Welcome to day 7 of my Inktober story. Missed the beginning? Here is where it starts.
Eventually Grog comes to the conclusion that his wing was not in the attic.
“Maybe it simply fell down the roof?” Sasha said.
Together they decide to leave the building and explore its surroundings.
Welcome to day 6 of my Inktober story. Missed the beginning? Here is where it starts.
Grog and Sasha, who has nothing better to do, decide to keep looking together.
Meanwhile the flames surround a dry bouquet. Their dancing startles a group of moths that had been sleeping in it. While the moths take flight, Grog looks at them and their flapping wings with envy.
Welcome to day 5 of my Inktober story. Missed the beginning? Here is where it starts.
“Maybe they know where my wing is?!” Grog yells, pointing at little white lights that seem to be dancing.
“What is a wing?” the dancing flames reply. “We are having a party. Come and join us!”
But neither Grog nor Sasha were in the mood to join in the wild dancing.
Welcome to day 4 of my Inktober story. Missed the beginning? Here is where it starts.
“Let me put on my glasses”, Sasha the bat, said.
“You wear glasses??” Grog replies, wondering.
“Nobody is perfect!” Sasha sneers at him.
Meanwhile Grog climbs up another pile of boxes to look at what is inside. The top box tips and its content comes crashing down. Grog finds himself buried in a mountain of scallops.
Welcome to day 3 of my Inktober story. Missed the beginning? Here is where it starts.
The closet was empty, except for a large bat staring right at him with big eyes.
It took Grog a moment to get over his surprise.
“Have you seen my wing?” he asks.
“Do I look like I see something?” the bat sneers back.
Last year during Inktober I put the focus on character design and had fun creating little children´s illustration. This year (after a way to long break from drawing and feeling out of practice) I decided to put the focus on storytelling.
Follow me for whatever story this year´s Inktober prompt list will lead to. Every day´s prompt will be a new page of the story.
Day 1 – meet Grog, the gargoyle. Now you might have notice something different about him.
Day 2 – still a work in progress. Will finish it tonight.
One morning Grog woke up, discovering that one of his wings was missing.
Grog jumped off his usual outdoor wall spot. Maybe someone had put his wing in the attic? He scurried around, looking here and there. But his wing was nowhere to be found.
Getting more worried, he spots a big closet at the other end of the attic. Maybe his wing is in there? Slightly out of breath, he opens the door.
He jumps! That was not what he expected to find!
… to be continued on day 3.
Time for Inktober again! I thought I had a plan for it, but let´s see how it will go. At least I hope I will develop a more steady drawing routine again!
Prompt for day 1 – Gargoyle – What should we name him?
Summer was so busy with work and other things, that I have been neglecting the blog and my art for the last couple of months!
This definitely needs to change! First step was taken last weekend when I finally managed to clean up my drawing desk. I now have no excuses not to start drawing next weekend.
I am also planning to do Inktober again, so I will hopefully start positing some warm-up sketches next week, just to get back into a drawing routine.
Meanwhile I started colouring in scenes from my own capybara drawing book.
Some of the initial sketches of the class room.
Have a great weekend! I will be out enjoying the sun.
Continuation of the drawings I did a couple of months ago. Some of them I forgot I actually drew, some of them where unfinished and I finally put the final touches on it. The whole idea was to practice more elaborate scenes with several characters and happenings.
Any feedback more than welcome!
I also think it is also about time to buy a new scanner instead of using my mediocre phone camera.
Inspired by an illustration by Souther Salazar. Wanted to try something else and just have fun with colour and different media…
– Illustration practice with a short story –
In long-past times there lived a band of monkeys in a forest. As they rambled about they saw the reflection of the moon in a well, and the leader of the band said, “O friends, the moon has fallen into the well . The world is now without a moon. Ought not we to draw it out?”
The monkeys said, “Good; we will draw it out.”
So they began to hold counsel as to how they were to draw it out. Some of them said, “Do not you know? The monkeys must form a chain, and so draw the moon out.”
So they formed a chain, the first monkey hanging on to the branch of a tree, and the second to the first monkey’s tail, and a third one in its turn to the tail of the second one. When in this way they were all hanging on to one another, the branch began to bend a good deal. The water became troubled, the reflection of the moon disappeared, the branch broke, and all the monkeys fell into the well and were disagreeably damaged.
A deity uttered this verse, “When the foolish have a foolish leader, they all go to ruin, like the monkeys which wanted to draw the moon up from the well.”
Still hibernating? Maybe. Time to start drawing again.
I guess this style is more me, rather than the last one.
I found this one when going through last years images. Another honey badger poster I created for my Society 6 Shop. Will add it online asap as I very much like it.
What do you think?
I also framed some of my honey badgers and I absolutely love them!
What´s your take on fashion?
Another attempt to use those Chameleon markers and another scene from my Capybara and Friends – Colouring book .
Another scene from my Capybara and Friends – Colouring book which I colored in with Chameleon markers. Just for the fun of it.
Meanwhile it’s still snowing here. I don´t think we can expect spring before June this year…
Another page of my Capybara and Friends – Colouring book , now in full colour. Here is the original.
Have a great weekend everyone!
I got bored so I started colouring in my capybara drawings!
If you want to do the same, you can find this little Mr Fox and capybara illustration in my Capybara and Friends – Colouring book.
Another Inktober 21 drawing that I didn´t post previously.
Apparently I do enjoy drawing boats, but I don´t like to be in them. Also we had now in average one storm per week for he past 2 months. Good winter in Iceland. Other countries have spring, I´ve been told….
Going through my sketchbook, I discovered this little guy. He was part of my Inktober 21 drawings, but I never posted him.
So here it is. Fancy a cup of tea?
Melanie Franz 