inktober52 2024
These are my lllustrations for Inktober52 in 2024I completed the first 13 illustrations and took a break as I had other projects that needed work. I may carry on with it again later in the year, but if I don’t it will be for good reason. It’s been fun, but I need to move on to other projects for a while.
13. SAMURAI Drawn from reference taken on a visit to the Pitt River Museum, Oxford.
WEEK 12: SPRING Daffodils mean Spring to me, I picked this one from my garden.
WEEK 11: RACCOON The raccoon's fur is great for scratchy line drawing. I used 0.5 and 0.35 Rotring pens for this drawing. The constellation featured in the night sky for this nocturnal animal, is Canis Minor, with the main star ‘Procyon’ which is the Genus name for the raccoon.
WEEK 10: FLIGHT Let your words take flight. Just a nice simple one this week. I used a Hinkswells & co. # 2778 nib for the swooshy script text, and the rest is just what it is, a bird in flight.
WEEK 9: BALLOON I chose to revisit the topiary balloon I drew for the prompt RISE in Inktober 2023. I added some stone trees and cloud typography for the dream like feel in the castle series I did back then.
WEEK 8: ASTRONAUT/PASTRONAUT This prompt flummoxed me for a bit. All I could think of was really obvious ones, but after a lot of doodling and thinking I came up with this which was fun to draw. I added some colour in the digital mix which made it explode!
CAT: 7 The cat on the left is called Selby, the favourite childhood toy of my daughter. I imagine that he has a spirit cat, also called Selby. It looks real, but there is something not quite normal about that big ginger tom.
WEEK 6: COFFEE I went for a flat white (my favourite style of coffee drink) with my friend Jill. It was St Valentine’s Day so the heart motif in the milky foam was perfect.
WEEK 5: FISH My favourite fish is the Grayling: discovered whilst watching the UK TV series ‘Gone Fishing’ with Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse. It has a large, red dorsal fin, a pewter body with small hexagonal scales.
WEEK 4: SPLASH The frog has been disturbed from its rest in the waterlily flower, but who dropped the sugar cubes into its flowery cup?
WEEK 3: LEGO The Princess Tower at Wallingford Castle could actually be the first known example of a lego character. It is possible that the remaining part of the Medieval Lego character is still underground, like the full figures of the Moai Statues on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) are buried.
WEEK 2: SLICE ‘Slice of Life’ is a depiction of mundane experiences in art and theatre entertainment. So, my quite literal rendering of ‘slice of life’ seems to fit with that: it’s arbitrary, there is no narrative or meaning and definitly with an open ending.
WEEK 1: I think it is a stretch but it is possible that wooly mammoths were around at the time Stonehenge was built, but I’m not an anthropological historian so who knows? (probably an anthropological historian!)