Inktober Gallery Last week

[Dima Eichhorn]

@chrisaakins lovely!

[Dima Eichhorn]

@chrisaakins Thank you for this post, this is what I would like to say if I was able to express my thoughts. Thank you again.

[zacharygephardt]

Thanks for doing these @chrisaakins ! It was a lot of fun following everyones progress throughout the month!

[APHOTICMOTH]

last 4 days. Wooo

28- Ride

29 - Injured

30 - Catch

31- Ripe

Happy Halloween!!

It was awesome to see how everyone interpreted each prompt. So much creativity in this forum.

[K.Flagg]

Day 31 - All hail The Pumpkin Queen! Happy Halloween! Great job everyone! We made it.

[Inge Permentier]

didn't post the others here but might as well

[Oriana Fernandez]

Day 30: Catch

[Oriana Fernandez]

Day 31: Ripe

[Meta]

Last day, ripe! I chose to draw again my unequal duet.

[Miriam]

@chrisaakins I hope things go well for your son! I will pray for him.

I love your mouse drawings! They are so adorable!

[Miriam]

@chrisaakins Ha, ha! I wish I had thought of that last line.

[charitymunoz]

@chrisaakins I'm starting to think it's an Inktober right of passage to burn through pens. Makes me feel like I'm part of a secret club. Where do I find 20, 30 and 40% grays? I struggled with the lack of midtone, and crosshatching and ink wash filled the gap for some, but I'd love a marker or pen that does it. Which pens do you use?

[Meta]

@charitymunoz try ink, it gets you any midtone mixed with water All midtones for the price of one. Sorry, joking. Have you tried markers? Copic has a wide range of cold, neutral and warm grays. Maybe this is a new topic.

[chrisaakins]

@charitymunoz @Meta I used ink washes last year. You just thin out the ink like watercolor and go for it. The trick is to build up the values slowly with multiple layers of watery ink to get the values you want. This year I wanted a little more control so I used Blick's version of Copic markers. They had a warm grey set and a cool grey set. They did run out though and I had to resort to digitally coloring them in the end. (They ended up looking cleaner that way, too. Sigh. )

[Meta]

@chrisaakins @charitymunoz This is basically what I did this Inktober. I'd just like to not that there is ink, which dissolves in water once dried; and indian ink which stays as it is. For this technique you need indian ink, otherwise you wash away your drawing or painting with every new layer.
Chris, I saw both of your coloring techniques. And liked more the copic version. Good thing about the digitally colored illustrations is that you don't loose color information with fotography. If it is better when looking cleaner, or less clean, is a question of taste and the story you want to tell, I guess.