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I'm trying a new subtractive technique to get black tones in my drawing, then watercoloring over top. It's sort of a printmaking approach. Sort of.

Lino print, 50x40cm. Black offset ink on Fabriano paper.

Graphite and carbon pencils, 2018

The idea for this portrait came to me when I was looking at a packaging of soap - it was very glossy and it looked like it could look like pearls. As well as the soap packaging, I used white ink mixed with acrylic paint (for opacity) on black paper.

Quick pattern made with white ink on black paper. It reminds me of the texture of a feather

An orc flying between planets, do you believe it ?

Stretching

Using diluted black India ink and a brush.

Red & Black ink worked on with handmade nibs and pens, marker sketch

"Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infect the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them." - J.K. Rowling

Here are more Inktober paintings! My sketchbook is getting crinkly when I turn the pages from all this ink. I love that sound. It echoes the sound of crunchy leaves outside. Ah, fall. HALLOWEEN FOREVER.

Here are 5 #Inktober paintings. I've been painting every single night and loving it. I think that my high school art teacher might have been right when he said doing a daily painting was key to his being an artist.

Medieval Town Lineart.

Spooky sketch filled in with Golden Fluid Acrylic paint in Carbon Black. The background and other colors are watercolor.

Old telephone drawn and painted with black India ink.

I'm not sure how anatomy works, apparently. Ink & white gel pen in my sketchbook.

This vampire is afraid of heights! He was done in ink wash, ballpoint, and white gel pen in my sketchbook.

Flower explosion, thank you sweet elephant !

This is meant to have different faces but connected to each other. I like this version of the drawing better then the end product.

Drawn with black india ink using a Nikko G nib in an oblique pen holder.

I have a finished version of this but I definitely want to do this piece again with ink.

Day 6 of Inktober.

Pen & Ink illustration.

One of my dreams, move my van and travel the world with my man, a road trip !