Daily Art October 2015

After starting daily art on the 1st of September and successfully drawing every day in September, I’ve continued the habit and drawn for all 31 days of October too. I was initially trying to challenge myself to draw people but I found that was making the need to draw a bit overwhelming and I was procrastinating or avoiding it, so I switched back to drawing whatever I felt like – mostly things related to TV shows or films I’d been watching.

Again, the art’s very variable in quality and many would’ve benefited from more time being spent on them or a ‘second draft’, but I’m very happy with the achievement of keeping this going for 2 months and I even made a comic on the 8th! I think I’m also getting better at drawing what I was aiming for on the first try and much more comfortable with non-digital art. Next month I think I’d like to experiment with more digital art techniques, and hopefully actually make some more progress with my planned comic.

Here’s a tiled image showing examples of something I drew every day:

As with last month, here’s a collection of all the relevant tweets so you can see full, larger and alternative versions and so these images can be found more easily in the future.

Thursday the 1st – Day 31

A badly proportioned and wonky self-portrait in pencil on paper. Should’ve used digital art… pic.twitter.com/QkxvF7QM7I

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 1, 2015

Friday the 2nd – Day 32

Daily art, a quicky Gollum with all the proportions wrong. (I should really do faces as digital art) pic.twitter.com/16hBqUiK4B — Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 2, 2015

Saturday the 3rd – Day 33

Daily art, failed ‘clockwork squirrel made from a radio’ concept, and a basic squirrel with a clockwork key pic.twitter.com/45OX2F3XUE

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 4, 2015

Sunday the 4th – Day 34

Daily art, The Grand High Witch of All The World (don’t ask me what inspired me to draw this, I have no idea) pic.twitter.com/pumj26a3p2 — Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 4, 2015

Monday the 5th – Day 35

Because Legend of Korra made me feel happy again, my daily art is some of the happy spirits pic.twitter.com/J0Y9plqmU0

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 6, 2015

Tuesday the 6th – Day 36

Quicky daily art – Gelatinous Cube goes for a walk in the park pic.twitter.com/ic5jxJbNEo — Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 6, 2015

Wednesday the 7th – Day 37

Daily art, a pretty rushed ghostly Tivolian from Saturday’s Doctor Who pic.twitter.com/ZlyWBSUBDl

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 8, 2015

Thursday the 8th – Day 38

Drawn at Nottingham Hackspace…

Challenged to draw Sonic and Mario from memory. I know they’re very wrong. Sonic’s head is different, definitely pic.twitter.com/ibIcwPCM9r — Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 8, 2015

Slightly touched up and, shock horror, *scanned in* version of the Colony Sarff Doctor Who comic drawn at @HSNOTTS pic.twitter.com/ofju1F7C5I

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 8, 2015

Bonus joke cut from the Colony Sarff comic… pic.twitter.com/nSr3dTtIGR

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 9, 2015

Friday the 9th – Day 39

ZOMG, it’s the big bad!!! (What a cluster–) #dailyArt pic.twitter.com/gHdl4Npj2x

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 9, 2015

Saturday the 10th – Day 40

I ordered mechanical pencils after the Colony Sarff comic suffered from lack of precision in the pencils used.

Daily art, an otter drawn with mechanical pencils pic.twitter.com/2hU0rJfk2o

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 10, 2015

Here’s the sheet of paper, so you can get an idea of size pic.twitter.com/nEOY22Vt8x

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 10, 2015

@Demonkid Usually the paper gets filled up more like this pic.twitter.com/JKgShaTSGE

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 10, 2015

Sunday the 11th – Day 41

Daily art, drawing Amethyst like one of my French Gems. Better than a giant robot’s? #subjective #StevenUniverse pic.twitter.com/AvfJXcAlnU

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 12, 2015

Monday the 12th – Day 42

Daily art day 42, movie Marvin, shaded with dirty eraser. Coincidentally, the Hitchhiker’s novel was published today pic.twitter.com/q3ybtV62Gu

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 12, 2015

Tuesday the 13th – Day 43

Daily art, a quick digital Morph pic.twitter.com/QAipnHz89B

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 14, 2015

Wednesday the 14th – Day 44

Daily art, a velociraptor, which I’m forcing myself to stop working on because my hand hurts from shading too much pic.twitter.com/uCjLnXd433

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 14, 2015

Thursday the 15th – Day 45

A colour enhanced lavender rhino; maximised the contrast in Gimp and colour balanced it until it matched the drawing pic.twitter.com/10PrEtNJed

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 15, 2015

Friday the 16th – Day 46

Daily art, very quick and rough because it’s past bed time – another Bill Cipher pic.twitter.com/OsIbErMagT — Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 17, 2015

Saturday the 17th – Day 47

Attempt to get a slightly better picture of that Boo daily art pic.twitter.com/kw5Tf6xlU4

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 18, 2015

Sunday the 18th – Day 48

Drawn at Nottingham Hackspace…

Sketching for my comic – spinning girl. #dailyArt pic.twitter.com/2RNLhP2N0h — Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 18, 2015

More sketches for the colour wheel panel of the comic. Going home soon because no working iPad though pic.twitter.com/SiNCHncnaj

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 18, 2015

Monday the 19th – Day 49

Couldn’t make my brain do drawing today, except neon colouring in on top of @Demonkid‘s spooky Second Life candy pic.twitter.com/Sr7QCc7TZV — Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 19, 2015

(If you don’t think that counts as daily art, meh, I posted 3 drawings yesterday)

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 19, 2015

(This actually involved lots of drawing on textures, more than I’d done on some other days, even.)

Tuesday the 20th – Day 50

Really struggling to draw today, I’ve been excessively tired all evening. I made a right pig’s ear out of this. pic.twitter.com/LlcV8DuTG4 — Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 20, 2015

Wednesday the 21st – Day 51

If I’d had the sense to use the entire piece of paper to draw this Flux Capacitor, maybe it’d have better detailing pic.twitter.com/HSDSwxjVuT

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 22, 2015

Here’s a better picture of the underwhelming tiny Flux Capacitor daily art, at least pic.twitter.com/76crjDICg3 — Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 22, 2015

Thursday the 22nd – Day 52

Coloured pencils aren’t that great for drawing detail, I should stick to using them to colour in line drawings pic.twitter.com/6q6JMI1VBR

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 22, 2015

Scanned it in because I was annoyed by how my camera made the green yellow. This was not a good use of my time pic.twitter.com/X97xG6NSWA

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 23, 2015

Friday the 23rd – Day 53

Quicky daily art, a 3D shaded Necker cube pic.twitter.com/0hRiUkfmMb

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 24, 2015

Saturday the 24th – Day 54

Daily art, a quick and dirty Sojourner rover, because The Martian was awesome but I’m tired pic.twitter.com/FPRwlzchJv

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 25, 2015

Sunday the 25th – Day 55

Daily art, an hour of digital painted mandarin duck (yes, my method starts with it being all done super blurry) pic.twitter.com/oeytZMJIuV

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 26, 2015

Monday the 26th – Day 56

Quicky daily art as I haven’t even washed up after cooking yet and it’s 20 past midnight – freehand Penrose triangle pic.twitter.com/mGjY2MlmVq

— Quarries & Corridors (@quarridors) October 27, 2015