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Esper Training Game
Original Game : マインドシーカー / Mindseeker
Inktober - day 1
Oh dear, Spider is so horribly off-model I almost didn't post this! But that didn't seem within the spirit of the challenge. Looking at all the other Inktober pictures showing up on my dashboard I already feel a little inadequate! I will try harder!
In other news, I will be at the Bristol Comic and Zine Fair this Saturday with my pal Sammy Borras! Please come down and see us! We'll have a new issue of What's the Time, Mrs Woolf? and Sammy has a brand new comic about zine-making in space!
Inktober - Day 22
I have still been doing these! I've just not had time to scan until today between prepping for MCM and actually being at MCM. Then being exhausted.
I left this one unfinished, because after the first inking I decided I might want to watercolour it and print it as one of this year's postcards. We'll see.
Having a little inktober warm-up to test some new pens I got since last year. Inktober is my favourite art challenge of the year! Nettle and Spider dominated it last year, but we’ll see who becomes the favourite this time.
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.
Lately I ordered some nice pen accessories, including a cartridge converter for my Rotring pen and some coloured cartridges for my cheapo £5 cartridge pens, so I drew Nettle and Spider while I was messing around testing them. I’ve never done spot colour with ink and water, it looks pretty nice I think. Having said that, I’m not a fan of this ink. It’s a weird colour called Bilberry that can’t decide if it’s blue, purple or black. (I tweaked it in photoshop to make it more purple.) They do one called Imperial Purple that might have been a better bet. Ah well, next time.
Inktober 2018 : Day 1 - Fountain Pentel When Nettle loses her temper at school, the sports field is the biggest casualty. It’s finally time for Inktober, my favourite art challenge of the year! I didn’t have access to my scanner for the first three days, but I was doing the drawings. This year I wanted to try to use some of my less cooperative pens, so this was done with my Fountain Pentel, a bizarre soft nib pen that isn’t a brush but sort of acts like one. I think it’s designed for writing kanji? It splatters a lot when I use it, but it also makes some really nice, scrappy sorts of lines. I think if I keep practicing I’ll be able to do something really good with it.
Inktober 2018 : Day 7 - ink and water Spider is a powerful telepath, but his telekinesis is weak and he’d like to develop it, so he spends a lot of time trying to bend spoons. Sometimes he can do it and sometimes he can’t. I didn’t draw him in his usual woolly jumper because I had a sudden desire to show you all that he’s kind of hairy.
Inktober 2019: day 16 - gel pens
Spider starts to feel a bit sick if Nettle spins him around too much.
I don’t think I’ve done this picture in gel pens before? I’ve drawn it every Inktober so far, but I was at work and couldn’t check which inks I had and hadn’t used.
I did a one marker challenge! Well, one and a half markers; I did use a colourless blender. In hindsight I don’t think I needed to, the white space I left around Nettle is big enough that I could have done sharp purple shadows on her skin.
The purple marker didn’t layer as well as I hoped, it would only go a tiny bit darker with multiple coats, even when I waited for it to dry.
My blender ran out when I was trying to lighten the background. It’s a Copic Ciao so I ordered a refill, with only a small grimace at paying £7 for a bottle of clear ink.