Art resources: Inktober

[mekare]

So, we're all knee-deep in Inktober work so I guess at least some of you are using tutorials or looking things up somewhere. I certainly did for my last piece and was so impressed by the things I learned I decided to share (I especially remember mific saying she hadn't drawn animals in years -- guess what, I found something for you!).

So please share useful links, articles, tutorials you have used or can remember in the comments. I found Alphonso Dunn's stuff on YouTube today and boy was it ever helpful for a variety of things!

His channel for you browse for stuff that interests you: Alphonso Dunn YT

Cross hatching tips from Peter Paul Rubens

Top Three Cross-Hatching Mistakes and how to avoid them

How to Create realistic textures Part 1 --> mific there's stuff on fur in Part 1 (and part 2 as well)

Playlist for animals

Tree trunks and branches

Fire

In this one I was actually hoping to see if he'd shade any part of the fire because I really didn't know if I should at all, but he didn't. So I left it at the linework too.

And here is some stuff I practiced with his tutorials (first the stuff from the Rubens, and another one and then the one on textures):

Comments

[goss]

Oh ho! I think the animal comment was from me! I haven't drawn them in quite some time and am looking to get some practice in - hence trying my hand at the eagles piece yesterday.

Thank you so much for sharing the helpful tutorials! I love these kinds of vids especially, and how they so clearly demonstrate all the little steps. But sometimes searching Youtube can give you an overwhelming number of choices, that it's hard to weed out the good from the bad, so I appreciate the links. Checking them out now. :D :D

[mekare]

Whoops! I thought for sure it was mific because she's doing all those animal daemons, but.. *shrugs*

I guess I was lucky my first click just lead to a good tutorial, I just stuck with his channel because I liked the way he explained things. Happy viewing!

[goss]

Guess what? I have to teach the topic "Hatching" this week! So these Hatching and Cross-hatching Dos and Don'ts vids are especially helpful. Bookmarking this channel. Thanks again! :D

[mekare]

Hey great! Good luck wth your students.

[amberdreams]

Oh you've been very industrious! These do look very useful - I will try and check out one or two during my sojourn at my Mum's this week!

[mekare]

Happy experimenting and have a good time at home.

[syntheid]

I'm watching a lot of speedpaints. Danica Sills (cw: her work tends to be a little on the fantastical/body horror end of things) and Anita Gadzińska are my favorite Inktober posters. They're good about critiquing their work in the voiceovers, so I can see both what they did and hear how they'd fix/redo things they didn't like as much which have been nice tips. Both are doing mostly ink washes for Inktober and posting videos frequently. Bokkei's videos are super cool to watch for hatching/cross-hatching techniques though she doesn't talk about the process as much.

A couple tip videos for ink pens: Supposedly hacks and tips for microns but she does kinda veer off at points to basically say use dip pens instead of microns.
There's some good tips about inking pens, though, she explains some common weirdnesses that I'd wondered about like why do many inking pens lighten when you erase your pencil lines after inking. A very quick demo on some ways to fix ink mistakes, including scraping with an exacto.

I'd watched this before and also knew the basic idea because my time in art school, but Audra Auclair talks about how to practice using skeletons and references and how to break things down into simplified shapes some of which is definitely applicable outside of drawing humans. This and a creature design course on Skillshare inspired me to do some animal skeleton sketches, but I haven't really posted those. There's quite a few free 3D model (human) skeleton references online like KineMan (Web) and Essential Skeleton 4 (iOS). And I've just been googling for animals.

And I've been trying to do lighting/value studies so I'm hunting for references like this one that shows the same person in a number of lighting conditions. Also this is a cool illustration of multiple light sources and how they hit a face.

I always... have too much ahah, I wonder if DW is going to consider it spam. /overwhelming-wall-of-text

[mekare]

Hey don't apologize for adding all these great links! I'm looking forward to checking them out. The lighting resource sounds especially interesting to me since I do portraits regularly.

animal skeleton sketches

I think I saw some of these on the side of one of your Inktober drawings. They looked pretty cool!

ETA: I've been watching Danica Sills - such beautiful ink drawings! (though thanks for the warning for body horror so I was prepared)

And now I learned that there are pens that are waterproof! I've been thinking I need that so much because I use ink that's not waterproof and never could colour afterwards. YAY.

[mific]

Great links, thanks. I watched some of the cross-hatching ones not long ago, and definitely need more practise with it. I enjoyed some Danica Sills vids too - definitely need waterproof markers now.