For the past several years, I’ve been a fan of the #Inktober drawing online drawing event. Artist Jake Parker started Inktober in 2009 to improve both his inking skills and his drawing habits. Here’s a link to my Week One post and below are the Inktober 2019 Week Two attempts. During the second week, I started to fall into a rhythm of the idea, research, draft, sketch, and ink.
I figured out that drawing, like writing, is a matter of process and a matter of sitting down and doing the work. Basic and simple ideas for any means of work from science to sports to art. Develop a process that works for you and then do the work.
The Inktober rules are simple:
1) Make a drawing in ink (you can do a pencil under-drawing if you want).
2) Post it
3) Hashtag it with #inktober and #inktober2019
4) Repeat
My added rule was also simple: Use my Uni-ball black ink pen, which is the #1 favorite writing tool in the Mike Hays arsenal.
