Inktober 2020 days 26-31

Having drawn Gizmo the day before, it was only fair to draw Jedi 🙂 She hides in the new old basket that I got from my friend Nico’s mum.

I used a 0.05 mm black Graphik line maker from Derwent (still almost out of ink), a black ink Brushpen by Pentel, light grey ink Brush Writer by Kuretake, and white acrylic 0.7 mm Posca pen for the whiskers.

An abstract-ish theme with ample choices to draw from. Perhaps too ample! I spent a lot of time researching the best subject for me since none was obvious.

This is a sitar. I drew an Indian woman holding it. I found it crooked and too small, so I added a reflection underneath.

I used a 0.05 mm black Graphik line maker from Derwent and a light grey ink Brush Writer from Kuretake.

Ah, another favourite! This is after a drawing by Moebius. The original is in colour and the woman floats in lilac water. She has a longer nose and her head is tilted slightly more upwards in the original. But I am not after “identical”, I am after “proportionate”.

I only used a 0.05 mm black Graphik line maker from Derwent.

Midway into the month I saved a photograph of a woman trail running and her gorgeous running shoes, taken from close to the ground. But on the day “shoes” came up, I had lost interest. Or I grew more ambitious with my drawings. In any case, I put my love of running shoes on the side and looked for tango shoes and the legs of the dancers.

I used a 0.05 mm black Graphik line maker from Derwent, a black ink Brushpen by Pentel, and my light grey ink Brush Writer by Kuretake.

I suppose I was still under the influence of the “float” prompt! My options ranged from drawing ominous clouds, to ominous things. And having tried clouds without much satisfaction on the kind of paper my artbook is made of, I recalled a movie, “Arrival” that featured ominous alien objects hovering in various places of the world, that looked like giant eggs or thick immense petals depending on the angle.

I used a 0.05 mm black Graphik line maker from Derwent, a black ink Brushpen by Pentel, the light grey ink Brush Writer by Kuretake, and a water brush pen in places.

Leopard crawling up a tree. Love this!

I had saved a few reference photographs of big cats but had thought it was too difficult, because of the spots in particular, or the stripes, or the mane. But today’s prompt reminded me of those, and I thought I should at least try.

Oddly, today I felt confident enough to forego any pencil sketch and draw directly with the Pentel black ink Brushpen, and it went all right! I then used the light grey ink Brush Writer from Kuretake for shadows.

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