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Inktober 2024 #16: Grungy

 Martin · 1 year
An illustration of a woman in a distorted pose where she is leaning backward more and more towards the top of her head. The woman has a light complexion and blond hair. She is smiling slightly and looking ahead. She is wearing a bright pink dress, matching lipstick, and is carrying a light pink purse. She is wearing flower earrings and matching necklace. The background is a mint green with a white streak, set at an opposing angle to the woman, going across. The woman's skin, dress, and purse are covered in a grungy texture.

Here's my Inktober illustration for today! The prompt was "grungy".

Originally, I was going to draw a "grunge rocker" in the style of a Peanuts character, but decided against it at the last moment, then just drew this instead.

Now that I look at it again, maybe it's not grungy enough? I dunno, but I think it turned out alright.

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 shading, and the Splatter spray paint brush and Hartz brush for texture.

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

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Inktober 2024 #15: Guidebook

 Martin · 1 year
An illustration of the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook, along with official scouting hat and merit badge sash, from the DuckTales series. The items are all sitting on a light purple surface lit by a spotlight, at an isometric angle. The guidebook is red with a dark red title band on the top side. It has a gold diamond affixed to the front, and a green ribbon bookmarker coming out of the middle of the book. The hat looks like a fuzzy brown cylinder with an animal tail coming out the top back. The hat has a gold diamond medallion affixed to the front, and the tail has a white tip. The merit badge sash is an army green color, and various unidentifiable badges are sewn to it, in red, yellow, and blue, and in circles and a diamond shape.

Today's Inktober prompt was "guidebook", and so I had one of two choices: draw the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook.

It's been a long time since I read Hitchhiker's Guide, and my memories of how things were described are hazy (and colored by the visuals from the 1994 "illustrated" version), so I figured I'd go with the ducks on this one.

For anyone who isn't familiar, the Junior Woodchucks are a scouting organization that Huey, Dewey, and Louie belong to in the DuckTales show and comics. In the show, this guidebook is always presented as an encyclopedia of nearly all knowledge, in which the ducks often find hyper specific facts related to whatever current adventure they happen to be on.

So anyway, that's what I draw for today's illustration, along with a Junior Woodchuck hat and merit badge sash. 😊

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for linework, and the Soft air brush for some light shading.

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

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Inktober 2024 #14: Roam

 Martin · 1 year
An illustration of a hand holding a cell phone. The phone's screen has a large face that looks like the "money-mouth face" emoji, with dollar-signs for the eyes and a green tongue sticking out of a smiling mouth, also with a dollar-sign on it. The rest of the phone's screen is a shiny light blue, with the word "roam" written in large letters in red at the bottom. There are three arcs radiating from the top right corner of the phone, like wireless signals. The case of the phone is gray. The hand and arm have a light complexion. The background is a faded orange, with a red-orange ellipse behind the phone.

This is my fourteenth illustration for Inktober, and the last one for the second week of drawings! The prompt for this one was "roam".

I struggled a lot with this one (as you can see in my evolving sketch here). I wasn't feeling very inspired by the prompt, and the guy in the first few sketches just wouldn't come together in a way that made me want to finish it.

I did like how the hand and phone looked though, so ultimately that's what I ended up going with. Hopefully tomorrow's prompt is better! 😅

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for linework, and the Soft air brush for shading.

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

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Inktober 2024 #13: Horizon

 Martin · 1 year
An illustration of a city being attacked by a massive robot. The city and robot are drawn in silhouette, in black. There is a giant yellow sun setting behind the city, and the sky is a salmon red. There are a few white clouds scattered around near the sun. The robot is approaching from the right, its mouth and eye glowing white. The eye is shooting a thin white beam down into the city. Streaks of darker red swoop up behind the robot, and a smokey, gray blue effect covers the bottom half of the silhouettes. The scene is masked by a rough-edged circle, and the canvas is a blank white outside of that.

The prompt for today's Inktober illustration was "horizon".

Initially, I wanted to do just a simple sunset, but right when I sat down to draw, I had this idea pop in my mind, so I went ahead with it. It's still quite simple, but at least there's more of a story to it now. 😊

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, and the Syrup and Inka brushes for everything else.

