[Closed] Inktober

Photo confirms giant phallus.

all I can see there is a bloke striding along an erect phallus!!

#Coctober? 😀

As a reward for stopping smoking i treated myself to a sketch pad and some pens - doodling is much healthier than constantly eating biscuits, right?

No idea of the official themes/prompts but drew a kind of fish

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Good work Euro on the artwork.

-1000000 on cOctober as I'm a bit stuck and have to resit drawing lots of peni.

loving the robotic fish and the kraken.

17/31

"Redthunder"

17/31 Fountain pen, felt, pencil, wax crayon, united office fineliner, uniball pin fine line and back of fag packet.

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excellent!

Everything on this thread is awesome. I love to see people enjoying drawing. Hope this keeps going past october.

Thanks Seosamh77

Fish is cool... it's the NOT rules to use the prompts, its only a guide.

Dont go full crayon 😉

I've not spent much time at it over the last few days, just a few scibbles trying to grasp different body positions, and pretty much just letting the pen do what it wants to do without thinking about it.

1,2,3. interesting on the 3rd yin I started introducing the concept of a line of action on a couple of them, it's actually starting to make some kinda sense.

For that eureka moment alone, I'm calling these 3 no18! 😆

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3(getting somewhere, dunno where, but somewhere 😆 it's a concept worth exploring for another 1000 scribbles.)
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Hope this keeps going past october.

I hope it also continues past October as well. Mayby thread name tweak. #STWInkber #mountainink
Mayby Perchypanther could dream up a title 😉

PA Not QSInk, bit like Quink ............. IGMC.

No 19,

Scribbly McScribblypherson! 😆
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Another ballerina. Tried to do the skirt as a flower.

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Tried shading with an ink/water wash but I think I prefer it before.

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Really loving seeing everyones improvements. That last lot of figure sketches are great seosmah77.

Right here is my proper doodle for today:

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Then all the talk above I came up with this for STW to decipher:
(2 minutes for the stw pictonary)

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Ooh, love the robot fish!

I’m struggling. Mysterious barely worked out, fat is pretty lame, I’m totally stumped for graceful. I can’t draw people (not even anime ones, what *is* that about?) or swans or anything that looks like a thing. Basically I can’t actually draw. Might have to go for a graceful looking line, in a move which is probably a bit too close to pretentiousness for comfort.

This was fat. It’s certainly no robot fish.

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Scribbles hannah, scribble away, it's pretty liberating! 😆 to hell with the consequences!

That last lot of figure sketches are great seosmah77.

ta, glad you see where i'm going, hopeful it's not just a fleeting moment and it's the start of some understanding, I'll emphasise, [b]the start[/b]! 😆

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😆

I went full crayon for my higher art exam, well oil pastels, same thing more or less! 😆

Your third figure drawing page is really good Seosamh. Love the fish too Marty.

grasping it i think, will start to introduce perspective slowly too i think.

Full crayon 😆

Great stuff lads and lasses. Love it!

So nice to have a thread that's not littered with bickering but full of creativity, learning and expressing ourselves without words - it's the future. Lets keep it going long after October has gone.

Marijuana withdrawal inspired weirdness...(sneaked a little bit of paint in - no idea why

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I do agree, this thread is awesome! 🙂

might be in this zone for a while, expect a lot of nonsense from me! 😆

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Morning all. I turned the idea of 'graceful' over in my mind and came up with ballerinas, acrobats, etc. Then I made this:

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I've done a bit of what seosamh77 is doing - though in pencil so it doesn't count. None if it is fit to share. Anatomy is hard! So I cheat with ArtPose on my phone 🙂

Twirlip of the Mists - Member

Morning all. I turned the idea of 'graceful' over in my mind and came up with ballerinas, acrobats, etc. Then I made this:

That is fully awesome. What's the judges name?

I'm doing another Judge Dredd themed piece myself at the mo 😆

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Mean Machine work in progress. 100% based on a photo of the character from the Stallone film.

Edit: Maybe I should have played the guess who game 😉

JimJam - the judge's name is a tricky one. I have a medical condition which means I'm unable to take anything seriously, even something I've spent time and energy on, so I sort of settled on 'Whiffle' which is something from a PG Wodehouse story (which I watched on the telly, being a bit of a slow reader). Sadly, a combination of poor planning and the tendency of ink to feather really, really badly on the paper in my sketchbook meant that I ended up writing Pfifle except with some of the letters in the wrong order and a spare one at the end that even I can't read.

