Here are my offerings for Inktober/Peachtober 2022 Days 1 to 9 with commentary on how I came up with them.
Drawings and ramblings for Days 10-31 can be found
here.
I came up with this drawing from a photo I took of a pet parrot fish that used to hide in an essential oil diffuser in the fish tank. This hidey hole was very popular among the fish; they used to fight over it.
I drew several interconnected circles and made a face and dandelion seed clusters from the circles. Keeping it simple.
It took me a while to figure out what to draw for this prompt. I had an image of a cowboy in hat and chaps in my head which somehow seems too obvious. So I envisioned a boy sitting on a cow, but couldn't be bothered to figure out how to draw that. I looked at my previous sketches and found this drawing, which originally had a levitating dog instead of a cow and thought, hah! this will do it. So I erased the dog and drew a baby shetland cow in its place.
One of my strategies for getting through 31 days of producing individual drawings is to go small. This drawing is only 6 x 6 cm and I would say about half of all my drawings for this challenge are about this size.
I presented this as a little pixie showing off her bow but friends commented that they saw a sloth instead.
I created these trees by making random circles, four-sided shapes and lines. From these, I picked out shapes that looked like the leafy bushy bits of the tree and drew little lines to represent trunks. And voila, trees!
Today's prompt is potion and I had to have a think about how to make it interesting. I immediately thought of a glass bottle with liquid in it but I want to try at least to make my drawings more than the literal image. So I thought about a different vessel for the potion and came up with this 3-legged vessel which seems to be common to many ancient cultures (Chinese, Pre-Columbian etc). Then I thought, hmm maybe smoky wispy things emerging from the vessel, and added interconnected ellipses that became floating heads. I don't know what it all means but it is at least somewhat evocative.
This little character did not initially have the beak part of the mask but I added it to create a little more interest. Her mask looks like a bird and the plague doctor's mask of seventeenth century Europe, making the drawing strangely fairy-like and macabre at the same time.
What makes a boulder a boulder? Its surface (smooth), size (big) and weight (heavy). I wondered what it would look like if a boulder was weightless and came up with the idea of a boulder in space. Somehow a single big rock in space seemed a little boring, so I put a space person on top of it doing a little light reading.
Free card featuring Bougainvillea Thorne, one of the characters I drew for Inktober/Peachtober 2022
Bougainvillea Thorne appears on Day 28 of Inktober/Peachtober. She eventually
took on a life of her own. Read about her loves - the sun, bright colours and parties - and her design career here.
Here's a tip when downloading the card: type $0 in the field for amount to pay (you are given the choice to add another amount, by default).
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