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

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Inktober 2024 #12: Remote

 Martin · 1 year
An illustration of a sheep using a remote control, looking over his shoulder at a remote-controlled razer, which is shearing a stripe down its back. The sheep is large and round, with fluffy wool. It is looking back nervously. Its face and hands are a light purple, its wool is a light blue, and its eyes are a pale yellow. The stripe of sheared area is a bare pink with speckles. The remote-controlled razer is a small box with wheels and a grill on the front. The remote and razor both have a small antenna with a large round ball at the end. The background is a bold green with a darker splash of green streaking across.

Here's today's Inktober illustration, this time for the prompt "remote".

Looking at the rest of the prompts so far, I realize that this one was probably supposed to be "remote" like "far away from others/civilization", but I liked the idea of doing something with a remote control instead, and it was a good opportunity to break from the theme the "official" prompts seem to be laying out.

I almost drew this one as a hairy man shaving his own back, so consider yourself lucky that I settled on the sheep instead. 😆

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for linework, and the Hartz brush for background texture.

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

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Inktober 2024 #10: Nomadic

 Martin · 1 year
An illustration of a nomadic bird. The bird is giving the viewer an inquisitive look. He is dressed in a brown cloak and sash, and has a backpack and bedroll strapped to his back. He is holding a staff in one hand, which has an oblong opening at the top, perfectly centered on the moon in the background. The bird is a reddish-pink, with yellow legs and beak. The moon is a pale yellow and is casting a bright blue glow on the edges of the bird. The background is a vast desert, colored blue in the light of the night. The sky is peppered with stars.

Today's Inktober prompt was "nomadic" and I had no idea what to draw for it. So I drew a bird in a cloak, with a staff. I guess he's a nomad? 😅

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 shading, and the Fat Nozzle, Splatter, and Flicks spray paint brushes for background texture.

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

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Inktober 2024 #9: Sun

 Martin · 1 year
An illustration of a cat napping in a laundry basket, in a large beam of sun cast from a nearby window. All elements of the scene that are lit by the rectangular area of light are a gold yellow, and the rest is a dark teal. The cat is a slightly lighter shade of gold than the rest of the sunbeam. The outlines of the items in the shadows are drawn in a light color, while everything in the sunbeam is done with a black that fades to orange in the center. The cat is sleeping and has a contented smile on its face. There is a sock hanging over the edge of the basket under the cat, and another stray sock on the floor below. The sunbeam has speckles of dust glinting in the light.

I went extremely hard into cozy territory with today's Inktober illustration. 😸

I've drawn one like this before, for a past project, but I can't remember which one and I did not reference it for this one. I visited my mom today and had some fun with her cats though, so I was feeling this when it came time to draw something.

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for linework, and the Soft and Medium air brushes for shading.

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

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Inktober 2024 #8: Hike

 Martin · 1 year
An illustration of a woman hiking up a very steep trail. The trail is almost completely vertical, and the woman is standing on it perpendicular, almost as if it's horizontal ground. She has a light complexion, long brown hair tied back in a ponytail, a white top, green shorts, and red shoes. She is smiling, and her head is tipped back slightly, as she looks up toward the unpictured peak of the trail. She has a big gray hiking backpack on, and the straps, along with her ponytail, are hanging backward from gravity. She is using a gray hiking stick. At the bottom of the image, the tops of green pine trees poke up. The sky is a pale blue that fades to a lighter color near the bottom of the image.

Here's my eighth entry for Inktober, for the prompt "hike". That's a steep trail! 😎

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for linework, and the Soft air brush for shading.

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

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Inktober 2024 #7: Passport

 Martin · 1 year
An illustration of an alien passport. The passport is shaped like a U.S. passport book, and it open to the first page that shows the alien's photo, where he's from, and has his signature. The opposing page is covered in stamps from locations the alien has visited, all planets from the solar system: the moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn. Each stamp has a unique date and other various icons and numbers. The alien is a pale green and has a third eye above his other two, and small webbed ears that point downward. He is smiling slightly. The passport is sitting on a pale green background that is paneled and has various crumbs and stains on it.

With this illustration, I've officially completed the first week of Inktober this year! It feels a little like it's been going on longer than that, but these have been busy days, so I think I'm just feeling that a bit.

Hopefully everyone has been enjoying these so far!

Anyway, this drawing is of an alien passport, featuring a three-eyed alien that is reminiscent of one that I made for a previous Inktober, five years ago in 2019. That was one of my favorite series, and so I thought it'd be cool to call back to it in some way.

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for linework, and the Soft air brush for shading.

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

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