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.

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)

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.

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. 

Metro

Another Art Class demo.

This one is the robot lady from Metropolis- part of my machinations to make sure that whatever we use as source material in class is safely within public domain.

2 Kool 4 Skool

Count Day was this week, so I thought I'd draw a student who was too cool for school (in that they no longer attend school).

(I used an old picture I took for a self portrait project she never finished to make a regular portrait rather than a self one)

The truth is something you don't have to lie about

Another lady doodle from my little notepad. I drew it while watching the first episode of "The Hour," which I'm told is an excellent series and so far it is.

Simoriah

Another lady drawing from my little notepad. This one I managed I think to make not look like Steven Tyler. 

Doodle looks like a lady

Another doodle from my new little notepad. It was supposed to be a lady. Unfortunately, I think she looks a little like Steven Tyler. Oh well.

May the Fourth of July Be With You

A nerdy painting I made... oh geez, fifteen years ago I think? Maybe fourteen years ago? I was digging through some old stuff recently and found it.

"You make man... like me?" "No. Woman."

A new "How To." Woman, friend for you.

Pixel Chix

I have this mosaic/pixel assignment I do with class where we draw something on graph paper then translate it into something 8-bit looking with the grid and some markers. It's fun.

I took this picture and did it, then for some extra fun I scanned it into Photoshop and played with some layers to give it the pukey green tint of a Gameboy screen.

Ironic, right, using paper and pencil to get a mechanical look, only to scan it into a computer program that could have translated the original image that way with a few mouse clicks? 

Blanched

For a lesson on symmetry, we took mug shots, cut them in half then mirrored the image. I thought it would be a nice way to point out that most faces have a degree of asymmetry and most people look better with a touch of it. I made two examples. Here they are mostly rejoined to resemble the original mug shot. 

It's Blanche Barrow, sister in law to Clyde Barrow.