inktober – My Beautiful Monsters

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Inktober 2017 Week 4 Wrap Up

#inktober2017 Week 4 Wrap Up:

And another #inktober comes to an end. Although rough and a few times very rushed I managed to illustrate one fairytale everyday for a month! Like every year its is a mixture of relief, pride and saddness that its finished.

Day 22: Peter Pan

Day 23: The Blacksmith and the Devil

Day 24: Alice in Wonderland

Day 25: The Goose Girl

Day 26: East of the Sun West of the Moon

Day 27: Pinnochio

Day 28: The Elves and the Shoemaker

Day 29: Bluebeard

Day 30: The Tinderbox

Day 31: The Singing Bone

Thank you all for following along and for all your support! ♥

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Inktober 2017 Week 3

#inktober2017 Week 3 Drawings:

Day 15: The Wild Swans

Day 16: Rapunzel

Day 17: Sleeping Beauty

Day 18: Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Day 19: The Nightingale

Day 20: Puss in Boots

Day 21: Aladin and the Wonderful Lamp

Only a few more days left!

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Inktober 2017 Week 2

Drawings from Week 2 of #inktober2017. I’m trying not to spend too long on these drawing. Including re-reading the story/summary, research, rough sketch and finished ink I am spending less then 2 hrs on each.

Day 8: The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Day 9: The Frog Prince

Day 10: The Little Mermaid

Day 11: The Emperor’s New Clothes

Day 12: The Princess and the Pea

Day 13: Little Red Riding Hood

Day 14: Thumbelina

I decided to keep going with the PITT pens. Even the smallest one doesn’t have a very fine point so I can’t spend too long adding in tiny details.

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Inktober 2017 Week 1

#Inktober2017 Week 1

This year I’ve chosen ‘Fairytales’ as my theme. Some I know very well and some I am enjoying learning more about as I do them.

Day 1: Beauty and the Beast

Day 2: Cinderella

Day 3: The Ugly Duckling

Day 4: Rumpelstiltskin

Day 5: The Snow Queen

Day 6: Hansel and Gretel

Day 7: Snow White

For theses drawings I’ve been experimenting with some PITT pens I received as a gift and a cheap Japanese calligraphy brush pen. I have been enjoying the PITT brush pen and the calligraphy brush but I can’t get the fine line quality I want from the felt tips. I’m torn between sticking with them for consistency or going back to by trusty micro pens.

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Bonus Inktober 2016 Time lapse Video !

Bonus Inktober 2016 Time lapse Video!

I wasn’t able to get this video posted before the end of Oct but I thought I would still share it. Learning from my first video – the camera is moved to my left side so the drawing isn’t covered by my hand and I’ve tried to have more light. Nearly all of my inktober drawing were done after I finished everything else for the day meaning they were done often late into the night.

The video has been sped up 16x to show a little over half and hour of inking. My tools for all of my inktober drawings-Castell XF 0.7 mechanical pencil, Mircon pens on toned paper and A3 LED light pad.

I hope to share more process videos in the future and perhaps some tutorials as well.

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Inktober Day 31 – Ghoul (Back Dated)

*I was fairly certain that I posted it on the day but that post seems to have disappeared. So here it is again!*

#inktober2016 Day 31 – Ghoul

Hungry, the creature feasts on the long dead found in a forgotten tomb.

Happy Halloween!

With a mixture of relief and sadness another Inktober comes to an end. It was a challenge to find time to do a drawing each day but I am really pleased that I could see it through. As rushed as some of these drawing are I am happy with all of them. It has been great practice and really good to draw on paper everyday.

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Inktober Day 30 – Cockatrice

#inktober2016 Day 30 – Cockatrice

The equally deadly brother to the Basilisk, the Cockatrice has the added advantage of flight.

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Inktober Day 29 – Basilisk

#inktober2016 Day 29 – Basilisk

Basilisk, King of the Serpents, huge and deadly.

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Inktober Day 28 – Kraken

#inktober2016 Day 28- Kraken

The mighty Kraken, a rare sight to be seen, its size beyond measure hides in the deep.

I finished off this drawing too late to post last night…I’m struggling a little to find time to do these everyday but I’m determined to see out the challenge.

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Inktober Day 27 – Bogeyman

#inktober2016 Day 27 – Bogeyman

The deepest fear, the darkest fear. No culture in the world is without the Bogeyman.

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