Underground Treasure - INKTOBER DAYS 21-23 (DRAIN, EXPENSIVE, MUDDY)
The final day of the inktober has arrived, it was a wonderful month, where many artists have challenged our creativity to create illustrations according to the theme... although I haven't finished! I'm still quite late, I'm struggling to catch up, but I'll finish it. :D
Since my delay is quite long, ten days to be exact, I have looked for a way to meet all the themes, but overwhelm them with many illustrations, so I have decided to combine them, yes! I have mixed some themes, in fact if you look at the list, there are some that fit perfectly with the themes that follow.
So, this time I present to you the themes from the 21st to the 23rd, which are "Drain", "Expensive" and "Muddy", so you can see a beautiful woman made of mud, who lives in the sewers and as we all know, in these places the most unexpected things stop, in this case a beautiful and shining diamond.
Materials:
- Autodesk Skecthbook
- Adobe Photoshop
-Step 1:
As usual, I started with a fairly simple sketch, in which I focused on defining the shape of the woman of mud, as well as the perspective of the tunnel in which she is.
-Step 2:
From the proportions of the sketch, I proceeded to make the cleanest strokes, to define the delineation of the entire drawing, at this point I noticed that the arm that holds the diamond, was quite disproportionate to the body, but I decided to keep it that way, because after all she is technically a mud monster, so some disproportions favored the character.
-Step 3:
Again, I have filled the character with a solid tone, being careful not to get out of the edges of the outline. On the contrary, I added volume and several tones to the background in order to establish the lighting of the environment.
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-Step 4:
In Photoshop I have added the final details, mainly I have tried to fit the character with the background, since I had a floating mud woman. I also modified the color levels, this way the illustration got stronger, with more saturated tones and more shadows.
-I'll leave you a little gif with the whole process in it, so you can better observe the step by step.
http://picasion.com/
What is inktober?
The inktober is an initiative created by the illustrator Jake Parker in 2009, in order to improve his artistic skills, although over the years has made a great impact on the international artistic community. The challenge is to make a drawing with ink every day, hence its name, "ink" (ink) "tober" (October), although for the most part this is respected, many other artists prefer to stay in their comfort zone, so you can see illustrations made with watercolors, graphite, charcoal, digital and any existing technique.
Source
| Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poisonous | Tranquil | Roasted | Spell | Chicken | Drooling | Exhausted |
| Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 | Day 12 | Day 13 | Day 14 |
| Star | Precious | Flowing | Cruel | Whale | Guarded | Clock |
| Day 15 | Day 16 | Day 17 | Day 18 | Day 19 | Day 20 | Day 21 |
| Weak | Angular | Swollen | Bottle | Scorched | Breakable | Drain |
| Day 22 | Day 23 | Day 24 | Day 25 | Day 26 | Day 27 | Day 28 |
| Expensive | Muddy | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Day 29 | Day 30 | Day 31 | ||||
| -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
If you are looking to improve your artistic skills, this challenge is for you, you can publish your results on social networks using the hagstag #inktober or #inktober2018. See you in a future post!
Thank you for your support
Its one of a kind artwork!
I love it pretty much!
Beautiful indeed Hadley!
She's holding a diamond right?
You flatter me a lot @ronel. Yes, she has between his fingers a radiant and very big diamond, if only it were in our hands.
If it were in our hands, what shall we do with it?
I guess sold it and use the money or keep it until we die lol
Do you know buyers of diamond?
Or where to sell them?
I approve your idea!
Thanks!
hello @hadley4, what great work are seeing my eyes. it looks like my style of composing when drawing in illustrator, I am not very prominent in photoshop, spatial handling resembles me to the plans of kubrick, good vanishing point.
the very sordid place, perfect to merge the styles of inktober that you could not participate because of your delay, I'm glad you still encouraged to participate and that so ingeniously you have opened the creativity, you are a good artist.
the jewel without a doubt is the point that gives him vistosidad for being a half tenebrous place, something of vanity also I can notice and subtlety in the pose of the model.
excellent digital drawing, good work. very clean I hope to see it finished. it already looks great.
Thank you for sharing with us this publication, greetings, peace and love.
Thank you very much for your appreciation @arrozymangophoto, you have detailed a lot of the drawing and I love that, makes me feel that really my work engages the viewer and makes him scrutinize even the small details.
