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#Inktober 2018 1 week recap


Hi everyone welcome to my Inktober for 2018. This year I have tried to make more of an effort to have a complete idea. My goal is to develop a method for creating a complete idea. I do not always think through my drawings and often times end up with an unfinished sketch or rough idea. So this year I have been making the effort to go forward until a drawing is finished. I'm not looking to make 31 drawings just 31 post to my social media.

The posts will be in various stages of development because I need to work on creating a complete idea. I used to hate making a solid composition and purposely wanted an unfinished idea but now that I'm older I see how truly unfinished my work looked, it just wasn't complete. So now I'm working on what  complete means to me and what I consider a complete piece. If you want to see all of the photos from Inktober 2018 please look at my instagram Glitter_Witch_Crafts to see how everything turned out.

This was my first post for the first week of Inktober, I felt like I made the effort and it came through okay. I only have an issue with the scarf it wasn't the organic shape I was looking for and it looks IMO more like a collar than a scarf. 

This was the second post I made and the drawing came out really well but I worked over and over on her face and I think its really organic but too simple. Her posture was spot on for what I wanted though. Ultimately I added a geometric background to try and ground her. I tried to add a background since I felt it was lacking in something behind her since usually look like the figure would float in mid air not really sustaining itself.

This is a really simple drawing with ink and watercolor. I think I'll do a separate post on what supplies I'm using since I am really sticking to a handful ( and by a handful I mean a truck load) of supplies I already had. I really like using chalk or media pastels on paper and doing outlines in ink. Hard media pastels are what I used all the time in my MFA courses so I like those better than regular chalk pastels.

This one is a combination of ink and markers. I love these colors and they are my favorites right now. So I guess this is my palette. This one exceeded my expectations and I really created what I saw in my mind.

So this one is a sketch using Windsor & Newton pigment markers. I like these markers they give a really cool effect like using a matte pigment alcohol ink. 

So this concludes my Inktober Week 1 recap I will be back next week for Week 2 recap.





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