oh shit, i should have put a signature bottom-right. that would have made it. ah well "ya can't redo inktober"

i drew this based on how i remembered the scene (it's from "It Follows"), and referred to some still images for the house. i misremembered the scene as happening at night, probably from looking at too much slimyswampghost -style creepy photo paint-overs.

as always, i'm looking at this and thinking about what would improve it. (i'm posting the pictures as soon as i finish drawing them). in this case, obviously the proportions of the cheek plates are off - the left one should be brought forwards to match the other. the lighting could be better - the brightness of the front of the dauphin ornament should match the front of the faceplate. i'd also wanted to add more ornamentation but that could've been another hour's work 🤷

Tried another new technique this time. After spending ages and ages painting stuff in layers, I did a single layer over the top of it set to influence Luminosity only (about 40% opacity) and painted over everything using light and dark values picked from the scene. So it worked as like a unified light-and-dark map over the top of everything, which improved on the fairly wonky painting I had before that. Also used a smeary brush for the luminosity layer, which gave it a bit more of an oily look.

🧭 👉 🕵️ HIM

i'm fussed that this might appear to be a political illustration because the elephants and riders are red and blue. and apparently the elephant is a political animal in america (what the fuck guys!?)
but it's not. basically it's two people who are going to work on their elephants and one (or both) of them was going the wrong way on the elephant road and their elephants bashed into each other. both people work at elephant factories, but the factories are in different directions from each other.

so that's that.

featuring a cameo appearance from everyone's favourite pal Freddo from Inktober 10.

this is a day late because it's so damn hard to get Freddo to stay still while i draw him

two inktobers in one day BIFF BANG POW

i took over an hour to draw this one because i drew all the fluff :-(

my hand's gonna fall off

these creatures are all panting like exhausted dogs, and they're building up an incredible static electric charge as they rub against each other (100% polyester). if you reached out and touched them it'd be like when timmy gets blasted off the t-rex fence in jurassic park.

ok so it's "Open" in the sense that his mouth his open wide, or else it's an "Open" prompt as in "draw what you want". this is an idea i've been wanting to draw all week.

@hoppet well then, this thinkpiece is for you!

@pisscotheque it's every elephant for itself

@alex this endless conflict is so sad… they should be brothers…

@alex it's unlikely to be seen as such because the blue animal is also an elephant whereas in a political illustration the blue animal would be a donkey

@danielcassidy ah that's a relief

@alex i like this apolitical content

@alex or IS it...

@puf no it's like that and then a little alien guy goes on it [see attached picture]

@alex What a scamp, that freddo.

This is worth waiting for, it's great. :)

@bright_helpings thanks pal!

@alex AAAAAAAAAA

@maloki thanks! yeah i'm not sure what level of CW i wanted to put on it since i usually err on the safe side with CWs but it's mostly hidden in the thumbnail anyway

@alex fair. just thought it'd be worth mentioning, because soemetimes I forget to hit the right buttons!

@dreadpirateyarr ahh thanks pal. i started it off in this colour palette because i was planning to make it look like a jade carving (but it turned out to be plenty of work just drawing all the animals 😓 )

@alex it's growing, but it's peeved about it >:(

@puf same tbh

@alex why the sad face! It looks amazing. Well worth it I'd say. 🙏
Now let yourself test.

@maloki thank youuuu!

@alex That is some dedication!

I always love seeing your work, best thing about Inktober for me.

@bright_helpings ahh thanks so much!

@alex It is great, I'm so glad you drew it.

@bright_helpings Thanks!!!

@alex wow I love this

@carithlee Thank you!