Happy Halloween!
Over the years I've drawn lot's of Halloween inspired art and doodles, but this is probably one of my favorites. I mean, just look at those cute ghosts peeking out. The only things scary in that gumball machine are those black jelly beans! Supplies Used:
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In today's art tutorial, I'm going to help you draw a pizza slice doodle. This is a really easy one that anyone can draw, and you don't need any fancy or expensive art supplies. If you can draw some straight-ish lines, squiggles, circles, half circles and rectangles--then you can draw this!
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Let's draw something! The Inktober 52 prompt for this week was "Tiger", and I have to say I wasn't excited about it. Tigers are okay and all, but definitely not something I had ever tried to draw before.
This prompt was also technically a "double prompt", because it was during the winter Olympics, they challenged artists to draw a tiger performing their favorite winter Olympic sport. So my challenge was to draw two things I hadn't ever tried before, and make it sort of fit in with the theme of the previous drawings in my sketchbook. My favorite winter Olympic sport is figure skating, so that was the start, and The Inktober prompt was "Micro". I was just going to draw one tiny drawing (the cactus in the pot with the stick figures.) The problem was it wasted a whole page in the sketchbook for one tiny doodle, making that page look out of place with the ones I had finished so far.
I added a few more doodles, and I loved working on this drawing!
The Inktober prompt was ''squash''. Which kind of sounds like sasquatch. Which means sasquatch squashed under a load of squash. I imagine Bigfoot retiring from hide-n-seek and The fourth Inktober 52 prompt is "Frog". Now that one kinda worried me. I have very little practice drawing frogs. In fact, I think the only one I've ever done before was hidden in my Mother Nature drawing.
I didn't exactly want to spend several days practicing the art of frog portraiture, so I had to think of a somewhat clever way to draw the prompt without...frogginess. Thus, the Ribbit Exhibit. There are frogs, but they are tiny...barely there. Rather, the whole drawing is about frogs. Or at least we can assume as much. I mean, these are special frogs...they have their own exhibit. Maybe they are real frogs at a special room in the zoo, or maybe they are sculptures of frogs in glass cases at an art show. Only they know for sure. What was fun to draw about this piece: Another Inktober prompt. This one is for week three, and the word was "Stripes". I can't even explain how happy it made me to see "stripes". I used to draw stripes into just about every drawing I made. I also like stripes in real life too, and they can be spotted around my house on runners, crocheted blankets, clothes...chickens. (Okay, those are outside the house, but still very stripey.)
Right. So for this one I wanted to take my time and make it fun. I came up with the idea of not just using a pattern of stripes, but using it as the name for this sad clown. To help get ideas for the details, I created a little story in my head about Stripes, and why he looks so sad. For the second week of Inktober 52, the prompt was "Decay". That's a pretty strong word, and I wanted to give it some substance.
So, for this drawing I decided to play on the word "Decay" by making this little slice of town called DK. You can see the street is DK avenue, and the whole town is in, well, a state of decay. The way it is floating about in space might suggest an even bigger source of decay somewhere. I won't bore you with long explanations, vague words, or lectures on all the meanings that could be read into it. I imagine you can figure that out on your own. In the meantime, just enjoy the cute ghosts. Some of my favorite parts to draw were:
Are ACEO cards still a thing? I don't see art cards very much anymore. Or at least not many that are drawn. I still see ones made with collage. However that doesn't mean drawn or painted cards aren't still cool to make. And I have sold several over the years, there must be people who still like them.
Drawing ACEO cards has become one of my favorite ways to get out of artistic dry spells. The small size is just, you know...doable.
It has been a crazy couple of years for art and...well everything else. For various reasons, I didn't even have time to think about doing the Inktober art challenge last year or year before last. Its a busy time of year even without a daily drawing, but I always love the community atmosphere of joining in. Meeting new artists, and discovering great works is a huge part of the appeal.
This year, I decided to try something different, and take on the Inktober 52 challenge instead. Rather than drawing each day in October, |
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