day 9!
Mr. Bearis tracks the airship to the snowy mountains.
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@jazeps-tenis gorgeous simplicity
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Day 10!
I was away from the house for a lot of today so I had to do something quicker. Just a little fan art of one of the Koroks from Breath of the Wild. The maru nib didn't like this paper very much, but I did my best with it.
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Day 11!
Rougher bear folk. I did this one with a nib I've never used before (the Brause Steno Blue Pumkin) with no under drawing. I like that nib a lot. It has a faster flow than a g-pen and it draws so smoothly. I don't think it has as much range in terms of thickness, but I can't say for sure. I didn't push it that hard since it's the only one I have right now. I would do some things differently if I were doing a more refined piece, but this is my first pass at a new character for the Bearis world. I know he still looks a lot like Bearis, but there's plenty of time for him to develop.
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@jazeps-tenis Hi Jazeps - I thought I'd do a little draw over to show you that your perspective if off a little. I hope you don't mind
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@will-terry No not at all! This is very welcome. I'm at a point now where I can see more of the issues after I've put it all together but I can't see them while I'm building the image. After Inktober I'm going to go through the perspective class and see if I can't remedy that.
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Day...12? Day 12!
I had fun with this one. I'm crazy busy lately with other life things, but Inktober has a real hold on me. It's become far more of a priority than I even really anticipated. I just really want to say that I did it. I want to know for myself that I showed up for 31 straight days and made art with no excuses.
My work thus far has revealed to me that I do have a style that I quite enjoy (which wasn't the case up until now), it's just the medium I was using (digital) seems to have been obscuring it. There's just something about feeling the nibs flex under your hand and the feeling afterwards of raised lines indicating the realness of what you've done.
It means a lot to me.In terms of the work itself, I've been going through "Rendering in Pen and Ink by Arthur Guptill a little bit at a time and started doing a page of the pen exercises as a warm up. I know my inking has plenty of weak points, but at least in my mind, it's getting more interesting to look at. At any rate, that's it! I have to go do a color study for one of my Nathan Fowkes classes and then to bed to do it all again tomorrow!
EDIT: Oops, the URL changed and I hadn't noticed. Reuploaded!
Old man Newfbury was as pleased as pumpkin pie to have his picture in the local paper...
