Hi everyone! 😊

Here we are! This is the last prompt of inktober. Before taking stock of the challenge, let me show you my latest drawing. The word of the day was "fire", so I drew my little sack in fire with a friend trying to calm the situation.

Process

I really like this kind of position where the sack is twisted but I coudn't master it - it's a kind of geometry that is not intuitive for me I admit 😅
Because without eyes, it is difficult to make it understandable that he is looking at his bum ; I wanted to represent the kind of position where we are try to see a part very back part of our body.

For the shadows, I keep it simple.

Hope you will like it!

My toll of the 2023's Inktober

I really enjoyed the idea of doing the whole challenge with just one character: the little flour sack. It allows me to leave the complexity of drawing a character with peculiarities and details and just concentrate on the main body, the movement and the dynamics.

But! It wasn't easy at all. And even though I think I've made progress (more in understanding the theories than in practice), I have to admit that I'm not satisfied with my drawings.

Firstly because my expectations are always too high, but also because I didn't have much time.
And that's really frustrating.

This "one day one drawing" format is in fact really constraining. Trying to respect the delay, I just made drawings quickly, without having the time to really deepen the concepts, and above all the theory that I was trying to apply, i.e. the exact reproduction of volumes.

This rhythm of drawing is definitely not for me. Quick sketches, moving quickly from one drawing to another quickly,... I realise that I used to try too much of this at these times, in spite of the fact that is not my comfort zone.
Yes, it is good to leave it for a while to train ourselves.
But these days, I've felt a kind of frustration, because I realised that I hadn't done complex paintings for a while, portraits or landscapes with a lot of detail, the kind of art that takes me hours to do,.. the things that I love so much !

So... Inktober was not what I expected - but I did it !
And it makes me realise that I want to do the kind of art I used to do again.

So expect to see that kind of stuff on my blog soon! 😊

See you soon for more creations.

And by the way, I wish you a happy halloween! 😋