Hello Friends!
It's Kat, from MeowMeowKapow.
Let's talk about Inktober!
This challenge is a great opportunity to learn a lot about yourself, your artistic abilities,
and life.
I'd really like to know what you've learned, if you've ever participated in one of these
challenges-or what you're worried about with them if you haven't!
Because this was my first year doing Inktober, I went into it with a lot of expectations
and anxieties.
Pretty much, I expected that it would be hard, that I wouldn't finish it or I would get
really behind, that I would become mentally and physically exhausted, I would eventually
run out of ideas, and that this challenge would overall be impossible.
Hopefully, also, I would grow a little.
I've talked about before how I consider myself to be the SLOWEST artist, and I struggle
even to do one small piece in anything less than a couple of hours.
The most daunting part of this challenge was the idea that I'd have to make a new piece
every single day, and while my Youtube Channel, Etsy, and art festivals are my job, I don't
normally do a full illustration every day.
Most of the time, I do one big piece a week and some small doodles here and there.
However, I went into the challenge nervous, but with an open mind.
My goals were to make a drawing and a video every single day, work on building bigger
environments for characters, work on more natural-feeling movements and poses, and I
also eventually decided to challenge myself with extreme lighting situations.
Probably the first lesson that I learned this inktober was that you have to listen to what
your mind and body are telling you and accept that if you have limitations, you need to
listen to them.
For me, this meant not doing a video every single day.
It also meant that on days where I had a large craft fair to go to and I came home physically
exhausted from everything, I gave myself permission to not produce a piece, rather than force
myself to create something that had no heart behind it.
I ended up doing all 31 drawings, but there were many days that haven't been colored
yet because being kind to yourself is not a crime, and there were actually two days
that I skipped and ended up going back to later on in the month.
Inktober feels like it's a homework assignment that a very strict and scary teacher is holding
you to, but…
The truth is that we are the only ones holding ourselves accountable.
Inktober is NOT mandatory, and I think realizing that the one element that needs to be present
at all times is FUN will help you to allow yourself to loosen up and treat yourself kindly.
Do what you can, NOT what you can't.
Artistically speaking, there were a lot of things that struck me as being important to
play with in a piece and they gradually became elements within my work over this month.
First of all, tone is the most important tool in your arsenal.
Anyone who did all their pieces entirely in one color or ink can immediately tell you
this, and making sure that there is a huge contrast between light and dark really makes
all the difference in a piece.
One of my favorite pieces from this year, the "Wick'd witch" piece, almost didn't
turn out how it looks, now.
As I was painting the background, I started to have doubts about making it so dark, because
some of the details in the shelves would be lost and all the time I had spent on making
the complete environment wouldn't be visible.
In the end, I kept layering on glaze after glaze of Perylyne Violet mixed with Phthalo
Turquoise until it got to a deep, somewhat gloomy tone.
This made all the difference, and was the first real lesson I think got through to me
about making sure that you embrace the darkness.
Without that richness in the background, the light source would not have shined as brightly,
and the character may have been a bit lost in what would have otherwise been a beautiful
but overly samey-samey scene.
One of the things I mentioned I wanted to challenge myself to do was to build more immersive
environments, so that everything wasn't just a character standing in an empty void.
Don't get me wrong, I still did a couple of those and love them to pieces, but building
a world for a character to live in is something that always seems a bit daunting.
Once you start building a scene, it is important to find a way to visually balance the clutter
or the arrangement so that the viewer has a place to start that will catch their eye
and keep it moving around.
This can be accomplished with tone, as well as with the scale of things.
One piece that this didn't work out as well as it could have with is my Royal Witch piece.
This drawing is entirely environment-based and because I have not yet added any tonal
variations to it, it's difficult to find a place for your eyes to start their journey
with.
In contrast, the piece I did for the cook/baker witch, of Kiki flipping pancakes for her and
Jiji, has background details that your eyes eventually find after you first travel from
the large, bright area of the pancake, to the joyous and bright Kiki, to the then darker
but still interesting details of her kitchen table.
Another piece that was just lineart but still keeps your eyes moving is the Little Witch
Academia piece I did for "potion maker witch," to give a more fair comparison.
Essentially, if you are drawing something that is even just a little bit visually complicated,
it's really a good idea to find a central focus of the piece and emphasize it so that
it becomes the visual "hook" of your art.
