This is my fourth illustration for Inktober 2022 - a gangster squid man!

Created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for linework, and the Old Beach and Hartz brushes for background texture.

If you're interested in how this one came together, here's the time-lapse:

My third illustration for Inktober 2022 is a flashlight laying on the ground.

I had slightly higher hopes for this one when I started, but I'm not unhappy with it. If I were to spend more time on it, I'd probably change the perspective of the shadows a bit and add some more lighting to the background.

If you're curious how this one came together, the time-lapse is below!

It's October today, and that means another Inktober project. This is the first drawing for the month, and I'm looking forward to getting back into the groove with my iPad Pro and Procreate, which I've been sort of neglecting lately.

I hope you'll join me as I create a new illustration each day of the month!

Oh, and here's the time-lapse for this one, if you'd like to see how I made it:

This is my final illustration for Inktober 2021! This one was for the prompt "risk", although I think the real title ought to be "I hate drawing hands".

If you watch the time-lapse below, you'll see a couple of misfires in my sketches before I finally settle on what to draw.

First, I thought I'd draw someone playing Risk (the board game). I thought it would be cool to see the thrown dice tumbling toward the viewer and the board below. After getting started on the sketch though, I just didn't like the way it was looking.

Next, I thought I'd draw a baby reaching up and trying to stand. I don't really like drawing babies though, because the proportions are difficult to get right, so I scrapped that one quickly.

Finally, I settled on the sketch for the finished drawing, but not before considering another idea my wife had about a creature taking off their human mask, revealing a werewolf, vampire, or some other monster underneath (it's Halloween today, after all). I liked that idea a lot, but I didn't feel like doing something so complicated, so I pushed ahead with the hands.

The idea behind this is the risk one takes whenever they express their true feelings towards someone else. It makes me think of my wife - we've been together much longer than when we got married, and it always amazes me how a relationship like that starts with such simple but powerfully charged gestures.

Anyway - there's a time-lapse of this drawing's creation below. If you've been following along with me as I make these each day, I appreciate it, and hope you've been enjoying them!

This is my thirtieth illustration for Inktober 2021, for the prompt "slither".

When I started making this one, I wanted to add a bit more texture to the walls and the tentacle, but as I added each layer of light/shadow, I started to embrace the simplicity of it. In the end, just a little bit of airbrushing was all it needed.

Just one more to go and this year's Inktober project is officially complete! Time-lapse below:

I'm barely getting this one done in time - the day just got away from me!

Anyway, here's my twenty-ninth illustration for Inktober 2021, for the prompt "patch".

As usual, I planned on this one being sorta simple, and then I got carried away.

Time-lapse below!

Here's my twenty-eighth illustration for Inktober 2021, for the prompt "crispy".

Being a fan of Rice Krispie Treats, my mind immediately gravitated toward drawing a batch of those for this prompt. It seemed boring to draw a bunch of lumpy squares though, so instead I dipped into what seems like another one of my trends for these types of projects, and drew a bucket of fried chicken.

I made a batch of Rice Krispie Treats tonight for dessert, and they were yummy.

Time-lapse below!

This is my twenty-seventh illustration for Inktober 2021, this one for the prompt "spark".

I peeked at the prompt for today the night before - which is how I usually do things with Inktober - just to get a jump start on my brainstorming, but came up blank. I don't hate doing straightforward drawings for the prompts, but I like to be creative about it when I can. The best I could think of was to draw an explosion.

So today I was thinking about that idea and how it could be more interesting, and I came up with this, a zippo lighter, as it sparks into ignition.

I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out. I wanted to have the lighter be the primary focus, but also have the hand be very large in the frame. I liked how it looked plain at the end, but thought it could use a tiny bit more detail, and after almost changing it into the (famous?) lighter from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, I went for this adjacent design.

Time-lapse below!