[Closed] Inktober

Yep, looking fwd 🙂

a tattoo every day for 31 days - you two must be insane!

No turning back now that you've gone public about though - good luck

It's an ink drawing everyday for October.

@malvern are you going to use prompts or just see how it goes?

#SoWhatIsIt?

#SoWhatIsIt?

#fish

Cougar - Moderator

#SoWhatIsIt?

#First result on duckduck go? Anyway to save others from having to google it's basically doing a drawing every day for a month and posting them with the hashtag inktober. AI might give it a go. Will we post here?

[url= http://mrjakeparker.com/inktober ]Inktober[/url]

are you going to use prompts or just see how it goes?

Going to go with prompts at first as it kicks me up the arse (which is the normal requirement to get anything out of me) 😉

If something else happens I'll go with it. 31 is a lot. I may rely heavily on digital ink when the remaining house denizens are snoring or if/when I wake up and do some sketching of dreams and stuff so it's handy and doesn't disturb others/require exiting bed ;). #zenbrush2. Also have a ton of natural black pigment so will whip up a batch of real ink too.

Here's a couple from last month to get the ball rolling:

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*edit - (weird, sharing dream-sketches feels like I imagine taking my clothes off in public. The naked mind)

What shall you be using holmes? Dip pen? Brush? Fibre?

PS Freud was a dick.

Holy crap. Well done.

Might have a go at this. Studied art at uni but these days my output has reduced to occasional scribbly doodles.

That tram looks like its going backwards.

Yeah I'll be doing it. It was hard to fit them in on weekends last year but ace fun.

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I decided to go with the prompts (although I see there are lots of alternative lists). Haven't drawn with any regularity in years.

Are these pics people are posting done on a computer? (Not that I have anything against digital art, just wondering as they look computery. But that could be cos I'm viewing them in a computer 🙂 )

Ink on paper then sketched over in photoshop because wgaf!? 🙂
The first prompt was "swift" so in addition to drawing something or someone swift I wanted to finish it in under an hour. Oh and then the vignette and hue were added in instagram.

ace jimjam!

Are these pics people are posting done on a computer?

Mixed up a batch of pigment with water. So thick it's ink/paint but has a rough magic. Blacker than a black steer's tuckus on a moonlit night

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Very cool. Reminds me of a photograph of mine.

Just thought I'd do an image search for a swift just to check that the shape I was thinking of for the bird was correct. Disappointingly image search only returns photos of cars.

Bit rushed, unoriginal, looks dead on ground rather than swiftly flying through air.
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#inktober
#inktober 2017

Singletrack World Bunny 1 of 31

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Pencil, Rubber, Fountain Pen and Crayola Twistables.

Disappointingly image search only returns photos of cars.

Could of been worse....it could of been caravans 😉

I'm using dip pen and India ink.

Just done a quick drawing of Morty with his eyes being opened by Rick. Due to a friend doing s pic of Rick so I ignored the prompt for today!

It's been many many years since I've drawn anything and my attempt shows.

Might just put the first pic and final pic up to this thread. Weekdays will do dip pen in my lunch break weekends might use a brush.

Who knows, forgot how much I enjoy mood of myself in art for a little while.

Really like those, MalvernRider!

Looking forward to seeing everyone’s efforts now. Fair play to anyone doing it.

I found another promptlist on instagram which is much more in my idiom.

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I'm already annoyed because I used to love drawing Dredd.

Cloth patch study in Fountain Pen. Colour by Crayola.

1st Cavalry Division Patch

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Some talented people on this thread.

I inherited the geek gene at the expense of the artistic gene. I can only sit and marvel, keep 'em coming.

Bastards! Mine would be comical if I tried. Excellent stuff folks.

Quick (very) Batman since the thread got a bump.

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What does one do to a Flickr URL in order to make it work in the IMG tags on here?

You've inspired me to get the pencil out for the first time in 20 years! 😆 I've no ink, might get some pens and give this a proper ago(Always used to like a good auld fashioned bic pen as it works abit like a pencil). Mibbe no every day, but a few to see if I can improve any, get the auld touch back!

Quick 15 minute pencil effort on the poison theme to get my fingers working!

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4/31 Inktober "Rook v Rook"
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#inktober2017
Fountain Pen
Black Felt
A4
PS: Not Finished IMO

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@Wallop
"What does one do to a Flickr URL in order to make it work in the IMG tags on here?"

Go to your image in Flickr (Desktop)
Find the Arrow Icon pointing right.
Click it.
Select BBCODE for your image.
Copy and Paste on your here.

🙂

Cheers chap!

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I am only a doodler...

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To hell with the lists 🙂

you not ment to actually draw something then post it? Rather than just fire up stuff you've previously done?

That's what I did. Today...this evening. Why?

awfy prolific and polished for someone that hasn't drawn in years, do you work?

seosamh77 - Member

awfy prolific and polished for someone that hasn't drawn in years, do you work?

I appreciate the compliment but it took less than an hour. Well maybe an hour tops including sketch, photographing it then adding highlights in photoshop and uploading and posting. I work part time - part time lumberjack, part time graphic designer.

I am frustrated by how bad it is to be honest. No false humility or fishing for compliments. If I could find some stuff I did in my 20s I think you would see what I mean.

adding highlights in photoshop

Wut?

Less than an hour? Very impressive, well done. Video yourself next time, would love to see you work.

I am frustrated by how bad it is to be honest.

Me too. Nose is good. Zipper with no badge chain? No shoulder eagle, weak Dredd chin. And is he smiling???

5 years in the iso-cube!:P

Such a dick 🙂

I can't see that from the sketch, is that only the top half?

seosamh77 - Member
Video yourself next time, would love to see you work.

