STW Art Group (née “Inktober 2019”)

Where’dya get “Prey” from Mr.S?

4. Radio

I never thought I’d end up posting on this thread. Going to try and keep up with it, but have no background…..go easy!

Radio:

Go for it AdamT. Got to love a good EM wave!

This is what happens when you don’t plan ahead. The hands! I wanted to do the hands. Will have another go later

@DezB the Prey prompt comes from a commercial tie-in that was in an email sent a few days ago:

https://www.adultswim.com/misc/primal-inktober/

As usual all my good intentions to do some more drawing this year have come to naught, but I’m enjoying everyone else’s artwork!

Oh yeah, seem to be loads of “unofficial” and theme based prompts around this year. Nice, get to pick the most inspiring one 🙂

#inktober2020day5 Blade pic.twitter.com/JJv7nvMAC0

— Mr Sparkle (@darwendashers) October 5, 2020

5. Blade

Blade. My attempt to not overwork something.

Looks good DezB.

I really struggle with not filling too much white space and ruining things.

I like this one;

Cheers jonm81 😊

#inktober2020day6 Rodent pic.twitter.com/KzwfAasivn

— Mr Sparkle (@darwendashers) October 6, 2020

Working from home doodle…

Yay! Ratfans 😁

Loving the Roland Rat.

Here’s another from the same era.

6. Rodent

Thought we needed a spot of colour this year, so I did the Giant 3-Headed Killer Naked Mole Rat

#inktober2020day7 Fancy pic.twitter.com/OnuIXwQaBa

— Mr Sparkle (@darwendashers) October 7, 2020

Nice use of colour there, Mr S 🙂

Damn you MrSparkle! I sketched out a french fancy to ink tonight.

7. Fancy

Great minds, jon. Great minds. 😉

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Umm.. I’m terrible but just decided to make some custom graphics for the kids race frames.
He wants a ferret headtube badge.. so I’ll have a go.

Not sure about ink as he likes “copper” so thinking of trying to cut out some 0.1mm copper tape onto helitape.

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A quick play at a headtube badge. Combining my love of ferrets and bikes. Like if you love ferrets or bikes. If you like the FilthyRides products see the link in my profile for 10% off! #filthyride#mtb #ferrets #ferretsofinstagram #downhillmtb #downhillmountainbiking #grom #kidsmtb #kidsdh #littlerippers

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First quick pass at Headtube badge

Too many cakes already, so I did a quickie of Fancy Dan.
Finished it on the pooter, if you can’t tell 😀

This is edging towards #vectober 🤓

That ferret’s face is ace.

I’m terrible

Humblus Bragus!

That ferret’s face is ace.

Went horribly wrong when I tried to add a helmet (purely for safety reasons). Luckily the ‘puter has lots of undo levels…

#inktober2020day8 Teeth
(Sorry Shane) pic.twitter.com/6ujatFwbQv

— Mr Sparkle (@darwendashers) October 8, 2020

@stevextc – I could cut that out on the vinyl cutter for you. I have yellow, black or white laying around but could get other colours if you’re interested.

@jonm81

I could cut that out on the vinyl cutter for you. I have yellow, black or white laying around but could get other colours if you’re interested.

Wow, that would be super cool….
This is a first pass… his fussyness hasn’t seen it yet and he’s a far better artist than I am..
The plan (such as there was any this morning) was I was going to print the black onto a clear sticky sheet then on one bike stick this to a copper base (2″ slug tape) and the other an aluminium one (3″ underfloor insulation tape). [he’s got a thing for the copper components at the moment but can’t stuck that on raw alum frame] Then stick helitape over the lot…

Vinyl sounds pretty good… but how’s it work (honestly not a clue)? Can you cut the insides cos I’m going to have a sod with the whiskers any manual way…?

Having sellotaped it to a headtube I reckon I will make it less tall so the text follows the chainring instead…

Trying a different shape …

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Another headtube design? ombining my love of ferrets and bikes. Like if you love ferrets or bikes. If you like the FilthyRides products see the link in my profile for 10% off! #filthyride#mtb #ferrets #ferretsofinstagram #downhillmtb #downhillmountainbiking #grom #kidsmtb #kidsdh #littlerippers

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Stevextc, I’ll cut the image out of vinyl, weed it so that only the black bits are left and put low tack transfer tape on it.

All you would have to do is peel the backing off, put it on the bike where you want it and peel the transfer tape off. It’ll leave the cut vinyl image stuck to the headtube.

I might struggle to cut the whiskers as they are quite thin. Will give it a go onblack tonight off one of the images above and see how it goes. I can get copper or chrome coloured vinyl off amazon if you want a different colour.

@jonm81

Sounds good, he unexpectedly approved of the “artwork” and likes the 2nd one even more.
I can make the whiskers a bit thicker …
what do you need it terms of a file?

I just need to borrow the kids school iPad with pencil thing as its starting to suck using a mouse and his iPad is probably 10x faster than my 10yr old PC.

I’m playing at a running ferret at the moment for the top tube… but my computer keeps crashing so hoping to borrow the iPad.

“Teeth” for me is Working Men’s Club playing it live

I snipped the image from Instagram so probably not the best quality but on the hobby machine I have it really struggled with the fine details of the ferret face. The rest came out ok though. I might be able to improve it with a better file. The software I have supports the usual image file types (PNG, JPG, BMP, GIF, and TIF)

This was 60mm by 77.5mm

For size on a spare 44mm head tube

I can definitely do you a big one (up to A4 size) to use as a sticker.

That an MGB GT?

Yeah DezB, it’s a 1970 MG BGT I spent 5 years restoring for our wedding in 2012. I had to replace about 70% of the body shell and it was the first car I painted. The engine has been bored from a 1.8 to a 2.2L and tuned to give 129hp compared to the 64hp from the factory. Here it is on a trip up north.

Anyhoo, to bring this back on track.

8. Teeth