The 9th day of Inktober has finally arrived, the theme for this day is "throw" so you can imagine that doing something very static is not the right thing, so I have opted for a pose full of dynamism and a little bit of perspective.
I'm not a very experienced artist really, so I'm constantly learning and I still don't have the skills to do certain things, so this theme served to experiment a little bit on paper, I wanted to achieve a dynamic pose for this ninja throwing his shurikens, but it was a little complicated so you'll see that today there are no very careful lines, but it's a little more "dirty" work.
As usual, I started sketching the idea, this time I had to use really soft lines because I knew I had to erase many times, and so it happened, I redid the sketch about 10 times or maybe a little more, it was frustrating not to get my idea right.
Then, delineate the entire silhouette of the character, trying to make fluid strokes and avoiding making mistakes.
This time don't use the black marker, because the illustration is small and it would be complicated to work with something very thick, so use the black pen from the beginning to the end.
With meaningless lines, I kept filling in the silhouette of the ninja and the shurikens, it wasn't that complicated, discarding the sketch, the whole illustration took me about 15 minutes since I didn't invest too much in details.
I'll leave you a little gif with the whole process in it, so you can better appreciate the step by step.
The Inktober is an initiative created by illustrator Jake Parker in 2009, with the aim of improving his artistic skills, but over the years has had a great impact on the international art community. The challenge is to make an ink drawing every day, hence its name, "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.
| Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fish | Wisp | Bulky | Radio | Blade | Rodent | Fancy |
| Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 | Day 12 | Day 13 | Day 14 |
| Teeth | Throw | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Day 15 | Day 16 | Day 17 | Day 18 | Day 19 | Day 20 | Day 21 |
| -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Day 22 | Day 23 | Day 24 | Day 25 | Day 26 | Day 27 | Day 28 |
| -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Day 29 | Day 30 | Day 31 | ||||
| -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
If you want to improve your artistic skills, this challenge is for you, you can publish your results in social networks using the hagstag #inktober or #inktober2020.
