Hello Cuties! here is my #inktober day 09/31! I don’t love the way this one turned out but I am really glad that I did it. I pushed myself even though I didn’t feel comfortable and thats how you learn. This is supposed to be a shrine to the earth goddess in my comic story and I’m not sure if it will appear in the story itself but it is a thing that exists in the world.
In other news, I got a tech guy to come and check out my internet so hopefully I won’t be having any more internet problems (fingers crossed). I’m a little behind with editing but thats the reason why I started a week early in the first place. Check out the video for this on youtube and I will see you guys tomorrow!
Another piece to the “The Lost Years” ink series, still on-going, and unlike the other has a clear starting point, but interpretation was left to me. The third and final song off the album it’s mournful and crushing, and ye hopeful throughout. It deeps in doom territory (always a favorite for me) and closes out the album perfectly.
This piece is a wake of an unseen prow, the ripples echoing back into each other, but revealing the darkness, rather than obscuring it. As such, it’s a more abstract than the others, repeating but inverting the triangle shape of trisagion.
Shroud
XI +THE LOST YEARS+ Ink on Paper 9” x 12” 2021 ~Age
Today I’ll share this piece, the second of three I created for Ethereal Shroud’s new album Trisagion.
This one was also a part of “The Lost Years” ink series, still on-going, and like the other was created with some general direction from the band, and after hearing an early demo.
The First song off the album it’s bold aggressive and dealing with the all consuming-fires of hatred. It’s both the first demo I heard while working on these, and the longest track on the album at a whopping 27 minutes.
For me this piece was about despair, and horror with the world around us continuing to drift in the wrong direction - something that still seems to happen faster every day. There’s a lot of fury and anguish in the song, and yet passages of hope weave in and out. A monument to folly seemed like the best piece to accompany the song - a dread idol we hope to see crumble away.
To Dust
VIII +THE LOST YEARS+ Ink on Paper 9” x 12” 2021 ~Age
A pen and ink drawing from my sketchbook. I draw in my sketchbook every day, often just for a few minutes. But when I have a little longer I like to work like this and explore forms in a little more depth. #penandink #inkdrawing #figuredrawing #figuremodel #inkwash #blackandwhitedrawing #sketch #dailysketchbook #sketchbookdrawing #sketchbookpage (at Brunswick, Victoria)
Yay! Day one. I feel like I got a bit over enthusiastic with the flowers but I had fun regardless. The pen wasn’t working QUITE the way I wanted on this paper and I am not sure if it was the pen, the ink or the paper so I will try different ink tomorrow.
As I said earlier I decided to do Kitty and Mrawh for all my inktober drawings. Here they are hiding from the sudden rain under a trellis. Kitty doesn’t mind the rain so much but despite being made of mud, Mrawh tends to be pretty wary of getting too soggy as he tends to lose a bit of cohesion which isn’t very fun. I am sure they will venture out into the rain anyway, which is bound to be an adventure for them both.
Materials: Shinola Sketchbook, Daler Rowney FW acrylic ink, crow quill and a brush for the ink wash.