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Here’s a very quick n shabby sketch of my office. This was completed swiftly in pen during my brief lunch break.
I missed posting an image for yesterday so I’ll try and post something else later.
04 Thursday Oct 2018
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Here’s a very quick n shabby sketch of my office. This was completed swiftly in pen during my brief lunch break.
I missed posting an image for yesterday so I’ll try and post something else later.
02 Tuesday Oct 2018
Sticking with a sci-fi theme, here’s todays Inktober offering.
This was from a rough idea I doodled at work today. Once again, it’s black fibre-tip pen. I had a pathetic attempt at adding some background detail using Affinity Photo which, as you can tell, I don’t really know how to use – don’t tell my son, he’ll only take the piss.
I know that there are lots of great tutorials online that show you how to use Affinity, I just haven’t had the time to view them yet. Anyway, I need to stop drawing for now and get on with some work.
01 Monday Oct 2018
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If like me, British comics, and especially 2000AD, have a special place in your heart then today is a sad day. Today we lost Carlos Ezquerra. Ezquerra was a huge talent who co-created one of the most iconic characters ever, Judge Dredd. Carlos’s work had a huge impact on me as a child, and I would often try to copy his drawings. Therefore, it seems only fitting that my first offering for Inktober should be in honour of him.
I loved Ezquerra’s early vision of Dredd, a lean, mean justice machine. In more recent times Dredd has grown older and beefier, but it’s these early visions of a youthful Joe Dredd that still resonate with me all these years later.
If you look closely, you can see my initial pencil marks – I haven’t bothered to rub them out yet. This was inked with fibre-tipped pens and a sharpie.
Farewell Carlos.
01 Monday Oct 2018
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Drawing, Drawing Challenge, Ink, Inking, Inktober, pen, Sketchtember
Well, Sketchtember is over; how did you get on? I think I did okay considering it was my first attempt. I only missed a few days due to illness, and most importantly I really enjoyed it. It brought back the childhood joy of mark making, something I feared four years of art college had destroyed.
So what now? Well, how about Inktober?
Inktober is another drawing challenge. The only difference from Sketchtember is that your drawings must be in ink. Here are the rules:
Inktober rules:
1) Make a drawing in ink (you can do a pencil under-drawing if you want).
2) Post it*
3) Hashtag it with #inktober and #inktober2018
4) Repeat
Note: you can do it daily, or go the half-marathon route and post every other day, or just do the 5K and post once a week. What ever you decide, just be consistent with it. Inktober is about growing and improving and forming positive habits, so the more you’re consistent the better.
That’s it! Now go make something beautiful.
*Post it on any social media account you want or just post it on your refrigerator. The point is to share your art with someone. 🙂
Check out the official Inktober site here.
The official site has lots of advice on what to draw, how to draw, post etc.
Have fun!
30 Sunday Sep 2018
Posted Art, Drawing, Sketchtember
inFor some unknown reason, I always called this toy Space Monkey, but it quite clearly says Millenium Gorilla on his round badge – in reality, not in my sketch.
I’m feeling even rougher than when I last posted so ten minutes or so was all I could manage with this. It’s drawn with charcoal pencil from Tiger. They’re quite lovely to draw with, and you can get a decent black out of them. I’m not sure how well Millenium Gorilla gets on with those massive feet. It must be a bugger getting in and out of airlocks.
27 Thursday Sep 2018
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I had a stinking cold yesterday which has now transformed into a head full of sludge leaving me with the need to be curled up in a ball, not at work. Nothing was happening yesterday, so no sketch, but today I managed to scratch something out.
These were all done really quick and in pen. They’re not that accurate, but you get a feeling of their intense concentration.
25 Tuesday Sep 2018
Posted Art, Drawing, Sketchtember
inToday was a wonderfully bright day, so I went for a lunchtime walk through Cannon Hill Park. This pen sketch captures the dramatic long shadows cast by the trees.
24 Monday Sep 2018
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I’m going to be busy this evening so I’ll post the second page of my biographical comic strip. It’s not great, but you gett the idea.
23 Sunday Sep 2018
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Whoops. I missed a couple of days due to being very busy and very tired.
I was tidying up yesterday and I found some charcoal pencils I’d forgotten I’d bought. I thought I’d give them a go today. Desperate for ideas of what to draw I asked my daughter to pick out some toys I could sketch and here they are.
This first one isn’t great – the ears are way too short. The second one is much better.
19 Wednesday Sep 2018
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This is a bit of a cheat, but it’s been a long day, and I’m pooped. This is a biographical comic I knocked out a while ago.
I remember being quite chuffed with this when I first did it, but with hindsight, it’s not that great.