Inktober 2016 Day 16 - Wet

Materials: wax and ink on paper, A4
Time: about 90 minutes

It has been forever that I wanted to try out this technique. So I lit a candle and used a rather small paintbrush to paint the white wax on the paper. I had to use very quick brush strokes, so the hot wax wouldn´t cool on the paintbrush itself. After the wax was dried, I used a pipette to drop the ink on the top of the paper and watched the droplets run down the paper. But I have to admit I also used a paintbrush to color in the face and the body at first to make sure the guy itself turned out recognizable. At first I thought of ironing the whole paper, to draw the wax out, but then I liked the little droplets on the wax itself, so I left it on.

Also, I made a red cross in the calendar for this was one of the very few occasions I drew a male character  

Inktober 2016 Day 15 -Relax

Ink on paper, A4

For this very interesting prompt I chose the "artists meditation" itself. One can argue whether it is a doodle or a zentangle - yes, I currently learned the difference. Since it has recognizable shapes and a clear "bottom" and "top", its probably a doodle. But the relaxation, the focus on the process itself without straying thoughts, the "one stroke at a time" and the repeated patterns are would make it a zentangle as well.

Overall its probably a zentangly-doodle ;-)

Inktober 2016 Day 14 - Tree

So... this is one I really had fun with. 

The upper left corner is a photoraphy of the original drawing. For the other ones I used picasa to mess with the backgrounds. 

For the original I simply used my black ink and a pipette to drop the ink on the paper. Then I used a straw to blow the ink around the paper and just enjoyed the beauty of it :-)

So..... (drumroll) : this is really no inkdrawing, its an inkstrawing (badum-tssss) ^_^

Inktober 2016 Day 13 - Scared

Inktober 2016 Day 12 - Worried

ink and white gel roller on paper, A4

So.. there are many things one ought to be worried about these days...
This is one of them for me.


Source of the original photography: https://rawconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/clinton-vs-trump-1.jpg

Inktober 2016 Day 11- Transport

Media: Ink for the outlines and grey scaled tiles, watercolors for Kirby and his Warp-Star
Size: A3
Technique: I started drawing random lines across the paper and when I felt I had enough lines, I turned the paper until I "saw" a medium of transport. Initially I wanted to do a train or a rocket or an airplane, but all of a sudden I had this idea of a warping Kirby. 


So. Initially I wanted to stick the whole Inktober to ink only, but I sediously needed some color to lighten the mood. And I din´t have any yellow or pink artists ink, so I broke my own rules.  

Anyways, I like the outcome of the cuddly round Kirby in his cubistic world.   

Inktober 2016 Day 10 - Jump

Ink on Paper, A4