Inktober 2025 #28: Skeletal

Martin · 127 days (11:01 PM · Oct 28, 2025)
An illustration of a hand holding a key. The hand is dark in complexion and in shadow. It is a left hand, holding the key between thumb and index finger. The key is bright and metallic. It has a complicated set of teeth at the bottom, a diamond-shaped jewel set in the middle of the handle, and a small skull surrounded by intricate metalwork at the top on the handle. The eyes of the skull have round jewels inset. The background is black with a dirty rectangular patch of gray in the center, behind the hand and key. The drawing is in black and white.

Today's Inktober prompt was "skeletal", and it got me thinking about one of my favorite games of the year, Blueprint. One of the items you can eventually pick up is a "skeleton key", and as you might imagine, it's a very useful item indeed. This isn't the key from the game, but it is my own interpretation of such a key!

As always, 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 Gouache brush for shading, and the Worn 4 Bold brush for texture.

The Worn brush is from the Fast Grit pack, by True Grit Texture Supply.

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