Inktober 11th: Run

The prompt for Inktober 11th is "Run."  October 11th is also National Coming Out Day.  I was inspired by The Wizard of Oz, a source of queer iconography, and also a story about people on a road going towards something rather than away from something; why not have the characters run, like in a friendly race?

I wanted to update the characters' designs a bit.  Unfortunately my artistic ambitions exceed my abilities.  Dorothy and the Lion have torsos which are too long.  I post it on the internet even though I cannot stand to look at it. 

I drew this with a Faber-Castell 9000 4B.  It's really growing on me.

Inktober 10th: Gigantic

I'm feeling better about Inktober today. 

Today's prompt is "Gigantic."  Here I reveal why the pyramids are the shape they are, and why Ra carries a giant grapefruit on his head.

I drew this with a Faber-Castell 9000 4B.

Inktober 9th: Screech

Today's Inktober prompt is "Screech," which is a term for the bald eagle's cry.  Today is also Indigenous Peoples' Day.

The more I drew this, the more angular and stylized it became, like Art Deco propaganda, or Mike Mignola's comics.  I like the look.

I drew this with a Faber-Castell 9000 4B pencil.

Inktober 7th: Shy

I'm playing catch-up with previous days in Inktober.  The prompt for the 7th is "Shy."

I'm sure I have committed a dozen sins against perspective and proportion with this cartoon drawing.  I had difficulty expressing this abstract concept in the form of a single drawing.

My pencil is a DESIGN 3800 in 3B.  Design was once a Venus line of pencils; at some point it was owned by Eberhard-Faber, I purchased one under the Faber-Castell name, and now I suspect the brand is owned by Newell, which has collected all their art pencils under the Prismacolor brand, along with the Turquoise line of drawing pencils.  Sadly, Turquoise has crowded out the beloved Design line.

Inktober 8th: Crooked!

I totally forgot about Inktober!  Unfortunately, I'm not good enough to use ink, and I am a pencil enthusiast, so I'm working in graphite.

The word today is "Crooked."  I have chosen to subvert the intention of this; a shepherd's polearm is known as a crook, and if someone impaled on a spear has been "speared," then surely someone mangled with a crook has been "crooked."  The sheep-stealing wolf could also be described as having crooked ways (hence the bandit mask), and his posture after being mangled could be described as oddly-shaped or "crooked."

Of course I am heavily inspired by the women in my Karate class for the shepherdess' martial pose.

Drawn with a General's Layout on a Pro Art Travel Sketch 70# sketchbook.