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Inktober 2019: day 20 - mapping pen
It’s not clear to anyone why Coda attracts so many butterflies.
I went for something simple again because I’m tabling at London MCM this weekend and I’m starting to panic a little bit!
Inktober 2019: day 31 - mapping pen and ink wash
The Mirror Twins and their friend wish you a happy Hallowe’en! Be careful who you greet after dark.
I posted a terrible, late-night photo of this on twitter just to prove I finished it on time, because it was so close to midnight!
And so ends another Inktober, it was much harder to keep up now that I have a full-time job. I might have to work at half the size next year. I couldn’t keep up with scanning and posting them at all towards the end either, but I did still draw them on the right days. I’m not perfectly happy with every piece, but I feel very accomplished!
I had a notion years ago that it might be instructive to compare different methods of inking the same picture as a sort of tutorial. I never did make a tutorial, but on a whim I drew the comparison pictures a few days ago.
The top row is all fineliners, and compares three different choices a person might make about where to place their thick and thin lines. The bottom row is comparing water-soluble ink, a metal dip pen and a paintbrush.
One of the biggest disappointments of 2020 for me was failing Inktober for the first time since 2013. I even did most of my pictures at half size to make it easier, but I was so worn out by day 8 that I had to give up. I thought it would be nice to post the ones I did finish before the end of the year.
I marked out all the pages in my sketchbook at the start, so I’ll try to finish the rest before next October.
Here’s the rest of them! Right at the end of this month I decided I had run out of time, so the real life sketchbook has a few pages painted flat black between these.
I feel a lot better this year, but I have a couple of strategies planned in case things go badly again. I might go as small as A7 if a whole page is too daunting, and in the limit if I really can’t do anything on a given day I’ll paint it black again. That way I won’t have a backlog - either it’s done or it’s not.
Inktober is may favourite art event of the year so I hope this time goes better!
Inktober 2021, day 9 - mapping pen
The sickness is worst at this time of year.
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Most horse chestnut trees in the UK are infected with a fungal disease that causes extensive leaf damage in late Summer.
Inktober 2021, day 17 - mapping pen and ink wash
The leaves come down, the flowers come up.
Inktober 2021, day 27 - mapping pen and ink wash
Mushrooms on the ground, woodsmoke in the air.
Inktober 2021, day 31 - mapping pen and ink wash
Do you think she'll like it?
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Inktober 2021 completed with just under 2 hours to spare! (I finished this at about 10:20pm on the 31st.) Happy Halloween!