Todays post comes from Jesse, a fellow Nerdfighter who wanted to talk a little bit about a project he took part in last October. Thank you Jesse!
Ok, so here's the deal. Last year in October I was
introduced to a concept by some online artists...they called it
"Inktober". Basically, every day in October you draw a picture and ink
it. Sounds pretty simple. The point is to help artists practice their
inking skills and get some encouraging feedback. So, I drew about 20
pictures, and posted them on Facebook and was kind of pleased with how
some of them turned out. I'll say something about a few of them.
One
is a drawing of Peter Capaldi as the Doctor...first I got a picture of
him, drew a grid on it, drew each block on another grid, inked it, then
erased the grid and scanned it...it was pretty time consuming and
difficult, but I think it turned out ok, and people were able to
identify him, which is good.
Another
was a request by someone, I asked what they wanted to see and they said
"the Moth Pope" so I threw together a quick sketch of the pope if he
were a moth. Last time I saw the person who asked for it it was their
background image on their desktop.
Some
of these are superheros re-imagined as the opposite sex. There's a
female Flash,
a female Superman
and lastly, Starfire if she were a man.
I elected to not change the costume as an attempt to highlight some
problems in how men and women are drawn in the comics.
There is a picture of a tree that is dropping its last leaf onto a pile, I drew it for my daughter Jeanne as a birthday present.
Lastly, I drew Loki and used marker to color him...it did not come out well, in my opinion.
Here are some links you might be interested in!
Inktober: http://mrjakeparker.com/inktober
Jesse's DeviantArt: http://diphycue.deviantart.com/
Jesse's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/diphycue?fref=ts&ref=br_tf
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