Tag: Ink
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hobbit sketch
been reading the hobbit the last couple of months should explore some more drawings of bilbo baggins
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unlimited wonder comics lab january challenge day 9
unlimited wonder comics lab january challenge continues with day 9 prompt: shark i’m running with a theme i established on day 1 of this challenge here’s a look at the pencils: my pencils continue to be better than my inks… and i don’t have any ideas yet for the next prompt: unknown…
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unlimited wonder comics lab january challenge day 8
unlimited wonder comics lab january challenge continues with day 8 prompt: pajamas i think the only panel here that i love is panel 4 with the bat – signal. the rest are just ok. inking is hard. i want to keep my ink lines loose and energetic, but inking seems to demand precision. maybe tomorrow’s…
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unlimited wonder comics lab 2021 day 5
day 5 prompt from unlimited wonder comics lab: sports learning to use a brush with some pretty mixed results i think. there’s a lot of terrible drawings in this one, but i think it adds up to…something…
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unlimited wonder comics lab 2021 day 4 (& 2 again!)
combined days 2 & 4 of the unlimited wonder comics lab january prompt list into today’s strip. full disclosure: i’ve never seen the harry potter movies. and only read the first book
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unlimited wonder comics day 3
day 3 prompt: lava i struggled with the inking of this one. and i don’t feel like i really did the lava justice here’s the pencils
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unlimited wonder comics lab day 2021 day 1
unlimited wonder comics is presenting a series of prompts for the month. day 1 prompt: moose
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inktober 2020 – day 2
Day 2 Prompt: Wisp A quick search of ‘wisp’ in Memory Alpha turned up…not much. Apparently in an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, the Enterprise and its crew get swallowed by a giant ship of non-corporeal beings, aka The Wisp, and have to escape. Full disclosure: I’ve never seen an episode of Enterprise. I loved…
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caribou sketch
drew this while watching ‘one planet’ on netflix. trying to get faster (and looser, obviously) with watercolor so i’m going to keep doing more of these tv sketches and keep dropping my standards (tv sketch definition: sketch done while the tv is on)
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drawing with wendy mac: peacock
For the last week or so, Little Guy and I have been drawing with Wendy Mac before bedtime. This was my peacock drawing from yesterday, made with crayon and ink.
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oatmeal soup
Little Guy likes to grab a few bowls or pots and pans and some ingredients and ‘cook’ at the kitchen table. (Last time he did this, he said, ‘I need to cook this now, and slid the pan underneath the table, just like putting it in the oven.) Saturday he made oatmeal soup. in the…
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reading dune
and drawing ornithopters and sandworms… dune’s been on my to read list for awhile now i expected it to be a slog, but it’s not. it really moves the first chapter throws a lot at you, but after that it goes non-stop star wars owes so much to dune, but elements of the novel seem…
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inktober day 15 legend
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 15: legend. as you probably noticed i’m behind. and skipping around. inspiration for the giant book that link consults is the lindsfarne bible, which i’d never heard of before doing the research for this strip. this is the first day this year that i used a wash. i…
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inktober day 12 dragon
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 12: dragon made some changes to the way i worked on today’s inktober and it really helped. the final piece looks more like i imagined. here’s how it went down. (if you find this sort of thing just mindnumbingly boring, here’s the color version, colored digitally, of today’s…
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inktober day 11 snow
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 11: snow i’m pulling a swerve and giving day 10 a miss because i have an idea for pattern that i need a little more time on. so here’s today’s: it works a lot better in color the way i drew these snowflakes makes them look like potato…
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inktober and linktober day 9 swing
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 9: swing (i know it’s the 10th. i’m behind.) i also did a digital color version lately i’ve been doing the sketch digitally, and inking over that here’s the sketch my sketches are better than my inks, but i guess that’s the whole point of inktober, right? i…
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inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 8 – frail
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 8: frail view the color version, where color reveals a little more information about one of our characters… forgot to ink in her boots, and squandered link’s pose in panel 2, but this effort felt much stronger than day 7’s the main thing i need to remember when…
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inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 7 – enchanted
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 7: enchanted
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inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 6 – husky
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 6: husky as i continue to struggle with the drawing of day 5: build, i’m moving on to day 6. only a day late. for all of you inktober purists out there, here’s today’s strip in glorious black and white if you’d like to see the comic in…
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inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 4 – freeze
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 4: freeze can you spot what link is missing in panel 3? seems like i forget to draw something every day. i didn’t have any ideas going in to fit the the prompt, but i read about the freezors, and once i started getting the pencil moving the…
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inktober 2019 – day 3 – bait
i didn’t love link’s poses in yesterday’s comic, so today i tried to push them a little bit more – make them more natural here is today’s comic with a little color even more importantly, when posting my comic to instagram yesterday, i discovered that linktober was already a thing! you can follow linktober on…
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linktober continues – inktober 2019 day 2: mindless
linktober continues jake parker’s inktober 2019 official prompt: mindless penciled this piece 2 days ago felt less than confident about it inked it late last night after my soccer game hated it. told myself i’m going to throw it out in the morning in the morning i looked at it again and accepted it. (after…
