Inktober 2016, 14-19

Inktober 14, 2016

Inktober 15, 2016

Inktober 16, 2016

Inktober 17, 2016

Inktober 18, 2016

Inktober 19, 2016

Inktober 2016, 1-7

I'm sorry it's been so long between posts here.  It's October, so it's Inktober!  This year I decided to draw my Inktobers on Strathmore Toned Gray paper because I have had a pad of it for a long time and have wanted to try it.  Here are the first seven drawings:

Inktober 1, 2016

Inktober 2, 2016

Inktober 3, 2016

Inktober 4, 2016

Inktober 5, 2016

Inktober 6, 2016

Inktober 7, 2016

Inktober 2015 Continued: Drawings 15-21

Here's the next batch of Inktober 2015 drawings.  I'd say I can't believe I've been behind on these all month, but the sad part is that I do believe it.  But I also believe I can still catch up!  I can at least catch up with posting them. :)

Inktober 15, 2015

Inktober 16, 2015

Inktober 17, 2015

Inktober 18, 2015

Inktober 19, 2015

Inktober 20, 2015

Inktober 21, 2015

Inktober 2015: 4, 5, 6

I should probably post these separately but I keep forgetting!

Inktober 4, white ink on black board

Inktober 5, ink and ink wash on watercolor paper

Inktober 6, ink on watercolor paper

From my sketchbook

Pencil sketch

Pigma Micron pens with colored pencil

Illustration Friday: "Vacation"

I'm so late on this that there was no time for ink to dry before painting on it!  So I shaded it with lines instead.  This was drawn with 0 and 00 brushes and Speedball Super Black ink, which is easy to find and I think makes nice lines.

Illustration Friday: "Ruckus"

Illustration Friday: "Beard"

"Our Tree"

Illustration Friday: "Temptation"

"The Open Gate"

Unplanned

This illustration was almost totally unplanned.  I was working on a commission this morning, and then suddenly I wasn't because I was working on this.

Often I want to say something in an illustration but (as I always complain to my husband) it's not a song or a poem where you can just say what you want to say.  It's an illustration so I have to try to communicate something with a visual image and I think lots of times that I just don't quite get there.

Today was different.  I wanted to communicate what it feels like to want to say something and to have something to say, but also how hard it can be to do that.  And how we must all have creativity and imagination and whatever inside ourselves but are a little reluctant to let anyone else see even though we want to.  Then this drawing started to happen and it was going well!  I didn't even want to bother with sketching so except for the little character, I didn't.  I wanted the whole thing to just be spontaneous.  So here it is.  I hope you like it!