Inktober 2019: Day 6 - Brush Inking And Coloured Ink

Inktober 2019: day 6 - brush inking and coloured ink

One foot in front of the other, repeat as necessary.

I inked this with some rigger brushes that I’ve never been brave enough to use before, they have minds of their own!

Day 19, we’re all caught up! This one was inspired by DrawingWiffWaffles, specifically a video where she re-drew art from her followers. At first glance I thought the thumbnail was a pond mermaid with lilypads on her head. It was actually an ocean mermaid with a seashell crown, but I thought I’d try drawing what I thought I saw at first. I’m really testing the limits of those novelty pencils! I think the biggest issue with them is that they’re so low-pigment they don’t scan or photograph well.

Day 9 is a very decorative mermaid, she’s proud of her long, delicate fins.

It’s not May any more but I’m still drawing these last three mermaids! No. 29 is a raymaid (not a specific ray, some sort of weird mashup of every ray I know how to draw). I have a terrible late-night version of this one from the 31st as well, since messing it up was what forced me to admit I wasn’t going to get them done in May. I plan to print these in a little book, so I’ll put the first attempt as an inset on the page with this one. Only two more to catch up on!

Day 11 of Mermay! Do you recognise the kind of fish she is? I would like to take this opportunity to tell you about one of the most beautiful creatures in God’s creation: the hagfish. Here are some choice quotes on the wonderful characteristics of the hagfish: They are the only known living animals that have a skull but no vertebral column The skin is naked and covers the body like a loosely fitting sock

Instead of vertically articulating jaws they have a pair of horizontally moving structures with tooth-like projections for pulling off food

Its skin is only attached to the body along the center ridge of the back and at the slime glands, and is filled with close to a third of the body's blood volume, giving the impression of a blood-filled sack When captured and held, e.g., by the tail, they secrete the microfibrous mucus, which expands into up to 20 litres (5¼ US gallons) of sticky, gelatinous material when combined with water If they remain captured, they can tie themselves in an overhand knot, which works its way from the head to the tail of the animal, scraping off the slime as it goes and freeing them from their captor Seriously hagfish are one of my favourite animals and I want you all to love them as much as I do. Please take a moment to appreciate hagfish today.

Inktober 2019 : day 3 - fountain Pentel

Divination can be done with almost anything if you know how. Aichmomancy would normally be done with a knife or pins, but a sharpened pencil will do.

The first outing this year for the splatter pen! I tried not to clean the splatters off the scan so you can see them. I did manage to do this piece in one hour, I stuck to my time limit this time!