Today's Inktober prompt was "blunder", and so I drew a classic: a cartoon mouse slipping on a banana peel.
This was a rough one for me because I hate the prompt, I'm not really happy with the final drawing, and I made a huge mistake that I didn't correct until the end, and it made the work tedious and overlong.
It's a classic digital drawing mistake: I meant to resize my sketch before "inking" it, but I forgot to. So, I basically created the drawing at almost half the resolution I meant to and didn't notice until I was just about done. The brush I was using for the linework has a pretty hard edge that often leaves pixels un-aliased, so I thought I might be able to get away with resizing the drawing with nearest-neighbor filtering, but the edges just looked too jagged and chunky for me, and after I'd basically finished the drawing, I had to go back in and trace/refine all of the prominent edges.
I guess I baked my own "blunder" right into the drawing. 😵
Anyway, this was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for linework, the Soft air brush for some light shading, and the Worn 4 Subtle brush for texture.
The Worn Subtle brush is from the Fast Grit pack by True Grit Texture Supply.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below: