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What did I learn from #inktober 2017?

20/11/2017

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For #inktober this year, I decided I would use the daily drawing to improve in one of my weakest areas - human beings. I would make myself do faces with expressions, and whole-body active postures, and also practise drawing people on old bikes as prep for Two Shillings per Day, the graphic novel I'm working on. But did I manage to achieve this?  Here are all the days' efforts: 
Looking back over the month, I don't think I learnt what I set to learn -- most of the faces ended up just the way I always draw faces, not very expressive at all, nor did I actually do more than a few interesting postures. But there were a few useful results...

- I did get some good practice drawing peeps on old bikes, from looking at reference photos.
- Most surprising, I discovered that biro is really fun! I temporarily lost my fountain pen, and found that drawing straight to ink with biro can be a little bit pencilish - start with very light sketchy marks, gradually emphasise the right ones, and the end effect doesn't look too bad. 
- I still don't really get on with ink wash for colouring. Much prefer watercolour, so I'll stick with that for the time being.  

It was helpful in any case to have a purpose behind my inktober, as it's quite an effort to keep going every day even doing fairly simple drawings. So, roll on inktober 2018... 
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