Inktober 2020 #15 – Armor

October 15, 2020November 11, 20202 Comments

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

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

Inktober 2020 #14 – Dune

October 14, 2020September 25, 20204 Comments

A sandworm on Arrakis from Frank Herbert’s Dune.

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.

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

Inktober 2020 #12 – Disgusting

October 12, 2020September 25, 20206 Comments

Okay, so full disclosure. I’m actually working ahead on these. You’re seeing them published on the right day in October, but I’m writing this on September 14th. I’m trying to do one of these a day, but I’m doing it ahead of time in case other work comes up to delay me or one turns out to take way longer than the half-day I’m trying to restrict myself to.

This one definitely took longer than I meant to spend. This was a two-day drawing. Mostly because it took me forever to figure out how I wanted to do those waves. I re-did them so many times. But I think I’m pretty much happy with it now.

Anyway, so today we have the prompt: disgusting. This whole drawing is pretty disgusting, right?

A ink drawing of a polluted beach covered with trash and dead sea life. A power plant is visible in the background and a pipe is dripping something foul-looking on the right. Two seagulls are picking through the trash.

Inktober 2020 #11 – Hope

October 11, 2020September 25, 2020Leave a comment

Today’s prompt was Hope. Rather than illustrate an abstract concept, I decided to draw my friend whose name is Hope. Hope likes Ninja Turtles.

A black and white, chibi style image of a woman named Hope having pizza with Michelangelo of the Ninja Turtles.

Here’s a color version.

A color, chibi style image of a woman named Hope having pizza with Michelangelo of the Ninja Turtles.

Inktober 2020 #10 – Dizzy

October 10, 2020September 25, 2020Leave a comment

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.

A chibi style character staggering and dizzy.

Inktober 2020 #9 – Throw

October 9, 2020January 13, 2024Leave a comment

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.

A chibi style fox and panda playing catch.

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.”