Inktober 2018 - Clock & Weak

I have a few more left to show!
These next two are for "clock" and "weak" respectively!

This comes to no surprise since my love for the Back to the Future films should be a well-known fact around here.

I struggled with this topic, but I concluded with a small little robot trying to pull a sword from the stone. Guess it wasn't programmed with the sword's worthiness? Don't give up little bot!

The next few Inktober drawings will be posted later on since I still need to ink a couple more and post them on my Instagram page. If you want to see them before they're posted here, follow my personal IG account over at @animatedslacker!

Inktober 2018 - Whale & Guarded

I really love how these next two drawings came out!

I wanted to do something different for the "whale" topic since everyone at the time was drawing a whale, but I wanted to create a whale-like kind of character. I think the result speaks for itself:

This second one for the "guarded" topic is one of my favorites because of the small history behind it. I had a project for a class several years ago where we had to design a character and I created a beefy bulky security guard. I never really liked any of the iterations and the submitted design for the project, so I decided to redo it for the topic and I've got to say: I really like this design!

Ain't it neat? Also, this design kinda reminds of the Kingpin character from that new Spiderman animated movie.

If you guys haven't seen "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse," THEN GO SEE IT! IT'S SO DAMN GOOD AND VISUALLY YUMMY! See it now.

N O W.

Inktober 2018 - Flowing & Cruel

Two more Inktober drawings this post!
Here's the drawing for the "flowing" topic!

A lot of girls are big chatterboxes, but you'd agree with me when I say that Sally is the Queen of the Chatterboxes. Words just endlessly flow out of her!

The drawing for the "cruel" topic is the very first drawing for a story concept I've been toying around with lately

It's in its early stages, but the idea for the villain is someone who've lost all sense of their humanity and are solely driven by the pursuit of, well, I can't say; mainly because I'm still trying to figure that out.

Pretty weird juxtaposition for these two themes/drawings, eh?

Inktober 2018 - Precious

This next drawing for Inktober is centered around the topic of "precious," and I think nothing fits better than Sally's thoughts towards her best friend, Mandy.

Sally loves all her friends, but none more than Mandy. I don't think Mandy can reciprocate...

Inktober 2018 - Star

It's safe to say that I wasn't able to fully complete this year's Inktober challenge. Damn you work and my crappy time management!

However, I do have a back catalog of Inktober drawings I haven't posted on here yet, be sure to look out for that.

For now, here's the drawing for the "star" topic:

It's easy to see why Marilyn's practically a celebrity at her school since she's popular, talented, and bubbly.

Inktober 2018 - Drooling & Exhausted

I'm going for a two-fer today!

Here's the drawing for "drooling"

Definitely my least favorite drawing this month. It didn't come out as good as I wanted too. This kind of ties in to the next drawing, almost as a narrative in a way.

Here's my "exhausted" drawing

Funny enough, this one is one of my favorite drawings for this month! It's very polarizing to show off my least favorite and most favorite drawings in one post.
These two go together well in a way because I see it like this: the first drawing is me sleeping peacefully, then the second is me shortly after at work doing my 9am shift.

Work has been brutal with their "billion hours a week" bit while I try to do my school stuff at the same time, but I guess that's how fast food goes. At least I can save up to finally buy a Cintiq soon! Hopefully sometime in November!

Inktober 2018 - Chicken

I've been very behind on posting my Inktober stuff on here and Twitter, AND on doing my Inktober in general. To make up for it, here's the drawing for the topic "chicken"

I'm not gonna lie, I'm obsessed with Nelly. I love this character!
I simply love the idea that she names her barn animal friends, with her favorite being Abigail the cow. I also enjoy the idea of a chicken being named Melody.

Speaking of Nelly, I'm still working on redrawing the Class of 2422 line-up, though it's been going very slow. Ya know, school and work and stuff.

Inktober 2018: Spell

Spells! Magic! Wizardry!

At least that's the path I went with for the topic "spell." For this, I drew up the only dark magic-welding character I've created, Mandy.

I really like how this one came out!
Since I've been really busy with school, schoolwork, and work lately, I'm using Inktober as an excuse to draw my characters. It's a nice break from things, though I'm really behind in the topics. I'm trying to catch up!

Inktober 2018: Roasted

The third topic for this year is "roasted!"

Initially I wanted to do something related to roasting (in terms of making a sick burn to someone, like a witty comeback) but I didn't know how to execute that idea so I went with this cutesy idea of a jack o' lantern roasting a marshmallow over himself since jack o' lanterns usually have a small candle inside of them. 

