Another InkTober drawing catch-up. This time, it's day 5 and is also theme number 345 - 'Starlet' - from my 365 Days of Art list. 'Starlet Moonshine' is the name of the character depicted. It's rather fitting that I called her that, as she looks rather tipsy in the picture!
I'm trying to catch up with posting my InkTober drawings, as it's now day 8 and I've only posted 3 so far (oops!). This drawing is for day 4, but is also number 28 (something pink) from my 365 Days of Art list as well. The flowers are orchids and the insects were supposed to be the gorgeous little creatures known as orchid mantises, though they ended up looking like some alien hybrid form of one instead. So now this picture is taking place on another planet.
This was my drawing for yesterday's (day 3) InkTober challenge; it's a colourful little cuttlefish! I used purple, blue, light green, yellow, and black fineliners, plus a silver rollerball pen for the edging of its frill. This also counts towards my 365 Days of Art themes list, as I can cross off number 255: Cephalopoda.
For InkTober day 2, I once again looked to the 365 Days of Art list and decided to try and cross off number 309, 'Puppets' this time.Again, I used black and red fineliners ranging from 0.1-0.7mm, a silver & gold rollerball pens, but also used a green felt tip for the vines because I couldn't find the pen I was looking for at the time.
Obviously no masterpieces are going to be created here, but I'm having fun with it and getting used to drawing with pens at the same time, so it's worthwhile!
14. Design a character based on an animal/mythical creature
This year, I decided to participate in InkTober, a yearly event in which you do an ink drawing for everyday for the month of October. I don't usually draw in pen and ink, but wanted to take it as an opportunity to improve this year.
Yesterday, was the first day and I chose to also incorporate it into the 365 Days of Art challenge that I have going on this blog. This one is for number 14, "Design a character based on an animal/mythical creature"; I chose owls and mimic birds. I used fineliners between 0.1 - 0.7mm (in black, red and blue), a black 2mm fineliner (for thick lines and the background), and a silver rollerball pen for highlights.
This is Mr, Cimim. He's an unusual, man-like creature, with bird talons for feet, four eyes, and a beak for a nose. He lives in The Forest of Unknown Visions and disguises himself with bird feathers and the head of a giant horned owl. He also constructs wings made of mimic bird feathers and spiderwebs, as he is able to absorb some of the attributes of each of the animals he clothes himself with.
Mr. Cimim feeds exclusively on the one-eyed laughing snakes that live within the depths of The Forest of Unknown Visions. He lures them with mimicked songs that charm them up from the darkness, before striking them with his talons and ensnaring them within his sticky web wing.
He then closes his second set of eyes and hypnotises the other snakes with the blue pigment and cloud reflections in his top set, ensuring that he is not bitten. Then he is free to extend his 20m long, scaly legs legs down to the forest floor and calmly stalk away.
This week for the Delightful Aberrations challenge, I went back to photography and used the prompt "sweep". Rather than taking the word to mean something related to a broom, I decided to use the meaning of the motion instead.
Sweep: 'Ghosts'
The photos were both taken by using "bulb mode" (basically, manual control of the shutter), which allowed me to capture the movement more easily.
Ideology: 'Fruits of the Flesh - Rapture of 15 Underground & the Heavenly Ensemble'
For week 20 of Delightful Aberrations art & photography challenge the photograph of the"art" piece above was my submission. I decided to go the "art" route this time, and used the "ideology" prompt. This also counts as number 120 on my 365 Art Projects list: Religious Artifacts.
Bonus - Ideology: 'Miniature Sinners'
I tried to represent the 15 fruits of the flesh, which humans are said to fall prey to, according to certain Christian ideology. 15 is also the number that represents either humans or Satan (or many other things), depending on which part of the Bible/which Biblical teachings you reference. Everything in the picture has specific meaning, but you can interpret it as you like. Even if you just want to interpret it as pretentious nonsense. ;)
Painted and "named" crosses
I began with 15 wooden crosses, each approximately 5 centimetres (just under 2 inches) high. Then I painted them black with ink, and wrote a version of the fruits of the flesh on them, creating a set.
Little jewel pots
Bedazzled and...classy
After that, it was time to add the "decorative sin", via jars of jewels and some Milliput.
Then it was time for the fun part - making the little sinners!*
*Disclaimer: This blog does not condone sinning. Obviously.
Unpainted, setting
Then, I molded them into the shapes/creatures I wanted them to be and left each one to set around its designated cross, making sure that I was still able to remove them for painting once they hardened.
