#Inktober Day 4 "Underwater"

Yo!

Still playing catch up so thought I'd leave this one as is rather than spend ages with the brush markers shading and texturing, I will finish it at some point but in the interest of moving along, and as it is actually finished ink wise, day 4s prompt for the #inktober2017 challenge was "Underwater", and I call this one simply "Jarvis".

until next time, keep creative!

#Inktober Day 3 "Poison"

Hey There!

Still playing catch up so I'll keep this post short to give me more time to catch up!

#inktober2017 day 3, official prompt was " Poison"

Brush pens, Winsor and Newton brush markers (Grey Tones) and a little PS to finalise.
I'm now onto doing days 4-7 sketches this morning in the hope that I can get a few of them inked tomorrow and be almost caught up!

catch you all soon, and as always, Keep creative!

#Inktober Day 2 "Divided"

Hey hey!

Still playing catch up with the #inktober fun times, I could carry on with this one for ages but thought I'd better stop and post it or I'll never get back on schedule!

Day two's official prompt was "Divided"

If anyone's interested in where #inktober comes from there's a link below to Jake Parker's site, he started it back in 2009 as a way to push himself to learn to try out a new tool and it just grew from there.

Jake Parker Website

Today's piece was drawn traditionally with pencil and paper but the inking was done digitally using #SketchbookPro by Autodesk.

Until the next post, keep creative!

#Inktober Day One "Swift"

Good day!

I'm giving #inktober a go this year, I'm already a couple of days behind and playing catch up but it's all good and should be on the ball by the end of the week!

Day one 

The official prompt for day one was "Swift", and although this is VERY loosely connected, I went with a Boxer, one who is "swift" ie; Nimble, quick, etc.
Not the best interpretation of the prompt but I promise I'll get better as we go....

Same brush pen used as yesterdays post, so links to that can be found there, Letraset Pro Markers used for the shading which can be found via the link below....

Letraset Pro Marker Neutral Shades

Currently sketching out day two's image, "Divided", so I'll catch you when it's done, until then, keep creative!

Back Again!

Hi Peoples of the Interwebs!

It's been a really long time since I last posted, around 7 months.

I had to concentrate on work related activities, I left my job in April and set up on my own so it's been a lot of work to get everything underway, but now things have calmed down a bit I have time to get back to some artwork!

I picked up some new pens and a Moleskin sketchbook (very nice, first time using them) a few days ago and gave them a little try out yesterday, the resulting sketch is below, inspired by a recent holiday to Mexico and one of my favorite creatures, the Turtle.

Links to the pens used are below incase anyone wants to try them out for themselves, the brush pens are excellent!

Derwent Graphik Line Maker

Kuretake Japanese Bimoji Fude Brush Pens

I'll be back to posting much more frequently now, so until next time, keep creative!

100 Days of Making Comics - What Happened?!

Hi True Believers!

Welcome to... the brief and slightly cryptic explanation as to what happened with the 100 days of making comics challenge.

So... Obviously I didn't quite complete the challenge, I will be undertaking it again at some point, relatively soon, but for some rather good reasons I didn't make it to the end this time.
I'm pleased with what I did do anyway, I haven't drawn that consistently day after day for many years, and it did help get a good start on JAR.
The first 30 days or so where fine, I had the time to get at least a half an hour done every day, a few days quite a bit more.
But once we got into February a few things began that hindered me a little, for the next two weeks I spent the half an hour each day doing the drawing as required, but as my mind needed to be on other things I was starting to become conflicted. I wanted to complete the challenge, but there were other things, more important things, very important things, that I needed to focus on.
And you may think, but it's only half an hour a day, surely you could have spared that, but the thing is, I could have, but it's not really just half an hour.
To do that half an hour you need to think about the comic as a whole, for more than just that time, and I tended, over the course of the 45 odd days I managed, to think about it on and off for a lot of the day.
But I have something else, that as I said earlier is very important, to think about, and it's come to the time that I need to put all of my extra free thought time into that.
I will explain about this other thing in the future, for now I want to keep it to myself, but be assured, it's definitely more important to focus on that at the moment and forgo the challenge, than to risk trying to do the two at the same time.
Never half arse two things when you can full arse one - Ron Swanson.

I shall return to the challenge, until that time I'll be doing bits of drawing, some I may post, and once I have the time to get back and give the 100 days of making comics challenge a second go I will definitely give it my best to complete it.
It wasn't a waste of time, in fact it really was a great way of getting me to keep creative, and even if you don't think you'll be able to complete a challenge of this length of time I'd say give it a go, at the very least you'll get a lot of artwork done!

 Anyhow, for now I need to get on with some stuff as I have tons to do, so until the next post,

Keep Creative!

100 Days of Making Comics - Day Forty Two and Forty Three - Driver Issues and More of That Kid Again!

Whatcha!

Welcome to 100 Days of making Comics, a challenge in which the goal is to spend a minimum of 30 minutes a day working on or towards comic creation.

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Another kind of crap update I'm afraid...

Day Forty Two

I have been having a few issues with the drivers for my tablet monitor and stupidly chose the day when I had to go out for a driving lesson first thing to try resolving the issue before leaving...
Drawing and drivers did not get fixed after an hour of trying.
the issue isn't a huge problem, just lacking the full pressure sensitivity that the monitor should, and did once have.
Will continue to try to resolve, email has been sent to manufacturer, am trying to locate an earlier driver online which is supposed to work.

Day Forty Three

Didn't sleep well, woke up, did the flats and some shadows to the panel I had drawn and inked a couple of days before, gave up after as i just wasn't feeling it.
Here's where this page is at at the moment, it will eventually have some colourful doodles on it!

I'm done for today, back to another fun filled week at work, I'll try to get my momentum back up and running so there's a bit more to show! I guess this is the reality of doing a challenge like this, or indeed just trying to keep creative all the time, sometimes you hit lulls and have to just push through until you get back to full steam again.

Whatever the case, just try to keep creative!