No biggie! I have been doodling in the name of Inktober 2020, despite the dispute, the copyright infringement, the arguments, the fight on Youtube and the division among the artists community. These are small little illustrations in ink using brush pens, fountain pens and copic markers. Here are my results:
Its time for a new post in October... as you all know, October is #inktober as well, a world wide social network thing that Jake Parker has started a couple of years ago. I did the inktober in 2015, and then in 2016 and now this is the third installation. The objective of this program is to encourage artists and non-artists around the world to take up inking traditionally, ink; brush or pen on paper. For me, it is back to drawing on the sketchbook.
#Inktober2017 has been quite a stir. I don't see a lot of drawings on Facebook for this year but I do believe there are many artists out there make inktober a reality. FB may have blocked the feeds but I am not stopping there.
Here's my first inktober entry.
I have always enjoyed drawing TREX and all sorts of dinosaurs, so why not use this as a theme, something that I have done so for the past inktobers. For this drawing, it was done with a G-Nib from Tachikawa, a brand of g-nibs that offer smooth gliding action on any kind of paper. Using this as a warm up as well.
This was done on 8 Oct, it should be entry #8. I used a brush pen for this one and painted it in Photoshop after scanning it. Quite an enjoyable process. I save the BW line art and printed on copy paper so I could add tones with my touch markers later.
Both drawings have different focus. For the first I got carried away and tried too hard on the textures. It was pretty tiring at the end. For the second, I managed the details and textures so they become a design element that direct a viewer's attention towards the head and eyes. The more graphical smoke in the BG provide some textural focus to the actual subject matter.
More postings on Inktober coming soon.
