Inktober 2026 #17: Contraption

Martin · 15 hours (11:28 PM · Oct 17, 2026)
A black and white illustration of a giant, intricate machine. The machine towers over the ground and has a large water tank and tree grinder at the top. In the middle is a conveyor belt moving unknown objects and an exhaust pipe pumping out smoke. Near the bottom is a screen showing binary numbers and at the end of the machine on the bottom right is a mechanical hand drawing a stick figure on a piece of paper. The machine is tinted gray and the background is white.

Today's Inktober prompt was "contraption", and after thinking about it for a bit, I remembered an old poem by Shel Silverstein about a Homework Machine (which turned out to be very prescient of these modern times, by the way). It was accompanied by a drawing of a massive machine that I always loved looking at when I was younger.

My contraption is like that one: large, many silly parts, and some questionable output. 😄

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Rusty Nib 1 brush for linework, and the Gouache brush for shading. The Rusty Nib brush is from the Rusty Nib pack, by True Grit Texture Supply.

If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:

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