Wednesday Draw 10/15/20

I know, I know, it's Thursday!  I had to push this back a day in order to get the stickers out a few days early this month (in the hopes they'll get there in ample time for your Halloween sticker needs).  Please... forgive me 😔

This is another one of my Inktober alternative illustrations.  My bowl of chance gave me  "Youth" "Gathering" and "Torn" this time.  After some sketching, I decided I wanted to depict a ritual of youths tearing cloth.  I imagined this as an opening ceremony for some kind of festival. 

As promised, here are a few more process pictures.  Below are my sketches, including the very loose doodles I do to come up with ideas (sorry about the stamp impressions; I was getting rid of excess ink on the other side of the paper).  Sometimes I do free word association if I'm having trouble coming up with ideas, hence the list of random words.  

Here's my lightbox setup!  I printed out my tight sketch on 11x17 paper and transferred it on to bristol.

Below is the initial tracing, which I then lightly erase with a kneaded eraser so the pencil lines are less distracting while I ink.

Inking in process!  Much like the last piece, I use brush first for most of the line-work and then go in with pointed pen for small details.  

Here is a look at the wet ink wash for the oak tree.  I always enjoy painting trees because I can be a bit looser with my brushwork and let the ink do its thing.  

I didn't  many pictures of the wash in progress because frankly its pretty boring to look at.  Instead, here's a picture of the girls in the bottom left finished.  The line art ended up looking a bit light after the wash was applied, so I went over it again with my pen hand added a few details in the fabric.  I used the same process for the boys.  

And that's it!  I probably wont post any more progress pictures this month, as they'll all be pretty much the same.  Feel free to ask any questions if you have them!