Inktober preparations

Inktober is just a few day away and since this will be my first time participating, I've made the most of my vacant time to work om the 31 prompt words that were prepared for this year's inktober celebration

This is the official list I have been following and I'm proud that I've already written the prompts until the 14th day which is armor. I had incorporated everything into a really long series so for 31 days, please bear with the weird series I'm writing up 😂😂😂 I honestly plan to finish writing the prompt for everything by the 29th so that by the 30th, I could focus on the sketches the prompts will be based off.

Sadly I get easily distracted and instead of writing again, right now I had just managed to finish a rough sketch of one of my series character named John Doe. He's from "I will escape one day" and there, I described him as a curly blonde boy with blue eyes. I have no idea how to draw kids, really since I don't like them enough so John ended up becoming an adult 😂

I used the Saemiart watercolor I had recently acquired here and i made use of wet paper, wet brush technique (I swear I need to write that watercolor guide soon). This makes blending easier for me but honestly, blending would still depend on preferences

Here he is after an additional 2 layers of a different shade of peach then brown. Water colors are mostly painted on by layers which is why it's so time consuming, plus the drying too before adding the details. I started everything at around 10am in the morning. It took me an hour for the initial paint layer

At around 11 am, I ended my painting to prepare food. I came back to this just around 10:30 pm because I got distracted again by super mario world and from writing down more prompt chapters. It was really dry by the time I checked back on this

I used a pencil to add in a bit more shading and to add a bit more depth into his features. Then black ink for tge parts that really needed to be flat black. He looks like a tired teen than a young boy in his 14s or 15s, really. But I guess that's what sleepless nights and abuse does to you.

I just finished it up with pencilling in hair details as well since I have no idea how people use paint to actually paint on hair. I'm still trying to look for good videos that would teach me that.

3 more days until inktober for me and hopefully you guys don't get tired of all my drawings 😂😂😂