Another week of Inktober

Here’s another week of Inktober drawings. My theme is witches.

Inktober 2017 week one

It’s October! Which means it’s also Inktober, the online challenge to draw every day for a month. So I’m putting my Apple Pencil to virtual canvas to draw 31 witches, on account of October being the spooky month.
Here’s my first week of witchy drawings.

Many Sides

A portrait example from class. It's a former student who didn't use the picture I took of him for his self portrait project several years ago so this year I finally decided to use it. He kind of looks like a skinhead, but as far as I remember him he basically hated everyone equally. 

Helper Skeleton

An example painting for class on color. Based off an old publicity still of Sharon Tate. I wanted to go for a look that was somewhere on the border between psychedelic sixties and deep few days old bruising.
(The blog post title was supposed to be "Helter Skelter" but autocorrect had other ideas)

May The 4th Be With You!

My whiteboard today.

Aphro Sheen

Another stab at the Aphrodite drawing.

Mighty Aphrodite

Some of my former Zero Hour Art Class classmates and I are doing a calendar project for fun. I've got February and this is the start of a goddess of love sort of thing for Valentine's Day. I'll post more of this piece as it progresses.

Montana Mather

Just a doodle. I figured I hadn't posted one of those in a while.

This one started out as a cruel caricature of someone. Who? I'll never tell. 

Maybe it's you!

Safe

We took a field trip downtown the other day for the Education for the Arts Peace Forum where our students along with students from other area schools met and participated in an assortment of arts workshops. I made this in a workshop on using the language and techniques of street art to cover the topic of community.
It's maybe a little pretentious, but hey, I whipped it off in 20 minutes with markers glue and index cards, so I don't think it turned out too badly.

Rapt Attention

I doodled up a dinosaur to do a quick Photoshop coloring demo for my EFA class.

May the 4th... you know....

Like Jedi Mike Tyson says, "May the Fourth be with you!"

Still life?

Our fourth annual district art show was Monday, which with getting ready along with my regular classes and EFA meant a 14 hour day. 

One of the more fun aspects of it was that the middle school art teacher set up her still life for people to try out, so after a few hours of set up I sat down to try it out. 

Not the best thing I've ever drawn by a long shot, but it was a fun way to wind down and when I left it behind it managed to impress a few middle schoolers. 

Pucker Up

Attendance was really low today (it's hard for school to compete with a sunny Friday) so with fewer things I had to take care of I decided to Photoshop up my pencil drawing from the other day with some mid tone and highlights type monochromatic values. Since that's what we're working on in my EFA class I'll use it as an example.

Pucker

My class is small and was quietly working independently, so I decided to draw. I think I'll probably play around with this in Photoshop and use it as an example for another class, but for now I kind of like it as just a pencil drawing.

 

The Dye is Cast

This painting is supposed to be an example for class for a creative way to do a color wheel.  

Looking at it now though I realize it looks like I made a poster for lesbian pride.

Flying Leap

Another example for that EFA project.

Model Sheet

For my EFA class we did an assignment where they came up with a character, created a model sheet for the character, then swapped and drew each other's characters. It was pretty fun.
This was the example I made just in case we wound up with an odd number for pairing off. It's a revised version of a character from the comic strip I had in my college's newspaper as an undergrad.

Pretty Pretty Princess

We were doodling in their notebooks and my nieces wanted me to draw them as princesses using their favorite colors. I think they're pretty good likenesses considering they're in crayon and I had a four year old and a two year old hanging on me and moving the paper so they could see. 

A House Divided

Good ol' Honest Abe wishing the class a Happy Presidents' Day on the board.

See You Next Wednesday!

Another drawing of the Count for Count Day.
Surprisingly, not one of the students erased the letter O even once in the entire week this drawing was up on the board. Way to go guys!