Here I Am, Frantically Posting The Rest Of Inktober 2020 Before Inktober 2021 Starts!

Here I am, frantically posting the rest of Inktober 2020 before Inktober 2021 starts!

I’ve done Inktober every year since 2013, so I was quite upset that I couldn’t finish it in 2020. I kept trying for the whole month, but I only managed a few sketches. If you squint you can see there are two dates on some of these - those are the ones that were at least sketched on the right day, the others were backfilled months later. 

I’m going to try again this year, so hold your thumbs for me!

I tried doing some automatic drawing with different pens. I don’t really know what I drew, but I like them.

Clockwise, these are: fude pen, fountain pen, pentel pocket brush, fountain pentel.

Here’s a video on automatic drawing if you want to give it a try: https://youtu.be/MJYGFwGhHnA

It’s Thought Bubble Digital Comic Con this weekend! It’s the only digital con I agreed to this year, so I’ve tried to list as much in my online shop as possible. I have mystery bundles, new postcards, art books, comic collections and handmade notebooks! The ink drawings are normally convention exclusives and will be taken down at the end of the day on Sunday, so be speedy if you want one of those! You can find me in Bubble Boy Hall! https://www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/bubbleboyhall

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/sarahfogg

Over Christmas the Sunday School children made some paper angels to decorate the church, and I thought it would be fun to try to interpret them literally.

The first one is based on small angels they made to decorate the cross, they had wings but no arms, and halos but no faces.

The middle two are based on a huge angel Gabriel, which was 5 massive pieces of black paper in a sort of windmill shape, covered in stars and googly eyes. He also had a halo with no face. I thought, best case scenario this is a human-shaped star field, worst case it’s a sort of hole in reality filled with eyes.

The final one was based on chatting to the parish priest about how angels are described in the Bible. There’s a lot of eyes and wheels involved.

I’d quite like to work these up into a series of paintings, I think? These were all done with crayola pencils on printer paper because I was at my parents’ house. I’d also like to try and animate the final one, in my mind it was spinning.

Inktober 2021, day 3 - dip pen and ink wash

He didn’t remember anything. He just woke up there, as if he had been sleeping.

We’re all working from home at the moment and there are a lot of Skype meetings, but I’m working from my bedroom so I’m not really comfortable having the camera on. (I just don’t want everyone being able to see into my room.) I thought I’d update my old skull avatar so my colleagues would have something to look at.

(I couldn’t use it in the end because there was no way to set it to JUST Skype and not my email avatar too, but at least I can use it here.)