Despite ignoring all of the prompts and making only 19 drawings, I finally managed to participate in Inktober — the annual “challenge to improve [your] inking skills and develop positive drawing habits”. Previous attempts resulted in me giving up after the first day, but this year I was buoyed along by my wife taking part (she did every single day) and my newly rekindled interest in comics.
In October (and, er, some of November), I posted the drawings and their Procreate timelapses as Instagram stories (saved as this highlight), but figured it’d be worth putting them up here on the blog, too.
Several drawings are studies — i.e. me copying an existing drawing by someone else in order to understand their technique — and several are originals, using photos or real objects as references; almost all were an excuse to try out the new Procreate brushes I bought from True Grit Texture Supply. A couple were pen-and-paper when I didn’t have access to the iPad.
By the way, clicking on any of these images should, in theory, open a ‘lightbox’ for you to view larger versions and browse with your arrow keys.
Top-left: The late Pete Steele, of Type O Negative, whose music I tend to play a lot of in the autumn; bottom-left: Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb in Slow Horses (what a show!); right: a model found on Adobe Stock:
The headless Horseman from Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow (a film we watch annually around Halloween) and Juan Manuel Berna in The Head of Joaquin Murrieta (another contemporary series I thoroughly recommend):
Although I feel kind of weird copying someone else’s artwork, this was a very deliberate move to study some of my favourite artists’ techniques, especially comics folks.
Left: study of a convention sketch of Death by Olivier Coipel; top-centre: study of a page from Outcast, drawn by Paul Azaceta and coloured by Elizabeth Dismang Breitweiser; bottom-centre: study of a drawing by Luis Mendo; right: study from a piece by Becky Cloonan:
And, because Mike Mignola is probably my all-time favourite artist, not one but two studies made their way into my Inktober! Left: study from a page in Hellboy: Strange Places; right: study of a sketch, published in The Art of Hellboy:
Some of the first things I drew for Inktober were real-world objects and places. Left: one of the many golden ethos plants in our house; centre: The Botanist Coffee Co. — a beautiful little café I visited while I was in Brighton, speaking at Converge; right: tiny pumpkin (this was the first drawing, in fact — hey, it was October):
Nearly everything I drew was a study in some form or another, but I did also manage to bash out a couple of truly original pieces (i.e. without references) in the shape of Ghost Rider (made while playing the Wham! documentary in the background — weird inspiration) and a super-quick, Sam Kieth-esque Batman:
Lastly, Gwen drew me a wonderful alien thing in my birthday card, and that was great inspiration to recreate — although honestly I still prefer hers (left):
Finding an extra hour or so for every most days of October wasn’t without its stresses, especially as my wife and I were both vying for the iPad. But as a way of forcing practice — and having to put it out into the world, no matter the result — I’d thoroughly recommend it.
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