On the left, Lenny the Rutabaga. On the right, a slightly restyled Angry Carrot, now with elbows and knees. And cute little feet.
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Today’s prompt is:
BANANA
And that means Gum Gum People, because they can somehow make bananas work like speeder bikes from Return of the Jedi.
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Today’s prompt is:
TOMATO
I did a tomato in the same style as yesterday’s orange:
Then I decided it maybe needed a face? And did this:
I can’t decide which I like better.
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I’m back and doing Lisa Bardot’s Making Art Everyday prompts, at least for the very first day. We’ll see how it goes.
January’s theme is FOOD, and the first prompt is:
ORANGE
I followed along with the tutorial Lisa made, though I added some color to my leaves. It was surprisingly quick to do this. I like quick!
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I have no idea what the malls were like today. With snow on the ground, the high temperature of the day being -6C and the Omicron variant of COVID-19 doing a variation of Oprah’s “You get a car and you get a car and you get a car!” with the entire general population, it seems unlikely the stores were packed.
But people do love a good bargain.
I went for a walk but otherwise stayed inside, warm and content to avoid crowds, plague and things.
I did a quick drawing to celebrate Boxing Day, though. In hindsight, I wished I had put flaps on the box. I mean, I still could, but maybe I should just move onto bigger, better boxes.
I’m also thinking about restarting some art lessons, to better ground myself in the basics. I’m a bit rusty.
I started out Inktober right on time…then failed to do the next 11 prompts.
This was not intentional.
I may start doing prompts again tomorrow. Yes, that’s it. Tomorrow.
To the future!
When I look back at the art I did as a kid, I’ll sometimes draw (ho ho) inspiration from it, thinking, “That was pretty good.” As I developed my mad sketching skills, I did a copious amount of copying, which is a pretty good way to learn how to draw.
Speaking of copying (such a clever segue), here’s a sketch I did based on the Newsweek cover story from June 18, 1979, “Hollywood’s scary summer”:
The story cataloged the horror movies of summer 1979, with Alien featuring prominently, and an included shot of the alien (which was a spoiler at the time, I suppose) formed the basis of my sketch, done on a 5×7″ sketchpad using a 2B pencil:
I pulled this sketch into Affinity Photo and played around with the exposure, brightness and a few other settings. The end result is an interesting example of how you can change the feel of a drawing without actually altering the drawing itself (ie. no erasing, drawing over existing lines or adding new elements).
The modified version pops more, and I like the more dramatic look to the glowing mist. I think the 14-year-old version of me would have approved. The not-14 year old version of me is still not crazy about how the ribs look.
I guess I am doing this again, at least for one prompt.
Technically this isn’t all ink because I used a glow effect brush in Procreate. I am a cheater. The rest was studio pen or dry ink, though.
Also, I’m shoehorning Gum Gum People into every prompt, so that should be fun.
Crystal:
Inktober 2021 starts mere hours from now, 31 days of prompts that are meant to be done in ink or ink-like media. I have participated the last two years, but strangely am still uncertain whether I want to take part again this year.
Part of my ambivalence is the first few prompts are rather uninspiring to me. Another part is feeling I should be devoting more time to structured learning on my drawing instead of doing a bunch of goofy prompts, which can help, but are maybe a better way to “cut loose” than to hone my skills.
Anyway, we’ll see what happens tomorrow!
Here’s the list for 2021:
This was done using a tutorial from bardotbrush.com, so the basic duckling shape was already set. The fluffy feathers and colors are my own.
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I hate hedgehogs almost as much as I hate otters, but this time I allowed myself a little more creative freedom, so it went a bit better.
For future reference, the fur was done using the standard dry ink brush.
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This was done using Bardot Brush’s llama template and brushes, so the general shape and face are hers, but the fluff, coloring and shading are mine.
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