INKTOBER
Hi girls, boys, aliens, and sloths. Our dear @delenn13 recently suggested that all artists in the house give Inktober a go. So how about we spring this thread back to life with fierce chest compressions?
With that said, I’d like to suggest all those participating signal their daily entry with a headline, so that we can keep track of each other’s work! Something like:
### Inktober Day 01
This gives you a reasonably-sized headline (the one on top of this post is 1 hashtag, so it’s hella big). I’m unlikely to participate daily but… I’ll try to join in with doodles whenever I can.
Inktober Day -02
I’ve recently gone and gifted myself a gorgeous 12-color set of Derwent’s inktense blocks! They’re watercolor, except that once they dry they become permanent! Which means you can do layer work, inking, and much more without moving your previous work around.
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t absolutely smitten. Watercolor is a technique I’ve always hated. Now with a beginner’s brush set, excellent “paint” and, most importantly, patience, I find myself itching to go back to drawing and sliding my brush across the paper.
I’ve also bought myself a very nice Hahnemühle sketchbook. Sadly it’s only 140g/m². The 190g/m² was only a bit more expensive but it didn’t occur to me when buying… oops. hah! 160 pages is a lot and overall I’m hella happy with my purchase. The pages handle some light water-coloring and that’s what I’m going to showcase bellow.
To the ones who are extra curious about materials:
Bellow I’m using the aforementioned inktense blocks for coloring, my 140g/m² pages (because I fear nothing), Micron 0.1 and Brush waterproof ink pens and a Unipin 0.5 waterproof inkpen. Unipin is my ink pen brand of choice, but they were out so I went with Micron.
Oh! I also used red 0.5 Pentel mechanical pencil “graphite” for the sketch.
They were my first attempts at watercolor since preschool so be kind haha!
I really like mixing techniques so I’m happy with the result. The lady is no one in particular and the words (the top got cut off because it’s hard to scan hard-bound pages without ripping them off) are the lyrics from:
She comes up for a breath
Fuck the rest, she’s the best
Her eyes are laser-beaming me
Suspending all reality
And just as soon as she smiles
She puts her sunglasses on
I haven’t felt this in a while
She breaks me down in style