october art log

It’s inktober! I’m not doing anything in particular this year, but ink is the medium of the month. Subject of the month is food & drinks. Paired with my recent interest in urban sketching, this sounds like a great excuse to eat out a bunch. Well, we’ll see. 

• Oct 1 [pen]: Urban sketching at the station coffeehouse. Interior of the cafe.
• Oct 1 [watercolor]: Coloring a page of figure sketches from March. Testing out purple shadows. (surprisingly it does work, yay purbl)
• Oct 2 [pen, watercolor]: Ink-and-wash of radiant boyjazz sitting at the breakfast table ready to eat an egg.
• Oct 2 [pen]: Urban sketching. The drop-off driveway outside the station coffeehouse.
• Oct 3 [pen, crayon]: Urban sketching. A train signal tower by the side of the road.
• Oct 4 [pen, watercolor]: Illustrative page of a juice glass, citrus slices, and leaves.
• Oct 5 [pen]: Urban sketching. A house with pumpkins on display.
• Oct 5 [pen, crayon]: An apple. Loosely referenced from a Sarah Cray tutorial (different media & colors).
• Oct 6 [pen, crayon]: Food journal. Mocha frappe, volcano bowl, horchata espresso & cinnamon crumb cake, croissant & oreo.
• Oct 7 [pen]: Doodle of pumpkins and black ghost cats.
• Oct 8 [pen, watercolor]: Illustrative journal page titled “Mug.” Three-panel format: morning mocha, ingredients, the mushroom mug brother gave me.
• Oct 8 [pen, watercolor]: Birthday card for Dad with chocolate long johns, other donuts, and ice cream. “Grandpa needs donuts” – BB
• Oct 9 [watercolor, watercolor crayon]: Quick scene for the “draw a frog” luna stone raffle (open for the past month, but I waited till the last day). A blurple cartoon frog under a blurple tree.
• Oct 10 [pen]: Urban sketching. The front counter at the station coffeehouse.
• Oct 10 [watercolor]: Loose floral piece (palette: purple, orange, green). Playing with my filbert brush. Art for Abdosbsocbei.
• Oct 11 [pen, watercolor]: Ink-and-wash of a rusty van with flowers on it, or maybe mold. For the bad g1 topic (heather/terracotta/algae).
• Oct 12 [pen, crayon]: Mini doodle of a house & assorted shrubbery in desaturated colors.
• Oct 13 [crayon]: Illustrative page of citrus slices and various leaves, titled “big citrus.”
• Oct 14 [pen, watercolor, watercolor crayon]: Urban sketching. A leaf-strewn staircase leading up to the train platform.
• Oct 15 [pen, crayon]: Various doodles. A spiral, a Valheim portal, sprout blobs & leaves.
• Oct 16 [pen, watercolor crayon, watercolor]: Urban sketching. A potted plant on the windowsill at the burger joint.
• Oct 16 [pen, marker, crayon]: Sketching during numbers’ StS2 stream. A mawler, the phrog parasite, and Vantom. Playing with color blocks and sloppy/loose coloring.
• Oct 17-18 [pen, watercolor, watercolor crayon]: Urban sketching. The squarish yellow brick house down the block.
• Oct 18 [watercolor pencil, watercolor]: Quick sketch of a tree. Trying out watercolor pencils.
• Oct 19 [pen]: Urban figure sketching. Eighteen people at the optometrist and standing in line at the food court.
• Oct 20 [pen]: Urban sketching. Blind contour drawings of (1) the yellow brick house and (2) the articulated boom lift at the construction site.
• Oct 21 [pen]: Urban sketching at Starbucks. View of a couple people at a table (very vague), a large shelf of things for sale, and part of the baked goods counter.
• Oct 21 [pen, crayon]: Doodle of a loopy red-orange shape with leafy branches layered atop it.
• Oct 22 [pen, watercolor pencil, watercolor]: Urban nature sketching. Winterberry (the tree) with loose cars/garages/foliage in the background.
• Oct 23 [pen, crayon]: Thumbnails of Liz Steel’s sketchbook pages, with commentary re: layout ideas and framing.
• Oct 24 [pen, watercolor pencil, watercolor]: Urban sketching. Driveway view with a garage, basketball hoop, and car parked in driveway.
• Oct 24 [pen, crayon]: Post-it note doodle of my brand new grand champion’s coat of aiming (very green).
• Oct 25 [pen, watercolor pencil, watercolor]: Urban sketching. House with red staircase.
• Oct 26 [pen]: Post-it note doodle of the Lindwurm. “that’s one cruel coil”
• Oct 27 [pen]: Urban sketching spread. Left page, Starbucks front counter; right page, post-it of Curry Blah Blah counter, and a continuous line drawing of my desk.
• Oct 28 [pen, marker, watercolor crayon, watercolor]: Urban sketching. House with an extremely dramatic dying evergreen & a lot of flowers. Interpretive color scheme (pink/purple).
• Oct 28-29 [pen, watercolor, crayon]: Doodle blobbing. Two goofy creatures drawn in continuous line. Palette: Mahogany, burnt sienna, phthalo turquoise, lemon yellow.
• Oct 29 [pen, watercolor crayon, watercolor]: Urban sketching. Oak Ridge house with pumpkins (again). Compositional exercise: drawing ONLY the pumpkins, front door archway, and surrounding vegetation, free-floating in the void.
• Oct 30 [marker, watercolor]: Urban sketching. A worker in a bucket truck putting up Christmas lights on a tree.
• Oct 30 [pen, watercolor, marker, crayon, watercolor crayon]: Spread showing my current art materials. Watercolors, pens, markers, crayons, neocolors.
• Oct 31 [pen, crayon]: Doodle of a technicolor voidgrub.

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Pictured: Oct 4 juice & citrus slices, Oct 11 heather/terracotta/algae g1, Oct 17 sunny house