October Challenge - Part the Third

Continuing on with my October drawing challenge - whether you call it inktober or artober or sketchtober or whatever... The idea was to draw something everyday in October (Part the First, Part the Second). I actually did something similar in September as well. 

Wednesday, 21 October 2020

A WEEK after I pinched my finger in an overhead door, I found out it was actually fractured. Tuesday we went out and got a splint for it. It took some getting used to - it was SUPER irritating at first - my finger actually felt WAY WORSE in the splint. I seem to have come to grips with it... or... just got used to it. I get to wear it for 4 weeks. fun times. 

from a photo of Germans surrendering to Canadians at Vimy on 9 April 1917

In the evening Amanda was watching some sort of webinar and sitting relatively still, so... 

Thursday, 22 October 2020

In the morning we went to get influenza vaccinations. Afterwards we had to wait for 15 minutes - in case there were any immediate reactions. 

Started to draw Amanda... but then she decided to take her jackets off. 

One friend on facebook suggested I should have gone all Marcel Duchamp and practiced my cubism skills.. A well... next time...

Jackets off and settled in with a book for a few minutes while we waited... 

Saturday, 24 October 2020

Amanda. Chillin. 

Also Amanda Chilling. 

Do you sense a theme developing here...? 

Sunday, 25 October 2020 

Lucy Dickhardo (Amanda's Burlesque alter-ego) from a photo I took of her during a break at the Babes, Boobs, and Bands fundraiser for the Saskatoon International Burlesque Festival. 

Monday, 26 October 2020 

Lucy D again. Also from a picture taken while she was getting ready for a show last year. 

Wednesday, 28 October 2020 

Amanda. Online office meeting. 

Another meeting. 

Thursday, 29 October 2020 

Amanda again. It may look like she's falling asleep during a work meeting - she's actually looking down referring to cue cards while leading an online Yoga Nidra session she's been putting on for the Grad Students Association. 

Friday, 30 October 2020

Lucy D again - also from photos. 

and... that's it... 

After a solid month of a clear project in September, I kind of feel like I've been flailing this month... Ah, well... some drawings got drawn... Maybe next month will be better... 

October Challenge - Part the Second

 Continuing on from Part the First...

Unfortunately, I've fractured my finger which makes typing tricky... so it's going to be mostly just the pictures with limited commentary... 

Amanda watching TV

Amanda Webex work meeting

smashed finger. Ow.

Icing Smashed finger

It's how it FELT!

For the rest of the week I mostly worked on maps and tokens I could upload and make use of on Roll20

Mining Facility on one of Saturn's moons

Down Below.

Character Portrait

Another Character Portrait

I tried to make some simple re-usable "blanks"

Flipped it for some variety. 

Filled in they looked like:

Infected residents of the installation. 

More infected 

Whoops! infected scientists

Finnegan helped me with this one. 

Character portrait from Wrath & Glory

Character portrait

fixed character portrait... 

I didn't get a drawing done everyday - but I got more than ten done over the last ten days because a few days I did MORE. 

Eleven more days. Going to try and get one done each day. 

October Challenge - Part The First

 Orignially, as I'd planned the September Drawing-From-The-Masters Challenge, I had a nebulous plan to continue on into October with MORE ART. Specifically I'd planned to participate in Inktober - as I've attempted to do in previous years - and many friends of mine have been very into it for the last decade...

But as October arrived, the plan for EXACTLY what I was going to do in September hadn't really congealed at all, it was still very... nebulous... at best... I was kind of burned out from the September Challenge. (I mean, it took me three days to finish the final piece off!) 

Then I took a couple of days off to sort out exactly what the hell I WAS going to do... and... to be honest, I STILL haven't come up with anything concrete!? I wasn't thrilled with the Inktober prompt list (and a number of my friends that HAVE done it in the past are pointedly NOT doing it this year for a variety of reasons...!?). Also, I really had fun working with COLOUR - specifically all the experimenting with Watercolour pencil and marker and a bit of Gouache I did through September and kind of wanted to keep going with that... And now there are just so many copy-cat October challenges: Artober, sketchtober, Faetober, witchtober, it just goes on... Keira's decided to do Faetober (you can see all her drawing on her instagram: Kerifuffle )

So I don't really have any SPECIFIC goal or Challenge in mind for October other than Just Keep Making Art (try to do it DAILY PRACTICE!). 

On teh 5th and 6th I made a couple attempts at self-portraits. This was the least awful, so I'm only posting this one... It's a thing artists do, not out of any sense of vanity (at least not in MY case) but just to study and actual person and try to make a drawing/painting that actually LOOKS like that person. It is HARD. And Heartbreaking to utterly fail at it... and, in the case of a self-portrait, only ONE heart is being broken. 

Also on the 6th... Carrying on in the same sketchbook as the September Challenge - and the same Warhammer 40,000 theme - but with an illustration of my own... Noise Marines! 

STILL more Warhammer 40,000 themed art... 

So... like... six months ago when all the COOL kids were doing this "Six Fan Arts" thingie (drawing six pictures of characters you are a fan of), I thought I'd jump in on that action and asked friends and followers on a few different social media platforms for suggestions, and my friend Orion suggested I draw Leman Russ - Primarch of the Space Wolves.... or... at least I HOPE he meant the Primarch and NOT the Astra Miliatrum tank named after him... boy will I feel silly if he meant the latter... Anyway, I never got around to doing ANY of the suggestions... until now...

On Thursday, the 8th, I decided to go out for a bike ride and to some sketching out-of-doors (as there likely wont' be too many opportunities to do so shortly!) 

Here's what I came up with - some fall colours along the Meewasin Valley, alongside the South Saskatchewan River, which rund through the heart of Saskatoon. 

lacking any other ideas I went back to the suggestions I had for the SixFanArts challenge and did this one is for my good friend Woody, who asked that I do a picture of Roy Batty from Bladerunner.

And that's it for the first thrid of October...