My ninth illustration for Inktober 2022 is the remnants of my usual breakfast: a granola bar wrapper.
Created in Procreate on an iPad Pro with Apple Pencil. Used the Procreate Pencil brush to sketch, a modified version of the Technical Pen brush for coloring, and a little bit of the Soft Brush at the end for the shadows and gradients.
If you'd like to see how I made this one, here's the time-lapse:
I decided to throw in some color for my eighth Inktober 2022 illustration. This one is a Monster Mouth.
I used Procreate on an iPad Pro to make this. Sketched with the Procreate Pencil Brush, and then "inked" with the Syrup brush.
You can see it all come together below:
My last drawing for the first week of Inktober 2022 is a sandwich!
I drew this without a reference, just to see how well I could do with textures and such. I think it turned out alright, if a bit washed out.
As usual, this was illustrated in Procreate on an iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil. I used the Procreate Pencil brush to sketch, a modified version of the Mercury brush for masking and lines, and Quoll, Old Beach, and Sassafras brushes for texture.
If you'd like to see how this one came together, here's the time-lapse:
My sixth drawing for Inktober 2022 is a bad bear who just threw open the door!
As usual, this was created in Procreate. I used the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for linework and shading, and the Clouds and Old Beach brushes for texture.
I was feeling very uninspired for this one. Originally, I wanted to just make a hulking creature being silhouetted against the door, but felt like it didn't look menacing enough once I started going down that route with it. Eventually, I just made it into a bear.
If you watch the time-lapse below, you'll see that I meandered a lot in the middle, experimenting with adding a second, smaller bear hiding to the side. I gave up on that though, because it felt too much like an adult being threatening towards a child. Even though they are bears. Oh well.
There's always tomorrow! 🙃
I never expect online games to have a smooth launch, but I'm still disappointed when they don't. Especially when they are built on top of an already-function game, as is the case with Overwatch 2.
Yesterday at 11:58 AM, I logged in to try out the newly updated game. It placed me in a queue of people waiting to play, 30,000 long.
The queue moved relatively quickly, and after about 20 minutes, there were less than 1,000 people ahead of me. A few more minutes, and then the opening video played. I'd never sat through it before, so I figured I'd watch.
About 20 seconds into the video, the game kicked me back out to the queue screen - I'd been disconnected and needed to rejoin. Great! I jumped back into the queue, which was now 40,000 people long.
I got to around 20,000th place before I was met with a message telling me my game lost the connection to the server.
Only until around 8:30 PM that night was I able to get in and try a couple of matches. One shit-show where nobody worked together, and then a game that started pretty well - and then I got disconnected.
Frustrated, I closed the game and got back to my Assassin's Creed Valhalla game.
Now, today, I've tried to connect to Overwatch 2 multiple times, and each time I've been disconnected after a few minutes of waiting in the queue. Only just now (with no time to actually play!) is the queue slowly grinding down without a disconnect.
I didn't have super high hopes for Overwatch 2 - and I still don't. But I can't even play the damned thing.
My fifth illustration for Inktober 2022 is a scientist tinkering with his robot buddy - as the robot looks on.
I always like drawing robots, but I wanted to switch it up a little this time and have a little story in the frame. I still can't make up my mind if the scientist is "mad" or not.
Created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching and the Syrup brush for linework/shading.
If you're curious how this one was made, here's the time-lapse:
This is my fourth illustration for Inktober 2022 - a gangster squid man!
Created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for linework, and the Old Beach and Hartz brushes for background texture.
If you're interested in how this one came together, here's the time-lapse:
My third illustration for Inktober 2022 is a flashlight laying on the ground.
I had slightly higher hopes for this one when I started, but I'm not unhappy with it. If I were to spend more time on it, I'd probably change the perspective of the shadows a bit and add some more lighting to the background.
If you're curious how this one came together, the time-lapse is below!
My second piece for Inktober 2022 is a bunch of pumpkins and gourds falling out of a wagon.
You can see how I created this one via time-lapse below!
It's October today, and that means another Inktober project. This is the first drawing for the month, and I'm looking forward to getting back into the groove with my iPad Pro and Procreate, which I've been sort of neglecting lately.
I hope you'll join me as I create a new illustration each day of the month!
Oh, and here's the time-lapse for this one, if you'd like to see how I made it: