Inktober Day 4 & 5

[jainas]

I'm starting to get into it, and I enjoy using as many graphic styles as possible while doing it. :D

Day 4 - L’ombre et la Flamme

Drawsome prompt: “flames”.

Day 5 - Daim des neiges

Daim des neiges
Cou tendu mélancolique
A flairer les branches noires.
Hasegawa Kanajo

Comments

[sunlit_stone]

Oh, man. I love the flames in the first one--(I'm assuming it's a Balrog? Actually now I'm wondering if you've ever drawn Calcifer, from Howl's Moving Castle)--but the quiet moment of the second one really speaks to my heart. I love the way you've framed it as though we're peaking through a window, or getting a distant glimpse. It's both beautiful and restful <3 And it feels very Canadian to me, for some reason, which I realize was probably not your intent :P

[jainas]

It is most definitively a Balrog! :) I know calcifer, but I have never drawn him before...
I love being able to evoque very different feelings from drawing to drawing, so thank you for commenting and letting me know. :)
I love the second one too. Maybe it's all the snow that make it feels canadian ? Or the peacefull wilderness vibe of the whole thing... ;)

[sunlit_stone]

Well, if you ever do, I'd love to see him :)

Probably the snow! Oh, and looking at it now, I think it's the type of tree, too. Those are birches, aren't they? Or even if they're not that's the way my brain defaulted to interpreting them. Definitely something I associate with Quebec/Canada :)

[dhampyresa]

I love the lighting in the first one and the serenity of the second.

[goss]

Oooh, Balrog! Very imposing emerging out of the dark like that.

[jainas]

It was an obvious answer to the prompt, and a stylistic challenge... I'm glad it works!

[mific]

Scary and then sublime. Like the hoofprints in the snow.

[jainas]

<3 Thank you!

[minoanmiss]

#4 is gloriously terrifying, and #5 is so bucolic by contrast!

[jainas]

One thing I love with Inktober is how obvious it makes the stylistic switchs from one day to the next. :)

[yhlee]

Such great details in both of these--your control of value in the first is superb, and the composition of the second is gorgeous.

[jainas]

Ha, thank you. <3

[tarlanx]

Love 'Flames' in particular . Both are excellent though :)

[mekare]

Oooh Balrog!!!! Nice!

And I adore the oval shape of the second one. Did you use Un pochoir to get those neat edges? I love the lightness of it.