Inktober 2020 #4: Radio

I used reference for the radio, which took a long time to get looking “right” because I didn’t want to cheat with real straight lines. I now understand why the Draw a Box tutorials have you start by drawing pages of lines. Drawing lines is hard!

I also had trouble with the gum gum person’s legs, of all things. He’s sitting on a beanbag chair, for which I used no reference. The shading makes it look like it might be a lump of coal instead. I can live with that.

And yes, Prompt #3 is currently missing. I hope to get it done tomorrow(ish).

Inktober 2020 #2: Wisp

I tried a few things here, the first being a campfire with a wisp of smoke floating up from it. It wasn’t very good. I tried a cigarette on the ground, with smoke wisping up from it. This was even worse. I started to think I might have to come back to the prompt late. This isn’t what I wanted for the second day, so I began thinking about how I could somehow incorporate a gum gum person and that’s how I ended up with a gum gum person conjuring fire. Kind of weird, but sometimes you just roll with these things.

Inktober 2020 #1: Fish

It’s time for Inktober again, woo.

The first prompt is FISH and I cleverly drew a fish:

This year I am using:

  • iPad Pro 12.9 inch
  • 2nd generation Apple Pencil
  • Procreate

Today’s prompt was done using the brush pen and eraser. A lot of eraser. The brush pen allows for great control of stroke thickness and opacity, which are two things I am good at bumbling around with, hence the eraser. The drawing is a combination of careful construction and winging it. A flying fish, if you will.

Inktober 2020: The list, the anticipation

Inkotober 2020 has revealed the 31 prompts for this year and to my surprise and delight they are not:

  1. Doom
  2. Doom
  3. Doom
  4. Despair
  5. Doom
  6. Despair-flavored doom
  7. etc.

Instead, they are:

#19 (Dizzy) was accidentally repeated, but they’ve decided to run with it, so I’ll have to come up with something fresh and exciting for it this year.

I expect there will be Gum Gum People.

I am looking forward to this.