SVS Inktober Thread

[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

[Rob Smith]

There really is some good Inktober work posted here. I ran short on time last night so this is just a quick little sketch I did for day #2. @Lee-White your mono print is really neat!

[joyce_carmo]

Hi, you all! I'm new on the forum. My name is Joyce, I'm a brazilian designer and illustrator, and this is my first post here. I've been taking a few classes in the subscription mode, and I'm super excited with what I've learned so far. It's nice to meet you all.

Great entries to Inktober so far! I really like them all. I would like to take this opportunity to share some of my own studies with you. I thought it would be nice to mix up the lessons from SVS with Inktober, so I've been trying to design a couple of things for a small personal project that I have. I'm pretty much a person that always goes for characters design, so I'm really a newbie when it comes to environment, props and so. So here goes my first and second Inktober entries. Any feedback is appreciated!

[Jonathon B]

@joyce_carmo Those are great. Nice work.

[joyce_carmo]

@Jonathon-B Thank you, sir!

[audrey dowling]

it looks lovely joyce. I'm like you, quite new to environment and landscapes. it's a real struggle!
here's my inktober #2 . Im not happy with the lake and the trees in the background, I had no idea how to render them... but anyway