Out all the project I never finished, Inktober 2016 has to be my favorite.
Inktober is a creative event where artists illustrate daily prompts using ink mediums during the month of October. It’s a wonderful but demanding experience. For creators sharing their work online for the first time, it brings more viewers to the platform they use to post them. And it’s a great way to develop consistent work habits and dealing with deadline. This celebrated project was founded by artist Jake Parker.
In 2016, Jake Parker, collaborated with art supply subscription company, ArtSnacks, to make an art package dedicated to the event. I participated that year.
I had my concept planned out. I was so thrilled to begin I started a week early. I didn’t think I’ll make thirty one illustrations within a month. But I knew a lot would be done.
I was wrong.
What I wasn’t prepared for was the time needed on each illustration. To successfully balance Inktober, illustrations should lean towards simple. Two hours of work per drawing would’ve worked.
Below are four entries into Inktober 2016. Details about each artwork will be written in a later dispatch.
Another project I liked but not as much was The Joe Kubert Correspondence Course.
The teaching material was well constructed and very valuable, but not as beginner friendly as I hoped. The course comes with standard art supplies, an 11″ x 18″ course book, 5 comic board papers to do each homework assignment, and a large mailing envelop with cardboard support to help you mail in the assignment. The five courses gives you tips and advice to help you tackle each homework assignment and the wait time is usually 3 weeks in-between mailing the critique and redelivering it to you.
The Joe Kubert Course requires long term sessions to fully finish each coursework. I can sketch out ideas throughout my day, but I would need to sit at my drawing desk to reproduce the finish product on Bristol board paper.
Buying the course out of order may be the reason I’ve not enjoyed it as much. Penciling was the correct way to start instead of Story Graphics.
Below are work samples from the Joe Kubert Correspondence Course. And also, I’ll be doing later dispatches on what I have completed.
This is homework assignment 2 of the Joe Kubert Correspondence Course
These are the returned critiques from that assignment.
The difference in these two projects and Project SPIRIT is pre-establishment. These are a course and an event that had a predetermined set of steps to fulfill. I took liberties with INKTOBER deciding on drawing original characters and trademark characters that inspired their creation. Inktober typically provides single, daily word prompts for each day of October to draw.
Project SPIRIT is a dream concept I’m bringing to life. There are dozens of ways to do so, even if I focus on making it a comic book series.
It’s obvious what I should focus on first. Unless I find a simpler project with an easier end goal.
deeintrigue 