This was my first year participating in Inktober 2023, so I’ve written some thoughts I’ve had about the prompt, drawing process, quality of my own drawing, etc. I also filmed a timelapse for every day of Inktober which you can check out on my YouTube by clicking here.
Day 9: Bounce
Fun Fact: This is the only prompt that I drew with my left hand.
I’d learned the basics of animation from an app that I downloaded years ago. In fact; just a few months ago when I was fiddling with iMovie I made a bouncing ball animation so I could see how clean the animation was with so few key frames. Thus, I decided to do a small flipping book of sorts by using the corner of my sketch book. The only problem was the fact that I had once again forgotten my pencil and couldn’t correct and mistakes. Nonetheless, the video turned out alright.
Day 10: Fortune
Fun Fact: I once saw a double rainbow in the mall parking lot.
When I was a kid I was told that there was a pot of gold at a rainbow’s end. With this story in mind I drew just that. I was rather satisfied with everything in this drawing except the dents I made in the pot.
Day 11: Wander
Fun Fact: This prompt was hardest to draw for.
I wanted to avoid drawing any full body people for Inktober, but that was all I could think of drawing in the hours prior. However, I pivoted to a more conceptual drawing that could impart a sense of liminal wandering. Whether, I achieved that or not, I’ll let you decide.
Day 12: Spicey
Fun Fact: I can’t handle spicy food at all.
When you go to school and you primarily study art, you will never escape the dreaded still life. However, in this instance I sought it out. I don’t remember seeing many still life’s that didn’t include fruits and/or flowers while in college. So, I thought a still life of spices before they’re processed would at least be unique.
Day 13: Rise
Fun Fact: I’m a fan of zombie media.
I’m most fond of the skeleton hand reaching out of the grave. While I don’t think this work is entirely bad, I would want to work on the linear perspective. Or at the very least distinguish between the fore- and background.
Day 14: Castle
Fun Fact: This drawing is an illustration of what I read in a book when I was a child.
I pushed the castle to the back upper right corner so I could center the clash between the cancer cells and the teddy bear knights. I considered drawing the central teddy bear knight on a horse but my horse drawing ability without a reference picture is abysmal.
Day 15: Dagger
Fact: This was drawn on the 8th Day of the 3rd major expulsion of Palestinians from their land by the Zionist occupation Israel, who were (and currently still are) genociding the Palestinians.
On Tiktok, where I posted all of my timelapse/drawing process videos, I thought it pertinent to show my solidarity with Palestine. This drawing is the first of two drawings I created in solidarity with Palestine during this drawing challenge.
Day 16: Angel
Fun Fact: I use this typographical style as a default tactic when I don’t know what to draw.
I wanted to avoid any possible symbols of all religions idea of what an angel is/should look like. Thus to abandon all possibilities of accidentally doing just that I drew something typographical in nature.