Un-crucified. Temporarily, at least...
Painting them didn't take as long as putting on the crosses' glittery jackets, but their size and fragility made it a somewhat fiddly task. I also decided to repaint some of those pictured above.
The finished 15
Following the completion of the "sinners", the wall was waiting for them to perform on it along with a few old friends.
Lit with house lights & a torch
The photo to the left was not the one I selected to use as the photo on Delightful Aberrations. The main difference between them is the lighting. However, looking at it now, this one seems better than the one I selected!
These little darlings are still up on my wall and probably will be for a while until I can find somewhere better for them to reside.
More photos of some of the individual crosses under the cut below:
Today, I went to see the film 'Suicide Squad', which is to a certain extent based on the comics of the same name and the animation 'Batman: Assault on Arkham'. Being a fan of Batman villains/anti-heroes - though none of my absolute favourites were in this - I've been looking forward to the movie for a while. Also, my friend, Miseria, came to see this with me, and their favourite character from the comics was in it and I'm pretty sure Killer Croc's never been in a live action version before (besides perhaps extremely briefly in 'Gotham'), so my friend was happy!
I will try to keep this spoiler-free, so sorry if I'm vague about anything.
The initial reviews of the film were extremely poor, but after watching it I honestly don't see what the big problem was. I thought it was good! It was an action film, yes, but it had a decent storyline too and it made sense. Perhaps having the Joker & Harley Quinn sub-storyline slightly detracted from the main plot a little at times because the had to give screen time to setting up that relationship.
So, Harley Quinn and Joker: I don't really enjoy these two as a couple usually. In the animation, [slight spoiler of 'Batman: Assault on Arkham' coming up here] Harley has been away from Joker and has actually realised how abusive and horrible he was to her and doesn't love him anymore...at first. Until he convinces her to go back to him again. [End of spoiler] I have no problem with Joker being like this, because he's a villain. I don't like that he does it, but as a character, I don't have a problem with him doing it. He's not supposed to be a nice guy. He's not "nice" to anyone at all actually. But in 'Suicide Squad' their relationship is somewhat changed.
Harley Quinn poster
Well, you can't really say he's "nice" to Harley I guess, but at the same time, he tries to protect her and anything he does to her he does to himself as well (pretty much). This is not usually how this relationship is portrayed. Usually, she's just his and he likes having her around to manipulate and use because it's fun or useful or he gets attached to her. He doesn't care about her feelings much - or even at all. So I have to take this as a different version of these two, because it's really not like them. (Though Harley does have sudden outbursts about "sociopaths", and I think maybe in a scene when she's talking to El Diablo about his past she gets so angry with him because of her previous experiences with Joker, too...).
Joker poster
Aside from that, I thought it was great to see all the characters that haven't been in live action before brought to life (as I said, technically Croc's been in 'Gotham', but it was for such a short scene and they never actually called him by name). I was pretty pleased with the selection of rogues that they chose.
Killer Croc poster
Enchantress poster
My personal favourites in were Enchantress/June Moone and El Diablo, which is unusual for me because I normally like characters that don't have supernatural powers, like Riddler, Scarecrow, and Mad Hatter. To be honest though, I quite enjoyed all of the characters in 'Suicide Squad', and even the ones I didn't like (Amanda Waller, I'm looking at YOU), were good in their roles. My friend's favourites were Croc, Enchantress, and Captain Boomerang (his pink unicorn toy appealed to them :P).
El Diablo poster
Captain Boomerang poster
The film seems to have had a lot of negative reviews already but I enjoyed it and If I had to give it a rating it would be 8.5/10.
For week 17 of the Delightful Aberrations photography theme challenge I chose the word "intensify". With the first set of photos, the shadows were "intensifying". I didn't adjust anything afterwards in that set, just took photos of shadows of my hand on a red mat, with varying levels of natural light coming through the glass of a door window.
'Changing the Volume'
In the second set, I again used natural light, but used the same photo four times and adjusted the vibrance of the colour to make it "intensify" from left to right. The third photo is the original.
These two image were the submissions for week 16 of the photography challenge at Delightful Aberrations. The theme I used was "curl" and I took the picture above with a Samsung compact camera and a the one below with a Canon 750D.
'Whirly Swirly Curly'
They aren't particularly wonderful photographs, but oh well (spot the ant in the first photo!). At least I got something done, and you can see my wonderful swirly sunglasses! Now I'm looking at them, the arms actually resemble question marks a little bit, haha!
