INKtober 2018, Day Seven: Octopus

I finished week one a couple days ago, but I haven't made much headway in week two. I asked on my Facebook art page if I should stick to animals the whole of INKtober, or if I should change the theme each week, and the vote was in favor of changing, with a request for cartoons. As I have not started week two yet, I will double up, doing both a cartoon ink and an ink of different inanimate objects. I'm determined to finish this INKtober and then probably never do it again, it's too stressful for me. I like drawing and all, but I'm really looking forward to the end of this!

INKtober 2018, Day Six: Bird

INKtober 2018, Day Five: Starfish

INKtober 2018, Day Four: Elephant

I used this one to practice different ink shading techniques.

INKtober 2018, Day Three: Snail

I've been doing much, much better than usual at INKtober this year... But man, have I been bad at uploading those artworks to this blog! I'll explain how this I am going about this INKtober when I post the wrap-up to week one. Until then, here's a drawing of how I feel working through challenges like INKtober...

INKtober 2018, Day Two: Whale

Guys, I promise I've been doing this. I just forgot to post them here, although I remembered to post them elsewhere.

Photo referenced from Google Images because I don't know how to draw animals without reference, hence choosing animals for practice during this INKtober. 

INKtober 2018- Day One: Rabbit

Original Drawing of a Girl

Question Number One: Who Is Snoke?

Question number 2: was that a clickbait title?

Answer number 1. I don't know and I also don't care very much. He can be Jar Jar Binks if he wants to be. Or Qui-Gon Jinn. Or even Padme's anonymous father. Or, more likely, Gollum, who feel into lava and somehow was transported through time and space and worlds and grew 5 feet.

Answer number 2: Yes. Yes, it was. "Who is Snoke" is officially the most Googled Star Wars related thing ever and I am using to this is my advantage.

Anyway. I'm sure you guessed this post was something art related. Last night I drew all the characters that I care about from The Last Jedi (and some I didn't care about) (like Snoke) (and Poe). It took about one hour start to finish, collectively. I was originally going for a cartoony style and drew this:

And then I drew this:

And I liked them both. 

And then I drew this and hated her eyes:

So I decided the next one would have to be better and drew this:

(After I saw The Force Awakens, I didn't like Kylo Ren but also kind of did and I liked Poe but also didn't. After seeing The Last Jedi I don't like Poe but still kind of do, and like Kylo but also still don't. If that makes sense.)

And those style were so different I had to start over to make them match.

I will not call her simply Rose, I will call her Briar Rose, because she is currently being The Sleeping Beauty. Get well soon, Aurora.

I like how Luke projected himself with short brown hair. I get why he would want to make himself look younger, but he never even had brown hair when he was young. I guess he was insecure about his natural blondness. 

🎶It's just a matter of time before we learn how to fllllly🎶

She had the same hairstyle for twenty years and then one dip in a tiny lake ruined it forever. 

I did two Finns, too. Finn and Rey are rather worth drawing twice.

Snoke, or, as my mother calls him, "Supreme Leader Snookums". 

Where are Holdo and Hux? you ask. NOWHERE. THEY ARE NOWHERE. I WOULD EVEN DRAW POE AND SNOKE,  I MIGHT EVEN DRAW *PHASMA* BEFORE I DRAW THEM. (Notice how I didn't respectfully address them as Admiral and General.) Everyone died or almost died because Holdo wanted to be all secretive and mysterious. And Poe wouldn't have been so annoying if she hadn't been there. And Hux has no personality but I still hate his personality. Also all the droids are missing because I didn't want to draw all that detail on robots. And I didn't care about DJ because he was too confusing. And I stuck Kylo Ren down at the bottom, if you are looking for him. 

There were a lot of things in that movie that make no sense but I'm pretty sure that's just because I didn't catch most it, for instance, my sister told me that Rey had probably taken the Jedi texts before Gonzo ascended down from Force Heaven and blew up the Learning Tree. I told her it sounded like she didn't because Yoda says that Rey already has everything she needs from the library,  which I thought meant there was nothing in there that she didn't already know. No... it meant she had everything she needed from the library.... which apparently was the entire contents of said library....... Bri was adamant that she had gotten them, and we argued about that. Come to find out, you can see them when Finn opens a drawer to get the unconscious Rose a blanket. I missed a lot of little things like that, like Ben Solo's calligraphy set (?????) or the fact that Luke's force double uses Anakin's lightsaber when it has already been destroyed. Speaking of which, Anakin used that lightsaber for like, two weeks, and Luke used it for about two years and Rey has used for it two days, and we see Ben Solo use it in the flashback scene, so when he screams that that lightsaber belongs to him, he probably does have more claim on it then anybody. He might have used it for about THREE years.
We also found out Rey is part of The Solo Family. Her family is just herself. As in.....she is solo.....

