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Inktober for sale!

If you read my last post you’ll know I took part in this year’s Inktober project. Now the month is over, and I managed 25 of the 31 days, I’m making the illustrations available to buy.

Based on British folklore each drawing is a little over two inches square, on A6 (105mm x 148mm) paper. The illustrations are £50 each including UK postage (overseas is a little extra).

Have a look at the images below and if you’d like to buy one drop me an email – rob@thisnorthernboy.co.uk.

: A Witch Hare

: Mother Shipton’s Cave

: The Penhill Giant

: Black Annis

: A Knocker

: A Hobgoblin

: The Loch Ness Monster

: Jenny Greenteeth

: A Hand of Glory

: Jack Frost

: Nelly Longarms

: The Lambton Worm

Each illustration is drawn with Copic SP Multiliners and a Kuretake No.8 Brush Pen. Initial sketches are done with Palomino Blackwings and a Pentel Graphgear Mechanical Pencil.

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Inktober 2018

It’s that time of year again where illustrators, artists, and other pen-and-ink wielding entities take part in Jake Parker‘s Inktober initiative.

Last year I only got as far as day eight. A combination of work, and my Inktober drawings being just too detailed and time-consuming meant that I couldn’t complete the project. I will come back to last year’s at some point though. I think Asteroid Belt Blues deserves an ending.

This year I’ve chosen British Folklore as my theme, and each day I’m drawing a creature or a character from some of the wonderfully weird tales we have on the British Isles. Many of the tales I’m drawing I’ve sourced from a couple of great books by Katherine Briggs – British Folk Tales and Legends, and The Fairies in Tradition and Literature. I started with the Lambton Worm, and today (day 18) I drew a Witch-Hare!

Below are all 16 illustrations from the first 17 days. Obviously doing a folklore theme there was no way I was doing anything on the 13th! Each illustration is drawn on A6 (105x148mm) cartridge paper, using Copic SP Multiliners and a Kuretake No.8 Brush Pen. Initial sketches are done with Palomino Blackwings and a Pentel Graphgear Mechanical Pencil.

: The Lambton Worm

: A Screaming Skull

: Nelly Longarms

: Jack Frost

: The Alp Luachra

: A Red Cap

: A Hand of Glory

: Jenny Greenteeth

: The Loch Ness Monster

: Herne the Hunter

: The Knucker Hole Dragon

: A Hobgoblin

: The Black Hen

: The Barguest

: A Knocker

: A Wyvern

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January 3, 2018

Creatures

Happy New Year everyone. I hope you all had a good festive break.

I’m starting 2018 with something a little different for me. Most of the time I draw inanimate objects, whether those are buildings or spaceships, and very rarely anything organic or living. So this year, in an effort to improve my drawing skills, I’m going to draw a series of creatures from fiction or myths.

I’ve started with a creature that I’ve started to draw a few times in the past, but which has always turned out terrible. This time, while doodling with no real end purpose in mind, it came out pretty well.

Cthulhu is a God from the books of H.P. Lovecraft. Described by Lovecraft as “A monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind.” I’ve skipped the body completely with my drawing, and just shown the head and wings, this is the approach I’ll take with all (most?) of the creatures I’m going to draw.