Inktober Day 15: Dagger
Remember me?? Remember how I was going to do inktober??
Ahhh, yes.
I was actually quite ahead with the prompts and didn’t plan to miss a single day, but Life and Death and everything else snuck in.
This one’s a day late, and not even an ink original, and honestly—I like it better than almost every other one I’ve done.
I struggle with making physical art. Like, really struggle.
Real talk: I know that I draw much more like Quentin Blake or Jules Feiffer than like Bill Watterson or, say, Yuko Shimizu (one of my favorite ink/comic artists drawing today). Maybe my work isn’t stylistically similar to Quentin or Jules, but in execution, I think we’re very similar.
So as much as I want to be a line work artisan with oodles of technical skill on the page, in reality, I tend to draw many many drafts very quickly, and to throw lots of first attempts away.
With inktober, I haven’t had the time to really work up the pieces to the quality I imagine them in. The lines have been fine, but not expressive or stylish.
I’m working on it.
So here’s today’s (yesterday’s) prompt: Dagger. It comes from the point in the show where Greg and Wirt find themselves in Pottsfield, of course—land of the dead.
It’s something I try hard to remember, and the longer I live, the more people I know who could say it:
You’ll join us someday.
Happy mid-October, my friends. This is my favorite time of year and I’m trying my best to savor it. I hope you are, too.
All my love,
🎃 Becca Lee, Haunted Librarian 🎃
Thats why I loved pencils, you can erase and erase and so on…
But now Im setting up a timeframe so even while learning to work digital I only allow myself a couple hundred ctrl+z
that is a pretty lovely and creepy drawing!