art spam: sketchbook #4 (2018)

Ugh, three versions of this and none of them are good. I would have been much better off just making up my mind (ha!) and picking a single design so I could spend more time doing it right.


One of the problems with these sketches is that I had this stubborn purist attitude that sketching anything out with pencil first was cheating. I felt Inktober had to be entirely freehand ink and I never did really get the hang of that brush pen so everything just looks sloppy. (The general idea was that the "angular" dragon and the "swollen" dragon were the same dragon before-and-after a hearty meal.)


I still own this bottle. I should try and draw it again and see if I can get the angles less wonky. For the most part, I like the look of this, but it's just slightly off.


I don't seem to have given enough thought to perspective on this one.


Playing around with ideas for the "broken" prompt. I thought a broken doll would be a cool idea, but I didn't follow through on it. You can see a tiny sketch of the one I decided to go with. At this scale, I don't think you can tell what it's supposed to be.


This was such a cool reference photo and I have no idea who the photographer was. (Found via a google image search and I don't remember if it wasn't identified at all or if I just failed to put the effort into looking.)


So there it is, 2018, my first and possibly last ever Inktober. The drawings done with the Pilot pen ended up being my favorites.