This past October I decided to take a breather from inking my graphic novel The Unknowns and make a little side project for a fun thing called Inktober.\u00a0 Inktober is a chance for you to create a drawing a day using nothing but traditional tools and ink.\u00a0 No color.\u00a0 I wasn’t too excited about the idea of just doing a bunch of drawings but trying to create a story in a month’s time seemed like fun.\u00a0 So I took up the challenge.\u00a0 Here’s what I learned from the experience.<\/p>\n
1) Practice doesn’t make perfect, but it helps: 2.) Writing a story on the fly isn’t very satifying 3) Completing a prioject in one month is a huge boost to confidence This past October I decided to take a breather from inking my graphic novel The Unknowns and make a little side project for a fun thing called Inktober.\u00a0 Inktober is a chance for you to create a drawing a day using nothing but traditional tools and ink.\u00a0 No color.\u00a0 I wasn’t too excited about the 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\n<\/strong>I have wanted to improve my inking skills with a brush for some time and the projects I was working on just didnt lend themselves to experimentation and learning.\u00a0 I saw this as a great oppurtunity to work on that skill.\u00a0 And I saw it happen over time.\u00a0 I became more comfortbale with the brushes that worked for me and let the ones go that didn’t.\u00a0 I learned how to get the line that I wanted and all in all feel really confident about picking one up now and working with it along with my microns.\u00a0 I think you can see the progression in the art as the project goes.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>One of the things I really was looking forward to was to take an idea that was in my head, and just running with it.\u00a0 Like when it started all I knew was it was going to be about a pumpkin monster.\u00a0 The idea of a dinosaur mixing with it was no where on\u00a0 the radar at the time.\u00a0 Eventually I started piecing together information to arrive at that being the conflict and ran with it.\u00a0 But that’s what the story feels like to me.\u00a0 Something I ran with.\u00a0 It may be fun and exciting for the reader, but as a creative person I like to have the story under more control.\u00a0 So if I do it again, I will look to plan thinsg out better before the attack!<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Perhaps the biggest thing I gained from this was confidence in myself.\u00a0 So many projects I start are these big books that take forever to complete and vast amounts of energy.\u00a0 This was something I was able to easily fit into my day, complete it piece by piece and move on.\u00a0 May not be a masterpiece but it’s something I finished.\u00a0 So if you are looking to work on building up your skills and just practice everyday, give this sort of thing a try.\u00a0 And why do you bave to wait for October?\u00a0 Do one today.\u00a0 30 page in 30 days!\u00a0 Make it simply.\u00a0 Finish a project!\u00a0 Have fun everyone!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"