Here’s a dizzy chibi with a very different style of linework than the last chibis. I made this one an intentionally blank character because I’m really focusing on the concept of dizzy rather than any character details at all.
These cuties are playing catch.
Earlier this year there were a couple of jobs that I didn’t get that called for a chibi style. Now, as you can see below, I can do chibi. I just usually don’t. So, I didn’t really have much in the way of chibi samples to send. I’m not entirely sure why I didn’t get the job, but lack of suitable samples is right at the top of my list of suspects.
So, I’m going to see if I can’t use Inktober to come up with a few chibi samples for future use. Next time, maybe I’ll get the chibi job.
Oh, btw, I do take commissions. Want me to draw you some chibis, or anything else? Just contact me and I’ll be happy to work with you.
Doesn’t he have an honest smile? What could possibly go wrong?
I’ve always thought jingle dresses looked fancy, so here’s a little Indigenous girl dancing in her jingle dress.
(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.)
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.”
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!
Today’s prompt was radio, so these two aliens are groov’in to earth music in their flying saucer.
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.
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.
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. 🙂
Karen B. Jones - Illustrator 