Inktober: let's look at the book

Let's take a closer peek at my #inktober experiement: I have a new a3 moleskine sketchbook and for the first time ever I am making good use of the pocket. I'm considering building a class around this process, depending on the outcome and if I think it has worked or not.

#inktober : I am drawing 10 min a day super crude on scrap paper in ink. I have a blank a3 #moleskine which I will use as an artists book which must incorporate all the ink drawings however bad. ( I think : rules were made to be made and broken.) I will post project photos as this develops. #drawing #sketchbook #workbook

A photo posted by Dena Ann (@denadraws) on Oct 4, 2015 at 10:57am PDT

Doodling away

A color experiment

Using the suggested palette from Mix it Monthly

Watercolor and acrylic ink. Not sure it's done - may use this as a basis for digital stuff too.

A Finding Place

This quote really engaged me, so I made some space for it.

“I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.” 


― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

I found a lot of my thoughts about the value of education and the place of literature perfectly articulated here. Which is her point - literature lets the disconnected, the discontent, the marginalized person to know that others have been there before.

You could also switch out "art" for "poetry." Why not? Go for broke, right?

Time Spent with a Cat

Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
-Colette.

 

Pencil, digtally inked and cleaned up.

I'm really enjoying this little visual journey.  Yeah it looks different from my other work, but I think it's a logical place to go based on everything else. I'm not done making lots of messes, though.  Wonder if I can make it all make sense together.

Doing the opposite....

I set up a challenge for myself - I don't usually doodle in a way I find visually rewarding, I don't usually use line or fail to use layers, and I don't tend to work in a very graphic way.

So: HB pencil only in my sketchbook.

Scanned, digitally colored - I was going for the look of a poorly registered print, somewhat.

Valentine faces!  Thinking of you (plural) - me plural making art, all my various visual personae duking it out to see whose style will actually win.

Illustration Friday Found - Tail

 

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