Today's Inktober prompt, "beacon", was another tough one for me. I spent the day brainstorming ideas and sat down at my iPad figuring that I would just do something basic because I wasn't feeling particularly inspired.
I settled on drawing a lighthouse, and while I was sitting there trying to come up with a way to make it interesting, I remembered Keeper, a game recently released by Double Fine Productions. I didn't want to copy their concept completely, but I did borrow the idea of an anthropomorphic lighthouse to try to make my own.
I've actually not played the game as much as I'd wanted yet, so hopefully my illustration comes off at least a little unique. 😊
Anyway, this was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Inka brush for linework, the Gouache brush and Soft air brush for shading, and the Hartz brush for texture.
If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below: