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How to make myself do an ink drawing every day

3/10/2017

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It's #inktober again. Every October, artists and illustrators take part in this challenge to make a drawing in ink every day of the month and post online. It was started by Jake Parker as a way for him to get better at inking, so in that spirit I've chosen something I'm not good at, in the hope that a burst of concentrated daily practice will help me improve. 

That thing is drawing people. Faces, expressions, funny positions from different perspectives. I'm much more confortable with inanimate objects, but recent illustration commissions have featured humans and it can't be avoided, really! I'm also going to have some people be on old bicycles, as this will be helpful preparation for my Two Shillings per Day graphic novel. 

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So here's Day One.

It's done, as usual, in fountain pen.

And very unusually, a huge blob of ink dropped onto the man's face, totally obliterating it.

So I used white-out to cover, and re-drew.

I didn't notice until after I'd posted it that the eyes went all weird in the process, and I want to correct it now, but this is how it appeared on instagram &c so this is how it is.

If you want to see whether or not I manage the whole 31 days, have a look here on instagram. Search #inktober2017 to see everyone else's fantastic work. 


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