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Embracing the Majesty of Overgrown Realms with Inktober

Ink illustration of a silhouette figure confronting overgrown plants

Inktober Adventure: Confronting the Overgrown with a Character Silhouette

Continuing my Inktober catch-ups, here’s my illustration for the prompt Overgrown. I immediately imagined a crazy bean stalk wall that was impossible to see through. I decided to create a silhouette of a character looking at the towering, overgrown wall. By doing this, I was able to keep the focus on the character while still being able to show the immense amount of the plants. It was a fun challenge.

I used my new LePen Technical Drawing Pen for this illustration. So the contour ink lines are all the same thickness, but the plants in the illustration were still diverse, with a lot of different shapes and sizes. This helped to create a sense of depth and made the inking feel more alive. I think the variety of plants also helped to create a more interesting composition, rather than having everything look the same.

Enchanted Inktober: The Lady of the Lake and Excalibur Illustration

Enchanted Excalibur and The Lady of the Lake Ink Illustration

Exploring Legends with Ink: The Enchanted Sword of Excalibur

I got a little behind on my inktober illustrations this year. Here’s the illustration for the prompt Enchanted. There are so many great ideas that come to mind with this prompt. I was inspired to draw the famous enchanted sword of Excalibur.

Growing up one of my favorite movies was the 1981 film Excalibur. I always remember the scene where the lady of the lake both gives and takes back Excalibur. So for this ink illustration, I wanted to draw that: Excalibur and a magical enchanted scene with the lady of the lake.

This year I’ve been both drawing a sketch first or going straight to inks. For this one, I did draw a sketch first. Then I went over the illustration with an ink pen. I wanted the illustration to be simple and clear. So I didn’t draw that much in the way of background or foreground. I added ripples to show her hand reaching through the water. I also put a spark of enchanted energy as the center point of the ink drawing.

Inking the Spirit: Exploring the Energetic Husky in Ink

Embracing Inktober: Capturing the Energy of a Hungry Husky

For the Inktober prompt of Husky, I decided to illustrate a husky dog. This might be the first dog I’ve drawn in years. The funny thing is I actually drew a husky, husky. He’s even eagerly waiting for food with his bowl. I had fun with this illustration.

I went straight to inking with this one too, with no sketching whatsoever. I used my new LePen Technical Drawing Pen. I’m really enjoying inking with this new pen. The LePen pen gave me contour lines that are all the same thickness. I tried to ink this husky, husky with a lot of hatching to give the appearance of thick fur.

This was a quick ink drawing, I wanted to capture the energy of a hungry husky, husky.

Embracing the Imperfections of My Ink Wash Illustration

From Captain America to Cosmic Horror: Diving into an Ink Wash Illustration

Here’s my Inktober illustration for the prompt “Freeze”. This one is kinda all over the place, lol. Approaching this illustration I knew I wanted to try the ink wash technique. I’ve seen so many great Inktober illustrations done with ink wash I knew I wanted to do one too. It’s a cool technique that adds different tones of grey by adding more or less water to the ink.

The illustration was done with a pentel brush pen and a LePen Technical pen. For the subject of Freeze, I illustrated a figure frozen in ice and discovered by a mountain climber. I was trying to evoke a cosmic horror feel to the piece. like something out of At the Mountains of Madness being discovered in the ice, but I think it might actually look like Captain America when he frozen in ice.

Robot Revolution: Unplugged and Unleashed for Inktober’s Mindless

Mindless and Mighty: Inking an Android to Life for Inktober Day 2

Here’s my second inking for this year’s Inktober. The prompt was “Mindless”. I had a few ideas of what I could draw. A crazy person or maybe someone lobotomized. But I liked the idea of illustrating a robot or android with the top of its head coming off. Showing that there’s no traditional brain, just tubes, and wires.

Unlike my previous Inktober illustration, I did start with a pencil drawing instead of going straight to inks. Just to get a general idea of what I wanted the android to look like, I drew a quick sketch of the head. I inked over the pencil sketch with my new LePen Technical Drawing Pen I picked up at Blicks art store for this year’s Inktober. The pen gave nice control that let me ink with steady contour lines. I also tried to add some hatching and solid black areas to give the illustration some depth.