SVS Inktober Thread

[Kasey Snow]

Everyone's stuff looks so good! I found my india ink before I found my pens so I doodled up this guy. Dunno if this counts for inktober, everyone else is posting really refined penwork...but oh well, here it is!

[RoamingClover]

Here's Sasquatch, and it looks like he's off to a hot date!

Got a bit overworked but ah well, it's only day 1.

[Lee White]

Here's another monoprint. I hope to make a bunch more of these because they are so fun to do. 

[Naroth Kean]

these are great! love them all!

[Thrace]

Here is my first attempt.

[shinjifujioka]

After watching Jake's Inking tutorial, I decided to participate in Inktober. Aside from using pencil and paper when I was a kid, I haven't really used traditional mediums. I thought that this would be the perfect excuse to do something non-digital. It's awesome to see so many other artists participating and I'm loving the sense of comradery (spelling?) in the art/illustration community

[Shannon Perkins]

Here's my first drawing. Can't wait for the weekend so I can really play around.

[tallison7]

Day 1 of inktober 

[Lauren M.]

Too damn excited for Inktober! Love all the art that is filling all my feeds!

I'm going to post here when I can but I'll be using my Instagram and FB page for daily updates.

My topic this year is environments and landscapes. Above mini painting is based on a 1860 silver print of a French chateau. oh la la

[Ace Connell]

So, carrying on with my theme of sharks, I drew Jaws with his big 'ol jowls. I still love this movie today as much as when I first saw it.

Ace

[Leontine]

@craigrussellart Hi Craig, What a wonderful illustration! nice nice nice!

[Jonathon B]

Number 2 for #Inktober. Using Micron 05, 03, and 005 with some marker wash in the background. This was a piece I started in another thread here and revamped for the Inktober challenge.

[Thrace]

@Jonathon-B Wow, this is awesome! Very nice work!! I am glad you are doing a Halloween theme!

[Jonathon B]

@Thrace-Shirley-Mears Thanks. I'm simultaneously submitting to Inktober and 31 days of Halloween. Hence the theme.
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[audrey dowling]

I have a technical question: when you do washes and solid lines on the same illustration, do you do the washes first than the lines or vice-versa?

[craigrussellart]

@Lauren-M. I love this! I've no idea how to use watercolours.

[craigrussellart]

@Leontine Thanks a lot!

[Ben Rudnicki142]

Here is my day 2. It's weird how you think it looks great when you are doing it then after relooking at it this morning I was like 'AHHH' so many things I should have done different before I inked. Oh well, I guess there is always tomorrow. This is a continuation from yesterday's little drawing.

[Jonathon B]

@audrey-dowling I was experimenting with this one so I'm sure there are better ways of doing it, but in this case I traced the drawing onto tracing paper with the ink and then flipped the image over and did the washes with some prismacolor markers on the backside. I found that the ink from the markers does not soak into the tracing paper. It just kind of sits on top so you can keep playing with it even after it's dried. Seems to give it a water color look.

Another method I've seen are to do the drawing in pencil, spray fix, then the washes, more spray fix, then lay down your ink.

With this piece (when I get some time) I will take it into photoshop, make it the top layer with a multiply setting and then start building more colors underneath.

[audrey dowling]

@Jonathon-B I see, it explains the texture on your washes on this piece, nice.
I've started my lines for today already... I will try on the side later, see if I can add the washes afterwards. every try at ink washes and watercolour to date have been a complete disaster but I'm not giving up!
even the big pen brushes, I'm bad at them. can't stand the marks they leave on the paper when I use them. obviously I'm doing it wrong cause on other people's drawings, it looks great