Featured Student Special Edition: Inktober

AustinShurtliff

We have decided to do something a little different for October's featured student. To help celebrate Inktober we are going to be featuring a group of 5 students that participate in the challenge! Anyone that participates in Inktober this year is invited to post some of the ink drawings they do to this ~~post before October 25~~ (UPDATE) October 29th. We will then reach out to those that are selected with a short Inktober themed Q&A that will be posted in November.

Instructions:
This post is a place to share work if you want to get a chance to be featured in the Student Art Gallery on the SVSLearn.com homepage for November. To be considered share 1-2 of your best Inktober pieces (they need to be from 2019) on this forum post. Make sure to share your image by the 25th of October to be considered. Also, make sure your images are at least 800 pixels on the shortest side and do not exceed 1mb in size.
Work will be selected based off of how well the work uses the following:

Concept: How well does your illustration convey a clear concept/story. Is it a unique approach? Does it make me want to know more about what is happening in the illustration?

Technique: How is the composition working? Does it have good use of lighting, rendering, mark making, etc.? Does the technique compliment the concept?

Ink: Was it created using ink (either digitally or traditionally)?

If you are selected, we will be emailing you using the email indicated on your forum account. Besides your art being displayed on the homepage, you will also be sent a few questions for a Q&A blog post that will be shared on the SVSLearn blog.

I can't wait to see what everyone posts this year!
Austin

ArtofAleksey

@AustinShurtliff oh wow this sounds really exciting

Nyrryl Cadiz

@AustinShurtliff this sounds really awesome. Good luck everybody!

xin li

Here is my submission.

zacharygephardt

Here are my two submissions!

jdubz

@AustinShurtliff Question: "How well does your illustration convey a clear concept/story." - is this open ended in that it does not have anything to do with communicating what is defined as the daily prompt?

burvantill

@xin-li These are GREAT!

burvantill

I made my own story, so I did not follow the Inktober prompts.

K.Flagg

Here are some samples from my inktober this year. I didn't follow many of the prompts this year as I wanted to do some pieces for a gallery collection. These are traditional ink using multi liners, copic toner grey, pentel brush pen, and white gel pen.

xin li

@burvantill Thank you. So much fun with this year's inktober - thanks to the inking practices we have done in september here on SVS forum. But for some reasons, I am only happy with each image for about a day. Then the next day I came into the studio. I always has this feeling "if I just paint one more time, it would be much better." I feel like my eyes and my brain can see the flaws of the image, but my hand has not catch up yet.

Heather Boyd

@AustinShurtliff

For those who didn’t use ink whether traditional or digital can’t apply then? I kept the prompts though.

demotlj

These don’t follow the prompts but are some I did trying out more intensive cross hatching for this Inktober. They are both done digitally in Procreate.

KathrynAdebayo

@burvantill Woah! Is that the reflection of the red balloon in the window of the house? I really love these.

Coley

@xin-li wow, I'm in awe of these! amazing!

ArtofAleksey

All of these are so great

ArtofAleksey

(I changed from bait to dragon) I had a really hard time choosing.. but here are 2 out of all of my favorites. I did gnomes for my every inktober prompt this year. Next year I might do orcs.
Prompt: Enchanted, done using brushpens and a hunt102 pen

Prompt: Dragon done using a hunt 102 pen nib.

burvantill

@xin-li You have to finish and then let it go. Just keep doing that next piece. I think it is a fatal flaw of artists that they are never happy with their work. We will always have room for improvement. If someone else likes it then I call it a win.

burvantill

@KathrynAdebayo . Yes! You win!

oneyunimonster

oops, I was trying to reply here and ended up starting a new thread. I'm new here and it's my first time participating a forum and I have no idea how these buttons work.....

Here are my submissions:

xin li

@burvantill thank you for the encouragement and wise words. I think you are so right. Perfectionism sometimes really made me unproductive in the past. I have to overcome this and keep moving forward.