[Closed] Inktober

Used the list for this
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28/31
Reed, indian ink.

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i love that reed work for some reason.

29/31
Departure from the reeds 🙁
Introducing my #Flytroplis
Pencil and fountain pen.

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I keep trying to learn to draw and at least this thread gives me inspiration as well as jealousy!

Some lovely sketches...

Climb

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She had lots of ropes and carabiners and clampy things with her but I didn't feel like drawing them.

no29.

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lost my mojo this week, not done anything!

Love the damselfly 🙂

No30

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Outtakes Today... Not really outtakes as such..just more that required on given days.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/58162507@N07/albums/72157665599646099

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[url= http://jomcallister.co.uk/inktober2017/pannellum.htm#config=http://jomcallister.co.uk/inktober2017/tour.json ]Inktober 2017 360 Virtual Gallery[/url]

Just playing at the moment 🙂 Have a look around 🙂

See if it even works on your machines and devices 🙂

Control and Shift - Zoom Controls
Mouse - to look around.

Bonus points who spots where the Banksy is 😉

thats great that. not sure about bansky. below the horses head?

Not below the horses head ?

It is in there... it really is 🙂

Cant resist..
Reed again and indian ink.

OAK FALL AND OAK DOG

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[url= https://www.flickr.com/photos/58162507@N07/37326164484/ ]Inktober 2017 Oak Fall Reed and indian ink.[/url] by [url= https://www.flickr.com/photos/58162507@N07/ ][/url] - [url= https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dariogf.flickr2BBcode_lite ]Flickr2BBcode LITE[/url]

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Army Man
Coloured in yesterday...ohhrah!
Drawn a couple of days ago in reed and ink.

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felt tip doodle day
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Haha, may aswell finish off with something ridiculously bad, in keeping with my warts and all approach! 😆

Inspired by the filming for benedict cumberbatches new film/series street up from my work.

No31, woohoo, challenge completed. (Don't ask me where the wheels went, they clearly came off a long while ago! 😆 )

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Anyhow, here's the full role of my inktober scribbles.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/DaMkSw2uozJFViFj2

Lesson, start thinking and planning more if I take this beyond this month, need to enter the world of composing images and doing multiple sketchs of things and putting it all togther into one image. All well and good scribbling and copying, but need to think a bit bigger get imaginitive.

Anyhow, enjoyed the month, for good and bad. OP may well have kickstarted me into a new hobby.

mibbe I should take 31 days to come up with 1 image for my next effort.. hmm..dunno.

31/31

"For November"

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@seosamh77

Top gallery and an great collection of drawings.

Its great to see all the work in one go ... Awesome.

And

Great to see everyones work over the month 🙂

Ps How can we all keep going on here ?

Aye well done yourself, some top work throughout the month.

Guess if people keep going it's just a case of keep posting! 🙂

Great thread. Inkvember anyone?

Twirlip - Wow, very impressive stuff. Been drawing long?

Some great stuff folks. Can't believe I've not had chance to contribute. Until now. Better late than never, possibly.

A scribble with the Rotrings. Just scanned in and ready to be coloured up...

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Greetings card design to accompany this one...

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I can just see the bottom of banksy's signature outside on the wall behind the cadbury's caramel bunny

It's the last day.

I've got a few to add in whilst still deciding what to do for the last one.

Fishy:

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Not happy with the next one instead of shading I've managed to turn stubble into a beard:

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Which lead onto this one (inspired by someone else's efforts on the interwebs):

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Then this one (a copy from a bottle):

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Really enjoyed October. I should really get a rubber to remove the construction lines! Maybe next year ;-p

Anyone else fancy just keeping this thread going for general drawing/arty postings?

A scribble with the Rotrings

Really nice and smooth, though don't quite have the pencil like subtley of the staedtlers when it comes to shading mind, but in combination I can see definite potential.

I think the line thickness is just thinner on the staedtlers on a similar number, plus the black isn't as black so that's obviously a contributing factor. Mind you I've just got the 0.3/5/7, haven't tried thinner versions of the rotrings. Then nib is really nice though and feels much more sturdy and smooth.

2 slightly different types of pen. Not really used them both in anger yet as I've been pissing about with colour, but aye, definite potential. Great shout.

Yunki wins.

Hamilton house, stokes croft, bristol.

Keep the thread going 🙂

Title change required IMO.

STW Inked, Stwinked ?

Vote required...over to the mods. I reckons 🙂

Seosamh77 - glad you're getting on with them. Looking forward to seeing the results. I also keep a full set of Staedtlers for doing fine lining and cross-hatching. You can never have too many pens 🙂

As an added bonus to Inktober, I got home to this last night. Mrs winners has been doing a bit of scribbling, which she's not done for ages. A nice coloured pencil drawing with a Rotring outline....

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just scrolled through this thread again, it's utterly superb, well done everyone. I think this is probably my favourite thread in teh interwebs!

That's great binners, tell your missus we approve! 🙂

love the fox

I wondered if it was Hamilton House..
Do you know if there is going to be a last minute reprieve for the facility?
I imagine the community spirit that ran Tesco out of Stokes Croft has somewhat diminished with gentrification and ketamine casualties.

Assuming you have all been following the 'official' promplist for Inktober. Is there one for Inkvember?

I am ready to start! Is it meant to be 10 mins per drawing?

no rules, just post up. inktober is done too, so I wouldn't think ink is necessary either.

