It’s that time of year again. I fell in love with Inktober last year. I didn’t complete all the challenges as I learned about it mid-October; but I was determined Inktober 2020 was going to be different. Then 2020 happened. And you all know how that’s going. I’m literally checking my news feed every five minutes as I work on this post. The election is happening right now. RIGHT NOW. And I can’t do much more than watch those results come in.
Back to Inktober. I promised myself I wouldn’t post until I got to 15 drawings, but it’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve drawn my last and I also made a promise to keep myself accountable and post my work, regardless. So, here goes.
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Please refer to my blog post for details on drawings. I try to give credit when I can. Most are drawn from reference photos or drawings with my imagination thrown in.
I have done this lesson every year for the past seven years, and with good reason. It touches so many key art skills. Drawing from observation, overlapping shapes, drawing off the paper, stippling, texture, warm and cool colors, and details.
I LOVE THIS CHALLENGE SO MUCH!!! The main takeaways I’ve learned from this experience are:
- Make time every day to draw, even if it’s only for 15 minutes.
- The only way to get better at anything is to practice, practice, practice.
My confidence is coming up, my ability is coming up, and I feel I’m getting a little more creative because of it.
I was wandering around the Internet the other day, don’t know what I was looking for, when all of the sudden, this caught my eye:
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