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Inktober 2024: 13. Horizon

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For this prompt I had zero, absolutely no ideas... No thoughts, head empty. I spent half of the day looking through photos, trying to find some inspiration, but nothing felt right. After many tries I've managed to finally draw.... something? And looking at it now I actually like it a lot, even though I wasn't very happy with it before.

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Inktober 2024: 12. Remote

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Always loved the concept of flying fish, but I think it's the first time they appeared in my drawing. Haven't been drawing fish very often generally.

(Yes I was painting this while watching The Addams Family. Had a very enjoyable evening tbh.)

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Inktober 2024: 11. Snacks

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"Time for snacks... but not those kinds of snacks??!"

The idea was there but.... Eh was struggling a lot with this one and I hate it. 👍

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Inktober 2024: 10. Nomadic

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I kind of want to repaint it on watercolor paper and in a bigger format.

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Inktober 2024: 09. Sun

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Hands were tough. ;_; But I still quite like it.

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References - me 😅 (under the cut)

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Inktober 2024: 08. Hike

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This one was a bit of a failure. Based on an old concept sketch. I want to try to redraw it some day.

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Inktober 2024: 07. Passport

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Quick 30 minute drawing done right before midnight. I was busy with other projects that day.

Used reference for hand!

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what they don’t tell you about making art is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! AAAAAAAAAAHH!!!

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Inktober 2024: 06. Trek

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I wanted to add to every Inktober piece some commentary but I'm sick and I can't think and words are not wording, so they are just sitting in drafts for now D:

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Inktober 2024: 05. Binoculars

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Full illustration made with a fountain pen. Blue ink added first for colour. I made a mistake with perspective with the right lens, but I drew it last and I was a bit tired by then, so I didn't notice until the next day. ^^;

Of course used references, never drew one of these before.

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Inktober 2024: 04. Exotic

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This one took me the whole day (with breaks) to finish! It was quite relaxing but also my hand was hurting so much afterwards. I didn't plan for it to be so detailed, it just somehow happened? I thought of a general idea the day before, found several references on pinterest and incorporated it into one piece. I'm really happy with how it came out, altought I made some mistakes I tried to fix (with water for example), they are more visible in real life.

Also! This drawing got sold! It was bought by my dear friend, who keeps supporting me and my art. I'm very greatful.

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Inktober 2024: 03. Boots

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For this one I had very little time, it was a busy day for me, so I left it unfinished.

Since I couldn't find any references online of what I had in mind I made ref photos myself with my own boots.

I added the black bg the next day to fill the empty space a bit (but I think it still needs some finishing touch ups).

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Inktober 2024: 02. Discover

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The work from day one took me way too much time, so for the next day I wanted to try doing something less detailed. I was focusing mainly on getting a nice composition. Used some references for background and crystals. I struggled a bit lot with drawing the silhouette of a traveler in the back, I wanted him to be sitting and resting, but it gets lost, I couldn't get the clear shapes to convey it. D: But I'm happy with how the rest looks. Blue inks were very experimental, however I think it turned out great. ^^

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Inktober 2024: 01. Backpack

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I think it's time to slowly start uploading Inktober pieces on tumblr, otherwise I will be doing this another whole month until December and the thought of that scares me. XD

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Anyway, here we go with the first entry. Originally I wanted to follow the adventures of one anthropomorphic character, either mouse or a fox, trying to maybe go for a more children's book type of illustrations? But I resigned from this idea on day one, because it wasn't working for me. I tweaked it a little bit and we will still be following the same characters, one is a silver fox which is an old OC of mine, and the other one is a humanoid person that I made on the spot and I'm still figuring out who exactly is that. (XD) Anyway, they both are travellers and some of the ideas and the world I'm introducing were marinating for a long time in my brain.

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Also, look at the haaaaaands, I only used my own hands in a mirror reflection as a reference. I was so proud of that ;o; very satisfying, knowing the practice I did this year is paying off. ♡

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The one think I'm very annoyed by is the floating hat >>" but i've noticed that mistake after I'd put on the ink (waterproof) and it was veeeery late, so there was no chance to redo it from the start.

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Just to make a point, every time I finished a panel of this I would export it as a PNG on the perceptual setting and use it as a color reference for the next panel

IT'S BAD

PLEASE CHECK YOUR COLOR SETTINGS

EDIT: If you're still having problems, it might help to switch from "Save/Save as" to "Export (as a) Single Layer". Just. Make SURE the box labeled "Expression Color" is set to RGB. I've been messing with this all day, and it looks like this combination of settings will allow exported PNGs to maintain their colors perfectly. To you. So far both Discord and Toyhouse still only display desaturated images and I cannot for the life of me figure out why

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Hello, just a little update for this month-

I'm participating in inktober this year, I'm posting my entries on instagram since it's hosted there. I think I will post the artworks here on tumblr after the challenge will end, when I have more time to properly edit them. ;o; Or maybe I will make one post for every week, I'm not sure yet. For now I'm trying to focus on making the prompts everyday, it's day 3 and I'm already struggling. ^^;