Inktober 2018 : Day 4 - G-pen (and A Brush Pen For The Black)Ive Now Come Down With A Horrible Cold,

Inktober 2018 : Day 4 - G-pen (and a brush pen for the black) I’ve now come down with a horrible cold, so I thought the Mirror Twins would be nice and easy to draw, but every line of this was a battle! TT_TT

Now that the weather is colder, how about some Winter weather spirits? The originals of these were my Christmas/Holiday cards for family and friends last year, and I’ve printed six of them to make a little set. The cards are blank inside and come with blue colour-splash envelopes to match the Winter theme and six snowflake stickers for sealing or decoration. If you’d like to send tiny Winter spirits to your pals this year, they are now up in my shop! https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/635966163/winter-weather-greeting-cards-set-of-6

Inktober 2018 : Day 6 - Pentel Pocket Brush Sorry these are all so late! I promise I am drawing them on the day, I’m just really busy and don’t have access to my scanner every day. Last year I was inspired by Heikala’s amazing inking videos to get better with my brush pen, I think I’m making progress! It’s getting blustery where Louise lives, now that Autumn is here.

Inktober 2018 : Day 1 - Fountain Pentel When Nettle loses her temper at school, the sports field is the biggest casualty. It’s finally time for Inktober, my favourite art challenge of the year! I didn’t have access to my scanner for the first three days, but I was doing the drawings. This year I wanted to try to use some of my less cooperative pens, so this was done with my Fountain Pentel, a bizarre soft nib pen that isn’t a brush but sort of acts like one. I think it’s designed for writing kanji? It splatters a lot when I use it, but it also makes some really nice, scrappy sorts of lines. I think if I keep practicing I’ll be able to do something really good with it.

Lately I ordered some nice pen accessories, including a cartridge converter for my Rotring pen and some coloured cartridges for my cheapo £5 cartridge pens, so I drew Nettle and Spider while I was messing around testing them. I’ve never done spot colour with ink and water, it looks pretty nice I think. Having said that, I’m not a fan of this ink. It’s a weird colour called Bilberry that can’t decide if it’s blue, purple or black. (I tweaked it in photoshop to make it more purple.) They do one called Imperial Purple that might have been a better bet. Ah well, next time.

Two more dream sketches which I thought were scary enough to go in the monster set. These two were from the same dream. The ‘baby’ was found wrapped in newspaper, and you had to stay out of the searchlights. (previous 6 monsters)