Great stuff red thunder!

That looks like a great first attempt Jon. Are you using the same weight pen for all of it? Try using different weights for when you want to alter the shading from lighter to darker?

these Rotrings give you a good spread

0.3, 0.5 and 0.7 is all you need. I need to get mine out and actually bloody draw something, don’t I?

Thanks Binners.  Yeah, using the same pen for everything at the moment. It’s Unipin fine line 0.1.  I only have a single pen with me on holiday and a 50p pad of paper from tesco which absorbs and spreads the ink.  I have a 0.3, 0.5 and 0.7 at home so will give those a go when I get back.

I got obsessed with stippling like that when I was at Uni. I’d have big incredibly detailed A2 pieces on the go for weeks, that i’d Just keep coming back too. I still find it really therapeutic. I think I definitely need to revisit that

2nd attempt at stippling.

7. Exhausted

That yawning koala is just ace.  👍🏼

Am I the only one doing this now? If so I might as well give up.

8. Star

9. Precious

Jon – that Koala is absolutely bloody brilliant!!!

Thanks Binners.  It was all down to your tip about different pen weights!

10. Flowing

Am I the only one doing this now? If so I might as well give up

That’s what I thought 😆 Keep going mate, they’re always worth a look. I was going to do a ‘star’ based pic the other day, but I ended up building a wheel instead. 😀

Am I the only one doing this now? If so I might as well give up

I’ve done a couple more but haven’t bothered posting. Which sort of defeats the object I suppose 🙂

Anyway, they were crap. Your pictures are much better.

Anyway, they were crap.

So were mine, I still posted em! Doesn’t matter, get em up ‘ere 😀

Come on Mogrim, post them. I’d like to see them. No drawing is rubbish if you enjoyed doing it.

Flow.

looks better in tiny format 😀

Hopefull ‘cruel’ will inspire me to spend more time…

Think I am finally getting the hang of crosshatching

11. Cruel

12. Whale

Brucey bonus points if you can guess which book it’s from.

Moby Dick?

i dun whale too (not biro for a change)

Snail and the whale.

Akira got it. It’s one of my favorite books to read to the kids.

DezB, that killer whale is great.

Ah, thanks jonm 😊

I have just noticed a TM has appeared on the Inktober logo 🙁

Dont know why but this has turned me off the Inktober brand a bit 🙁

Hope its not just a vehicle for Jake Parker enterprises.

It’ll be a damn shame if Parker tries to start making a profit from the whole Inktober thing.  I don’t do the whole hastag malarkey so only really use it as an excuse to force myself to draw something.

Anyhoo, today’s is 13. Guarded

‘Guarded’ didn’t really inspire (do like your nice guardsman Jonm) not happy with mine.. but I did it so…

I have just noticed a TM has appeared on the Inktober logo

Dont know why but this has turned me off the Inktober brand a bit

Hope its not just a vehicle for Jake Parker enterprises.

Why, not like you are forced to buy something? If the boy can make a few quid at it, hell if he can make a killing at it, all the best to him I say.

It has no effect on whether I will or won’t pick up a pen in a given October (which I will do again (too busy taking the concept elsewhere and learning wordpress/php/javascript at the mo tbh over a longer term)).

some good stuff on this thread btw, keep at it. It was great having the full 31 drawings to look back at last year seeing the progress.

Love that whale btw dez, great movement in it.

Really like the line of guards Dez.

14. Clock

Cheers, was trying to go for a nice perspective look, but the roof went wonky. 🙂

Too much bike stuff to do today, might have a go at ‘weak’ tomorrow.

Nearly half way through 🙂

Lost count today.

15. Weak

Like it. Shame no one else is inkin!

OMG! Landscape Artist of the Year has just started – not sure if it’s inks, but there’s a young woman’s b&w submission that is absolutely glorious. The lines and marks and shading, oh to be able to draw like that…

And she’s only 20!

Jesus, she is good!!  Seriously impressive.

Shit day at work so seriously lacking enthusiasm tonight hence:

16. Angular

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Fat

Been a bit crap lately, with not a lot of time. Love the guards BTW.

Re. the (TM) thing – I wonder if that’s not just him keeping Inktober safe from commercial interests? If he didn’t tm it anyone could make money from it?

Edit: oops. Fat was day 16 but 2017. Never mind 🙂

Nice splash of colour there redthunder 🙂

Like the drawings, especially the atari one redthunder. It’s good to see some colour here.

An angular artist 🙂

Damn it, overdid the fingers on the right hand 🙁

17. Swollen