Technically this drawing is finished, although I try to put more detail in each illustration, my first goal is to achieve semi realism, then realism will come and with a little more dedication maybe hyperrealism, but I'm progressing slowly, storing in my memory the work of other artists to improve my techniques and generating as much experience as possible.
I'm already developing the following illustration, it would be great if you would come by and take a look at it as soon as it's finished.
Great that you are innovating in new illustration techniques, it would be interesting to see a picture that has a mixed technique, or maybe you don't need to get hyperrealism to express emotions or represent any scene, I'm more lover of realism and impressionism.
great brother I will be very attentive to your next work to give it a look and continue delighting my eyes with your illustrations.
greetings, peace and love
Hi @hadley4, I would never have thought of a beautiful woman made of mud living in the sewer and finding a diamond ring for these prompts. I love how the mud is dripping from her hands and legs and how she looks at the ring forlornly. I do feel sad for her actually. I wonder if she has a friend who lives there with her. Thank you for sharing your Inktober artwork with us. Gosh, how time flies. It is November already!
Unfortunately I think she's alone down there, but I trust fairy stories, they always achieve happiness and you get many friends, I hope this is the case of this mud girl.
Thank you very much for taking the time to spend and appreciate my art.
Awww.. I hope so too for the mud girl :) Happy Sunday @hadley4!
Hi @hadley4, thank you for explaining all your sketching process, your thought why you sketch it as well. With the explanation, we have more understanding why you sketch that way.
You very creative by combine 3 inktober theme into one, I assume tunnel = drain, muddy woman = muddy and diamond = expensive, did my imagination correct? and I can only said wow again when I watched your gif.
I suppose this would be your last inktober sketch since now already November.
You're right about every subject @oliviackl. If you take a look at my previous drawings, you will notice that I try to explain in a simple and personal way, I think that this way it is easier to understand what I do, even for those who have never tried to draw or for those who are starting to do so.
This is my first Inktober, so I want to finish it, even if I do it combining the themes. In the beginning I was doing very well, with a daily drawing, even with ink, but there were some mishaps and I was late, but my goal is to finish each item on the list even though it is November, in fact SPOILER ALERT the following drawing is related to Halloween (note that I do everything late hahaha)
@hadley4, you have expressed and combined the theme so well. I do like the explanation in a simple way and easy to understand. I love to see your Halloween drawing, it doesn't matter it late, because your drawing and creativity was amazing and love to see it once you completed.
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Great stuff @hadley4! Is Autodesk Sketchbook a program? Adobe or outside of adobe? I always have wondered how one would do a sketch or drawing and then get it into Photoshop. I'm guessing the initial sketch is done with that first program?
Beautiful work. I really like the contrasting colors of green around her. Despite being made of mud she is quite beautiful and very well lit. Overall it's a great contrast in both color and in concept. Nicely done on combining the three prompts.
This is my third inktober post and I was kind of putting 1 and 1 together (I'm a bit new to steemit) about what it was. I could tell it had to do with drawing or art related pieces. But thank you for the detailed explanation. It's a great initiative! What a fantastic way of improving ones skill by getting in that repetitive motion which evolves into talent.
Thanks for sharing and keep up with the amazing artwork. Cheers!
Hello @jocqua! Well, Autodesk Sketchbook is a drawing app for mobiles, it has a great library of brushes, fusion effects and very good handling of layers, the truth is incredible. I use it, since I don't have a graphic tablet and it's hard enough to sketch and start a drawing from scratch just with the mouse.
How great that you are also doing the inktober, I motive you to culminate it, even if the month of October has ended, the desire to improve and make many drawings has no date or limits.
Thank you very much for appreciating my artwork and reading the whole post.
Oh nice! I'll have to check it out. I've always wanted to use my laptop for sketching but similar to you, I've found it difficult to do anything with a computer mouse.
And just to clarify, I haven't actually done inktober, I've just seen quite a few posts pop up and read through them. It wasn't until I got to yours that I really understood what it was.
Glad to check out your talent. I've been loving what everyone has to offer here on steem. Keep up the great artwork!
I had forgotten to clarify one of your doubts, to be able to export your drawing to the pc, in skecthbook you have the option to "export psd", a .psd file is the default extension of Photoshop, so you can export all your work to Photoshop without losing effects or layers, is quite cool, since you can continue modifying from the pc quietly without damaging anything.
