31 Oct 2014

Inktober 2014 – Day 31

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Inktober 2014 – Day 31

Thus ends my third run of Inktober. It has once again been a great experience, challenging my abilities and helping me grow as an artist. I hope it has been fun for those of you who participated and those who provided encouragement. I thought I’d finish as I started, spelling stuff out with a tangled […]

30 Oct 2014

Inktober 2014 – Day 30

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Inktober 2014 – Day 30

I can’t believe it, I’ve actually caught up on my Inktober drawings!! And with one day to go, I didn’t think I was going to make it. Unfortunately, that means I just blasted the interwebs with way too many drawings in a very short amount of time, but hey sometimes you gotta sprint that second […]

30 Oct 2014

Inktober 2014 – Day 29

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Inktober 2014 – Day 29

As I plan what I draw for Inktober, I pull from experiences I’ve had and from visuals I see online. Sometimes I just like to draw a very simple subject and see where it goes. Today it was “Giant” and I had visions of Jake Parker’s Antler Boy or some Godzilla style monster destroying a city […]

30 Oct 2014

Inktober 2014 – Day 28

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Inktober 2014 – Day 28

I liked this old retro vending machine at the Boulevard store in KC and thought I’d give it a ghoulish twist for Inktober. My kids and I had a great time trying to figure out how to yuck up our favorite candy bars, chips and pop. These names are in no way endorsed by the Boulevard […]

30 Oct 2014

Inktober 2014 – Day 27

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Inktober 2014 – Day 27

  This is an exciting day. I just completed my second Moleskine sketchbook since joining the Inktober fray! I was hoping I could get all of 2014 in this book, but it looks like 28 – 31 will have to break in the next book (which will sadly last me quite a long time). I […]

30 Oct 2014

Inktober 2014 – Day 26

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Inktober 2014 – Day 26

  My co-worker joined me in the Inktober adventure this year and proposed the challenge of including a Narwhal (part whale, part unicorn, completely real) in one of my drawings. Not one to back away from a challenge, I thought it would be fun to draw one of these fellas as small as possible and […]

30 Oct 2014

Inktober 2014 – Day 25

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Inktober 2014 – Day 25

  I wanted to draw a scene with a flying squirrel that needed help flying via a jetpack or some mechanical device. I also wanted to draw a scene with a kite, but didn’t know how to put a twist on it to make it interesting. Then it hit me, help a flying squirrel fly […]

30 Oct 2014

Inktober 2014 – Day 24

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Inktober 2014 – Day 24

  This is my interpretation of a teddy bear getting an x-ray. In hindsight, I should have put something abnormal (because this is normal?!) inside like a broken bone or misplaced surgical tool. I wanted to focus on a simple, soft drawing with a clean iconic look. As I brushed my strokes, I noticed how […]

29 Oct 2014

Inktober 2014 – Day 23

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Inktober 2014 – Day 23

  I tasked myself with drawing a helmet for this drawing. I’m not sure why some drawings go the direction that they do, but this one must have come out of my subconscious somewhere because I’m not exactly sure what is going on here. It was fun using a small nib pen to get some […]

29 Oct 2014

Inktober 2014 – Day 22

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Inktober 2014 – Day 22

I love to follow illustrators who are champions of their craft, partly to learn and hone my own craft and partly to simply enjoy beautiful work. A few days ago I stumbled upon an amazing artist (I wish I could remember who it was, so I could give them a shout out. Do we still call […]