SEPTEMBER CONTEST: Design a character for Inktober!

chrisaakins

@Frogpunzel in the past as long as it looked like something you could do with ink it was fine.

Miriam

@Frogpunzel Yes, "black & white" generally means the same thing as "grayscale". So stark white to absolute black & anything in between, but no hues.

LauraA

Hi! I have a couple of questions:

Judging from the new template, does it favor a square format? I see that some entries for last month are rectangular, but I missed the last judging so I don't know if this has been discussed or not.

Also, for background info, do we write it on the sheet? Like a sentence or two, phrases? I'm asking because this seems like a departure from previous character design Critique Arenas. Obviously we don't write an entire book, but we do give some written idea of who the character is, right?

Argh, I am such a pencil person! I'm guessing black pencil isn't the idea?

Thanks!

KGatto

Can you add one flat color with ink?

KevinTreaccar

One of the three characters I’ll be using for Inktober. Yesterday, it sounded like their won’t be a Critique Arena for September, but I was far enough along with this that I decided to finish and enter this anyway just in case.

Good luck, everyone! And good luck to those jumping in on Inktober!

KGatto

@KGatto oops sorry just saw no color. I'll make it gray.

chrisaakins

Here ya go. I’m thinking this little mouse can be the uniting element of the alphabet primer I am planning on doing.

donnamakesart

Here are my characters for Inktober! Not sure if I’ll be able to do all 30 days but wanted to participate at least in this contest haha.

K.Flagg

Here is my entry for this month. I wish all of the monthly prompts were inktober themed. I can literally ink all day. I usually do traditional inks but I discovered the Kyle's Inkbox Classic Cartoonist Brush in Photoshop and I loooooooove it! October SVS Squashly.jpg

KGatto

This is my September SVSlearn character contest design for Clarice & Spot.
Hope you like it.
Kim Gatto
www.designsbygatto.com
@designsbygatto Clarice&Spot_Gatto-September.jpg

ksfabian

Here’s my submission for the contest.

jdeebella

Hi all,
Here is my character for this round. I love Sophie Josephine, which I was inspired to create her from the cartoon I was used to watch inmy adolescences, the rose of Versailles. Fun fact: I recently found my style (I’ve got a pause from sketching and drawing from January to August, I was about to think I wasn’t capable enough to pursue this career). When I took the pencil again I’ve got this tricky new style under my fingers. it was like a revelation. I like to think that the pause was needed to absorbs what I’ve learned on the past years.

KathrynAdebayo

ajillustrates

@K-Flagg This is incredible! And the Classic Cartoonist brush is my go to for digital as well. It's pretty much perfect for how I work, and it looks like it's hitting the sweet spot for you as well!

K.Flagg

@ajillustrates thank you so much. Yeah it's my go to now.

Annaaronson

In the last critique arena they mentioned the format would be changing.. is that for this month as well? Just curious what it will look like

AustinShurtliff

@LauraA I have know some comic artists to do their line work in pencil and then use a program like Photoshop to darken the value enough that it looks like it might have been inked. Just an idea if you still want to use pencil.

Valerie Light

@Annaaronson I'm curious about this too, as I haven't been able to see the critique arena in live stream this summer, and no new recordings seem to be available after May 2021 for me. I feel way behind.

donnamakesart

@ajillustrates Agreed. Love the line art for this and the character design!

LauraA

@AustinShurtliff Thanks for replying. Lately I have been doing my work with a modified Kyle hi res pencil and do the values either with digital watercolor or with Kyle's gouache a go go and /or some collage textures. In this case, my character has hair that in my opinion would look better done with a pencil/charcoal texture and so far I've been using gouache a go go, which is a gouache but looks more like crayon to me. I like the effect and don't want to change it, but don't know what the judges will think.

And then there's the matter of whether I can finish it, considering all the non art things I've had to catch up on this month. Hope so!