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Inktober - Day 5

I felt really bad about Spider being so stupid-looking in the Day 1 picture, so I drew him again. Then added Nettle for good measure.

Also I discovered I have no purple ink. I had to mix it myself like some sort of savage.

Now I'm in the habit after Inktober and Sketchavember, I decided to do a colour picture every day during December! Although for the sake of my sanity, they're only small doodles and I'm allowed to go back and fix them the next day.

I might or might not upload them every day, here are the first four anyway.

Day 1 - adventures in coloured ink! Tabitha is helping out around her Granny's potion shop. Don't worry, that's not her flying broom.

Day 2 - Meruch again, in watercolour, because this seemed like a good opportunity to show that Vrega do look a little different to humans when they're in colour. He might have come out a little too purple. The idea is that their blood is purple, which makes their human-like skin look greyish.

Day 3 - Fret in coloured pencil, because I wanted to practice his skin. He should have pale, pearly skin and hair with dark 'cracks', like a silver birch.

Day 4 - I'm doubling up! Alexis and Leilus in coloured pencil. Adventures in coloured lineart and drawing long, disgusting tongues.

And the second one! I bet everyone would have thought this was really cute on Hallowe’en.

day 31 - brush inking, coloured ink (which was harder to work with than I expected)

Tabitha is very proud to have been entrusted with Granny’s All Hallow’s Eve deliveries.

Inktober 2015 - Day 31 : brush inking and coloured ink And the last one, happy Hallowe’en! This year Tabitha is collecting branches for the bonfires that ward off evil spirits during this important night.

Inktober 2016 - Day 13 : brush pen and coloured ink I was out in town with Sammy  (who incidentally has just written a very good post about being careful when you give harsh advice about art) when I drew this and she said ‘draw Poppet with a pumpkin’, so I did and here it is! Poppet is helping out with the Hallowe’en prep. From scratching around with a gel pen yesterday to my fattest brush pen today!

Inktober 2016 - Day 31 : brush inking and coloured ink Every All Hallows Eve the coven sends witches to guard the paths through the local forests and graveyards, with instructions to safely escort anyone not wearing a mask while the spirits roam free. Always wear a mask on Hallowe’en to protect yourself from malicious spirits!

Happy Hallowe’en everyone!

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.

Inktober 2017 : Day 12 - brush pen and coloured ink Demons aren’t allowed to walk around in human form without at least one tell-tale feature.

Inktober 2017 : Day 24 - brush inking and coloured ink

Nat can do all sorts of magic, but generating fire has always come very naturally to him. I regretted not using coloured ink on day 1 every single time I saw the picture in my sketchbook, so I finally gave in and did another one with the same concept. Here’s the spot colour I think I should have used the first time!

Inktober 2017 : Day 31 - brush inking and coloured ink

Happy Hallowe’en everyone! In Tabitha’s village some people still carve turnips and others have swapped to the new imported pumpkins, but as far as the coven is concerned the important thing is that the lanterns are placed and lit before sunset.

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!

Inktober 2019: day 12 - brush inking and coloured ink

The way Nettle’s hair waves around when she uses her powers is a sign of poor control.

I wanted to practice using those rigger brushes a bit more, so I drew something pretty simple. They’re so hard to control! You can get more ink in them at once without losing the fine tip though.

Inktober 2019: day 19 - brush inking and coloured ink

If they fall down without time to prepare, they don’t come out right.

Inktober 2019: day 25 - ink and water

She emerged unharmed from a deadly house fire, and now when she touches objects they ignite.

This is the same girl from day 21, somewhat earlier in life. By the time she’s employed as a servant she’s learned to control whatever is happening to her, but at first she would leave charred footprints everywhere she went.

I was tabling at London MCM from the 25th to the 27th, so I tried to keep them simple.

Some automatic drawings from last year. I liked these three as a triptych, although I didn't plan them that way.

They look sort of biological to me?