Now here are some drawings of The Solo Family that I did last year. I didn't post them because there was a tiny little chance I might have had to add Rey, but I didn't, just as I figured. 

Alright, everytime I try to put the Kylo Ren drawing on here, it deletes this Han drawing and puts Kylo in his place instead. Really, Kylo? You weren't content with just killing him.... You have to delete him as well.....

Ben Solo's name is Solo because he's so low. 

And, to close, here is my favorite drawing of Rey: 

Nothing.

*Update: I added above gif because four out of five people thought I was making a joke about how I didn't like Rey and so my favorite drawing of her was one were she wasn't there, instead of the joke being me actually quoting the movie. That is not true. I do like Rey. But I had to add the gif for clarity. The drawing is nothing as in, she is "nothing". (But not to me.)

Okay, I'm done.

You may have noticed that I have not uploaded any more INKtober drawings. And to tell you a secret I still have not even finished INKtober. So I haven't uploaded them all. I think all in all I did 16 drawings out of the thirty-one I should have. But by now we are almost as close to next October as we are to the last one, and I've waited this long, so I may as well wait that long again. I'm going to start just posting regular art again, and finish this INKtober next October.
Here's what I have been drawing instead of drawing what I was supposed to be drawing!

I don't even remember deciding to draw this. But apparently I did. 

All my family members are telling me this is terrifying, and in a way it is, but I have tried and tried to give her pupils and it always looks different from what I'm wanting, so I gave up. (Okay. I'm done.)

I redrew my Kylo Ren drawing because everyone said it was my best, and I have improved in my art, but everyone likes my old one better...? Go here if you want to see my first one.

Something feels a little off on this one, but I can't tell what it is. I love her eyes, though. And they even have pupils!

And there you are. Some art to pass the time as we wait for next October. *sips tea from bowl because I never got around to washing my cup*

Some More Drawings While You Wait For The Inktober Pictures That I Am Still Not Doing:

In hindsight, I'm not sure how that lid is supposed to fit on that cup, but I'm sure it will do its best.

This Rey is technically part of Inktober. Consider it a sneak peek.

Inktober 2017...?

Man, has it been a while since I last blogged! I have been drawing a good amount since then, but I never seem to remember to upload those drawings. I'll show you one drawing I have done recently, and then get on with the post...

(Used reference- I can't find the original artist.)

Anyway, about Inktober. I have been trying to do it again this year... "trying again" as in, that is all I did last year, and all I am doing this year... trying. And not doing. But, as the saying goes; "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again." Meaning I will probably try and fail next year, too, because it's "try, try, again", not just "try again". You have to try again twice to get it to work. And I have only tried again once.

Maybe next year I should just do "Thinktober", where I have one thought every day for 31 days. But no, that sounds even harder than regular Inktober.

I have done fourteen ink drawings this year, so I am up a good cry from just the one I did last year. I have been using a Disney Challenge that I tried to do with a friend two years ago in May (as you can see, I am very good at trying to do things), but on day FOUR I somehow got mixed and did the wrong drawing... and then I never got de-mixed up again. I then tried doing two a day, and that meant I would have to decide on not just one, but two favorite Disney scenes, princesses, princes, villains, songs, or the Disney princess with the prettiest left-hand thumbnail (or something like that) and it got confusing and harder to do. Then I reached The Middle where we had to draw Actual Scenes, not just characters. And then I realized that would mean 1) Choosing a favorite scene, 2) Finding the perfect screen capture of the scene OR 2&1/2) Taking my own screen capture (The reason that's 2&1/2 instead of a 3 is that it's not a different step, just a different way of doing it). So I went to bed. And the next morning when I woke up I just decided to do one more drawing for this month, and then next month introduce a New and Very Cool trend called "Inkvember". Catchy, huh? THEN, probably in December (Inkcember? Nah. Ink-cicle? Get it? Winter, icicles...okay, well, nevermind, then.), anyway, in that month, I will upload one of the ink drawings a day, like I was supposed to this month. And didn't. Ah, well. Until then, have fun browsing the new collection of other people's Inktober drawings, that they actually remembered to put up. What a glorious sense of satisfaction with themselves they must feel.

(P.S. I just remembered I actually do have some new random art you haven't seen yet. I'll upload those between times, if you'd like. If you don't like, then I will post them anyway, because I won't know you don't like until after I've already posted them. When it will be too late.)

(P.P.S. BTW, apropos of that gif: What is Yoda's full name? Yoda Layhee Hoo.)

Eye Sketch:

Actually two. ;).

Sneak Peek:

Sketch Based Off of Amy March:

 

And one more to grow on, haha!

Some Recent Sketches, All original Art: