Bleached Ink - Illustrator

30 Day Drawing Challenge

30 day drawing/art challenge!

1. Yourself or your persona.
2. Someone you like (celebrity, significant other, or crush)
3. One, some, or all of your friends.
4. An animal you think is really cute.
5. Your favourite outfit.
6. Something you’ve never drawn before.
7. Your family or a family member.
8. Something with your favourite colour.
9. Your favourite cartoon/anime character.
10. Something you couldn’t live without.
11. Your favourite food.
12. An inanimate object.
13. A group picture.
14. Your favourite book character.
15. Someone from your favourite board or video game.
16. Something that represents your favourite song.
17. Your favourite holiday.
18. A couple (any two people).
19. Something you’re afraid of.
20. A comic.
21. Something you don’t like.
22. Your favourite season.
23. Something that makes you happy.
24. Something that represents your favourite culture/country/language.
25. Someone or something from mythology.
26. Your favourite sweet food/candy/etc.
27. Your favourite scene from a movie.
28. A room.
29. Your favourite weather.
30. Something you’d like to share with your followers or friends.

Think I’m gunna give this a try…

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mammoth-you said

I'm definitely diggin that old sea dog piece. Thats the style I've been aspiring to, got any tips?

Thank you man! It’s a style I’ve been working on for the last three years and it’s a been a bumpy ride!

Inspiration is the biggest tip I can give, look closely at others work that inspires you, how their lines are made, the way they connect and the variation in thickness.

These gods of linework have influenced me greatly in my time trying to develop this style to a point where I’m happy so have a gander at:

But as with all art, it’s all about practice, learn to use your arm more when drawing as it greatly helps with flow and nailing that smooth line in one go. As counter productive as it sounds, forcing yourself to draw, even when you really can’t be arsed, (something I’m really trying to work on at the moment) is definitely something to get into the habit of doing, this will keep your skills sharp and sometimes you can really surprise yourself with what you produce!

I find working big is a great help as well, I work on huge canvases in Photoshop, around 600dpi at A3, double the standard size for printing, the reason being is that when you’ve finished your line work and shrink the canvas down to 300dpi, the tiny mistakes or wobbly lines are smoothed out and it makes your linework that much cleaner!

I hope this helps a bit!

Bleached

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Old Sea Dog!

He’s ready to go! My ‘Old Sea Dog’ piece is now available as a very attractive phone cover, there’s lots of variety in types of phones too so keep checking back as they update pretty quick!

It will be available as a print and t-shirt within the month (They’re currently replacing some broken printers) so keep an eye out if you’re after a nice poster for your wall!

In the mean time ;)

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