Inktober 2017 : Day 13 - Ink And Water

Inktober 2017 : Day 13 - ink and water

If only it really were just sleep paralysis.

Inktober 2017: Day 6 - fineliners and felt tip pen

Turning the pages for Spider is by far the hardest part of this exercise. Nettle is trying to practice moving only the things she wants to move, but I don’t think she’ll ever be able to use her powers without some of her hair waving around.

I realised last year that I’ve drawn a variation on this theme for every Inktober since 2014, so now I want to keep going and see which I run out of first, different ink methods or ideas.

Inktober 2017 : Day 15 - mapping pen (and some others) This one is a bit of a hodge-podge, it’s mostly mapping pen, but I used a brush pen for the black areas (including the shine on the ribbons) and a fineliner for the red. A bundle of oak, thorn and ash twigs tied with red string will ward off fairies, both good and bad.

Inktober 2017 : Day 7 - mapping pen Caspian finds it harder to hold his human shape when he feels threatened. This one is a lesson in paying attention to ALL your materials. I was having really trouble with it for the first few passes, and I thought it was the pen misbehaving, but it turned out to be the INK. Always consider your pens, inks and paper!

Inktober 2017 : Day 14 - G-pen (and a brush to fill in the black) When one awakes in a strange, dark world with no idea what is going on, Shasta’s is not the most comforting face to see looming overhead.

Inktober 2017 : Day 9.5 - brush pen and coloured ink

I always try to draw my own characters for Inktober, so this is a little extra one. I convinced a co-worker to walk home with me along the canal path and we saw a heron, so she asked for a picture with a heron and some Autumn colours. Here it is! Incidentally I have no idea what that plant is. The berries almost looked like rosehips, but it certainly wasn’t a rose. If anyone can identify it I’d be very interested.