Inktober 2020 #22 – Chef

Here’s a chef. Playing with a different style.

Who ever said people need faces? Pft.

(BTW, I just finished watching a Doctor Who episode where the monster sucked off people’s faces through the TV. So. Faceless people. Yeah.)

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.

Inktober 2020 #21 – Sleep

Cuteness overload! Two sleeping babies. I bet they’re best friends.

A toddler sleeps with a baby dragon curled up around them.

Inktober 2020 #20 – Coral

Some coral. With an eel. Because coral alone is boring. It needed an eel.

(Coral is really boring to draw. Like, REALLY boring.)

An eel swimming around some coral.

Inktober 2020 #19 – Trap

I felt very evil while drawing this one. Poor fly. But a spider’s gotta eat.

A housefly frantically tries to pull its feet free from a spider's web as the spider looms behind it

Inktober 2020 #18 – Storm

This lightning storm was fun to draw. The piece was all about the lighting. And the lightning. Lighting my lightning. 🙂

A boy standing in front of an open window at night watching a lightning storm.

Inktober 2020 #17 – Rocket

Well, I’ve drawn real rockets and sci-fi rockets. I considered drawing Rocket Raccoon. But I decided to draw a boy lighting a bottle rocket instead.

Lines only. Didn’t bother with shading today. Maybe I’ll come back to it.

A line drawing of a boy lighting a bottle rocket.

Inktober 2020 #16 – Outpost

Lot of stairs to get up there, but I bet the view is spectacular!

A black and white drawing of a rock formation with an arch.  On the very top is a tower.  There are lots of stairs.
Illustration for the sixteenth day of the 2020 Inktober illustration prompt: Outpost.

Inktober 2020 #15 – Armor

An annoyed dragon having a conversation with a knight in armor.

“Just what do you intend to do with that little knife?”

An annoyed dragon having a conversation with a knight in armor.

Inktober 2020 #14 – Dune

A sandworm on Arrakis from Frank Herbert’s Dune.

A sandworm on Arrakis from Frank Herbert's Dune.

Inktober 2020 #13 – Slippery

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.

A pattern of little drawings of bananas in various colors in various orientations.