inktober
#inktober 14th, 15th & 16th…
On the 14th I nearly forgot so did a quick sketch late at night…
On the 15th I experimented with adding red pencil to pentel brush pen…
...and on the 16th we had some peculiar visitors at the end of our garden.
#inktober 13th: palette
Today I didn’t find time to draw anything, so for #inktober I’m posting a scrap of paper that started as I doodled a few characters then got reused as a palette as I tested out different inks last week.
Sometimes I think there’s more life in these scraps than in the finished pieces – I overlap colours as I test them in a way I daren’t try in something I’m going to show people. So…maybe I need to see if I can bring some of that into my artwork.
#inktober 12th: walkies
Today I passed a woman taking her dog for a walk IN A BUGGY. He (she?) was wearing a cone round his/her neck.
(In fact she was arranging a rain cover over him but I thought that wouldn’t make such a good picture).
#inktober 11th: fox
Today’s random colour was a plastery kind of light pink, I couldn’t think of a way to use it as a main colour (in a short space of time) so I used it for this ice cream instead.
#inktober 7th: doodle
Today’s sketch was a quick one as I was sitting on the sofa and using pens and enjoying watching Beauty and the Beast…so I didn’t use a random colour, just the pens I had.
#inktober 4th: Games
The random colour today was brown, I think I might use it more often now.
#inktober 3rd: Floor
The random colour for today was orange…I got a bit distracted by the details in this one (echoing real life – it’s hard to focus surrounded by mess)!
#inktober 2nd: Origami
I thought of choosing a list of themes for Inktober this year…but instead I decided to concentrate on experimenting with my palette.
I snipped some colours out of paint charts (mixing colours I wouldn’t usually use with a few favourites) and chose one this morning with my eyes closed.
It was pink and I was really tempted to put it back and start the random colour selecting tomorrow, as I’d envisaged this little scene in red – but I made myself stick with it and ended up enjoying it. (I allowed myself to choose green to go with it, which helped).
So here’s to a whole month of different colours!
Martha Lightfoot - Illustrator 
