Today’s prompt, the last one for 2023, was “fire”.
Whew! Did it!
Tried to get a little Kirby in the reflection on the metal, but man. That guy was the king.
All of my drawings for Inktober 2023.
Today’s prompt, the last one for 2023, was “fire”.
Whew! Did it!
Tried to get a little Kirby in the reflection on the metal, but man. That guy was the king.
The daily prompt was “rush”.
Today’s prompt was “massive”.
Whew! Look at the size of that wasp!!
Also, note to self: Don’t pick photos with huge swaths of blurry wasp parts. Still pretty happy with it though.
Today’s prompt was “sparkle”.
Guitars are fussy things to draw. Compound curves all over the place, big areas with subtle bends and so many fine, long, straight lines.
I own two Gretsch hollow-bodies and one of them is literally sparkly. Its finish is this amazing silver-blue icy glitter. I got stumped trying to represent that with black and white ink, so I’ll come back to it later.
For now, this the other one. Let’s say it metaphorically sparkles.
I do like the way the not quite completely blacked-in F-hole provides a little depth.
(Guitar nerds, it’s 1959 6119 Tennessean with a single bridge pickup.)
Today’s prompt was “beast”.
Whomst is the beast anyway?!?
Today’s prompt was “remove”.
I am really digging this dot shading. I need to work on the range of dark to light, but I still think I’m doing a better job of shading with this than I ever have with cross-hatching.
The daily prompt was “dangerous”.
There was a story on the radio today about a study done in South Africa that showed some animals are more afraid of human voices than of lions. Then I saw a photo of some javelinas and here we are.
The daily prompt was “shallow”. I also included prompt 19, “plump” and prompt 20, “frost”.
As long as the Garys have been in my life I’ve wondered what Gary would do when Gary went into hibernation. I think he’d stick around to make sure everything was okay, then go find someplace out of the cold, but come back regularly to make sure Gary was still tucked in.
The daily prompt was “celestial”.
This is the Nebra Sky Disc, a Bronze Age map of the sky found in Germany in 1999.
The daily prompt was “scratchy”.
The daily prompt was “chains”.
The daily prompt was “saddle”.
Grouping two prompts into one drawing: “angel” and “demon”.
The daily prompt was “dagger”.
The daily prompt was “castle”.
The daily prompt was “rise”.
The daily prompt was “spicy”.
I was traveling during the second week of October and got behind. Prompt 11 was “wander” and marks the return of my friends Gary and Gary.
Today’s prompt was “fortune”.
Today’s prompt was “bounce”.
Today’s prompt was “toad”.
Today’s prompt was “drip”.
Today’s prompt was “golden”.
Day 5’s prompt was “map”.
Not all maps are on paper.
Today’s prompt was “dodge”.
Today’s prompt was “path”.
Today’s prompt was “spiders”.
Literal and much faster today. This is a peacock spider from Australia called the Sparklemuffin. (More info at laughingsquid.com.)
The foot and stool belong to Prochorus, the amanuensis of St John the Theologian who wrote the Book of Revelation, about whom more later.
My relationship with ink is murky. I love the work of really good inkers but I’m rarely satisfied with my own work.
But it’s Inktober and I could use some prompts so I decided to try something for today.
The first prompt was “dream”. I started out doing something very planned and very geometric, but … ink and I got into our usual back and forth.
So I fell back on the old art school trick of working loose on scrap cardboard and I think it came out okay. It’s actually two pieces that ended up working well together.
India ink and a couple of pens.
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