@andykirk - about 5 years. Since just before my daughter was born. I've got to be quite quick because I've had to fit it all in around job and infant care.

Here's one:
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I've given him a weirdly small right hand.

And the final one!
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It's been fun.
I was expecting it to be hard. A friend told me I'd have an aching hand. I don't have an aching hand. It's mainly been a matter of making sure I had time.
What I've realised is that:
- Anatomy knowledge is the biggest barrier to drawing progress
- Drawing from the imagination takes a lot of reference material
- Other stuff

@andykirk - not sure there's an inkvember. But you could just do inktober again. You don't have to follow the prompts and the only 'rules' are:
- do an ink drawing every day
- post it online with the hashtags #inktober #inktober2017

Twirlip - I've been loving your stuff on this thread

What I've realised is that:
- Anatomy knowledge is the biggest barrier to drawing progress

Isn't it just. If you ever get the chance, check out any local life drawing classes, where you can draw actual people. It's amazing, with a decent tutor, how quickly you learn a few rules that govern drawing the human form, especially relative proportions. In my experience, it was the one thing that benefits your drawing more than anything

binners - Member

What I've realised is that:
- Anatomy knowledge is the biggest barrier to drawing progress

Isn't it just. If you ever get the chance, check out any local life drawing classes, where you can draw actual people. It's amazing, with a decent tutor, how quickly you learn a few rules that govern drawing the human form, especially relative proportions. In my experience, it was the one thing that benefits your drawing more than anything

Just to point out - You needn't attend a life drawing class to do life drawing. It's frowned upon but using photo reference to practice anatomy and shading can be every bit as valuable. You can also get friends and family to pose for you (though be careful who you ask to pose naked).

Twirlip there is already a very good illustrator and would probably be better than 90% (more like 99%) of people at local life drawing class, that can be counterproductive as you may begin to feel you're already the finished article. My wife and I both had similar experiences where going to life drawing classes was kind of ......pointless because you become essentially a secondary tutor.

https://www.quickposes.com/en/gestures/random

http://artist-reference.com/portfolio/human-anatomy-for-artist/

Links contain nudity.

Yes, many people have said to me to attend life drawing classes. It's the whole thing about drawing what you actually see rather than what you think you see. Easier said than done!

Did anyone see the programme where James May from Top Gear learnt to draw a portrait? If there is anyone on here who thinks they will never be able to draw (and I am sure there are many) then watch that. It proves it is a skill that can be learnt, just like learning to manual or speak French.

Found a link, the drawing bit starts at 31 minutes:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xly217

Twirlip I am no expert but your stuff is pretty good for only 5 years! What kind of pen do you use? Apologies if this has been asked/ answered before.

@binners - I've been to life classes. I love life classes. Outside of big cities they can be hard to find. Or hard to find at convenient times anyway - there always seems to be plenty if you are retired or a member of the idle rich.
I was going to one in Salisbury and I experienced almost exactly what @jimjam describes . Which is quite flattering. And I wouldn't call it pointless. I wasn't so good that I didn't need correcting and I really enjoyed it. If time and money permitted, I'd go back immediately.

What I did find was that while it was by far the best thing for observational drawing and you got a better idea of how the body was put together, it wasn't teaching me anatomy.

What I mean by learning anatomy is that I'd like to be able to draw a passable human without reference to an actual human.
The problem with learning anatomy is that it requires hard study. I'm struggling to get my head into that.
I mean, I've got a tonne of books (George R Birdgman, Burne Hogarth, Andrew Loomis and others). I've got a lay figure (pretty useless). I've got a Craftsy course that purports to teach it (the instructor has a lovely Italian accent but he just plunges into super detail straight away and it sends me to sleep).

I've found The two ArtPose apps and Stan Prokopenko's Skelly (also an app) to be pretty good. Them I think I've learned from.

Really, I should stop posting on here and knuckle down.

That said, typing this reply looks a bit like work and drawing definitely doesn't so perhaps I should wait.

@jimjam - thank you for your kind words.

@andykirk - I've been using a Platinum Carbon fountain pen - it's got a super thin nib - and a Pentel brush pen. Clicky [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/inktober/page/14 ]here[/url] and scroll down a bit for a previous discussion of pens.

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No prizes for guessing this is unfinished. This started off as a character from the anime/maga series [i]Berserk[/i] and kind of took a tangent...anyway. The intention was to ink it/ tidy it up and post it but I just couldn't make the time. So here it is.

Twirlip - thank you. Ordered one of those platinum pens, and will get a converter for bottled refill ink if I like it. Determined to give pen and ink cross hatching a go.

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Still can't get the hang of shading using black ink. it's getting frustrating now.

Twirlip of the Mists - Member

I was going to one in Salisbury and I experienced almost exactly what @jimjam describes . Which is quite flattering. [b]And I wouldn't call it pointless.[/b] I wasn't so good that I didn't need correcting and I really enjoyed it. If time and money permitted, I'd go back immediately.

I meant to address this in my earlier post. Sorry if I came across as overly dismissive, I would of course advocate going to life drawing courses for anyone who is curious but, just to elaborate on my point and something that twirlip seems to have also experienced - if you go to an average life drawing class the chances are your fellow students might just be there for something to do, they may well also be there to draw too but the fact that you can draw will often make you something of a novelty.