17 Wednesday Oct 2018
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Art, Drawing, Drawing Challenge, Inktober, Inktober2018, Squirrel
This is the final panel of my one page comic strip. As you can see, we have one angry squirrel.
When I get the chance, I’ll put the four together. It may not be until the weekend now as I’m busy over the next couple of days.
Now onto the writing!
I have an ending that I’m struggling with. Bloody dogs!
13 Saturday Oct 2018
Posted in Art, Birmingham Literature Festival, Comics, Drawing, Ikon Gallery, Inktober, The Arts, writing
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Birmingham, Birmingham Literature Festival, Cath Tate, Dr Nicola Streeten, Drawing, Drawing Challenge, Graphic Novel, Ikon Gallery, Inktober, Inktober2018, uk
Yesterday, No.1 Daughter and I went to a marvellous workshop at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham. The workshop was run by Dr Nicola Streeten and Cath Tate as part of the Birmingham Literature Festival.
We looked at visual story telling through greetings cards and graphic novels. Cath talked us through her work and considerations for greetings cards and Nicola the same for graphic novels. The two hours flew by and incorporated some fun and challenging drawing activities. The culmination of this was all of us producing our own four panel stories. The daughter and I agreed to leave our work there as a backdrop for a talk today, so I’ve recreated/completed the first panel above here.
Here are some pics of the work we produced on the night.
09 Tuesday Oct 2018
Posted in Art, Drawing, Inktober, Sketchtember
Here’s a drawing done entirely in ink – no penciling out before hand. It’s not too bad considering. Knowing that whatever mark you make is permanent sure makes you look a lot more closely at what you drawing and the marks that you’re making.
It has a sepia tint because I shot it on my phone under the yellow lighting of the back bedroom. I used the Tombow flexible brushes for the majority of this – a black and a selection of greys. In fact, the only fine line work I did was on the hair and that was with the trusty Staedtler pens – a 0.5.
I quite like this, but I’m sure my son will hate it.
I’m finding Inktober a bit harder to be consistent with compared to Sketchtember. I’ve missed four days so far!
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!
