Im Back! Just In Time For Inktober!We Had A Family Medical Crisis Over The Summer, So Between That And

I’m back! Just in time for Inktober! We had a family medical crisis over the Summer, so between that and a tiring Summer job I haven’t been able to do much drawing at all. Even out of these little ones, only the Ginkgo was drawn over the Summer itself. Still, things have calmed down a bit now, so I thought I’d post a few photos of the decent drawings I do have before Inktober starts tomorrow.

Here are the last two illustrations for The Spook’s Apprentice. We’re firmly back in my comfort zone with ‘scary old ladies’, but the last one was probably the hardest to do with the thicker hatching. I’m still not entirely sure it works on that one.

Another piece from the dark days of computer issues.

This is an example double-page spread from a children's book concept, in which a girl descends through different levels of the ocean in a bathysphere. The full book would have a double page per ocean region, and probably some extra pages in the back with facts about the real sea life that appears and the development of the bathysphere and such.

Please feel free to critique my feeble attempts at poetry!

Two more illustrations for The Spook’s Apprentice. Yet more fun with foreshortening, which is usually my mortal enemy. I think I’m slowly getting the hang of it.

Are the illustrations scary enough? Or... too scary? Probably not the second one!

I’ve been working on some illustrations for The Spook’s Apprentice to put in my portfolio, since my book illustrations are a bit scant at the moment.

Originally I planned to use my gel pen for finer hatching like I usually do, but I have some older pieces done that way that I’m still pleased with, so I tried thicker hatching using my mapping pen instead. I think it looks pretty good so far. I’m also trying to be a bit more creative with composition. I’ll probably do three full page illustrations and three insets, and then pick the best ones out of those.

Some more pictures from before I fell off the face of the earth. I’ve had trouble with my eyes for a year or so now, and at one point I tried to draw what it felt like in the hopes of finding out what was wrong. Turns out I was just going short-sighted, and had noticed about 18 months before I needed a prescription (the prescription is still only half a dioptre), it’s nice to finally know what was happening. My small sketchbook was apparently the only paper I had to hand at some point, since I seem to have written notes on it.