It's the abstract Inktober prompts that always give me a hard time, and todays was a doozy: "lesson". How do you draw a concept like "lesson" in a single picture?
I thought about drawing kids being taught something, but I've seen others do this already and it felt like cribbing their work. I thought about drawing a schoolhouse, suffering some natural disaster that it (somehow) was denying the existence of. A friend suggested a similar concept, but with an AI datacenter.
It all felt like trying to cram too many ideas into a single drawing, and so I sat there for quite a while, staring at a blank canvas, until I thought of this. It's a bit basic and I wish the linework/background was better, but in the end, it came out how I pictured it. And I think it very clearly illustrates the prompt. 😎
Anyway, this was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for everything else.
Just two more drawings left for this year's Inktober! 🤯
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below: