Been a while since I’ve posted any actual artwork here. I’ve been working on a drawing project for a client on the side and it has required almost all of my work to be done in pencil or in the form of digital sketches. So when I read about this I immediately pulled out my brush pen. Seems good enough reason as any to start drawing with ink again. I had even forgotten how mush I loved this medium.
It’s finally Inktober! What is Inktober you ask? It’s a month long appreciation of the art of drawing in ink and the practitioners that embrace that art. To celebrate I’m posting one ink drawing a day for the entire month. No pencils, no water colors, no photoshop, just the unadulterated black and white beauty of thick black ink on crisp white paper. Drawing with ink means commitment. There’s no hemming and hawing as to which pencil line you’re going to use, no sitting on the fence of values, no pussy footing with color. When you make your mark you better mean it. It’s black and white. True or false. On or off. And that’s what Inktober is all about.
Jake Parker seems to be the source of the original idea and many other artists are participating this month. Myself included.
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Black & white… in other words “shit or get off the pot” My motto!!!