I’ve made it to week 2 of my Inktober challenge! (See last week’s blog post for an explanation.) This week I stretched my brain to come up with the ideas. A few ideas came easily, but most had to be pried loose from the recesses of my mind. Often I wasn’t really sure what I was doing until I was well into it!
So here are this week’s worth of drawings and the prompts that sparked them. Enjoy!
Day 8- Frail. There’s nothing more frail than the emotions of a toddler. They can go from happy to sad and back again in a blink of an eye. I’m so happy my own kids are out of this stage!!
Day 9- Swing. Tarzan swinging from limb to limb while Jane (and pet monkey) gaze up adoringly. In this I experimented with using the TV Guide as a backdrop.
Day 11- Pattern. Above the highway as seen from a chain link fence. This was inspired by a photo I took while I was on a morning run going over I-270 in Columbus.
Day 11- Snow. This is made to depict a totem pole in the Alaskan woods with snow beginning to fall. With this day’s prompt I was thinking of all the remote places in the world where it snows.
Day 12- Dragon. This is a quick ink drawing of my version of a Chinese Dragon. I tried to keep it fun and loose.
Day 13- Ash. A burnt out tree with new life forming beneath it. I was thinking of what happens when there are forest fires and the new life that grows out of the ashes.
Day 14- Overgrown. This was from a morning walk with my dog. I peered into a creek bed and there was a hawk just sitting there, blending into his surroundings.
It hasn’t always been easy to find the time to do these drawings and often I feel guilty for not getting my “real work” done as I’m doing them. But I’ve found that they’ve put an entirely different patina on my life right now.
They’ve made me stretch my mind and artistic skills in ways that I could never have imagined. Plus, I am so happy when I am doing them!
I would love to hear your opinions- your favorites and not-so-favorites as well!
In the meantime, I’ll be creating more. I’m a few days behind and hoping to catch up as time, and my creative mind, allows.