Tag: inktober
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learning to craft a story the pixar way
Started a class at storyexperiential about ‘creating a story the pixar way.’ Here are a few images as I try and figure out the character for my story reel. I’m in week 3 of 9 so far, and the experience has been great. The class is forcing me to push […]
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inktober 2020 day 19
dizzy This was another of those ideas that took a long time to come up with. Back in September when I was first thinking about these ideas, all I had was a few notes in the sketchbook like ‘Picard ice skating?’ Just yesterday I hit upon the idea of the bridge crew doing donuts in […]
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inktober 2020 day 18
Trap Today’s gag (I don’t love that word, gag, does anybody have a suggestion for what to call the twist or story in a comic? Maybe turn, how about turn. Let’s try turn. Maybe it will stick.) came from the idea that everybody and I mean everybody is there waiting for Admiral Ackbar, when he […]
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inktober 2020 day 12
Day 12 Slippery Today’s slug-like creature was really inspired by Peter David’s run on DC Comic’s 1984 Star Trek series. David embraced The Animated Series’s ability to populate the crew with non-humanoids, since it’s not any more expensive to draw a character with three arms than it is to draw a traditional humanoid. Sketches Here’s […]
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inktober 2020 day 11
Day 11 Disgusting For today’s prompt, I pretty much stole the hilarious teaser of the season 2 episode from Next Generation, Time Squared, where Riker prepared ‘Owon Egg Omelette’s for his friends. (For some reason, I inexplicably called them ‘Owog Eggs in the panel.) I removed Data from the scene entirely, added a little projectile […]
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inktober 2020 day 10
Day 10 Hope Just a single image today. A moment from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Scotty, Kirk, and McCoy, where Kirk gives them hope for survival by destroying his own ship. I think most of my Star Trek love comes from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and this movie, which […]
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inktober 2020 day 9
Day 9 Throw Counselor Troi and Lt Worf doing a little judo. I was inspired by the Next Generation Episode Second Chances, where I thought they were doing judo, but apparently I wasn’t paying attention, because Worf was actually leading a class in Mok’ bara. I am a bad Trekker. Inktobers Past You can visit […]
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inktober 2020 day 8
Day 8 Teeth For the longest time, I didn’t have a story for this one. The prompt of ‘teeth’ led me right to the Gorn, and so the image of McCoy reluctantly acting as dentist on the Gorn wasn’t far behind. But all I had was that image. It wasn’t until I realized that this […]
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inktober 2020 day 7
Day 7: Fancy Inspired by that episode of DS9 where the crew play baseball against a team of Vulcans, I chose to depict Ezri Dax with some ‘fancy’ skills. I saw this episode recently, but didn’t remember Ezri Dax mentioning ‘Fancy Dan’ to Dr. Bashir, but searching fancy in the memory alpha must have been […]
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inktober 2020 day 6
Day 6 Rodent Data, Geordi, and Spot (Data’s cat) make their first appearance in this year’s Star Trek themed Inktober. Though I tried to research all of the prompts for this year’s inktober in advance so I didn’t have to try and come up with an idea last minute, this was a last minute idea. […]
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inktober 2020 day 5
day 5 ‘blade’ Worf and Jadzia sparring. I gave Worf and Jadzia the weapons and outfits they wore when sparring in the opening teaser of the 14th episode of season 4, ‘Sons of Mogh.’ If you’re deep into the details of Star Trek, (I’m usually not, but when working on this sort of project, I […]
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inktober 2020 day 3
Bulk Prompt: bulk. That leads me to bulkhead. I looked at a lot of pictures of bulkheads on memory alpha. I looked at a lot of pictures of bulkheads for boats on the internet. I’m still not sure what a bulkhead is. But Kirk ran into it. Inktobers Past You can visit (or revisit) my Zelda […]
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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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Inktober 2020 Begins
Day 1 Fish The first prompt from Jake Parker is ‘fish’, so that’s where we’ll start in my Star Trek themed Inktober. A quick search of memory-alpha, the online trove of Star Trek knowledge, turns up a game of go fish in the final episode of Deep Space Nine between Quark and the self-aware holosuite […]
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Inktober Hasn’t Even Started Yet and I’m Already Behind
I’ve selected a theme for Jake Parker’s Official Prompt list for Inktober 2020. Star Trek. Why Star Trek? I’ve been watching a lot of Star Trek on the H&I network since the pandemic started. Comfort food. To put that television watching to good use, it’s become… inspiration. Sometimes I have an idea for a Star […]
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gearing up for inktober 2020
Jake Parker released his prompt list for Inktober 2020 a couple of weeks ago. My first impulse was to not participate this year. I felt I didn’t have any ideas. Then your brain starts working on it in the background. “You could do this for Inktober,” your brain says. “Or you could do this.” Then […]
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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 […]