I overachieved in 2017 and combined the official Inktober prompt list with the Dralloween prompts of artist Mab Graves. I kept it all in my sketchbook and brought back a few of the characters from previous years to have some fun with their development. Sketches and references shown. The first half of the month:
In August of 2017, I tried drawing daily sharky info pages in my sketchbook. This was an ambitious goal and I ran out of steam after just four sharks! I’d love to pick this project back up again and make a proper sharkopedia — someday!
I wasn’t feeling the prompts for any of the Halloween Challenges in 2016, so I came up with my own list. I also went back to a purely hand drawn challenge, working with microns and Pitt Pen markers in a battered Moleskine sketchbook. I loved this year — some fun, tiny toons resulted. The last half of the month (apparently I missed Day 21: Enchanted Edible… ?):
I wasn’t feeling the prompts for any of the Halloween Challenges in 2016, so I came up with my own list. I also went back to a purely hand drawn challenge, working with microns and Pitt Pen markers in a battered Moleskine sketchbook. I loved this year — some fun, tiny toons resulted. The first half of the month:
A sample of the more presentable pieces from Drawlloween 2015. This was my first time participating in a major art challenge! I was very much trying to find a balance between hand drawn sketchbook doodles and a fun version of the more polished vector work I’d done as a professional designer. The results are very uneven, but still lots of fun and hey, everyone starts somewhere! This challenge pre-dates the iPad Pro by a month — I was still drawing in Photoshop with the pen tool using my laptop trackpad. This challenge gave me some characters I used again in later years, like my Amulet Witch.
My most complete and coherent contribution to the Brooklyn Art Library’s collection of sketchbooks. Maybe this one is so much better than the others because the theme was SHARKS! Y’think? 😀
I drew this book on my first iPad, in the back of a moving vehicle. I entered it into a contest, but it didn’t win. Someday I will dust it off, redraw everything, and finish it!
My strangest book in the sketchbook library… I tried to weave some of my gaming adventures into a narrative.
My second addition to the Sketchbook Project was a sketchbook all about Australia, which was then taken on the library’s first Oz tour.
Highlights from my first participation in the Sketchbook Project. I’ve come a long way, I think! At some point, I added some color after the fact…
