Inktober 2020

[Suuper-san]

Yeah I'm making it up for the plants at the moment, but it really helps to have some sort of experience in it to give ideas for shapes of leaves and stuff. And yup I'm filling the gaps with moss and dirt :P

Great stuff Echo for the new days! I like slippery the most, very cute

Still working on the same piece, about 2 hours in now.
I'm hoping to fix up the hands once I'm done.



I'm hitting an unusual block but it could just be my work as my days have been messed up this week.
I'm trying to floor it with picking up the pace but's there's not much acceleration, I'm still stuck on the first 4 days and barely half way through that even. I mean this was a massive challenge I set myself but I think injuring myself and getting behind so quickly made me lose my steam and enthusiasm a bit.

But bizarrely I think my painting skill is starting to take shape, unfounded but it's a strong feeling I have based on the coloured sketches I did recently.

[L.K. [Taikichi]]

I think this is my Day 3.

So I was joking around earlier with the other developers about how Jianna is severly overpowered and that she needs a weakness, so I decided rabbits would be her weakness. Black Bunnies for Blacktober

[Suuper-san]

@Kesashi love the character! great expressions and crazy weakness :P
tbh that sort of randomness can add so much depth to the character - it raises so many questions XD

Anyways, after 4.5 hours I've finished day 2 lineart
Will definitely fix up the hands as best as I can before colouring.
Nature is scary is what I've learnt :P
There's so many details it's hard to see them apart without colour or shading, hopefully it pop nicely in the final one.

[Echo_River]

@ Suuper Niiiiice! Great variety of plants and I love the detail on her clothes >w< Looking forward to seeing it in colour!

@Kesashi  Bunnies are a legit weakness.

I feel like the prompts got harder T_T Buildings, armour, and rockets, oh my.

Day 14 - Armour


Day 15 - Outpost

[Suuper-san]

@Echo thanks, I think I'm going to go wayyy over my time quota with colouring :/ I might have to drop the quality a bit to finish within a reasonable end point.
I've not been paying attention to the prompts but those you mention Buildings/Armor/Rockets seem easier to me than the Rodent/Slippery/Disgusting ones, so that really shows that one's style really affects how well you can work with certain prompts.
All the same that's yet another fab set of sketches, you have such a perfect style for dishing out sketches.
How long are they taking you to do each?

In my own news, I've not done any drawing yet today was busy gardening and also made some natural cordage with wisteria, of all things.
But with my holiday coming up this Monday I'm thinking that with the injury and the time I'll be away this probably wasn't the best time to start a large scale maximum quality skill test. I really don't want to stop as it'll be a huge fail in my books but I also dont want it to go past November, so I don't know how to resolve that issue. I'll have a think once I've done all 4 and see if I can drop the quality (ouch) or increase my speed (hopefully).

EDIT:
I managed to convince myself to get SOMETHING started on my piece, so here's 5 minutes instead of nothing:



very proud of this sort of mentality I've been getting myself into. If I could collect every 5 minutes that I put off drawing because it's only 5 minutes, I could probably double my productivity.

And more often than not, it ends up being 15 minutes that I could have drawn but put it off because I thought it was only 5 minutes. So ALWAYS DRAW is the advice.

[Echo_River]

Thanks suuper c: They take anywhere from 1-3 hours. I usually start around 10pm and try to finish before midnight. It's been working so far.
Yeah, I took another route for Rocket because I couldn't picture rockets in this fantasy universe, unless it was an old abandoned one ^^
How goes the art?

Days 16-19

Spoiler

Anyone here know Rocket Slime?






Almost couldn't remember how to draw chibi OAO

[Suuper-san]

@Echo
Great sketches!
It takes that long? I always figured they were quicker somehow XD regardless, it's worth the time since your quality is always incredibly consistent :P
I think I mentioned it but I never gave a date, I'm on a little holiday at the moment so I'm not making any progress on Inktober at the moment :'(
That's why I was saying that this probably wasn't the month to suddenly go for a massive project with the injury and holiday haha (T_T;)

[Echo_River]

Thanks Suuper!
Lol, if it counts, it's quicker than my pencil drawings XD
Ahhh. Welp, there's a time for everything. You did start and create something c: Those pieces will be waiting for your return hehe.

There's 8 days left of October!! How?!

[Suuper-san]

Lol, if it counts, it's quicker than my pencil drawings XD

Yikes :P
For me, 4 hours is a very long piece, 8 hours is the longest possible piece. I hardly do any standard finished stuff but I think a typical piece is about 2 hours.

I didn't really want to run over the month for my improvement project so I'll see how far I get but I'll probably only make it past the first 4 I think. Even in the beginning I knew I was being ambitious XD

Lovely coral one!

I'm back so I'm going to try and crack on with Day 3 lineart. I'm hoping to pick up a bit of speed but I'm all creaky from the car journey :/

[Echo_River]

Ohhh 8-9 hours would probably be my limit as well, depending how picky I'm ding with the piece. Inking definitely helps to speed up the process. Once it's done, it's done. My pencil drawings I end up erasing things several times ^^;

I didn't really want to run over the month for my improvement project so I'll see how far I get but I'll probably only make it past the first 4 I think. Even in the beginning I knew I was being ambitious XD

Fair enough. What projects are you going to do after this one?

Days 22-23

[Suuper-san]

What projects are you going to do after this one?

Mostly pushing towards a couple of one-shot mangas or just random manga pages as practice, and getting the quality higher and more consistent. I'm also working on a manga project with a friend so that's probably the next main thing I'll do.

I've hit a mental block with Inktober now for some reason.

EDIT: looks like the block is gone lol. no idea why
anyways
20 minutes so far

[Suuper-san]

About 1hr20 in now. The details are really hard but it's all good practice.



EDIT:
A whole SEVEN HOURS and it's finished!!!!!!
I have no idea how it took so long but I'm guessing lots of details and poor planning slowed me down.
Regardless of the many mistakes I'm pretty proud of this one.

[Suuper-san]

20min into the next one. I'm so looking forward to when this is over.
thankfully I was a bit more clever with guidelines so far, so it was just point and click all over the place.

[Echo_River]

EDIT:
A whole SEVEN HOURS and it's finished!!!!!!
I have no idea how it took so long but I'm guessing lots of details and poor planning slowed me down.
Regardless of the many mistakes I'm pretty proud of this one.

Woohooo! I can believe ya OAO Sooo much detail but amazing detail. I can't pick any part as my favourite cause it's so pretty - from the clothes, bags, wood grain, to the background. Great work suuper!

Looking forward to seeing the fourth one XD

Days 24-26






I couldn't remember how to draw rocks here, even when I looked to "Rodent" for reference ^^; Mind turned into pudding. Also - first shadowy figure this October! XD

[Suuper-san]

@Echo thanks!
I really need to work on speed next

I like Hide the most out of that last batch

2 hours in now.