Inktober 2020 #19 – Trap

October 19, 2020October 10, 20202 Comments

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

October 18, 2020September 25, 20202 Comments

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

October 17, 2020September 25, 2020Leave a comment

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

October 16, 2020September 25, 2020Leave a comment

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

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.