STW Art Group (née “Inktober 2019”)

Lovely motor. Would bring tears to me ol’ mum’s eyes – she had an E reg (1967?) through our childhood, which is why I recognised it. 🙂 Yours sounds superb.
Great zebra too 😀

Thanks. I ended up painting it grey as my dad had a Grampian grey one and I found a photo of him at about my age with the car in Spain.

The Zebra looks better in the picture than in person but it turned out better than I thought.

#inktober2020day9 Throw pic.twitter.com/PbbkNievAa

— Mr Sparkle (@darwendashers) October 9, 2020

anyhoo….
jonm81

it’s a 1970 MG BGT

I spent 5yrs of my teens helping do up a TC.
Main benefit was most of the bodywork was plywood.

anyhoo….

really struggled with the fine details of the ferret face

I can probably just redo those bits and make things a bit thicker.
All the different elements are actually vector files so I can make any raster output at whatever resolution.

Stevextc – I would love a TC. I had a chance to get a MG A twin cam once but couldn’t afford it at the time. I’ve regretted missing that one for years.

For the head badge, I can cut down to 0.25mm but it is really difficult to weed out the excess vinyl. If possible keeping features to a minimum thickness of 0.4mm would work. The free silhouette studio software only allows import of jpg, tif, etc. If you could send me one in that format I’ll have another go at cutting it.

Todays pic:
9. Throw

#inktober
#inktober2020

I’m a bit stuck with doing ferrets at the moment .. as I can’t draw anything without a purpose.
So now looking at a Toptube sticker.

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Another design fot the bike toptube this time Keeping with 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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For the head badge, I can cut down to 0.25mm but it is really difficult to weed out the excess vinyl. If possible keeping features to a minimum thickness of 0.4mm would work. The free silhouette studio software only allows import of jpg, tif, etc. If you could send me one in that format I’ll have another go at cutting it.

Ill upload into google photo’s so I can make it big and you can make it smaller as required.
I’m hoping for some transparent printable stuff to be delivered monday….

#inktober2020day10 Hope pic.twitter.com/NS9XvT0b3R

— Mr Sparkle (@darwendashers) October 10, 2020

10. Hope

I just knew what MrSparkle would do for Hope 😂
Cos I did a freehand attempt of

but, before that was ‘throw’

and I didn’t like the Hope caliper, so drew my old girl, Hope. Miss her 😢
Down the beach

I really enjoy this thread, there’s a lot of talented people here.

Any recommendations for a beginners sketch book? I’m tempted to get the pencils out and draw something badly

Hope ? (or pray)

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I use Seawhite 140gsm Cartridge paper from Hobbycraft. It comes as a 50 sheet pad rather than a sketchbook. It’s only £6 but really nice paper.

https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/seawhite-all_media-cartridge-paper-pad-a4/643284-1000

Also use Seawhite (in the form of sketchbooks)

For pen and wash stuff I buy basic-grade +300gsm watercolour paper online

Then put 15-20 same-size sheets in a pile on top a piece of backing-card.

Then hold all together with four to six bulldog clips.

Then paint all four edges with Copydex glue.

It makes a decent sketching/painting block and stops the paper cockling when doing washes. Always leave a little 1cm gap in the glue so you can detach the top sheet by inserting a palette knife and skimming around.

Cover’s fallen off my Inktober pad so dunno what it is. I really like the plotter paper i got from work for drawing with the pens though – shinier finish, doesnt soak up the ink so much. Set of unbranded needle pens I got from ebay are still going well.

Silly one today

#inktober2020day11 Disease pic.twitter.com/j05nRROB6e

— Mr Sparkle (@darwendashers) October 11, 2020

11. Disgusting

Proper 🙂

#inktober2020day12 Slippery pic.twitter.com/ZsDHuik54B

— Mr Sparkle (@darwendashers) October 12, 2020

^ that’s excellent DezB

Ah, cheers jonm 🙂

12. Slippery

Nice. how’d you get the black so black?

Thanks. The black is just a cheap Faber-Castell brush pen. It seems to have a very black ink in it.

#inktober2020day13 Dune pic.twitter.com/OA9ED5INkn

— Mr Sparkle (@darwendashers) October 13, 2020

Serious case of can’t be arsed today so it’s a shit submission for this one.
13. Dune

Meant to make more of the sand but this much took the whole of Bake Off, the surgery prog and well into Ranganation (which is crap). So leaving it there!

That’s amazing love it

Thanks! Yeah, now I can actually see again, quite pleased with that one 🙂

Yep, that last one is fantastic.

#inktober2020day13 Armour pic.twitter.com/gzlEWz9kzH

— Mr Sparkle (@darwendashers) October 14, 2020

Wow, super!

Excellent, and very different from what I had in mind. 🙂 Though I might not get time today.

14. Armour

Crap.

#inktober2020day15 Outpost pic.twitter.com/UiNarZzgeu

— Mr Sparkle (@darwendashers) October 15, 2020

15. Outpost

Armour (I’m a day behind). Will probably skip outpost

That’s a much smaller drawing than it looks! 😀

A bit happier with this one.

#inktober2020day16 Rocket pic.twitter.com/Dl4nebn91k

— Mr Sparkle (@darwendashers) October 16, 2020