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October 2, 2011
 
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Inktober 2011!

October is here and so is Inktober 2011!

“What is Inktober?,” you ask. Created by one of my heroes, Jake Parker, Inktober is a month long appre­ci­a­tion of the art of draw­ing in ink and the prac­ti­tion­ers that embrace that art. It also hap­pens to be the per­fect excuse to make me pro­duce some more draw­ings. In cel­e­bra­tion, I will be post­ing one ink draw­ing a day to my sketch blog, A Little Sketchy, for the entire month of October.

Last year, Inktober was a new chal­lenge for me as I had never ever tried draw­ing every sin­gle day. It’s amaz­ing how sim­ple the con­cept sounds until real life tries to drown the endeavor out. Also, not being able to first plan my draw­ings in pen­cil became an unex­pected hur­dle as, on sev­eral occa­sions, I lit­er­ally drew myself into a corner.

Will I rise to this year’s chal­lenge?
Will my draw­ings progress?
Will you (the Internet) even care?!

Stay tuned to see the drawings.

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There was nowhere for me to hide in week 4. My old char­ac­ters came back to yell at me, 2 draw­ings were left incom­plete and I only had mar­ginal suc­cess with estab­lish­ing some poses. After the suc­cesses of week 3, you’d think I would be able to ride the high and tell more of a story with each draw­ing. Sadly, that didn’t hap­pen and I strug­gled with each night’s draw­ing. At least you know I’m hon­est with my work.

Still, there were some draw­ings that I ended up being very happy with and I tend to not like my work until some time has passed so per­haps it’s not the near-failure I’m mak­ing it out to be. You can be the judge of that.

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Color!

Having slayed some per­sonal demons dur­ing week 2, I was deter­mined to add some pol­ish and color to my draw­ings. The truth is I love col­or­ing dig­i­tally. Digital col­or­ing lets you go wild and exper­i­ment with­out the per­ma­nence I’ve expe­ri­enced with paint, pas­tels and such. I still had to push myself but the fun was back. I’m really pleased with some of these.

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