[Closed] Inktober

yes, i do like the creepy wave one

Fantastic!

Not going to get a chance to post tomorrow or draw.. so I went New Zealand time and completed 8/31 today.

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yes, i do like the creepy wave one

superb, one of the most famous prints in the world, is "the creepy wave" yin! 😆

great stuff holmes!

edit: love that car, red, brilliant!

decent program on bbc1 just not about jean michel basquiat the now.

No 6. I might actually make this target of 31 scribbles for the month, only 2 off the pace at the moment! 😆

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loving this thread. i could take part, could do 31 stick men in a different pose

Go for it, lets see them! Stick men are cool.

Think it should be re-stated that the whole point of this inktober thing is simply self improvement, and the repeated process of doing it day after day is the only way to improve.

I reckon all you that say you can't draw, should challenge yourselves.

Put pen to paper, don't think about it and put self criticism to the side, just keep drawing, don't look back. Then post up your stuff, at the end of the month have a look back and see how much you've improved. I bet you'll be surprised at your ability/improvement!

https://www.youtube.com/user/jakeparker44/videos

jake parker videos are worth a watch as well btw, that's the guy that started this inktober thing.

Here's him talking about starting it, and showing you his inktober stuff over the years.

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Yeah, my free flowing minimal marks skull looked pretty similar! Did some leaves and a flower trying to flow, then did the skull again.
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leaves are looking good, as is the (left) skull. Telt ye, improvements will come, keep at it! 🙂

I was thinking about this when on the bike today. I suppose ultimately what I was trying to say was ....swing your hands around like you are pretending to be an artist 😉

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I got pretty bored with Head Lopper surprisingly quickly. Wish I'd gone for more of an action scene. Hey ho. Couldn't even be arsed taking another photograph when I realised that one was out of focus.

No. 7

Man, anything beyond even surfaces I'm utterly useless at, shading uneven surfaces is hard!

Think I'm gonny buy some brush pens and a range of tones see how I get on with those. The cross hatching patter I have no patience for, I think I'm done with that! Time to try and learn another style i think. f'd this right up. Shame as I thought the basic sketch was alright before I rubbed it out too, if a bit long in the vertical, I've always preferred pencils..

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Head Lopper has some impressive quads, he'd probably be quite handy on a bike!

Looking good people. Keep it up, great to see people having a go who've never done it before, or trying new things.

I've moved away from my trusty dip pen and grabbed a brush.
The result being this:

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Quickly underdrawn with pencil, then attacked with india ink and water. I forgot to begin with that india ink is waterproof so blending is a bit tricky (compared to water colour).

Enjoyed it though, also realised that pros use shorter brushes!

Looking good.

Great skulls, interesting setting different versions. Head lopper looks awesome, bit like I imagined druss but wrong weapon!

No 6. I might actually make this target of 31 scribbles for the month, only 2 off the pace at the moment!

That Enterprise is superb.

It reminds me, the only vague art skills I ever had, I used to be into ASCII art. I once drew the NX-01 Enterprise from the prequel show, totally off-topic but I could post that if anyone cares?

Thusly,

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I'm gonny lossen up for a bit i think, defo gonny to buy some brush pens. this was a quick line outline i did yesterday, but didn't know where to go. just decided to destroy it there. no more attempts at precision from me for a while! 😆

I'm might stop under sketching aswell for a bit and just let the ink say what it's got to say!

No 8. that's me caught up! 🙂

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excellent cougar, good stuff!

love that skull holmes, got something about it that.

Why is a giant penis [s]chasing[/s] in the process of overtaking that helicopter?

PPS Freud really was a dick 🙂

Malvern Rider asking what we all wanted to know.

Malvern Rider - Member 😆

loosening up fixed the skull up a bit! 2 mihutes, job done-ish! 😆

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Why is a giant penis [s]chasing[/s] in the process of overtaking that helicopter?

To boldly go where no man has been before.

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Ballsed the shadow of the nose up a bit. More practice required.

That's brilliant all the same.

That is excellent jon.

Thank you.

Just had a go with alcohol ink drops in water. It's harder than the internet videos make it look. 🙂

First attempt

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That's brilliant all the same.

+n. I can't even begin to imagine how you'd start doing that.

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+n. I can't even begin to imagine how you'd start doing that.

Fingers. Vigorous fingering.

We've all been there.

Cougar, find image of pretty lady on the internet (after lots of looking), do rough outline sketch of different areas to shade then colour in.

I had seen pretty much the same image a long time ago and have been meaning to have a go myself for a few years. Finally got around to it.

Here is the outline sketch of my first attempt which I buggered up after about 30 seconds.

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Threads like these need like buttons! Love it Jon, and thanks for showing the process

Cougar, find image of pretty lady on the internet

Now that I’m an expert at.

Some american did a US fire truck, got inspied to draw a UK one 🙂

Source of fire vehicle...interweb. tried to complete in lines only, but caught myself shading in the wheel arches.

