Day 18, and Days 20-25, Artober 2021

 

Yeah, I need to stop scanning all of these at once. Oh well, here goes... 

Today was inspired by a recent Saturday Night Live sketch of their science show parody, Science Room with Jason Sudeikis. It's worth watching as it is a prime example of things escalating out of control. 

I was another YouTuber tackling Super Mario Maker when I made this loose interpretation of Super Mario. It's a bit goofy, but that's part of its charm. 

I was watching Strictly when I shared that Teletubbies GIF of them on that special to one of my loyal friends on Facebook. Yeah... it's a bit demented, isn't it?  

During a Zoom call, I ended up drawing one of these characters for an upcoming Christmas show I'm in. At least I can look at this when I get around to writing a bio for this character. 

I wasn't feeling that inspired on this day, so just doodled these two characters. Don't think I will do much with them. 

I just stumbled on this YouTuber, Rick Beato, and I thought I try drawing this personality. Not bad. I might watch more of their videos soon. 

On this day, I was watching Venom. So I did my own interpretation of that comic book film character. 

Oh, before you ask, I did do something on Day 19, but that's on my smartphone. 

Day 15 and 17- Artober 2021- Illustration and Colouring-In

Before you ask, I had done something for Day 16, but it will come as a separate post because they are on my phone rather than being scanned here. 

Day 15 was done during a meeting for a future leaflet for one of the voluntary groups I attend to. They wanted a simple graphic of a chimney with the smoke coming out as a money sign. I might toy with these later to produce a finalised piece, so stay tuned. 

Day 17 is just a coloured-in drawing done with crayons. I had my nieces over and one of them wanted to do some colouring from this Crayola book that has stickers to go with these drawings. I don't know if this counts as a proper Artober piece... but hey, it was therapeutic colouring in with crayons. 

 

Artober 2021- Day 3- Blob/Splat

 I just let my imagination run riot with this one. No clear agenda, just making shapes with pencils and several ink pens. 

Artober 2021- Day 2- Dancer

 Been watching Strictly Come Dancing on TV, so I decided to do a quick drawing of a dancer. It's not meant to be based on any particular, but it was influenced by the dancers of my favourite dance in the programme. 

Artober 2020- Day 30- DJ Illustration

On the pneultimate day of Artober, I just drew this out of my head of a DJ. Not much to say here. 

Artober 2020- Day 5- Character Piece

 

Yeah, I was quite depressed by some old wounds today. So I made this conceptual piece to represent depression, I guess. Not much to say here, but this is probably the most refined piece I've done so far for Inktober.

Inktober- Day 29- Censored Illustration

Managed to revisit yesterday's work-in-progress to finalise this illustration for presentation. I like the colour-coded nature of these characters, and how the blue one stands out from the tent without being too glaring from some of the other blues used in this illustration. 

Inktober- Day 26- Censored Illustration

I'll admit revisiting these inked drawings from earlier this month is taking a lot longer than I thought it was. But perhaps with all of my other commitments I'm doing, I'm probably not going to catch with ammending and finalising them as fast as I wanted them. Well I finally finalised what another character in this project looks like as this stage. A bit King Sized Canary to my liking, but that's what the client wanted, so there.

Inktober- Day 22- Censored Illustration and Work in Progress

I have finally got around to revisiting those inked drawings I did earlier in the month, tweaking and colouring them as I go along.

Inktober- Day 19- Censored Illustrations and Sketches

Pretty pleased as I finally get around to finishing off the final illustrations for the final chapter of this current live project. Whilst I need to revisit those hands to give a more anatomically accurate representation of that particular gesture, I'm glad I managed to plough through these with good ease, even with characters that I haven't drawn in a while too.

Inktober- Day 15- Censored Illustrations and Rough Sketches

Not as productive as yesterday, but it does mean I have finished inking all the illustrations for the penultimate chapter of this live project. With one I'm happy with, but the other I want to tweak some of the perspective to make more of an impact, especially as there is plenty of overlapping and foreshortening going on in this scene.

Inktober- Day 14- Censored Illustrations and Rough Sketches

I'm certainly over-compensating for not doing much over last weekend on this live project, as I have produced five illustrations, with a couple of initial sketchings to work out a few things. I'm pleased with some of the new characters that I have to draw into the mix, whilst the recurring ones seem to be settling into place on how I draw them. I'm also enjoying using a different brush pen to inking them as this some marks that I wouldn't have got with the previous brush pens I've been using, but I think I need to be moderate with one of them which gives great thick lines but does bleed onto the other side, which is something I need to take into account when using both sides of the paper in my current sketchbook. 

Inktober- Day 12- Rough Character Illustration

Not much for today, mainly because time was not on my side today. But at least I have an idea on what this finalised sketch will and that a new brush pen doesn't bleed through to the other side of this paper, unlike in my current sketchbook. So I'll see how I get on with inking a finalised piece at some point tomorrow, once I try and find a long-enough ruler to sketch out my border first.

Inktober- Day 6- Pencil and Ink Illustrations

Just managed to sketch and ink two illustrations for this current live project, hence the censored faces. I am pleased with how the illustration with the two characters has developed from its initial sketches. All of them took several scaled attempts to get it right to how I wanted them to look, but I will need to revisit them to ink some additional detail at a later date.

Inktober- Day 2- Sketch and Illustration

A continuation of yesterday's Inktober work, as I try and resume where I left off with these illustrations for this client, hence the censored faces. After doing this initial sketch and inked illustration, I received feedback from the previous pieces I've done, and I now have to revisit them. So I know from the get-go that I will be revisiting this piece once coloured to amend some of the initial character design for that character. So stay tuned for a few more amended pieces during the next few days. 

Inktober 2017- Day 1- Amended Illustrations

Well, you get two for the price of one on my first day of Inktober as I spent the day trying to amend some illustrations for a live project, hence why the character heads are censored. The client wanted some tweaks here and there, so I am waiting to see if one of the designs is to their liking. Hopefully, throughout the month, I will be producing a lot more illustrations for the live project. 

Inktober- Day 25- Food Illustrations

Trying to win a new assignment on my freelancing platform. So I had to draw three dishes (Chicken Tikka; Garlic Naan; King Prawn Bhuna) to woo this client over. Wish me luck!

Inktober- Day 12- Finalised Illustration

Despite the odd mistake that can be rectified later on during the process, I'm quite pleased at how the final piece came out.