Inktober Day 2

Inktober Day 2.  Prompt is Spider.  I had a few different ideas about what to sketch for a spider.  I settled on two spiders who are close friends.  They made their webs next to each other and they are fishing for insects using fishing poles with light bulbs hanging from the poles.  Their goal is to use the light to entice insects to the light and then they snag the unsuspecting bug.  Now that I am looking at this, I should have added tackle boxes and coolers.  Maybe I’ll update this in Procreate or just use a larger size paper.  Since this is a small size sketchbook, I am trying to keep my ideas simple.  The texture of the paper keeps things sketchy, not crisp so it’s more forgiving with a stray line.  

Both sketchbooks are assembled. I did them today so I wouldn’t have to sketch on unbound paper. I decided on a small vertical format using Arches text wove paper torn down to 4.5 x 6.5 per page as my size. (my signatures are 9×6.5 folded to form the 4.5 x 6.5 page).

The second sketch for the Drawlloween part of Inktober is using “witch” as the prompt.  I am doing Drawlloween in pencil and I may transfer my favorites to better paper or Procreate to clean them and define them more.  Maybe even pull these into Photoshop after Procreate to do the color in Photoshop.  Haven’t decided yet but the best thing about doing these sketches is that it gives me more art to create designs with later.  Even better, Freeform has their 31 Days of Halloween which I have on in the background as I draw and as I am writing this.

Well Day 2 is under my belt.  Wish me luck on finishing the month!