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Mousie and Chicken: Inktober drawings now a book

I’m a few months late showing off my Inktober pictures, but I have more than just sketches: I made a whole BOOK! A real, physical, hold-it-in-your-hands and hopefully spend money on it book!

And you can buy it!

Photo of a book titled 'Mousie and Chicken' sitting on other copies of the same book. There is a dancing mouse holding a flower on the cover.

Mousie and Chicken has all my themed Inktober 2018 drawings (there were a few days when I sketched something else), plus a few extras added to make it a better book.

When I started Inktober, I wanted to do small unrelated drawings based on the basic 2018 Inktober prompts, so that I could do them quickly and without stress. That worked for drawing number one. By drawing two things were getting a bit more ambitious. By drawing three I clearly had a story, and from then I was sunk: My little Mousie was off on an adventure. Each drawing still fits the prompt, but they add up to a story.

My beloved read to me while I drew, and he read a lot. Some drawings, like ‘Thunder’, took as much as three hours. Erik was my second set of eyes when I was laying out the book, too, and he was a great one.

Since I was working on these drawings everywhere I went, I used a really simple set of tools: a basic mechanical pencil, a Pigma Graphic 3 chisel-tip felt pen for solid black areas, a white Gelly Roll pen for details on black (and for mistakes), and my new favorite drawing pen: the Pentel Arts Hybrid Technica. C’mon, Pentel, gimme that sweet endorsement money. I had a couple of smear issues when I was impatient, but the quality of the black and the smooth feel of the pen are both fantastic. It comes in a variety of sizes. I used the 0.5mm — it’s a nice mid-range pen that could do everything I needed.

Everything in the book is made with those pens. I even hand-wrote the copyright notice.

I tried a bunch of different compositions and got a lot of practice with the same characters, without having to sit down and do a boring character sheet. I’m thrilled by the the final product, and by the project — I really moved forward in my drawing and inking this year, which is what Inktober is all about!

Plus, I drew a chicken with champagne burps. That is definitely one of the high points of my art career.

Black ink drawing of a mouse and a chicken. The mouse is leaning against an open champagne bottle, holding up a tiny champagne glass. The chicken is burping bubbles.

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  • On 2019-01-05
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Tags: book, chicken, illustration, Inktober, mouse, pen and ink

5 Comments

Peter Dawson
  • Jan 5 2019
Purchased! (as PDF, 'cos New Zealand)
    skellington
    • Jan 5 2019
    You're the very reason I made sure there was a PDF version. Thanks for your encouragement (and your purchase)!
Lilbrahmas
  • Jan 12 2019
Hi Amazing Post!!! I like this website so much it's really awesome. Nice information About Drawing classes in chennai.Thanks for sharing good information with beautiful images.I hope you will be posting more like this beautiful posts. All the best
Cerys
  • Jan 13 2019
I love it! Mom bought two copies already :)
    skellington
    • Jan 21 2019
    Thanks! I'm tickled. :)
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