I bet that was a longer explanation than you expected 🙂

Mean machine looks awesome!

Thank you and yes, that was a bit of an unexpected tangent. I couldn't read it but I was curious if it was supposed to look like an established character. Then again I can't really remember the names of any of the female judges bar Anderson.

Liking everything over the last while, youse are upping your game. i should probably get with the programme! 😆

Another work in progress pic.

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Decided to cut my loses and finish this. I figured it would look more interesting (and more recognisible as Mean Machine) if I flipped it so his robotic eye was in the image. I guess it looks a bit "Terminatory" but hey.

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what you using to colour that jim? chalk, paint?

looking great, gone a bit too dark on the second I think you need some hightlights, just seen you post that.

seosamh77 - Member

what you using to colour that jim? chalk, paint?

I just used to photoshop (don't even) to wash in the skin tone and the red. Other than that it's just how the photo looks. Cranked down the camera a bit to crush some of the blacks.

gone a bit too dark on the second I think you need some hightlights

Sure, it's up now who cares, not like I'm getting paid by the hour 😉

Jim was meaning before Photoshop. I think it looks far better more silvery.

Gotcha. Initially rattle cans, stove paint for black and Halfords primer for the white. Then I worked into that with marker pens, charcoal and blender/white charcoal.

I hope it also continues past October as well. Mayby thread name tweak. #STWInkber #mountainink
Mayby Perchypanther could dream up a title

I don't normally do requests but how about ...

Gnartistry - Sketchy as f*** 😉

😆 like it perchy!

Surely tradition dictates that the thread be called Illustration, painting and drawing...trackworld ❓ 🙂

Crayon Track World

Doodletrackworld.

Another World 1 of 2
For a possible target project.

Great game BTW

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2 of 2
Unfinished

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That last guy certainly brings back some (dusty old) memories.

I have a fairly complicated concept for tomorrow's piece. Looking a lot of gothic medieval woodcut style pieces for inspitation 😈

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Was short of time and ideas yesterday. I'm finding portraiture a good substitute when time is short.

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In case you can't read my writing it's supposed to be Robert Kubica.

very good, wish I could use as few marks are you and still get a likeness(or just get a likeness 😆 ). spot on, I googled the source! 🙂

Scribbletrackworld.

jimjam - Member
Scribbletrackworld.

perchy is still dominating the naming comp, by some distance! 😆

Bad puns are my crayons. 😉

seosamh77 - Member

jimjam - Member
Scribbletrackworld.

perchy is still dominating the naming comp, by some distance!

Well if the aim is to come up with a terrible name, yes he's kicking my ass 😉

19/31
Nanka, changed a bit.
One of my favourite target characters from "Out of the Pit".

#inktastic
#inktober2017
#nanka
#fanart

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I don't know what a Nanka is Redthunder but I like that. My [i]VVitch[/i] themed piece turned out to be far too complex to make a decent start on. No time today anyway, just back from 30k in the pissing rain too so it's beer and Netflix time.

Here is Black Phillip from the film, I didn't do this today but I am posting him to bump the thread and he was (will be) part of my composition.

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Class. So much variety 8)

Was up in the attic looking for my old motorbike gear for my eldest's Terminator cozzy and found an old sketch pad. No idea i'd kept it but some of it is eerily perfect timing considering the 2000AD stuff. Dates from around 91-92 and was background work for a college project. Used metallic spray cans and can't get a decent photo.

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Sporadic but here's a couple of fast and dirty landscapes. First one is after something I saw on Pinterest. Second is North Devon coast near Bursdon Moor

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Love your style Malvern those are superb. You have a gift at creating depth with the ink.

Euro those are bloody awesome. You work as an illustrator?

I'm stumped for the time being. I shall return however! 😆

Also can't bike hope you'll be back soon and haven't taken the laugh to heart, you need an ability to laugh at yourself in this game. We all make unintended gaffs! 😆 need the ability to be self critical and to take the piss out yourself!

I'm still going, just hospital stuff getting in the way, got some scribbles I'll share in a bit, rubbish as they are compared to you lot, I can still see improvement and more importantly pleasure 🙂

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Bics
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That Mongrel looks superb. Very Kevin O'Neill.

