Inktober (removed)
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Inktober Day 13!
Nothing special here. At least in it's current form. I got some Strathmore art cards which are 2.5" x 3.5" and I thought it'd be fun to try doing an Inktober thing at a tiny size with a maru nib. It was fun, but the results are a big pile of meh. That's okay. I'll get another crack at it tomorrow.
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Day 14!
I find myself wanting to work on larger pieces without waiting for Inktober to end, so I'm splitting it up over a couple of days. This is a WIP of what I started today.
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Day 15.
I kind of lost the plot today. I had a greater vision for this than what I was able to achieve but my mind kind of just froze and I auto-piloted in some not so great ways. I'm at the point now where I have some pretty decent days, but I'm not consistent yet. I'll keep getting mileage and working towards that.
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Day 16.
Just some Acorns today.
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I've never managed to get past day ten so hats off for getting this far! I've enjoyed looking through your illustrations and I look forward to seeing day 17 - 31.
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@ians Thanks! The furthest I made it before this was day 5 and that was two years ago. I feel pretty confident that I have it this year though.
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Day 17!
Trying something new. I wanted to dip into some tools that I don't typically use and try a style that I never do.
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Day 18!
This is going to be another two day piece. It's partly from reference I took on my walk today and partly from imagination. It's kind of crazy because the dryness here was making the ink dry on my nib before I could even get through it. I was happy with how the inking was going and I didn't want to risk random stray marks from a janky nib, so I turned on the humidifier and thought I'd pick it up again tomorrow.
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Day 19!
I thought I would be able to finish today, but I'm coming down with something and it's sapping my energy and focus. This might turn into a four day piece. The final image is still a bit wider than this. I normally work in passes from the top left to bottom right but I kind of started working in the middle on this one and have found myself working in an outward spiral. No idea why.
On a side note, I had my first dream about inking last night. I dreamed I was apprenticing under an older Japanese pen and ink artist and he took my paper off the desk and tore it in half, chastising me for the lack of looseness in my lines. I figure I better listen to my dream mentor.
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Day 20!
Death by a thousand pine needles. Seriously, these take a long time to do. I think I can finish tomorrow.
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Dream tutor! Eeeeek....how expensive are those?
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@andyg In my case he cost one turkey leg with heavy Montreal steak seasoning.
Now time to go try to finish this one up!
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Day 21!
Done! There's plenty of room to grow, but I'm pretty pleased with this one. More and more this has me looking forward to Slowvember. I think I'm even going to take the piece I was going to do to wrap up Inktober and do it for that instead.
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Day 22!
Flight of the Bumble-pups! I went big for the last 4 days, so I decided to go small today, back on the 2.5" x 3.5" card. This is an idea I've wanted to do for a while. I had the word "bumble-pup" in my head, but I had no idea what they looked like until now.
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Loving the Bumble-pup!
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Thanks! I wish Bumble-pups were real.
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Day 23!
The Bread Coat! When your coat is made of bread, the sleeve is never far from your mouth!
This character is for a story that I wrote years ago during a lengthy stay at the hospital. I've never done anything with it and half forgot about it until yesterday when I was looking through old files. I think I'm going revisit my draft and turn this into a finished story. The style is likely to change a bit since I didn't quite hit my mark with this, but I'm far from unhappy with it either.
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@jazeps-tenis there’s a book I’ve got (shout me if you want the name) which is for artists first about writing books. Lots of writing books tell you to write then illustrate. This is a bit different as you thumbnail the story without writing a thing, just draw one picture, then the next which leads on from it, and so on to the end. Then you write the words and do the rest of the story development thing before going back in and illustrating properly, maybe only keeping one or two of the originals. I did it...started with a children’s book....and it turned into a 93k young adult fiction end of last year. Still with the editor though, so please don’t ask for it...
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@andyg I'm always open to checking out different ideas and approaches to storytelling and what you describe seems in line with some of the ways I like to work.
I've found that I largely take a hybrid approach. Sometimes the story first takes form in the writing and sometimes it grows from the art. More than anything, the world and characters percolate around in my head usually for a decent enough while that I have a real sense of them, and then whichever way the little sprouts first break through, I do my best to nurture them from there.
Congratulations on that book though! That's an awesome accomplishment! I'm eager to finish out Inktober, get my portfolio made and my site up and start working on my first real book. If I could find even a fraction of your success, I'd be thrilled.
