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Category: Animals
Inktober 2017: Child Ballads
It’s the most wonderful time of the year again! My Inktober theme this year is Child Ballads: Monsters, Maidens, and Murder. Here are my sketches so far:
Come back here through October to see new drawings added to the list below! And you can listen along to the series with this playlist I made: https://open.spotify.com/embed/user/1232271124/playlist/4s2cfFeRAWQyYLdqX1u0OO
- The Devil’s Nine Questions/Riddles Wisely Expounded (#1)
- The Elfin Knight (#2)
- The Three Ravens/Twa Corbies (#26)
- The Mermaid (#289)
- Sheath and Knife (#16)
- King Orfeo (#19)
- The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea (#36)
- Edward (#13)
- Sweet William’s Ghost (#77)
- The Holland Handkerchief/The Suffolk Miracle (#272)
- Cockle Shells/Waly Waly (#204)
- False Knight on the Road (#3)
- Thomas the Rhymer (#37)
- The Farmer’s Curst Wife (#278)
- took a sick day, no drawing
- The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry (#113)
- skull-heart thingy (took a break from drawing ballads)
- Barbara Allen (#84)
- another sick day
- The Unquiet Grave (#78)
- The Wife of Usher’s Well (#79)
- sick day
- sick day (rrgh)
- The Cruel Mother (#20)
- The Twa Sisters (#10)
Inktober 2016
This was my third Inktober and I wasn’t able to participate every single day this time, but I’m still pretty happy with ideas I came up with that I can develop into finished work. See my entries from the last two years below (the links will take you to my old blog)
Pit Bull Pegasus Puppies
That’s purple pit bull pegasus puppies.
Teacup Mice
It’s Monday! Have you checked your cupboard for stowaways?
Moths
These started out as everyday practice sketches, but I decided to color them in. This is a portrait of a luna moth. Their wings get most of the attention, but they also have really fabulous antennae:
And this is a hornet moth (great example of mimicry here— I would definitely run the other way)
