Second One…

November 25, 2022November 23, 2022Leave a comment

Yes, this is going to be a series. I’m planning to share all 150 of these, one every other day.

This little guy seems happy.

A little black boy stands with his hands holding his belly as he laughs. He's wearing a t-shirt, jeans, and sneakers.

First One…

November 23, 2022November 23, 2022Leave a comment

I just recently completed a project for Learning A-Z. I drew 150 characters, full color, isolated on white. Here’s the first one.

Isn’t she cute?

A cartoon drawing of a preschool-aged, little black girl. She has an afro pulled back with a scarf. She's wearing a pink dress, striped leggings, and sneakers. She is standing with one hand raised as if waving.

Color Version of Inktober #28

November 26, 2020November 30, 2020Leave a comment

Inktober #28 was Float. Here’s that one colored in.

Girls at a sleepover playing Light as a feather, stiff as a board. One girl levitates in midair while 5 friends chant the magic words. The floating girl observes that "This feels weird!"

Color Version of Inktober #22

November 6, 2020November 2, 2020Leave a comment

Here’s a color version of my faceless chef.

An illustration of a woman in a chef's uniform standing with a spoon in her hand. Drawn in a simplified style without a face or detailed hands.

Color Version of Inktober #21

November 5, 2020November 2, 2020Leave a comment

Two babies in color this time.

An illustration of a human toddler and a young dragon curled up around each other, asleep. The dragon is green and the toddler is black.

Color Version of Inktober #24

November 4, 2020October 28, 2020Leave a comment

And here’s a color version of #24 – Dig. I think the dirt thrown back is still fading into the larger pile a bit too much.

Color Version of Inktober #9

November 3, 2020April 28, 2021Leave a comment

And here’s a color version of #9 – Throw. Just made the fox and the ball orange.

Illustration for the nineth day of the 2020 Inktober illustration prompt: Throw.

Color Version of Inktober #29

November 2, 2020October 24, 2020Leave a comment

And here’s a color version of #29 – Shoes. I used a muted, art marker style of color for this one because I wanted it to look soft.

A cartoon drawing of a toddler chewing on his shoe that he pulled off his foot. It's in color.

Color Version of Inktober #26

November 1, 2020October 21, 2020Leave a comment

So, I finished the Inktober series, but I wanted to go back and finish off some of them in color. Here’s the first one I colored. Inktober #26 – Hide.

A cartoon of a boy hiding behind a door while a big purple tentacle searches for him.

Inktober 2020 #13 – Slippery

October 13, 2020September 25, 20202 Comments

Thought I’d do a quick one today, since yesterday’s took so long. A banana peel is a slippery thing to step on.

A simple drawing of a banana peel lying on the floor.

Actually though… that’s not all I made.

I intended to stop there but…

A little explanation, first. Sometime in the last year I saw in a store a pattern printed on a piece of cloth or wrapping paper or something (I don’t remember) that stuck with me for some reason. It was a simple line drawing of a pineapple, done in a hand-drawn style. Then they copied the drawing and gave it a variety of fanciful colors. Then scattered those in a seamless pattern across the print. It struck me as looking very nice for how simple the technique actually was.

I remembered thinking, I could do that. Only the colors seemed silly for a pineapple. Pineapples only come in a very limited range of colors. I thought it would be better to choose a fruit that had a better natural range of colors. (I don’t know why it struck me that the colors should be realistic, it just did.) And some variety in the drawings, maybe. Not just the one pineapple.

I was veering off from the original idea a bit at that point.

So, today I drew a banana peel for Inktober and then decided to draw some more bananas. In different colors. (Did you know that bananas come in a variety of colors, not just yellow and green?)

Anyway, here’s what I came up with.