Not much doodling time today, so I went with a drawing straight from one of Christopher Hart’s books. This one isn’t really modified at all from the book version other than I used Copic Sketch markers to add a some values.
Inktober 17 – Day 2
Inktober 17 – Day 1
My very first Inktober drawing. I used two different Pentel brush pens to do all of the inking (with a little help from a Signo gel pen for the white bubbles).
I can’t take credit for the overall design – it’s heavily based on a robot design from Christopher Hart, but I added in the ink specific alterations. It’s not the best drawing, but considering I’ve done very little drawing in the last 15+ years, I’m pretty happy with the result. I’ve never tried to draw anything this large, so it was interesting going from 1″ doodles to a drawing that takes up half of an 8.5″ x 11″.
Ready for Inktober
This year, I’ve been trying to focus on a few more creative activities – specifically drawing. I used to doodle quite a bit in high school but stopped in college. I was never fantastic at it, but I enjoyed it. I really miss the creativity aspect of it, so this year, I’m doing Inktober with a few friends.
The rules are:
1) Make a drawing in ink
2) Post it online
3) Tag it with some Inktober specific hashtags
4) Repeat for every day in October
So 1 drawing, in ink (pencils can be used, but you have to finish in ink), for every day in October. I don’t expect to have any amazing sketches to share, but I’m planning on posting my finished drawings here just for fun. I don’t expect I’ll be able to carve out a ton of time to do these drawings, so they’ll likely end up happening in 30 minutes a day or so. Given my skill level, that means they’ll probably be barely better than a stick figure drawing.
At the very least, this will encourage me to do more drawing than I’ve done all year, so I’m looking forward to it.