Featuring the evil rutabaga known as Lenny that was part of my Angry Carrot comic.
drawing trouble
Inktober 2019 #8: Frail
The egg was strangely difficult to draw.
Inktober 2019 #7: Enchanted
Probably more accurate to call this one Cursed, really. I did reference a photo of a frog for this because otherwise my frog would have looked like a blob with sticks. I probably could have still managed the crown, though.
Inktober 2019 #6: Husky
I tried to draw the dog version of husky and my hands and brain were both, “No, you need years more of practice before you can do this” so I drew a big husky guy with weird-looking legs instead.
Inktober 2019 #5: Build
I think I could have built a robot in less time than it took me to draw one. How can simple things take so long? Anyway, I call this, “How giant robots built the pyramids, on the next Ancient Aliens.”
Inktober 2019 #4: Freeze
“Freeze” might seem easy, but my mind, er, froze, when trying to come up with something. I finally managed this abominable snowmugging.
Inktober 2019 #2: Mindless
With a bit of color this time. Is this against the rules? Pink doesn’t cost extra in digital ink.
Inktober 2019 #1: Ring
I tried drawing a ring, like the kind you wear on your finger. It’s harder than you think. Harder for me, anyway. Then I thought of showing a phone ringing, but phones are hard to draw, too. I thought, “What is really easy to draw that also rings? A stick man!”
Well, actually, stick men don’t ring. So I improvised. Here’s my first entry in Inktober 2019, a stick men hanging over a pit of spikes on an exercise ring. Ironically, the one part I cheated on by using a shape is the ring itself.
This is actually one of several drawings I made. I spent a long time working on something else and it sucked corn dogs. Such is art.
Tools used:
- Procreate (for the overall sketch) using the Studio Pen brush
- iPad Pro 10.5 inch
- Apple Pencil (the first one, which is approximately five meters long)
- Affinity Photo for adding the ring (Windows version)
I’m doing Inktober 2019!
No, really. I’m going to do an ink drawing (digitally on my iPad) every day, using the prompts, which are as follows:
I’m going with the “do whatever I can in five minutes” approach, so there’s no huge commitment. Will it result in magic or madness? We’ll find out starting tomorrow!
And just so I don’t forget, here are the official rules from the Inktober site:
- Make a drawing in ink (you can do a pencil under-drawing if you want)
- Post it
- Hashtag it with #inktober and #inktober2019
- Repeat
A quick doodle in Zen Brush 2
It’s a tree or something, like they show in the tutorial, but a little wonkier.
Anyway, this is a simple sketch program for iPad that simulates Japanese ink drawings. My next effort will be a fire- breathing koi.
My first terrible sketch in Sketchbook: Gum Gum Person
This quick sketch (that’s my excuse, yeah) was made using Autodesk’s Sketchbook software on the Mac mini, using a Wacom Intuos tablet.
It’s a gum gum person and the color is off, the lines are weird and the face/head are not in proportion (I know my gum gum people), but you gotta start somewhere.
For comparison, here’s a pair of gum gum people I drew on actual paper way back:
For my next trick I will try drawing something decent. Or maybe another gum gum person.
A drawing per…month?
One of the things I did when making my resolutions for 2019 was lower the bar. In some cases I didn’t just lower the bar, I gently set it down on the ground. I wanted as little friction as possible to make progress, hoping the ease in doing so would provide sufficient psychological boost to push me beyond my terribly modest goals and reach for the sky, or at least something that requires me to stand on my toes.
One might make the argument that since I obviously know I’m trying to “trick myself” into improvement, it will never work. And that’s possible. But I like to think I’m at least willing to meet my brain halfway on this.
And so I am adding another resolution for the remaining 11 months of 2019: A drawing per month. Not one per week or day, just one every month–a modest goal that can be built on.
I have 20 days to keep pace going forward. Will I draw a blank (lol)? Find out on February 28! Or hopefully sooner. You never know.