Inktober 2024 Sketches

Plus some old drawings from past years

I’ve been able to do a few sketches for Inktober this year…it’s been very scattered in terms of inspiration/theme, but I still like the pieces. Ink has always been (and I think will always be!) my favourite medium to work with, and I have ever so many pens on hand, each with different textures and qualities. You don’t need expensive pens to make good art, either: ballpoint sketches have the capacity for incredible expression that you can’t get out of a fine-tip pen, for example.

‘Nightingale’ was the prompt for this, and I used a rather lovely, scratchy brown pen with a split tip, which sometimes gave the lines a nice doubled effect.

‘Panic Attack’ was the prompt here, heh. I used a brush pen — it has a vivid, raw quality when I use it, and it’s very bold, so it has the right impact for the subject.

Playing with the idea of a ‘Lunar’ girl that attracts moths because she shines with the light of the moon. Fine-tip pen with alcohol markers.

The prompt was ‘teapot’, and I do love little mice. Fine-tip pen with alcohol markers.

Continuing the mice theme… Fine-tip pen.

Characters from a (now abandoned) story. Felt-tip pen — observe the way the end of the lines taper off, whereas lines made with a fine-tip pen often have a round, blunt ending.

A sweet Monday morning goodbye that I saw on my way to work. Simple ballpoint pen — that was all I had handy at the time and I wanted to capture this little moment very quickly.

And for nostalgia’s sake, I’d like to share a couple more pieces from Inktober in previous years, because I haven’t participated in Inktober since 2020, and it’s something of a small personal triumph to be getting back to it again.

Inktober 2020, 1860s tartan/plaid gown

Inktober 2019 (it seems mice are a consistent factor, hehe)

Inktober 2019

Inktober 2018

Inktober 2018

Thanks for reading! This has been a long post, but I hope you’ve enjoyed this little sneak-peak into Inktobers present and past.

xx The Inky Baroness