Inktober 2017, Day 6!

Inktober 2017, Day 6: "I can see the sugar in your eyes!"

6x9 acrylic ink and walnut ink on mixed media paper

Over a year later: here's Day 6 of my Inktober 2017 challenge! Seeing as I have most of my backlogged work organized for sharing, I figured I might as well just pick up where I left off.

The title was inspired by that day's Starbucks treats at work. I had a tuxedo Salted Caramel Mocha - just about the sugariest BS you can drink, but oh man, was it an experience!

January 2017 sketchbook / Creatuanary art!

Sculpey kitty-dog I ended up giving to Mom!  

Day 1: Harpy (Grizelle, from Paradigm Chimera)

Day 2: Hippocampus (whale-based!)

Interlude: Oaxacan Honeybee for my friend, Elsa! It was actually a gift for her beekeeper friends; they give her honey throughout the year. She told me they loved it! 

Final details added with colored pencil.

Visited Mom's work after hanging out with Elsa. Mom has a bunch of my early Sculpey figurines at her cubicle. :D

Finch and I contemplate the meaning of being 29.

Day 3: Stirge (mosquito-bat hybrid from Dungeons and Dragons)

Day 4: Chimera

Day 5: Lamia

Day 6: Hydra

Day 7: Tzika

Day 8: Gryphon (Silverclaw, from Legacy [working title])

Day 9: Mutated T-rex

Sir John Hurt passed away on January 25th. Three of his films had immeasurable impact on me as an artist and person: Watership Down, The Plague Dogs, and The Elephant Man. I drew Hazel, Snitter, and Joseph "John" Merrick, respectively, to represent each film.

Musky, my faithful Smilodon model.

Day 10: Manticore (based off of Musky)

Mass catch-up strikes again!

I jumped on the Creatuanary train a little late. I completed only 10 of 31 prompts, but it was still needed practice! The early months of any given year are when I'm at my most fickle. I like having different things to do, even when I try to complete a drawing challenge.

Kitten Day!

Kitten Day: Taffy
9x12 Prismacolor marker, Sharpie, and Staedtler Lumocolor on Strathmore 400 Series Mixed Media paper

Sketchbook page.

Tracing paper transfer. 

Prismacolor marker outlines.

DONE!

My friend, Heather - Daily Cat Drawings on Tumblr - hosted a Kitten Day reblog-a-thon today as a means of calming anxieties over the results of the election. I know little Taffy doesn't have the power to heal the hurt that so many feel right now, but I hope she managed to bring smiles to the hurting.

Taffy was inspired, in part, by my late cat, Gimpy. While not actually three-legged, Gimpy earned his name for his gimpy foreleg. He passed away July 2015. Although sorely missed, he brightened my life, and my brother and parents' lives, in more ways than I can count. 

INKvember 2016, #1!

INKvember #1: Epic Mount
9x12 Derwent Inkstense and watercolor pencil on Strathmore 400 Series Mixed Media paper

"Placemat" doodle on a sheet of bristol I taped to my desk.

Sketched in Staedtler Ergosoft watercolor pencil and Mars Lumograph HB pencil.

Outlining and filling with Derwent Inktense.

DONE! I colored my caricature with Prismacolor markers; outlined with Pentel Color Brush.

Obligatory skewed angle shot.

November 1st was National Self-Portrait Day and the first day of Draw Dinovember. I combined the two for silly wish-fulfillment. How awesome would it be to have a pet hummingbird raptor? :D

I was going to devote November to Draw Dinovember entirely, but it's better for me to focus on my own characters. I can spend more time developing my other stories!