I think the faff of doing that would put me off drawing anything. Check out Ben Oliver on Instagram. Although he is infinitely more talented than me his basic process seems similar enough.

Cougar - Moderator

I can't see that from the sketch, is that only the top half?

That's why I ripped the bottom off.

fair do's think it wouldn't take 2 secs to stick up a camera in the corner. But no worries, up to yourself, I would like to see it.

You should probably leave the tattieshop aside for this thread btw, no-one else is using it.

Dunno, if I'll do anymore, might/might no, I tried another couple there and they were ****ing honking, I just don't have the patience for drawing anymore, I think that's why I chucked it in the first place 20 years ago! 😆 I'll stick to the guitar!

seosamh77 - Member

fair do's think it wouldn't take 2 secs to stick up a camera in the corner. But no worries, up to yourself, I would like to see it.

Kind of removes the quick sketch aspect of it.

You should probably leave the tattieshop aside for this thread btw, no-one else is using it.

Tons of pros using it for inktober on instagram. I'm not doing anything I can't do with traditional media, I can just do it faster in p.s and I don't have to turn my desk into an artists studio.

But surely doesn’t that completely defeat the object? And this ain’t instagram!

wallop - Member

But surely doesn’t that completely defeat the object?

The only object would be to draw more regularly. That's about it. Probably worth pointing out that "official" inktober is sponsored by Autodesk sketchbook - a pixel graphics software application that features a radial/pie-menu user interface, intended for expressive drawing and concept sketching.

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And this ain’t instagram!

Yeah but it's an instagram hashtag thing. That's all it is. Odd that you would care either way.

I don’t care that much - I just can’t post my smile on the internet. Oh wait 🙂

I just thought we were doing our own little STW amateur version of it 🙁

Kind of removes the quick sketch aspect of it.

Tons of pros using it for inktober on instagram. I'm not doing anything I can't do with traditional media, I can just do it faster in p.s and I don't have to turn my desk into an artists studio.

You're on here though, not in a comp against pro's. Look at what everyone else is doing. Plenty know how to work tattieshop in anger but aren't. you should probly upload the original sketch and the tattieshop version.

wallop

I don’t care that much - I just can’t post my smile on the internet.

It's just a drawing exercise. It has no relevance to anything. There are a million different spin offs and variations of it.

wallop

I just thought we were doing our own little STW amateur version of it

You are. Though it's probably worth considering that many hundreds (if not thousands) more people will see your submissions here than on instagram, unless you've got about 1000 followers or are some king of hashtag wizard.

seosamh77

place phone on shelf, record, press stop, upload video. not exactly a labourious task, considering what else you seem capable of doing in an hour.

Which would create an hour long file on my phone - which I'd then have to edit or upload.

seosamh77

You're on here though, not in a comp against pro's. Look at what everyone else is doing.

I'm not competing against anyone, I was just doing my own thing. It's not a competition, I was simply pointing out that professional illustrators who are also engaging in the hashtag inktober were augmenting their work.

Plenty know how to work tattieshop in anger but aren't. you should probly upload the original sketch and the tattieshop version.

Photoshop can't rescue or hide a bad drawing, and no amount of photoshop skill will make you an illustrator. That much I know. Obviously I have put people's noses out of joint so I'll stop posting. I'm sure the thread will be much better for it.

I might have to join in, missed a few days, but can't see myself drawing something everyday anyway - I'm bleedin slow! Great to get some inspiration from somewhere.

Which would create an hour long file on my phone - which I'd then have to edit or upload.

yeah, but it'd let everyone see how much tattieshop you are actually using! 😆 ie 90%.

seosamh77 - Member

yeah, but it'd let everyone see how much tattieshop you are actually using!

If you have to ask, or it isn't obvious then it's irrelevant anyway since you don't know what you are looking at. As I said, no amount of photoshop can make a fundamentally flawed drawing good or hide bad technique. Bad technique like mine I should add. Enjoy.

I can spy tattieshop brushes and masks a mile away..

I honestly don't think it matters how artwork is done, I've done some stuff on iPad with gives a different aspect, but you still have to draw it... but Inktober rules (just cos some people are being picky!)

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The Autodesk part is just an advertising thing so they can promote their trial!

Great stuff jimjam.

Just keep on posting your drawings everyone 🙂

@jimjam.
No more Prima Donna ;)..... have a Snickers. Keep on sketching.

Great drawings BTW.

We need a Like button on here 🙂

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What's this "tattieshop" mince? Is it akin to "Windoze"? Sounds like somewhere I'd buy potato pies.

(Wait... Binners is a graphic designer... this explains everything.)

That's why I ripped the bottom off.

Don't boast.

tbh, i agree it's mince, my mate uses it all the time, so i think it's just automatically rubbed off on me, barely even notice i'm doing it tbh! 😆 i shall try to refrain!

Your mate's rubbed off on you and you've barely noticed?

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"Long" bow 🙂 Excellent. I started a skater yesterday. I'll finish just as people are growing moustaches 😉

Decided i should go back to basics and actually start to learn how to draw!

So inspired by this dude

Here's a texture stick, 😆 exciting i know, don't ask me what the textures are ment to be!

ball point pen.

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A complex shape drawn with a single long line but lost patience/interest so went a bit scribbly.

Yeah, not sure about the green blob at the bottom but the rest is awesome.

(says the man who can't draw for shit)

Good thread folks, well done to all the drawerists.
Sadly, i don't have an artistic bone in me and can hardly draw a stick man.

I tried to draw an owl today, it came out sooooo bad 😆

Actually perhaps I could start a line in hilariously bad animal sketches.

Early morning work dodging doodle
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"Skeletor with Sword"
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I kept the original black ink version back and coloured in a copy with wax crayons.