it's October 30th the day before Halloween we only have 2 more Inktobers left -
let's do it!!!
today's prompt is.....
"jolt!"
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if you've been watching my other inktober
videos you know I kind of have a rhythm of things, well I've had to change it up
recently because I ran out of pages so I found this random sort of semi-thick
piece of bristol board and I've been working on this and I'm just going to
tape it into my sketchbook once it's done so I thought I would work on day 30
inside here and then day 31 for Halloween can go there.
here was my day 29 so I have a couple sketches and then the finished drawing there
so I'm kind of gonna do the same thing on the inside here for day 30
this paper isn't quite as nice as the paper in my Illo sketchbook so the ink was
actually bleeding through a bit but I think it'll work just fine for the
remaining two days
now the problem I'm facing with this is all I can think of
as lightning bolts again kind of like what I did for Saturday's prompt...
I definitely don't want to repeat that
oooh! actually wasn't Frankenstein's monster
brought to life by a jolt of lightning? this bed-thing - he'd sit up straight and the
hair being pulled straight back
"zing!"
just quick sketches trying to get my
ideas on paper - something else we can draw maybe...? why does he have bolts coming
out of his head? - or his...neck? I mean. I've never really understood that
he's got messy hair
you know he's been dead for a while he hasn't really had time to maintain it I
think I made him a little too attractive
*laughs
hmmm something else... something else... so
tomorrow's Halloween, what are you all going as? what are you dressing up as
I haven't dressed up in a couple years - dressed up for a couple conventions but
not Halloween so I was wondering what are you guys going to be dressing up at
what is something else that "jolt's? I'm also thinking of Jolteon, the Pokemon
what does Jolteon even look like?
I think that just proved my point that I should not be drawing nothing that thing....
Pokemon are not my specialty
that looks wacky
okay we're not going
that route if you remember I would draw all my sketches on one side of the
spread and on the second half of the spread draw my finished illustration but
these last couple days I've basically just been trying to cram it - into as
small a space as possible so anywhere that there is sketches they'll be sketches and
then whichever sketch I like the best I kind of morph it into the finished
inktober day - I'm not entirely sure how to draw a jolt because it's such like a
quick motion you know like to pull something out of someone's hand or
something like that I'm totally sure how to draw that
let me try something here - trying to add these lines to make it look like
something - some kind of motion was happening but really not feeling it yeah
what if we could use hair to sort of express that 'boom' I dunno, I'm just
thinking out loud or another word for that would be brainstorming
are there any other definitions of jolt?
Jolt /jōlt/ - "to push our shake abruptly or roughly"
or is a noun an "abrupt rough or violent movement" "to give a surprise or shock to someone in
order to make them act or change"
so it can also mean like to surprise someone
so I could just draw someone with a very surprised face which kind of fits little
Frankenstein's monster over there - let me try that again
in the first sketch, I
always try to be super expressive and big and then I sort of chisel away at facial features
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mehh, we can work on that face
[this is] from the brain surgery
the hair -
pulling backwards with the jolt, the surprise, and the shock of it all
"he's alive"
"he's alive!!!!"
seeing a really large - brow/forehead/thing
in these references I'm using - it's kinda hard to do a surprised
face with that
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oooh! and I'll probably get to use this green color that always
separates for some reason - the other colors don't do that
if I move his pupils up a little he will look more surprised? yeah there we go
I need to figure out this body
you know? keep the Lightning back there
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it's a little less happy now
[says to herself] "he's alive..."
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i don't like that at all....
oh look I'm getting pencil one everywhere
[talking to book: get out of my way]
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I feel like there should be some ribs showing and this will all be dark back here but I've already have a
lead problem so let's keep it simple
I think I'm gonna make his mouth like cartoon-ly huge
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I like that better
the only thing I'm not sure right now are
these eyebrows
i think that fixed it...?
let's start inking!
one of the things I've learned over October is
that it's easier to get this ink off of my desk than it is to get off the
cutting mat so I'm going to not be using it the protective covering for my desk
because I accidentally spilled some on my desk and I got it off like so
easy and like - dang it - it doesn't come off my mat that easy so I don't need to bother
with that - alright going to my bowl-pointed nib (my favorite one)
I think somebody said it's for calligraphy not for drawing but who cares it still works
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let's just fill that in
I'm kind of going - I'm not going for like full coverage I'm going for a
scratchy lined look - I've been into that lately so that's what I am trying to
accomplish here that's why you'll see like little white spots scattered
throughout this and it's not a solid black [surface]
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I think one of the things I'm excited about inktober being over is finally
having like clean hands without any ink on them because soon as I clean them off and
get all the ink off it's time for another day and then I get more on me
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eyeballs
then back to the hair!