Thanks for the compliments and encouragement, motivates me to improve my work to share it with you.
That is awesome! I'm familiar with Photoshop so it's great to hear you can extract straight to .psd. I just downloaded the app! This looks legit:
Thank's for sharing your knowledge with me. I'm totally stoked about this. Can't wait to try it out.
Happy to provide compliments and encouragement. You make it easy when you're doing good stuff. Keep it up!
Great, I hope you become familiar with the application soon, with a little practice you can achieve great results, I expect a lot from you.
Thanks @hadley4! Not sure how well I'll do but I'm down to give it a shot and see what I can achieve.
This is the best way to catch up on the Inktober - combine more days into one :) And you did it greatly! The girl is beautiful. I love that her hair and face are clean and the rest of her body is muddy. There is a nice contrast with dark background. I also enjoy how the lighter background smoothly changes into a dark (black) color. The jewel is the centerpiece here. It's the first thing that you see when you look at the illustration and it looks like you built the whole scene around it. Great work!
I also like the step by step photos and GIF shows the progress nicely. It's interesting to see how a few various shapes at the beginning changed into something so fine and beautiful.
Thank you for sharing and good luck with the rest of Inktober! I hope to see combined ones again :)
Thank you for such a nice appreciation, you're absolutely right, the jewel is the focal point as it is a great source of illumination, I love when you notice these little things.
Of course there will be more combinations of the inktober themes, the next illustration I'm doing comes with "Chop", "Prickly", "Stretch" and "Thunder", I hope it looks as good as the idea in my head. :3
I'm looking forward too it :)
You are very clever to combine all three entries into one! That is the best and fastest way, apparently. 😄 You are also very creative to have come up with such scenario to cover three days that you missed.
A woman living in a sewer with a diamond. Interesting! I wonder where the diamond came from. Is it her only and well kept previous belonging? Or did someone unfortunately lost it and ended in the sewer? Any further details to the background of your drawing?
I think she found it, but now it's her most precious treasure, so she looks at it with a little sadness and longing. Apparently there is nothing else in the background, I just wanted to reflect a little solitude in it, although to see it finished I think there is too much solitude and sadness in it, but the diamond is its light amidst so much darkness.
Thanks for the compliment, I hope to finish the challenge soon, at the rate that I'm going soon will become a "Inkvember" hahahaha.
I meant to ask earlier...All along I thought inktober is a contest. Is it? Or is it just a guide for artists to have an idea on what to draw or paint?
Finally, the woman found light. May that be a way for the woman to come out of the darkness.
As the saying goes, it is better late than never. Keep going and you will be fine. 😊
It is a guide for cartoonists, according to lei when I start in 2009 was only a personal challenge of artist Jake Parker, in which he proposed to make a daily drawing with ink throughout the month, in order to improve their skills and experience, but due to the passage of time and the great diffusion of networks, the challenge became viral. But in 2016 when the official inktober list came out, although there are many other alternative lists, I saw some of witches, flowers, halloween, heroes and emotions.
In a few hours the following illustration will be ready, every time I'm closer to the goal
Oh, okay... now I understand inktober better. It's funny though that I had wished others who posted for inktober something like "good luck on the contest!" 😂 But where do you get the daily theme? Are those being published somewhere?
It's okay, you just have to keep going.
There is an official page dedicated only to show the basics of the challenge, you can have a look at https://inktober.com, also it is very easy to find the list in instagram, twitter, pinterest, devianart, facebook and other social networks.
Oh cool... I never thought of checking other social media just because again, I thought it is a contest here on Steemit. 😄 Thanks for all your clarifications.
Hah what a great post. It was creating soo many questions during the reading and also answering them immediatelly. I wanted to ask if the inkoctober topics change every year? Then I wanted to ask if you can combine several topics? Both answered in the post haha :D Anyway, big respect for you completing the challenge! I'm owndering whether I could create soimething like this for programmers haha :D Or maybe there's already somehting like that. Anyway, ur mud woman is gr8! :) I guess you're going to take a break now for couple of days, or?
hahaha if they agree, programmers could establish a list, create a new algorithm every day, perhaps in different programming languages or just one, the programming is very broad and can be very creative and innovative (yes, you program a little).
I haven't rested yet, I keep drawing daily, but I'm calmer and more detailed, so it takes me a while to upload my drawings.
Thank you very much for appreciating my work.