Quick one yesterday. Some faux Celtic nonsense. The theme was 'clouds' so I give you Cloud Gate:

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I can still see improvement and more importantly pleasure

And love those landscapes Malvern, what are you using? Is that brush and ink over sketches or using software or something else? I love all these different styles that you guys produce, so different, from portraits with hardly any marks or shading through to the full spray paint stuff, inspiring stuff, and great to see it all being shared.

20/31

Pencil, digital ink. Dont really want to fiddle my original pencil drawing anymore.

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Found the negitive filter as.... accidental x-ray. Shows all the lines and construction. Well I think its cool. 🙂

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Loving everthing on this thread so far... keep them all coming.

Inkworld
ArtTrackWorld

A horse with a massive rear spoiler.

Those jockeys are really missing a trick. 😉

And love those landscapes Malvern, what are you using? Is that brush and ink over sketches

Exactly. And thanks!

@PP.

Its swords jockeys should be using... it would make the racing really interesting 😉

Great pics Cantbike. Really like the first one and the postures.

Malvern, those lanscapes are great. I gave Japanese style ink landscapes a go last night but couldn't get any depth to them so in the bin they went. I can do it with watercolour but I'll be damned if I can do landscapes in greyscale using only ink.

I can do it with watercolour but I'll be damned if I can do landscapes in greyscale using only ink.

I make my own ink/paint from black pigment and water, sometimes adding a binder. This makes me ask what is the difference between ink and paint? A watercolour wash vs an ink wash? The broad definitions for both paint and ink are 'pigment with binder'. I have experienced tremendous difficulty creating tone when the pigment dries/stains the support the very second it is layed in. This has me experimenting with various binders and papers. I won't go into it all but suffice to say the type and quality of paper is at least if not more important than the medium. I sketch on cheap watercolour paper or Seabright sketchbooks, but the minute I move to (say) Waterford NOT - the whole scenario changes - absorption, intensity, tone, all are affected. As is the thickness of my wallet 🙂

perchypanther - Member
A horse with a massive rear spoiler.

Those jockeys are really missing a trick.

😆

redthunder - Member
20/31

excellent sense of motion in that!

*Seawhite sketchbooks

jonm81 - [url= https://www.craftsy.com/blog/2014/05/ink-wash-techniques/ ]interesting blog - try these ink wash techniques[/url]

@Twirlip, what type of pen do you use? Love that style! (someone commented earlier that it is reminiscent of the old FF books, which is spot on!!) I notice there are a few Rotring bits & bobs reduced on Amazon at the mo...

Cheers Malvern Rider. I can't view that blog at work for some reason but I'll have a look through it tonight.

For the ink I was using watered down India ink from Winsor and Newton. I generally use either their hot or cold pressed watercolour paper too depending on what finish I want. As for the water colour paints I normally stick to the liquid tubes as I have not had any luck using pans. Maybe it's just more practice that is required.

Great stuff. Loved the Mongrel stuff Marty. I must dig out my sketchbooks at some point, possibly once Inktober is done and we officially change the thread title to Scribbletrackworld™®©.

Anyway, my prompt for today is Lone Wolf and Cub, and I have done something. Needs finishing so will get to posting later if I get another half hour at it.

@Malvern Rider, do you base your landscapes on photo references or from memory/imagination?

If using a reference do you try to break it down into positive an negative spaces or do you go by tone? Or neither of those? I like the style and might give it a go at some stage.

@zilog6128 I've been using two. I've got a Pentel Brush Pen which is good for stuff like this:

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This is Day 3. The prompt was 'poison'. It's supposed to be Alice Cooper. From a photo.

I've also got (and I think this is the one you've asking about) a Platinum Carbon fountain pen. It's a little bit like a dip pen in that it doesn't have the usual ball shape at the end of the nib that fountain pens designed for writing usually have. Instead it has a square end a bit like a dip pen.
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Sometimes I combine the two. The success rate varies. Unless I really think it through (planning is everything) I usually end up with clashing styles.

thanks, yeah it was specifically the 2nd style I was referring to, although both are very cool!

do you think this is similar to the fountain pen you're using? [url= https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rotring-1903641-ArtPen-Sketch-Fine/dp/B000CS9SDA/ref=lp_7692976031_1_9?srs=7692976031&ie=UTF8&qid=1508494372&sr=8-9 ]https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rotring-1903641-ArtPen-Sketch-Fine/dp/B000CS9SDA/ref=lp_7692976031_1_9?srs=7692976031&ie=UTF8&qid=1508494372&sr=8-9[/url]

@zilog6128 Ish. This photo shows the nib of the Rotring:
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And this is the nib of the Platinum:
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There's a rounded shape to the Rotring. It's hard to see but the platinum just stops. It's super fine and doesn't have that ball.

