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Inktober – Week Two (Days 9 – 16)
HAZAA! Week two complete, over half way!
If you didn’t read it in my last post, I placed the following limitations for each drawing I have done for this InkTober and will continue to do for the rest of them:
1/ Complete each drawing within one hour – This is to improve my speed at drawing, and become more decisive and fluid with my mark making on the page. I hope this will help me to be more rapid when hired for illustration commissions. Also I wanted to make the whole 31 day challenge doable… sparing an hour of my day is more than doable.
2/ Each drawing will be based around a particular figure, posture, and perspective – To improve my anatomy drawing further and also be willing to make bad drawing and learn from them.
3/ No visual source material, just rely only my knowledge of anatomy and perspective – a real challenge but also probably quite necessary to get stuff done faster. Letting go of any crutches, so to speak, no looking up images, just start sketching.
4/ Using pre-selected randomised themes each day (I wrote 31 ideas based on things I like and put them in a bowl to pick from each morning) – This is to test my creativity and think up something unique and quirky on the spot. I want to approach each drawing as if someone was telling me “I need you to draw something based around this theme.”
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I’ve really been trying to avoid taking easy options when it comes to pose ideas for these. It’s been tempting though because I know with a more simple pose I can focus on making a better “picture” but then I would be learning anything and growing creatively.
DAY 9 – “GUITAR”
DAY 10 – “DRAWING SHADOW”
DAY 11 – “SUMMER/SUNSHINE”
DAY 12 – “SANDWICHES”
DAY 13 – “YOGA”
DAY 14 – “MEDITATION”
https://instagram.com/p/8z0O7jAxln/?taken-by=ainsleyknott
DAY 15 – “SWIMMING”
DAY 16 – “SNACKING”
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2 Comments
Usha
16th October, 2015What graphic tablet do you use for drawings. Do you suggest specific art brushes for illustrator.
Ains
18th October, 2015Hi Usha, these weren’t done digitally they were all with pen.
When I work digitally I use an older version of the Wacom Intuos Pro. It’s does everything I need so don’t feel I need to upgrade.
In terms of brushes, I never really tried that many out and stick to a handful that I like. For one job I worked on the studio gave me Kyle’s Mega Brush pack and that opened some interesting options but I haven’t really experimented that much with them really.
Hope that helps.