Did you enjoy Inktober? Perhaps you joined in over on instagram or just enjoyed watching the art that was being produced by your favourite artist day after day through October? As many of you know I joined in too, in my small way, with this worldwide challenge started by Jake Parker and shared a daily ink sketch over on instagram. I wasn’t sure if I was going to manage to keep going the whole month because, well it is hard isn’t it?
So it was a surprise to me to get to the end of October without missing a day and well, yes it wasn’t like I was sharing some of the more complex inking that many of the amazing artist do but I was still pleased with what I accomplished. So today, as requested by you guys, I have a tour video of my Inktober 2017 sketchbook with all the good days and bad days and the scribbles in between!
Scroll down for everything I used over the month and for my Inktober 2017 learning points too!
VIDEO: Sketchbook Tour: Inktober 2017
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Flying Tiger notebook
UniPin Pens
Ecoline pens
Tombow brush pen (hard tip)
Papermate felt-tip pens
Schneider Topliner pens (colour fineline markers)
Prismacolor Pencils
Faber-Castell Polychromos
Winsor and Newton black indian ink (water resistant)
Liquitex Acrylic Ink Muted Collection (Muted Pink and Muted Green)
Krylon Leafing pen
Some of my learning points from Inktober?
- Well I definitely see some styles in my work coming through that I return to again and again.
- Keeping going and posting is better than aiming for perfection, but this is a hard balance as you still have to remember that it represents you and maybe the only thing people see of your work before deciding if they want to see more or move on.
- What I think will be popular on Instagram is totally different to what actually is popular on Instagram ?
If you have any learning points from Inktober, as a participant or a watcher, then please do share in the comments below!
To see the other videos I mention in today’s video click on the links below:
For the drawing exercise I talk about in the video read my Sketching Exercise blog post.
Have a super creative Sunday.
Kim
Thanks Kim always great to see how you get to your finished pieces – very inspirational.
Thanks Cheryl, I am glad you enjoyed the Sketchbook tour! Have a fun weekend! Kim