I couldn't make my way through all of Inktober this year, far from it. I'm too much of a perfectionist, and my life as a Jack of many trades in culture kept me busy. But I came up with a few pieces, including a pair of experimental ones not in the original concept. For instance, here's...
Drawing negatively is fun but very challenging. You don't see what you get. Memento: The black ink is white! The white paper is black! You can't do shadings. But the shadings become "lightings". The final result, scanned and inverted, is quite rewarding though.
The same inversion, sans the border, was used for this logo. (It sums up what I do pretty nicely.) You might note that a few notes were copied in order to get some balance in the work. Again, I had to keep in mind somehow that this...
...becomes this.
A real Inktober drawing. These industrious Woodheads (or so I call them) would also look nice if you were to print them in a large format, thanks to the wonderful precision and flexibility of the classic steel pen nib:
You might note that there's a few gold dots in it too (in real life they're gleaming nicely) that make up the ring itself.
The title might refer both to the sailing and the drinking kind. In all works I make room for the slightly enigmatic and, hopefully, intriguing. I want to jog your imagination.
