'Meeting the hare' A pencil sketch I did late November. I'm happy with how it turned out considering it took just over 30 minutes to draw. I kept some of the shading loose and the difference in detail around the image helps make it interesting I think.
I've set up a new standing desk area in my room and this was the first drawing I did at it. A good way of breaking it in.
I really like how this one turned out. Definitely want to recreate this scene in 3D. That was my last entry in Inktober for 2025. Client work and general life got busy. At the time of writing this, I'm not sure if I'll join in on Inktober in 2026. The prompts are useful if you are stuck for something to draw but if anything, I have too many ideas in my head, unrealised.
I am happy how the little 'reckless' mouse came out. Less so with the big feline whose mouth the mouse is sleeping in. I didn't lock in whether I was drawing a house cat, lion, lynx, jaguar etc.
Overall I'm pretty satisfied with it the image though
Here's a video I made showing the inking process
This image did not end up looking like what was in my mind's eye. It's not my favorite entry of Inktober 2025 but you can't win them all.
Every Inktober seems to have a prompt that is an animal. Last year it was Rhino and I attempted to draw a realistic rhino. That turned out better than I expected so for 2025's animal prompt, I decided to attempt a realistic deer.
As with the rhino last year, I used photographic reference and tried to make my own decisions on the lighting.
I really like this image. I'm pleased with how it turned out. Representing different real-world materials via the medium of pen & ink is always a challenge but I was happy to get the essense of roughly hammered gold in the crown, contrasting with the smooth, slickness of the skin of the frog.
Weirdly, when I posted this on social media, I saw a lot of artists using the same motif of a frog or toad wearing a crown! I guess it's everyone having that childhood memory of reading about the princess kissing many frogs to find her prince.
Just a bit of doodling on the back of an envelope while on work meetings
I call this digital drawing - Snake Joker and Abominai Molten. Instead of explicitly drawing shapes that are in my minds eye, I am 'discovering' shapes (in this case faces) in random and chaotic texture. This is very similar to seeing creatures in clouds. Uses the same part of the brain. Here's the backstory. Snake Joker lost a bet with the eternal evil one and was trapped somewhere very hot, deep underground. The creature known as Abominai Molten somehow sensed Snake Joker's peril and took pity and seeing that they were themselves forged in the vents of an ancient volcano during it's re-eruption, they knew they were the only being capable of the rescue. The eternal evil one had hastily erected a cage of basalt poles lashed together with tungsten rope to contain the wily Snake Joker but Abominai Molten was skilled enough to weave through the chaotic stone cage to rescue the grateful Snake Joker. Here we see Snake Joker clinging to Abominai's leg, eyes closed against the acrid smoke and heat, waiting for Abominai Molten to make the final swing to freedom.
Decided to do a quick digital colour-up of my ink drawing 'Murky'. Krita was the app I used for this