*pen scratch sounds
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i guess, I've decided to leave them shirtless, he will go put on some
clothes once he, you know, gets 'rebirth-ed"
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it's supposed to be ribs
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I forgot a little line here under the mouth - now do I want to fill in this section
with ink? oh, I should probably add some more 'whatever-these-are-called' stitches!
stitches?
maybe this is a whole new arm
and the maybe this is a new forearm
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okay I'm gonna let that dry and then erase some of this and then starting working on
the background I think
I'm actually gonna make some blue and black for the
background and use this purple spot that's probably not coming off anyway
a little bit of teal mixed with a little bit a blue
tiniest drop of black and we'll see what color that comes up with
that's very dark oh
yeah it's very close to the color I want maybe a little bit more teal and then
I'm actually gonna just spray a little bit of water in there - yeah much better
that's the color I'm looking for
now, I just want to fill in this
background with that and I think I'm just going to instead of last time where
I did all that time trying to make that lightening special I think I'm just
going to use a white pen - keep it simple - since he's more of the focal point and
that makes it easier because that means I can just paint over top the lightening
at first and then go over it with the white opaque pen afterwards I feel just
makes the steps a lot easier - something you may notice is that this
paper doesn't like this ink as much as the sketchbook paper does it gets this
really weird texture but I was very surprised like all inktober how well
these inks held up on the illo sketchbook - that quickly became my
favorite sketchbook - I like the way it holds markers, I like the way it can hold a
little bit of watercolor you're obviously gonna get some buckling
because it's not watercolor paper, I like what you can do with it and I enjoy a
little buckle in my sketchbook I think it adds texture
ooh, we're getting a lot of buckling
with this page I probably should have taped it down
I do like that color for nighttime though I think it fits very well yeah
that paper is not in love with these inks,
now do I want to add a light green wash to
our character I'm kind of thinking 'not' because I like the way the white stands
out from the blue and then I think that'll really look cool with the
lightning bolt so I'm probably gonna leave it as-is for now and then we'll see what it
looks like with the lightning bolt
okay I'm looking at this - it's dry - and it's
just super patchy so I don't know if I should really risk doing another layer
on this flimsy paper or not
I really want to because it just looks so 'blehh'
but we can actually - no surprise here - go in with my Posca Pen, a white one,
extra fine, and let's draw the lightning bolt - starting up here, let's just quickly
sketch out the idea and then we can go over that again
add some line variation
*pen sounds
oops, I went a little too close to his face there
bring that up a bit over here
yeah then I wanted to say "he's alive" or
does he say "it's alive" I don't even know oh well...
alright, so now the last decision is
whether I want him to have green skin - just judging by how poorly this paper is holding the
ink it's probably a bad idea
wonder if I could make lightening look like it's coming
off of him a little bit...?
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just going to erase a little bit here, not fully erase it, just lightly - cuz I do like the tones
now, the Posca pen has faded a little since I put it down so I'm gonna add another layer
need to make sure it changes like sizes a lot wouldn't be too consistent I don't think
when's the last time you looked at a lightning bolt and thought:
"wow! consistency!" *laughs
so I don't want you to look at this lighting bolt I think that either
okay I think I've made up my mind I'm just going with the slightest
'itsy-bitsy' bit of green
could even add a smidge of teal to it - maybe it would be
more color balance
grab my paintbrush
ehh, thats a little too vibrant I think
it needs more teal, no, that's too dark now
yeah I guess that'll work
just add slight tinges of it basically anywhere where there should be some
shading or emphasis
there so now he's got a bit of a green tint to him and I
think I did too much on the nose so I'm going to go with the white pen on the
nose - lighten that up
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oh I need a little more green over here
here we go! I'm not too upset with this
this for drawing a man, which I don't throw a lot of, and it being quite completely
out of my comfort zone, I kinda like it I feel like I learned a lot about
different facial structures because like I kind of always draw that generic
pretty boy face and then here trying to draw Frankenstein's monster and sort of
using a reference - I'm quite happy, I quite like it and I especially like that it's
very different from of my other inktober drawings, speaking of which if you'd like
to see all of my inktober drawings for 2018 you can hop over to my Instagram
page I'll have a link in the description and you can check out all 31 days
tomorrow *laughs* I still have one more to draw
I'm so excited to be done with this I've had so
much fun and I've definitely had uh..my weak point, I think was the week before
last or last week I don't know where I wanted to give up but I stuck with it
and I'm really glad that I did!
I'm gonna tape it in there once I finish this back side
thanks so much for coming along with me on my inktober journey it was a
lot of fun but I think it's about time we start changing up the content here on
this channel, maybe dooing something different on Tuesdays *hehe
thank you guys for watching! I'll see you guys all next week!
♫ and I hope you have a delicious evening full of waffles! ♫
♫ BYE!!! ♫
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