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Inktober #22: Expensive

Hopefully, back on track with Inktober! I’m not even going to try to do the ones I missed.

This is a combination of ink and Inktense pencils, which I haven’t really tried to any degree. I started out with just a simple ink drawing, then I used the pencils, laying down pigment with different amounts – light and dark – to see how it would work to create tones. It did a pretty good job, I think. Certainly something to continue to play with.

Below is the ink drawing followed by the pre-wetted Inktense pencils.

Cold & Cloudy

Inktober continues apace, but I have been going 100 mph for the past week. No time to focus on a theme. This morning, though, I thought about cold mountains and winter – where I live, it’s in the mid-80s to low-90s, and I could use a bit of blustery weather.

Here is a mountain – inky for Inktober

And here is the same scene, in cold and wintry colors.

I used to do a lot of Chinese painting, and I tried to incorporate the clouds in a rather Chinese-painting fashion, in ink and watercolor. Hints, not direct; subtlety rather than blatant. I’m not sure if it worked for the clouds between the mountains, but I definitely like the chilliness and fogginess of the scene overall.

Inktober #15: Weak

I think this says it all.

Inktober #14: Clock

Did you know that those decorative patterns on the sides of your socks are known as “clocks”? Rather than time, as a sock-knitter, I prefer this type of clock rather than the one tick-tocking away on the shelf.

Inktober #13: Guarded

Here I used a fountain pen and a couple of permanent ink drawing pens. The idea here was to express texture, such as the corrosion on the lock and metal parts of the door, or the wood grain. Contrast of both texture and tone were important here. Oh, and to show something “guarded” – what is behind Door Number 13?