Inktober 2021, Day 17: Collide

The word for day 17 was - collide. It did not take long for me to know what I wanted to do for this one. A meteorite collision! Yes! It is colliding into a surface. Not necessarily Earth’s surface either. The difficult part came later, of course, as I was trying to figure out how to lay my vision on the paper. It is one of those that had a bunch of failed versions before it clicked into place. In the end, it was well worth it! The mad scientist laughs.

At first, I thought about using only a brush pen to ink it, but it felt unfinished. It was missing something crucial. I sat and contemplated for a good while if adding in other liquid inks would make it or break it. Hell! They made it alive! I screamed with joy when I saw it unfold before my eyes. You know when it’s right! And damn, it feels great!

The bottom right photo is the unfinished back and white brush pen version I considered. I am glad I went further and added in liquids. As I started adding the Diamine jet black to the shockwave, I guess there was a little bit of Arabian Nights blue ink still in my brush, and it found its way into this drawing on the bottom left corner there. Sneaky bastard! Well, I have to be more careful with washing my brushes xD For the fire trail, I used my new Diamine drawing inks - Canary Yellow and Ruby red. They are amazing and did the job perfectly!