Right now I think the best way to do that is to make that element the brightest, simplest,
and largest part but…
I want to explore this idea further and see if it can be pushed in different ways.
Maybe make something dark and complicated the central focus and make everything else
being bright and simple.
This challenge also helped me to break a lot of rules that I thought I knew.
For instance, when I was in college we were required to make about a dozen thumbnails
of our ideas before we even started our initial sketch, and then we had to re-draw our sketch
and work on the final piece and blah blah blah blah blah.
It was a long process that encouraged us to never trust our first instincts and to always
assume that the first idea was the worst idea.
With such limited time to make each work of art in this challenge, drawing multiple thumbnails
or sketches would have been absolutely crazy!
I must admit that I absolutely did use a second sketchbook to kind of work out my thoughts,
but if the first idea I had was one I liked, I went with it, no questions asked.
This absolutely taught me to trust my gut, because a lot of the time my guy was spot
on!
The way I worked with my tools may also have been a bit unusual, especially because in
multiple pieces I experimented with mixing ink directly into my watercolor washes.
The effect was always pretty neat, dulling down the colors to give a sort of gray that
happened to be tinted with something, which I actually loved!
Having worked largely with watercolors for the last year and a half, the one thing that
you hear over and over again is that you should never use black or white in your paint mixes
because they are an abomination and no self-respecting watercolor artist would ever sully their beautiful
single-pigment mixes with such heresy!
If I'm honest, this challenge has made me want to experiment with intentionally mixing
those forbidden colors into my paints, especially black!
The lesson here, I suppose, is break rules as you see fit and use the best tool for the
job!
If you need something to be more black, then by gosh, use black for it!
And I'd also say that this attitude helped me to make sure that I was actually using
the best actual tool for the job, rather than only ever using one brush or one pen overall.
Each brush, each pen, has its own strengths and you should use them for those specific
characteristics, not just try to make one tool do the job of many.
It's easy to get into a consolidated way of working so that it's easy to pack up,
but sometimes using a lot of different things and letting yourself loose on them can be
fun!
All of the tools I used over the month have been listed in the Doobly-doo of each video,
as well as in the one for this video.
Mixing mediums and mixing tools has helped me to discover new and exciting ways to work,
which never would have happened without this month's challenge.
Overall, Inktober has taught me that I can do anything.
WE can do anything.
This is a challenge, and challenges are never supposed to be easy….
But they are supposed to be rewarding.
If this was any other type of challenge, like…. an eat only kale for a month challenge, there
will be some days where you think it's easy, some days where you think you're going to
give up, some days where you hate it and are ready to burn every kale farm to the ground,
and some days when you kind of look at how far you've come and realized that you are
incredible.
Every challenge we participate it, much less complete, helps us become better and stronger,
and learn a little bit more about our own capabilities.
In the end, I think doing this 31Witches of inktober challenge was worth it.
Would I do it again?
Yeah, probably…
But I think I might cheat a little.
This year I learned that I -can- do this, but that I need to be a little kind.
First of all, next year I would look at the prompt list ahead of time by a week or two
and use my secondary sketchbook to write down or doodle out any preliminary ideas I might
have.
Most nights, I would hang out with my sketchbook in bed and try to make thumbnails for the
following day's prompts.
I found that any piece that had been planned ahead was often a lot easier to make the next
day, and if I had taken further steps to make a color comp in my idea book, the piece overall
was more likely to be fully completed.
Planning ahead is NOT a bad thing.
There were also a couple of days where I actually sketched out the linework for a few pieces
at a time and then spent one day inking multiple pieces.
This often resulted in numerous non-colored images, but the workflow was much more reasonable
because it meant that I could just get into an inking zone and sort of relax and just
enjoy it.
If I'd done more of them like this, it's possible that I could then spend one day coloring
multiple pieces at a time as well, rather than inking three but coloring one.
Anyway, I hope that you share your thoughts in the comments about this challenge, and
don't forget-if there are any pieces from this month that you really love, tell me so
I can add them to my Etsy.
And please, remember, if you've ever heard a pumpkin scream in the dead of night….
Do like and subscribe.
Until I see you again, I wish you peace, love, and a visit from the pumpkin king.
Bye!
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