Objective: "Every October, artists all over the world take on the InkTober drawing challenge by doing one ink drawing a day the entire month."
Rules:
2) Post it online
3) Hashtag it with #inktober and #inktober2016
4) Repeat
Parker kindly added that you can post daily as intended, post every other day, or post once a week. "What ever you decide, just be consistent with it," he said.
I certainly did not have the time or drive to do a drawing per day, so I settled for once a week.
I also did the challenge with some rule-bending (?) (it didn't say it wasn't allowed) based on browsing the Inktober hashtag on Instagram:
1. The Inktober challenge had daily prompts in form of keywords, but most people drew whatever they wanted, which is also what I did.
2. I used a few other medium other than ink, but did the important lining bits with ink.
3. I don't know if ball point pens count as "ink", but I decided to count it because... the only ink-based tool I own is a thick brush pen and there's only so thin a line I can produce with that.
Week 1: I drew my OC Marie kind of crouched and being sad. I drew her like this after being fed up re-drawing and erasing around half a dozen pencil sketches because none of them would come out the way I wanted.
The first drawing came out better than I expected. The black and gray watercolor pencils added a nice shadowy effect but didn't look too out of place with the brush pen.
Week 2: In which I let it be known to the world that I'm a hopeless Haikyuu fan.
THIS WAS A PAIN TO DRAW. First, I kept accidentally smudging the ink everywhere. Unfortunately, traditional drawing has no Ctrl + Z button so you have to live with your mistakes.
Second, using watercolor on regular printer paper instead of watercolor paper (which I did not have) wrinkled the paper so much that I had to stop every so often to pop my drawing in the freezer to un-wrinkle it. I looked like a crazy person.
Lastly, the original pencil outline was tiny, so I was lining and watercolor-ing with the thinnest brush strokes I could manage and thus could not really work on details. My arms were trembling by the end of the whole thing.
I think I managed to convey their personalities, at least.
Everyone please go read Haikyuu, or watch the anime. JOIN ME IN HAIKYUU HELL!
So here are the results.
Week 1: I drew my OC Marie kind of crouched and being sad. I drew her like this after being fed up re-drawing and erasing around half a dozen pencil sketches because none of them would come out the way I wanted.
The first drawing came out better than I expected. The black and gray watercolor pencils added a nice shadowy effect but didn't look too out of place with the brush pen.
Week 2: In which I let it be known to the world that I'm a hopeless Haikyuu fan.
THIS WAS A PAIN TO DRAW. First, I kept accidentally smudging the ink everywhere. Unfortunately, traditional drawing has no Ctrl + Z button so you have to live with your mistakes.
Second, using watercolor on regular printer paper instead of watercolor paper (which I did not have) wrinkled the paper so much that I had to stop every so often to pop my drawing in the freezer to un-wrinkle it. I looked like a crazy person.
Lastly, the original pencil outline was tiny, so I was lining and watercolor-ing with the thinnest brush strokes I could manage and thus could not really work on details. My arms were trembling by the end of the whole thing.
I think I managed to convey their personalities, at least.
Everyone please go read Haikyuu, or watch the anime. JOIN ME IN HAIKYUU HELL!
Week 3: I drew a real fox to offset how much of a nerd I was the previous week. I also haven't drawn animals much, so I thought it would be a good time to try it out.
I used a reference from Google image search. Drawing all the strands of fur was kind of painstaking, but the article-publishing tool at work crashed before I could send in my last story of the day, making me unable to leave work for around 40 minutes. The details on the fur was a good outlet to pour out my frustrations.
Week 4: Witch and cat.
I knew I wanted to do my final prompt involving a witch because, hey, end of October is Halloween and Halloween = witches.
I also went through multiple witch sketches, got fed up, started doodling a few more witches and realized I was starting to ship them for no reason so I took a half-day break before settling on this sketch.
Ideally I would have used watercolor pencils or something to do a better job on coloring the dress and hat, but I think I just wanted to be done with it all after penciling and erasing another half-dozen compositions. It came out okay, I think.
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Inktober was challenging but also fun. I also got a good use out of the one brush pen I had, which was just laying around the house after I impulse-bought it years ago.
I would be up for trying this again next year, perhaps with more ink-based tools and better quality paper.
