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Sketchavember - Day 3
I decided to try drawing the mirror twins in my normal style. They seemed to come out okay.
Inktober day 8 - brush pens and G-pen
The mirror twins might be ghosts or they might just be really creepy.
Inktober 2015 - Day 15 : ink and water It’s nice to make new friends. I was short of time yesterday and realised I hadn’t drawn the mirror twins yet this year! Have they disturbed that grave by climbing on it, or were they attracted by the already restless dead?
Inktober 2016 - Day 17 : g-pen and grey pen I realised I hadn’t drawn the Mirror Twins yet this year, so here they are! That might well be a ‘Hand of Glory’, but let’s not ask where they got it.
Intober 2017 : Day 2 - G-pen
The Mirror Twins have lots of friends to talk to. I promise I did actually do this on the 2nd! I have two jobs so sometimes I’m out of the house all day (literally from 6am to 10pm) so there’s no time at all to scan anything.
Inktober 2017 : Day 22 - mapping pen and brush pen
‘He followed us home, can we keep him?’
Inktober 2018 : Day 4 - G-pen (and a brush pen for the black) I’ve now come down with a horrible cold, so I thought the Mirror Twins would be nice and easy to draw, but every line of this was a battle! TT_TT
Inktober 2018 : Day 31 - mapping pen and ink wash Happy Hallowe’en! The Mirror Twins are looking for some new friends, if you’d like to join them. No Tabitha this year! I had so many Tabitha pictures that I recently made them into a set of postcards, so I thought it was time to try something different. I don’t think I’ve ever tried ink wash over hatching like this before, so maybe this will be my next Hallowe’en tradition?
Inktober 2019: day 9 - dip pen and ink wash
The Mirror Twins have spotted a potential new friend.
I’m getting really tired so I tried to keep this one simple, but it actually took longer than yesterday’s picture!
Inktober 2019: day 31 - mapping pen and ink wash
The Mirror Twins and their friend wish you a happy Hallowe’en! Be careful who you greet after dark.
I posted a terrible, late-night photo of this on twitter just to prove I finished it on time, because it was so close to midnight!
And so ends another Inktober, it was much harder to keep up now that I have a full-time job. I might have to work at half the size next year. I couldn’t keep up with scanning and posting them at all towards the end either, but I did still draw them on the right days. I’m not perfectly happy with every piece, but I feel very accomplished!
Here’s the rest of them! Right at the end of this month I decided I had run out of time, so the real life sketchbook has a few pages painted flat black between these.
I feel a lot better this year, but I have a couple of strategies planned in case things go badly again. I might go as small as A7 if a whole page is too daunting, and in the limit if I really can’t do anything on a given day I’ll paint it black again. That way I won’t have a backlog - either it’s done or it’s not.
Inktober is may favourite art event of the year so I hope this time goes better!
Inktober 2021, day 13 - technical pens and grey pen
Time to wake up, friend.
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I tried some harsher lighting on this one than I usually do. Also spot the splatter where I accidentally shot ink out of my pen!
Inktober 2021, day 31 - mapping pen and ink wash
Do you think she'll like it?
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Inktober 2021 completed with just under 2 hours to spare! (I finished this at about 10:20pm on the 31st.) Happy Halloween!
Shhhh. Don't wake them up.
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Inktober 2022 Day 12: Pentel Pocket Brush and ink wash
Sit down, they want to talk to you.
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Inktober 2022 Day 17: fineliners and grey pens
It's a good day for friends to visit.
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Inktober 2022 Day 31: dip pen and ink wash
Last one! As usual, finished with about 2 hours to midnight. I was screamingly busy at London MCM Comic Con for the last 5 days (including travel and packing/unpacking etc.) so I'm really pleased that I managed to keep going to the end.
This makes 5 of the Mirror Twins for Hallowe'en, so I'll probably get them printed as postcards like the 5 Tabitha drawings. Who should I pick for the next series?