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The Conviction – An Inktober Collection
After years of wanting to try it, 2023 was the year, I committed myself to participate in Inktober. While I didn’t use any of the official prompts (or anyone’s alternate prompts) I managed to create one pen and ink drawing a day (some days two) for every day in October. I could have done it digitally, but I wanted to learn how to handle the physical medium so I broke out the old crow quills and my trusty Pentel brushpen, eventually picking up some Pigma Micron pens.
How did I manage to do this with just an hour or two in the mornings before I have to go to work (never mind my ongoing work on thumbnails for another project)? Well, pretty simple, I drew small, I mean really small the originals are pencilled and inked on 3.5 x 4.5 inch bristol board cards. Next I kept a single subject, a character whose name I haven’t quite settled on and a setting that is a melange of a couple of different settings that I’ve been tooling around with. I didn’t have a story…but I didn’t need one. I would just draw whatever came to mind. My one recurring source of inspiration was the art from the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks. I never quite managed to get that same aesthetic, but it was fun to try.
Having gotten through the month I really wanted to do something collecting the drawings and once I decided that, I saw the skeleton of a story across the drawings. A little re-ordering and daydreaming later I had enough of a story to work with. And thus, The Conviction was born.
Hope you’ve enjoyed it.