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Going to colour it in next :)..... with crayons.

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No 9.

hmmmm, I think I made her look like something out of the original planet of the apes.

No sure about this looseness patter! I think I'll keep at it but stop posting the results for a while!

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Dr Zaius.

No wrong that drawing...seosamh77

Drac - Moderator
Dr Zaius.

No wrong that drawing...seosamh77

redthunder - Member
No wrong that drawing...seosamh77

Will take me a while till I'm somewhere comfortable with this way of drawing, never really done it. I think I should investigate how to do some hair! Will take me a bit to get used to these brush pens I just purchased as well, never used them either. I can get tonal now though, got 5 shades of grey!

the fire engine is class btw.

haha, i made a jimi hendrix impersonator! 😆 this drawing faces malarky is blinking hard! guess you need to do 100 before you get even close to good!

no10.

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Looks good to me sesomah.

My first go at batman, not happy with the head, and arms a bit short. Fudged the hands.
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getting better can't bike! 🙂

Went with the prompt today....and an excuse to draw dinosaur 🙂

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redthunder - Member
Went with the prompt today....and an excuse to draw dinosaur

you've got a fair old bit of skill with the red red, that's great!

Loving the photo realistic style dog there 🙂
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I can't be arsed any more. And I've lost my place on the prompt list (not that I was sticking to it too closely anyway. Kind of tempted to do a Sin City doodle or Ninja Scroll but I've just gotten broadband back to full steam after a weekend of severly strangled usage and I've got about 30 youtube vids to watch. Decisions decisions

stick at it, try a different style/list/subject, i'm enjoying jumping about the place with different things.

I'm tempted to try a really simple Marv or something. Just because he' just so monolithic.

Come on Jimjam, keep going, I need to keep seeing the stuff I aspire to achieve!

Liking the Wolverine 🙂

Also, stuck all my drawings so far on Google Site 🙂
https://sites.google.com/view/inktober2017

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Liking the wasp 🙂 Great drawing.

ta, happy enough with it, think I could have made the middle body a bit more 3 dimensional though. Could really do with colour too i think, but that'll wait, I've already spent about 45 quid on pens and paper! 😆

liking the quickness of these brush pens, starting to understand them a little.

Nice wasp Seosamh. Nature's bastard. Where did you get the brush pen?

I just went into the art store in town, Cass Art it's called, got a set of 6 Copic Ciao they are called, 5 tones from black to very light grey(double tipped, brush one side, thick/thin angled marker on the other side), plus another 0.3 pigment liner(I bought a range of staedler pigment liners for a tenner firstly (0.05 to 1.0).). Which is just as well, I'm a bit heavy handed and break those easy enough, think I'm better going a bit larger to 0.5/0.7 on the pens, and just making the drawings a bit larger..

Probably paid over the odds for them in there mind you were £21, would probably get them cheaper online no doubt.

I think I want a set of 20/30 brush colours now, plus a smaller set of brush pens too in all the greys for finer detail. I'm learning what I like.

I checked my local art supply place but they didn't have any. I think I'm just looking for something novel. They do look nice to use though. There's a guy on instagram kimjong ungis or something and he's incredible with them.

Tried to do two marv's there. Complete shite. 3rd time lucky gonna go fast and loose and try not to over work it.

They are difficult to use, but it's just a matter of getting used to them, the ability to vary line thickness is very good though, learning to control that is alot of fun! 🙂

I'm gonna be photo shopping this marv btw. Brace yourself.

I'm out of any photoshop discussions! Made enough enemies on that yin! 😆 carry on!

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Bollocks to it anyway. Started photoshopping but no point. You get the idea.

That's looking crackin! Mon you chin up!

Thanks. You know yourself, it's frustrating when you just can't nail something and you know the amount of work to get over the hump is massive.

take a wee break, it's just a mental state, come back in a bit refreshed, you'll be sound. don't give up, still most of the month to go so no rush!

Yeah, cheers. You are right. I just added a few wee highlights and it looks ok. I'll post it properly tomorrow.

Here's my first (crap) submission. Today's theme is apparently "Gigantic", so it's a (back-of-an-envelope Pixie:

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Good effort. Keep it up. Also, don't worry about the prompts so much if you don't want to.

Good effort. Keep it up. Also, don't worry about the prompts so much if you don't want to.

Cheers, not worried about prompts but they're a handy way to make me draw something new 🙂

There seems to be a ton of different prompt lists out there so if the "official" one doesn't suit you try checking out some of those.

Yeah just use another prompt list if one doesn't suit.

Like the pixie.

Here is mine for today:

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Quite chuffed with it as my daughter walked up and said that's iron man isn't it! (Forgive the blurred picture and bleed through from previous day!)

looking good mogrim(Welcome! 🙂 nothing wrong with that) and holmes good stuff!

I don't think I've used a prompt list at all tbh! 😆

No 12: Just getting ahead as I'll probably be missing the weekend due to beer!

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