Contemplations in markup

This is Ilya, born a day or two prior, sleeping next to Yves. My brother was hanging out with me when I drew this. He looked at the reference photo and doubted I could draw this. I wasn’t sure either because I’m not very good at drawing people but I said that I’d try a few more minutes before giving up. But I did, and when I was done he said “what, already?!” :) Done with my black 0.05 mm Graphik line maker from Derwent, which has enough ink in it still.

I love this one! ❤️ I had a few ideas of what I wanted to draw: I remembered taking a few photographs of cooks in Japan but none of them were lending themselves to the medium. I searched for images of Italian chefs one would find on vintage advertisements and this one really appealed to me! I used mainly the grey ink brush pen by Kuretake and black ink Pentel Brushpen for shading.

Black 0.05 mm Graphik line maker from Derwent and grey ink brush pen by Kuretake.

A twist on dino digging! I wanted to draw a cartoon-sized t-rex holding a small shovel and digging a hole. I had fun imagining it excavating human bones. It looks more like a turkey with a t-Rex front body, but I still like it. Black 0.05 mm Graphik line maker from Derwent and shading with the Kuretake light grey ink Brush Writer.

I’m pretty sure every dog owner who does Inktober drew their buddy. I used as reference the photo I took of Gizmo working on the bone I gave him for his 7th birthday last month. Again, I used a black 0.05 mm Graphik line maker from Derwent and light grey ink Brush Writer from Kuretake.