I took the second photo from [url= http://peninkcillin.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/platinum-carbon-desk-fountain-pen-review.html ]here[/url].

I reckon the Platinum is going to be half the width of the Rotring. Maybe narrower. I wouldn't buy the Platinum to write a letter with but to draw, it's ace. So precise. And it looks cool. Though the barrels tend to split.

( long-winded ramble alert)

jimjam I use (variously) photographic reference, sketchbook reference (moreso of late) direct memory, and imagination/memory at different times. Sometimes in combination. I started a self-taught 15yr graphic arts/design for print career in the 80s drawing primarily with Rotring/ink yet midway became frustrated and went to art college. Began painting with acrylics, fantasy, pop art, LOTR stuff etc etc. Again became frustrated with my tendency to keep everything 'tight' and it felt derivative so knocked the whole thing on the head for nearly a decade.

What I somehow (doh!) had so far failed to explore/describe was my innate interest for nature/the landscape. So at 30yrs I picked up a digital camera and then pursued so-called fine art landscape photography. This (though successful and fortunately well received) ultimately brought frustration once more. I then came full circle to painting as no matter how hard I pushed my photography it couldn't inspire within me hardly a jot of the elation and 'familiarity' I felt looking (say) at studies of landscapes by Constable, Corot, Whistler, Sickert or Turner. So once again went off to study hard. The National Gallery and RA became magnets at this point.

I got lucky landing traditional oil-painting classes/mentoring with a successful painter/author. He first coached me to work in monochrome (basic tonal painting) and it took a good while to begin to 'see' beyond linear perspective/form into the natural world which was also a lot about aerial perspective and movement. This 'tonal painting boot camp' began with still-life observation of classical sculptures. Learning how to first divide into complex 3 dimensional forms into forced planar surfaces described by using just three main tones (dark, mid, light) and then gradually increase the range of tonality without (this is the trick) 'muddying' the work by overworking/blending. Keeping it fresh. I still find this to be a frustrating challenge.

I then went on to study George Inness et al/Tonalism, combining this new (for me) learning with what I had learned to date via both photography and classical oil-painting tuition.

Had to work hard ad shifting my mental block, moving from outline to tone/mass. In recent years signed up with contemporary American tonalist Dennis Sheehan and enrolled in a distance-learning course. Strongly recommend you look him up on youtube. His loose approach was immensely useful to me in that (likewise) I've somehow spent decades being outdoors as much as possible (both for leisure and work) and the landscape, weather, seasons etc eventually 'soak in' to your memory allowing a more fluid response when you come to paint/draw.

One evening the sun was setting and I was in a field with a big canvas, big brush, and two oil colours. I didnt paint what I could see in the field, I painted what 'the paint' seemed to want. And fast! Sun had set after 35 mins by which time I was finished. I stepped back and was so amazed at the outpouring. A few random loose flourishes of dark and light had become a scene full of moonlit trees, pathways and a shadowy brook. It was rough and had a green cast but I kept the painting as the 'eureka' example.

Lately I find myself becoming tired with imagining endless sunset pathways. (Sheehan never seems to tire of this!) Maybe as I get older that peaceful walk in the woods to the setting sun becomes a motif for mortality. I need to step back awhile and engage in some other stuff. Then I see an Atkinson Grimshaw and get suckered in again! Plein Air is my friend here, it gets me out of the 'tunnel'.

If using a reference do you try to break it down into positive an negative spaces or do you go by tone

Yes and yes.

negative and positive space
tone
linear perspective
aerial perspective
chroma
motion/implied motion

Additionally - composition, emotion and style are also studied and yet do evolve naturally as part of a process. I don't find any of the processes I use to be 'black or white' (ha!) as my workflow is more typically energetic and emotive. So ensues a battle between dry technique/formula vs wild abandon/intuition

True that!

<3 inktober