Simple idea, but I thought it was a neat drawing.

I just remembered I never finished with redrawing/coloring my favorite Inktober drawings from LAST year! Ahh geez...

Another October, Another Inktober

Last year, I went and completed a full month of Inktober. This year, I'm doing it again!

I'll be following the official Inktober prompt, just like last year, and I'll make an effort to post the daily drawings on this blog to bring some life around here.

I'm a bit late for the first two days, but better late than never I suppose!

Here's "poisonous" and "tranquil"

I couldn't stop thinking about "Emperor's New Groove" for poisonous since they tried to poison Kuzco at the beginning of the film.

This was perfect timing since that day (or the day before) I was so deep into my peaceful sleep that I didn't even hear my alarm ringing; I woke up really late for class. Good times.

Mario's Power Moon Illustration (Inktober)

The next Inktober drawing I chose to do was for the topic "found." For that day, I drew Mario finding a Power Moon. At the time, Super Mario Odyssey was just released, and I was completely hooked! I thought it would be fitting if I drew a scene of Mario discovering a moon.
I've always enjoyed the 2D Mario art style (which now I believe it was a heavy influence to my style), and I've noticed that the artwork is done with Adobe Illustrator, so I thought it'd be fitting if I did the artwork with Illustrator.

I drew/colored Mario and the Power Moon in Illustrator, while I did the line art for both the fore/background elements in Illustrator and colored it in Photoshop. Below is the result!

Personally, I really love how this one came out. I've never really used Illustrator to create artwork like this before, but the process was definitely a learning experience.
Well, I did recreate the Ketchup Man artwork with Illustrator, but that was more easier and a straightforward process compared to this one.

Nevertheless, I think it's a pretty neat recreation and tribute to the 2D Mario art style and Odyssey game in general.

Squeak/Shy Illustration (Inktober)

I went ahead and redid another favorite Inktober drawing of mine digitally and in color. For this drawing it was for the topic "squeak," in which I drew a character of mine, Danielle, tightly embracing her favorite childhood toy, a big mouse plushie.

Even though the mouse toy doesn't squeak in the new version, the drawing itself and Danny's pose has been fixed/adjusted, so now it all looks better.

One of the Inktober drawings I selected to redraw digitally was a drawing I did for the "shy" topic (which is another Danielle drawing), but that was retooled to be used for the character line-up back when I started to redraw that.

It's kinda similar here between the two.

I guess you can say that I actually had two Inktober drawings I redid to show off here!

That's all for now!

Lucina Illustration (Inktober)

Recently, I completed an illustration of Lucina, a character from the video game series "Fire Emblem!." Here's the final illustration along with the Inktober drawing.

As seen above, I created this drawing of this character initially for Inktober of 2017. After October ended, I tasked myself to go back to pick some of my favorite ink drawings. I wanted to spend my November of 2017 redrawing and coloring my favorite drawings digitally.
This Lucina drawing was the first one to start that process; however, this one was a weird case. I started this digital illustration in October 2017, and it was a long, frustrating process since I was being such a perfectionist and I was experimenting with different styles and coloring processes.
After many many weeks (and probably months), I finally decided last week to completely redo the artwork. Funny enough, after restarting the drawing, it only took just two days to complete the art above the Inktober drawing.

One of the main reason this Lucina drawing was the first one in a line of a handful of chosen favorites to redrawing/color digitally was because my cousin really likes this particular character, and I sort of took it as a commission unofficially.
I even make two prints of the finished artwork! One for him and one for myself! I normally don't do prints for my artwork at all, so those prints could be considered pretty "rare" since there's only two in existence...unless I make more prints, though it's highly unlikely.

Be on the look out for more remastered Inktober drawings soon!

Inktober Drawings: Part 3/3

The final set of the inklings

Did you even try and attempt to guess the topics for each drawing?
No?

I'm ashamed of you. Really, I am.

Inktober Drawings: Part 2/3

Even more!

Did you guess last post's topics? Did you even try to guess?
...did you even attempt?

*sigh* Well, will you try this time?

Inktober Drawings: Part 1/3

I wanted to do all 31 days of Inktober, but school (as usual) got in the way.
So here's the first wave of ink drawings:

I did such a small number of these drawings for Inktober, so I'm gonna spread 'em out in three posts, because I can.
Can you guess what each drawing's topic is?