SEPTEMBER CONTEST: Design a character for Inktober!

[KevinTreaccar]

One of the three characters I’ll be using for Inktober. Yesterday, it sounded like their won’t be a Critique Arena for September, but I was far enough along with this that I decided to finish and enter this anyway just in case.

Good luck, everyone! And good luck to those jumping in on Inktober!

[KGatto]

@KGatto oops sorry just saw no color. I'll make it gray.

[chrisaakins]

Here ya go. I’m thinking this little mouse can be the uniting element of the alphabet primer I am planning on doing.

[donnamakesart]

Here are my characters for Inktober! Not sure if I’ll be able to do all 30 days but wanted to participate at least in this contest haha.

[K.Flagg]

Here is my entry for this month. I wish all of the monthly prompts were inktober themed. I can literally ink all day. I usually do traditional inks but I discovered the Kyle's Inkbox Classic Cartoonist Brush in Photoshop and I loooooooove it!

[KGatto]

This is my September SVSlearn character contest design for Clarice & Spot.
Hope you like it.
Kim Gatto
www.designsbygatto.com
@designsbygatto

[ksfabian]

Here’s my submission for the contest.

[jdeebella]

Hi all,
Here is my character for this round. I love Sophie Josephine, which I was inspired to create her from the cartoon I was used to watch inmy adolescences, the rose of Versailles. Fun fact: I recently found my style (I’ve got a pause from sketching and drawing from January to August, I was about to think I wasn’t capable enough to pursue this career). When I took the pencil again I’ve got this tricky new style under my fingers. it was like a revelation. I like to think that the pause was needed to absorbs what I’ve learned on the past years.

[KathrynAdebayo]

[ajillustrates]

@K-Flagg This is incredible! And the Classic Cartoonist brush is my go to for digital as well. It's pretty much perfect for how I work, and it looks like it's hitting the sweet spot for you as well!

[K.Flagg]

@ajillustrates thank you so much. Yeah it's my go to now.

[Annaaronson]

In the last critique arena they mentioned the format would be changing.. is that for this month as well? Just curious what it will look like

[AustinShurtliff]

@LauraA I have know some comic artists to do their line work in pencil and then use a program like Photoshop to darken the value enough that it looks like it might have been inked. Just an idea if you still want to use pencil.

[Valerie Light]

@Annaaronson I'm curious about this too, as I haven't been able to see the critique arena in live stream this summer, and no new recordings seem to be available after May 2021 for me. I feel way behind.

[donnamakesart]

@ajillustrates Agreed. Love the line art for this and the character design!

[LauraA]

@AustinShurtliff Thanks for replying. Lately I have been doing my work with a modified Kyle hi res pencil and do the values either with digital watercolor or with Kyle's gouache a go go and /or some collage textures. In this case, my character has hair that in my opinion would look better done with a pencil/charcoal texture and so far I've been using gouache a go go, which is a gouache but looks more like crayon to me. I like the effect and don't want to change it, but don't know what the judges will think.

And then there's the matter of whether I can finish it, considering all the non art things I've had to catch up on this month. Hope so!

[aurelia]

[KGatto]

@aurelia Absolutely love this! Great job!

[KGatto]

@KathrynAdebayo Beautiful!

[KGatto]

@jdeebella Love this!