Inktober 2020 #8 – Teeth

October 8, 2020October 9, 20204 Comments

Doesn’t he have an honest smile? What could possibly go wrong?

A cartoon devil holding out a pen and a clipboard with a contract on it, ready to be signed. The devil has a huge toothy mouth, horns, hooves, and a devil tail.

Inktober 2020 #7 – Fancy

October 7, 2020September 25, 20204 Comments

I’ve always thought jingle dresses looked fancy, so here’s a little Indigenous girl dancing in her jingle dress.

An young Indigenous girl dances in her jingle dress with a flower motif.

(I’m not Indigenous, so apologies if I got something wrong. If anything’s egregiously wrong, please let me know and I’ll fix it.)

Inktober 2020 #6 – Rodent

October 6, 2020October 7, 20204 Comments

Beavers are rodents, which is today’s prompt. This one plays hockey. I think he’s Canadian. Because it makes sense to me that a hockey playing beaver would be Canadian. He plays for team Rodent. My youngest says she thinks he plays defense. I asked her why and she said, “He just does.”

A line drawing of an anthropomorphic beaver in his hockey gear playing ice hockey.

Inktober 2020 #5 – Blade

October 5, 2020October 5, 20206 Comments

Today we have sabre drill. A girl practicing fencing with her coach. The prompt was blade. I took the time to do comic book style shading and highlights this time.

I did my best to get the lunge position and the clothing correct. My husband fences, so I got a bit of advice from him on that. The coach is based very roughly on his coach and this drill is very common for beginning sabre fencers.

Sabre is the hack and slash style of fencing. Foil and epee are the pokey styles. My daughter is deeply disappointed I drew sabre instead of epee. She thinks epee is the best. But sabre just doesn’t have as nice a sound effect. SMACK!

A girl practicing sabre drills with her fencing coach. She is performing a strike-to-head which makes a "SMACK!" sound and her coach says, "Good!"

Inktober 2020 #4 – Radio

October 4, 2020September 25, 20202 Comments

Today’s prompt was radio, so these two aliens are groov’in to earth music in their flying saucer.

Two aliens dancing to Earth music on the radio in their flying saucer.

Inktober 2020 #3 – Bulky

October 3, 2020September 25, 20202 Comments

This is a more traditional Inktober style for me. More pure black and pure white than the grays from the last two pieces. So, this boy’s lifting a bulky backpack. I didn’t get it quite as silly and exaggerated as I wanted to, but I’m calling it done.

A boy shoulders a huge, bulky backpack. It's gaping open and looks like everything's about to fall out.

Inktober 2020 #2 – Wisp

October 2, 2020October 28, 20206 Comments

The folklore around will ‘o the wisps is that they lure nighttime travelers out into the swamp where they get lost, sometimes forever. So, here’s a naughty little will ‘o the wisp luring a boy into trouble.

A will 'o the wisp lights up a swampy nighttime forest. A boy is following it.

Inktober 2020 #1 – Fish

October 1, 2020October 1, 20208 Comments

So, I thought I’d see if I can get through an entire Inktober series again this year. Last time I did it was in 2016, but I ignored the official prompts in favor of whatever Halloween ideas came to mind. This time I’m following the official prompts, which means today is: Fish.

I’m not entirely following the official rules because Inktober is really supposed to be ink drawings. But I only draw digital. So… no ink in the house. Instead I’m going to approximate ink drawings by limiting myself to black and white and trying to do mostly ink-style drawings at least. This one isn’t very ink-style, though.

Hey, it’s the best I can do. 🙂