2022 Inktober 52 - One sketch per week.

[Robalone]

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[Kaputnik]

Okay, this is pretty bad, but when inspiration strikes, I have to go with it, even if it's someone else's inspiration. And even if I'm not quite up to the task.



Here's the whole poem, for those who may not be familiar with it. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-56d223cb4e6fa

It was James Thurber who had the idea of illustrating this and a number of other perfectly serious poems with cartoons. Here is his first one for Excelsior. By the way, when someone criticized Thurber's cartoons as "fifth rate", another cartoonist spoke up to defend him, saying "third rate!".

[Kaputnik]

By the way, Thurber did cartoon illustrations for another flag poem, "Barbara Frietchie", by John Greenleaf Whittier. That one is ripe for a little gentle mockery as well.

“Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,
But spare your country’s flag,” she said.

I considered that one, but didn't want to do a bad drawing of Old Glory.

[christof]

indian ink and Pelikan 4001 Blue Black

[Chrissy]

Ahh christof, I've earmarked a moonscape very similar to copy so that I can call it "terrain with flag" combining 2 weeks.

[Kaputnik]

Christof, the Murex and the related MYU are very interesting pens, aren't they? I've got a Murex inked right now, but haven't tried drawing with it.

[catbert]

A pause for parlay in the Duck–Rabbit War.

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Sheaffer 5-30/Sheaffer coastal blue (+ greyscale filter), Maruman Croquis.

(Inspired by this New Yorker cartoon.)

[Chrissy]

I'm behind and it's just too hot to sit inside and draw so this is my sketch to cover Terrain and Flag.

Because the picture actually looks much better with a black sky I tried a way of doing this in Photoshop and it's the first time I ever did a selection that selected all of my drawing and a paint fill in the background. I'm amazed how well it worked. Later I even worked out how to add some "stars"

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[Yazeh]

@Chrissy, great job
Though, I wonder if a moonscape is acceptable for terrain

1727, "ground for training horses," from French terrain "piece of earth, ground, land," from Old French (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *terranum, from Latin terrenum "land, ground," noun use of neuter of terrenus "of earth, earthly," from terra "earth, land," literally "dry land" (as opposed to "sea"); from PIE root *ters- "to dry." Meaning "tract of country, considered with regard to its natural features" first attested 1766.

[Chrissy]

According to the online dictionary it means "A stretch of land, especially with regard to its physical features." That's what I drew.

[catbert]

Christof and Chrissy have done the next prompt already!

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[Chrissy]

Yep I'm ahead of the game now LOL

[Kaputnik]

Space. Second thing that popped into my head.

First thing was to take out a sheet of the black sketch paper that I've never gotten around to, and make a lot of little stars on it with a white gel pen that I hardly ever use. But that would have been a little too lazy.

Incidentally, although my ambition is to be able to draw more realistically when I choose, it seems that drawing a convincing, non-realistic cartoon brings its own technical challenges.

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[pretend_avian]

@Kaputnik Great facial expressions!

[pretend_avian]

Space

[christof]

ink: indian ink Pentel Sepia, De Atramentis coffee ink

[Robalone]

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Inspired by, and with apologies to….the sculpture at the Haeinsa temple Korea.

[Chrissy]

My idea of Terrain, Flag and Space now seems awfully commonplace by comparison.

[Robalone]

Chrissy….comparison is a nasty little monster….it sneaks up behind me and whacks me on the head all the time.
All you can do is turn around, look it straight in the face and …….do an 'Expeliamus' ….I have to keep doing them… 😩

[catbert]

This began as a summary of weeks 14 to 26 but could double up for 'space' if I don’t think of something else this week …

A sci-fi situation: a camo-striped dino slides her flower-patterned ship from a distant wormhole origin into a crowd of mouse racers eyeing up close the mountainous terrain of a shattered moonlet orbiting an alien world.

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Sheaffer 5-30/Sheaffer coastal blue, Atoma.