Inktober 17 – Day 8

Who doesn’t love GLaDOS? Anyone that promises cake and lies about it is crooked, right? I wanted to give a robot drawing a go again. I went back to the brush pen for this. I think I’d have to use it for every drawing to actually learn to control it. Sometimes I got the line I wanted, but most of the time I didn’t. Todays’s Prompt: Crooked

Inktober – Week 1 Thoughts

At this point, I’ve completed the first full week of Inktober. I’m really enjoying it so far. I haven’t had as much time as I’d like to work on a couple of my drawings, but overall, I’m really pleased with what I’ve done. Is it professional art? No, certainly not, but it’s more “serious” drawing than I’ve ever done.

So with the first week behind me, what have I learned so far:

Brush pens are really hard to use, but give great line variation
I love the look of a dip pen nib
Thicker dip pen lines leave a mound of ink on the paper and it takes longer than I thought to dry
Getting the underdrawing right really helps
Curves are hard…I still have trouble drawing them in one smooth motion and it shows up in the linework
Texturing with only black ink still alludes me…I need to work more of this into week 2

Inktober 17 – Day 7

It’s not my original design – it’s largely based on a tattoo design I saw on Pinterest. I wanted to try drawing something with more flowing hair to see how that worked. Not my best line work, but I’m happy with it overall. I think a brush pen would have served me better for the outline. Today’s Prompt: Shy