Rhapsodies

Inktober Day Nine – Precious

by wpmorse on October 9, 2018 at 10:11 am

Posted In: Art

When struggling over today’s Inktober prompt, the first thing I thought of was Gollum. The problem was I was comfortably sure that was what everybody else was thinking of. At first, I thought “ignore it” you’re trying to crank out art fast, take the easy out.

But then the wonderful Senshi Stock used it as their reference prompt on their Instagram feed, and I just couldn’t.

I went with a Fafnir/Smaug riff instead. (on a side note I’ve been reading a great book about medieval bestiaries and it was fascinating just how mammalian many of the pictures of dragons were.)

└ Tags: Dragon, Inktober, Pen and Ink, Sketch Challenge

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Inktober Day Eight – Star

by wpmorse on October 8, 2018 at 10:23 am

Posted In: Art

Today’s prompt, Star, was a tough one, especially I couldn’t picture it in a Halloween context. A good friend of mine suggested I try to look at it in the context of a movie star with monster divas threatening to go back to their trailer if they don’t get more screen time. And I do not deny I have fond memories of that scene from Gods and Monsters where The Bride and Doctor Pretorius are acting all lovey to each other before they have to get into character for the final scene.

However, I couldn’t really wrap my head around it and did something with H.P. Lovecraft’s Mythos.

└ Tags: Halloween, Inktober, Mythos, Pen and Ink, Sketch Challenge

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Inktober Day Seven – Exhaustion

by wpmorse on October 7, 2018 at 9:44 am

Posted In: Art

The official prompt list for this years Inktober has several items that so far have had me completely stumped, or at least stumped for ways to give them a Halloween twist. Today’s prompt was the first of these. Having watched some George Romero films last week. I went with someone holed up in a house, and after 30 hours of fending off zombies.

└ Tags: Inktober, Pen and Ink, Sketch Challenge, Zombies

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Inktober Day Six – Drooling

by wpmorse on October 6, 2018 at 11:23 am

Posted In: Art

Today’s prompt, “Drooling” was one of the easy ones that I was looking forward to. After this, it looks like it’s going to be a challenge for a while.

I’m not completely happy with this werewolf.

└ Tags: Halloween, Inktober, Pen and Ink, Sketch Challenge

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Inktober Day Five – Chicken

by wpmorse on October 5, 2018 at 12:02 pm

Posted In: Art

The official list of prompts for this year’s Inktober is weird. The real challenge, at least for me, is to find a Halloween twist for a lot of these. So when you’re given the prompt “chicken” where else can you go but Baba Yaga’s Hut?

I put some chickens in Baba Yaga’s yard just in case.